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An upsetting amount of people have been accusing my friends of being scammers. It fills me with so much sadness that beyond the constant physical threat of bombs and bullets, people internationally threaten their ability to even call out for help by attempting to label them as liars.

Mohammed, his daughter Mona, and their whole family, have been trapped in Gaza for the entirety of the two year onslaught.

The UN has only recently declared it a genocide due to the ground invasion currently happening in Gaza.

I can provide you no more definitive proof of the validity of their identity, and their status, than Mona holding up my name in front of their tent.

Please help my friend.

do you have any tips on how to keep some form of hope when the fbi is working on making a terrorist threat category for being trans or being a trans advocate

im very terrified and its been getting harder and harder to keep any form of hope

So, this advice is going to start somewhere you probably didn't expect: with cybersecurity.

Because the thing is that your brain is (very reasonably and correctly!) trying to warn you that there is serious danger here/potentially on the way. So we need to do something to address that warning notification before we can move onto recentering in hope in a sustainable, healthy, or holistic way.

So, First:

Be preemptive about controlling your data, privacy, and security now. Better to prepare and not need it than to not take those steps and really wish you had. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a great guide for this here:

And trust me, it'll be a lot easier to find both some relief from the fear AND the ability and resources to take action and FIGHT BACK when you know you have already taken important steps to keep yourself safe

Here's the thing: Fear serves a purpose. Anxiety and terror serve a purpose. They are there to warn you that you need to take action, that there is something you need to DO to protect yourself and keep yourself safe.

You have to listen to the warning and do something to help protect yourself, to show your brain and mind that you're listening to that fucking alarm, before the volume of the alarm will lower and become less overwhelming, letting you have the energy to DO something about it.

The antidote to anxiety is action.

Take some action, whatever you're up for right now, to protect yourself.

As you do that, once you've begun to address and clear the giant "WARNING: ACTION NEEDED" notification from your brain, it will get easier and easier to feel and find and see hope.

And do what you can to get involved with other people, if you can at all, even if it's only like going to a volunteer day or signing up to work at a food bank once a month.

Community is also a powerful antidote to anxiety, especially because, as mammals, we inherently co-regulate and calm each other:

-Stephen Porges, the founder of Polyvagal Theory, via Align Podcast, YouTube, May 30, 2025. There's a ton of science behind this but can't find a source that's both accessible and beginner friendly and easily packaged together for these arguments, but basically, positive and safe interactions with other people inherently calm and settle your nervous system on what genuinely appears to be a neurochemical level.

Second:

Subscribe to more good news sources (I have a great list of newsletters and podcasts linked right below, plus there's some more in the comments). That is VITAL, because your brain needs a COUNTERPOINT, to see that there IS hope and that there are SO, SO MANY PEOPLE HELPING.

There is so much evidence for hope. So many reasons to think we can FIGHT THIS - from LA getting ICE to back the fuck off to Nepal overthrowing their repressive government to people, all over the country and the world, doing whatever they can to push back against the forces of hatred and deprivation and fascism.

There are people who love us, who WILL fight for us and ARE fighting for us, as we must find ways to fight for and support ourselves/each other.

But before you can have hope that feels sustainable, you have to know that the evidence is there. Which means you have to put yourself in a place where you can SEE that evidence (which is not fucking easy necessarily!! and yet is so much easier than you may think).

Also bookmark LGBTQ Nation's Good Queer News feed.

Good luck.

“I swear to you, we are hungry. My kids cry all day saying ‘I’m hungry, I want to eat’ — and I have nothing to give them. Even my baby, not yet a year old, searches for a piece of bread or a spoon of lentils. We’re not asking for milk or vegetables or baby formula… just bread. Just flour to make bread.”

The situation in Gaza is apocalyptic and israel is starving palestinians out on purpose, profitting from the famine to charge palestinians insane prices for food.

These people live through it, please hear them out. Please help them out and don't just look away as palestinians bleed.

Anything helps, shares, donates, talking and raising awareness, don't let @nourasbasha down.

I hope you're well.

What should I do?

I haven't received anything in days, despite your publicity about my campaign and your support.

I've given up. A kilo of flour sells for $55 today.

We won't be able to buy it. Our children will starve to death. We must be saved.

Please, if you have absolutely anything to spare, my friend Mohammed needs help.

I cannot fund his family myself, as much as I wish I could, and conditions are not improving materially.

If you have any amount at all, please consider donating or sharing.

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically: