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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Raghad is exhausted she works, she cries in silence, trying to save her mother just as she saves others, but her hands alone aren’t enough.
She isn’t asking for much only for help to continue her mother’s treatment and keep her family alive.

If you can, please reach out. 😔

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Raghad is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social, has social media that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Raghad is hoping to complete her studies (she has been volunteering this whole time at Nasser Hospital) and also take care of her large family including her mother.

Donate to Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation, organized by Yomi Abdulazeez

Hi my name is Yomi and I'm fundraising for my friend and h… Yomi Abdulazeez needs your support for Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation

www.gofundme.com

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

The talk and advice about hope and compensation feel, to me right now, like a distant fantasy while I’m sinking into a bottomless well.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Raghad is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social, has social media that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Raghad is hoping to complete her studies (she has been volunteering this whole time at Nasser Hospital) and also take care of her large family including her mother.

Donate to Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation, organized by Yomi Abdulazeez

Hi my name is Yomi and I'm fundraising for my friend and h… Yomi Abdulazeez needs your support for Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation

www.gofundme.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Raghad. Raghad is 22 years old and was finishing her studies to be a nurse. She wanted to go into nursing because her mother had a stroke that made her lose movement in her arms and legs. They are now displaced with her 10 siblings.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

I can personally vouch for Raghad she lives in the same camp as I do.
Please, help her and her sick mother. Her mother’s condition is severe; she suffers from partial paralysis and can barely move inside the tents..

Rn.raghad @nurseraghad.bsky.social · 1d

My family and I are living in tents now, and my mother is sick. You know that a sick person cannot tolerate living in a tent they need a clean environment. Unfortunately, we are not in a clean place. You know how hard life in tents is sleeping on sand, having insects inside.🥺💔

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

How can one mourn cities that were slaughtered from vein to vein? 😔

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 3h

They matching, go chip in!

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3h

Share for Link 🫡 Every day Link was making sure to share these posts & make his own for the Giving Circle. Make the mods double mad that you’re supporting Palestinian survival.

We’ll match 175 for food, shelter, transport north, winter items, BABY CLOTHES for six fams ‼️ 17 hours left 🚨 13/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 3h

I am so worried for Aya and Majd and their daughters
I've been so close to tears today when I saw Aya's account was deleted when she needed us the most
She is beyond exhaustion. She asked me not to forget about Mona.
gofund.me/2f942387

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 7d

Artists photographed by Carl Van Vechten
A thread
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1. Débria M. Brown (1936 – 2001)

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Oct 25

Débria M. Brown (1936 – 2001) was an African American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career that spanned five decades.
While fighting racism in the opera world.

Photographed by Carl Van Vechten as Carmen, at the New York City Opera, in 1958.

A very artistic black and white portrait of Débria Brown. She is a young Black woman in Carmen character, posing with a Spanish hand fan against a white background.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 3d

I need cartography nerds to pull a thread with maps of Palestine 🌷

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 8h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5h

Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs.

Decolonize your language.

Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 5h

Nour is the pregnant mum that so many people have been so cruel to in this app. Eternal shame to anyone who accused her and reported her.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 5h

A very important Nour update!
Ziad and Julia's mum's words are now published in The Guardian. Please read and amplify her story. Contribute as possible:
chuffed.org/project/emer...

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Nour albatish @nourjjk.bsky.social · 8h

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 5h

My pleasure! 🌷

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 3d

Louise Bazalgette (1846–1918) was an early English motorist.
She was present at the Emancipation Run in 1896 when car owners celebrated being able to exceed 4 mph.
She was widely reported as a woman who was making long trips in a car, and the only woman to enter the Thousand Mile Trial in 1900.

Black and white, low resolution photo. Louise Bazalgette by Argent Archer, 1900. With her mechanic Clarkson in her 3 hp Benz Ideal in the Thousand Mile Trial. The car doesn't have roof or walls.

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 6h

Urgent appeal

„I am Nour, a mother of two children
living in difficult circumstances.
My daughter Julia sends you kisses
and asks for help buying food.
🚨🚨We need $300 urgently.

✅The Guardian published a report about my health.
✅verified by molly shah

Pls donate 👇👇

chuffed.org/project/emer...