My entire family still remains in Ghaza.
As everyone is trying to survive, my cousin started a GoFundMe. Her son suffered a skull fracture as a result of an air strike.
Please consider donating (even if $5) and please share to spread the word
https://t.co/pLmoIj9CNn
There was occupation on October 6
There was apartheid on October 6
There was ethnic cleansing on October 6
There was torture on October 6
There was abductions on October 6
There was settler attacks on October 6
There was Israeli terror on October 6
Nothing *began* on October 7
“I also understood why, in his despair, my father did not teach me Arabic. I think he wanted to protect me. Better just to be Italian, to speak Italian, to live in Europe.” Such an important piece about Palestinian identity erasure and exile.
My essay on Anti-Palestinian Racism is out today as the Leading online article of the Financial Times Magazine. It is a big moment for me as Palestinian woman to speak up about this in such a public way. 🧵
"Coming out as Palestinian" https://t.co/tjiegBX9h7
How renters in most places deal with evil landlords:
File a complaint, report violations to housing department, take landlord to small claims court, share stories on social media, create petitions to have landlords removed.
How renters in LA deal with evil landlords:
All over the road. Was I lucky to avoid two close encounters, or just delaying the inevitable? Maybe I’ve watched Final Destination too many times, but something about this felt ominous.
I lost two of my cat lives tonight. Life #1: I was driving along a major highway going 75mph when my car and the 3 lanes of cars around me lost control and spun out (oil spill?). I had no control over my steering wheel or brakes. I couldn’t do anything but wonder:
to fly off. I was stuck behind a car, which the truck was to the right of. If another tire came loose it would go straight into my windshield. After I honked repeatedly the oblivious car in front of me sped up, and the truck pulled over as it realised tires were bouncing