The #AlexNPalsCharity auction is now LIVE! This is possibly the FIRST auction in HISTORY to list original art by James Baxter next to “Turkey Soos.” You legit won’t believe some of the stuff in here…take a peek:
https://t.co/8sYz5zl9s2
I know people have said this but want to underline — disasters like the LA fires just show me over and over that people want to help each other so badly. it’s our natural inclination and we live in a place that stamps it out on a government level, but it doesn’t change the desire
being in public after having like 4 drinks is so incredible. these are all my brothers and sisters. i am a cell that lives in the great organ of the world. i am on the way to see my friends. the world is a beautiful place...
This is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative report compiled on the systematic abuse and torture in Israeli prisons since Oct 7th: https://t.co/N0qcZF4ifg
The report is called "Welcome to Hell" and was written by B'Tselem, the main Israeli human rights organization, who spent months interviewing dozens of former Palestinian prisoners (those who survived the ordeal).
The report's conclusion? Israeli prisons, "in which EVERY [Palestinian] inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate as de-facto torture camps... The abuse consistently described in the testimonies of dozens of individuals held in different facilities was so systemic, that there is no room to doubt an organized, declared policy of the Israeli prison authorities... As the testimonies reveal the new policy is applied across all prison facilities and to ALL Palestinian prisoners. Among its main tenets are unrelenting physical and psychological violence, denial of medical treatment, starvation, withholding of water, sleep depravation and confiscation of all personal belongings."
They also note that "most" Palestinians are held without trials.
They end their report with an "appeal to all nations and to all international institutions and bodies, including the International Criminal Court, to do everything in their power to put an immediate end to to the cruelties meted out on Palestinians by Israel's prison system, and to recognize the Israeli regime operating this system as an apartheid regime that must come to an end".
@nyyankee04 I get it!! I was v stressed when I moved out with my pup, and she was stressed and weird for a little while, and then acclimated! It’ll be Gucci! Excited for you to have your own place!!
The lesson of literally almost every single successful social movement in modern US history (women’s suffrage, civil rights, LGBTQ, Act-UP, antiwar, disability rights, etc) is that dissent *must* produce disorder to provoke the kind of response that enables meaningful change.