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We don’t even have time to grieve in between mass shootings in America. Our hearts are with all those impacted in yet another tragedy.

I just looked at someone’s profile picture and burst into tears. I don’t know the person but he’s so painfully thin. With such a beautiful smile. Oh Gaza.

I wish I could take this from all of you. I’m trying my best to reorganize some of my other tasks to devote time to tackling the campaigns.

You know I will speak of my friend every day. She says that what has entered the markets is mostly sugar, not food staples, but even so, to have something sweet is better than to have nothing at all. If you can spare, please.

Question past the discomfort. And I’ll see you on the other side. Are you ready? Media literacy's all fun and games until you have to confront your own beliefs. And realise that you didn't put them there. So who did?

!! I wish I could send everyone I know for a workshop with her. We are so immersed in indoctrination.
She had a follow up blog post on her sub stack to that video that was also really good
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Sticker in the shape of an old box tv that says, “you are not immune to propaganda”

The only sticker on my laptop says what? It’s important for me too, and I have been doing freelance copy-editing for years

Gonna piggyback on your post because … YES.

Tbis is a really great video that teaches literacy skills we can all use, no matter how familiar we are with propaganda.

YouTube video by DoctorRamani How the SCAPEGOAT keeps everyone IN LINE in narcissistic relationships

Black people are in constant rotation as Americas scapegoat.

Scapegoats serve to show us what they’ll do with power

It’s not a “distraction” . It’s him trying to keep folks in check and “smart” people can giggle if they want

But you’re just proving him right

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and this is probably part of why I am unemployed and policy is mad at me

at this point publishing a "Know Your Rights" for the most vulnerable if you aren't telling them how you plan to leverage privilege to protect them is condescending as fuck and helps the GOP

How is this a ‘trial run’? Oh I immediately understand. Why? It’s how we got to this point. Both parties look at us and do not think of us as human beings. Useful tools only.

Very important to be precise. Don’t give additional presumed powers to take

The Defense Attorney's job is to test the state's evidence, not to prove innocence or let the guilty walk free. They test the evidence.

I cannot understate the importance of that job in a society where cops lie, prosecutors withold information. Both treat victims horribly & refuse to press charges.

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

Southerners, you know what time of year it is.

Share initiatives like this so we can look out for each other as best we can.

I take issue with this argument.

Public support for COVID mitigation was always stronger than our policies reflected.

More importantly, that support was remarkably robust despite a coordinated, right-wing dark money fueled campaign to undermine it (which did radicalize a vocal minority).

Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

Donate to Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza, organized by Adham madi Dear donor and supporter, this is a brief overview of me and my family, I want to be a… Adham madi needs your support for Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza

Also, attorney Adham’s is alive but unable to share as his phone was broken at an aid site. You know what happens at the aid sites. Be his voice.

gofund.me/55a64610

Hisham Al-Haddad from Gaza Hello everyone,

This campaign for my friends Sara and Hesham could use your eyes. She says today they left bread and water for the birds, as Gaza is so desolate now the birds cannot find water to drink.

chuffed.org/project/1190...

Anas was the greatest war journalist of our time.

Help Sudanese Families Rebuild Hope - Together, We Can Make a Difference As a Sudanese living in Egypt, my heart aches every day for the people of Sudan - both those still enduring unimaginable hardship back hoke, and those who have been forced to flee, now struggling in n...

Donations are slowing and there are multiple people in need of immediate help.
Please find it in your heart to donate
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For people who read this thread & felt something, @prisonculture.bsky.social has been reposting classroom teachers' wishlists for their classrooms. Can you check her feed & pick up the tab for some markers or beanbags or a new rug maybe?

I have the hardest time talking to parents who have lost children- especially when they haven’t even had time to grieve because they have to keep their other kids alive

We really aren't taught just how many ways global powers (not just European, EVERYBODY) literally carved up Africa and African people

Close-up in front of a demolished apartment: shattered concrete, dangling wires, exposed steel. He looks hungry and worn out—but still standing. Please help him survive.

If you can read this, you can save me
I’m Sakher from Gaza. Tonight my family has no bread. Prices are impossible we skip meals, we faint, and we keep praying for a normal day. If you can, please help us eat and stay safe. Even $5–$10 today means bread, and a little hope for us

gofund.me/f116bf44

Coming out the store tonight, I grabbed the girl who was sweeping by the door and pulled her outside.
“Come look at the moon.”
She was politely looking at me like she needed to call the police, then she saw the moon and gasped. Cool thing that happened, she was as delighted as I was

Days ago, men were here being entitled to sex in relationships as headlines roll about “suggestions” of removing our right to vote.

Yall absolutely got it. There will be no revolution. That’s the secret delight of MAGA for men in our communities. To be under ⚪️ is tolerable if it means over us.

There is a sickness in American men. Perverse solution of patriarchy, selfishness, & destructiveness that turns any conversation about relationships into conversation about violence. It is no surprise to me that gov officials openly discuss stripping women’s rights now.

They have bad taste. They're impressed by a shadow of what humans can do.

Please share + give to move this campaign. We are the shield between famine & families, no one else is coming to help.

Funding $500 for a bag of flour. Any amount helps make goal. Please help this family buy bread to bake 🥖