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This is so gay my heart might just burst

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Your friendly Black History Month reminder that Black Jews are JEWS.

Born Jews, Jews by choice, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Israeli, diaspora…they are an integral part of all of our communities and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

We still have work to do as a community to uplift Jewish POC, particularly Black Jews, but to my Black Jewish friends out there know that I see you and I will keep trying to do the work.

Happy Black History Month. ❤️

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being real if the only antisemitism you care about is from elon musk and not the sieg heils at leftist protests i dont think you actually care about jews

and adding onto that! you absolutely cannot compare the events in america as “hitler-esque” unless you’re acknowledging the vast and unchecked levels of antisemitism that is flourishing on the right (and left.) hitlers rise was founded on hatred of jews, you cannot remove the antisemitism from nazis

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As someone with a public health degree - it could be much, much worse. We've made huge strides in sanitation, medical science, nutrition, etc. Human rights are not universal, there are still slaves right now, but a lot of the world is free. You have the freedom and ability to vote in this poll. We avoided nuclear annihilation during the Cold War.

Life could be much better for many people, absolutely. But it could be much worse, too.

In the worst timeline, no country ever outlawed slavery, there are no vaccines, people don't know to wash their hands (not even doctors), scurvy and rickets are rampant the world over, and nuclear war destroyed most of the earth. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

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To anyone who was previously paying for ad-free on here, now that they tied that into 'Tumblr Premium' apparently the new price is double what it was previously.

Worth double checking your subscription in advance and canceling if need be.

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i don’t have a problem with universities suspending/expelling students for hate speech or incitement to violence when warranted, which could lead to international students losing their student visas. BUT the federal government should not be involved with this, and you should not trust them not to use this as a trojan horse for targeted anti-immigrant policies.

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Image description: a framed child's comic

first panel: a girl in colorful clothing saying "Wow the world is much better with"

second panel: word bubble that says "color"

third panel: a rainbow that takes up the entire space

fourth panel: a different girl in colorful clothing saying "is the world, wow, awesome"

fifth panel: a different girl in colorful clothing saying "wow so cool"

the label beneath it reads: "'Making the World More Colorful!' by Sarah F. 'I really love rainbows. Let's make the world more colorful!'" end image description.

someone write an image description of this please

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Two things can be true.

saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall

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A lot of HIV pages are down, including the testing page from the drop-down menu. There is still a general page with very basic info, but it doesn't help you find tests.

The general test site is still up. I threw in a few random zip codes and it appears to be working. You can look for HIV or other STI tests in your area, and home tests are available for some STIs, if they are too far from you

The same site allows you to search for vaccines for: HPV, Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B. If you have not received these vaccines and are sexually active and/or use intravenous drugs, you should get vaccinated.

THEY DELETED THE CDC SITE ON TRACKING AIDS/HIV????

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if you are trying to invent a version of nazism that doesn't include antisemitism then that is no longer nazism. it is something else. a component of nazism, maybe, but at the core of nazism is a seething hatred for and desire to eradicate all jews, and if you catch yourself going "this is nazism but not targeted towards jews-" then you are no longer talking about nazism.

racial- and ethno-nationalism. racial- and ethno-supremacy. fascism. ultranationalism. these are all words that already exist and they are free to use! there is no nazism without antisemitism. if you're trying to separate nazism from antisemitism in order to make a point, put on your thinking cap for five seconds, figure out what it is you are actually talking about, and use that word instead.

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Thai hostages Pongsak Thaenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Watchara Sriaoun, Bannawat Saethao and Surasak Lamnao were released from Gaza today.

Wilas Thaenna wept after receiving a call to say his son Pongsak had been freed on Thursday. "I never thought this day would come, everything has been too quiet for a while," the 65-year-old told the BBC. He revealed he had barely slept the night before, as he was so excited at the prospect of his son being released.

"I don't know how to explain how I got through all that happened," he continued. "My son was taken captive, I lost my wife, I had to stay strong. First five or six months, I've lost so much weight. It was distressing, I didn't have strength to do anything or go anywhere. I was worried all the time. When I see him, I'm going to give him a hug and tell him to come home."

Wiwwaew Sriaoun also sobbed as it was confirmed her son Watchara had been released. "The first thing I want to do is to hug my son and tell him I miss him very much," she said. "His daughter, Nudee, was also happy. She has been praying every day for her daddy to return."

She said all of Watchara's relatives have come to her home in Udon Thani province to closely monitor the news. "I've had hopes but I also lost hopes several times already," she said, adding she received a call on Wednesday night but wasn't sure if her son would still be alive. She too was unable to sleep, revealing to AFP news agency she and her husband had gone rubber tapping on their farm in the early hours of the morning.

Sirinna Suwannakham, the younger sister of freed hostage Sathian, said her family had only managed to keep the hope alive because they had no proof he had been killed.

"If he had died, we would have had a body to hold a ceremony," she said. "But there was none. So we never lost hope. We always believed that my brother was still alive. We never gave up. We always waited for him to come home."