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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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My friend Mona has asked me to share her story with you all.

Here's the link to the evacuation gofundme. They're very close to their goal. They legitimately only have less than 10k USD left to go before all 9 of them can evacuate.

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#music #fiona apple

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

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This is different from Al-Shifa:

There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.

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columbia administration is threatening to call in the national guard tonight

#like obviously institutions are institutions but the fact this is happening at columbia who have been trading off saids legacy is so rank

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“When challenged by a woman of color, a white woman will often lean into her racial privilege to turn the tables and accuse the other woman of hurting, attacking, or bullying her. This process almost always siphons the sympathy and support of onlookers to the apparently distressed white woman, helping her avoid accountability and leaving the woman of color out in the cold, often with no realistic option—particularly if it is a workplace interaction—but to accept blame and apologize.”

— Ruby Hamad, White Tears / Brown Scars

#ugh so so good #ruby hamad #readings

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On that note, I want to spotlight the fundraiser for an Afro-Palestinian journalist, and Lama Jamous' uncle. He has less of a following amongst allies because he posts almost entirely in Arabic, so I'm going to spotlight him on my blog and put him on the fundraiser list as well.

And please follow him on IG as well, even if you only speak English he has small captions on the videos he posts that translate his Arabic.

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Of the Americans who fought in Korea or Vietnam, none were "innocent" by virtue of having been drafted. The moral choice there was to either dodge the draft, defect to the other side, or frag the guy giving orders. Anyone who chose otherwise was a criminal and a murderer. And once the draft was over and the army became volunteer-only, all the excuses vanished. Yes, there are people who were in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria who regretted it, but regretting your crime doesn't undo it. That's just the minimum requirement for being a decent human being in the aftermath.

To everyone who says "you leftists can't go around hating on the troops, don't you want them to join the revolution?" I say "why would they join us if they couldn't handle being told the truth about the genocidal terrorist organization they volunteered for?" If their reaction upon hearing people call the US military murderers and terrorists is to deny or equivocate or rationalize their participation, then they're not yet fit to be a revolutionary. If we're trying to dismantle the imperialist warmongering empire that continues to use its might and influence to murder millions around the world that is the United States, what good is a person who balks at the notion that the troops who volunteer to pledge their lives and their loyalty in service of this empire might be complicit in its crimes?

An American soldier or veteran who is not ready to admit they were wrong will not be any more ready to join us if we lie to them and say they made no mistake in joining the US military. We only weaken our own messaging and our own position if we refuse to condemn not just the US military as an organization but all those who continue to participate in and defend its actions. The troops are not innocent.

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Gaza Online is calling for direct upload of eSim QR codes from Nomad, Holafly (Israel and Egypt), Airalo, Sparks, and Numero. A detailed guide of how to purchase eSims and get QR codes for all of these apps (and desktop sites) can be found here.

See which eSims are needed here

Upload a QR code here

Donate funds instead

#esims for gaza

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TWO HOURS AGO: israeli tanks are headed towards rafah, they are moving forward with their ground assault. as we all watch the solidarity encampments across the us, REMEMBER WHAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE FIGHTING FOR! DO NOT LOOK AWAY FROM PALESTINE!!

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For Rana Alsawalhi’s family, they’ve lost several members of their family already and need to evacuate Gaza immediately - this is urgent, please share and donate - and send to your friends, followers, and family! €20,500 out of €73,5000 (4/22/2024)

https://gofund.me/d83e0ef5

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by the way ocean vuong is a TENURED PROFESSOR at nyu who dropped the most pathetic and cringe series of instagram stories comparing people criticising his verse for being cringe diaspora poetry to Palestinian poets and Edward Said while his precarious colleagues, undergrads, and grad students are facing arrests and armed police for protesting against Palestinian genocide on campus. Not only he’s a shitty poet he’s also completely spineless and tone deaf 😭

#prev tags #this is what happens when diaspora writers couldn't imagine non white critics #their imagined critics are always white audience

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by the way ocean vuong is a TENURED PROFESSOR at nyu who dropped the most pathetic and cringe series of instagram stories comparing people criticising his verse for being cringe diaspora poetry to Palestinian poets and Edward Said while his precarious colleagues, undergrads, and grad students are facing arrests and armed police for protesting against Palestinian genocide on campus. Not only he’s a shitty poet he’s also completely spineless and tone deaf 😭

#oh thats not...

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April 2003: Palestinian kids in Jenin Camp playing with tires in a yard destroyed by the Israeli Occupation Forces

#palestine

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#art #fight club #undescribed

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