#aid package

[charlie-artlie]

modern romance

[favroitecrime]

UN passed a resolution for a ceasefire with a majority vote of 153 yes. 23 abstained. 10 voted no (any guesses?)

It’s non-binding though. Meaning israel is likely going to ignore it, especially with the US on its side. As much as it is wonderful to celebrate this public step forward, we gotta remember to keep marching and protesting and boycotting for a ceasefire AND a free Palestine. The fight is nowhere near over unfortunately but everything you’re doing is working. Keep pushing.

[ebonytails]

I finally finished the HxH stickers from a while back! They shall no longer plague my mind..

[girlactionfigure]

A Gazan complains about the drop in aid and the quality of the food in the aid packages:

They concentrate us in a certain place and then drop the aid somewhere else, on the border or in the sea....

It's silly... and the dishes are silly... we'd prefer a drop of a kilo of flour. This is better than the whole box of aid... this food is not good for us, we are the Arab... Palestinian people.... it is cat food for us...

I exchanged the entire carton of aid with my brother in exchange for a kilo of flour.

We want better assistance than this.

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This is an excellent indication that there is no starvation in Gaza... the clients have become picky...

[re-velogs]

so fucking busy the rest of the year. being alive is awesome :]

[boudicca]

the absolute gouging that egyptian border guards are pulling is so shockingly disgusting i really have no words for it. people are suffering through the indescribable horror of a literal genocide and people are forcing them to beg strangers to help them make up the cost of an ENTIRE HOUSE just to cross a border and not be living on a street corner once they do so

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

House Democrats made an extremely rare break with modern political norms on Thursday to rescue House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) foreign aid package.

WHY IT MATTERS: It's the starkest evidence to date that the GOP's fractured and tiny House majority has effectively yielded to something resembling a bipartisan coalition.

WHAT HAPPENED: The four Democrats on the House Rules Committee voted with five of the panel's establishment Republicans to advance the package of four bills to votes on the House floor.

• The crossover was needed after three right-wing hardliners on the panel — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) — voted against sending it to the floor.

• The right-wing rebellion was enough to kill the package if Democrats did not step in.

ZOOM IN: The Rules Committee typically consists of leadership loyalists who dutifully vote along party lines on advancing legislation to the floor.

• But former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) placed Massie, Norman and Roy on the panel last year to placate right-wing hardliners who rebelled against his bid for the gavel.

• That put power in the hands of Democrats, who overwhelmingly support the package and are desperate to send aid to Ukraine.

WHAT WE'RE HEARING: This kind of party crossover on the panel has not happened "in the time that I've been here," said Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), who has served in Congress for more than a decade.

• Kildee, a member of Democratic leadership, said the move is "unprecedented."

• "I think it's highly unusual ... I don't know that I've ever seen that happen," said Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), a former member of the panel.

WHAT'S NEXT: The committee vote sets up a vote of the full House on Friday to pass what is known as the "rule," a procedural mechanism setting the terms of debate on legislation.

• Democrats will need to bail out the rule once again, with the House Freedom Caucus taking the rare step of endorsing a "no" vote.

• That likely won't be a big deal, however, now that Democrats have already rescued the rule once: "In for a penny, in for a pound," said Kildee.

[stone-cold-groove]

New Band-Aid sheer bandages. Clear plastic with flesh-tone pattern practically disappears on your skin. Band-Aid bandages ad - 1958.

[totentnz]

whoever invented squeeze tubes should be flayed like im sure there is a reason for them beyond "big skincare wants you to throw away money" but i dont care!!! if you sell your product in a fucking tube im coming for you

[leahclearwaterdefensesquad]

i really shouldn't be surprised by how excited (i want to use a different word but can't really put my finger on which descriptor best fits the takes i have been seeing) people are now that kamala harris replaced biden. democrats talk with this renewed hope and vigor now that genocide joe is out of the race - not to mention that she's leaning hard into the prosecutor v. felon narrative and they're just eating it up...

[favroitecrime]

Some of the aid that was airdropped is expired. We’re all in hell.

[ceilidhtransing]

It never escapes my notice, as a glasses-wearer who is severely impaired without them, that the kind of people who come out of the woodwork to tell people who take medication, use disability aids, etc "are you sure you want to be dependent on drugs / aids / whatever for the rest of your life?" never come for people who need glasses.

I need glasses to live, and I know that I will probably be dependent on glasses for the rest of my life. It's a debated topic whether "terrible eyesight that's easily corrected with glasses" counts as a Disability™ or not, but I know that I am very disabled without glasses and I'm just as dependent on them to go about my life as, say, someone completely paralysed from the waist down is dependent on a wheelchair. Yet the weird ableist attitude about how "awful" and "life-ruining" it is to be "dependent on something" doesn't rear its head for glasses-wearers.

And this attitude always baffles me because not only is it not actually a shameful disaster to be "dependent on something for the rest of your life", as it's so often presented in abled society, but also because if you need something in order to live your life - a cane, a daily dose of medication, an accessibility adjustment, a hearing aid, a pair of glasses, or anything else - then you need it, and whether it would somehow be "preferable" not to be "dependent on that for the rest of your life" is a completely irrelevant question. That's not a choice you can make. "I had to choose between being dependent on glasses for the rest of my life, or simply Getting Good and not being shortsighted anymore" - like, what?????

If you need something for your disability, then whether you'd "rather not be dependent on it" is not the choice abled people seem to think it is. Hand-wringing about "but wouldn't you rather not be dependent on that?" [undertone: "shouldn't you be trying harder to not need that"] is completely tangential to the point: because if you need something, then either you have access to the thing that allows you to live a full(er) life, or you are denied access to that thing, but whether you have it or not you're still going to need it.

And if abled people are able (...no pun intended) to not be weird about people who will be dependent on glasses for the rest of their lives, they can sure as hell not be weird about people who are dependent on medication, aids, adjustments, or whatever else.

[sanriocollection]

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[spock-smokes-weed]

Since I’m coming in as a transfer student I’m offered three years to complete my degree (instead of two!, and that really excited me because I learn so much better when I’m able to take my time.

But ever time I bring it up my parents completely shut down the conversation and say I’m going to complete my degree in two years.

And every time this happens I tell them I’ve been promised by the school a financial package, and that we’ll be spending way less than originally thought, but THEY DONT BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY GONNA HAPPEN. The keep telling me “we can cover it even without the school giving us money” but then throw out the idea of another year in school because they don’t want to pay for another year.

It’s so frustrating and I know I’m already so lucky to be going to college in the first place, but I wish my parents would just listen to me about my own education 🫠

[dijidweeeb]

1980's Kool Aid Packaging, Bedrock Orange

[trainerdawn]

i sent u my fafsa pls respond