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Rightfully so, I have gotten messages worrying if everything I post is legit (I try my best to make sure the answer is yes), but here’s a masterlist of ones that one or more people have confirmed are legit Palestinians. Most are from the blogs @el-shab-hussein, @ibtisams, @palestinecharitycommissionsassoc ,@90-ghost, @nabulsi and @palipunk

I will also be making individual posts for most of these

remember to keep supporting Palestine, whether it be through donations or just spreading the word! 🇵🇸🍉

GoFundMe's (vetted/verified either through association or other means):

Abedallhferwana + Olaferwana's gofundme link + pinned post - @abedallhferwanagaza - FUNDS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!!

Lina's gofundmelink + pinned post - @lina-gaza - THEY HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Majed Al-Gharabawi's gofundme link + pinned post - @majedgh2 - FUNDS + DONATIONS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Yousf Haseen's gofundme link + pinned post - @yosef-hussin - FUNDS ARE LOW!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Ahmed's gofundme link + pinned post - @ahmed0khalil - FUNDS + DONATIONS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Hazem's gofundme link + pinned post - @hazemsuhail - FUNDS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Hassan's gofundme link + pinned post - @hassanmadi2 - FUNDS AND DONATIONS ARE DANGEROUSLY LOW, AND THEIR PREVIOUS ACCOUNT WAS DELETED!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Amal's gofundme link + pinned post - @familygazaamal - FUNDS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Marah Baalousha's gofundme link + pinned post - @freepaleatine95 - FUNDS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Ahmed's gofundme link + pinned post - @ahmedhelllis - FUNDS ARE LOW!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Fatma's gofundme link + pinned post - @fatma-anqer - THEY ARE OVER HALFWAY AND SO CLOSE TO THEIR GOAL!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Bilal's gofundme link + pinned post - @bilalassadabedrou - FUNDS ARE EXTREMELY LOW!!! THIS IS A STUDENT!!!! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT AND SUPPORT IN ANY WAY U CAN!!!

Unvetted/awaiting verification:

@d-imtthal - pinned post + gofundme link - funds and donations are extremely low

@severekidpersona - pinned post + gofundme link - funds and donations are extremely, dangerously low, have only received six donations.

@ehabayyad23 - pinned post + gofundme link - funds are extremely low, have only received nine donations.

Helpful Websites/links:

Daily Click! resets every 24 hours, a simple and easy way to help support Palestine, especially for those who don't have the money to donate!

gazafunds.com! this website shares vetted palestinian gofundmes and is easy to use. share this with anyone who's looking for gofundmes to donate to!

palestine remembered! this website is a full documentation of palestinian villages and locations that would otherwise have been destroyed. it also lists information on refugee camps, guestbooks, and offers the opportunity for individuals to submit information or locations of any palestinian villages if you know of any ! overall a great resource to learn about palestine and educate yourself

zochrot! this website and organization is dedicated to teaching others about 1948 nakba, and also provides information on palestinian villages and history. another great resource to educate yourself with!

the interactive encyclopedia for palestinian questions! an interactive map that shows locations and some history of palestine. another good respurce to educate yourself with!

all that remains: the palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by israel in 1948! written by famous palestinian historian walid khalidi, this is a detailed account of what happened to over 400 villages that were depopulated and destroyed by isral within the 1900's. was released in 1992, so it is not up to date on current events, but gives great insight into the history and cycle of violence surrounding palestine and israel.

All I have said and all I have ever said that you equivocated on genocide. You moved right on genocide. Somewhere along the line, you are okay with this. Project 2025 be damned, but a lot of you have not even flinched. This is just acceptable to you all now.

Okay.

So I don’t do purity politics. I am an anarchist. There is no person anyone can elect that I would have faith in to act in my best interest. They are not going to protect me from harmful laws. In fact, they will proudly legislate and bolster said harmful laws. I don’t trust them to propose bills that I support, amend them, or anything. Why? Because they aren’t you and I. That’s all I’m going to say. Have fun holding these people accountable after you elect them.

This is the process a person near where an old PFA factory has to do (12:22)

According to Scientific American, a new method of breaking down PFAs has just been discovered!

It’s not for every kind of PFA but holy shit it’s a start. Normally these bastards have to be roasted at ~1,000 C/1832 F to even begin to fall apart and even then they leak into the environment, and burying them only - you guessed it! Leaks into the environment.

The new method can break them down at a mere ~100 C/212 F using inexpensive reagents. To quote the article:

“PFASs owe their durability to a series of carbon-fluorine bonds, which are among nature’s strongest chemical bonds. Instead of trying to break this stable bond, Trang and her colleagues targeted a chemical group containing oxygen atoms at one end of the molecule. By heating the compounds in a solvent called DMSO and a common reagent found in cleaners and soaps, the researchers successfully knocked off the oxygen-containing group. This triggered a cascade of reactions that ultimately broke the compounds down into harmless products.”

There are about 12,000 PFAs known to science right now, and the team was able to break down ten of them - including a particularly nasty kind of one called PFOA - and were able to break them down three carbon atoms at a time instead of the presumed one. HOLY SHIT. They recognize using DMSO in wastewater treatment probably isn’t practical on a large scale - right now, anyway - but as John Oliver points out in his video, having a huge filtration system in your home and a guy check it every two weeks sure isn’t going to do much either except mitigate further damage to the owner. The team is also plenty aware this is no final solution, and yet

ALT

see this is exactly what i’m afraid of posting responses like this.

YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED. YOU SHOULD BE MAD. YOU SHOULD BE SO APPALLED BY THIS YOU ARE READY TO KILL AND EAT THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE.

science isn’t some magical benevolant force that will fix the world’s problems. science is not free from capitalism, it’s deeply entangled with it. that’s how we got undrinkable rainwater in the first place. all of the world’s problems are easily fixable. that isn’t the issue. none of them will be so long as capitalism prevails. we can’t sit back and wait for someone else to fix things, we have to force the change we want to see.

RATING: RELIABLE

Source: ’New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that “greatly exceed” safety levels. […] Such is their prevalence now that scientists say there is no safe space on Earth to avoid them.’

Source: ‘Chemists have identified how to destroy “forever chemicals” in a low-cost way for the first time, new research says. […] New research, from scientists at Northwestern University, US claims to have done the “seemingly impossible” and destroyed PFAS using low temperature and cheap products. This could be very useful in helping communities suffering from high-level contamination, according to Prof Sunderland, who is not part of the research team.

The team of scientists hope that with further research PFAS could be filtered from drinking water and this new method applied to destroy the contaminants.

However, treatment of high concentrations of PFAS is only one part of the solution.

With PFAS remaining in production it can continue to build up at low levels in fish and other wildlife as it cannot be broken down naturally very easily.

This new method was applied to the 10 most prominent types of PFAS, but the US Environment Protection Agency has identified more than 12,000.’

The first two sources listed are from the BBC, a state-owned yet publicly funded (it’s too complex an issue to go into here) highly reliable source of information. Whilst occasionally they are guilty of jumping on the ‘shiny science’ bandwagon, their editorial guidelines temper it down more than some science infotainment media. They can be biased towards the establishment in more directly political matters (environmental science is indirectly political due to the debate on climate change etc*), but this is not a directly political matter and so their bias is likely to be towards established science rather than alternative theories.

*The debate between anthropogenic climate change, natural climate change, and outright climate change denial is ultimately a political one, even if the vast majority of science agrees with the stance that it is mostly anthropogenic. I must refer to it as a political debate due to its use as a political tool. For me to suggest it should not be so would be to inject my own opinion and would introduce a source of bias.

The second two sources are from the EPA, the US government department for the environment. Whilst any government department is ultimately biased towards justifying its own existence, their requirement to publicly publish research and statistics regardless of whether they support the government’s/department’s agenda means they are at least decently reliable; to accuse government departments of bias is far beyond the scope of this post and can start to lead into governmental mistrust and conspiracy, which I will not cover here.

The final source given is the original paper. The principal author is Shira Joudan PhD, who has been publishing on environmental toxicology/chemistry since 2015 and has attended conferences on environmental toxicology etc since 2012. She has multiple publications which have been cited many times, multiple awards and scholarships, and has worked with multiple universities. As far as I can tell there are no conflicts of interest and I am satisfied that the paper itself is highly reliable.

I am not an environmental scientist nor chemist, and so if you have more experience in the field and can offer further information, please do.

"capitalism is progressively worsening as the contradictions of the system become increasingly undeniable, look at how [thing] has been affected by this recently" <- not fascist, progressive and Marxist even.