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Anyway, for the last two days entire towns in southern Lebanon have been erased and 87 martyrs in Lebanon since yesterday. 40 airstrikes just this morning. In Gaza people are desperate for food. In northern Gaza more men and boys have been kidnapped and tortured by the occupation, people are forced to sleep in the cold streets, and extermination is on the horizon. The occupation has besieged northern Gaza for 32 consecutive days and israeli soldiers have executed doctors and blown up the children’s ward in hospitals. All across Gaza the bodies of martyrs continues to rise and suffering is indescribable. The occupation has invaded Jenin and its refugee camps, in the West Bank, for over two days murdering and kidnapping people, and demolishing homes, businesses and streets.

Donate to Noor immediately and help feed her family. Every $ makes a difference.

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Thank you, Snoop Logg...

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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I woke up to about a hundred posts urging people not to kill themselves. Which is bleak. That's not something I've ever seen the day after an election. Or ever. But I also woke up to dozens of messages in activist group chats--some of which had been quiet for literal years--about where to direct our effort and time and money. We don't actually live in a different country than we did yesterday. The ongoing battles for healthcare, the environment, and human rights are going to be a lot harder with Trump in power. We are going to lose some of them. But these battles existed before today, and they will exist after Trump is dead and in the ground, and we are going to fight for each other, as we always have. The most important thing we have is one another.

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generally speaking when it comes to mental and physical health, if you're asked "do you struggle with this" and your answer is "no, Because I Have A System," then your answer is actually yes

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Gonna be fr grown adult queers should know better than to engage in crazy fear mongering telling other people it’s over and we’re all gonna be sent to camps and lose our rights and be criminalized and whatever like hey how about don’t tell a group of people with unbelievably high suicide rates that there’s no hope and life is over

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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Hi speaking of medical literacy for trans people, transfems pls check out the website Transfeminine Science, especially their introductory article on feminizing HRT

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everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.

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high-key obsessed with this XY museum concept art that shows a guy just casually holding a Mew

even better is the in-game blurb that goes with the painting, which is both great worldbuilding and also very funny:

A Man and Mew: They say a man of power at the time forced the artist to add the Mythical Pokémon Mew to spread the word of how great he was.

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now this did make me literally laugh out loud

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There are already a ton of recriminations about the Harris campaign but honestly I think none of that matters. I think people just really hate inflation. I don’t think Israel or Liz Cheney or Joe Rogan had anything to do with it.

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many of us do. it's difficult not to succumb to the feeling of not being able to do something and being completely helpless. and while it's true that individually none of us can change the world, we do have the power together to make an impact, especially on the lives of individual people around us.

instead of succumbing to feelings of doom and despair about the election, the climate, or any other ongoing crises, please consider donating to ibrahim. that is a real way to have a real impact on someone's life.

ibrahim is only 15 and is trying to raise funds to not just help him and his family escape the genocide, but also to survive in the current conditions. he has been displaced and exposed to countless horrors time and time again. the least we can do is attempt to help him.

please, if you can: match my donation of €10. if you can't spare that, spare €5 or even €1. if you really have nothing to give, share this post. don't turn away from suffering. this is your chance to do something.

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So, I guess as a middle range millennial, I now get to tell all you young queer kids that what you are feeling right now is exactly how it felt in 2004 when we re-elected George Bush, and not only that but many states put in bans against gay/same sex marriage at the time.

This is probably not comforting, but it is true, and it helps me when I feel hopeless: For every revolution there is a counter revolution, for every step forward there is a step back, that things may not be good forever but they will not be bad, either. That we clawed our way to get where we are and we can claw our way forward from here, too. Talk to your queer elders, the ones who have been here before and will be here again and who threw bricks at Stonewall.

When I was a child, if you got AIDS it was a death sentence. Now it isn't. Now you live on.

So I'll quote angels in america: You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.