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FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

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Some have suffered intestinal failure — their intestines have stopped working, they can no longer swallow, they scream in pain, and some die silently.

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I shudder when people say "I don't know how we got here" as if the past 650+ days of genocide weren't literally televised, during which Israel committed daily atrocities, experimented with all kinds of violent death, reshaped the entire world's perception of what is now deemed acceptable in the form of collective punishment, and destroyed all red lines to see how far they can go with complete impunity, and to see how far they can go before the world erupted in anger and collective action. It didn't. And that's exactly how we got here.

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This isn't a donation post. I just need people to read this.

I keep saying "It's dire" and it keeps getting even worse. I don't even know what I'm asking people to do, just that I don't want this to happen in silence. I want everyone to know this.

I received these messages from my friend Anas, and soon all my other friends in Gaza started crying from the same ache: there is no food in Gaza.

The gist of the messages, shared with permission, until I translate more thoroughly:

Used to be that the problem was that aid was being sold (instead of just given, as it should be) for ridiculous prices. Now there isn't even food to sell!

Most people in Gaza have now gone at least a day without eating. Many of my friends have gone multiple days.

We are now on a timer before hundreds drop dead unless food is allowed into Gaza. This is not hyperbole. This is a countdown to death unless something changes very, very soon.

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if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted, Also, my friend @zinaanqar16 and her family need our help and support. She is a child and has 3 wonderful siblings who deserve to survive and live in peace and safety. they are going through the worst conditions since the outbreak of war

''life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work''. that matters

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If aid does not enter to Gaza Strip within the next 48 hours — especially baby formula and flour — then prepare yourselves for the largest mass death crime in history.

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⚠️‼️PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE⚠️‼️

We have collected $15,337 raised of $20,000 !🇵🇸

🇵🇸 save family lost their home ,dreams and everything in Gaza 🇵🇸

This is my home before the war and after the war how it became💔💔💔

Before: After:

We have been through many wars before, but this war was not like the ones before it. Our lives were turned upside down. We became displaced from one place to another. We are the Anas family, residents of northern Gaza, specifically in the Shujaiya area. In the first week of the war, we fled our home because everyone considered our home to be in a dangerous area. We moved to the Rimal area, specifically in the middle of Gaza. There, we received the news that our home, which contained all our beautiful memories, was bombed. Suddenly, it was gone!!! Just thinking that your home, which you worked hard on and built from scratch and took a lot of your life, was gone in less than a second ! After a while, we left the sands to the Al-Zawaida area because of the heavy shelling. We stayed there for about two weeks, and then the terrorist army asked us to go to Rafah. We actually fled for the fourth time to Rafah and stayed there for two months, some of the most difficult days of our lives, as there was no way or means to live a normal life. 😔😔 After that, because of the invasion of Rafah, we moved to Deir al-Balah. Now, we are in very difficult and oppressive circumstances.

We are asking you with all shame to support and stand by us in these difficult circumstances that everyone knows because we lost our home, our work and any stable source of income. Thank you all.

🔗 🔗 Gofundme link for donations 👇👇👇👇🔗 🔗

Please, we are in dire need of you and your support. If you cannot donate, you can share☹️❤️🥹

Even $5 will make a big difference and save us!

Verified by : @nabulsi

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Guys July is underway & I want everyone to start it off by donating however much they can to the Sameer Project, just as I will be doing right now. Please share this & send it to your friends & encourage chain donations. I’ve been looking at this fundraiser goal every now and then, and it’s bizarre to me how it barely moved over the last few weeks. Please spread the word!!!

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''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

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The war between Iran and Israel has ended. The war between two countries has been resolved, while the war between a country and a city has not been resolved yet. Do you hate Gaza? Do you hate the Palestinians?

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maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

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When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

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In the UK if you protest genocide or wave a Palestinian flag you get arrested on terrorism charges

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Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, 1978

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

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It is humiliating to keep asking for help, and feeling like no one cares. The active genocide which started on October 7, didn't just destroy lives, but it has made Gazans see just how little the world cares for them ( no country, except for Yemen has tried to intervene).

Gazans are proud. In these past two years, I have had the honor to call the most wonderful people my friends and I know that it is so humiliating for them to be constantly tagging people, dming people, or commenting on posts. The urbicide committed by Israel, and the subsequent destruction of their lives and livelihoods, have stripped Palestinians of the dignity of privacy. All the loss they have suffered, have been forced to be made public, all so as to campaign for survival. And for all that there has only been a steady drop in engagement with Pro-Palestinian content or at worst an indifference towards the genocide.

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Folks from the areas in the orange need to mask up for sure. Wildfire smoke contains harsh chemicals from things like pine resin and whatever buildings get caught up in the blaze. Using a respirator rated for organic vapors is a good idea if you're going to be active outside for long periods.