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Anyone that tells you tearing down a statue of a person that facilitated evil is wrong is a whole ass idiot and you don’t have to listen to any of their other opinions.

What a picture! Israeli soldiers and settlers have prevented Palestinian children from going to school by blocking the routes with razor wire. So instead, the Palestinian children take out their school books and start studying right next to the masked Israeli soldiers.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it. Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe. Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them. And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced. We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity. And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice! In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!

The stories of loss, of the pain inflicted by the occupation, still take our breath away. This mother watched as a quadcopter shot her young son in the head, there was nothing left of him. chuffed.org/project/help-u… This is what grief looks like when it keeps moving - shock, numbness, because how does one process this while the suffering continues. The people of al-Amal Camp 2 in al-Zawaida have lost their homes, their neighborhoods, members of their families, their sense of normal. Displaced and hungry, they wait. They adapt. They survive on whatever arrives. Because what other choice do they even have? The Sameer project provided 885 Alexandrian liver sandwiches on April 11. The total cost was $2,180 shekels. That’s 885 meals to ease at least the hunger for the day, a fraction of the healing that’s needed. Gaza doesn't just need food. It needs the world to feel the weight of what's happening there, still. Donate to the Food and Water Campaign to assist. Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")

- The Ontario Gov't is NOT the registered owner of the plane. - ACASS Canada Ltd owns the only 2016 Challenger that fits the description published by The Star. - Not verifying or even questioning who owns the plane, or the chain of ownership of the plane, is not journalism.

Don't be smug, turnips. At least the Americans are aware.

Steve Biko's widow, Ntsiki with their son Nkosinathi, c 1970s. Image Source: Drum Archive

meanwhile, around 40% of the food supply in the US is wasted annually largely because food service staff are required to dispose of extra food AND make it inedible before disposal oh and the staff is threatened with termination if they take any food for themselves

Organized crime has access to your driver's license, your vehicle registration, your plates. They know what you drive and where it's parked. They have access to your OHIP card info too. OHIP fraud is, unsurprisingly, of great interest to organized crime.

UNRWA says child malnutrition cases in Gaza are rising again as the U.S. and Israel continue to severely restrict basic humanitarian aid to Gaza:

When we ask what people need - the simple things that they want, they tell us. And we listen. Every single time. HELP: chuffed.org/project/help-u… So on April 9, Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project showed up with 890 Shawarma sandwiches not because it was easy or cheap or a quick option, but because it's what the families at Al-Athar Camp and Ghosn al Zayton Camp in Al-Zawaida actually want. The total cost was $2,407 after 11% commission. These flavors, this protein, meals that feel “normal” from before the genocide, this is what we want to give. Not mass-produced meals. Not "good enough." Food with flavor. Food with warmth. Food that provides dignity, care, respect. Because feeding people isn't just logistics - it's a message. And the message from The Sameer Project that we want to send is that dignity looks like a real meal, made with care, shared with love, for our people. Donate to the Food and Water Campaign. Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")

As a resident of New Orleans my entire life, I have witnessed targeted racist political and social attacks, but this attack on Calvin Duncan or Orleans Parish Clerk dispels any notion the GOP has respect for the law, elections, or the Constitution

Urgent. Please help. 💜

Can we get more movement on this for families in Sudan? @notasjad chuffed.org/project/122428…

This has completely stopped :( And without your help we can't keep going. chuffed.org/project/122428…

💢 NEW: Israeli Forces Burn Ambulances, Shell Villages and Claim Kills During Lebanon Ceasefire Israeli military attacks continued across southern Lebanon Monday evening despite a 10-day ceasefire in effect. 🔸 Israeli troops entered the Imam al-Sadr sports complex in the border village of Mais al-Jabal and set fire to ambulances belonging to the al-Rissala Scouts civil defense, affiliated with the Amal movement, according to L’Orient Today’s correspondent. 🔸 Israeli artillery fired twelve shells in minutes against the villages of Deir Siryan, al-Hujeir, and Slouqi on the south bank of the Litani River, according to the state news agency and L’Orient. 🔸 Israeli forces carried out multiple large detonations in Shamaa, a border village in the Sour (Tyre) district of southern Lebanon — the second such strike there today. Haaretz cited senior IDF commanders describing an ongoing plan to raze Lebanese border villages several miles inland in an operation referred to internally as “Silver Plow.” 🔸 The Israeli army claimed its Paratroopers Brigade killed fighters in the Bint Jbeil area and that Golani Brigade forces killed others near the Litani, saying both groups “violated ceasefire agreements” and posed an “immediate threat.” No independent evidence was provided. The IDF said its 98th and 36th Divisions are continuing operations “in order to prevent an imminent threat against Israel’s northern communities.” 🎥 The Israeli army sets fire to the homes of residents in villages in southern Lebanon. Via @tamerqdh

"I can no longer see my mother's face, and my small hand can no longer touch my toys." The child Mohammad Odeh is appealing for medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip after an injury left him blind and cost him several fingers from his hand, in a desperate attempt to save what remains of his childhood.

Tired, thirsty, and carrying more than they should ever have to - that’s the burden on children waiting in line for water. Urgent help needed: chuffed.org/project/help-u… In Gaza, clean water is scarce, rationed, and uncertain. Every container filled is a small relief, but never enough. This is what a water crisis looks like. Not statistics but faces. Not numbers but childhoods interrupted. Water is a human right. And right now, it’s out of reach for nearly eveyone in the strip. A strategic, manufactured catastrophe by the occupation, to make living in Gaza unbearable for the over 2 million Palestinians there. Help us support them with this life essential. Donate to our Food and Water Campaign: 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")

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Criminally under-followed account. Part of Iran's delegation in the negotiations in Islamabad. Insightful and authoritative