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URGENT: FUNDRAISING FOR BREAST CANCER TREATMENT

I have tried my absolute best not to seek financial help online, especially when our collective focus should be aimed towards the welfare of our Palestinians, Congolese, and Sudanese brothers and sisters. I truly have considered countless options before resorting to asking for monetary assistance but I no longer have the means to keep myself alive and my little family afloat. Following my father's death almost three years ago due to colorectal cancer, I was diagnosed late last year with Stage 2A breast cancer.

There's an even elaborate explanation on the fundraising page that I will be attaching in this post. Please, take some time to read it. I am our family's breadwinner, and I am only asking for monetary assistance because I no longer have a job/source of income nor is my previous company willing to shoulder my medical expenses. I am left to fend for myself and I have used all of my savings to afford numerous physical/health examinations and the prescribed medication.

I am going to attach photos of how disfigured my right arm now is, the evident lumps/tumors on my armpits and if you want proof of how the cancer affected my breasts, please directly message me. I don't think I can explicitly share the photos here. But to put enough context, my left breast shrunk into at least 1/3 of its original size.

I am sincerely sorry for being a bother, but if you have the means to donate to my fundraising post, please do. I badly needed all the help I can get so I won't be summoned to court and would be able to afford surgery on time. If you cannot donate, please kindly share this post. If you have any other questions, please reach out to me through direct messaging. This is my only account (I will probably reblogged this on my side blog as well) so please, if you see someone using my photos, alert me. Thank you. Please understand, too, that I will take a bit of time to respond because I am struggling to grasp my phone/only typing using my left hand. Thank you, and please consider helping me.

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will I get revamping this blog or will revamping this blog get me

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I survived a missile attack

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truly at a loss for words. nesma @nesmamomen has been fundraising on this website since fucking march and is so tantalizingly close to her goal yet shes only bringing in $5-$10 every couple of hours or so. please take this burden off her shoulders after she has already lost everything

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israel's invasion of jenin is so aggressive and inhumane that it speaks volumes how underreported it is in mainstream media. blocking aid from the refugee camps (classic starvation tactic), displacing at least 20 families in the last 24 hours alone, and now setting fire to jenin's market. they are razing streets with bulldozers. people are left without electricity, food, or water. and now they're targeting ambulances and medical staff without even trying to pretend it's erroneous or they're just terrorists. this is what complete impunity looks like

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When you're feeling alone, when you're feeling at your worst, please know that there is someone out there who loves you very, very much, whether or not you talk frequently. Someone thinks fondly of you. Someone wonders how you're doing. Someone still laughs at your memories together. You are so, so loved, even if it's difficult to see that sometimes. I love that you're here, and I'm proud of you for still being here. You are worth so much, and I just want you to know that. You deserve to know.

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For anyone who's struggling, here's a suicide hotline number (US and international).

International numbers can be found here.

US: 988

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RFK Jr. dropped out of the US presidential race. He's encouraging his voters in battleground states (states that vote both red and blue, basically) to vote for Trump but says those in red or blue states should "still vote for him". Anyway, guys, please vote for Kamala. Trump is legitimately a shitty person, y'all. Trump's "Project 2025" plan aims to completely get rid of the Department of Education; I am not making this shit up. At this point, I do not give a single shit what Kamala has done if it means Trump isn't going to be in office. Kamala is deadass even asking for us to come together as a nation, whereas Trump wants to continue dividing us. He's not the solution; he's the problem.

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Sixteen lovers and one who craves - stonish affections

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Trying to mostly stay away from politics on this blog, but today there’s something I just need to say.

Kamala Harris just defied DECADES of inside-the-Beltway “wisdom” by picking Walz as her running mate instead of Shapiro. The gray-hairs were probably all telling her she had to go with Shapiro to court the independents. Instead of picking the moderate, staunchly pro-Israel guy, she went with a full-on progressive with a strong LGBTQ+, pro-choice, pro-union record.

She’s making a leap of faith here. She’s betting that progressives, young people, and marginalized people will show up for her if she shows that she’s listening. As someone who lived through several decades when progressives didn’t have a voice even in the Democratic party, I can’t begin to tell you how huge this is.

In the coming months, you will no doubt read/hear things about Harris or Walz that you won’t like. Some of it may even be true. There may well already be things you don’t like about her.

Unfortunately, the choice isn’t between a perfect candidate and an imperfect candidate. The choice is between an imperfect candidate and possibly the most disgusting man on the planet, a guy who isn’t even trying to hide his plans to destroy the US. If Palestine is your #1 issue, know that he will do everything he can to pour gas on the flames until there’s nothing left.

Harris made the choice to listen to progressive voices. If she loses because we didn’t show up for her in huge numbers, we’ll likely be wandering in the wilderness for decades more while the planet burns around us.

(Oh, and we’ll need to show up again in ‘26. Let’s not make the same mistake we made in 2010, when the left stayed home after electing Obama and Republicans won big everywhere, which led to the extreme gerrymandering we’re still dealing with in many states.)

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GUYS DON’T TELL @august-aches BUT I HAVE A GIANT CRUSH ON HIM…….

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thinking about holding his hand rn

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Hello. This is Mahmoud from Gaza. I hope you are well. Could you please boost my campaign and reblog my new post entitled “My Family in Gaza: Stuck in a Vicious Cycle of Pain, Displacement and Death”? My campaign was vetted by el-shab-hussein #151 on the "Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List'' as explained in my recent blog. https://www.tumblr.com/mahmoudkhalafff/757678055593590784/my-family-in-gaza-stuck-in-a-vicious-cycle-of?source=share

Here is another vetted fundraiser to donate to! If anyone has the means to donate please consider supporting Mahmoud and his family!

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Hi, I hope you're doing well. ❤️ I'm writing to you with full of hope to help me and my family. My family is in a very danger situation due to the ongoing war, and I've launched a GoFundMe campaign to save them. 😢 Could you please share my campaign post from my profile? Each share could be a lifeline for my family. 🙏 Feel free to share it in any other social media platform if you would like. Our campaign has been verified by operation olive branch, and is entry number 26 in their Master List on their spreadsheet. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you in advance for all of your support and kindness.

please share this donation if you have nothing to give!! even if you feel you simply reblogging isn’t enough, it’s more than you think. 🤍

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Guys the situation in Khan Younis is so scary that I don’t even know how to put it into words anymore. All it takes is looking up the city and seeing headlines like “over 100 of bodies ripped to pieces in Khan Younis!” “An Israeli airstrike decimates a house in Khan Younis belonging to x family!” “Even in the midst of ceasefire talks, Israeli forces continue pushing into Khan Younis” for all-consuming anxiety to seize me for all the families that have yet to evacuate. It’s getting so so bad there & yet so many people are still unable to evacuate.

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Hello everyone I hope you are all well 👋🤝🌹

Despite losing our precious homes, our priority is to provide a safe travel and passage opportunity for my elderly aunt who is now stuck in the northern Gaza Strip 💔

And to provide her with healthy food during the war in light of the high prices of food commodities due to the starvation policy practiced against our people 💔

I hope you will help us by donating or sharing the link with people who can donate 🙏🙏

Thank you and I hope you stay safe and healthy 🤍

🤍 [this fundraiser has been vetted to my knowledge. if proven otherwise, please let me know while providing proof of illegitimacy. please and thank you.] share if you cannot donate please!

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Late night in his office

Also a few doodles under the cut!!