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Tory-hating, Brexit-denying, nature-loving book nerd. Inept gardener, sketcher, knitter and music-maker. Queen of lazy town, prone to aimless wittering. Pro-independence for all who want it. Proud to live in Wales. Very sweary but only at the wrong kind of people, and they know who they are. She/Her #CitizenOfEurope #Travel #IndieKid #Bookstodon #FuckTheTories #YesCymru #film #tea #history #art #mythology #folklore #space #linguist #science #Gardening #Music

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BREAKING: 🔥 🔥

“What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”
Jewish Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call resigned in protest at its refusal to stop arming Israel. It's an astonishing letter.
Update: a few minutes after tweeting this, her X account was suspended 🤨

Alt-texters please note that pages 2 and 3 have a huge amount of citations and footnotes, which I have not included.

And yet, I have asked myself many times over the last eight months: what is the point in having power if you do not use it to stop crimes against humanity? My whole life has been spent in Jewish community in the US and Israel. I have spent time in Israel/Palestine, and I learned Hebrew and Arabic both formally through school and connection through community. I have family and friends who are Israeli, Palestinian - and have loved ones who have served in the IDF. People in my community have lost loved ones during Hamas' attack on October 7th, beloveds killed, displaced, and taen as hostages. I am terrified by rising antisemitism around the world. And yet I am certain that the answer to this is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement, famine and ethnic cleansing. Israel's ongoing offensive against Palestinians does not keep Jewish people safe - in Israel or in the US. What I have learned from my Jewish tradition is that every life is precious. That we are obligated to stand up for those facing violence and oppression, and to question authority in the face of injustice. As of writing this, Israel has killed over 35,000 people in Gaza, including 15,000 children. The Israeli military has bombed medical infrastructure, beseiged a hospital, left mass graves behind, destroyed every university in Gaza, targeted journalists and aid workers, and committed many, many inexcusable atrocities. These are all violations of international law.
none of which would be possible without American weapons, and none of which have been condemned by President Biden. The President has the power to call for a lasting ceasefire, to stop sending weapons to Israel, and to condition aid. The United States has used nearly no leverage throughout the last eight months to hold Israel accountable, quite the opposite, we have enabled and legitimised Israel's actions with vetoes of UN resolutions designed to hold Israel accountable. President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands. The US has long enabled Israeli war crimes and the status quo of apartheid and occupation. That status quo does not keep Israelis safe, nor Jews around the world. It certainly does not protect Palestinians, who have the right to freedom, safety, self-determination and dignit, just as much as Jewish people do, and every person does. Any system that requires the subjugation of one group over another is not only unjust, but unsafe. Jewish safety cannot - and will not - come at the expense of Palestinian freedom. Making Jews the face of the American war machine makes us less safe. What seems like a lack of awareness in the Administration leadership of how critical this issue is to the American public is devastating to both communities, and politically disastrous. 3
Today, May 15th, is Nakba Day, which recognises the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and the displacement of the majority of Palestinian people for the formation of today's modern Israel. Nakba and Shoah, the Hebrew word for Holocaust, mean the same thing: catastrophe. I reject the premise that one people's salvation must come at another's destruction. I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen - and this cannot be done from within the Biden Administration. My choice to leave is not a reflection of this office or Department. I have felt supported by many individuals here, but I do not feel supported by the policies and actions of this Administration. I have the utmost respect for my colleagues at the Department who have given so much of themselves to doing the good work of preserving our public lands and strengthening Indian Country, and the many public servants across the federal government. I urge you all to take a stand for Palestinian lives. All of our futures depend on this. Respectfully Lily Greenberg Call

Dear Secretary Haaland I joined the Biden administration because I believe in fighting for a better America, for a future where Americans can thrive: one with economic prosperity, a healthy planet, and equal rights for all people. I have dedicated my career to candidates who I believed would further this vision. I worked for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign in 2019, and then moved to Arizona to work for President Biden's campaign in 2020. I was thrilled to join the Department of Interior because I was inspired by your principled track record of championing progressive causes, in addition to your role as an Indigenous woman leading a Department that historically harmed Indigenous communities, and the potential that it has for reparations, reconciliation and healing. However, I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this adminitratio amidst President Biden's disastrous continued support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am an American Jew. My family escaped antisemitic persecution in Europe and found refuge in America. They changed their names at Ellis Island and worked as farmers, peddlers, and salespeople. My grandparents could not go to college. Two generations later, I have the honour of working as an appointee for the President of the United States. The weight of this position is not lost on me. This is the story of many people in my community: a story of survival, upward mobility, and fulfillment of the American Dream. 1
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    Looks like he's drenched in the blood of the anachronistic Empire his unearned privilege is built on to me, and posing in front of the bonfire his government has made of the country.

    #AbolishTheMonarchy #SmashImperialism #Art

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    WEEK 33: Full on dystopia at the University of North Carolina's commencement ceremony yesterday.

    #FreePalestine

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    #OTD in 2022, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by the Zionist Occupation Force. She was 51.

    #FreePalestine

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    Sidebar via Polly Sigh on Xitter:

    Former Trump attorney and misogynist Brennan: "Having sex with a guy you met a couple hours earlier in a Lake Tahoe lounge is untoward..."

    I love, LOVE LOVE kasie for cutting in and letting Brennan have it before he was let off the hook for his slut shaming of Stormy Daniels.
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    Kasie: I get that he says that having sex is untoward but I just think it's worth noting that like being married and inviting someone into the hotel room…

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    @Npars01 @GottaLaff You could have stopped that post after the last four words and it would be equally valid.

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    WEEK 32: Brilliant. Hit them where it hurts.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-alumni-pledge-withhold-financial-support

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    One more way to crack down on "the wrong sort of news" being reported.

    https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/terrorism-bill-nonprofit-journalists-israel-hamas/

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    Hillary Clinton: " ... these students don't know anything about the complex situation in Israel and Gaza, or about history in general around the world."
    Interview on The Recount yesterday

    The students:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVN88sNufKk

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    A full page advert in today's edition of Haaretz.
    via Yesh Din, an Israeli Human Rights organisation

    #EyesOnRafah #GazaGenocide

    STOP THE RAFAH OFFENSIVE! Over a million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah, with most having been repeatedly displaced and enduring conditions of overcrowding, hunger, devastated infrastructure and the threat of epidemics. A military assault in Rafah, alongside the closure of border crossings crucial for aid delivery, will lead to more civilian deaths, endanger the hostages, and worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. CEASEFIRE NOW! Physicians for Human Rights Israel, B'Tselem Gisha Breaking The Silence Bimkom Ir Amim Association for Civil Rights in Israel HaMoked Yesh Din Combatants for Peace Parents Against Child Detention
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    A tiny glimmer of hope ...

    #OccupiedTerritories #Israel

    https://peacenow.org.il/en/following-peace-nows-petition-the-police-will-investigate-illegal-construction-in-settlements-for-the-first-time

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    Money wins. Every fucking time.

    #UKPolitics #StopArmingIsrael

    https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-uk-military-has-flown-200-spy-missions-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/

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    WEEK 31: Massive NYPD sweeps of encampments at NYU, Parsons and The New School happening now.

    #FreePalestine

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    WEEK 31: Remember the elderly lady who was shoved to the ground and arrested Wednesday night at Dartmouth?
    Alan MacLeod is a senior reporter with MintPress News.

    #FreePalestine

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    And the lolz just keep on comin'

    From the Sky Local Elections liveblog

    #UKPolitics #LocalElections #Spaffer #KarmasABitch

    Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting photo ID Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station when trying to vote in the local elections after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID. Sky News understands polling station staff were forced to turn the former prime minister away after he initially failed to comply with legislation he introduced while he was in Downing Street. Mr Johnson, who introduced the Elections Act requiring photo ID in 2022, was attempting to cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where a police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley is being selected.
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    Quite a lot of "shut up about Palestine or lose your study visa" bribery going on at the US universities ...

    Momudou is doing a PhD in Political Economy at Cornell.

    #FreePalestine

    I just had my disciplinary meeting with Cornell Admin regarding my temporary suspension. They have given me until 12pm tomorrow to make a decision. They have offered "incompletes" for this spring semester (make up coursework later), which means this last semester doesn't county and that I must no longer participate in campus protests. They offered this "exchange" in order to break us down but I remain undeterred. The university has decided to dangle my visa status and ability to stay in the country in exchange for my silence. These consequences pale in comparision to what our brothers and sisters are experiencing in Palestine. The fight continues [raised fist emoji]
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    Mic drop from Aljazeera.

    "[Israeli foreign minister] Israel Katz said Israel will 'continue to protect its citizens fearlessly' despite Colombia siding with 'the most despicable monsters known to humanity'.

    The Israeli military has killed more than 34,500 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children."

    #GazaGenocide

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    Live shot of local zombies emerging from the earth ...

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @KayJanes Ferns are the bane of my life.

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @sollat @KayJanes Yeah, I get that. There is a kind of satisfaction to it (I can usually be heard muttering "gotcha ya bastard"). I just wish the roots hadn't spread so far ...

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @sollat @KayJanes Bloody ferns do that to me too. They're so good at hiding, and always seem to make friends with stinging nettles.

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    WEEK 31: Your government, your representatives and your media are NOT ON YOUR SIDE.
    I'll just say again that the LAPD took more than two hours to show up and then watched from the sidelines, and refer you to the statement of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment.

    https://toot.wales/@fkamiah17/112365742402079375

    #FreePalestine #RightToProtest

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    From Aljazeera. Still is from a video posted by Taoufiq Tahani of the France's Palestinian Solidarity organisation, showing Zionists jumping aboard the back of trucks and ripping open sacks of food.

    "Israeli settlers have been repeatedly blocking the humanitarian aid trucks heading to Gaza after leaving from Ashdod port, 38km (24 miles) north of the Strip."

    #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide

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    Well this is terrifying. Eric Cortellessa of Time did two interviews with drumpf on his plans should he win the election. The synopsis is provided by Ed O'Keefe, Senior Whitehouse Reporter for CBS.
    I know our choices here in the UK are bleak, but it's not quite as bad as dictatorship vs genocide-supporting authoritarianism.
    Good luck America 😬 🤞

    Full interview here, which I haven't read on mental health grounds:
    https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

    #USPolitics

    What emerged in two interviews with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the US military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated to Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a US attorney who doesn't carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the US Capitol on Jan 6 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defence. He would gut the US civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who backed his assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.
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    🚨 🚨 URGENT CALL TO ANYONE IN CARDIFF 🚨 🚨

    If you're nearby and have a minute, please consider lending your support.

    Thanks 🥰

    #UKPolitics #Rwanda #Cymru #RefugeesWelcome

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    WEEK 31: Students at Harvard Gaza Solidarity Encampment have been handed disciplinary slips. They had their own to give back ✊

    #FreePalestine

    Beneath a hand made sign reading FREE GAZA, the students' version of the disciplinary slips reads: "Day 204 of the genocide. 34,454 murdered to date. There are no remaining universities in Gaza. The genocide of Palestinians is far more disruptive to education than anything Harvard students have done, but about this violence the University is completely silent. In fact, the University remains materially invested in the occupation and genocide. *Repeated violations of our moral duty to liberation will result in increased disruption* *Universities that remain complicit in genocide may not be granted peace.* *denotes bold type
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    WEEK 31: Students at UT Austin are fucking incredible. Here they are, literally charging at the police to drive them from the campus while they're being pepper sprayed, shouting "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?"

    #FreePalestine

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    This is brilliant. Some rancid TERF emailed the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate in her area with some "polite questions" and got this response.
    Bravo Hannah 👏 🤣

    #UKPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights

    Dear Vonny I unequivocally support trans rights, as do the Liberal Democrats. I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of your hate filled agenda which is persecuting an already vulnerable minority and putting children at risk. Trans people are no threat to me whatsoever as a cis woman. You are extremely welcome to take your mayoral vote elsewhere. Best regards Hannah

    Dear Hannah, Can you possibly tell me your stance on women's right to single-sex space such as prisons, women's domestic violence refuge and rape Crisis provision. Could you also confirm your support for female only competitive Sport? Also can you tell me your view of the findings of the Cass report and whether you support the halt on prescription of puberty blockers for children? Can you tell your view of affirming a child's declared gender identity within schools without parental consent? Kind regards Vonny
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    This is one of the largest humanitarian aid warehouses in Gaza, which was bombed to smithereens shortly after having stored the latest airdrop of food on Saturday.
    via Eye on Palestine

    #CollectivePunishment #GazaGenocide

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    I think it's a good song.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

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    @lowqualityfacts We used to sing that in our school assembly when I was a kid. We were allowed to bang the walls during the chorus and everything.
    I went to a very weird hippy left wing school 😂

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    @MadeyeTheCarnaptious
    "According to sources familiar with what is happening, Netanyahu is 'terrified and abnormally stressed' by the possibility of an arrest warrant from the International Court in The Hague."

    #ArrestNetanyahu #ICC

    https://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-1095038

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    On a lighter note ... 😂

    @ColesStreetPothole
    A little update for ya 😁

    #Lettuce #UKPolitics

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    WEEK 30: Manchester, today

    #FreePalestine

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    WEEK 30: Just a member of staff at Indiana university escorting two snipers to the roof of an administration building.

    #FreePalestine

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    M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
    Credits: U. Washington, WFPC2, HST, #NASA
    #nature #space #astrophotography

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @world_beauty More of a christmas cracker than a butterfly imo ...

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    WEEK 30: German police arrive to shut down the protest outside the Bundestag in Berlin, yesterday.

    #FreePalestine

    A lady in a grey coat and jeans, wearing a keffiyeh around her head, is being taken away from the camp by two police officers.

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    "You can’t exit Zionism and remain Jewish"
    David Friedman, former US Ambassador to Israel, yesterday.
    Millions of Jews around the world would beg to differ there, Dave. 😡

    #AZIsNotAS

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    WEEK 30: University of Indiana, Bloomington, yesterday.

    #FreePalestine #PoliceState

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    WEEK 30: Students at Emory University in Atlanta set up a peace camp (bottom right). Atlanta police and Georgia State Troopers arrive to tear it down (top left).
    Students and faculty at Georgetown in DC assemble to march to George Washington in solidarity with the peace campers there (top right)
    UCLA sets up its own peace camp (bottom left).

    #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsBeautiful

    Huge crowd of protesters with flags
    UCLA begin to construct their peace camp, using pallets and wooden barriers to create a perimeter
    The peace camp at Emory

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    "I just signed a law protecting free speech on college campuses"
    Greg Abbott, 10th June 2019

    Yesterday on the Austin campus of UT:

    #FreePalestine

    A young person in a keffiyeh, wearing a mask, is pinned to the ground by a police officer and two State Police in riot gear
    A young woman in a keffiyeh, grey tshirt and covid mask is surrounded by state and local police as she is arrested.
    Dozens of state police march straight into a crowd of young protesters

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    WEEK 30: The State Troopers certainly brought plenty of ammo for the AR-15s with them to a student protest 🤬

    #FreePalestine #UTAustin

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    👏 ✊

    #FreePalestine #JoinAUnion

    Picture of an NYPD officer leading a Jewish activist to a bus. The activist is wearing a keffiyeh and a tshirt reading JEWS SAY CEASEFIRE NOW Jewish voice for Peace NYC accompanying text reads: Bus drivers refused to transport protesters from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the buses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with @twu100 who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA buses for mass arrests.
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    WEEK 30: Massive faculty walk out in protest at Columbia University's decision to call in the NYPD.

    #FreePalestine

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    I have 37,000 followers on Mastodon. If only 1% of my followers gave me one dollar a month on Patreon, I would be making 37 million dollars every single month. The power of the generosity of strangers blows my mind.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Can you use your maths skills on my bank account please? 🤣

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    WEEK 30: Protesters call for the resignation of Netanyahu in Tel Aviv last night. The demonstration was so big it stretched either side of a bridge. Pictures show both sides.

    Another huge crowd on the other side of the bridge

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    😬 😂 🕷️

    fkamiah17 OP ,
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    @Krisss Spiderman's house? 🤣

    fkamiah17 OP ,
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    @Krisss 🤣

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    No further comment needed.

    #FreePalestine

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    "Hares have always been thought magic. In their long-limbed, quivering beauty, they were believed to be walking, breathing love potions.
    'To kiss the hare's foot' is to be late for dinner in Brewer's Dictionary: 'the hare has run away, and you are only in time to "kiss" the print of his foot.'
    'The cat of the wood,' Heaney calls them: 'the stag of the cabbages'. If there is magic in this world, some part of it lies with them."

    from 'The Golden Mole', by Katherine Rundell
    #Nature #Books #Hare

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