Please help my friend Mahmoud if you can. His family continues to live through ordeals one after another. In the past couple of years, he has been struck with shrapnel twice, once in his back and once in his brain, his wife had to undergo cancer treatment for stage 4 cancer on her own, they gave birth to a baby but weren't able to feed him and he starved for days if not weeks, a wall collapsed on their tent and they were stuck under the rubble for 15 minutes before being rescued, and just 2 months ago, their 5 year old son passed away and now they have to pay off the debt they took on to pay for funeral expenses. Please help my friend Mahmoud @mahmoud0qassas
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boycott this garbage on both bds and quality grounds god damn
the biz dev professionals that run the marvel movies got their hands on an early edit of the mandalorian season 4 and decided they would make more money if they just put all 6 episodes into one 2.5 hour slog of a film. this makes the movie feel incredibly awkward and paced like nothing you have seen before. incredible new failures in the field of commercializing what was already plodding mass market slop, horrible fucking job disney!
just like the mandalorian series itself, i am struggling to remember the details mere hours after watching the film because it is completely stakeless with no possible tension. they are not killing "the mandalorian" because they have too much merchandise left to sell, and because this clearly was a tv series cut into a movie (which ironically makes it feel like a middling ubisoft game in terms of storytelling competence) you know that grogu and mando will be just fine. as an exercise, every time pedro pascal is almost devoured by a giant snake, or fighting some jacked slug in an arena, etc. imagine that he does die brutally and the credits roll with the music 5 seconds later. it would be slapstick, but also much shorter and more merciful
there's a weird coming of age thing where a jabba the hutt relative gets in really good shape and kills people with axes as a way of asserting his own individualism and man slughood (?). there is too much protein in things now, fatphobic ass star wars wont even let me identify with the crime slugs
in retrospect it was very funny for the john wick of star wars to just go home with his goblin baby after he betrays the most notorious crime syndicate in the galaxy. djinn djarinn you klutz!!
the cultural censors at disney have clearly been remanded for allowing andor to exist, and have decided that their seemingly flagship star wars series is for epic conservative liberals (hitlers) who over the course of the movie come to the conclusion to intervene outside of the republic's boarders by eradicating an evil city with a bombardment campaign. there is even a deck of cards/most wanted group which is a cultural throwback to the fucking GWB era of interventionalist christian fascist ideology, sigourney weaver is basically general petreus
disney owes royalties to from software because the jabba the hutt junior fights were ripped directly out of dark souls 2
the bullfuck goddamn babu fricks are back, they have a little ship, and a little adventure, don't you love them, shut up i hate you
in the back half of the movie mando gets poisoned and ends up being nursed back to health by grogu who has some sort of inherent goblin swamp instinct to build a small hut out of mud for his big friend, and then he gets a cure for this poison from some sort of friendly lizard who lives in a hutt on the river. despite the clumsiness of the whole thing, there is a completely errant turbo cgi scene where the baby goblin unwraps a pressed puck of swamp dog shit. this completely tiny scene ripped me even more out of the moment (after approximately 20 minutes of grogu wading through a swamp pointlessly) because everywhere else the production team committed to their absolutely horrible low quality rubber puppet thing. insane decisions made throughout, totally disjointed and strange
the film is a complete stillbirth because of the incredibly limiting timeframe it is stuck in... you know that none of the cool stuff from the original series can show up because it was all boring dogshit in the other series, and it can't be in the most recent sequels because all of the new republic shit gets blown up 5 minutes as a plot device! lol! jon favreau is the worst living writer and director!
just like the tv series, the movie wraps and almost nothing has changed: there are a few new random characters for the future episode spinoff pools, there is a new spaceship (which is identical to the one that has been blown up #wow), and the bad guys who might have had any kind of grudge have now been eliminated. whoopdie shit, who cares
the only good star wars movies were 1, 2 and 3: the modern sequels are horrible but the original series was even worse, that's right, fuck you star wars fans! and star wars! and everything!! zero stars, do not break the boycott, horrible fucking movie!!! aughhhhhhhh!!!!!
Hey all! It has been nearly a year since I've been absent from tumblr, and likewise almost a year since I have last updated you on Mona and her team's mutual aid inititatives. In that time, Mona's efforts have managed to keep entire communities of displaced people alive in the refugee encampments in Ghazzah, including through the distribution of staple foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, cooked meals, clean children's clothing, diapers, baby formula, and so much more. Please continue to support Mona's efforts through the new link on Chuffed. Remember! Every single dollar counts!!! Chuffed donation link.
For more information, please consult her Instagram!
If you also have more to spare, please help Mona support her sister and niece who have been displaced 6 times over the course of the accelerated genocide.
None of this is possible without Mona and her family's diligence and work. If you would like to send her a thank you note or well wishes, please include it in the replies to this post, in your tags, or in the comments! She always appreciates them ♡
April 25, 2026 - Activists from the direct action group “People Against Genocide” rappelled through the roof of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems in Leicester, UK.
The group entered the site and targeted a clean room, a controlled environment that's used in the production of highly-sensitive components for IDF military drones, that can't be exposed to dust or other contaminants during production.
This action directly disrupts the supply of drones that Israel uses to commit genocide in Palestine, and so impacts the IDF's ability to commit its war crimes in Lebanon, Iran, Syria, and elsewhere. [video]
some lowdown on the storms in hawai‘i: there have been two (possibly going on three) straight weeks of historic storms in the hawaiian islands. these are enormous rain dumping weather systems, also bringing wind and high surf. these storms are so bad because they are coming up from the south (called a kona low), rather than east to west as most of our weather moves. some areas have gotten as much as two feet of rain in a matter of hours. because of the unusual direction of the storm, infrastructure and the environment are ill-prepared, and break easier. the worst affected areas right now are the north shore of o‘ahu, and the east and southern shores of hawai‘i island. it is a crazy and still-developing situation as damage is being assessed from this past weekend, and its still raining.
here are some articles on the damage: the wahiawa dam on o‘ahu is one of the biggest stories right now; it is owned by the dole company (owners of former plantation land across the islands) and the company has neglected repair for several years. this is a survey of damage from waienae and hale‘iwa on o‘ahu. this is an accounting of some damage in kona on hawai‘i island. this is a less detailed article about school closures. sadly, there is very little investigative reporting on hawai‘i island and it is hard to find reliable sources. anecdotally, I know many homes are still without power for almost two weeks.
finally, here is a list of places to donate money for recovery efforts. the most important things right now are food and shelter needs for people displaced from their homes. i also have aggregated links to gofundmes etc, but please ask me for those individually; i dont feel comfortable sharing them on the big wide internet. the concern is appreciated; it can be difficult to convey the scale and variety of damage because hawai‘i nei is not very well understood.
The Mamdanification, the jvp-fication of pro palestinian politics is really worrisome to me as someone in the palestinian diaspora in the West. And what I mean by the mamdanification and jvpfication is that politicians and ngos and liberals wanting to espouse pro palestinian politics and dismay towards the genocide but not support the palestinian right to violence against their oppressors. And these politics are vying to become the forefront of an acceptable pro palestinian politics in the west. Palestinian organizations like PYM, WOL, PalAction still maintain those politics of militancy, but they're becoming fringe now. When mamdani claims to be pro palestinian but says "israel has the right to exist" that to me is liberal zionism, but now to the people who just joined the movement thats "pragmatic." I just need people to understand that you cannot claim to support a people if you're not actually engaging with the politics of those people. After October 7th, palestinian support for Hamas in the West Bank increased rapidly. Does this bother you? You can't just support the palestinians who are unarmed victims. You have to support palestinians who use violence back. Otherwise, your politic only supports the "perfect victims" of the oppressed. What if half of gaza was armed, would that make the palestinian cause against israel injust? No, because israel is inherently a colonial ethnostate and palestinians are being exterminated by them. I could keep talking but this page from Mohammed El Kurd's work Perfect Victims perfectly explains this
What kind of man will the boy carrying his brother's limbs in a bag grow up to be? Does it matter whether he emerges as Abd el-Hadi or as Abu Obaida? Does it make Zionism any less indefensible?
So I ask again: What if our perfect victims do in fact despise those who have killed their families? Then what? Let me ask the most exaggerated, extreme version of this question: What if after a Star-of-David-clad soldier of the self-proclaimed "Jew-ish state" killed your loved ones in cold blood, you began to obsessively, irrationally hate Jews, all Jews, wherever they may be? Then what? Does your venomous sentiment undermine your status as a victim? Does it rewrite history to absolve the soldier of his sins? Does it justify the crime?
in london a group that i can only describe as radical centrists have taken over a decent part of the PSC branches (which were already very non-radical to start) who propose that things can only be changed via attending the big national marches and lobbying parliament. this group is so constantly getting into petty fights and promoting constant schisms that they are in many cases passively aligning with ~the labour party~ as if just opposing local arms of fucking kier starmers party is impermissible. these councillors are in many cases being targetted in the election because they have been massive barriers to divestment of the LGPS pension funds and is maddening, i am so sick of the most annoying faction always winning aaaaaaa
Lebanon is still being bombed right now. Thousands of families are being displaced at this very moment. Please consider donating to this grassroot effort.
Lebanon is currently being carpet bombed by the Zionist state. We are back to our emergency response work and in dire need of funds. We are
February 13, 2026 - UK High Court rules that the proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful. Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori won a legal battle against the UK government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws.
The court ordered the ban to be quashed, ruling that it was disproportionate to free speech and that the Home Secretary had breached her own policy. Ammori described the ban as “one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history.”
The UK Interior Ministry proscribed the group in July, days after activists protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza broke into an air force base in southern England. Since the proscription, more than 2,300 people have been arrested for their support of Palestine Action. [link]
My heart is broken. My little siblings are suffering after my father’s death. My mother is in the hospital. Please skip one coffee today and help me buy their basic needs.
