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If I Must Die

If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze — and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself — sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above, and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love. If I must die let it bring hope, let it be a story.

-Refaat Alareer

Refaat Alareer (1979–2023) was a professor of world literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and the editor of Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine (2013). He was killed by an IDF airstrike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, nephew, his sister, and three of her children.

worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/poetry/bilingual-poem-gaza-refaat-alareer

#refaat alareer #palestinians #poets #writers

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#american oligarchy #inequality #taxation

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Art by Lenka Simeckova

#lenka simeckova #art

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joemygod.com/2024/04/giuliani-meadows-eastman-ellis-epshteyn-and-state-gop-officials-indicted-in-arizona-fake-electors-case/

#the maga messiah #coup plotters

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I truly despise YouTube finance bros like Mike Black. He recently went viral for making a mockery of homelessness by pretending to be homeless for a few months to prove anyone can make it in a year just by tightening those bootstraps. He failed his own challenge but he's treating it like a win because people are telling him he's an out of touch douche. Mike still had his connections, had access to his electronics like a smart phone, had no barriers to employment or issues with credit or mental illness/drug issues, had fans on social media to provide him with the basics like shelter, a rich family to fall back on and the ability to literally quit being homeless whenever he felt like. Dude was playing on very easy mode and he still couldn't hack it.

#mike black

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"WRC was founded at the University of Minnesota in 1979 as a student club of the Veterinary College. From those humble beginnings of just a few dozen animals admitted each year, WRC has grown into the world's busiest wildlife hospital, admitting more than 18,000 patients annually. We are known worldwide for our work with lead toxicity in Trumpeter Swans and turtle shell repair.

Approximately 200 different species will come through our door this year. You can follow along with our admissions on our live Critter Ticker (streaming across our homepage) and subscribe to our emails for notices on events and patient news.

Check out our most recent newsletter and our 2023 species list."

wrcmn.org/about-wrc

If you have a few dollars to spare, this organization is a worthy cause.

You can target your donation to particular efforts. For example, you can sponsor a baby mammal:

wrcmn.org/wishlist/1/Patient-Sponsorship-and-Wish-List/

#wildlife rehabilitation center of minnesota #animals #wildlife #animal rescue #veterinary #minnesota

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https://www.meidastouch.com/news/pecker-screws-trump

The King of Fake News.

#trump #trump on trial

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Everyone should follow what's happening at Columbia right now. This is the largest protest there since 1968, and the admin just stripped several students of healthcare and housing.

The NYPD arrested over 108 students camping on the South Lawn yesterday. Now, thousands have joined the demonstration. As Israel prepares to commit genocide, Palestinian and Jewish students are taking the lead in protesting institutional complicity around the world.

#columbia university #protest against israeli genocide #palestine

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The IOF brutalized this young Palestinian boy, and then drugged him/kept him unconscious for a long period of time. This is beyond horrific. This IS cruel torture. I hope he is reunited with his family or has already. I'm beyond enraged and heartbroken for this boy and every single Palestinian child. The occupation must end and Palestine will be free.

#israel #palestine #child abuse #torture

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It's pitchfork time for the fossil fuel industry. Shareholder economics is killing the entire planet for the wealth of a few.

#yes

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Vase au guerrier Japonais (1904), Odilon Redon

#odilon redon #art #florals #1904

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#1897 #odilon redon #béatrice #art

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#unrwa #palestine #gaza #israel #the lies of genocide

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-Al Jazeera, April 23, 2024

#unrwa #gaza #israel #palestine #deliberate starvation

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As part of its ongoing genocide, which started on 7 October 2023, the Israeli army is using new disturbing techniques to intimidate, lure, and target Palestinian civilians in the central Gaza Strip’s Nuseirat refugee camp.

Testimonies from camp residents, which were provided to the Euro-Med Monitor team, confirm that the sound of women screaming and babies crying was heard late at night on both Sunday and Monday. When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones. The sounds they had heard were in fact recordings played by the Israeli drones, with the intent of forcing the camp’s residents out into the streets, where they could be easily targeted by snipers and other weaponry.

According to the testimonies, this tactic also involved broadcasting gunshots, armed conflicts, explosions, military vehicle movements, and occasionally songs in Hebrew and Arabic in order to psychologically intimidate civilians who live amid total darkness at night and total disconnection from the external world.

Secondary Reporting from Yahoo

REPORTS have emerged of Israeli drones playing recordings of women and children crying to lure Palestinians to locations where they can be targeted before opening fire.

Residents of Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp – situated in the north – said they were woken up on Monday night to sounds of babies crying and women calling out for help.

When they went to help, they reported Israeli drones opening fire on them. According to witnesses at the scene, up to ten people were injured by the drone fire overnight.

One resident told the Middle East Eye that they heard a woman screaming for help, saying, “Help me, my son was martyred”.

#israel #palestine #gaza #the gaza concentration camp

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#peter beinart #campus protest #israel #palestine

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Odilon Redon's use of charcoal,

"…admits of shading, and these shadows teem and swarm with the larvae of superstitions, the haggard phantoms of insomnia, nocturnal terrors, remorse which starts and turns back at the slightest noise, monstrous dreams stayed only by impotence, obscure phantasies at which the day-light would stand amazed, and all that the soul conceals of the dark, the unformed, and the vaguely horrible, in its deepest and furthest recesses."

-Théophile Gautier (quoted in Odilon Redon, published by Fondation Beyeler, 2014)

Flambeaux noirs (black torches)

#odilon redon #théophile gautier #art #shadows