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since new year is around the corner, here’s a very important reminder to be mindful and considerate when it comes to fireworks because hundreds of animals, especially strays, sadly lose their lives every year due to the fear and anxiety they endure. hundreds of pets got so terrified they ran away from homes.

please make sure your pets are safe. please make sure to think about stray animals who don’t have homes to take shelter.

please think about them too.

*I’m obviously not saying you can’t celebrate new years or that fireworks should be banned. I’m only asking for all of us to be considerate of animals who experience fear so intense their hearts literally stop; a celebration should not cause innocent animals’ lives, fireworks are not worth the lives of innocent animals. so please be considerate and think about them too.

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Lost Family Dog Is Located Using a Thermal Imaging Drone After Being Missing for 16 Days

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This is how to do drones!

China beats its own previous record of 8k drones in show to now 10k drones.

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vetted palestinian fundraisers

this is a list of campaign's i have been personally sent to help share & donate to, every one i have included here has been vetted by palestinian tumblr users. i cannot personally verify fundraisers, so everyone i have included has already been verified. please take the time to donate to one of your choice & reblog this post.

Help Dina and her children survive through the war // @dina179 // on the vetted fundraiser doc #245 // 6,923/20,000 CAD

Help Moamen Majed rebuild his life after the war // @moamenmajed99 // vetted by @/90-ghost // $7,360/$30,000 USD

Mohammed Alazaiza's family // @isra-elazaiza // on vetted fundraiser doc #236 // $3,500/$48,000 CAD

Fadi Ayyad's family // @mayadayyad81 // on vetted fundraiser doc #174 // $28,508/$35,000 USD

Wafa's family // @wafaaresh // vetted by @/ana-bananya // €6,320/€100,000

Mahmoud Alkhaldi's family // @mahmoud1995 // vetted by @/90-ghost // $3,881/$50,000 USD

Yousef Hussein's family // @adham-89 // vetted by @/90-ghost // $9,672/$50,000 USD

Mohammed Taysir's family // @yazanfamily // vetted by @/northgazaupdates // €2,944/€50,000

Doaa & his family // @dodoomar147 // vetted by @/90-ghost //kr49,206/kr300,000 SEK

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You won't be alone (2022)

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How the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is supposed to work

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Israel “outright denied” 82 out of 91 attempts since 26 October to deliver aid to besieged areas in northern Gaza, said Georgios Petropoulos, head of the UN humanitarian office in Gaza. More attempts were unsuccessful because of “denials of specific locations or specific supplies,” he said in a statement reported by The Washington Post on 26 November.

The aid that has reached Gaza is being looted by criminal gangs, which are able to operate freely after Israel began killing members of the Gaza police attempting to secure aid deliveries earlier this year. “It is tactical, systematic, criminal looting,” Petropoulos told the BBC. [...] The BBC was told that “thefts often happen in clear sight of Israeli soldiers or surveillance drones but that the army fails to intervene. [...] Stolen goods are apparently being stored outside or in warehouses in areas under Israeli military control”.

please, support grassroots initiatives set up to ease gazan people's suffering under zionist genocide.

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Happy Thanksgiving click these donation links

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council

Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Aquinnah Wampanoag Cultural Center

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hey this thanksgiving I ask people to please please please please don't forget about indigenous americans. celebrate all you want, eat turkey, spend time with family, idc, but please do so in respect to the actual meaning behind the holiday and the atrocities committed against natives. your day of thankfulness for all that you have, the things you only have because of colonialism, is a day of mourning for us

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🇵🇸 FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA 🇵🇸

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This Thanksgiving, Joe Biden will pardon two turkeys, according to tradition. However, he will not call for a ceasefire.

Let that sink in. He will spare the lives of two birds, but he will not spare the lives of millions of people.

On a holiday that has its origins in the genocide of indigenous people, he will spare two birds and continue to fund another Trail of Tears.

Please continue contacting your reps.

(No, don't tell me he's the lesser evil.)

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Warning of suspected election tampering

Here is a very detailed letter by a technology expert that there are "multiple and extremely clear indications the Presidential vote was willfully compromised."

Read it on Substack.

I've wondered about this since the morning after the election.

What happened to all those excited voters who posted their ballots early?

What happened to the tens of thousands of people who showed up for Harris rallies? And the skimpy crowds at the orange guy's rallies?

What happened to ALL THOSE REPUBLICANS who said they were voting for Harris because orange guy couldn't be trusted?

What happened to the 40 former cabinet members, intelligence officials, military leaders, and others who said he was unfit for office?

What happened to the proof that Russia interfered in 2016 and 2020 - and why aren't we checking on that in 2024?

Please tell me that the Harris campaign and the Department of Justice (or whoever oversees elections) is looking into this.

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Contact your Reps often. That is a way of voting, though nonofficial. High public interest elevates your issues. Reps can point to public supprt to boost their efforts.

There’s not too much point in talking about the election anymore, but I think some people are misconstruing the results. 21% of the American population voted for trump. He won the popular vote with polls only recording a 43.7% approval rating, and he has never held an approval rating over 50%, something that Biden and (arguably) Harris have. He lost millions of votes from 2020 to 2024, it’s just that Harris lost millions more.

All this is to say that there is not some ‘silent majority’ of trump supporters in America. While some people will definitely be emboldened in their rhetoric and action by the results of the election, Trump was a deeply unpopular president, and is shaping up to be one again. He will enact unpopular policies that are against the will of the average American, but that doesn’t mean every American is out to get you. Engage with your local community, check in on loved ones, and maybe even take a look at local political offices in the coming few years. If you dislike the two party system, volunteer or donate to a third party. It’s altogether likely we see another 2022 situation, resentment grows further against the Republican Party, and the midterms offer a lot of opportunity to alternatives, at every level of government.

It may all feel like the end, but it’s not. We’ve been through it before, and no matter what we do, hate and ignorance will bleed through the cracks in society again in the future. It’s going to get better, but that’s easier to say if we make it better.

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mandatory “i’m still alive” post. i went for a walk, sobbed by the lakefront, then went back home.

there is beauty today. it must be enough.

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