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I am begging you from the bottom of my heart—if there is compassion in your heart, please don't leave us to face this alone. Help us get my mother the treatment she desperately needs before it is too late.

Even the smallest donation can make a real difference, and even sharing this appeal could reach someone who is able to save my mother's life. Please, don't scroll past our plea in silence.

Donate Here - Vetted#658

Donation Rewars

Art and other rewards being offered for those who have proof of donation (such as a screenshot of receipt, probably with personal information blacked out) to the well-known vetting lists and a few other. I have collected an up-to-date list here. There is also links to other lists: for such as flowerpawarts's spreadsheet, you should make sure they accept the vetting list or are not just funding for a specific family

she has long been working hard for her family despite her health. please help!

I’m making this post on the behalf of Hamza and his family, who are currently suffering in Gaza.

In Gaza, people’s incomes have been severely impacted for the past three years. Please consider helping my friend Hamza and his family — which includes several children— afford food and proper medical care as prices continue to be high and unstable.

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

What follows is a collection of links to various posts concerning fundraisers I've vetted. These are primarily ones for Ghazzawi families although some fundraisers for Sudani families are also listed (I'm more familiar with my own country's politics and dialect and am more capable of vetting fundraisers for Palestinians as a result).

- Not sure where to donate? Here's a guide.

- Mutual Aid Initiatives to donate to.

- Gaza Evacuation Funds verified fundraisers spreadsheet (compiled by nabulsi and yours truly, the fundraisers are verified by us and Mohammed Ayesh).

- Gaza Vetters verified fundraisers spreadsheet (we are not associated with gaza-vetters directly, but from what I know they are reliable and completely legitimate).

- Unvetted but highly likely legitimate fundraisers

- Fundraisers for general purposes and a variety of recipients (TO BE UPDATED).

- Note on certain Ghazzawi individuals' behaviours online.

Defunct / Paused indefinitely:

- Instructions on how to submit a fundraiser for Westerners. (One of the main reasons I'm no longer taking vetting requests from Westerners is because I'm currently receiving a very high volume of requests for boosts from already vetted Ghazzawiyeh people directly and I want to prioritize helping them. I cannot do that with requests from others. Please refrain from sending me requests for vetting.

Blog-related issues:

- gaza-vetters temporary hiatus latest update on the matter (original post on the hiatus matter), current status of gaza-vetters.

- I apologize for partaking in the wrongful accusation of scamming against the Al-Khalili family due to misinterpretation of information available, and making conclusions too quickly.

- About the targeted harassment campaign against Palestinians on tumblr, from August 2nd to August 7th 2024. Addressing writing-prompt-s / badjokesbyjeff and others' accusations and slander. Hey look there's more of these now in August 2025. Same old bullshit

SudanFunds - website compiling verified campaigns and organizations

Khartoum Aid Kitchen - they operate 12 kitchens across sudan, including 2 hospitals

Saving Al-Geneina / Hope and Haven for Refugees - provides food, medical care, and education to refugees in sudan

Sudanese American Physicians Association's medical aid program - they operate a hospital in khartoum, **the ONLY hospital still delivering babies in sudan**

One Million Sustainable Pads Campaign - distributes reusable pads

FAH Supporting Sudan - financial assistance to sudanese hospitals, backed by the FAH / federation of american hospitals

Community kitchen in Cairo - provides food to refugees who have fled to egypt

Community kitchen in Sudan - provides food for 1200 families

Another community kitchen in Sudan - provides food, only £1,500 raised so far

Sanad Initiative - raises money to keep sudanese medical students in school

Sudan Solidarity Initiative - run by sudanese diaspora, provides direct funds to all kinds of sudanese including farmers unions and low cost clinics, also runs awareness-raising workshops

(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)

full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]

🩵Immigrant support

Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.

Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.

COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.

Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.

Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.

Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.

Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.

International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.

🩵Food support

If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed

VEAP

La Vina Community Church/Iglesia Cristiana La Viña Burnsville

Second Harvest Heartland

Every Meal

The Food Group

Meals on Wheels MN

Find a local food shelf

🩵Mutual aid funds & community support

Community Aid Network

Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid

Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.

🩵More links

MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.

Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.

🩵Donate blood

Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).

American Red Cross

🩵Donate food or other goods

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Volunteer your time (under the cut)

Evan here from Fight for the Future. I’m going to be really direct: we’re in a life or death fight, and we need your help.

GIVE TO FIGHT

Fascists are using technology to control us and take away our rights. But resistance movements are using tech to fight back––organizing protests, raising money, and documenting human rights abuses.

This year, we’ve staved off dangerous censorship legislation like KOSA. We brought national attention to creeping surveillance on college campuses. We provided direct support and digital security advice to anti-ICE organizers, LGBTQ resource centers, and Palestine activists.1

As a small, queer-women run collective of activists, artists, and technologists, we’ve built a reputation as one of the most ruthless and effective activist organizations in the United States. But it’s an uphill battle, and in the last several years we’ve lost several major funding sources due to our principled and fearless positions

We’re coming up on the end of the year, and we are dangerously behind the fundraising goals we need to meet our budget. The democratic backsliding of the Trump era is taking a real toll: many traditional nonprofit funders are pulling back from supporting the type of aggressive activism we’re famous for, because they’re afraid of putting a target on their backs. Many of the startups and small tech projects that used to support our work have been gobbled up or run out of business by Big Tech monopolies.

We’re never going to compromise our values or water down our messaging to appease big dollar donors. That’s why our work is so dependent on the community of people who care about these issues. People like you.

We’ve got big plans in the coming year: like building a coalition of parents opposed to online censorship, and launching a major new campaign around the use of AI in hospitals and schools.1 But that means we’re more and more dependent on small, individual donations from all of you.

Our history-making activism is only possible thanks to hundreds of people who chip in $5, $10 or $50 a month to support our work. Many people are struggling right now. We get that. So if you’re in a position to make a donation or become a monthly supporter, please do.

DONATE TO FIGHT

as a PSA, i do not want to see jokes about WW3 here. these are actual, real people dying. if you think iranians and all the other people in west asia being bombed is deserved, not to mention deciding to be ignorant about the multiple ongoing genocides, get the fuck out of my blog. if you would rather donate to, say, ao3 of all places rather than giving it to those WHO ACTUALLY NEED IT, you will be blocked for good and i want nothing to do with you. i mean it.

some resources and others are added below, and this post will be linked to my pinned, where you can also find the link to daily clicks. if you, like me, are unable to donate, then spread the word!! share resources so they’ll reach more people!!

you can peruse this to educate yourself on the crises around the world. this and this offer a catalogue of links for multiple causes.

if any of the links don’t work, let me know!

master document of resources

guide to BDS boycott movement

🍉 e-sims // demand a ceasefire

🍉 World Food Programme // Save the Children

list of 🍉 gofundmes , list II // CongoAction

Action Against Hunger DRC // War Child DRC

Panzi — support for survivors of sexual violence in DRC // list of DRC gofundmes

FocusCongo (NGO) // emergency relief for southern lebanon // aid for lebanon + its refugees

help sudanese families , more gofundmes

information about sudan’s situation

immigration/raids resources (anti-🧊)

Immigrant Defense Project

iran news and updates (has a place for donation as well)

donate to iran (Relief International)

I know that's not a thing that translates well or easily to all languages or cultures or contexts - and still, I really, really do recommend it, or at least your version of it

We talk all the time about how lonely and isolated everyone is. How lonely and isolating society is right now, especially mainstream society, and especially in the United States

Open computer settings

Click on Accessibility on the left-hand menu

Scroll down the Accessibility menu and click on the Keyboard Option

Under the "related settings" tab, click "Typing" which should have a description of "spellcheck, autocorrect, text suggestions."

Turn off the AI "correct misspelled words"

and most importantly: turn off Typing Insights.

[ID: a screenshot of the above mentioned Windows 11 settings, showing that Typing Insights is now turned off, with the following description from Microsoft: "Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type To help you save time and type efficiently, Windows can learn to suggest words, autocorrect spelling mistakes, and interpret swiped typing. Take a look at the insights below to see up-to-the-minute stats on how Windows has learned to improve typing for you. These stats are stored only on this device and Microsoft does not collect the typing insights data." End ID]

"But Mx. November, it says right there Microsoft doesn't collect the typing insights data!"

I mean, yeah, it says that..... for *now.*

It also only specifies that Microsoft themselves don't collect it, and they wouldn't have made this something that I was automatically, secretly opted in for without my knowledge if they didn't have something to be gained by me not knowing it exists!

I only found this because a cat walked on the keyboard and turned on Filter Keys and while trying to figure out why my keyboard was just making chirping noises instead of typing, I happened to click on "typing insights" by accident.