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People have this thought about Nazi Germany of, “How could people ever let it get that bad?  Why didn’t anyone stop it?”

Take a look at America right now, this is how it happens.

Imagine if the whole of the country emphatically condemned the North Carolina bathroom ban; drew a line in the sand saying that trans people are deserving of the same rights, protection, and dignity that anyone should have.

“It doesn’t affect me.” 

“You’re not in North Carolina, why do you care?”

“uuugh, you’re being so sensationalist.”

This is yet another step on the path of transgender genocide that America has already been traveling, and the general population thinks it’s ok.

I say they think it’s ok because most folks aren’t screaming at the top of their lungs drawing attention to it.  If you saw a fire spreading in your building, you’d call 911, you wouldn’t wait for it to become a blazing inferno first.

The fire is spreading in the United States, why are you waiting to say something?

“You know, people like you are the reason Trump won,” a family member told me in 2024.

That family member is still watching the inferno blaze, and even hosts the people who set the flame.

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Grim forensic accounting by Gaza’s Civil Defence teams in Gaza have documented 2,842 Palestinians who have “evaporated” (leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh) since the war began in October 2023.

And while this is happening while people are buried under rubble, while children freeze in tents, while entire families vanish overnight powerful men sit comfortably and present plans for a “New Gaza.”

Clean slides. Perfect buildings. Investment numbers. A future imagined without the people who are currently being erased.

They talk about peace while bombs are still falling. They talk about rebuilding while destruction is ongoing. They draw maps over land that is soaked with blood and call it hope.

The ceasefire is a lie.

What’s happening is ethnic cleansing, repackaged with the language of development and diplomacy. You cannot build a “new” city by destroying the people who belong to it. You cannot promise a future while actively killing the present.

This isn’t peace. It’s violence with better branding.

Today, three journalists were killed in a single airstrike.

Not soldiers. Not fighters. Journalists. People who believed that if they kept documenting, if they kept filming, if they kept writing, the world would eventually care.

In Gaza, telling the truth has become one of the most dangerous things you can do. Holding a camera is treated like holding a weapon. Every photo risks your life. Every report could be your last.

They had names. Families. People waiting for them to come home. They were not numbers, and they were not mistakes. They were silenced because truth is inconvenient, because images expose what statements try to hide.

When journalists are killed, it’s not just lives that are lost it’s evidence. It’s memory. It’s the last barrier between reality and denial.

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This donation campaign is for ANAS family. Not for strangers, not for a cause I’m distant from but for the people who raised me, the people I love, the people I’m terrified of losing.

They are in Gaza, trying to survive something no human being should ever have to endure. Constant bombardment, displacement, hunger, fear, and the feeling that tomorrow is never guaranteed. Every day is about staying alive one more night.

If you choose to help, you are not donating to an abstract crisis. You are helping real people with names, memories, and lives that matter to me more than anything.

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Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas had to ask her college professor for an extension on an assignment due to getting the dates mixed up as well as being in they Olympics

And he responded! He said absolutely and told her to just focus on the competition and that they’re all rooting for her 🥹