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This is for the support of Gaza's Municipality Services - which help ensure clean drinking water, waste collection, debri removal and sanitation services - life saving services to run a state - reader I imagine wherever you are or how lacking the municipality services in your city is, it's not worse than Ghazza.

Currently it's only at 11% - please donate -

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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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Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!

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something you can do today is email and call your state reps to demand they do everything in their power to urge the release of kidnapped Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil! just takes a couple minutes! please reblog!

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had a dream last night that sappho 16 became a meme. everyone on the internet was posting images that contained the text "some say cavalry, some say infantry, some say ships are the most beautiful thing, but I say it's" and then just like, the worst stock photo image the poster could find of whatever they loved (the ocean, a loaf of bread, etc.)

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DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.

I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can't bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.

Look at them! They do war dances.

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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Re: green colonialism 

When Zionists talk about Israel making the desert bloom, they are using the most insidious language to describe Israel’s ecocide of Palestinian ecosystems and biome, which is an often overlooked casualty of colonial violence.

One of the worst perpetrators of this ongoing ecocide is the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an Israeli organisation that disguises itself as an environmental NGO yet owns around 13% of the occupied land in Palestine (which I’ll bring up a lot below). The JNF can be considered the main reason Zionists love to brag about the number of tress and forests that they have planted in Palestine, while skipping over the part that addresses what trees, where they are planted, and why they're planted in the specific areas.

As for what kind of trees, the JNF planted vast swaths of non-native trees, mainly pine and eucalyptus trees, in place of indigenous arboreta. Both trees are invasive species; pine is not indigenous to the land, and therefore it is not a sustainable plant. Pines planted by Israel often fail to adapt to the soil which requires replanting them over and over again. Additionally, they require huge amounts of water, which in turn affects water systems and aquifers around them. On top of that, the acidic pine needles that the tree sheds tend to destroy all surrounding small plants, gravely affecting the livelihood of Palestinian shepherds whose animals depend on grazing the land. Lastly, and not to forget, that these invasive plants are more prone to fires. As Palestinian scholar Ghada Sasa put it, zionists have "converted Palestine into a tinder box" over the past century, which was evident in 2010’s Mount Carmel wildfire, which was the worst in Israel’s history. Ironically, this fire revealed underneath it agricultural terraces constructed by Palestinian farmers, which were purposely obscured by Israel when constructing the park. 

With that, and as for where these forests are stationed, they are often built on top of the ruins of depopulated Palestinian villages. Take for example Birya Forest, Israel's largest man-made forest in the north, and was strategically planted over the ruins of six different Palestinian villages, one of which was 'Ayn Zaytoun (meaning spring of olives), a farming village that used to home 1,000 Palestinians, who were ethnically cleansed by Israel to make way for this forest. Other examples include the Canada Park or Carmel National Park. In places like the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, the ruins of demolished Palestinian homes can be spotted among the pine trees, and in this particular case, it’s the ruins of the village of Ajour.

Finally, the reason why the JNF seems to be fixated on pine trees for example is primarily because to them, pine trees help evoke an imagery of European wilderness, and this is evident with Jewish settlers nicknaming the Carmel National Park "little Switzerland", despite it being partially built on top of the ruins of the Palestinian village of al-Tira. Additionally, pine trees grow fast, which works in Israel’s favour to attempt to accelerate the erasure of Palestinian history and memory. The JNF usually distributes pine saplings to settlers to plant annually, and they understand that while these cost nothing, yet, in their own words, there will make a forest in 10 years’ time.

This is all scratching at the surface of Israel’s green colonialism and ecocide in Palestine, and I should probably make another post to talk about Israel’s deliberate destruction of Palestinian farmland and crops to build its Jewish-only roads and separation apartheid wall, or how it pays tax incentives to Israeli companies with the highest polluting rates to move to the West Bank, or how they drained the oldest documented lake in history despite scientist warnings, or the continued destruction of olive trees (about one million) by the state of Israel and its violent settlers. But in any case, at this point no one can buy into Israel’s green-washing of its genocide, especially after seeing what they had done to Gaza’s lands, particularly fertile lands. 

Simply put, Zionism has employed every method at its disposal to try to erase Palestinians and their history, including planting trees. 

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"A UN Special Rapporteur confirms that the israelis kill Palestinian women deliberately to prevent population growth as one of its tools of genocide"

"The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Salama, confirmed that the Israeli occupation army has used the killing of women and the targeting of reproductive health as tools for genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Salama said in a press statement on Sunday that “Israel’s attacks on Palestinian women are part of a systematic genocide strategy.” She added, “When looking at Israel’s actions overall, it is clear that targeting the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in particular serves this purpose.”

She emphasized that “the killing of Palestinians simply for being women is considered a war crime and a crime against humanity,” noting that the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide also prohibits acts of genocide aimed at preventing reproduction within a group. ..."

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I cannot stress enough to you that all American government agencies are falling apart at the seams right now and they will not be put back together for the foreseeable future. EPA DHS ED VA FDA NIH IRS CDC HHS NPS etc... Elon Musk is dismantling everything. Anyone who resigns or is laid off now, the word we (I am an agency employee) are receiving internally is that their position will be abolished, not backfilled.

Do you like eating clean, safe food?

Do you like having clean, safe air and water?

Do you want experts monitoring developing infectious diseases?

Do you like getting tax returns?

Do you want your children to have free, quality, public education?

If so, you need to write to your senators and representatives RIGHT NOW. Trump is not obeying the rule of law. He is illegally firing all the inspectors general of these agencies (they are literally being escorted by security out of their offices) so that there is no one left to stop him from doing quite literally anything he wants. He has bypassed the internal structure of all of the agencies by plugging in external email servers to push typo-filled emails and memos written by employees of the heritage foundation directly into the inbox of every federal agency employee in the country, threatening to terminate them.

The rule of law is dead. The only mechanism left to stop any of this is mass public outcry via convincing your state's congressmen & women to do something, because right now they are staying absolutely silent and none of us in these agencies can figure out why. A massacre is happening right now and every single American will feel the material, concrete consequences of this in their daily lives very soon if nothing is done.

Please help me boost this information.

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leliana ruining dinner in the origins camp by trying to explain he/him lesbians to oghren

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btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.

enjoy this moment but the work has not ended

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I finished my Masters in Library and Informational Science! People asked me what I wanted as a graduation gift and I said that all I want is for you to help out @abo-ataa to support his family this winter by donating to his paypal below.

Please consider donating to my friend Hussam, he has been displaced from his home in Rafah, and has to take care of his children in this freezing cold weather without even a proper tent! A few dollars will go a long way, no matter how small! Consider it a graduation gift for me if you appreciated any of my posts on tumblr!

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From the river to the sea Palestine will be free