A new week, a new goal to continue helping six families & a displacement camp in Gz get food, water, shelter, medicine, and more.

Not a SINGLE ounce of hopelessness or helplessness needed—just a few minutes of attention and five dollars. Fairly simple. https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

It’s quite sad that

a) we have a default Mastodon instance
b) the default Mastodon instance is pro-genocide

#fediverse #mastodon #mastodonSocial #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

After plunging Gaza into a total blackout and facing global outrage over war crimes, Netanyahu launches a war with Iran — and calls on the U.S. to clean it up. Israel’s illegal strikes, settler colonialism, and genocidal campaigns run on American cover and cash.

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

There's a type of reply-guy that crawls out of the woodwork when I post anything that might inspire others to take action, and they're deceptively insidious.

Regardless of the topic, they sound like this:

Alice: I don't own a gun because they're for killing and I'm not a fan of killing.
Bob: Then only the bad guys will have guns.

Alice: I deleted my Facebook account.
Bob: If the good people leave then the bad guys win.

Alice: I'm openly queer so others know they're not alone.
Bob: You'll make yourself a target.

In every instance, they defend the shitty state of things by discouraging action and change. It's a reply that is designed to support the default, the current power structure. It's a type of reply meant to de-fang movements.

I've posted about this before, but apparently it bears repeating. Fighting for something takes energy. Change takes sustained energy and momentum. These types of interactions sap energy. They're not posting anything openly disagreeable, they're just dropping little doubt caltrops, little concern anchors—making it harder to keep fighting, harder to gain momentum.

If you're about to jump into a thread and concern troll, don't. I'm fucking sick of it. The rest of us don't have the time or energy to drag your dead weight along.

#ReplyGuys #Concern #Trolling #Change

Spraying the ICE agents with paint using a repurposed fire extinguisher appears to be a turning point in this confrontation in Tucson today. A similar tactic worked well against around thirty cops at a Montreal protest in November 2024, blinding at least one and forcing their whole unit to retreat down an alley.

For no reason at all, we want to share this how-to guide for filling fire extinguishers with paint. Only open on Tor Browser! While the guide uses a large model, we understand there are methods for smaller, more portable extinguishers too.

https://mtlcounterinfo.org/how-to-fill-fire-extinguishers-with-paint/

Can you see this?

Help 6 families eat. Support has stopped for five days. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle