Snapshots: I spoke with 20 people in Gaza after the ceasefire. My heart broke 20 times
In the aftermath of war, Gaza's people are picking up the pieces—of their homes, their families, and their lives. These 20 snapshots show what survival looks like and what it costs.
“I found her ring in the rubble, blackened, but I could still see our names engraved inside. I held it so tight it cut my palm. I didn’t feel it. All I felt was her absence.”
I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.
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sorry but what is the ideal timing for the crumbling of soft power
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your fave kenyan journalist is see eye ay and you’ll never convince me otherwise
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In fact, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS KIND OF THING.
YOU WERE NEVER THERE.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
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To answer the number one comment here, the Internet Archive is OF COURSE mirrored and backed up in numerous places, including outside the USA, so even if jack-booted troopers were to kick in its San Francisco door it could be relaunched somewhere else.
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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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TODAY Sunday at 3:00: Protest TODAY (Sunday) outside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Please spread the word to folks in DC.
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Donate to Help An Artist Stuck in Sudanese War zone, organized by Dominique Banks
I am Sidahmed Shaker and I am Sudanese. I am a visual artist and photographe… Dominique Banks needs your support for Help An Artist Stuck in Sudanese War zone
in honor of black history month, help support a sudanese family trying to survive the war and rebuild their lives. the goal for this month is to get sidahmed to 6.5K, so please share, boost, and donate if you can!
#KeepEyesOnSudan
gofund.me/be2901a2
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Goma’s war-displaced people turn to locals for aid
The camps are already full, stretched, or unsafe – and that’s before cuts in aid budgets.
Patience Uwezo is mother of 3 living in Goma. Since 18 January her family has taken in two more families, adding 7 people, including a pregnant woman, to their household. “It’s a delicate situation. It’s not easy to feed a bunch of people when there’s no money in circulation because of the war.”
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BREAKING: The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment aje.io/fvp5d6
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kelis on ig talmbout her favourite thing about east africa is that we have office buildings and houses and malls pls god is ruto not more than enough punishment
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VERY unserious
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lmao
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organizing gets the goods
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‘They don’t want you to see the slave labor’: a new film goes inside Alabama’s prisons
New documentary The Alabama Solution exposes rampant state violence and inhumane conditions inside prisons
This film took MASSIVE courage to make
"The two-hour film, made over the course of six years"
The people who made it knew that they would likely be charged with new crimes for having contraband cell phones
Praying for them 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
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School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order
On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.
1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
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finally deleted the bird app bc the ramaphosa revisionism after kagame’s response was ridiculous just to come on here to find americans jumping in bc they cannot handle their roosting chickens why are people being so unserious
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he was replaced by a billionaire mass murderer???!?!?
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Screenshot text: The Laken Riley Act is a direct and violent assault on migrants, expanding the list of deportable offenses to include non-violent crimes such as shoplifting. This calculated measure disproportionately targets marginalized communities, particularly Black migrants, further entrenching systemic injustices and perpetuating racial discrimination within the immigration system. The bill’s provisions threaten to tear families apart, detain individuals indefinitely without due process, and compound the dismantling of sanctuary policies in cities like New York—policies that exist to protect immigrant populations from relentless state violence.
Statement by Haitian Women for #Haitian Refugees about the Laken Riley Act: mailchi.mp/fab2c1538cf2...
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my weekly video chats with my mum lately
“hi mama!”
“hi! where’s Mosi?”
“he’s right here”
“what’s he doing? let me see him?????”
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conversation I had with a ranger at Corbett National Tiger Reserve
me: whats the most dangerous animal in the jungle? Tiger?
him: elephant
me: what about in the water
him: elephant
me: you don't understand, I mean aquatic animal
him: no you don't understand, don't fuck with elephant
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Going 1v1 with nature because you believe in the evolutionary advantage of your sweat glands… Gone be the most erotic 30 seconds of your life
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should i go back to school?
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this a safe space?
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