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In addition to Ayla’s ongoing health struggles, she now has to worry about rats and insects. Recently Gaza has become overwhelmed by vermin, which carry diseases and will even bite or eat human flesh. Unfortunately, the only solution available to families is to deploy pesticides around the living space. However, pesticides are difficult to obtain and therefore very expensive in Gaza, about $850 usd for the amount Ayla’s mother Bshaer needs for their living space. Bshaer needs your help to procure this unfortunate but very necessary item, as the only alternative is the increased likelihood of bites and diseases.

There has been no progress on their campaign in several days, and on top of this expense, they still need to treat Ayla gastroenteritis. They are in a really, really tough place right now and they need your help!

Chameleon earrings by Cherry Loco

In addition to 15-year-old Nour’s ongoing health issues, Nour’s sister Noha recently developed a severe stomach ulcer due to an infection induced by drinking unsanitary water. This ulcer is causing Noha extreme pain and digestive issues, and if it is not treated very soon, will lead to internal bleeding. This ulcer has gone untreated in order to allot more funds for Nour’s ongoing nebulizer treatments, but it has progressed to the point of literally debilitating pain and serious complications. Let’s raise the cost of treatment ASAP so Nour can continue nebulizer treatments and Noha can live her life again!!

Current: $5,090 out of $5,290 usd (4 August)

Need: $200 usd

19-year-old Khalil Al Habil's liver and kidneys are failing. Shrapnel damage from the bombardment that killed his baby brother Omar has gone mostly untreated due to a lack of funds and resources. The ill effects of this damage have progressed to the point that the organs are losing their ability to function. Khalil urgently needs 3 rounds of treatment to combat the effects of his deteriorating liver and kidneys.

We've paid off the first two rounds of treatments but Khalil has one treatment that he still needs. The second costs about $1,250 usd, but we haven’t made much progress in more than a month and his condition is getting progressively worse. We need to meet this second goal ASAP!!! Please check the reblogs for updates!!

Khalil still has not received his third round of treatment. Unfortunately, one of his legs has deteriorated so severely that an urgent operation to prevent amputation is now the priority. The nerve and tissue damage done by IOF shrapnel have caused substantial atrophy of the leg’s functioning, limiting the circulation of blood. If he does not receive this operation soon, he will lose his leg.

My heart breaks as I type this, because I this is so disheartening for Khalil. But it is a necessity if Khalil has any hope of keeping his leg. The cost of the operation is $3,000 usd.

Current: 12,322 out of 15,225 usd (updated 12 August)

Bshaer and Ayla have had a horrible few months. After finding a shell of a building in which to shelter from the elements, it was destroyed by IOF bombing. They are once again out of the street, and the extreme stress and exposure to filth has plagued Ayla with diarrhea. She is dehydrated and extremely weak, exacerbated by record-breaking heat.

Ayla needs rehydration solution (ex: Pedialyte), treatment for fever, and a fan to help lower body temperature. All together, this totals $1,000 usd. Please donate anything you can, and share her family's GFM and Chuffed campaigns across all your social media accounts!!

Current: $78,906 out of $79,906 (updated 12 August 2026

Need to raise: $1,000 usd

The simple green-and-white checks - of two different sizes - used in this modern Swedish bedroom were inspired by the traditional eighteenth-century fabrics of Gripsholm Castle. They provide a strong but uncomplicated foil for the intricate wallpaper, which is composed of eighteenth-century botanical prints protected by a yellow varnish.

Faience ring with Udjat eye, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1292 BC

Floral Printed Garden Party Gown

mid 1930s

problem solving steps

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.