end the occupation 🍉

I’m not bad at spelling, I’m committing an act of anti-colonialism • she/هي • 🧠

[end the occupation 🍉 @syrianmami]

I haven’t hugged my mom since March no I’m not ok lol

[end the occupation 🍉 @syrianmami]

https://t.co/cFyhuY9BLj

[end the occupation 🍉 @syrianmami]

If you actually want an answer to that question I wrote a whole dissertation on it

[sai ✮ @mmintey_]

i’m not saying muslims shouldn’t be queer but if your religion condemns it then why would you stay faithful to said religion

[n @soakkedrice]

One of my good friend’s fathers was one of the victims in the San Diego shooting. Please keep every life lost & family affected in your duaas tonight. This world can be cruel. These were deeply loved people taken in an act of hatred & Islamophobia. May Allah grant them Jannah

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

i’m sooooo ready

[Najat @theafroaussie]

I used to be fun.
Until I saw babies being shredded in real time, every 30 minutes to an hour

[myesha thee stallion @myeshachou]

20 rakaat last 10 odd night duas begging for the fall of ai and rise of nationwide class consciousness

[lauryn🤸🏾‍♀️ @laurischattin]

bitches aren’t anti ai enough for me

[Denielle @denielledyy]

That chatgpt ig story trend??? Guys pls… the earth.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Because it’s extremely anti worker and very pro rich evil guy

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

@_anupa this shit took me forever

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Some thoughts about the No Kings "protests" today:

I attended in NY today - but was left feeling a bit perplexed. Amanda Seals says it best: “These are rallies, not protests. Rallies are for rallying around an idea, or a team - and that is a time of concerted celebration or information sharing. There are no clear demands being made or no clear action being asked of the attendees. Protests are different. Protests are meant to demonstrate the might of the people to the powers that be. It’s supposed to make them “shook”. It’s important that we identify what actual resistance is. You’re actually part of CONTROLLED opposition, not organized opposition, and the two are not the same."

First of all, the protests asked everyone who wanted to attend to register in a database. They could only get the full details of the rally start time and exact location if they register. This is concerning on two levels. First of all, it’s an obvious fundraising tool for the Democrats. Once they have your information, they’ll use it to flood you with emails and texts asking you for money. Secondly, and more seriously, in an age of surveillance and an administration that is vowing to go after their political enemies, this puts people in a precarious and possibly dangerous position.

When we occupied Wall Street, we did not ask people to register. When we had Black Lives Matter rallies, there was no database. It’s complete bullshit to have one.

Secondly, the No Kings rallies were only TWO HOURS LONG!. Two hours. For real. If you get there after the start time, you may be lucky to only have an hour holding you sign and expressing your discontent with the current state of the nation. I have never been to a protest in all my years of activism that had a 2 hour limit.

I don’t remember Martin Luther King, Jr. ever saying “We must sacrifice. We must protest. But when we protest, we must only do it for two hours!”. Maybe I missed that speech.

There were NO DEMANDS. Not one. Nothing. People simply held signs saying how much they hated Trump. I mean, sure, makes sense but - No demands on what to do about ICE? Or healthcare? Or - god forbid - the continuing genocide and occupation of Gaza (yes it’s still going).

The thing that really got to me was that all these limits - having an official sign-up to be a part of this but only for two-hours “protest”- is that it seems designed to LIMIT and CONTROL opposition to the Trump administration simply to sayingì“We don’t want Trump”. The absence of any clear demands made AT ALL showed that the organizers did not want there to be demands on policy and wanted to limit ho ⁶⁶871 6665 0402w people expressed their opposition.

There were also people going around reminding everyone to vote for Democrats and not to allow their friends to vote third party or not vote at all. One woman came up to me saying that and followed with “It’s just not acceptable”.

When I attended protests in NYC over wars/military actions, racial injustice or income inequality, we didn’t have permits. We didn’t have a time limit. We didn’t stand perfectly on the sidewalk holding a sign waiting for someone to honk. We took the streets. We were disruptive. We made people in power worried. I know this because of the way the powerful reacted.

During Occupy Wall Street, there were a number of uber-capitalists writing articles or being interviewed on how this was a warning sign for capitalism. Protests are supposed to make people in power worry. Protests are designed to make the comfortable UNCOMFORTABLE.

When racial justice protests happened in NYC to try to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed - the activists literally sat down and blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for hours on end. Rosa Parks didn’t refuse to give her seat up for only 10 minutes, she simply refused to give it up at all.

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[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

We miss you in these moments, Anas 💔

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

Obama dropped a bomb every 8 minutes for 8 years straight. He dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone on 6 different countries. He droned hospitals, weddings, and the funerals for those killed in the weddings. He has no moral conscience to be commentating on war crimes.

Obama not only gave Israel the largest military aid deal in history of $38 billion, but he also facilitated Israel's bombardment of Gaza on multiple occasions.

One of his first acts as president was suppressing the UNHRC's Goldstone Report that documented Israeli war crimes in 2009. This is the length his administration went to protect Israel's public image— threatening an international judge.

In 2014, the last time witnessed any bombardment remotely comparable to such a scale as this genocide; Obama publicly, unapologetically, justified Israel's brutal bombing campaign in Gaza despite the alarming death toll then.

[Carey O'Donnell @ecareyo]

My husband wearing shirt by @gaymeatkarl

[Eileen's mother ❣🍉 @rola_almoghrabi]

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