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Sheila McManus (they/them)🍉
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Settler in Siksikaitsitapii territory. Bi NB borderlands historian. 🌈 Passionate about t&l in higher ed. Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇮🇪 sheilamcmanus.com
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From Inside the Tent – Winter is Killing Us
Every day, one of us wakes up sick — stomach pain, flu, fever, exhaustion.
The cold inside the tent is unbearable. There’s nothing to keep us warm.
Rain leaks in. The ground is wet. Nights are freezing
More in the first comment … ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4bb9mhf9
December 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hassan. Hassan had a private timber workshop before this. It was destroyed and so was his home and car. He is now living in a tent with his family including his children Joud, 8 and Ivana, 4. He really wants to rebuild his home ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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My heart is breaking, crying out in anguish. Tonight, Storm Meron will destroy our tents. My kids will be sleeping in the street, exposed to the cold and freezing temperatures. Please save my kids lives with $300 for shelter very urgent.
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I‘m sharing a Palestinian account everyday and today is Samar. Samar fled with her children at the beginning of the war, but her husband stayed, he was killed and their home destroyed, she also lost both her parents. She is trying to take care of her kids Tala, 13, Basant, 12, Imran, 10 and Zeina, 5
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
The genocide in Gaza cost this Palestinian woman her hands. She lost so much more than her limbs.
An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds…
mondoweiss.net
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Please help my friend Mona and her children if you can.

Gaza still need us.
In Video:
My only daughter Kinzy 🎀
My Son Kinan 💚

Please… listen to their little voices and understand our struggle.

Donate Chuffed 👇💗
chuffed.org/project/mona...
Or PayPal 🍉
www.paypal.me/AhmedHijazi975
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sharif. Sharif and his wife came to Egypt prior to the war to get IVF treatment- which was successful and they had twins Husam and Ahmad. Husam has a congenital heart disorder. They have not been able to go back but also cannot work in Egypt.
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Not to put too fine a point on it, fuck Alex Karp
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.

www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Many people in Chad already depended on humanitarian assistance even before the start of the war in Sudan.
Waves of Sudanese families flee expanding war, arrive in impoverished Chad
Many people in Chad already depended on humanitarian assistance even before the start of the war in Sudan.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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BREAKING: The death toll in Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire began has risen to 318 Palestinians after seven more bodies were brought to hospitals across the enclave in the past 48 hours.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gsnkj
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Hand by hand we can do everything ❤️
hand by hand we can rebuild our family life after we suddenly lost everything our house and city and everything destroyed, small and small support will makes big support and big diffrence, let us all make it maybe your repost reach to anyone can help, love u all
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Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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READ: "A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us." mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide
A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing…
mondoweiss.net
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 22 and was studying electrical engineering (you can read about his family in the 🧵 ). He’s trying to help his family including his pregnant sister Rasha and his 4 year old nephew Khamis who started kindergarten yesterday!
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Please don't stop helping Samaa and her family as they start rebuilding their lives 💕💸🍉
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM