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increasingly tired nurse practitioner in inner city public health clinic 🏥 🩺 also taught esl here & elsewhere

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The Sameer Project
The Sameer Project@sameerproject·
Listen to this “Mukhtar” speaking about what life now looks like inside a displacement camp in Gaza. A Mukhtar is the community leader, someone people turn to for guidance, mediation, and organizing daily affairs. In these camps, he helps coordinate and speak on behalf of families trying to survive under impossible conditions…and he is asking for more water! Help here: chuffed.org/project/help-u… He describes a daily routine that begins before sunrise, people lining up as early as 6 a.m. just for a chance to receive fresh water. And if they don’t make it in time, there is no alternative but to rely on salty, unsafe water just to get through the day. This is the reality families are living with - waiting in long lines, hoping for something as basic as clean water, while exhaustion and uncertainty define every hour. He also shares a fear that many are carrying: that the world has moved on, that attention faded after recent escalations elsewhere in the region, while Gaza remains in crisis, still struggling for the most basic necessities. At The Sameer Project, we are seeing this reality firsthand. Donations are decreasing, even as needs are increasing. Families are still here. Children are still here. And water is still not guaranteed. We are asking for your support, because survival should not depend on what’s trending in the news. Donate to the Food and Water Campaign to offer this consistent assistance: chuffed.org/project/help-u… Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")
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Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek@RaniaKhalek·
Just told @AJEnglish: - There is NO ceasefire in Lebanon. - Israel is blowing up villages and killing civilians, journalists and rescue workers - The U.S. is NOT a neutral mediator and is trying to separate Lebanon from a broader regional settlement with Iran - The Lebanese government has zero leverage, its negotiations aren’t credible and it can’t even secure a ceasefire while the south burns
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Nizar_Gaza_🇵🇸
Nizar_Gaza_🇵🇸@nizar_almasre·
Hello friends, My name is Nizar Mahmoud Al-Masri, a lawyer and Master’s student in Public Law from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. I used to work in the courts defending the oppressed, but the war destroyed my office and completely stopped my professional life. Today, I am displaced and responsible for supporting my own family, my brother’s family, and my sisters’ families along with their children, amid severe shortages of food, medicine, and basic necessities. The hardest part of my life is my family’s suffering… My sister Zain (12 years old) suffers from severe cerebral palsy. She cannot move or sit and urgently needs continuous care and medication that we are no longer able to provide. My father suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and my brother has a chronic illness, and none of them can access proper treatment. Despite everything, I continue trying to help others through small humanitarian initiatives supported by kind friends. This is not just a story… it is our daily reality. Your support today means medicine, food, and dignity we are trying to preserve. Please help us continue… we are no longer able to manage on our own🙏🫂 @leylahamed @Partisangirl @richimedhurst @SanaSaeed To help: 📍 chuffed.org/project/149470 📍paypal.me/NizarAlmasre
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One of the most beautiful coincidences happened yesterday while I was distributing diapers and baby formula in the displacement camps. I met two beautiful twin girls, and their father told me that what we provided was the most meaningful gift in light of the harsh prices and the closure of the crossings. We promised him that we will continue to do our best to stand by them. That wasn’t the only touching moment… I also met a little girl who came to her parents after 10 years of waiting. Their joy was beyond words. Her father told me, “She is the most beautiful gift in life.” Despite everything we are going through, we are still a people who love life… and create hope. My friends, we will continue these initiatives for our infants. Your support truly makes a difference. If you would like to contribute, you can donate through the link. With all my gratitude ❤️ @leylahamed @Partisangirl @SanaSaeed For initiatives: paypal.me/NizarAlmasre To help my family and 4 families of my relatives🙏🏼 chuffed.org/project/149470

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Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉
Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉@HaithamElmasri1·
At a time when food, water, medical treatment, medicines, and medical equipment are being prevented from entering Gaza—supplies that every family, every patient, and every child here needs to save their lives، the doors are instead opened to provide Israel with all types of air, naval, and land weapons. In fact, military equipment weighing more than 6,500 tons arrived in Israel today. Why all these weapons? Are they made to kill starving children? Or to kill families who have been left homeless, now living in tents? Or to kill the sick and wounded who receive no treatment at all? What kind of world are we living in today? Has support and attention become reserved for those who commit the most horrific forms of killing, crimes, and genocide? A profoundly shameful world.
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Dr.Faroq from Gaza🇵🇸🕊️
We didn’t sleep last night. Not just because of the bombing… but because of what moves around us in the dark. The rats aren’t afraid anymore. They walk between us like this place belongs to them. They get close to the food… the blankets… even the children. We try to push them away—but to where? There is no safe place here. And above all of that… the sound of bombing never stops. Every explosion shakes the ground beneath us, and every time, we hold our breath… hoping this isn’t the end. The children are trembling. We try to calm them… and we lie again. We say, “It’s okay.” But nothing is okay. You live between fear from the sky… and fear crawling on the ground. No sleep. No safety. No moment of silence. And then there’s a moment you realize… you’re not as afraid as you used to be. And that’s the most terrifying part. If you’re reading this now… remember, this isn’t a story. This is my family life.
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Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉
Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉@HaithamElmasri1·
In 2014, Israel launched its war against us, which led to the displacement of the entire population of Beit Hanoun. The war lasted 52 days of bombardment and destruction. When we were finally allowed to return, I found my home completely leveled to the ground, forcing me to live in a simple caravan amid ruins surrounding us from every direction. At that time, diseases spread widely as a result of the gunpowder, sulfur, and white phosphorus used against us, which caused me to develop a severe and dangerous allergy, described as extremely painful and with no cure—meaning I am destined to live with this suffering for the rest of my life. Today, more than 12 years later, I still suffer from it severely every day, as if the injury happened now and not years ago. Some may think that when a war ends, it means escaping pain, but the truth is that for us it begins again in a different way after it ends: diseases, viruses, and ongoing suffering that follow us for life. Israel deliberately uses these methods and weapons to ensure that the pain is prolonged, never ending during the war or after it.
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Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha@MosabAbuToha·
I am so heartbroken. Israel has just shot my 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in Jabalia Camp. She is in critical condition; the bullet pierced her chest and exited through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen. At the moment she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears. I just spoke with my uncle, who told me that Israel has been using subsonic bullets lately. He said his sister is the second mother in the camp to be shot in the chest today. Please pray for her and our family. Her husband was abducted by Israel in November 2024, and we still have no word on his condition.
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Abier
Abier@abierkhatib·
Do you remember lil Sidra Hassouna? The child who was killed by Israeli army leaving her upper body hanging on a wall! This is her, a complete beautiful child
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foggy sunset@sunsetfoglight·
"The British Parliament did not abolish slavery out of the goodness of their Christian hearts. They abolished it because the cost of deploying military armadas to put down perpetual, massive slave rebellions was bankrupting the colonial treasury."
Chetuya Math Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago

The Bible was unequivocally used to enslave Africans. I know most Africans shy away from this debate because their entire identity, from childhood, was forged through blind obedience to a colonial text and bowing before a white Jesus on a crucifix. But if we are serious about liberating the Black mind, we must strip emotion from revolutionary debates and embrace cold pragmatism. If it were merely a matter of "misinterpreting" the Bible, that would be a minor issue. But the entire Christian Church was an active participant, serving as the spiritual guarantor of the transatlantic slave trade. Bishops owned massive plantations. Priests stood on the docks and blessed the slave ships before they set sail for the African coast to steal human beings. They want you to believe that it was Christian abolitionists who ended slavery because they desperately need to bury the truth that Black people fought and defeated the imperialists themselves. This mainstream narrative presents the European colonizer as a morally conflicted savior who, upon reading the scriptures with sudden clarity, realized the error of his ways and valiantly legislated the end of human bondage. It is a historical fraud. Slavery ended the exact same way the British colonial empire collapsed, and the exact same way the Americans retreated from Vietnam. In each of these scenarios, the system of murder and plunder ended not because the imperialists suddenly developed a human conscience, but because the oppressed fought back with such ferocity that the system became physically unmanageable and financially fatal. The Haitian Revolution was the ultimate trigger. It was the nightmare that spelled out to the colonizers, in blood and fire, that chattel slavery was simply too dangerous and expensive to sustain. In the late eighteenth century, the enslaved population of Saint-Domingue did not wait for the French parliament to debate their humanity. They rose up in the dark of night, set the sugarcane fields ablaze, and launched a war of total annihilation against their captors. Under the brilliant military strategies of leaders like Toussaint and Dessalines, the Black army utterly decimated the French forces. They defeated the Spanish. They defeated the British. They destroyed the mighty legions of Napoleon Bonaparte, forcing the greatest military empire of the era to its knees. Haiti proved to the global slavocracy that the African was perfectly capable of slaughtering his master, establishing a sovereign nation, and defending it against the combined empires of the world. This terrifying reality fundamentally altered the calculus of European colonization. They realized that if they pushed the African too far, every single colony in the Americas would eventually become another Haiti. In Brazil, Jamaica, and across Latin America, enslaved people did not wait for saviors. They escaped the plantations, fled into the mountains, and established fiercely independent, heavily fortified sovereign cities. The Portuguese and British regiments that tried to penetrate these fortresses were ambushed and slaughtered. All of this was happening long before the so-called white abolitionists started penning their polite manifestos in European parlors. So understand this clearly: the British Parliament did not abolish slavery out of the goodness of their Christian hearts. They abolished it because the cost of deploying military armadas to put down perpetual, massive slave rebellions was bankrupting the colonial treasury. Finally: labeling your own ancestral culture and tradition as "idol worship" is the clearest proof that you are still wearing colonial chains.

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Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi@tparsi·
Iran’s latest AI Lego video marks a significant pivot. Instead of taunting the US military, it reflects a new chapter in which Tehran will seek peace by reaching out directly to the American people, bypassing the US government. It's a mirror image of the US strategy of the past decades. Some of the lines are quite noteworthy and will likely resonate with the anti-establishment sentiments prevailing among American youth in particular: "I love the constitution, the way it was meant. But not the way your leaders bypass consent..."
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"One day, when the smoke has passed and the ruins have finished speaking, you shall be seen again as you truly were."
Dr. Ezzideen@ezzingaza

Today, on my road to the clinic, I climbed into that miserable chariot which has become the common carriage of Gaza: a broken cart dragged forward by an exhausted car, itself seeming to cough rather than move, like some old beast condemned to labor beyond mercy. Beside me sat a young man, hardly past the threshold of youth, perhaps twenty eight years of age. He held in his hands a torn plastic sack, poor banner of a fallen life. His garments were worn thin, his face hollow with fatigue, and on his brow there rested that dreadful expression one learns only in famine: the look of a man who has spent the day searching not for fortune, not for comfort, but merely for bread. When he entered, the driver asked him: “Do you have money for the fare?” He replied at once, with the haste of wounded pride: “Yes.” He paid. Then he turned toward me. There was no anger in him, no noise, no rebellion. There was only ruin. He drew out his phone and said in a low voice: “Look at how our life used to be.” He showed me photographs. “We used to import clothes from Israel and Turkey. We sold them. We had everything.” He stopped, as though memory itself had struck him in the chest. “Then the war destroyed it all. Our goods, our homes .. everything.” He lowered his eyes to his hands, those empty hands that perhaps once counted profit, folded children’s clothes, opened doors of his own house. “But I do not steal. And I do not ride without paying.” Then he spoke words I shall carry like a stone in the heart: “We are people of dignity .. but life humiliated us.” In those few syllables, he was defending an invisible kingdom. Perhaps before me. Perhaps before himself. He wished it known that this shadow seated in dust was not the whole man. That once he had walls around him. Trade in his hands. Purpose in his mornings. That before the sky fell, he had been someone standing upright beneath it. He did not quarrel with the driver. He begged no pity. He asked for something rarer than charity. He asked to be recognized. He wanted some human voice to tell him: “I see you. I know who you were. I know this is not your true life.” He wanted a hand laid gently upon his shoulder. A sentence strong enough to keep a soul from collapsing. A small lamp against the vast humiliation. And while I listened to him, I understood. This is not only the story of one man. This is Gaza. A land filled with men and women who, while roofs fall, bread vanishes, and history tramples them beneath iron feet, still labor in silence to preserve the last fortress left to them: dignity. Perhaps this is what they need most now. Not bread alone. Not shelter alone. But someone to whisper to them, with tenderness and truth: This misery is not your name. And one day, when the smoke has passed and the ruins have finished speaking, you shall be seen again as you truly were. #WoundedGaza

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Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi·
Trump's blockade is driving the global economy toward catastrophe. Just as during the 12-day war and the 39-day Ramadan War the Islamic Republic defeated Netanyahu, Trump, and their proxies, Iran will outlast Trump in this siege warfare. youtu.be/x0Alsn9P_NA?is…
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Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh@Bushra1Shaikh·
We completed the investigation at Minab school, so Donald Trump doesn't have to. Triple tap U.S Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired on a busy school day. Many children were still alive after the first strike. As some tried to flee, they were targeted again - this time with teachers and parents too. This can only be described as evil crimes against children and humanity.
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Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉
Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉@HaithamElmasri1·
In the midst of genocide… I try, with everything that remains in me, to build them a memory that resembles childhood. A memory that does not know this devastation, and does not carry pain greater than their age. I want it to be an ordinary memory… an ordinary childhood… nothing more.
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Bisan owda
Bisan owda@bisan__bisan·
Free them all, free the aids and baby formula and diapers that Israel stole, stop IsraHell from establishing the new world order of colonization violence and chaos.
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MO
MO@Abu_Salah9·
بَكى قهراً، لأن ما يحمله ثقيل جداً هذه هي الطفولة المنسية بغزة
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foggy sunset@sunsetfoglight·
essential reading. most who live here in the heart of (current) empire don't know, or care to know, this history.
Chetuya Math Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago

The ongoing crisis in Sudan is a calculated offensive in the U.S. economic war against China. It is a geopolitical move to conquer Eurasia and ensure Washington emerges as the world's sole, unchallenged superpower. To understand this, we must look at the history. Before the 2011 balkanization of Sudan, China forged an ironclad relationship with the Sudanese government. Beijing was not just buy 80% of Sudan’s oil; it built the entire industry from the ground up with a massive $6 billion investment. Because the bulk of Sudanese oil was locked in the South and far from the Red Sea, Sudan lacked the logistics to transport it. China shattered that barrier by single-handedly constructing a 1,500-mile pipeline to funnel that wealth to the northern ports for international trade. Once the oil began to flow in 1999, Sudan’s GDP surged at an average of 6% per year, and oil eventually accounted for 95% of the country’s export earnings. But this growth was something Washington could not allow. China held an effective monopoly in East Africa, and Sudan provided Beijing a way to bypass U.S. sanctions and naval blockades. Because the oil moved through the Red Sea and not international waters, the U.S. Navy could not illegally intercept the shipments. Realizing they could not "break" Sudan through financial pressure or sanctions due to this Chinese bypass, Washington pivoted to balkanization. If you cannot control the government of a unified state, you weaponize a rebellion to rip it in half. You steal the oil fields from the un-sanctionable North and hand them to a new Southern puppet state, one entirely dependent on Western aid and recognition. This was when the American and British media manufactured the "Christian Genocide" narrative. they exploited internal conflicts, reframing them as the targeted slaughter of Christians by a Muslim majority, the exact same script they are currently running in Nigeria. Suddenly, the "Save Darfur" movement dominated American media. The Bush administration flooded the public with reports on the persecution of Christians, and NGOs scattered across the country blew the trumpet for international intervention. By the time Obama took office, this narrative was so deeply scorched into the American psyche that he had the "moral" cover to finish the job without a whisper of public dissent. Bowed by Western outcry and Pentagon pressure, the government in Khartoum succumbed and signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. This plan mandated that the North stop defending its sovereignty against rebels who were sabotaging pipelines. The agreement forced the Sudanese government to allow the South to hold a "referendum." To achieve this, Obama deployed a "Sticks and Carrots" approach. The "carrot" was the hollow promise that Sudan would be removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list and allowed to re-enter the global market. Simultaneously, Obama swung the "stick," by threatening to impose crippling economic sanctions every year to keep Khartoum’s economy in a state of terminal collapse should they refuse this offer. UN Ambassador Susan Rice led the charge to ensure the UN Security Council remained a unified front against Khartoum. The U.S. framed the referendum as a "matter of global security," making it clear that if Khartoum interfered, the U.S. would launch unilateral strikes or impose a "no-fly" zone, the same imperialist tactic used to destroy Libya. These geopolitical games marked the official start of the balkanization of Africa’s largest state. The fact that South Sudan lacked the infrastructure to function as a state did not deter Obama. He shipped hundreds of millions of dollars to the Southern rebels to bankroll this transition. This funding provided training, communications gear, and a formal chain of command, effectively building a Western-aligned army inside a sovereign state before it had even been partitioned. The Obama administration used USAID to bypass Khartoum and fund infrastructure specifically in the South. This wasn't "aid"; it was hostile state-building. By constructing roads, government offices, and legal systems in the South, the U.S. ensured the region was administratively decoupled from the North long before the 2011 vote. In January 2011, the people of southern Sudan voted. The secessionists "won" the referendum by a staggering, statistically impossible 99%. The event was almost entirely funded and organized by the U.S. and its allies. It was conducted under the absolute military grip of the Southern rebels, the very group Washington had been bankrolling for years. In many areas, there was no secret ballot and no "No" campaign was allowed to exist. Following this 99% "Yes" vote, Israel was among the first to recognize South Sudan, immediately establishing military and economic ties, exactly as they are currently doing with Somaliland. The unified state of Sudan, the largest in Africa, was effectively destroyed. China was forced to recognize this "new country" to protect its multi-billion dollar oil investments. They set up an embassy in Juba, desperately trying to work with this Western-backed mini-state. But the country was a shell; it had almost no domestic industry. Its "government" existed only to collect oil rents, while the survival of the population was outsourced to the "humanitarian-industrial complex." Billions in aid flow in, but it never builds a self-sustaining economy. Instead, it ensures the state remains weak and dependent on foreign whims. Within just two years of independence, South Sudan collapsed into a brutal civil war that slaughtered 400,000 people. By 2024, the pipeline used to export oil was damaged and clogged. This cut off 90% of the government's revenue, leading to a total halt in civil servant salaries and the vaporization of what little state authority remained. Washington’s plan worked. China has effectively packed its bags and left the country. The situation in Sudan is now so dire that you would need a heart made of silicone to read about it and not shed tears. Seventeen million people across both Sudan and South Sudan have been uprooted, reduced to perpetual refugees at the mercy of NGOs. The current phase of the war began when General Mohamed Dagalo (Hemedti), leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), seized the Jebel Amer gold mines in Darfur. Hemedti bypassed the state entirely, funneling his gold to Dubai through his family-run company, Al Junaid, and parking the profits in UAE banks. Today, 80% of Sudanese gold is shipped straight to Dubai. The UAE bankrolls the RSF. It is not just gold that the Gulf powers want. When the UAE and Saudi Arabia needed troops for their war in Yemen, they paid Hemedti and the military billions to ship thousands of Sudanese soldiers off to fight as mercenaries. This is the fate of Sudan today. It is the ruinous result of a superpower war fought to maintain primacy over the entire hemisphere.

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