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wake up people

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It's going to be a long trip, let me take a picture of you before we leave. SOURCE

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Hawk the herald angels sing

Glory tuah that new born thing

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Benevolent Grandpa Sivi watching the kids enjoy their gifts

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*Bloody Christmas*

Between the Lights of Christmas and the Flames of War :

'''The Voice of Gaza'''

While streets around the world sparkle with lights celebrating Christmas and the New Year, darkness engulfs Gaza. Here, the sounds of church bells and festive songs elsewhere are drowned out by the echoes of bombings and cries of despair.

Every year, the New Year symbolizes hope and renewal for many, but for us in Gaza, it is a painful reminder of our harsh reality. While people gather around bountiful tables, we gather around the remnants of our homes destroyed by war. While fireworks illuminate the skies in celebration, the skies above Gaza glow with the fire of destruction !!!!

What hurts even more is the stark contrast: how can the world celebrate the start of a promising new year while we are stripped of our basic right to live? Christmas in Gaza is not a celebration; it is a time to remember all we’ve lost and all that’s been taken from us.

Yet, amidst the darkness, we hold on to hope. We believe our voice can pierce through the international silence. We hope the world sees this contrast and remembers that peace and joy lose their meaning as long as there’s a people being silently killed !!!!!

Our suffering in Gaza is beyond words, but your actions can make a difference. If you believe in humanity and our right to live in peace, we invite you to support our fundraising campaign. Our goal is to secure a dignified life for me and my family outside the circle of war and to build a new future where we can live safely and with dignity.

The last donation was 3 days ago!!!

Every contribution, no matter how small, represents a glimmer of hope in the midst of this darkness. Be part of the story of hope we are trying to write in the most difficult of circumstances.❤️

(verified, #6)

(Donation link is here)

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Let our voice reach the world, help us spread our suffering, please share this post ❤️

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queer stories matter i'm gay and i saw a bird today

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Cherchez la femme (or a really big bug)

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its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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i'm afraid the phrase "touch my wee wee touch my fucking wee wee!" has become a consistent part of my internal monologue vocabulary

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"I’m very concerned about my client’s right to a fair trial in this case.  He’s being prejudiced by some statements that are being made by government officials. Like every other defendant, he’s entitled to a presumption of innocence. But unfortunately the way this has been handled so far his rights are being violated. And as you know, Your Honor, there’s a wealth of case law guaranteeing his rights to a fair trial, but none of the safeguards have been put in place yet here — in fact it’s just the opposite of what’s been happening. 

He’s a young man, and he is being treated like a human pingpong ball between two warring jurisdictions here.

These federal and state prosecutors are coordinating with one another at the expense of him. They have conflicting theories in their indictment, and they are literally treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, like some sort of spectacle. 

He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career. It was absolutely unnecessary. He’s been cooperative with law enforcement. He’d been in custody for over a week. He waived extradition. He was cooperative at all accounts. There was no reason for the NYPD and everybody to have these big assault rifles — that frankly I had no idea it was in their arsenal — and to have all the press there the media there. It was perfectly choreographed. 

And what was the New York City Mayor doing at this press conference, Your Honor? That just made it utterly political. And as your honor knows under Loro v. Charles, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has held it to be clearly established that these staged perp walks to the media unrelated to a legitimate law enforcement objective is unconstitutional. And I submit that there was zero law enforcement objective to do that sort of perp walk. There’s absolutely no need for that whatsoever. 

And frankly, Your Honor, the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded dealing with his own issues. And, frankly, I submit that he was just trying to detract from those issues by making a spectacle of Mr. Mangione. 

And there are consequences to this. 

He has a right to a fair trial. And I just want to put on the record statements that the mayor made publicly about my client. Nothing saying “alleged” for example. And he said “I wanted to send a strong message with the police commissioner that we’re leading from the front. I’m not just going to allow him to come into our city. I wanted to look him in the eye and state ‘You carried out this terrorist act in my city, the city of New York that I love.’” And he wanted to show symbolism. 

Your Honor, he’s not a symbol. He’s somebody who is afforded the right to a fair trial. He’s innocent until proven guilty. And the mayor was talking to jurors — future potential jurors that elected him. Those are the people that elected him that he is talking to and calling this man a terrorist.

So, Your Honor, I just want to make a record of this and put everyone on notice that this has to stop, and my client is entitled to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence."

From the CNN stream (weird video)

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Robert Ingpen (Australian, b.1936)

Dracula`s Smile

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Do not really know what to say. A year ago we were making posts about how Gaza was being bombed through Christmas- how the oldest Christian community was being bombed- how the birth place of Jesus was being destroyed and his people murdered. A year later, it is going to be Christmas again soon, and the bombings have not stopped. But the news, and the attention seems to have died down considerably. It feels terrible and scary.

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Seeing your friends will Literally change your life