Teen girl with heart condition needs shelter in north Gaza

We have spoken repeatedly about Nour’s situation before on this blog, and conditions have only gotten worse for her. To protect her from additional illness and to have a safe and warm space in which to treat her condition, her family needs funds to arrange shelter. In the long-term, they hope to rebuild their home. But for now, they just need to find someplace warm and out of the rain. Their current shelter is a shredded plastic “tent” currently being swamped by frigid winter rain:

The family has previously been vetted by el-shab-Hussein and nabulsi, they are listed as number 157 on the former’s vetted campaign master list. The campaign linked there is now inaccessible, as GFM shut it down without any prior warning or explanation. This is the new link:

Temporary goal progress: $988 out of $2,640 usd (updated 15 January)

NOTICE: Nour’s sister sustained a foot injury after their already shredded tent once again collapsed over their heads due to rain, wind, and prior damage. Treating the injury will require $550 usd, so we have raised the temporary goal accordingly. More of these injuries are going to occur the longer they go without either a decent tent or a roof over their heads! Let’s try to meet this goal ASAP!!

resolution #1,003 by june jordan

how it all feels lately

June Jordan, Apologies to All the People in Lebanon (originally published in Village Voice in 1982)

exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator's narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight

The federal agent who shot and killed Renee Good has been identified as Jonathan Ross, a man who previously participated in the brutal invasion of Iraq

probably the least surprising part of this. imperialist murderers trained to have 0 regard for human life, just continuing their killing sprees because they know there will be no repercussions

The federal agent who shot and killed Renee Good has been identified as Jonathan Ross, a man who previously participated in the brutal invasion of Iraq

probably the least surprising part of this. imperialist murderers trained to have 0 regard for human life, just continuing their killing sprees because they know there will be no repercussions

The rape colony of Israel, where polls consistently show enthusiastic support for sexual violence, is in crisis today not because systematic rape in its detention camps was proven, but because it was publicized to the world.

If a man is drowning, you have to help him.

Irina Sendler said, "My parents taught me that if a man is drowning, it doesn’t matter what his religion or nationality is. You have to help him."

When the Nazis began to trap the Jewish quarter in Warsaw,

Irina sneaked into the neighborhood with official papers, saying she was there to check for diseases. But her real goal was to save the babies from death.

She carried a medical box and carefully hid some babies inside it. Often, she used potato carts to hide other children and move them outside the trapped area, or covered them with blankets to keep them hidden from the guards.

She had a well-trained dog that barked loudly whenever the guards came near, to distract them and cover the babies’ cries and screams.

Irina wrote their real names on small pieces of tissue, put them inside bottles, and buried the bottles under an apple tree at a friend’s house. She believed that one day, someone would find those bottles.

The Nazis caught her and tortured her,

breaking her legs and feet, but she never told them about any child. She kept their secrets safe.

Her friends bribed the guards and got her released.

During the war, she saved about 2,500 children.

When asked why she risked everything, she simply answered,

"I couldn’t leave them."

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no way out for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe someday, more than a hundred years later, some stranger will cry into her coffee because of what you died trying.

The story doesn’t end here: In truth, people usually don’t regret what they did, but they regret more what they didn’t do.

So today, I want to share why this story hurts so close to home. My four children and I live in a small tent that is no bigger than 4 by 3 meters. Water was seeping from underneath, and we wake up with our mattresses wet. My children’s coughs and illnesses do not stop all night, especially my baby, Amir. Things got worse when a tick bit a three-month-old baby in our camp, causing him deformities and poisoning.

My wife and I take turns staying awake to guard the children. We only sleep for two hours at a time, switching shifts throughout the night. The destruction around us has made our tent and its surroundings full of snakes, rats, and other pests. Every night, we hear their sounds and movements.

This situation is very exhausting for us and our children. We are trying to rent a house, but we are stuck and really need your support and donations. If you are able to help us leave this tent and reach a safer place, it would mean everything to us. Any support, even small, can help change our children’s nights into something safer.

Please stop. Please stop sharing the most trivial things that we in Gaza can no longer even dream of seeing. Stop doing things we can’t do, and stop filming and publishing a life we once lived and have been deprived of.

I’m writing this with tears in my eyes. I can’t carry this anymore. She’s is completely exhausted because of severe anemia and malnutrition.

All I care about is keeping my family safe. Please help me buy healthy food so her body can keep going.

GoFundMe – Chuffed – Vetted #213

Silence is killing us more than wounds. Every ignored post steals minutes from our lives. I beg you, pause here—donate, share, and choose mercy before this silence becomes permanent.

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide

These posts are sisters

Major human pastimes:

the term “feminine hygiene” being used so universally in stores makes me incredibly sad and it shocks me that more people don’t find it frustrating. why can’t we just say menstrual products??? it’s more straightforward! what does “feminine hygiene” even mean??? “menstrual products” doesn’t imply that menstruation is “unhygienic”, it doesn’t imply that you have to be “feminine” to need them… it’s a better term in every way. so WHY is “feminine hygiene” the one companies are obsessed with using!! fuck!

the term “feminine hygiene” stems from a time when menstrual products and similar were classed as illegal, “obscene” products in the US. why are we still using a term invented in 1873. I should not be seeing this term in every supermarket I enter. I’m going to turn evil

this post is for transgender people. I don’t want anyone nasty about people like me touching this post please. if you’re trans exclusionary you can block me and go on with your life. if you’re trans I’m giving you a juicy piece of fruit and I love you

What is the meaning of international law at this point when some countries are allowed complete impunity to do whatever they want without consequences