غراب غريب عجيب

Today the number of displaced in Lebanon has reached 700,000 people according to the UN, 200,000 of which are children... news.un.org/en/story/202...

This is a grassroots organization that has helped that displaced since the escalations in at least 2024. 4/x
bsky.app/profile/ayma...

@aymanmak.bsky.social is an amazing commentator and political analyst and knows the people fundraising as well! 3/x
bsky.app/profile/ayma...

Besides being an excellent journalist, @justinsalhani.bsky.social knows people on the ground! 2/x
bsky.app/profile/just...

If you can’t help, please share with anyone you know! Again these are reliable Mutual Aids to help the displaced in Lebanon. I’ll add more in the thread as I hear about the 🧵1/x

Donate to Reclaim Our Rights - Community-Led Humanitarian Assistance, organized by Migrant Workers' Action The 2024 conflict showed how migrant community leaders were f… Migrant Workers' Action needs your support for Reclaim Our Rights - Community-Led Humanitarian Assistance

Mutual aid links in Lebanon.

All of these are direct friends of mine I know personally.

1. Reclaim our rights, ran by and for migrant women who are often among the most vulnerable in war

www.gofundme.com/f/reclaim-ou...

* I meant the displaced not the refugees !

This starter pack is based off of @ayoub.bsky.social's original pack, but I am going to try to keep it up to date. Let me know if you want to be added to it and I will do so at my own discretion.

Here is a list of mutual aids to help support the refugees in Lebanon. Local news are estimating that over 450,000 people have been displaced since the start of the most recent escalation: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hello, if you are looking for reliable resources to follow as things escalate in Lebanon, I've got you ! Now is an especially good time to check out these accounts since there is very little media coverage of what's going on in Lebanon !
go.bsky.app/Bwe7hSf

Donate to Help Ali Escape War, organized by Elise Hagan Ali and his family are trapped in southern Lebanon. He and his family lost everything when their home … Elise Hagan needs your support for Help Ali Escape War

Ali and his family lived in South Lebanon. On Oct 7, 2024 their home was destroyed. They have been displaced ever since. Once again they hve fled north and need support for food, medicine, and shelter. Please if you are able to, donate to this campaign and share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ali-e...

What Are Tankies Really? YouTube video by Politically Depressed

Step right up and get a front row seat for the video that will certainly get my cancelled (by a group of people who never really cared about me or my struggle so idrgaf).
youtu.be/Dbkkh6GWn5Y

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On UpScrolled now. Follow me if your there. Lets see if we can make it worth it
share.upscrolled.com/en/user/f9f4...

Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover In today's article shado editor Elia Ayoub discusses Reform’s “Operation Restore Justice”, the risks of a British ICE and how we can resist.

I wrote in detail about Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover of the UK using “uncontrolled illegal immigration” as their way in.

Around 3,500 words. Reading time 15-20 minutes (I think).

I’m gonna read it out for Shado’s podcast “Shado in focus” soon as well

shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Hear me talk about how fascists who claim to understand Lord of the Rings or Star Trek need to be [something not nice]

The broader convo is about the political importance of storytelling, an obsession of mine.

It can be done and now is the prime time to start doing that: i.e. make tech reparable, replaceable, open source and modifiable etc.

November 2025: is this Noah's July? But it only flooded for one day

"The other night, I was at a talk where a farmer introduced herself to the audience with a unique way of distinguishing where in the South she operated. “It’s the beginning of the South, not the phosphorus South, thank god,” she said and I felt my jaw tighten."

aanab.news/p/november-2...

NEW: We’ve added 53 more white phosphorus strikes to our archive whitephosphorus.info, bringing the total to 248 verified and geolocated incidents across South #Lebanon (2023–2024).

The IDF says these were used as smokescreens, away from civilians.

Our findings show otherwise. 🧵

A Letter from a Besieged People YouTube video by Politically Depressed

The siege of al-Fasher in Sudan by the RSF militia has been on-going for 18 months now. Famine has set. People are suffering. If the city falls, untold atrocities will unfold. The resistance committee of al-Fasher wrote a statement 2 days ago. I read it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJU...

And all the fascist accounts while you are at it: bsky.app/profile/brai...

I worked on this little guy prior to the emergence of the antifascist frog brigade in Portland. So to all my antifascist frog siblings out there, this one is also for you!

Israel bombed south Lebanon overnight

This is what Israel means by ceasefire

A frog dressed in Gandalf's outfit surrounded by the text " No Pasarán!" (translation: You shall not pass) written in pink on each edge of a diamond outline. The frog holds a staff and a sword in the same way Gandalf did in the Lord of the Ring when confronting the Balrog. The color scheme is: Red, Black and Pink.

"NO PASARÁN!"

- A wonderful anti-fascist frog commissioned for @ayoub.bsky.social

* correction, this was a term by James Baldwin himself !

Shado Mag: Condemned to be an optimist: celebrating James Baldwin This piece was first published on Shado Mag on 2 August 2024. Check out the original piece as it contains the illustrations by Tinuke Fagborun. This month is James Baldwin month. I don’t know if th…

The term "condemned to be an optimist" was what @ayoub.bsky.social called James Baldwin in the wonderful article below: eliaayoub.com/2024/08/02/c...

I am still grieving & so are all my friends and family. But none of us leave room for despair. All my loved ones are "condemned to be optimists". The alternative would be to give up on ourselves and the living. The future will be different. Occupation, genocide and fascism cannot last.

I have started this account to process grief that I can barely carry and maybe reach out to people who are going through the same if not worse, a lot worse. Your AI model, no matter how well it can mimic what I draw, does not experience grief.

These AI folks specifically targeted art about a war & a genocide that they likely have never and will never experience. What exactly do you hope your AI model will achieve by training on this stuff? Do you think that my art is just aesthetics?

Comic read from right to left. P1: A crow stands next to a pot and a water can. P2: The crow plants a seed and water it. Red rot creeps towards the pot from the left. P3: A plant sprouts and the crow leaps in joy. The rot climbs the pot where the plant is. P4: The soil is infested with rot, and the plant is dad. The crow is shocked. P5: A cloud appears on top of the crow. It's raining. The crow hugs the dead plant. The rot is washed off the soil. P6: The rain stops and flowers have sprouted all over the crow and the floor. Mushrooms spring in the soil where the plant once died.

Gardening day!