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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: [email protected] cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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selection of the individual risograph scans from my trans cyborg pinup minizine ^_^

more here

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My family has started calling my cat "the beast" which is very funny considering she's a 19yo arthritic old lady who needs help up and down the stairs. Not to mention she doesn't really meow any more, just sits and stares at you, and im the only one who can reliably guess what she wants, so my parents are constantly messaging me "The beast awakens... I know not what she desires 😥😥" i feel like the chosen prophet of an eldritch god

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The problem with trying to cater other people’s desires to veganism is something that’s quite hard to pin down - what I mean to say is, I find something obviously skewed about the idea of needing to put a bunch of ribbons and sparkles and advertisements on veganism, playing it up as if it’s some spa resort. You know when people come to you and say that they won’t go vegan unless you show them how to make really great food, or they say that “what they’ve seen/tasted” hasn’t been very appealing so far? Now you can try to shove a bunch of great cookbooks in their face, or tell them how you usually go about being vegan and how the first few weeks aren’t a good representation of the rest of their potential life… but if they haven’t developed any skills yet, then they are still going to find it harder, or more disappointing here or there. The fact is that most young people don’t know how to cook many dishes (unless they were neglected by their parents or had to make their own provisions for some other reason), or the rare chance that they took a high interest in cooking and baking. Even then, people who have non-vegan cooking skills might fail when it comes to vegan cooking skills.

But I just find it so crappy that people think that “my mac and cheeze didn’t turn out great” is a good excuse for not wanting to continue. They assume that the people who made the necessary switch on their own had tons of help, or just found it super easy, or they assume that vegan food/living is just “naturally boring” and vegans just “pretend” that the food tastes good.

Basically, there are a hell of a lot of people who give up in the first few weeks because they don’t want to try and/or they are very shortsighted, and I will dare say somewhat selfish individuals. If your muffins being a little flat or your vegan pizza a little undercooked stops you from saving more than 100 lives a year from torture, abuse, and exploitation - stops you from making one of the biggest environmental saving impacts you can because you didn’t know how to properly prepare a lentil burger - stops you from supporting the millions of humans who are exploited or starved because of the massive resource sink that continues to exist because of the animal industries - then you may need to reconsider your obsession that puts food over the well-being of humans, animals, and the planet. 

I like pie as much as the next person, but pie is not more important than another human or animal being (and that’s not to say you can’t technically have your vegan pie and eat it too, but that omnivorous choices come at the cost of another life). And the fact that it does get easier when you persevere should be motivation enough. In the end, it’s not about us and our desires, even though it can be very rewarding healthwise. 

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online rapture leftists love to pretend as if their leftism is the most enlightened one. as if „no ethical consumption under capitalism“ >> hating on people who shop second hand or go vegan, people who vote or make small positive changes in their community etc. is somehow the superior stance.

as if giving up hope and refusing any action is not the literal easiest thing you can do.

black and white thinking is not hard. refusing compassion is not hard. saying that everything is ineffective is not hard. not changing you habits and saying everything is futile anyway is not hard.

you know what is hard? gray areas. complex situations that tear you compassion in 10 different directions. making a change to your everyday habits.

but the cool thing is that making these changes and accepting the complexity of reality is also rewarding, and will give you a sense of peace that many people are searching for. and also it’s, y’know, something that will actually change things for the better.

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I think that tweet is a wonderful abstract get out of jail free card for liberals who are too cowardly to denounce specific examples of politically motivated industrial sabotage but still feel the need to oppose it on principle. They might feel icky about shitting on people trashing Elbit Systems locations that are actively manufacturing parts being used in what they may or may not currently admit is a genocide, but now they don't have to! You talk about putting a wrench in the works of the genocide machine, you even approve of others doing it? They just send you a tweet implicitly smearing all acts of sabotage as meaningless hooliganism.

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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hi everyone! we have barely any food rn until we get our ebt next month, can anyone spot us $50 so we can get a little bit of groceries? thank you 🥺💜

pp: EWilliams990 

ca: $halloweed

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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

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Transfem to Transmasc solitary must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my boys.

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fewer posts about “why do straight women date men who hate them” and more posts about “why do so many men hate women that it’s genuinely difficult for straight women to find romantic & sexual intimacy with a man who doesn’t hate them”

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i’m going to kdxjdhdjhddjjdhs

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

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happy autism month

wanna help a physically disabled autism get by this month?

good news! that's me and you totally can. 🥰 only if you're a financially secure adult tho.

hi, i'm tdf and i live under the poverty line (income less than $1k/mo) bc my mitochondria are gorked and there are soso many other things wrong with me 😔

unfortunately this causes problems like

not having enough money

because being disabled is expensive cuz you need things abled people don't which sucks! and i can't just work more when i'm broke! bc i am Brokened.

i've been sick as hell for months bc life stuff has been A Lot and pushed me into a bad flareup. so things are extra tight rn.

anyways if you wanna help out your local autistic blogger:

i have a food and necessities wishIist that also includes visa and other gifft cards so i can get stuff that isn't available on amazon a walmart card to help w groceries would also make a huge difference. they can be sent anonymously (or not) and start at $5.

i will reblog this post with an update and turn off reblogs if i get enough help that i think I can get by!!

i'm really sorry to be asking when so many ppl are in need but. i am too unfortunately. 😔 thank you for tolerating this post on yr dash!

EDIT: I forgot that knowledge of my email address is not just like divinely granted to everyone! 😅 It's thatdiabolicalfeminist at gmail dot com.

(Please don't try to send me pay paI though, that account is old and I'm locked out)

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november mood board

#yeah

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Hunted to extinction in the wild in the 1960s, today there are nearly 1,000 Przewalski’s horses at three sites in Mongolia, with more in China and Kazakhstan. The biggest population – numbering 423 – is in central Mongolia’s Hustai national park, the descendants of 84 animals airlifted from European zoos in the 1990s.

Each year they attract tens of thousands of visitors to this small patch of pristine mountain steppe just 100km from the capital, Ulaanbaatar.

“Before the reintroduction, nobody believed we could save this species,” says Dashpurev, who runs Hustai national park. Since then, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has downgraded the risk status of Przewalski’s horse twice: “Our biggest achievement,” he says.

The success stands in stark contrast to other parts of Mongolia. Over the past three decades, the country’s wildlife has been decimated by a combination of hunting, the climate crisis and overgrazing, with creeping desertification turning huge tracts of its vast grasslands into dust.

“Mongolia’s wildlife is in crisis,” says Tungaa Ulambayar, the local representative of the Zoological Society of London. “It is in real danger of being wiped out.”