I didn't want to be a pala-dude

Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

merry crisis

Art By Ruby Mellen and Rama Duwaji.

This is not only my story. In Gaza, our stories blur into one another: some of us survived, some of us didn’t, and the bombs never cared to tell us apart. We are a people living through the largest genocide of this century.

I survived… but a part of me is still trapped there, in the moment I almost lost my life.

I return to my children trying to look strong, while the truth is that my family has no home, my husband has no work, and fear sits heavy on my chest every day.

And sometimes, when I quietly fall apart inside, a painful question passes through me: Would it have been easier if I had died? But then I see my children’s eyes… and that question fades, leaving only my plea to you.

it's horrible to lose access to all the funds they've raised in this way. it's terrifying.

Hey‼️ I've just matched both @ot3 's and @closet-keys ' * donations by donating ($35 AUD; €19) to Nader's campaign. Can anyone match me or even just theirs, contribute to matching or at the UTMOST least reblog this addition/distribute to someone who can match⁉️

[ Hey‼️ I've just matched both @ot3 's and @closet-keys ' * donations by donating ($35 AUD; €19) to Nader's campaign. Can anyone match me or even just theirs, contribute to matching or at the UTMOST least reblog this addition/distribute to someone who can match⁉️]

If you've been following this blog for the last week, you know that I've been trying to figure out how to spotlight and help some campaigns on this blog, since it has many more followers than my main. I've decided that for every €100/CAD$100 donated collectively to the fundraisers below, I will up my queue to post an extra Sanji every day, with an upper limit of 15 (for a total of €1000/CAD$1000 raised). Until we reach the upper limit or if no donations are received after 2 weeks [05/21/25], the queue will drop back to five posts a day (updates in donations will bring us back to the number of posts dictated by the amount raised in total, so since we're between 200 and 300 currently, a new donation would bring us back to 7 posts). Each donation will add 2 weeks to the total posting time, so 3 donations will mean extra sanjis for 6 weeks [Current Sanji boost ends 06/04/25]. Once we hit the goal I will run 15 posts a day for 2 weeks before starting over again.

Queue resets to 5 posts on: November 11th, 2025

Campaigns I am spotlighting:

Help Mahmoud's Family Stay Safe and Meet Their Needs EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS $9,607/$30,000

Save Mohammad's Family and Children Escape Gaza Genocide EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS + STAGNATING CAD$12,805/CAD$50,000

I will also accept donations to Mona's Mutual Aid Fund (GFM , Paypal) for this campaign!

You can send proof via my inbox or DMs and I will update this post and the queue at least once a day as applicable. All campaigns have been verified by @/el-shab-hussein and are on their spreadsheet!

They urgently, URGENTLY need your donation.

A reblog, that’s all it really takes. There are campaigns on here with tens of thousands of notes — how do you think they got there?

By everyone scrolling past? Complain about morality OCD and compassion burnout all you want. My friend Zeina’s family survived the bombing, but they are not safe.

Even after the so-called ceasefire, their lives are still hanging by a thread. At any moment I am not speaking to Zeina, it is possible that she has no food, no shelter, no safety this is what “after the war” looks like in Gaza.

Think about living with ruins instead of homes, fear instead of stability, and the echo of everything they lost. There’s no “getting used to” that as your constant reality.