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The Palestinian front of the global liberation movement is critical and is under constant threat. Their survival must be ensured because these are human beings in a very real line of fire.

My friend Zeina and her sizable family require constant support and I have spoken to Zeina about what the amount or expense is for her family in an average month. The number is saddening. 3000 to 6000 usd dollars. That is. Insane. Moreover, their expenses for the most basic needs in a day can get up to 300.

That is infuriating.

But I am here to tell you that on top of that truth, her baby sister, Ronza, is in critical condition and needs medical care that so many people relying on kindness from strangers cannot alone afford.

You have the power to give. To share. To treat Zeina as the leader she is and to help save a child's life.

I beg you to help her. From the bottom of my heart.

There is no goal. Only the gofundme and my emphasis for understanding and urgency.

Please do not sit and watch this child die.

disc 2 folks how are we feeling

one time my sister and i were walking up the stairs and heard a bunch of banging noises coming from an apartment, and she turned to me and said "aborted neighbor". and i was just like. i'm glad we're the same kind of terminally online and i know exactly what you are referencing because otherwise this would sound insane.

this is what the refrance

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

Rest in Peace to Renee Good. ICE shooting an innocent 37 year old mother attempting to protect her neighbors is not an accident or an act of self defense, it is an act of terror designed to dissuade other people from stepping in, documenting ICE violence and reminding immigrants of their rights. Her son is now an orphan and the president of the United States is calling her a ‘professional agitator’ on social media.

The head of ICE is calling her a violent terrorist and claimed her attempt to back her car away was actually an effort to murder the ICE officers present.

There’s a reason that the Right have all rallied so quickly behind this narrative: it’s happened before, with ICE’s approval.

Renee is the ninth person to have been shot by ICE since last September; and in all of those shootings the victim was in a vehicle and the agents claimed that the vehicle was “a threat”/trying to “run them down.” One other shooting, that of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, was also lethal.

This is pretty clearly a sanctioned tactic being used by ICE repeatedly with an eye towards using the vehicle-as-weapon excuse later.

a blind vampire and her changeling companion ✄ (it's yuri)

[id: three pages of a digital character sheet of a vampire original character. she is a tall thin Black woman with very long and thick brown locs, pointed ears, solid white eyes, and dark brown skin. she is always wearing dangly pearl drop earrings and long sharp red nails.

the first page shows the character's name, pearl, in a gothic font, and also depicts the character in varying states of dressed up and undressed. she is often accompanied by a shapeshifting animal companion with red eyes and a brown and black color palette in various forms. the drawings from left to right are:

first, pearl from the hips up wearing small tinted spectacles and a deep red punk-style cropped jacket over a red shirt and skirt, all adorned with lots of zippers and belts and studs and other hardware. she looks seriously off to the side while holding up a cane with a carved wolf's head handle. perched on her shoulder is a large brown and black vulture.

next, pearl from the shoulders up, wearing the same jacket as before, grinning mischievously at the viewer with blood all over her mouth and one hand, tapping a long nail on her fangs. a large brown and black bat flies next to her head.

then, pearl from the shoulders up again, wearing nothing but her jewelry. there is even more blood, all over her mouth and down onto her chest, with some even getting in her locs. her eyes are closed in a carefree expression and her bloody hands rest on her chest.

then, pearl from the waist up with her head bowed, holding her wolf's head cane in front her chest with both hands. she is wearing a sumptuous light brown coat with a huge white fur collar and her tinted spectacles. a brown and black serval cat stands on her shoulders.

last on this page, pearl's full body, nude besides her jewelry, and absolutely covered in blood. she appears to be floating in midair in a joyous dance-like pose, blood dripping off of her in stylized swirls and drops.

the first third of the second page shows different styles for the head of her cane, including a tiger, a wolf, and a dog, all snarling and showing teeth. the other two thirds of the page show several different poses of pearl's hands, including different relaxed or resting poses as well as active poses where she holds her cane or prepares to claw at something.

the third page is a full sheet of expressions, all with pearl from the shoulders up in a black sleeveless vest. in turns, she looks annoyed, amused, affectionate, furious, self-satisfied, childish, pleading, contemptuous, delighted, and casually inquisitive.

/end id.]

Poop son or pee daughter

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:

“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating”

1 2 3 i want yuri

still my favourite onion headline of all time