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When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

#university protests #free palestine

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Abdulrahman was one of the first to die.A carpenter in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, he had been on his way back home from work in Ramallah in February last year when he was arrested at a mobile checkpoint. He was taken into administrative detention - under which Israel can hold people indefinitely without charge - in Megiddo prison. His brother Ibrahim said the charges against him were minor, such as taking part in protests and possessing a firearm, but said he was also accused of belonging to Hamas although there were no specific charges about any activities within the group. Ibrahim is still trying to piece together how exactly his brother died. He has to rely on testimony from Abdulrahman's former cellmates, as well as reports from court hearings. One former cellmate, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said: "After 7 October, it was total torture. They beat us for no reason, they searched us for no reason. Even if you look at someone the wrong way." He described having seen Abdulrahman heavily beaten in front of him and others. "At 9am, they came into our cell, and began to beat us. One of the guards began to insult Abdulrahman's parents, which he didn't stand for, and he began to fight back. "They beat him badly, and took him away to another cell upstairs for a week. During that time you could hear him crying out in pain." He said he had only found out about Abdulrahman's death after he left prison a week later.

#palestine #torture #prisoner rights

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#palestine #torture #prisoner rights

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There’s no way “the cavalry” in the finale is just the Bad Batch. No way Phee Genoa would stand idly by while Tech’s sister is captive. No way Riyo Chuchi would stand for Hemlock’s treatment of clones. No way Howzer hasn’t reached out to the Syndullas, after the sacrifices he made for them. And no fucking way Rex isn’t leading the charge, blasters blazing. And yet, for some reason, I feel like they’re not gonna be there when the Batch finally faces Tantiss.

#the bad batch

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Can we talk about Sami for a sec?

She's not the precocious kid. Not the one with the sweet voice who'll break your heart with their innocence, curiosity, and optimism.

She's not the defiant kid. Not the one who'll rage and fight and inspire you with their rebellious spirit.

But she's the one taking it upon herself to care for baby Bayrn. She's the one gently reminding them of how to keep out of trouble. She's the one trying to reassure the new kid that things won't feel this bad forever.

I'll always have a special place in my heart for the kids that aren't as noticeable as their peers. The ones making themselves as small and silent as possible to keep everyone else safe and happy. Don't worry. We see you too.

#tbb spoilers #tbb Sami

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He was shot twice while looking for food for his brothers and sister. He was then imprisoned and tortured sustaining injuries to his legs, back, and abdomen. Throughout his imprisonment, he was worried about his siblings and whether they were being fed.

Israel has abducted hundreds of Gazans and is holding them in concentration camps where they're routinely tortured.

#palestine #gaza #torture

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TBB spoilers : Emerie, Omega, Nala Se

Episode 10 of The Bad Batch is fascinating. We're seeing Emerie Karr have a major identity crisis.

And I love it, because much of Emerie's feelings are contradictory, but they make sense in the ways that complicated emotions do.

Emerie is angry to see another child tested on like she was (and didn't seem to think much on it until she saw others being treated that way.)

Emerie is angry that Nala Se gave her away. We got hints of this in season 2, with Emerie's cold looks at Nala, and her disdainful surprise that Omega cared for Nala Se.

It's worth noting that earlier this season, Emerie compared her relationship between herself and Dr. Hemlock with that of Omega and Nala Se. Of course this struck such a discordant note with us since Nala Se is obviously not Dr. Hemlock, the former genuinely loves Omega, and Hemlock does not love Emerie.

Buuut.....After Omega escapes with Nala Se's very obvious help, it becomes clear to Emerie that Nala Se actually loves Omega.

AND EMERIE IS ANGRY ABOUT THAT! And I don't blame her. When she goes to Nala Se's cell, you can just feel that hurt and anger rolling off of her: Why did you abandon me, why did you love Omega but not me. Why wasn't I worth it?

So long as Emerie believed Nala Se was just like Dr. Hemlock, then Emerie could live at a sort of horrid peace that people use you if you're promising, and that's how the world is, and at least Dr. Hemlock finds her useful. But now she knows Omega was truly loved, and Dr. Hemlock doesn't love her.

That is a lot of juicy conflict. Nala Se offers Emerie no reasons for her actions, and perhaps she never will. But it's clear Nala Se doesn't want the children hurt either. But Nala Se is telling Emerie that she has the power to make change.

It's why Nala Se's last words to Emerie are "Don't you?"

And so we have a story of a mother and two daughters, one who is kept (the golden child), and the other who is given away. Omega wanted freedom, Emerie wanted to be protected and loved. I think Nala Se intended no ill will when giving Emerie away--she was an accelerated clone made with a purpose, and it's very likely that Nala Se had no idea she would end up with an evil man like Dr. Hemlock.

But Emerie needs to know she can have a home to go to, and that she has value. Emerie is angry that she wasn't protected, but now she needs to know she can be protective herself.

Nala Se needs to learn and SHOW BETTER, that she can value all her children, even if only one of them is her daughter per se.

#tbb spoilers

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Point of No Return, but

Omega giving up Lula...

Lula, being so intrinsically tied to the motif of Omega's childhood innocence.

Omega giving up herself...

Giving up the last bit of her childhood innocence as she willingly turns herself over to the Empire.

She is at the point of no return. She can never return to who she was, now that she has grown up, a child of war. A soldier.

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Omega is past the point of no return, leaving behind the last bit of her childhood innocence on Pabu, the first place that ever felt like home.

#tbb spoilers #the bad batch #omega bad batch

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Introducing the phrase "found family" to fandom spaces was a mistake. Now half of fandon wants to force their "found families" into neat little boxes like "this is the dad, this is the mum, this is the fun uncle, these ones are siblings", even though the entire POINT of found family as a concept was to reject traditional family structures as the norm and rigid ideas of what a family even is, and then they get big mad whenever even dares suggest something romantic or sexual could happen between two completely unrelated mature adult characters they've arbitrarily decided are "parent/child" or "siblings" based on basically NOTHING in canon and start accusing that potential relationship of being incestuous. That's not how that works! That's not how any of this works!!

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#palestine #gaza #war crimes #absolutely disgusting

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horrific article from the bbc broke last about israel detaining healthcare workers, stripping them naked, and beating them for days on end. we already knew israel was doing this to palestinian detainees, but to be deliberately targeting medical personnel--doctors and nurses and medical assistants on the ground trying to heal wounded palestinians--and then literally torturing them are on levels of cruelty i can't even begin to compute.

a humanitarian law expert in this article calls the footage coming out of this "concerning." i call it the terms racists love to throw baselessly at arabs: barbaric and inhumane.

#palestine #war crimes

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I remember Dave Filoni saying in a panel that while working on Twin Suns, they considered a scene with Maul being haunted by apparitions of Savage and Satine while wandering alone in the desert, but they ultimately decided against it because then they'd have to explain it somewhere in the episode who they were and why they are important to him. They know they have to be responsible and can't take it for granted that the audience has watched all other Star Wars media and knows who these characters are, and at the end, the backstories of Savage and Satine are not relevant to the plot, so while it's not a bad idea, they chose not to include it, putting the focus on Ezra's journey instead.

So it's quite jarring to see Dave's recent projects filled with moments that asked the audience to roll with it without further explanation, or characters that go from point A to point C without filling in the gaps between, because it's not like he doesn't know he should be responsible to his audience, but somehow...he just wasn't.

“but, i’ve got a few lives left.”

DAVE THIS IS NOT AN EXPLANATION HOW DID VENTRESS COME BACK TO LIFE AFTER DARK DISCIPLE WE NEED ANSWERS

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#palestine #gaza #genocide

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Palestinian child recounts the moment his pregnant mother was shot in fr...

Please watch this video. Make sure it reaches people's suggestion pages too. Share it, Spread it, Reblog, Repost, Anything you can do.

Here's the full documentary on Faisal and his story. Bisan had a big hand in making this video and is the interviewer. Please go watch that and Repost, etc as well.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4bbGoKM5nr/?igsh=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg==

#transcript in case the video is deleted! #palestine #genocide #war crimes

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#palestine #genocide #forced starvation

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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.

My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.

I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.

There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.

I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.

You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

#palestine

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A sad thought I sometimes think about is when the Ghost crew was slowly drifting apart after Rebels, Hera would look back at her leaving her father and be like: this is what it feels like. At that time, Cham had already lost his wife to the Empire, and now his daughter was walking away as well, leaving him alone to carry on the fight in Ryloth. Similarly, Hera had lost Kanan, then Ezra, and then Sabine chose to stay on Lothal, Zeb went off to train recruits, while she and Chopper are all that's left. Of course, Hera had her own legitimate reasons: she wanted to fly and fight for a larger cause, and Cham has never believed in her. They've been going through this issue as early as Season 1 of Bad Batch. (Gobi trusts me to do my part, why can't you?) But at some point, in her darker moments, I think that Hera would sometimes believe that this was payback, and that she somehow deserved it. I imagine how she must have reacted to each loss of the crew, how empty the Ghost feels, how she can't bear to look at Sabine's paintings or clean up their old rooms, how she has to soldier through it all from fighting for the Rebellion to raising Jacen alone.

#hera syndulla #cham syndulla #star wars rebels #my random thoughts