September 22, 2025 - Italian motorists react to getting stuck in traffic due to the national strike and Palestine solidarity blockades which shut down the country. [video]
i'll reblog resources and info on how trump's fucking us over of course but it really is so telling that a lot of these people weren't posting the same things when biden was president. instead we were getting all these long posts about how he was great and progressive and Doing His Best. like we all conveniently forgot he was the one who stopped hospitals from honestly reporting COVID death numbers and let dozens of transphobic bills pass and let roe v wade get shredded and pursued oil pipelines and endorsed cop city and deported more people than trump and let boeing get away with openly assassinating a guy and enthusiastically funded palestinian genocide and
started ignoring the bird flu resurgence to begin with and let food corporations lie to inflate prices and didn't push all that hard for student debt relief and endorsed the use of militarized police against students and endorsed mask bans and stood by as terrorism charges were brought against people passing out leaflets and
if this system supposedly still works then nothing happens overnight. you can't say one day that biden had no influence or power and then as soon as trump takes over a day later he's an unstoppable dictator. both of them work completely within the framework of the United States as a colonial imperialist empire, it's just one of them pretended he couldn't do anything about anything to make leftists think he was still on their side
te pÄti mÄori haka in response to the first vote on the racist anti mÄori treaty principles bill introduced to parliament today by david seymour and the act party. toitĆ« te tiriti
More than 200,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip and are facing a real famine and mass extermination. Also, more than a million and a half people are facing the same famine in the southern Gaza Strip.Speak up for them, your voice can make a difference in this unjust world.
the americans going "i need to leave to europe" and especially the smug europeans saying "america needs to fix its racist, climate change denier voters" are operating on an advanced model of cognitive dissonance. sir starmer's landslide labour country was gripped by race riots a few months ago and handed out five years to climate protesters. nearly every far right party in europe is first or second with youth voters for both genders: RN secured about a third of both 18-24 and 25-34 age groups; young men across the continent said they would vote trump by massive margins. tusk barely beat back orban 2.0 in poland, and his immediate reaction was to double down on fortress europeâsomething all other parties are doing. EU politicians are so averse to public investment that this fear blew up the german government yesterday.
there is nowhere to run, there is no country "safe" from the global far right wave
i feel like i havenât really been on this website at all and now iâm suddenly just ranting into the void all at once but it really does break my heart how little humanity some of you are willing to extend to people who are going through a literal genocide. the pain of grief is so unbearable and to have to experience that in such great numbers all at once is just unimaginable to me. there are people out there who have lost dozens of family members in a single year and they arenât being given any time to grieve and they may have no support and no food and no money⊠and then some of you will criticize them the second they say something you view as âangryâ or âharsh.â itâs just unbelievable to me the impossible standards palestinians are held to
me at 25 with my stomach ulcer and my arthritis and my tooth-eroding tmj trying to convince the people in my life iâm mentally well and not going through some sort of existential crisis
I rambled about this in tags on another post but I canât emphasize enough how only focusing on large-scale issues WILL lead to hopelessness & burnout. Activism must include small-scale, achievable works. If you donât have something you can get your hands around and look at directly, despair will eat you alive.
I want to elaborate here for people who donât think theyâre capable of practical activism due to disability: what a LOT of volunteer groups need most is clerical and logistical support. Maybe you canât get down to the river to pick up trash, but how about working the sign-up table? Or sending out email reminders or creating promotional graphics? How about making calls to the city to get funds for supplies?
Many volunteer groups rely on retired people to run their day-to-day functions, so as the economy worsens and retirement ages go up, charities are feeling the squeeze as their aging participants arenât replaced. If youâre unable to work full-time due to disability but have the means to attend a zoom meeting once a month and take minutes, thereâs an activist group that needs you. If you donât have the financial means to donate to charities you care about, thereâs a local advocacy group that needs help deciding how to allocate donation funds.
If youâre not sure how you or your disability can fit into a group, call and ask. My prison book group works from a basement that isnât wheelchair accessible, so when I was unable to do stairs last year, I built them a database.
even if this election were in any way shape or form impacted by kamala being pro-genocide â and i can guarantee the average selfish, ignorant american absolutely is not voting with anyone but themselves in mind â acting like palestinians somehow owe us silence on the matter to make her look more appealing is nuts. these are people who are watching their loved ones get bombed, shot at, starved, and beaten, and some of you have the gall to act like them begging for their lives is some sort of imposition. as if the safety of americans should be held in higher regard than the safety of everyone else. like i really am just failing to find the words to describe how disgusted i am with this absolutely evil, selfish country. kamala lost because america is a racist, misogynistic place and democrats would rather capitulate to the right than come up with an actual good campaign strategy in the first place. i can guarantee you that palestine had nothing to do with it. unfortunately americans just donât seem to care who dies as long as they get to live comfortably.
Sami and his family's last dream: escaping the hell of war on Gaza in search of safety
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hazem @albardawillhazem95 is a 29 year old man from gaza, and he has had everything taken from him by the israeli occupation. his pregnant wife shayma'a and two young children jad and emad were killed when their home was bombed in october last year.
now hazem is living in flimsy shelter that does not protect him from the elements, struggling to provide himself with even basic necessities. he is suffering immensely. please, please consider donating to him to help him survive in the face of this devastation.
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