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The Rafah border crossing has 4.4 stars on Google maps and if that doesn't just encapsulate the absolute absurdity of online institutions' treatment of the genocide in Gaza I don't know what does. You can just leave a review on Google for the ridiculously expensive escape route Palestinians have to scrape together money for a chance at getting through. And the average after "fake" reviews have been removed is 4.4 stars. This shouldn't be normal. But this is just how the whole thing is. Online spaces keep trudging along complicit in the horrors of the war without even blinking.
Genuine pleading for help by real people gets caught by spam filters due to a huge variety of overlapping reasons, including of course deliberate efforts to falsely report people who are raising funds, as well as algorithmic suppression of outgoing links to fundraising websites.
I think a big part of why we see a lot of fundraising posts on Tumblr is straight up that it's the most popular site with a weak algorithm. Posts that users want to be visible will, in fact, get visible. It's still pretty bad for fundraising though, with thoroughly documented real fundraising campaign blogs constantly getting suspended.
This has been a major obstacle for members of the Alanqar family doing fundraising campaigns during this time. Both Ghada and Ahed, who are brothers, have dealt with this throughout their fundraising efforts alongside bank issues, internet downtime, all sorts of problems that come with living in whatever shelter can be found while displaced during a genocide.
Right now, Ghada's campaign is stagnating due to these issues. He is fundraising for survival and the possibility of fleeing once the Rafah crossing reopens, and the task is not an easy one. Ghada's extended family, all currently displaced to what used to be a school building, consists of two elderly parents, four brothers of which two have wives, and six children.
I've already posted a lot about Ahed and his three kids, Fatima, Iman and Nour, but Ghada and Ahed's brother Mohammed also has three: Lama, Nabil and Amir. All six of these kids are currently suffering from malnutrition and disease spreading through their camp, and funds from Ghada's campaign are needed to provide them with food and basic supplies to keep going until there is a chance to escape.
This is the donation link. Ghada's campaign is number 6 on the gazavetters list.
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Now it's been a week since the floods, but we must remember that the damage is not nearly over. It will take months and years for the affected families to recover. And that's not counting that 215 people have died and 78 are still missing. Many homes, streets, fields, schools, etc are destroyed. I'm glad for all the solidarity we've seen this first week, but they are going to be needing help for a long time to recover.
All the local organizations are thankful but for some days have been asking for people to stop sending them objects (tools, clothes, food, etc) because the collection points have so many that they can't manage them and they don't even need so many of some things being sent, for this reason there are storehouses full of materials that they don't need but people keep sending and some volunteers are having to stay there to coordinate the stuff that arrives instead of being where they're needed. So, please, don't send any more things unless you are coordinated directly with a local association there that asked for a specific thing. They say that the most useful donations now are money and not any more food nor second-hand objects. (Again, thank you very much because this overwhelming response speaks of the goodness and solidarity of everyone who immediately reacted by sending things! but let's do it in a coordinated way with the affected people to make sure it's useful).
Also, recently some well-meaning people have been sharing fundraisers to help the victims, but some of these posts seem to be made by outsiders compiling what they found on Twitter, which ended up spreading fundraisers that belong to far right-wing groups, the Catholic Church, and to associations that aren't well known in the area.
If you can make an economical donation to help these people who have lost everything in a day, these are some trustworthy associations:
Fundraiser by Fundació Horta Sud. This is a foundation created by many local associations of the Horta Sud area, one of the areas that has been the most impacted by the catastrophe. It's a well-known foundation that brings together many local associations. This and the next one are the fundraising that is most recommended by people on the ground working on immediate needs.
Casals i Ateneus dels Països Catalans (federation of social centres of the Catalan Countries) has many social centres in the affected areas and is coordinated with trade unions to provide immediate needs. The bank number for donations is ES74 3025 0002 4614 3344 7057.
Fundraiser to help small family-owned farmers (farmers are one of the poorest segments of population in our country, families own a small plot of land and they're very threatened by big corporations, they're at the forefront of fighting for climate and the rural communities' traditional way of living with nature). The fundraiser is created by the International Centre of Rural and Agriculture Studies (Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional). This is the fundraiser shared by trustworthy Valencian associations that work in favour of rural communities and traditional cuisine, such as Tasta'l d'ací.
Fundraiser for the grass-roots cultural associations and cultural heritage guardians, organized by the Federation of Local Studies Institutes of the Valencian Country, the Coordinator of Local Studies Centres of the Catalan-Speaking Countries, the Federation of "Ateneus" of Catalonia, and the Ramon Muntaner Institute. Many local archives, centres of local studies, "ateneus" (social and cultural centres with an important task as a library for the community and as historians of the area, among other cultural activities) and other cultural associations headquarters have been destroyed. They are very important for the memory, history and culture of small areas. To write articles about the history and legends for this blog, I very often use work published by these local study groups, because most of the time they are the only ones working in detail on the historical and cultural heritage of their hometown. Here is the information on how to donate, as shared by the organizers:
Translation: Let's help the Valencian cultural and heritage associations affected by the 2024 floods. You can send your donations to [the bank number] ES98 3159 0066 91 3048828523 Or the BIZUM code 10586 (starting on 7th November 2024). You can send the receipt of your donation to: [email protected].
You can find more associations that are collecting donations in this document by Suport Mutu DANA València.
Thank you very much for caring.
#país valencià#actualitat#dana#valencian country#floods#cold drop#solidarity#cultural heritage#mutual aid#valencian#climate crisis#climate emergency#comunitat valenciana#valencian community#natural disasters#coses de la terra
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Hey, chat. Sorry to be a bother, but this is kind of urgent: The south of Brazil is going through the worst and most catastrophic climatic disaster it has ever seen.
The whole state - an entire small country - is flooded. And there is still MORE rain to come.
I've gathered these sources with possible ways to donate to those who are currently stranded (all the airports are closes AND flooded) for my international pals. Those are all legit Institutions. Taken from William Shibuya's blog post:
First, fundraising efforts from GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-flood-victims-in-brazil-rio-grande-do-sul-rebuild
Second, PayPal to [email protected]
That email is to donate to an organization of Preto Zeze called CUFA - Central Única das Favelas (something like Unified Center of the Slums)
Any small amount helps, and if you cannot donate, please help spreading this around!
#boost#brasil#brazil#donate#donation#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#laios touden#marcille donato#chilchuck tims#senshi of izganda#.txt
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The conservative movement is cracking up
I'll be in Stratford, Ontario, appearing onstage with Vass Bednar as part of the CBC IDEAS Festival. I'm also doing an afternoon session for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library.
Politics always requires coalitions. In parliamentary democracies, the coalitions are visible, when they come together to form the government. In a dictatorship, the coalitions are hidden to everyone except infighting princelings and courtiers (until a general or minister is executed, exiled or thrown in prison.)
In a two-party system, the coalitions are inside the parties – not quite as explicit as the coalition governments in a multiparty parliament, but not so opaque as the factions in a dictatorship. Sometimes, there are even explicit structures to formalize the coalition, like the Biden Administration's Unity Task Force, which parceled out key appointments among two important blocs within the party (the finance wing and the Sanders/Warren wing).
Conservative politics are also a coalition, of course. As an outsider, I confess that I am much less conversant with the internal power-struggles in the GOP and the conservative movement, though I'm trying to remedy that. Books like Nathan J Robinson's Responding to the Right present a great overview of various conservative belief-systems:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/14/nathan-robinson/#arguendo
And the Know Your Enemy podcast does an amazing job of diving deep into right-wing beliefs, especially when it comes to identifying fracture lines in the conservative establishment. A recent episode on the roots of contemporary right-wing antisemitism in the paleocon/neocon split was hugely informative and fascinating:
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-in-search-of-anti-semitism-with-john-ganz/
Political parties are weak institutions, liable to capture and hospitable to corruption. General elections aren't foolproof or impervious to fraud, but they're miles more robust than parties, whose own leadership selection processes and other key decisions can be made in the shadows, according to rules that can be changed on a whim:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/
Which means that parties are brittle, weak vessels that we rely on to contain the volatile mixture of factions who might actually hate each other, sometimes even more than they hate the other party. Remember the defenestration of GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy? That:
https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555
Even outsiders like me know that there's a deep fracture in the Republican Party, with Trumpists on one side and the "establishment" on the other side. Reading accounts of the 2016 GOP leadership race, I get the distinct impression that Trump's win was even more shocking to party insiders than it was to the rest of us.
Which makes sense. They thought they had the party under control, knew where its levers were and how to pull them. For us, Trump's win was a terrible mystery. For GOP power-brokers, it was a different kind of a nightmare, the kind where you discover that controls to the the car you're driving in high-speed traffic aren't connected to anything and you're not really the driver.
But as Trump's backers – another coalition – fall out among each other, it's becoming easier for the rest of us to understand what happened. Take FBI informant Peter Thiel's defection from the Trump camp:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/12/silicon-valley-billionaire-donors-presidential-candidates/
Thiel was the judas goat who led tech's reactionary billionaires into Trump's tent, blazing a trail and raising a fortune on the way. Thiel's support for Trump was superficially surprising. After all, Thiel is gay, and Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, openly swore war on queers of all kinds. Today, Thiel has rebuffed Trump's fundraising efforts and is reportedly on Trump's shit-list.
But as a Washington Post report – drawing heavily on gossiping anonymous insiders – explains. Thiel has never let homophobia blind him to the money and power he stands to gain by backing bigots:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/12/silicon-valley-billionaire-donors-presidential-candidates/
Thiel bankrolled Blake Masterson's Senate race, despite Masterson's promise to roll back marriage equality – and despite the fact that Masterton attended Thiel's wedding to another man.
According to the post, the Thiel faction's abandonment of Trump wasn't driven by culture war issues. Rather, they were fed up with Trump's chaotic, undisciplined governance strategy, which scuttled many opportunities to increase the wealth and power of America's oligarchs. Thiel insiders complained that Trump's "character traits sabotaged the policy changes" and decried Trump's habit of causing "turmoil and chaos…that would interfere with his agenda" rather than "executing relentlessly."
For Trump's base, the cruelty might be the point. But for his backers, the cruelty was the tactic, and the point was money, and the power it brings. When Trump seemed like he might use cruel tactics to achieve power, his backers went along for the ride. But when Trump made it clear that he would trade opportunities for power solely to indulge his cruelty, they bailed.
That's an important fracture line in the modern American conservative coalition, but it's not the only one.
Writing in the BIG newsletter, Matt Stoller and Lee Hepner describes the emerging conservative split over antitrust and monopoly:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-there-an-establishment-plan-to
Antitrust has been the centerpiece of the Biden Administration's most progressive political project. For the left wing of the Dems, blunting corporate power is seen as the necessary condition for rolling back the entire conservative program, which depends on oligarch-provided cash infusions, media campaigns, and thinktank respectability.
But elements of the right have also latched onto antitrust, for reasons of their own. Take the Catholic traditionalists who see weakening corporate power as a path to restoring a "traditional" household where a single breadwinner can support a family:
https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/when-capitalism-becomes-tyranny-with-sohrab-ahmari
There's another reason to support antitrust, of course – it's popular. There are large, bipartisan majorities opposed to monopoly and in favor of antitrust action:
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Antitrust_Policy_poll_results.pdf
Two-thirds of Americans support anti-monopoly laws. 70% of Americans say monopolies are bad for the economy. The Biden administration is doing more on antitrust than any presidency since the Carter years, but 52% of Americans haven't heard about it:
https://www.ft.com/content/c17c35a3-e030-4e3b-9f49-c6bdf7d3da7f
There's a big opportunity latent in the facts of antitrust's popularity, and the Biden antitrust agenda's obscurity. So far, the Biden administration hasn't figured out how to seize that opportunity, but some Dems are trying to grab it. Take Montana Senator John Tester, a Democrat in a Trump-voting state, whose campaign has taken aim at the meat-packing monopolies that are screwing the state's ranchers.
The right wants in on this. At a Federalist Society black-tie event last week during the National Lawyer's Convention, Biden's top antitrust enforcers got a warm welcome. Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ's top antitrust cop, was praised onstage by Todd Zywicki, whom Stoller and Hepner call "a highly influential law professors," from George Mason Univeristy, a fortress of pro-corporate law and economics. Zywicki praised the DoJ and FTC's new antitrust guidelines – which have been endlessly damned in the WSJ and other conservative outlets – as a reasonable and necessary compromise:
https://fedsoc.org/events/national-press-club-event
Even Lina Khan – the bogeywoman of the WSJ editorial page – got a warm reception at her fireside chat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwdAxOSznE
And the convention's hot Saturday ticket was "a debate between two conservatives over whether social media platforms had sufficient monopoly power that the state could regulate them as common carriers":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwoO7bZajXk
This is pretty amazing. And yet…lawmakers haven't gotten the memo. During markup for last week's appropriations bill, lawmakers inserted a flurry of anti-antitrust amendments into the must-pass legislation:
https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/fsgg-approps-bill-must-support-enforcers-not-kneecap-them/#
These amendments were just wild. Rep Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) introduced an amendment that would give companies carte blanche to stick you with unlimited junk fees, and allow corporations to take away their workers' rights to change jobs through noncompetes:
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/118th-congress/house-report/269
Another amendment would block the FTC from enforcing against "unfair methods of competition." Translation: the FTC couldn't punish companies like Amazon for using algorithms to hike prices, or for conspiring to raise insulin prices, or its predatory pricing aimed at killing small- and medium-sized grocers.
An amendment from Rep Kat Cammack (R-FL) would kill the FTC's "click to cancel" rule, which will force companies to let you cancel your subscriptions the same way you sign up for them – instead of making you wait on hold to beg a customer service rep to let you cancel.
Another one: "a provision to let auto dealers cheat customers with undisclosed added fees":
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr4664rh/pdf/BILLS-118hr4664rh.pdf
Dems got in on the action, too. A bipartisan pair, Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep Lou Correa (D-FL), unsuccessfully attempted to strip the Department of Transport of its powers to block mergers, which were most recently used to block the merger of Jetblue and Spirit:
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/house-amendment/640
And 206 Republicans voted to block the DoT from investigating airline price-gouging. As Stoller and Hepner point out, these reps serve constituents from low-population states that are especially vulnerable to this kind of extraction.
This morning, Jim Jordan hosted a Judiciary Committee meeting where he raked DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter over the coals, condemning the same merger guidelines that Zywicki praised to the Federalist Society:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7jxc8dp8erhe1q3wpndre/GOP-oversight-hearing-memo-11.13.23.pdf?rlkey=d54ur91ry3mc69bta5vhgg13z&dl=0
Jordan's prep memo reveals his plan to accuse Kanter of being an incompetent who keeps failing in his expensive bids to hold corporate power to account, and being an all-powerful government goon who's got a boot on the chest of American industry. Stoller and Hepner invoke the old Yiddish joke: "The food at this restaurant is terrible, and the portions are too small!"
Stoller and Hepner close by wondering what to make of this factional split in the American right. Is it that these members of the GOP Congressional caucus just haven't gotten the memo? Or is this a peek at what corporate lobbyists home to accomplish after the 2024 elections?
They suggest that both Democrats and Republican primary contesters in that race could do well by embracing antitrust, "Establishment Republicans want you to pay more for groceries, healthcare, and travel, and are perfectly fine letting monopoly corporations make decisions about your daily life."
I don't know if Republicans will take them up on it. The party's most important donors are pathologically loss-averse and unwilling to budge on even the smallest compromise. Even a faint whiff of state action against unlimited corporate power can provoke a blitz of frenzied scare-ads. In New York state, a proposal to ban noncompetes has triggered a seven-figure ad-buy from the state's Business Council:
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/noncompete-campaign-raises-state-lobbying-18442769.php
It's hard to overstate how unhinged these ads are. Writing for The American Prospect, Terri Gerstein describes one: "a hammer smashes first an alarm clock, then a light bulb, with shards of glass flying everywhere. An ominous voice predicts imminent doom. Then, for good measure, a second alarm clock is shattered":
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-11-10-business-groups-reflexive-anti-worker-demagogy/
Banning noncompetes is good for workers, but it's also unambiguously good for business and the economy. They "reduce new firm entry, innovation by startups, and the ability of new firms to grow." 44% of small business owners report having been blocked from starting a new company because of a noncompete; 35% have been blocked from hiring the right person for a vacancy due to a noncompete. :
https://eig.org/noncompetes-research-brief/
As Gerstein writes, it's not unusual for the business lobby to lobby against things that are good for business – and lobby hard. The Chamber of Commerce has gone Hulk-mode on simple proposals to adapt workplaces for rising temperatures, acting as though permitting "rest, shade, water, and gradual acclimatization" on the jobsite will bring business to a halt. But actual businesses who've implemented these measures describe them as an easy lift that increases productivity.
The Chamber lobbies against things its members support – like paid sick days. The Chamber complains endlessly about the "patchwork" of state sick leave rules – but scuttles any attempt to harmonize these rules nationally, even though members who've implemented them call them "no big deal":
https://cepr.net/report/no-big-deal-the-impact-of-new-york-city-s-paid-sick-days-law-on-employers/
The Chamber's fight against American businesses is another one of those fracture lines in the conservative coalition. Working with far right dark money groups, they've worked in statehouses nationwide to roll back child labor laws:
https://www.epi.org/blog/florida-legislature-proposes-dangerous-roll-back-of-child-labor-protections-at-least-16-states-have-introduced-bills-putting-children-at-risk/
They also fight tooth-and-nail against minimum wage rises, despite 80% of their members supporting them:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/04/leaked-documents-show-strong-business-support-for-raising-the-minimum-wage/
The spectacle of Republicans in disarray is fascinating to watch and even a little exciting, giving me hope for real progressive gains. Of course, it would help if the Democratic coalition wasn't such a mess.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/#anti-buster-buster
Image: Jason Auch, modified https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctic_mountains,_pack_ice_and_ice_floes.jpg
CC BY 2.0
#pluralistic#trustbusting#antitrust#schisms#infighting#conservativism#millionaire on billionaire violence#jim jordan#lina khan#jonathan kanter#federalist society#trumpism#class struggle#labor
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🍉🍉Please help my family 🍉
my family starving to death Most of the world supports institutions and they do not know who they reach. Even flour and water do not reach us. Yesterday I posted about the Tekke, or meals. Do you know that we suffer greatly to get this meal? Look at my little son as he goes to this meal. 🛑
He goes from dawn until noon waiting for this meal. After several sufferings This is how my family is So I ask you to support my family so that I can provide them with food, even if it is a little, because a little on a little is a lot. 🍉🍉🍉.
🍉🍉 Save my family.🍉🍉
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Daily reminder that Palestinian people still need all the help they can get. Here's a list of 5 that have reached out to me. Please, consider helping them survive and evacuate if you can!
Ahmed Al-Habil / @ahmedomar3: Family of 6, with four children (3 to 10 years old). Ahmed used to work as a fisherman, but now is unable to provide for his family. They have been displaced several times. This campaign is vetted by association. €3,855/€50,000.
Hazem Shawish / @hazemsuhail: Family of 8. They used to own a supermarket, which was destroyed during the war. Hazem's brother suffers from bipolar disorder. This campaign is vetted by association. €9,417/€50,000.
Ahmed Halas / @ahmedhelllis @ahmedhell-blog: Family of 20, most of them young children. Ahmed's father suffer from chronic conditions (diabetes and heart disease). This campaign has been vetted by @/90-ghost. €18,097/€80,000.
Karam Al-Madhoun / @karamalmadhoun0 @emanalmadhoun1. Family of 5; Karam is a 19-year old student, Eman is 28. This campaign is #109 in the vetted fundraisers list by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi. €17,332/€20,000.
Fadi Ayyad / @mayadayyad81 @aymanayyad82: Family of 8; Fadi is 18 years old. His father, Ayman, used to work as an English teacher. Their house and the institute he worked in were destroyed during the war. This campaing is vetted by @/nabulsi. $40,008/$50,000.
I'd like to share Fadi's words with you:
Months of hard and tough living conditions have left all families of Gaza hopeless and incapable of leading their life. All this has explicitly happened as a result of the damned unfair war over the innocent civilians of Gaza. Houses, possessions, belongings and businesses have vanished and been swept away. No more livelihood sources exist. Consequently the life of sufferings and hardship have begun since then. Food, medicine, clean drinking water, health care, and other necessities of a normal life no longer exist in the way that we can get them. Life is still sad and dire and this gets us desperate and pessimistic over the unclear future. Despite the tragedy and sorrow that we have been undergong for all these incredibly harsh days, some people come to attack and criticize us as criminals and scammers. Are we scammers because we are seeking peace and safety for our families after we had been forcibly displaced and therefore we lost everthing we used to have over the past years? How can we convince you that we are leading the worst and harshest days a person can experience! The people of Gaza are well educated and were brought up well but the unfair war has forced them to ask others' help and support. The incredibly and unbelievably harsh conditions have created new characters of us. I am asking you, my friend, to keep spreading our true words to the free world, telling them that we deserve life under any sort of circumstances. You are our voice and our last hope as we vehemently need you in our dire time. Long live Palestine 🤍🇵🇸
If you don't know who to donate to, GazaFunds is your friend.
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When everything is an emergency, nothing feels like an emergency anymore. ⚠️
When you have the means, support the people around you. Help those in need. Share with the people you love, and the people your people care about, too. Community is important now more than ever as our economy continues to disintegrate for the lower majority class, and the political climate in America has shifted to horrors nobody wanted to believe would be true. Care for your siblings and stand with them in these times, especially with the rapidly growing cold.
If you're looking for ways to support your local community, a quick search for "soup kitchen in my area", "homeless shelter in my area," "volunteer opportunities in my area," or a gander at some bulletin boards should give you a clue. Schools for those 13-19 and Universities + Colleges for those 18-30+ should have lots of information for you, as well as local Libraries, Community Halls and other institutions, such as Hospitals and Mental Health Outreach Centres.
There's always something you can do and people willing to help. You are never alone. Do not abandon hope.
Blessed be your nondenominational winter holiday(s),
Atti
[RB this post with crowdfunding, fundraisers, information/links, etc. if you are in need of community support, dig through the tags and my blog if you're looking for stuff like that! Reblog and pass them around. I usually tag stuff I reblog with #community support, #crowdfunding, #fundraiser, #paid content, #emergency fund, and for artists, #artist support. Transgender & queer crowdfunding are usually tagged as such, as well as Gazan and other endangered and war torn populations.]
#hope is a fighter. be like hope.#community support#crowdfunding#fundraiser#gaza fundraisers#free palestine#artist support#community initiative#homelessness#houseless#addiction#surgery#Christmas#winter#new years#queer#trans#transgender#lgbtq#america#american politics#north america#canada#canadian politics#sociology
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🤍Recovery Road
status: complete
rating: Explicit 18+
summary: (AU) Dieter Bravo is on his last chance. Six months out of a two year stint in rehab, his marriage on the rocks, and his starlight fading, he reunites with an old director friend on a project that might save his career and his personal life in a single go. Enter Natalie Lorraine, his new enigmatic co-star. Together, they go on to lead a film that comes to define a generation – and are both mysteriously absent the night the film receives an Oscar for Best Picture. Their reasons for missing such a landmark event are their own. Amidst affairs and acrimony, the temptation of relapse, and the intoxicating allure of wanting what you can’t have, Dieter and Natalie have become a ticking time bomb, primed to explode.
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you can never keep a soul (18+) A storm and a dead phone leaves you at the front door of your uncle’s mansion in LA. Thing is, you haven’t seen each other in over a decade and neither of you quite remember the other one looking like that. But what’s one night gonna do? Well, as it turns out – as Dieter spirals at a breaking point in his career and you’re so lost in life you can’t see up from down – a whole fucking lot.
Little Monsters (18+) **100 follower event** A phone call home to your family has you missing them desperately . . . especially your husband, who always knows exactly what you need.
can you see my reflection in the snow covered hills? (T) **100 follower event** a year into secretly dating, you are overwhelmed by your feelings for Dieter Bravo, confident and resigned to the fact that he doesn’t feel the same way. But on Oscar’s night, drunk on sparkling wine and a terrific win, Dieter gives you a reason to doubt your fears.
delicious (T) **100 follower event** in order to make a fundraising event bearable, you and Dieter take edibles. When the event runs long, your only chance to make it out alive is to find something to eat.
Bite Me (T) Halloween 2023! before a Halloween party, you and Dieter show off your “communal” costumes.
i crawl home to her (18+) **Merry Thanksgiving Nonsense 2023** you bring dieter home to meet your family over the holidays.
Stay Gold, Baby Boy (18+) six months into your friends-with-benefits situation, you institute a new game. A gold star on the board every time Dieter is a good boy. Today, he gets bingo . . . for wearing real pants.
stay sexy and don't get murdered (18+) Trapped behind a secret wall to hide from a murderer, the close proximity forces you and Dieter to confront feelings you rather bury underneath your case to prove your favorite neighbor didn’t commit suicide. (This is the Only Murders in the Building smut fic in the chaotic stylings of Dieter Bravo.)
fade into you (18+) **1K Follower Celebration** counting down the days until the new baby arrives, you’re already wound to a breaking point. Fortunately, Dieter is as good a husband as he is a father.
[DRABBLES]
Vampire!Dieter (T) you're a journalist and you finally get to interview the current generation of the Bravo Hollywood Legacy.
i breathe you in (and it changes me) (T) **1K Follower Celebration** you've been here with him before - rock bottom. But this time, he gives you reason to hope for something new.
dieter bravo x masterlist
#dieter bravo#dieter bravo fanfiction#dieter bravo x female reader#dieter bravo x you#pedro pascal characters#the bubble#chronically-ghosted#masterlist
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Who is represented by Megsy Markle and Price Harry? by u/EleFacCafele
Who is represented by Megsy Markle and Price Harry? When the King, the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of Wales or other Senior Royals visit a place, an institution, hospital, charity, trust etc. they represent either the Crown or as Patrons of the charities, institutions, trusts, etc. they work with. In each of their visit, members of the public know exactly what the connection between the place visited and the Royal.The question nobody seem to ask is whom or what is represented by the sussexes. Apart of Ingriftus Invictus and a couple of charities (including their own Archwhatever) they do not represent the Royal Family, the UK, USA or anything else. They are nobodies in terms of representation. Yet both, especially Megsy parrot royal visits, as if they still were working royals. But they are NOT. And nobody seems to say: Stop these imposters, royal pretenders, charlatans; they do not represent the BRF or royalty or anything else. Megsy's visit at the LA Hospital was a fraud: she is not a patron, or involved in charity work, fundraising or anything else with the hospital. Why she was received as some important representative, when is not the case? Why the media is so keen to promote these fake royal visits? Why nobody tries to stop this parroting royalty sham? post link: https://ift.tt/IDTKdHQ author: EleFacCafele submitted: April 04, 2024 at 01:50PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.
#SaintMeghanMarkle#harry and meghan#meghan markle#prince harry#fucking grifters#Worldwide Privacy Tour#Instagram loving bitch wife#Backgrid#voetsek meghan#walmart wallis#markled#archewell#archewell foundation#megxit#duke and duchess of sussex#duke of sussex#duchess of sussex#doria ragland#rent a royal#clevr#clevr blends#lemonada media#archetypes with meghan#invictus#invictus games#Sussex#WAAAGH#american riviera orchard#EleFacCafele
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also relating to people calling palestinian gfms scams... the "trusting third parties with no authority" thing from that person and people like them really gets me. bc that person on their first blog claims to be anti-fash and anti-cop. and yet... need to see some authority from people vetting fundraisers. like. yes please, tell me, white western tumblr user that claims to be a leftist, what ARE your ideas about authority? and whose authority do you deem valid, my fellow whitey? is it, perhaps, that you only view white, western "authority" as valid? that only white, western institutions have "authority"? why is this "authority" so important to you, so-called anti-fascist and anti-cop white leftist? is it, perhaps, that your ideas about what gives a person or entity "authority" is steeped in racism and western ideas of what "authority" is?
#butch speaks#can you tell i'm pissed about this?#its always been infuriating don't get me wrong. but i had some thoughts to share#anyways. this is the last thing i'm gonna say about that person.#question what you define as authority and WHO has authority and WHY they have authority#there is a kinder part of me that knows i could have been nicer about that.#i DO hope they get better. i do hope they get why that was such a cruel thing to do and say. i hope they do some self reflection#but the instant vindictive attitude? talking down to me and being shitty ON THE ASK sent to me by someone in a desperate situation? cruel.#i wish them a very therapy and get well soon#also. question who and what you see as 'authority' if you're going to dare call yourself anti-fash and anti-cop#peace and love on planet earth yall. support palestinians.
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you might have answered this somewhere before, but what's the story behind calling it radio free monday?
Oh, the question comes up every few years but if I can't find the old answers to it on tumblr I don't expect anyone else to :D
Radio Free Monday was created in response to a very old wank about fandom fundraisers; prior to roughly 2005, it wasn't the acceptable and common occurrence it is today. I was asked to publicize some fundraisers and I did so, but (as happens with popular blogs) that started a spiral where every time I posted one, I got requests to post three more. It wasn't just that I could reach a largeish audience within fandom, but also that my posting fundraisers gave them a kind of weight, legitimizing both the need and the ask. The dilemma became how to share all these fundraising posts while not becoming a fundraising-post blog, which would lower my readership and thus get those donation requests to fewer people. So I decided to do a once-weekly links roundup.
I decided since I was going to be posting on Mondays I would call it Radio Free Monday; I used the Radio Free title mostly on a whim, because I thought it sounded cool. "Radio Free" is actually primarily a term for a propaganda tool; the CIA began setting up "Radio Free [country]" all over the world so that they would have a broadcast presence in countries of "special interest" to the US intelligence apparatus. You can get an idea of the history at the Radio Free Europe article here.
It's had some evolutions since then; until I introduced the form, people would just comment on a post or email me, and I had to keep all the requests together and make sure I had all the data. The form allows me to weed out fakers (they generally won't bother filling out a form, even a very simple one that doesn't capture any information involuntarily), make sure I always get the pronouns right, and ensure that I never have to go chasing down a URL. I still code it all by hand, but because I have a spreadsheet, the coding has gone down from "roughly two hours on Sunday night" to "roughly forty minutes on Monday morning".
(Funny story: since instituting the form in 2014, the fact that I ask for pronouns and include they/them as an option has led to two nonbinary awakenings and one trans coming-out that I'm aware of.)
So yeah -- mostly "it sounded cool" combined with "seemed kinda apt" :D
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Hello everyone and welcome to my second day of blogging about Palestine
today i wanted to highlight some charities and foundations that you can financially support instead of big companies who are going to fund your money into guns and supplies for the Israel troops
1. Press - House Palestine
Press-house Palestine is a non-for-profit organisation which supports the journalists documenting the lives of people within Gaza. This organisation grants journalists with legal protection so that their experiences and freedom of speech can be presented online. ( they also have a instagram by the name @press_house_palestine ) This link provides articles about ongoing events within the country
2. Doctors Without Borders
i’m sure that there a high chance that you have heard about this one before, but ill mention it anyways since its a good charity. Doctors Without Borders is a organisation dedicated to supplying medical aid to places without proper access to it. what i have linked below is a donation link for their specific Gaza cause, which both implores for a ceasefire and provides Palestinians with medical equipment. you have the option to donate monthly or just one time
3. Islamic Relief Australia
this organisation is one that is located within Australia, but strives to provide food and water to the people. So far they have already given 16000+ people water and over 1 million ready-to-eat meals. They also have other donation links within the site that incudes to help rebuild infrastructure within Gaza and to help rehome palestinians to Australia. NOTE: There are other varients of this organisation within other countries such as the UK
4. Olive Kids
Olive kids is a foundation focused on supporting the children of Gaza. this includes education, medicine and food. This is another Australian-based foundation but that is because i live in australia. if you want to find region specific causes for your location then please google it yourself. Australian causes can be donated to by anyone anyways so you might aswell use this info anyways
5. Action Aid UK
this foundation focuses on providing Palestinians with the services that they do not have anymore, such as power and electricity. They do 90% immediately going towards the people of Gaza and 10% for future emergencies
I also want to stress two things. 1, if you arent in the right financial position to donate then dont, spreading the word does help aswell and 2, im not the excuse for you not to research yourself. all of these groups i found by myself via google, and as long as you have some media literacy, you too can find information. and you should find more than 5 and spread it around, i just wanted to highlight 1 from 5 different sections since i hadnt even heard about most of these until now.
more organisation/fundraisers here:
#palenstine#free gaza#gaza#gazaunderattack#free palestine#charities in support of palestine#kats social justice
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How to help the Ukrainian Book Industry
As per usual, I forget to post on Tumblr now a days. Let's talk Faktor Druk.
What happened?
Russia launched 15 missiles at Kharkiv. Faktor Druk, a printing house was hit twice (in total 3 strikes in the general area). Last I heard, 7 are dead. 22 are wounded. (During the strike, 50 employees were in the building.)
Why it matters? Most Ukrainian publishers had books printed there. Every 3rd Ukrainian book was printed there [Source]. You may think "it's only 50 000 fiction books", but no, it includes textbooks. As in, kids might not get any textbooks, because who else will print them when most books are printed in Kharkiv?
"The printing house Faktor-Druk is part of the Faktor company group, which also includes the renowned Ukrainian publishing house and bookstore Vivat. Faktor-Druk has the capacity to produce approximately 50 million hardcover and paperback books, 100 million magazines, and 300 million newspapers annually. The facility employs 400 people and encompasses 15,822 square meters of production space. According to Forbes Ukraine, Faktor-Druk is one of only two factories in Ukraine that can print products for Disney and Marvel, having successfully passed a rigorous multi-level audit." [Source]
Now how to help? Countries are trying to help with rebuilding, but here are some things you can do.
Vivat posted about a fundraiser for Faktor Druk. Originally posted here by CEO Yuliya Orlova. Reposted to Vivat website here.
Based on my own experience, I believe it is crucial to channel our grief and anger into action. How can you do that?
Ways to support: Donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they are our heroes! Keep buying Ukrainian books! Factor-Druk is one of the largest printing houses in Ukraine, where not only Vivat books are printed, but also many books from other publishers, as well as newspapers, magazines, calendars, school notebooks for your children and grandchildren.⠀ How to help: The Factor company has initiated a fundraiser. All donations will be used to support those affected and to restore the printing industry. Details can be found at the following link: https://vivat.com.ua/blog/udar-po-drukarni-faktor-druk-yak-dopomohty/ [Source]
Vally_v on Instagram is doing a fundraiser raffle below for the chance to win this edition of Ivan Franko's “Manipuliantka”.
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You can support the publishers by buying Ukrainian books and ebooks (most print their books through Faktor).
On the whole, this destruction is part of the larger war where Russians have been destroying Ukraine.
Some more background
The first year of the full-scale invasion led to a 50% decrease in demand [Source]. Shelling in Kharkiv has led to a backlog due to limited electricity and a shortage of qualified personnel [Source].
In terms of operations, within 2022:
From the start of the full scale invasion to April 25th of 2024, the Russians have damaged 1062 cultural heritage sites [Source]:
Specifically, architectural and urban planning sites comprise 316 objects, architecture – 307, historical– 226, architecture and urban planning, historical – 61, archaeology – 56, architecture, historical – 39, monumental art – 21, urban planning and monumental-decorative art – 19, architecture, monumental art – 7, urban planning – 5, science and technology, architecture – 2, architecture and monumental art – 1, architecture, garden and park art – 1; architecture and garden and park art – 1.
From that same period of time, Russians damaged 1987 cultural institutions (324 destroyed) [Source].
"In total, the following have been affected: – Creative hubs: 958 – Libraries: 708 – Art education institutions: 153 – Museums and galleries: 114 – Theaters, cinemas, and philharmonic halls: 36 – Parks, zoos, reserves: 15 – Circuses: 3"
There is also this interactive map of the book ecosystem in Ukraine:
Links:
Oleksiy Hrushevsky. Ukrain's printing companies suffer 40% capacity cuts after Russian attack on Kharkiv printing house. Online.ua.
Russian army attacks printing house in Kharkiv causing injury and death – UPDATED. Chytomo.
Porter Anderson. Russian Attack Hits Ukraine’s Factor-Druk Printing House. Publishing Perspective.
Porter Anderson. Europe’s Publishers: Anger, Solidarity After Kharkiv Attack. Publishing Perspective.
Олеся Дерзська. Як ракетний удар по «Фактор-Друк» вдарить по книгоіндустрії? Speka.
Factor Group of companies on Facebook.
Yuliya Orlova on Facebook. [Vivat CEO]
Vivat on Facebook. Книгарка Vivat on Telegram.
Sergey Polituchiy on Facebook.
Over 50,000 books destroyed and three publishers affected in Russian strike on Kharkiv printing house. Ukrains'ka Pravda.
Тетяна Леонова. «Українці — не варвари, ми не палимо книжки»: Олена Рибка, шеф-редакторка видавництва Vivat автор. Nakypilo.
Анна М’ясникова. Харківська друкарня після обстрілу. Фоторепортаж. Nakypilo.
On the Ukrainian publishing industry:
[Dec. 2022] The State of the Ukrainian Book Publishing Sector During Wartime. Ukraine World.
[23.12.2022] Anastasia Zagorui & Oksana Khmeliovska. 9 months of invasion: how Ukrainian publishers work in times of war. Chytomo.
[12.08.2022] Anastasia Zagorui. How Ukrainian publishers work during the war. Chytomo.
[12.02.2024] Iryna Baturevych. The Ukrainian Publishing Market 2023: “Competition has reached unprecedented levels”. Chytomo. (old poll, but gives some perspective).
[06.05.2024] Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. Due to russian aggression in Ukraine, 1062 cultural heritage sites have been affected.
[02.05.2024] Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. 1987 cultural infrastructure objects have been damaged or destroyed due to russian aggression.
[April 2023] A Brief Overview of the Ukrainian Publishing Sector : Supporting Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery (SUPRR).
[Oct 2023] Ukraine’s book business during war: Ukrainians want to read their own, but Russia may enter the market again. Rubryka.
[April 2024] Against all odds: How Ukrainian book publishing navigates challenges of war. Rubryka.
[04.04.2024] The constant shelling of Kharkiv leads to major backlog for Ukrainian books-in-print. Chytomo.
Interactive map:
Interactive map of the Ukrainian book ecosystem. Ukrainian Book Institute.
Thanks for reading, this turned out to be a super long post.
#I may have gone overboard with links but in my defense - I look up it up and western outlets don't include info from publishers#Faktor Druk#Kharkiv#russian invasion of ukraine#Vivat#Ranok#Sergey Polituchiy#Ukrainian literature#Ukrainian book industry#Book industry#Publishing#There's a lot of links so one may be misaligned - in that case search the title and website#Instagram
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How to clean up a Wikipedia article (advanced edition)
Another editor went through a bunch of Romanian synagogue articles and updated the religious affiliation to "Neolog Judaism" which is a denomination that's mainly found only in Hungary. I can't prove that it's wrong, but I also can't prove that it's true, and I air on the side of caution. In the process of correcting these edits, I am now giving a thorough once-over to the articles. And here we come to the Gherla Synagogue.
Problems
The before
Small: spelling mistakes like 'fund raising' -> fundraising, missing punctuation, lack of Wikilinks to pertinent topics like Yad VaShem, WIZO, mikvah, etc., no caption on the picture (it's the synagogue AND the neighbouring Holocaust memorial!)
Medium: organizationally, this is a clusterfuck. It's not an article about the Gherla synagogue itself so much as a jumble of facts about the Jewish community of Gherla in loose chronological order. The founding of Gherla by Armenians in the 1700s is not pertinent to the synagogue and this should be either removed or include a 'main article' template to the town of Gherla itself.
Large: this text is taken, largely verbatim, from the reference 'About Us The Jewish Community of Gherla, A Short History'; while it's great to have a reference like this, this is a) an unverified blog and b) one very large copyright violation. There's a disproportionate text:references ratio that is made worse by so much of the text coming whole-cloth from this Weebly blog.
Solutions
The after
Small: copy edit for small mistakes like the ones listed above, linkage to pertinent topics. This actually added an enormous amount of time to the work because I went through and checked out some of these like WIZO and that article was a mess + led me to articles like Julia Batino, which was (get this) also a mess.
Medium: reorganize the entire article. Add a 'main article' template that directs to the town of Gherla, which needs work itself. Dig up 9 new references for the Jewish community of Gherla; unfortunately relatively little is specific to the synagogue, i.e. who designed it!
Large: oh wow. A lot of this info can't be verified by independent sources and, strictly speaking, should be deleted. I also found a lot of information that contradicted what had been copy-pasted from the blog, i.e. that there were no Jews in Gherla prior to the 1830s (the town council expelled all Jews from at least one neighbourhood in Gherla in 1811 so...someone had to be there to be expelled; this inaccuracy has been repeated A LOT on Instagram, unfortunately). The Hungarian name for the town, Szamosújvár, is also used frequently in both the scholarly and religious literature, i.e. the Rebbe of Szamosújvár. A lot of this literature is also, no surprise, in Hungarian/Romanian/Yiddish, so that's largely inaccessible to me beyond what Google Translate can manage.
Methods
This shit is hard sometimes! There a lot of bullshit to wade through. I have institutional library access through my work so going through search terms like Gherla/Szamosújvár synagogue (and then repeating that in Hungarian) on Google Scholar and Google Books was productive. There were a few articles from Holocaust memorial publications/encyclopedias that had pertinent background information of the Jewish community in Gherla, but many individual topics, i.e. the name of the president of the congregation (which one!) can't be confirmed anywhere that I could find. Something that also makes it difficult is spelling/transliteration across languages. For example, Jakov Dov Feldmann could easily be Yaakov Dov Feldman, Avraham Shlomo Elias romanized as Avrohom, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef ha-Kohen ha-Kohen as Rabbi HaKohen, Kohen, Cohen, Coen, etc.
Summary
This took a while but was really interesting so that's fine. I didn't want to remove the information about the Gherla/Szamosújvár community but I didn't want to leave it at just what was from a blog so I added to it which ended up getting...messy (the president of the ghetto's Judenrat [Jewish council] was the father-in-law of Rezső Kasztner who made a deal with the SS to get Jews out of Hungary and was assassinated in 1957 for this, among other reasons). It also opened up a lot of questions about some of the related articles, i.e. the newspaper Uj Kelet so that might be my next project. All told, while editing this article, I went through and edited 8 other articles while working on this one.
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Help 14 Year Old Gavi Out Of “Wilderness Therapy”
14-year old Gavi Blum was taken in the middle of the night from his bed by two staff members at the Blue Fire wilderness therapy program in Idaho, one of many programs with connections to the Troubled Teen Industry, known for institutions that market themselves as helpful therapeutic programs for teenagers while actually being abusive, poorly regulated, for profit companies that often withholding essentials such as food, causing harm to the young people in their “care” and even being linked to deaths. He was already in an abusive situation at his father and stepmother’s house, having experiences like being locked in his room, witnessing arguing and abusive language between his father, stepmother, and four stepbrothers, and his sister being attacked by their father when she attempted to bring him food. Gavi was also not sent to school during the 2023-2024 school year. Neither adult in the house made any attempt to stop him from being taken to this program.
This fundraiser is verifiable- there are also videos of Gavi being taken from his home and Reddit threads he posted discussing his abuse that were found by his sister, which were included at the end of the fundraiser, where all of the information I paraphrased above is also stated. Additionally, the creator of the fundraiser and her brother are both siblings of one of @lucat13’s friends, I have known her online for years and have multiple reasons to believe she’s who she says she is, and we both have been blogging on here for a couple years now. A quick glance at either of our blogs will prove we are members of the Tumblr community and not the mostly-empty money grab accounts that have been popping up on here the past few years.
I know the goal is high and a lot of my followers are minors with little to no money, but if you can donate even a small amount or reblog just to spread the fundraiser’s reach, it would be very appreciated. Gavi’s mother and siblings are very worried and raising money so they can attempt to legally remove him from this program and bring him to safety.
#donation#donations#fundraiser#fundraisers#mutual aid#i hope to god these tags don’t get the post taken down#i know people have struggled with that in the past#but my account doesn’t have super wide reach my posts usually get like 10 notes on a good day#so i’m hoping the tags will help
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Save my family 🍉🍉🍉🍉
This is our situation today, you who donate to these institutions that neither feed nor satisfy hunger. Rather, these institutions are the cause of our hunger and poverty. You donate (to the hospice) which is the meal. Today I will explain to you what this meal is. 🛑🛑🛑
This hospice costs the foundation only $50. Even if you feed it to animals, they won't eat it. It only contains the main meal without any additions, for example, there is no salt, which is the least thing, and spices, and it is supposed to contain some canned meat so that it is according to the amount provided for it.Oh donors, I am a mother of seven children. Please donate even $5, even though my husband is sick and supports another family. But we say that perhaps someone will donate to me and my family. I have been suffering every day and I cannot find a donor I ask you, donors, to put yourself in this situation. What would you do if your son came to you and asked you to bring him food and you couldn’t find it? What would you doyou will say?Please donate to my family via the link
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