Rapper Macklemore Is Releasing A Track Called “Hind’s Hall”, Speaking Out On The Genocide Of Palestinians,

Seeing footage of the aftermath of the flour massacre in Gaza is so painful

"Where is my daughter? Tell her I don't want flour anymore"

"My brother was shot holding a bag of flour. He kept holding on to it so they kept shooting him"

"Why does flour have to be stained with blood?"

Over 100 have been killed. Every single one of them hungry. Every single one of them has someone waiting for them to come back with the bag of flour.

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against innocent civilians. Israel ambushes starving Palestinians and shoots them. Israel is not fighting a war to defend itself. This is another episode of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]

Geo: If I fall...

Cole: I'll catch you

Pixal: If I fall...

Zane: I'll fall with you

Jay: If I fall...

Nya: I'll heal your bruises

Kai: If I fall...

Skylor: I'll beat the living daylight out of the person responsible

Lloyd: If I fall...

Harumi: I'll be the one who pushed you

Any wise words?

🚨VERY IMPORTANT KOSA UPDATE🚨

After Tuesday's Judiciary hearing, Blumenthal and Hawley promised to try their best to bring KOSA to the floor. Cantwell has promised to sneak KOSA to the floor on a voice vote, like with what Hawley tried with the Restrict Act this past spring if you remember. We just need ONE senator to speak out. So right now, DON'T PANIC, SPEAK OUT.

As always, you can use https://www.badinternetbills.com/ to easily place your calls to everyone influential with a call script.

If you don't want to use that site

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit>.

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Call Congress to Stop KOSA

The Senate may have a simple voice vote in the next week to move the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) quickly through the legislature, without

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Tim Wu Asks Why Congress Keeps Failing To Protect Kids Online. The Answer Is That He’s Asking The Wrong Question

While I often disagree with Tim Wu, I like and respect him, and always find it interesting to know what he has to say. Wu was also one of th

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U.S. Must Reject This Bill: It Won't Protect Kids, Just Censor LGBT+ People

The so-called Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a thinly-veiled attempt to censor LGBT+ lives. Sign now to make sure it doesn't become law!

We are targeting these senators:

Wyden (202) 224-5244

Markey (202) 224-2742

Welch (202) 224-4242

Booker (202) 224-3224

Padilla (202) 224-3553

Ossoff (202) 224-3521

Tester (202) 224-2644

Civil rights and free speech groups will be pushing to stop the legislation. But nothing matters like constituents calls — especially as we approach an election year.

Sources:

<https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1722985460056670401?s=46>

<https://twitter.com/mikestabile/status/1723018810976788911>

Remember, if we don't do anything now, it could be pushed for a floor vote without hesitation, it could be close to passing by the end of the year!!

Please stay calm and share, and try to call If you are able. ❤️

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Original comic by Rasenth

Bruise "popstar x ex-bestfriend" au </3

Some information about the au:

About halfway through their freshman year of highschool Jay gets recruited, picked up, by people interested in him because of his birth parents. He ends up working with them and becoming a musician. Over the course of the year he slowly cut contact with Cole, and everyone else (other than Ed and Edna, though he's distant) before they stop talking all together. Three years later, at a show people come for Jay's head. Cole, there because of some mixture of bitterness and longning is there and helps him escape. Theyre on the run from there.

Back to our regularly scheduled "what should we be boycotting" posting - a couple of hours ago (today, Wednesday 8th November) the BDS movement has put together a definitive explainer on which companies it is currently targeting, splitting companies into four categories and explaining why each company is being targeted and also what each category means for consumers, institutions, etc.

PLEASE NOTE: The BDS movement is the official, strategic, coordinated boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign created by the BDS National Committee of Palestine. If you want to take part in boycotts and other forms of pressure against corporations in your efforts to help free Palestine, use this organisation's advice as your official and primary source. Other common boycott campaigns such as the "Big Three" (McDonalds, Disney, Starbucks) are at best incomplete and at worst actively contradictory representations of this targeted boycott campaign that we should all be aiming to follow for maximum efficacy and impact.

I have bolded where "big three" companies appear in this new release in order to clarify what action the BDS recommends for each.

click this link to read the explainer.

If, for whatever reason, you can't or don't want to click the link, here's a quick summary:

CONSUMER TARGETS: the BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of the following brands

Ahava

AXA

Carrefour

HP

Puma

RE/MAX

Siemens

SodaStream

Israeli produce in your supermarkets (avoid buying said produce and, if you find any in your local store, contact the supermarket to demand its removal from shelves)

DIVESTMENT TARGETS: governments, institutions, and investment funds should exclude and divest from as many complicit companies as is practical

Elbit Systems

HD Hyundai / Volvo / CAT / JCB

Barclays

CAF

Chevron

HikVision

TKH Security

PRESSURE (NON-BOYCOTT) TARGETS: for strategic reasons the BDS movement does not call for a complete boycott of these brands & services. they should be subjected to other forms of pressure until they end their complicity in Israeli apartheid

Google

Amazon

Airbnb / Booking.com / Expedia

Disney

GRASSROOTS ORGANIC BOYCOTT TARGETS: other boycotts not organised by BDS. If these campaigns are not already organically active in your area, focus your energies on the strategic campaigns above.

McDonalds

Burger King

Papa John's

Pizza Hut

Wix

(and others, e.g. Dominos was mentioned in a past release)

Starbucks continues to not be officially mentioned by the BDS Movement. The boycott of Starbucks primarily stems from its decision to sue its union for using the company's name and branding in pro-Palestine posts. As another grassroots organic boycott campaign, albeit not one openly acknowledged thus far by the BDS Movement itself, my personal recommendation would be to treat it like other campaigns in that category - i.e. continue boycotting & encouraging others to do so if there is already an organically active campaign in your area, but please keep the "official" BDS boycott list as your main focus.