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Dr Mark Pearlmutter on his time in Gaza.

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tip for women: do fewer things "out of love" and more things that directly advantage you

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deeply obsessed with this

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A video of Palestinian man burning to death while still connected to an IV went viral after Israel firebombed a hospital and set tents on fire. I won't post the video or the pictures but I'd like to commemorated the victim.

This is Shaaban Al-Dalu. He had two sisters and a little brother. He was studying software engineering in the tent he died in. Shaaban was his family's sole provider. His mother died with him. May they rest in peace

Edited to add family pic

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The Zionist genocide and warmongering will likely be remembered as the death of the U.S.-centric, UN-mediated international political system that’s been predominant since the 90s. They’re using chemical weapons on UN officials and it doesn’t matter at all. They’re showing that they can do anything that they want and that the U.S. will give them infinite supplies anyways, there’s no longer any premise of legality at all. Definitely the first major sign for the fascistization of international politics to come

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We were told that violence in itself is evil, and that, whatever the cause, it is unjustified morally. By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? By what standards can we equate the violence of blacks who have been oppressed, suppressed, depressed and repressed for four centuries with the violence of white fascists? Violence aimed at the recovery of human dignity and at equality cannot be judged by the same yardstick as violence aimed at maintenance of discrimination and oppression.

Walter Rodney, Guyanese academic, radical historian, and prominent leader in the Caribbean, who was murdered on June 13, 1980; from The Groundings with My Brothers

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@celialowenthal // Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

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I have so much love in me that I would like to cry.  

Simone de Beauvoir, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Sylvia Plath, Clarice Lispector

buy me a coffee

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Handmade Persian carpet, Khuzestan Province, Iran. Ashkan Forouzani

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[T]he language of fascism is written in the language of love. Love is made into the primary quality of attachment, what motivates individuals into fascism: ‘we hate foreigners because we love our country.’ […] Love has an enormous political utility: transforming fascist subjects not only into heroic subjects, but also into potential or actual victims of crime as well as those who ‘alone’ are willing to fight crime. Fascist subjects become freedom fighters, willing to stand against the ‘swamp’ or ‘tide’ of the incoming others, who themselves are narrated as hateful: as being not only worthy of our hate, but as full of hate for what we are and have.

Sara Ahmed, “The Bond of Belief” (also "Fascism as Love")

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Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

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i don't think i should take anything personally anymore, the breeze leaves as quickly as it arrives

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waiting & waiting & waiting & waiting & w

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what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes