Hey y’all this is kind of important, I really hope this spreads, there is a man who is going to be killed on February 28th even when there is new evidence that there was a false testimony.

For those of you brave enough to make a phone call, here is the phone number of the Texan lawmakers: 866-233-2601

Move on has a recommended script to say when calling:

"I'm calling you as an elected official in Texas to urge you to publicly call on DA Greg Willis to delay the execution of Ivan Cantu on February 28. Recently, the DA's own office made a legal filing before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals showing that the state's star witness falsely testified and the lead detective knew she was lying. 

"Even the jury foreman from Ivan's 2001 trial has spoken out to the press saying he doesn't believe due process was followed in Ivan's case given recent evidence that signals to the fact that Ivan may have been wrongfully convicted."

Everyone deserves a fair trial, but Ivan Cantu has had to spend 20 years in prison waiting for his shot at one. He has only days left to live—please take action now by calling Texas lawmakers before it's too late.

Thank you for taking a stand on this important issue. It is also particularly important that the Collin County DA hear from Texas constituents at this time. If you are a Texan, please share that information when you make your call.”

I have posted a link to the petition for those who want to sign it, and a phone number for those brave enough to call.

Please consider helping.

There are no innocent settlers. Genocide and ethnic cleansing are followed by settlement. The latter is just as violent as the first.

How to Call Your Reps About Gaza

I make a lot of posts telling you to call your reps! Anyway, here's the overall shape of how to argue to them.

Disclaimer: I am not in politics. I do not have experience as a staffer. I am just someone who cares a lot about where things are going, and wants to help. Also, this is specific to the US, because that's where I'm based. Hopefully, people with expertise can add more suggestions on.

Find your elected officials.

My Ko-fi: this took me two days to write up, so uh. If you've got a few dollars, send them my way so I can keep doing this sort of thing, and maybe move out of my parents' house sooner.

I tried to blaze this post because imo it's important, and I care about it, and I want people to have it as a resource, but uh. Tumblr mods rejected it. It's political activism, not election interference, so it doesn't violate ToS, but... okay, then.

Please reblog, folks. Please get this into the hands of people that can call swing senators.

Here's an example of the letter I sent to Chuck Schumer yesterday after my call, so you know I'm putting my money where my mouth is. (Don't copy-paste: it's got a few elements that are particular to Schumer as an aging Senator with several years left on his term and a role as senate majority leader. Modify it to match to your own.)

With Ramadan less than a month away...I can only pray that Allah makes it easy for the Muslims in Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Congo, Kashmir, and every country where people are oppressed.

In Sha Allah this Ramadan, things will change for the better. In Sha Allah this Ramadan, the Israeli Apartheid Regime will fall and Palestinians will have their land back.

Please keep those who are oppressed in your duas and please don't stop talking about oppression

If you are Israel & you kill 23,000 Palestinians in 3 months, the US will fund you, provide you diplomatic cover & unconditional military aid.

If you are Yemen & kill 0 people & block a shipping route to try to stop this mass murder, the US will drop 100 bombs on you.

Unreal.

The US spends 2 million dollars on each missile they use to destroy a $2000 drone

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21 February 2024

People in Beit Lahiya and other parts of northern Gaza took to the streets last night and into the early hours of today. They protested the IOF’s famine and the WFP’s cessation of aid, and demanded the entry of food aid into north Gaza.

The photos are difficult to see because it is night time and there is no electric lighting in the north ever since the IOF siege. All they have to light are flashlights on electronic devices, charged via solar-powered batteries.

Sources: Eshak Daour, Abood Abusalama, Hassan Salem, and Mahmoud Abusalama via Stories on Instagram

While Israel actively commits a genocide and prepares to invade Rafah, Eurovision helps it spread its war propaganda. Boycott Eurovision.

Don't pay a single cent to Tumblr, its merch, or the checkmarks. 4 blogs erased in about 48 hours, fuelled by transmisogyny. If you want to read more about it, look up the usernames of the blogs involved and scroll through the posts. There's no shortage of explanations or perspectives from the transfems on tumblr. And tbh I'm worried that more will be deleted for speaking out.

Me and dozens of other Palestinian bloggers have been on the receiving end of no shortage of harassment, threats, stalking. There are several users who consistently create and recreate accounts that come back to harass us everytime we block them, to spout the most heinous, genocidal, racist drivel that no one else receives on this website, because we're Palestinians and we're outspoken on our right to exist in peace and as sovereign people. This is the least of it.

The knowledge that staff can actually take care of this problem, along with the nazis, the white supremacists, and the TERF epidemic, that I don't have to deal with the shit I do on this website every day - but don't - and instead use their moderation capabilities to delete trans women's blogs arbitrarily?

There are no words.

Live coverage of the 20th of February 2024 is now closed.

Here is a recap of today's major events.

It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.

I'll be back to resume live updates on Thursday.

For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:

PSA for Switch owners

The latest 11.0 update means that Google Analytics is a thing on the switch and turned on. What that means is that Nintendo has a deal with Google to share with them your data for advertisement purposes.

To turn it off

Please spread the word. Really shitty of Nintendo to just quietly start allowing Google to spy on users for advertising.

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

the lowest tier, which costs 9 dollars, offers a week of connection while the very next, 16 dollars, will provide a full month of contact with the world to someone who desperately needs it. this is not some idle step. an entire month is a huge length of time for people who are displaced, terrified, and isolated.