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20 October, No. 24: @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social

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meave.nyc
do zionists
not understand irony?

or is it especially the australians, who’ve worked so hard on righting the many wrongs of their settler-colonial past—except for the No. 1 demand of the tent embassy, you know: TREATY.

anyway here’s ScoMo doing ultimate irony
(full video: youtu.be/i1b7J7pzgNo)
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
meave.nyc
second, @ofhungryghosts.bsky.social’s brother-in-law and cousin are still *somewhere* in the prison system. today, the knesset passed the first reading of a bill giving the death penalty to palestinians convicted of “‘murdering’” israelis

i found resources, but if you have personal connections, 🙏🏻
Drop Site @DropSiteNews BREAKING: The Israeli Knesset has passed the first reading of a bill authorizing the execution of Palestinian detainees "convicted" of murdering Israelis. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated by handing out candy [baklava] in parliament. • The Palestinian Center for Human Rights says thousands of prisoners now face "certain death," noting that Israel has extracted "numerous coerced confessions" through "brutal torture and threats." » Rights groups also warn that the law paves the way for mass executions of Palestinians already subjected to unfair trials in military courts where they face a conviction rate of over 99%. » If enacted, the measure would in many cases enable the murder of Palestinians exercising their legal right to armed resistance, protected under international law. Rights groups say it would mark a grave breach of international humanitarian and human rights law.
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
meave.nyc
i was thinking about this Miffy finger puppet i believe i had on one of our flights either to or from korea when i was tiny, like no older than than three, and loving miffy because she looked grumpy like me.

now i’m making the miffy face. decommodify art.

i love you, miffy
a very simply draw white cartoon rabbit with upright ears, two dots for eyes, and and X for a mouth that always makes her look a little grouchy, Miffy wears a bright orange dress, standing on a green field under a dark blue sky.
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
meave.nyc
1 Nov. woud've been jenny's 10th birthday. no 9/11 song because that's for 9/11. my girl

instead, here's excerpt from Perfect Victims (READ IT), which manages to be an object lesson on recontextualizing (…decolonizing?) your response to hasbara, and make some dark jokes. (sorry the subs are janky.)
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM
meave.nyc
jfc loomer’s at it again. she’s claiming credit for ICE taking Sami Hamdi, a british journalist, into custody at sfo this morning. (she’s rabidly anti-zohran; the woman has got to be stopped.)
tinyurl.com/sxc38ts6

so ICE black-bags pro-🇵🇸 foreign journalists now? to quote kamala: DO NOT COME HERE.
Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer SCOOP: JIHADIST ARRESTED AT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TRAVEL TO FLORIDA! @AGJamesUthmeier Sources at DHS @DHSgov have just told me that Muslim Brotherhood official Sami Hamdi @SALHACHIMI was just ARRESTED by ICE @ICEgov agents at San Francisco International Airport as he was traveling to Tampa, Florida to headline an event for a Jihadist, pro HAMAS and Muslim Brotherhood 501c3 group tonight. DHS @DHSgov tells me Hamdi is going to have his visa REVOKED and he will be permanently DEPORTED from the US back to the UK where he lives. He is currently in federal custody. After Amy Mek's @AmyMek investigation exposed Sami Hamdi (see report below) — a jihadi foreign national operating inside the United States and abroad with banned Muslim Brotherhood figures who are barred from entering our country — I demanded that federal authorities inside the Trump administration treat Hamdi as the major National security threat that he is and I reported Sami Hamdi to federal immigration authorities over his documented support for Islamic terrorism. As a direct result of Amy's report and my relentless pressure on the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, U.S. officials have now moved to take action against Hamdi's visa status and his continued presence in this country. Hamdi obtained his visa under the Trump administration in 2018 and he has since been traveling back and forth to the US advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood and in support of HAMAS. Most recently, Hamdi went viral for praising @TuckerCarlson, @RealCandaceO Candace Owens and @mtgreenee MTG for helping to strengthen the "Ummah" aka the One World Islamic Order and being a voice in support of Islam. Just a reminder that the Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS are on US soil and they are freely operating in America. SCALP
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
meave.nyc
i heard these two perform small curses on those who won't make an effort—"effort" being relative (to a degree…)

i heard the sheep's great size is a metaphor for your ability to help more people than you think, while the falcon's bright eye seeks comrades
bit.ly/keeping-hope

(sorry, i'm 🔜😵‍💫🔚 today)
giant hairy black and white icelandic ram in a blurry field of green and red-brown grasses. its face is full black with a big white bib (beard?) and long, down-pointed horns. it appears to be staring right into the camera. on his right horn is perched a tiny, actually black-and-white peregrine falcon; correct size ratio of sheep to falcon neither checked nor known. this guy could be a statue, or a statue-colored bird—impossible to say. he’s holding one bright red, long-stemmed poppy in his beak, so the standard wedding invitation-style “Keep Hope Alive” is now angled down the ram’s back. the “a Gaza giving circle” and “bit.ly/keeping-hope” remain unchanged at the very bottom of the image.
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
meave.nyc
ugh, since i'm Reading Less News, i missed that rafah now media posted the top-scoring high school students from rafah with pre-genocide(?) photos of them looking like regular young men
hypothesis: the uncolonized mind takes pride in students' academic achievements amid a genocide
proof: these posts
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
meave.nyc
my dear friend emad @ofhungryghosts.bsky.social & his younger brother @mosabmuhareb.bsky.social are working hard in- & outside of gaza for their family so they can prep for winter—especially for mohanad; i can't tell if all his vaccines have been allowed in.
bit.ly/muhareb-family bit.ly/for-mosaab
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
meave.nyc
the giving circle sheep and its companion? familiar? tiny god? beg to differ re: no one caring.

𝑹𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻⁉️
bit.ly/keeping-hope ↔️ tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle

be kind and care for people. this ceasefire…situation has so many palestinians i love on edge, it's unbearable.

sheep offers hankies for donos
giant hairy black and white icelandic ram in a blurry field of green and red-brown grasses. its face is full black with a big white bib (beard?) and long, down-pointed horns. it appears to be staring right into the camera. on his right horn is perched a tiny, actually black-and-white peregrine falcon; correct size ratio of sheep to falcon neither checked nor known. this guy could be a statue, or a statue-colored bird—impossible to say. he’s holding one bright red, long-stemmed poppy in his beak, so the standard wedding invitation-style “Keep Hope Alive” is now angled down the ram’s back. the “a Gaza giving circle” and “bit.ly/keeping-hope” remain unchanged at the very bottom of the image.
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
meave.nyc
this was unspeakably difficult for mohamed to post. he is perishing of shame
but he has 12 people to feed; 7 kids to clothe for winter; 6 school fees; and, god willing, another tin house for warmth & safety
the blockade cost him everything, and he still raised $1k for his cousin
bit.ly/help-mohamed
a screenshot of the entire post from MOHAMMAD AHMAD @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social Hello my friends, I haven't received any donations for 4 days. I have two potatoes that I will plant and we will follow up on their pictures over the next three months. Please share and donate. https://chuffed.org/project/help-mohamed below, he has two similar photographs of the same two white potatoes, which have lovely bright green sprouts growing from their eyes. they're sittting on the same red-and-peach bed covering that's appeared in so many of mohamed's photos. the last image is a screen shot from his chuffed donors list. it reads: Anonymous - 6 days ago $50 Simon Apostol - 6 days ago $50 Anonymous - 8 days ago $25 October 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM Everybody can reply • Translate 24 reposts 7 quotes 28 likes
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
meave.nyc
sometimes you just can't in good conscience send the template.
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-ice-detention-expansion
image 1: the template
images 2 & 3: my letter (it's < 2k chars. so i had to split it 😶),
not that they'll read it or care anyway. useless.

this has been a real fucked-up october.
The Trump administration is dangerously moving full steam ahead with unprecedented plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) immigration detention system including using Guantanamo Bay and other military sites, reinstating family detention, signing new detention contracts. The passage of the MAGA Megabill supercharges Trump's agenda, making ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the country. The bill provides $150 billion to target, detain, and deport as many people as possible -including $45 billion earmarked for ICE detention to tear apart families over the next four years. Shockingly, ICE's budget now exceeds the budgets of many militaries around the world. ICE detention is a cornerstone of Trump's attacks on immigrant communities and political opposition, and I urge you to do everything in your power to block this administration by: --Cutting funds to ICE & CBP through the reconciliation, regular appropriations or any other budget process --Opposing detention expansion in your district/state --Engaging in meaningful oversight to expose the cruelty of ICE detention and Trump's agenda --Advocating for the release people from detention --Supporting strong sanctuary policies in their district/state --Passing bills that defend immigrant and support vital programs and services that support all Americans As your constituent, I am deeply concerned and I am counting on you to reject the use of taxpayer dollars to persecute immigrants and political activists, particularly as so many of us struggle alongside them to meet our basic needs. We need better education, affordable healthcare, and secure housing-not more family separation, immigration jails, and border walls. Dear Senators and Congresswoman, For the sake of the United States as a nation, you absolutely must abolish ICE, do away with its black sites, and retrieve every single person it has imprisoned in the US and overseas and reevaluate the nature of their seizures and detentions. Habeas Corpus every single one of them and do it now, before Trump and his literal jackbooted thugs completely shred the Constitution. Please believe me; I'm not using hyperbole. My husband is a US citizen, second generation on his late father's side and third on his mother's side. He also, because of genetics, has received a significant amount of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism, despite having little to no connection to either. However, he works in a not-too-affluent, multicultural neighborhood with people from all over the MENA region, and I'm afraid that one day he'll get swept up in an ICE raid and disappeared. Don't tell me this is impossible; every day ICE arrests people with the legal right to be here. And what if he's going for a walk without his wallet? Is he going to get lost in Guantanamo? Is it 2003 again? (continued on image 3) (continued from image 2) Just defund ICE. CBP doesn't need a Gestapo. No immigrant is that dangerous. Stop letting the president play "9/11 without the inciting moment" - again, I'm telling you, sooner than later ICE is going to black-bag, disappear, "accidentally" kill or maim too many people. Or someone really important. Or any of you — you don't think Trump wouldn't stoop that low? You don't think he wouldn't strip Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar of their citizenship and set ICE on them the minute one of his people makes the "right" case for them? After that, it's open season on his political enemies. Sure, they're out-of-shape and inept now, but if they stay on the job, take the right PEDs, you'll have sat by and watched the president form his own paramilitary force out of the country's white supremacists Twitch chatters. I beg of you: Defund ICE while you still can. Please.
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
meave.nyc
that turned out unreadable, i'm so sorry. second try.
Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social As a Palestinian living through genocide every day, it's painful to see any candidate's stance turned into a "litmus test" for Palestine without a deep understanding of what we're actually enduring. We're not looking for nice words or technically correct descriptions we need clear positions Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com • 32m The most bizarre thing about Platner is the number of people I see using his candidacy as a litmus test on Palestine. Admittedly | don't understand this at all? Cori Bush didn't even get this kind of support and she has *no* scandals. October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM Everybody can reply 12 reposts 1 quote 25 likes 1 save
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
meave.nyc
alaa's words reminded me of this excerpt of an interview ahed tamimi gave back in august; @mamatwins.bsky.social & @leftistlawyer.com tied it so neatly together with the use of "free palestine" to signal that "i'm one of the Good Ones," without ever thinking on the words' meaning bit.ly/rebuild-alaa
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
meave.nyc
slogans are for marches, social media bios, shirts, &c.

they can't teach you to decolonize your mind, especially not from the black and stinking heart of empire; nor are they a substitute for making friends with any of the myriad palestinians here. don't waste this chance.
bit.ly/rebuild-alaa
Eng Alaa. @mamatwins.bsky.social. 29m against occupation and colonialism, and real support for our right to freedom, return, and justice. Acknowledging the genocide is an important step, but without addressing its roots occupation, apartheid, and ongoing colonialism the stance remains incomplete. 1 reply 4 likes Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social. 29m For us, this isn't a political symbol or trend; it's our daily reality and our survival. 3 likes
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
meave.nyc
Thought I'd save the posts, just in case. it's always surprising to me that no publication ever hired alaa as a gaza correspondent; instead, she "gets" to fight a stupid racist social media platform so we can read her thoughts for free.
bit.ly/rebuild-alaa
Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social As a Palestinian living through genocide every day, it's painful to see any candidate's stance turned into a "litmus test" for Palestine without a deep understanding of what we're actually enduring. We're not looking for nice words or technically correct descriptions we need clear positions quoting Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com 32m The most bizarre thing about Platner is the number of people I see using his candidacy as a litmus test on Palestine. Admittedly I don't understand this at all? Cori Bush didn't even get this kind of support and she has *no* scandals. October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM Everybody can reply 12 reposts 1 quote 25 likes 1 save
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
meave.nyc
genocide has the world so upside down i'm just handing it to ana kasparian left and right. am i wrong? her domestid "no transes, no unhoused" agenda is fucked up.

but i forgot how much of the armenian diaspora have direct ties to Palestine, in jerusalem and other cities. also, fuck canary mission.
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
meave.nyc
via x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1980709039509315823
Israel Exposed
@xIsraelExposedx

“Major Sean Glass a US Navy Seal who joined the IDF has been named as the man who ordered the murder of Hind Rajab and caused 355 bullets to be put into her. This is him:”
a white guy in his 30s, maybe, with a reddish brown goatee, poorly shaped sideburns, and brown eyes. he’s wearing some kind of combat apparel but i have no idea if it indicates a state, battalion, division, unit, et cetera, and if so, what that might be. it’s just green khaki drab. there is, to my eyes, absolutely nothing remarkable about him that says “one day i will order soldiers to murder a family inside a car as they flee from us, a few at a time, culminating with putting 355 bullets into a six-year-old’s body and then shooting the emergency services when they are finally able to answer her desperate call for help.” but u.s. special forces have gotten away with murder on US soil and on foreign territory; run a literal drug cartel out of fort bragg/independence/bragg; tortured “detainees” at black sites and at home of their own volition; and almost none of them, ever, are held to any kind of account. i doubt this man has lost a minute of sleep over his crimes in gaza, nor will he no matter how many more are exposed. JSOC is like the US’s own IOF and should be disbanded immediately with all members brought to justice for their crimes.
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
meave.nyc
hey what was the last piece of media — show or movie or tv episode or book — you remember consuming before 9/11?

(if you were too young to remember or not born yet, just…try to imagine life before this.)

i saw ghost world with my roommate that august; we were 19 and fell in love with it so hard
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
meave.nyc
“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”
constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-3

it’s sick how institutionally captured the UK is, when its people are so relentless
a tweet from Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW .@Cambridge_Uni has expelled a Palestinian girl student from her accommodation after an Israeli soldier who committed genocide in Gaza complained to them he doesn't feel safe. I don't have words anymore to describe how low and racist this is. published at 5:09 PM on Oct. 17, 2025. 659.2K views he has attached three photos from a campaign to protest this injustice by NewsCord. i suspect these NewsCord images came from instagram, due to the carousel-style circles at the bottom. here is the original post: instagram.com/p/DP6IdTtjDY3 here is the link to the action: https://newscord.org/action/palestine-cambridge a photo of some old cambridge buildings — i’m not an anglophile or an architect, to me they just look ancient but well-kept — at night, with the one with the type of columns that are attached to the building stained bloody red. the text reads: NewsCord Cambridge University Displaces Palestinian Student From Her Accommodation to House an IOF Solider NEW ACTION i suspect these came from intagram, due to the carousel-style circles at the bottom. here is the original post: instagram.com/p/DP6IdTtjDY3 here is the link to the action: https://newscord.org/action/palestine-cambridge over a close-up photo of the same stone building covered with a bloody red substance, NewsCord has written: “After it was exposed that an IOF soldier is studying at Cambridge's Judge MBA programme, new revelations show the university forcibly displaced a Palestinian student from her accommodation, to ensure the soldier and his wife didn't feel ‘uncomfortable’” i suspect these images came from intagram, due to the carousel-style circles at the bottom. here is the original post: instagram.com/p/DP6IdTtjDY3 here is the link to the action: https://newscord.org/action/palestine-cambridge again using a different angle of the same “bloody” (really bloody?) stone building, NewsCord has its call to action, which is really quite simple and the least cambridge deserves for making another palestinian move on behalf of perceive israeli feelings. Powered by NewsCord Cambridge University Complaint Demand accountability for discriminatory eviction and safeguarding concerns at Cambridge Judge Business School involving Palestinian student housing: newscord.org/action/palestine-cambridge TAKE ACTION NOW We've launched a new action page. Demand an explanation from Cambridge in under a minute with a personalised email sent directly on our site. __________ when cambridge is re-enacting partition on you in 2025, it’s our job to do what the UN or any other body has refused to do: say NO.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
meave.nyc
if you haven't rediscovered our brother mohamed ahmed, he's @mazraeat-saghira.bsky.social ("small farm"? but i'm ignorant). he's doing his best not to lose 3 accounts in 2 weeks, so please go say hi and show him some love. he's also having health issues due to constant stress 😭
bit.ly/help-mohamed
Another photo by instagram user Abdel Rahim Khatib, taken eary in the morning on november 30 and posted to Instagram on 13 December 2018. the sun remains high, but the sky is darker; it moves from darker to an almost red, and the sun's rays are piercing the top of the sky. One shepherd is out with a few head of sheep and a cow; again, shot in profile, they look so peaceful and quiet. Caption (which I deleted): #Palestinian #shepherds with the #cattle at #sunrise near the #Israel-#Gaza #border, #east of #Rafah #town in the #southern #Gaza #Strip, on #November 30, 2018. #Photo by Abdel Rahim Khatibpressplay #Press #demonstrators #city #photography #paris #europa #manualidades #U.S.A #asbranquelas a photo by instagram user Abdel.Rahim.Khatib, taken on 18 December 2018. The sun is rising and the sky is yellow, darkening into deep, golden mustard. at the bottom of the photo, two shepherds, their flock, and donkey are silhouetted as they walk north. the caption (which I deleted) said: "#Palestinian #shepherds with the #cattle at #sunrise near the #Israel-#Gaza #border, #east of #Rafah #town in the #southern #Gaza #Strip, on #November 30, 2018. #Photo by Abdel Rahim Khatib"
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
meave.nyc
i was just…shown a CBS broadcast that implied the iof had ceased-firing, which made me want to scream, seeing as how they bombed the hell out of khan yunis today, in addition to gaza city.

to avoid crying, i made @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social this "comic" (transl. in alt text)
bit.ly/help-mohamed
الأحوان شتلاند في "العام المقبل في بئر السبع" three shetland lambs stand together on a very gentle grass-covered slope. From right, they are dark brown, medium brown and white, and white with a dark nose. the sun is low in the sky and coming from behind them. each lamb has a text balloon. the smallest, brownest sheep says, أخي، هل سنذوق عشب النقب الحلو مرة أخرى؟ the middle sheep, agreeing, continues: نعم، هل سيأخذنا الراعي في الربيع؟ and the largest, all-white sheep says, أيها الإخوة، يوماً ما سنتمكن من تذوق كل أعشاب فلسطين الحرة الحلوة. he also has a little heart with the palestinian flag filled in. The photographer's credit الصورة: كارين روم is in the bottom right corner. translation: The Shetland Brothers in "Next Year in Bi'r as-Sab`" first lamb: "Brother, shall we taste the sweet grass of the Negev again?" second lamb: "Yes, shall the shepherd take us in the spring?” third lamb: "“Brothers, one day we shall be able to taste all the sweet grasses of free Palestine." Photo: Karen Rowe
October 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
meave.nyc
fine fine “we don’t surrender one single second of the future” fine just GIVE TO THE CIRCLE 28/500 is just 5.6 percent of the future, not much

the sheep has a friend now and they’re both waiting for your weekly small money, please (i’ve been feverish for 3 days)
bit.ly/keeping-hope
giant hairy black and white icelandic ram in a blurry field of green and red-brown grasses. its face is full black with a big white bib (beard?) and long, down-pointed horns. it appears to be staring right into the camera. on his right horn is perched a tiny, actually black-and-white peregrine falcon; correct size ratio of sheep to falcon neither checked nor known. this guy could be a statue, or a statue-colored bird—impossible to say. he’s holding one bright red, long-stemmed poppy in his beak, so the standard wedding invitation-style “Keep Hope Alive” is now angled down the ram’s back. the “a Gaza giving circle” and “bit.ly/keeping-hope” remain unchanged at the very bottom of the image.
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
meave.nyc
oh i forgot! i only published new mohanad on insta today: bit.ly/muhareb-family
a lemon-yellow rectangle with a photo of a fat-cheeked, brown-haired, brown-and-pink-skinned baby in the center. his huge now-brown eyes are looking away from the camera, and he’s clearly in the corner of a tent. he’s wearing a green hoodie and one of his blankets has green and blue on it. someone has cleverly manipulated a little palestine flag into his extended left hand, so at a glance he could be holding it. the headline reads: KEEP MOHANAD ALIVE AND THRIVING on either side of the photo frame, it says: “With your help, the fuzzy duckling has turned into an adorable, healthy frog.” “But he and his mother are still so vulnerable, and a tent is hardly protection from the oncoming winter.” below, a big orange-and-green link to his Uncle Emad’s family fundraiser, bit.ly/muhareb-family. there’s also a cute little cartoon front and some red and orange flowers at the bottom of the whole composition. (it received Emad’s approval on friday morning, 2025-10-03.)
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
meave.nyc
i know he wields a lot of power, but how does anyone take ben gvir’s “arrested 10 times for incitement to violence, nathan lane if his birdcage character had been a frothing racist”-ass mannerisms seriously? any port in a genocidal storm?

(those fey little hands are so trumpish)
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
meave.nyc
t.me/QudsNen/189390
"I gave birth to my twin babies while I was walking, and they died"
A Palestinian woman recounts the tragedy of giving birth to her twins while fleeing to the south of the Gaza Strip

in nancy’s honor, share her story & donate to a baby who needs you
a list: bio.site/gaza_babies
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM