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sometimes i forget luke is genuinely a 20 something y/o going up against a sarcastic teenage boy and i think there’s a lot of comedic potential in that. so i drew a comic that’s supposed to take place in botl, absolutely inspired by this post
detailed image description under the cut, only cuz it’s super long
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My Palestinian friends need help!! (UPDATED!!)
1- Nad is a 17 years old Palestinian boy whom I've been trying to help get evacuation funds for months now. The funds are for him and several family members, including his father who's a cancer patient and his little niece whom he loves and whose health has been heavily impacted by the post October 7th phase of the genocide in Gaza.
Nad's campaign was going incredibly well, until GFM locked their original one and for half of it he had to start all over again. :/ This is deeply unfair and no one should have to campaign to survive a genocide, let alone a 17 years old kid.
€13,598 €13,728/€50,000 +€130
I am a young man who loves my studies very much and I drea… Nader Alanqar needs your support for Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overc
2- Anas Ayesh is a 23 years old Palestianian medical student and a dear comrade. Through a scholarship he was granted the chance to study abroad in Venezuela, his dream is to become a doctor so he can help his people. Right before October 7th of 2023, Anas had returned to Gaza to visit his family and, well, you can imagine the rest. Besides all the horrors, he's developed gastric cancer and I worry I'll be informed sooner or later of his passing. He's deeply suicidal and very, very unwell both physically and emotionally. Please, help him reach his goal.
€19,480 €19,495/€25,000 +€15
<ESPAÑOL abajo ⏬ SPANISH below> UPDATE: My family is … Anas Ayesh needs your support for Help a Medical Student Stuck in Ga
3- Fadel is another friend of mine I've been talking to for a bit. He and his family were injured in an attack amongst the rubble that used to be their home. They were almost martyred. From this attack, there's shrapnel stuck inside Fadel's body that they couldn't safely remove. The surgery he needs is very complicated and cannot be performed in Gaza as of now.
He lives in intense, inhuman physical pain every single day. Please, help Fadel, his situation is so miserable, and as someone who suffers from chronic pain I can completely empathize with his suffering and wish it on no one.
€12,212 €12,529/€25,000 +€317
My name is Fadel Al-Dani, a third-year IT student, 23 years old… Fadel Aldani needs your support for Help Fadel the injured to undergo surge
Anas' campaign is the one that's moving the slowest, he doesn't have the bodily strength to promote it much. Please, don't abandon him.
Nad's campaign: €14,317/€50,000 +€589
Anas' campaign: €19,510/€25,000 +€15
Fadel's campaign: €12,635/€25,000 +€106
Only €15 since yesterday for Anas' campaign, please, please don't forget about him.
Nad's campaign: €14,787/€50,000 +€470
Anas' campaign: €19,525/€25,000 +€15
Fadel's campaign: €12,700/€25,000 +€65
Please, please don't forget about Anas. He's severely unwell and I'm so worried, I haven't heard from him in a while.
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[COVERED IN BLOOD, EYES LARGE] i have been working. On my resume
I want an opportunity to live a safe life without wars.
Hello,
my name is Reham Tayseer, I am 23 years old.I write to you from the heart of suffering, destruction, hunger, and displacement in Gaza. My life was beautiful and normal, full of hope, dreams, and hard work until the war came and destroyed everything.
My name is Reham Al-Anqar, I am 23 years old, I live in the Gaza… Reham Alanqar needs your support for I want an opportunity to live a safe
Before the war, I was studying Public Relations and Media at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, and I was also working in design and editing for a company in Gaza. I had many wishes and dreams. I lived a simple but beautiful life and dreamed of a bright and beautiful future. But the war changed everything for the worse. My university was destroyed,
I lost my job, my house was destroyed, I lost family members, and I lost everything and became homeless.
https://gofund.me/7ecdec85
I was displaced from northern Gaza to the south, thinking it was a safe place, but there is no safe place in Gaza; everything around us was destroyed and became rubble. Every day we live in a nightmare, with no opportunities for education or work, and I suffer from poverty, loss, hunger, and homelessness.
I am now looking for an opportunity to live in a safe place outside the Gaza Strip, but this is very costly, and I am in dire need of your support and assistance. I want to provide a better future and a dignified life for myself my family.I believe that humanity and compassion still exist and that someone will respond to my painful voice. Every donation, no matter how small, will have a significant impact on my life. Your donations will help cover all the travel costs for me, my mother, and my father to live in a safe and stable place where there is no hunger, fear, or destruction, to give myself and my family a new life full of hope.Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me and my family and standing with us in these difficult times. I believe that goodness still exists and that someone shares our hope for a better life.Thank you for considering supporting me and my family. I am grateful for any help you can provide.
My name is Reham Al-Anqar, I am 23 years old, I live in the Gaza… Reham Alanqar needs your support for I want an opportunity to live a safe
€1,033 raised of €20,000
not sure if officially vetted (? if someone could let me know the current status would be nice!) but as prev reblogs say - photos are original and gfm is donation protected, so most likely legitimate
Please share and donate if you can
€1,178 raised of €20,000 goal as of Aug 22
€1,327 raised of €20,000 goal as of Aug 25
a list of vetted fundraisers sent to me recently. i apologize for not sharing them earlier, i haven't had access to my askbox, but here they are now. Thank you for sending your campaigns to me and i will do my best to donate what i can to each. please share and donate, even just a little!
Help Ahmed, Abedelrahman, and family Escape war from @ahmedalnabeeh11 - they are 2/3 of the way there but still need to raise $10,000!
Donate to Ahmed's Journey to Safety and Education organized by @ahmadresh. this is @mohiy-gaza's brother! He still needs $7,000.
Help me and my family escape the war in Gaza from @asmaayyad. Asma reached out a few weeks ago but the campaign for her family is still very low and there are a lot of people depending on it!!
Help Musab and his family,my pets survive this war in Gaza from @musababd. Musab's previous account and campaign were mistakenly flagged as fraud and he had to start over, but it is indeed a verified campaign.
Help us for the sake of God from @abdelmutei. another big family who has to raise a LOT of money. please help them!!
Help us and my elderly parents to get out of the war from @nedaapalestine. Nedaa's parents need medications they cannot access in Gaza.
Help Nour and his family escape from the war in Gaza from @noorabd1992. this is a relatively new campaign and needs a lot of support, please donate what you can!
Hope for Gaza: Support Ashraf's Family Rebuild Their Lives from @ashraf-family2. Ashraf has reached out to me before and is so close to reaching the campaign goal, but they still need about $4,000 more!
Get my relatives out of Gaza from @ghaziyounes1967. Despite being several months old, this fundraiser is stuck at $2,000 because of high cost of food and supplies in Gaza, as with each of the families and individuals above.
Please support Palestinians in whatever way you can--even just donating to one or two campaigns will lessen the load for everyone! If you cannot donate, share and reblog, i specifically linked people's accounts in this post so you can reblog their fundraiser posts individually. Free Palestine
Help Rebuild Our Lives in Gaza After Devastating War from @ranin3344. They need help getting basic needs for the family and rebuild when the time comes.
Rebuilding Live: A Mother's Plea for Hope and Safety in Gaza from @noor-alanqar. Nour's husband is injured and she needs help supporting her children.
Urgent! building a new life for the family from @alaakh99. Despite being on several vetted campaign list, Alaa's campaign has stagnated at around $5,000. Please help her family!
Help my family to evacuate from gaza and rebuild from @children-gaza. Leen's evacuation campaign is only one-third of the way there!
Save My Family from the War Nightmare in Gaza from @yazanfamily. Mohammed reached out to me a few weeks ago but not many donations have been made since then. Anything is appreciated!
Help little children of Gaza stay safe and alive! from @mayadayyad81. They are so close to reaching the campaign goal, but still need to meet daily needs until the Rafah crossing opens again.
Give them hope from @kareem-family. Sohad's nephew Kareem has cerebral palsy and requires special food and medicine not available in Gaza because of Israel's siege. Please help this family.
Please Help Tahani save her children and husband from @tahanibaby. Tahani's niece in the US is organizing this fundraiser and needs help evacuating the family to safety.
Emergency: Help Evacuate My Family From GAZA WAR from @hayanahed. Haya's family is verified by Operation Olive Branch but has many family members that need support.
this is @ibtisams! i’m working on a new project for the raffles account that got deleted so can people help me find my old followers and mutuals
This is a fake blog, do not fall for it, this is not Ibtisam.
i can't stop thinking about the lack of shade in gaza. with so many trees and buildings destroyed, there can't be very much shade. it's incredibly hot and there's very little protection from the sun and very little water. my weather app tells me the UV index reached 11 recently. it's inhumane to force people to live in such conditions.
donate to gaza medical tent
donate to disabled gazan children
I reblogged this yesterday saying the first link didn’t work for me and was provided with the full link. That worked! Thank you, Elliott, I appreciate it!
If you can’t open it, try this in your browser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-medical-relief-for-gaza-via-gmt
## Gaza Medical Tent Project: Healing Hundreds Daily, But More Needed… Gaza Medical Tent GMT needs your support for Emergency Medical Relief
04/08/24 | 06/22/24
It’s been a good year for moon photos 🌙
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reminder that donating just a few $ to gofundme campaigns actually helps, you don't have to donate huge amounts if you don't have the funds, every little bit is useful. give $10, $5, even $1. it all adds up. don't scroll past because you think you can't help. help in your own capacity. donate a dollar. share and speak up.
here are a few gofundme links that still need a lot of help
Ahmed Iyd and family (£706/£150,000)
Ola Madi (€1,273/€40,000)
Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and their 4 year old son ($12,163/$40,000)
Al Maghari family (£1,933/£74,000)
Haya and family (€3,573/€60,000)
Dr. Wael Eldahdouh's family (€3,652/€110,000)
Dr. Mohammed Alshaer and family (€3,662/€18,000)
Laila Abd El Bari, her husband, and unborn baby Sham (€3,314/€25,000)
Maram Ahmed and family (€3,255/€30,000)
7-year old diabetic Feryal, and family (€673/€30,000)
9-year-old Sarah and little brother Adam (€2,460/€22,500)
If everyone who reblogs this post donates $5 (which I now know is the minimum you can donate on gofundme) to at least one of these, think about how fast we can help them all reach their respective goals
Since I made this post less than 24 hours ago we've collectively raised over $2000, and a lot of those donations were in the amount of $5-10. Keep sharing and keep donating. There is strength in numbers, and if those in power won't help we still have to do what we can. Small numbers add up. Thank you all for doing what you can. It does make a difference.
if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:
donate to doctors without borders here
donate to careforgaza here, providing food, medicine and clothing
donate an e-sim to gaza today
donate feminine hygiene kits for women in gaza
donate to the palestinian civilian relief fund
donate to the palestine children's relief fund
donate to the world food programme
donate medical aid for palestinians
donate to the united nations relief for palestine refugees
donate to healpalestine
if you are looking for individual fundraisers to donate to but are struggling to choose, gazafunds gives a spotlight to fundraisers that are not close to their goal.
instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.
made in honor of the now-extinct population of Falasteen crocodiles, the sunbirds that almost lost their names, and everyone else surviving the attempted erasure.
posted the other week as part of an ongoing fundraiser offering free prints and paid, with 100% of proceeds going to Care for Gaza. it has since been translated, wheatpasted, and flown on kites all over the world from Saigon to Scotland...!!!
monetary donations are never a substitute for holistic political action, and a push for a different world... but the shows of solidarity and support have lifted my spirits so much.
this is now available on a t-shirt too, screenprinted by hand in Texas!same deal: all profits go to food, medicine, and other critical supplies via Care for Gaza (& the PCRF). thank you for sharing.
image description below:
[ ID from Under the Cut: a Palestine sunbird holds red poppies in their beak next to the text RIGHT TO EXIST. a Palestine crocodile (a subspecies of the Nile, now extinct thanks to occupying forces) guards a shining key next to the text RIGHT TO RETURN. a Palestinian olive tree, full of fruit is next to the text RIGHT TO RESIST. a Palestinian family of five, all embracing each other next to the text RIGHT TO REMAIN. /End ID ]
ettingermentum has just published an excellent guide to protest voting state-by-state. for those of you who are bemoaning your choice between biden and trump, for those of you who are against genocide, and for those of you want to utilize your civic duty to vote: this is how you can pressure joe biden for a ceasefire
How to protest the administration in all the remaining primary states.
Earlier this week, when I was talking with my girlfriend about the Michigan primary results, she asked me if we could also vote uncommitted in our state’s primary. Since we live in Georgia, I knew that we didn’t have that option, so I told her that it wasn’t possible and that I personally planned to use my ballot to write in Jane Fonda. Then she asked me if that vote would be counted, which made me realize something: I didn’t know if it would. I looked it up, and and after a bit of searching, I learned that the answer was no. As a Georgia voter, I have to either vote for one of the three names on the ballot or a “validated write-in candidate” or my vote will be discarded. My year-old plan to vote for Jane had always been DOA, and I had never known it until that moment. This got me thinking. If I, someone who writes about politics for a living, didn’t know the exact procedures for a protest vote in my primary in my own state, how many prospective uncommitted voters out there actually know what their options are? I presumed that someone out there had published a guide for how to protest vote in each state, but, at least as far as I can tell, such a guide does not exist. To remedy this problem, I decided to create a guide myself. The following is the first ever state-by-state, territory-by-territory cheat sheet for how you can, and cannot, cast a protest vote against this administration in your upcoming Democratic primary.
Category 1: Can Vote Uncommitted
This is the simplest and most straightforward category. In these states and territories, voters are given a Michigan-style uncommitted option on their ballots. These ballots are fully counted in the results like votes for any of the named candidates. If the total uncommitted vote reaches 15% statewide or in a congressional district, it will be awarded delegates.
Although some of these states have additional protest voting options in addition to uncommitted, selecting the uncommitted line is the most direct and straightforward way to register an anti-Biden vote. If available, it should be chosen over all other options, including write-ins, blank ballots, or votes for named candidates like Dean Phillips or Marianne Williamson.
State/territory list:
March 5th: Alabama, Colorado (Called “Noncomitted”), Iowa (Mail-only Caucus), Massachusetts (Called “No Preference”), Minnesota, North Carolina (Called “No Preference”), Tennessee, American Samoa
March 6th: Hawaii
March 12th: Northern Mariana Islands, Washington, Democrats Abroad
March 19th: Kansas
March 23rd: Missouri
April 2nd: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Wisconsin
April 6th: Alaska (Called “Undeclared”)
April 13th: Wyoming (Caucus, Called “Undeclared”)
May 14th: Maryland
May 21st: Kentucky
May 23rd: Idaho (Caucus)
June 4th: Montana (Called “No Preference”), New Jersey, New Mexico
June 8th: Virgin Islands
Category 2: No Uncommitted Option, But Can Vote Write-Ins
Following the set of states and territories that provide straightforward uncommitted option, we reach a small, unique category of primary contests. These states do not provide an uncommitted option, but they do allow for write-in votes, and they take the unique step of tallying every single one of these write-ins in their vote totals. This allows for voters to vote for whoever they want, from Abraham Lincoln to the demiurge, and still see their ballots counted in a broad “write-in” pile of general dissent.
Unlike uncommitted votes, write-in votes will not be able to win delegates as a category—they are only tallied together as a group convenience on election results pages for the sake of convenience. Legally, they all represent votes for entirely different candidates. While it would technically be possible for a write-in candidate to win delegates if they hit the required benchmarks through write-in votes for them, there are currently no efforts to coordinate this. As such, feel free to vote for whoever or whatever you want if you live in these states or territories.
State/territory list:
March 5th: Vermont
May 21st: Oregon
June 4th: Washington, D.C.
Category 3: No Uncommitted Option, Most Write-Ins Not Tallied, But Blank Votes Tallied
Right on the heels of the previous small list with very specific rules is another small list with even more specific rules. Like Category 2, these states do not provide an option to vote uncommitted, but allow for write-ins. Where they differ from the Category 2 states is that they do not count most write-ins in their overall tallies. To save time, only write-in votes for “qualified” write in candidates are considered valid and counted. This means that any write-in vote that says something like “ceasefire,” “uncommitted,” and, yes, “Jane Fonda,” will be discarded.
For most states that do this and don’t provide an uncommitted option, this rules out the possibility of a protest vote beyond voting for the named candidates. These states are the exception, however. Unlike most states, they count blank ballots in their totals. While blank ballots cannot earn delegates, they are counted as a bloc, making them a clear statement of opposition to Biden that avoids providing support for Phillips or Williamson. As such, it is best to send back ballots in these states.
State/territory list:
March 5th: Maine
March 30th: North Dakota (Caucus)
April 2nd: New York
April 28th: Puerto Rico
Category 4: No Uncommitted Option, Most Write-Ins Not Counted, Blank Ballots Not Counted
Category 4 states have easily the most delegates of any section on this list. Unfortunately, they’re also where the options for protest votes become sharply limited. These states have similar rules as Category 3 states. They don’t provide an uncommitted ballot line and don’t tally write-in votes except for those given to qualified write-in candidates. What makes them different from Category 3 states is that they also don’t count blank votes in their tallies.
To register a non-Biden vote in the tallies here, you have to vote for someone pre-approved by the state, whether that be a named candidates on the ballot or a qualified write-in candidate. For most states, this leaves you with Dean Phillips and/or Marianne Williamson if you want your vote to count. Feel free to choose between the two at your own discretion, although you can always vote for another listed candidate or even prick someone from your state’s list of qualified write-in candidates if you really want to avoid voting for either of them.
State/territory list:
March 5th: California (Both Dean and Marianne on ballot), Texas (D and M), Virginia (D and M), Utah (D and M)
March 12th: Georgia (D and M)
March 19th: Arizona (D and M), Illinois (D and M), Ohio (Dean only)
April 23rd: Pennsylvania (Dean only)
May 14th: Nebraska (Dean only), West Virginia (Dean only)
Category 5: No Uncommitted Option, No Write-in Option, Blank Ballots Not Counted
Category 5 is very similar to Category 4, except with one difference. Instead of just making the write-in option functionally useless, these states don’t provide it at all. There’s no way to get around voting for one of the named candidates of you want to cast a protest vote in these states.
State/territory list:
March 5th: Arkansas (D and M), Oklahoma (D and M)
March 12th: Mississippi (No D or M or anyone else. Biden will just get 100% of the vote here. They’re still holding the contest, though.)
March 23rd: Louisiana (D and M)
June 4th: South Dakota (D and M)
June 8th: Guam (Candidate list currently unavailable)
Category 6: No Primary
Here’s the strangest section of them all. These states just cancelled their primaries and handed all of their delegates to Biden. They won’t let you vote against him even if you want to!
State/territory list: Florida and Delaware
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voting 'uncommitted' aka utilizing the protest vote is now one of the key strategies to let the biden administration know exactly what you think of their policies. it doesn't affect your vote in november, but it does very much affect the US policies being enacted on the ground in gaza right now.
think of it as a "fuck you" to joe biden, in the most democratic way possible.
you're not abstaining. you're not voting third party. you're not voting for trump. this is a protest vote. you're exercising your civic rights and letting joe biden know: fuck you.
nyc don't forget to leave your vote blank april 2nd!
god calls me on the payphone, tells me there aren't enough magnolia trees in the garden. asks me a question. i spend my whole life answering it.
coming to learn that i may have developed seasonal allergies
I’m actually really fun once you get to know me (takes 3-4 years).
Oh I'm so excited how this one came out!!!!
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