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rome wasn't burnt in a day

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mable siriwalee & pangjie paphavarin

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[driedrosy]

Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall.

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rye olive oil carrot cake xx

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an alarming number of you have forgotten that girls rule and boys drool

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[terriblewomanyuri]

“Congrats to drugs for winning the war on drugs” is a phrase that is simply not true at all when you look at what the purpose of it was.

It was not to prevent the spread of drugs, it was to funnel Black people into prison and permanently curtail voting rights, to keep a provisional Jim Crow that could deflect criticism long enough to get the average white moderate to accept it, and to make the average white liberal’s dreams of “reform” still include the same framework.

Felons can’t vote because certain drug crimes were labeled felonies, because those drug crimes could be pinned on Black people and passed by or reduced to a misdemeanor on whites. Because you could cite the amount of (drug) felonies in an area (Black neighborhood) and assign more cops, militarized cops (why it was called a “war”), because you could claim random searches of suspicious individuals (Black people, including children) were necessary. The war on drugs worked. It was never about the fucking drugs.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Report: Nixon’s war on drugs targeted black people | CNN Politics

One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight

One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper’s Magazine. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday. “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

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Green-and-Black Poison Frog (Dendrobates auratus), family Dendrobatidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Artur Tomaszek

[closet-keys]

In the United States, there has been a wave of bills introduced this year in state legislatures across the country sought to censor Palestine-related education in public schools. This is coupled with efforts in multiple countries to censor the internet, especially from young people. Intensified repression is a sign that normalization of atrocity has been disrupted.

[closet-keys]

The recent panel speech by former Obama speechwriter and committed zionist, Sarah Hurwitz, demonstrates exactly why there is such an effort to censor information for young people in the United States right now.

It used to be that the media you got in America was American media... It generally didn’t express extreme anti-Israel views. You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media... but today we have social media, which is a global medium...all day long with video of carnage in Gaza... anything that we try to say [younger Jews] are hearing it through this wall of carnage... all day they see powerful Israelis hurting [disabled, starving] Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think... '[we should] fight Israel.'

Information about Palestinian resistance and the accelerating genocidal destruction by Israel has broken through a carefully controlled narrative of propaganda.

[closet-keys]

Those committed to the oppressive structures we are all struggling against do not want you to learn from the rest of the world. They especially don't want you to communicate with Gazans. They don't want us to talk to each other or help each other.

There are imperialists who sink millions of dollars into efforts to prevent you from having a conversation with someone like my friend Mahrah, @mahrahpalestine, a young woman in Gaza with her family.

Donate to Help Mahmoud's Family Secure Their Livelihood, organized by Dion Freedman

I am a United States citizen creating this campaign on behalf of my friend… Dion Freedman needs your support for Help Mahmoud's Family Secur

[closet-keys]

What will it mean if enough people in the United States sit with the real fear Palestinians face from constant, brutal violations of the ceasefire by Israel (even though the Palestinian side has fully implemented the agreement)? What will it mean if we connect this moment to the legacy of broken treaties with the nations that our own country colonized?

Those invested in the capitalist system will continue to restrict our access to information because they are afraid of what will happen if we reach out and befriend Palestinians. They are afraid of us recognizing our shared humanity and struggle.

If you want liberation, the path there is through building international solidarity with Palestinians.