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Last week, the Relief for Rafah (R4R) community kitchen provided a water truck, and cooked and distributed food for the residents of Al-Junaina, Rafah.

R4R need money to continue their efforts providing people with food, water, and medicine in Rafah. Ramadan begins tomorrow, and people need food and water to break their fasts.

Ramadan Kareem 🕌✨🌒

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I've been in touch with Nizar, who is 18 and has been fundraising for himself, his parents, and his five siblings. With news of the ceasefire, he's focusing on securing transportation for his family to evacuate asap. Here's his page with more info, if you're able to help out please do 💗💗

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Kyohei Inukai (Japanese/American, 1886-1954)  

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America's butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds. The first countrywide systematic analysis of butterfly abundance found that the number of butterflies in the Lower 48 states has been falling on average 1.3% a year since the turn of the century, with 114 species showing significant declines and only nine increasing, according to a study in Thursday's journal Science.

Continue Reading.

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Okay sorry I really have exhausted my options on this. I need to cover $400 to get my narcolepsy medication. I depend on it to work and function but I've been out for weeks and I am struggling to do basically everything. I'm a disabled trans woman building free and open source tools for better internets (and I post for Ricky on @rickybabyboy), please help me out if you can.

$180/$400 raised

Venmo: AGIEF

Paypal: agieocean@gmail.com

Ko-fi:

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Hi

I haven't made a donation post for us in over a month now, I think I should. I should also update that the person who let us crash for a while wants us out by March 20th, which is fine, I guess, she basically only promised a month, and just hasn't said anything specific as an update on that situation until February 26th.

We've been using what was given before my surgery for gas, pain meds, lube, food, etc. I'm still recovering from facial surgery, it's been the 1 month, both of us are still recovering from bottom surgery to some degree but it's getting easier.

Anything helps. If I find a place for us to be or smth, I'll give an update.

0/1000

https://ko-fi.com/t4t4t

https://venmo.com/u/Leah-Esther-Rose

https://www.paypal.me/androgynophore

https://venmo.com/u/nora-esther-rose

https://www.paypal.me/NoraEstherRose

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if you look into the history of biopsychiatric research you will often find a tension between the search for new drugs and the search for a biological cause of specific disorders. often, as soon as a medicine is found that performs slightly better than placebo in one clinical trial, its workings are then retroactively explained by a “new insight” into the workings of the disorder (see the dopamine theory of schizophrenia, or the lithium theory of bipolar disorder). describing the disorder as resulting of a specific imbalance in brain chemistry helps legitimize the existence of the diagnosis; describing the drug as correcting that imbalance helps sell it. discussing lithium, johanna moncrief says: “without it the treatment for mania and schizophrenia would appear indistinguishable (as they more or less are), the justification for diagnosis would be undermined and the whole disease-centred conception of modern psychiatric drug treatment would start to look fragile.”

both of those processes often develop in parallel to each other in a process that is famous for poor methodology and unreplicable results. often the same drug is presented in various new ways (“we know it works, we just didn’t know why until now!”, rinse and repeat) - or sold for a different diagnosis (while still asserting its disease-specific action) to keep the sales up, by funding new studies so that anyone pointing out this pattern can be dismissed as ignoring scientific progress.

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The ceasefire in #Gaza is closer than before . We have been wishing and waiting for this moment for a long time. Our souls are tired of waiting and our greatest ambitions have become to stop the killing machine that made us see death in all its forms, from burning, torture, hunger and cold. I hope you support my sister who suffers from the lack of all the special requirements for a pregnant woman. Thank you for always supporting me. news | vetted | Details about my sister situation

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the ICE concentration camps in Louisiana are particularly notorious for abuse, torture, illegal detention, and other violations of even the limited legal protections afforded to migrants in the so-called US. Mahmoud Khalil was disappeared to one of these camps, and last I heard he still hasn't been allowed contact with his lawyer or anyone else in the outside world. they disappeared him to the state where he is most likely to be tortured, and least likely to be allowed the already scant legal protections theoretically afforded to abductees

"We see Louisiana as this black hole where people are transported and disappeared, and because they're unable to access legal resources, they're facing significant barriers and due process and are actually unable to adequately represent themselves in their cases for protection."

"Abuse of thousands of migrants at federal immigration detention centers in Louisiana is rampant, inhumane and meets the legal definition of torture, according to a report published on Monday by a coalition of human rights groups. Accusations include the shackling of detainees for lengthy periods in painful positions, filthy drinking water, food contaminated by rat feces and served in meager portions, and a denial of or restricted access to medical and mental health treatment."

"Jointly managed and overseen by NOLA ICE, the nine immigration jails of Louisiana share common characteristics. ... Eight of the nine NOLA ICE jails are operated by private prison companies, providing a cost-cutting motive for subpar treatment of detained people. Eight of the NOLA ICE jails hold people for prolonged periods of detention ranging from several months to years, in violation of laws mandating release of people who are neither dangerous nor a flight risk. All of the NOLA ICE jails are located in rural areas isolated from legal resources in order to restrict detained peoples’ access to due process. All of the NOLA ICE jails evade the federal government’s toothless oversight mechanisms despite years of findings of endemic abuse. ... Of all ICE field offices nationally, NOLA ICE stands out for holding people in detention for longer and refusing release at higher rates. ... NOLA ICE also holds people with final orders of removal in prolonged detention ... NOLA ICE also holds people in arbitrary detention, refusing discretionary release at higher rates than any other ICE field office."

also worth noting that in the second half of the Biden admin, ICE started funneling the disappeared into these Louisiana camps at an astronomically higher rate:

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thought i was doing a bit better lately but ive spent almost all of today sleeping or lying still bc i didn't have the energy for anything more so i guess everything i had planned for today will be a problem for tomorrow

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work is disabling; disability is class-enforcing. adjust ur ideological paradigms accordingly

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Abdulrahman still needs your support

Last month, Abdulrahman @3bdulra7manosama tried to raise funds for this school year's tuition and other fees so he could continue his medical education. He was not able to raise enough funds needed but was able to find a generous donor who covered the rest.

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He is now using the same GFM to support his family still in Gaza facing genocide and starvation, and need help in meeting their basic needs.

His short-term goal is €5000. The GFM is moving very slowly, with no donations in over 3 days. Please consider donating and please keep supporting this campaign in any way you can.

€3,332 / €5000

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Tree Swing

Woodblock Print

Virginia Lee Burton

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hi everyone!! id like to bring your attention to this group of queer refugees located in a camp in Gorom, South Sudan.

i came in contact with Goret, one of the lesbians from the camp, and she told me about how terrible their situation at the moment is.

if short, they lack funds for meals, poor medication/shelter conditions/beddings.

they also face physical threats due to homophobia and some of the members already have been severely injured because of the attacks.

their campaign is getting barely any traction, so id love if you guys could share, donate, and talk about it. lets help Goret and her fellow camp members to raise funds for survival! even small donations of $5 will mean a lot!

they're currently at $5 out of $4000 goal!

Goret's blog where you can see more photos of their current situation - @goret97

here is their gofundme page w/ protected donations!

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Ojibwe / Northeast Woodlands beadwork in the National Museum of the American Indian.

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white flowers by kristen joy emack, from "cousins" series