What Sudanese people have been saying this whole time is being corroborated now by the United Nations.

Death toll from Sudan war severely underestimated, new research finds

A report said that more than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state alone, triple the previous UN estimate for the entire country.

Yahoo News

The News The death toll of the ongoing Sudan civil war is likely much higher than previously estimated, new research suggested. A report said that more than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state alone, triple the previous UN estimate for the entire country: 26,000 of those were killed as a direct result of the violence, but the biggest cause of death was disease and starvation. The chaos in Sudan — millions have been displaced from their homes — means that there is no systematic record of deaths, and the nearly two years of war have created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to aid workers. Hundreds of thousands are at risk of famine.

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"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

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woefully-undercaffeinated

An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.
"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.

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hey guys i was contacted by abd al salam to promote his fundraiser.

along with the daily struggle for survival in gaza, the lack of access to basic necessities of life such as food, water, and shelter, he has been targeted by a popular zionist blog for harassment. i recommend looking through that post and reporting the blogs mentioned for harassment

on top of the humiliation of living through a genocide, and the humiliation of going from being self sufficient to asking for money on the internet, zionist harassment online is another humiliation palestinians suffer every day. please spare him that indignity and donate or reblog posts about his fundraiser. follow him on @abdalsalam1990 for updates on his life. thank you

Donate to Help Abd AL Salam and his family get through this war inGaza, organized by Abdalsalam Alanqar

**Humanitarian Support Request: Abdul Salam Al-Anqar** … Abdalsalam Alanqar needs your support for Help Abd AL Salam and his family ge

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#4 on the gazavetters spreadsheet

*also, just because he is close to his goal does not mean he does not urgently need money. we do not know how much of that has reached him and how much he has spent. the cost of living continues to rise exponentially.

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corinneistherainbowsign

i can't wait for when we're blogging about menopause

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November 6 / 7, 2024 - Far-right Israeli hooligans of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam for a match against Ajax, and went around singing their fascist songs about killing arabs and destroying palestine, attacking random people's houses, ripping down and burning palestinian flags and attacking random people for looking like palestine supporters, feeling untouchable. After an evening of this, with Amsterdam police just letting it happen, people had had enough and mostly Moroccan dutch people organised to hunt down Maccabi hooligans throughout the city. One of the Maccabi hooligans jumped in the canal to escape a beating. Passports were confiscated showing that several of the hooligans were IDF soldiers.

The Israeli government has responded by calling this a pogrom and sending two planes to Amsterdam, presumably to bomb a hospital or school in retaliation.

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during several of the beatings the israeli hooligans were told "this is for the children of Palestine!". The Maccabi fans were singing songs about how there are no schools left in Gaza earlier in the day.

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my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying “oh!! what’s this? what’s this? a TREAT? a TREAT for louis????” while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill… then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until he’s so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as he’s eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old

autumngracy

Op this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

fucktheflagandfuckyou

op how could you just hide this from me in the tag this makes this objectively 10000000% funnier

50 First Doses

skyline-sunset-in-my-veins

You trick Louis? You trick Louis like a common fool? Oh jail, jail for owners ONE MILLION YE-oh what’s this? A treat?

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communist-hatsunemiku

I'm actually extremely triggered by being asked to reflect on my behavior and unlearn deeply rooted sexist and racist tendencies. You see I've been coddled like a baby my entire adult life and if you're not niceys to me I'll be forced to join the proud boys. This is a YOU problem btw

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Sans retour possible(1983) dir. Jacques Kebadian, Serge Avédikian

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surprised this hadn't been made yet

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David Montgomery - Moyra Swan (Vogue UK 1969)

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siraj2024s-deactivated20241114 asked:

Trying to survive 🥺

Did you get used to the scene!!

Winter has come hard for us after displacement, oppression, and displacement. There is no good shelter to protect us from the cold, nor enough blankets or heavy clothes, after we lost everything in trying to survive with our lives.

My family consists of 23 people, 10 of whom are children. We were displaced without anything but the clothes we were wearing, and with the weather being cold at the moment, children and the elderly are almost freezing due to the cold.

I ask you to help me provide winter supplies, such as clothes and heavy blankets, for my family, which we cannot buy in light of the skyrocketing prices in Gaza. Remember my friend: “You must be a human being before you can be smart, rich, and educated. All things fall if your humanity falls.”

I beg you to protect my family from this danger and keep them alive.🙏

I'm at number 219 in the Google doc for Hussein and Nabulsi.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sirajs-family-in-rebuilding-their-home

fenkaline answered:

Signal boost!

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shrimpsisbugs

Oregon confirms state’s first human case of H5N1 bird flu in Clackamas County

The case is linked to a previously reported bird flu outbreak in an egg facility.

oregonlive

oh that's good

shrimpsisbugs

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📢🚨My name is Ahmed Alnabih. I am 33 years old, married, and part of a large family with three brothers and four sisters. We once lived in Gaza, where I grew up and built my life. But today, my family and I are living in a tent, in unimaginable conditions—surrounded by mud, soaked from the rain, and overwhelmed by uncertainty.☹️

The Israeli army ordered us to evacuate our home in Gaza. With heavy hearts, we fled south, taking only what little we could carry. Not long after, we received the devastating news that our house—our home—was completely destroyed. Everything I had worked for, everything that held the memories of my family, was reduced to rubble.😭😭

Now, we live in a tent, struggling to stay dry, to stay warm. The rain beats down on us as the ground turns to mud beneath our feet. The cold seeps into our bones at night, and hope feels more distant with each passing day.☹️

I never thought I would find myself in this situation, forced to rely on the kindness of strangers to survive. But here I am, asking for help, not just for myself but for my family, who have lost everything. I want to rebuild a safe home for my wife, my brothers, and my sisters. I want to give them a future, something to hold onto when everything else has been taken away.🥹

Please, if you can, donate. Every little bit brings us closer to rebuilding what we have lost and giving my family a sense of safety and dignity once more.🙏🫂❤️