Juniper | Abolish the Police

Abolitionist. Landback. Black Liberation. People should never be in a cage. Your movement is intersectional or it's bullshit. pronouns WIP lol

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@Richardhead_3 @saint_saoirse Follow your leader fascisti

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@AndyCazzola @k_on_warlord It's piss from the right wing "death" squads

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

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@abshaww If I'm not mistaken it's basically "run up a hill, away from the water, as fast as you possibly can"

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@dalaimo13 2nd Update: Mike Tyson is cheeked up and we all got to see when his son interviewed him 😭

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@dalaimo13 👍🏻

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@LolOverruled Came off private to remind you to drink some water, and some gatorade if you have it. It's gonna be a long night

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@cocainechippy Holy shit. Any arrests or detentions, or just fed boy posturing?

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@BianchiWeather I'm guessing it's looking worse for that evergreen wedding then 😅 thanks for all you do

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@BianchiWeather Any idea how it'll be in the foothills saturday afternoon? Have an outdoor family wedding in evergreen 😅

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

all of the reforms failed at the same damn time - black cops, body cameras, multiple cops on the scene, tasers instead of guns- so how is more reform the answer?
#Blacker cops? Even non-deadlier non deadly weapons? ten cops instead of five? HD body cameras? harder convictions?

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@agrumpygremlin This is absolutely a better planet with you on it. For your cat and everyone else ❤️

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@Chris4Denver And you support sweeping our unhoused neighbors no matter how awful the weather gets. Don't forget Chris, the folks who bear the brunt of climate change's impacts are the folks who already deal with the most hardship. Work on your compassion before you work on "solutions".

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@161_AFA I promise you this is a better world because of your presence, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. Please don't do this, friend

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@Ruth_Mensch That last one might not be an option for everyone, but they said it helped a ton with venting, decompressing, making sure they ate well, etc.

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@Ruth_Mensch The biggest things my partner told me helped when they took the bar are 1) talking about how trash and arbitrary the bar exam is, with no pressure of "you're gonna pass!", 2) helping out with domestic labor like dishes and food. Also, staying with them during the test itself!

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@abshaww I wonder if it's a new covid symptom

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@abshaww This just adds to the never-ending list of crimes by the English... although trying to imagine the word "scromiting" read off in an English accent has me fucking giggling still