Snug Bug

They're telling him to calm down but he fell to the ground saying: My family. My family.

The man consoles him saying: We're all one family here. Each one of us has lost their family. Look, my sisters are in there. We have to get back up. You're strong.

This is a part of a greater rising tide. Young men are being radicalized into acts of stochastic terror with increasing frequency. Not only does law enforcement have no interest in protecting our communities, they are often in the same circles as these terrorists, and agree with their actions. Other mass shootings have already demonstrated that police will not even protect their own communities. Public officials refuse this is a systemic issue being aggravated by sitting politicians who peddle conspiracy and hatred. Social media sites have zero concern for the charlatans creating the echo chambers and feedback loops which drive these alienated young men into the deranged mindset to inflict this kind of pain.

tumblr, when I thought you’d shown me everything

me: lmfao ? ok i’m gonna take 4 hours to reply then bye i deserve better have a nice life

me 2 minutes and 54 seconds later:

me: lmfao ? ok i’m gonna take 4 hours to reply then bye i deserve better have a nice life

me 2 minutes and 54 seconds later:

It’s really a complicated topic, but anyways I will explain. 

Israel doesn’t know immediately know off the bat at the border who’s Palestinian and who’s not, unless you carry a Palestinian passport or your birthplace is Palestine and/or your name sounds Palestinian.

And Israel divides Palestinians into categories and they don’t get treated the same/enjoy the same rights, and Israel categorizes them and determines which is which with different IDs that it issues. 

Anyways, Israel divides Palestinians to mainly 5 categories (4 of these 5 get their own different ID that’s issued by Israel): 

Palestinians of Gaza 

Palestinians of the West Bank 

Palestinians of Jerusalem

Palestinians of ~Israel~

Exiled Palestinians (Don’t have IDs issued by Israel)

Each of these 5 have different travel restrictions and different living restrictions:

Let me break it down:

For Palestinians of Gaza (like me):

We are not allowed to live in ~Israel~ (this one is obvious), or the West Bank, or Jerusalem

We are not allowed to travel to ~Israel~, the West Bank, or Jerusalem (Unless we apply for a temporary travel permit that Israel issues, which is not easy to obtain)

For Palestinians of the WB (I’m not entirely aware of their restrictions but I will list what I know):

They are not allowed to live in ~Israel~, Jerusalem, or Gaza (They technically can live in Gaza if they someway how managed to sneak in but they will face difficulties with anything document related) 

They can’t travel to ~Israel~, or Jerusalem (For Jerusalem it depends on the mood of the Israeli soldier at the checkpoint and how naive they’re, sometimes they would let them, sometimes they won’t.), or Gaza (during Morsi’s time, they were able to go to Gaza via Egypt but after he’s gone, now it became almost impossible for even Palestinians of Gaza to go in and out of Gaza)

For Palestinians of Jerusalem:

They’re only allowed to live in Jerusalem, but if they live outside of Jerusalem (let’s say the WB) for more than 7 years they cannot go back and live there anymore. (I’m not sure if they can live in ~Israel~)

They can’t travel to Gaza

For Palestinians of ~Israel~:

They are not allowed to live in Gaza or the West Bank. 

They are prohibited to travel to Gaza, and if they did they would be tried in court.

For Palestinians in Exile: 

Not allowed to live in any part of Palestine (They also technically can live in Gaza if they someway how managed to sneak in but they will face difficulties with anything document related)

Can visit Palestine if they have Western passports (Australian, British, Canadian, American, etc.) and if the Israeli officer at the border/checkpoint was in a good mood that day. 

Also here’s an infographic that might help:

So yeah, it’s not black and white. 

At the end it all depends on what you look like, whether your name sounds Palestinian or not, your birthplace, whether you carry a Palestinian ID or not (and the type of that ID), what kind of passport you carry, and also the mood of the Israeli officer at the border that day. 

Even with my Canadian passport, I can’t easily go to the WB or Jerusalem, once I step at the border they will see that my birthplace says Gaza (Canada lists the name of Palestinian cities as the place of birth instead of listing Palestine) and they will cross-check my name with the Israeli population registry for Palestinians, and find out I’ve a Palestinian ID. 

Once they found out they will interrogate me for hours and ask me a series of questions, and depending on how I answered those questions and on their mood they will either:

Turn me back.

Tell me to go to Gaza and apply for a travel permit from there.

Offer me to denounce my Palestinian ID (i.e. give away my right to live in and travel to Gaza) and then let me in.

Israeli Police Officer Attacks Palestinian, Headbutts and Slaps Him

The incident occurred in East Jerusalem and the Israeli officer used the excuse of parking to attack the Palestinian truck driver. 

Can you imagine how many times each day across the land Israelis use their power to abuse Palestinians both physically and mentally?

There is nobody to police the Zionists, and, even worse, almost all their attacks on Palestinians go unfilmed, unnoticed and unpunished. 

Famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, while Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria are also at risk. Here’s a roundup of some of the main appeals.

South Sudan

The UN says roughly 40% of the population are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and that people are already dying from hunger as a result of famine in parts of the country.

How to donate: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), Care, Oxfam, British Red Cross, Cafod, Tearfund, Christian Aid, World Vision, WFP, Unicef 

Nigeria

On Friday, a major international conference, hosted by Nigeria, Norway and Germany, will be held in Oslo with the aim of increasing funding for the crisis in north-east Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region.

How to donate: Save the Children, Christian Aid, Street Child, ICRC, Unicef, WFP 

Somalia

Aid agencies are warning that urgent action is needed to avert a repeat of the famine that killed 260,000 people in Somalia between 2010 and 2012.

How to donate: Ocha, World Vision, MSF, Concern , WFP

Yemen

Half of the country’s population – more than 14 million people – are hungry and children are dying from malnutrition. The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is hosting a public appeal which has already raised £13m. The DEC unites the fundraising efforts of leading British agencies at times of major disasters overseas, to maximise income from the public.

How to donate: Ocha, DEC, WFP

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We Black People have to unite and take care of each other. 

it literally takes 30 seconds to go to fucking http://report.cybertip.org/submit and report ANY AND ALL child p*rnogr/aphy that you see online and you don’t have to drag anyone else into it.

you don’t have to expose anyone else to child pornography, you don’t have to signal boost offending urls to report-a-predator and lapis-hates-pedos, you don’t have to link people to blogs and websites containing the offending and illicit material, or whatever the hell it is you’re doing. it’s legal, it’s taken seriously, and they don’t fuck around with reports. 

you can get in TONS of trouble for spreading it around. yes, you are fucking spreading it around if you sit there and give out the url to it.

the law does in fact, cover things like illustrations. there have been court cases on it. 

shotacon/lolicon cp art may not be a priority but it will be addressed and investigated, but real government agencies will spend more time cracking down on images of literal human children being abused.