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20 October, No. 24: @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social

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meave (sumud, sister) @meave.nyc · 17d
this was unspeakably difficult for mohamed to post. he is perishing of shame
but he has 12 people to feed; 7 kids to clothe for winter; 6 school fees; and, god willing, another tin house for warmth & safety
the blockade cost him everything, and he still raised $1k for his cousin
bit.ly/help-mohamed
a screenshot of the entire post from MOHAMMAD AHMAD @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social Hello my friends, I haven't received any donations for 4 days. I have two potatoes that I will plant and we will follow up on their pictures over the next three months. Please share and donate. https://chuffed.org/project/help-mohamed below, he has two similar photographs of the same two white potatoes, which have lovely bright green sprouts growing from their eyes. they're sittting on the same red-and-peach bed covering that's appeared in so many of mohamed's photos. the last image is a screen shot from his chuffed donors list. it reads: Anonymous - 6 days ago $50 Simon Apostol - 6 days ago $50 Anonymous - 8 days ago $25 October 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM Everybody can reply • Translate 24 reposts 7 quotes 28 likes
meave.nyc
i was thinking about this Miffy finger puppet i believe i had on one of our flights either to or from korea when i was tiny, like no older than than three, and loving miffy because she looked grumpy like me.

now i’m making the miffy face. decommodify art.

i love you, miffy
a very simply draw white cartoon rabbit with upright ears, two dots for eyes, and and X for a mouth that always makes her look a little grouchy, Miffy wears a bright orange dress, standing on a green field under a dark blue sky.
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
meave.nyc
been chatting with @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social, @ofhungryghosts.bsky.social, @noorhassan3.bsky.social, @fidaaumar.bsky.social, & @limbischessystem.bsky.social not here, and napping
watched: "mr. nobody against putin" — putin's militarized the schools;
vimeo.com/503700068 — marie colvin should be here
"Bearing Witness" Documentary and Panel Re-Screen
"Bearing Witness" Documentary and Panel Re-Screen
vimeo.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
meave.nyc
1 Nov. woud've been jenny's 10th birthday. no 9/11 song because that's for 9/11. my girl

instead, here's excerpt from Perfect Victims (READ IT), which manages to be an object lesson on recontextualizing (…decolonizing?) your response to hasbara, and make some dark jokes. (sorry the subs are janky.)
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM
meave.nyc
why am i so tired all the time?!

early SAD?
increaiing the the "forget everything, fall asleep six times a day" medication?
burnout?

i've made so many commitments, and i don't make promises lightly, so there's no room for burning out.
counterpoint: it's taken me over an hour to write this post.
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
meave.nyc
if bsky zaps it, i have the original to repost; it's too important to disappear.

the iof must leave gaza or mohamed will never know the state of his famiy's land. it's "a trust that must not be squandered," and he's a fine steward of his patch of dunes.
bit.ly/help-mohamed
abdullahs-dad.bsky.social MOHAMMAD AHMAD @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social · 14d
Hello my friends, how are you? / Who would you like to read this article and give me your opinion and know who Mohamed Ahmed is and how he sleeps and wakes up and these thoughts in his head / Publish and donate please
chuffed.org/project/help...
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
meave.nyc
this should be interesting.
i wonder how the treatment of political prisoners has changed since, for example, the IRA's dirty protest, or the price sisters forever ruining their digestive systems through forced refeediing;
awkword.bsky.social awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 13d
This week’s GW guest is Eric King, an expert on anti-fascist action — and what it means to be a political prisoner

Eric served 10 years in a 6x9 cell in federal prison for throwing a Molotov at an *empty* Congressional building.

LIVE on WEDS, Oct. 29

Q&A drops THURSDAY

youtube.com/@thisisawkword
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
meave.nyc
the head of trust and safety doesn't even follow TOS himself — when was the last time anyone appealed anything and got a reply?

is it an unwritten term of service not to reply to an appeal?

or does the entire trust & safety team regularly break TOS while enforcing them for users?
sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social Keyah, COP30 WATCH @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 14d
Looks ugly.

Fire Aaron Rodericks
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · 14d
v1.109 is rolling out today! #NewProfilePic

We've given the app a mini makeover with some new shades of blues! Plus, a whole bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements to make your experience better.
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
meave.nyc
within carceral settings, the violence of the carceral state is boiled down to its worst impulses like fucking bouillon

i'm on a 9/11-began-the-end-of-the-US reading journey; 2 A++ memoirs of incarcerated people at the start of the forever wars: adayfi's Don't Forget Us Here & manning's README.txt
awkword.bsky.social awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 14d
Federal prison guards let white supremacists beat an anti-fascist political prisoner.

Turned out he wasn’t the only one.

theintercept.com/2021/05/28/b...
“I’ve been treated deplorably. For the last two years I’ve been stuck in a 6′ x 9′ cage, denied access to my family and my lawyers, and subjected to physical and emotional torture.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
meave.nyc
(icelandic lullabies are most frequently about the loss of a child, as the history of iceland is quite tragic.)

WHICH WE CAN HELP PREVENT! please let’s help give mother & imminent infant the best chance at health. loads of blankets for everyone. chewing-gum cigars. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle
divyampersaud.com Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 15d
Final hour ⚠️ Support for survival funds is waning, but yall it is not superficial: it means a bite to eat during ONGOING famine; blankets and new tents ahead of winter, which last year killed dozens of children, as everyone remains displaced; and so much else.

Help SIX families. 805/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
meave.nyc
jfc loomer’s at it again. she’s claiming credit for ICE taking Sami Hamdi, a british journalist, into custody at sfo this morning. (she’s rabidly anti-zohran; the woman has got to be stopped.)
tinyurl.com/sxc38ts6

so ICE black-bags pro-🇵🇸 foreign journalists now? to quote kamala: DO NOT COME HERE.
Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer SCOOP: JIHADIST ARRESTED AT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TRAVEL TO FLORIDA! @AGJamesUthmeier Sources at DHS @DHSgov have just told me that Muslim Brotherhood official Sami Hamdi @SALHACHIMI was just ARRESTED by ICE @ICEgov agents at San Francisco International Airport as he was traveling to Tampa, Florida to headline an event for a Jihadist, pro HAMAS and Muslim Brotherhood 501c3 group tonight. DHS @DHSgov tells me Hamdi is going to have his visa REVOKED and he will be permanently DEPORTED from the US back to the UK where he lives. He is currently in federal custody. After Amy Mek's @AmyMek investigation exposed Sami Hamdi (see report below) — a jihadi foreign national operating inside the United States and abroad with banned Muslim Brotherhood figures who are barred from entering our country — I demanded that federal authorities inside the Trump administration treat Hamdi as the major National security threat that he is and I reported Sami Hamdi to federal immigration authorities over his documented support for Islamic terrorism. As a direct result of Amy's report and my relentless pressure on the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, U.S. officials have now moved to take action against Hamdi's visa status and his continued presence in this country. Hamdi obtained his visa under the Trump administration in 2018 and he has since been traveling back and forth to the US advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood and in support of HAMAS. Most recently, Hamdi went viral for praising @TuckerCarlson, @RealCandaceO Candace Owens and @mtgreenee MTG for helping to strengthen the "Ummah" aka the One World Islamic Order and being a voice in support of Islam. Just a reminder that the Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS are on US soil and they are freely operating in America. SCALP
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
meave.nyc
if we can meet the goal for THE BABY! and everyone else i will ask sheep & falcon to welcome the baby; they may sing?
yes, i know it’s a stupid gimmick, but bit.ly/keeping-hope really isn’t.

‼️ parents of babies can register with the Saudi Center for formula and diapers: portal.ksach.org/children ‼️
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Trying to get to 1000 letters by tomorrow... actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
meave.nyc
when exactly did the nobel peace prize deserve any respect? another rich old sicko buying his soul back through bourgeois prizes? fuck off.

how many war criminals, human rights abusers, genocide deniers* have been honored with a “torchlight procession” over the decades?

(*the zionist elie wiesel)
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
meave.nyc
@abdullahs-dad.bsky.social says soldiers been painting a yellow line and putting up barriers. yesterday we “joked” that gaza is the new berlin 1945, only the nazis are splitting up the territory. ha. ha.

his village is so far behind that line i don’t know what tense to use

p.s. bit.ly/help-mohamed
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
meave.nyc
hey, this is important — HELP FOR BABIES IN GAZA!

Register with the Saudi Center for infant formula and diapers: portal.ksach.org/children

@mommunism.bsky.social

link via t.me/rafahalaan/129557 (OS translated)
original arabic below, but backwards, i hate bsky
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
meave.nyc
i heard these two perform small curses on those who won't make an effort—"effort" being relative (to a degree…)

i heard the sheep's great size is a metaphor for your ability to help more people than you think, while the falcon's bright eye seeks comrades
bit.ly/keeping-hope

(sorry, i'm 🔜😵‍💫🔚 today)
giant hairy black and white icelandic ram in a blurry field of green and red-brown grasses. its face is full black with a big white bib (beard?) and long, down-pointed horns. it appears to be staring right into the camera. on his right horn is perched a tiny, actually black-and-white peregrine falcon; correct size ratio of sheep to falcon neither checked nor known. this guy could be a statue, or a statue-colored bird—impossible to say. he’s holding one bright red, long-stemmed poppy in his beak, so the standard wedding invitation-style “Keep Hope Alive” is now angled down the ram’s back. the “a Gaza giving circle” and “bit.ly/keeping-hope” remain unchanged at the very bottom of the image.
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
meave.nyc
ugh, since i'm Reading Less News, i missed that rafah now media posted the top-scoring high school students from rafah with pre-genocide(?) photos of them looking like regular young men
hypothesis: the uncolonized mind takes pride in students' academic achievements amid a genocide
proof: these posts
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
meave.nyc
my dear friend emad @ofhungryghosts.bsky.social & his younger brother @mosabmuhareb.bsky.social are working hard in- & outside of gaza for their family so they can prep for winter—especially for mohanad; i can't tell if all his vaccines have been allowed in.
bit.ly/muhareb-family bit.ly/for-mosaab
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
meave.nyc
the giving circle sheep and its companion? familiar? tiny god? beg to differ re: no one caring.

𝑹𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻⁉️
bit.ly/keeping-hope ↔️ tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle

be kind and care for people. this ceasefire…situation has so many palestinians i love on edge, it's unbearable.

sheep offers hankies for donos
giant hairy black and white icelandic ram in a blurry field of green and red-brown grasses. its face is full black with a big white bib (beard?) and long, down-pointed horns. it appears to be staring right into the camera. on his right horn is perched a tiny, actually black-and-white peregrine falcon; correct size ratio of sheep to falcon neither checked nor known. this guy could be a statue, or a statue-colored bird—impossible to say. he’s holding one bright red, long-stemmed poppy in his beak, so the standard wedding invitation-style “Keep Hope Alive” is now angled down the ram’s back. the “a Gaza giving circle” and “bit.ly/keeping-hope” remain unchanged at the very bottom of the image.
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
meave.nyc
this was unspeakably difficult for mohamed to post. he is perishing of shame
but he has 12 people to feed; 7 kids to clothe for winter; 6 school fees; and, god willing, another tin house for warmth & safety
the blockade cost him everything, and he still raised $1k for his cousin
bit.ly/help-mohamed
a screenshot of the entire post from MOHAMMAD AHMAD @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social Hello my friends, I haven't received any donations for 4 days. I have two potatoes that I will plant and we will follow up on their pictures over the next three months. Please share and donate. https://chuffed.org/project/help-mohamed below, he has two similar photographs of the same two white potatoes, which have lovely bright green sprouts growing from their eyes. they're sittting on the same red-and-peach bed covering that's appeared in so many of mohamed's photos. the last image is a screen shot from his chuffed donors list. it reads: Anonymous - 6 days ago $50 Simon Apostol - 6 days ago $50 Anonymous - 8 days ago $25 October 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM Everybody can reply • Translate 24 reposts 7 quotes 28 likes
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
meave.nyc
"potential"
gonna assume that's UK speech laws' mandatory fig leaf, rather than giving any member of the iof the benefit of the doubt.
the colonized, carceral part of my brain says GUANTANAMO, but 𝙉𝙊. overfill the ICC detention center. solicit contemporary digital evidence. never stop the trials.
harmscommitted.com Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 17d
"Over 50 Britons have served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Gaza genocide."

"Let's be clear: British citizens who [..] join the Israeli military while it commits genocide are not heroes or 'volunteers'; they are potential perpetrators of war crimes."
#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
Revealed: Over 50 Britons fought for Israel amid Gaza genocide
Dozens of British nationals could be subject to war crimes investigations after serving in the IDF during its war on Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
meave.nyc
(i liked what madea benjamin wrote on X: x.com/medeabenjamin/status/1981382153863610737)
Senator Josh Hawley has taken $312,009 from the Israel lobby…

60,000 Palestinians are dead and he still won’t call it genocide.

That’s about $5.20 for every Palestinian life lost. That’s his price.
codepink.bsky.social CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 18d
Senator Josh Hawley has taken $312,009 from the Israel lobby.
When confronted, Hawley deflected by falsely accusing CODEPINK of being funded by the CCP to distract from his AIPAC ties. We are grassroots peace activists. He is a genocide supporter. We’re filing an ethics complaint.
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
meave.nyc
sometimes you just can't in good conscience send the template.
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-ice-detention-expansion
image 1: the template
images 2 & 3: my letter (it's < 2k chars. so i had to split it 😶),
not that they'll read it or care anyway. useless.

this has been a real fucked-up october.
The Trump administration is dangerously moving full steam ahead with unprecedented plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) immigration detention system including using Guantanamo Bay and other military sites, reinstating family detention, signing new detention contracts. The passage of the MAGA Megabill supercharges Trump's agenda, making ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the country. The bill provides $150 billion to target, detain, and deport as many people as possible -including $45 billion earmarked for ICE detention to tear apart families over the next four years. Shockingly, ICE's budget now exceeds the budgets of many militaries around the world. ICE detention is a cornerstone of Trump's attacks on immigrant communities and political opposition, and I urge you to do everything in your power to block this administration by: --Cutting funds to ICE & CBP through the reconciliation, regular appropriations or any other budget process --Opposing detention expansion in your district/state --Engaging in meaningful oversight to expose the cruelty of ICE detention and Trump's agenda --Advocating for the release people from detention --Supporting strong sanctuary policies in their district/state --Passing bills that defend immigrant and support vital programs and services that support all Americans As your constituent, I am deeply concerned and I am counting on you to reject the use of taxpayer dollars to persecute immigrants and political activists, particularly as so many of us struggle alongside them to meet our basic needs. We need better education, affordable healthcare, and secure housing-not more family separation, immigration jails, and border walls. Dear Senators and Congresswoman, For the sake of the United States as a nation, you absolutely must abolish ICE, do away with its black sites, and retrieve every single person it has imprisoned in the US and overseas and reevaluate the nature of their seizures and detentions. Habeas Corpus every single one of them and do it now, before Trump and his literal jackbooted thugs completely shred the Constitution. Please believe me; I'm not using hyperbole. My husband is a US citizen, second generation on his late father's side and third on his mother's side. He also, because of genetics, has received a significant amount of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism, despite having little to no connection to either. However, he works in a not-too-affluent, multicultural neighborhood with people from all over the MENA region, and I'm afraid that one day he'll get swept up in an ICE raid and disappeared. Don't tell me this is impossible; every day ICE arrests people with the legal right to be here. And what if he's going for a walk without his wallet? Is he going to get lost in Guantanamo? Is it 2003 again? (continued on image 3) (continued from image 2) Just defund ICE. CBP doesn't need a Gestapo. No immigrant is that dangerous. Stop letting the president play "9/11 without the inciting moment" - again, I'm telling you, sooner than later ICE is going to black-bag, disappear, "accidentally" kill or maim too many people. Or someone really important. Or any of you — you don't think Trump wouldn't stoop that low? You don't think he wouldn't strip Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar of their citizenship and set ICE on them the minute one of his people makes the "right" case for them? After that, it's open season on his political enemies. Sure, they're out-of-shape and inept now, but if they stay on the job, take the right PEDs, you'll have sat by and watched the president form his own paramilitary force out of the country's white supremacists Twitch chatters. I beg of you: Defund ICE while you still can. Please.
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
meave.nyc
Thought I'd save the posts, just in case. it's always surprising to me that no publication ever hired alaa as a gaza correspondent; instead, she "gets" to fight a stupid racist social media platform so we can read her thoughts for free.
bit.ly/rebuild-alaa
Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social As a Palestinian living through genocide every day, it's painful to see any candidate's stance turned into a "litmus test" for Palestine without a deep understanding of what we're actually enduring. We're not looking for nice words or technically correct descriptions we need clear positions quoting Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com 32m The most bizarre thing about Platner is the number of people I see using his candidacy as a litmus test on Palestine. Admittedly I don't understand this at all? Cori Bush didn't even get this kind of support and she has *no* scandals. October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM Everybody can reply 12 reposts 1 quote 25 likes 1 save
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
meave.nyc
genocide has the world so upside down i'm just handing it to ana kasparian left and right. am i wrong? her domestid "no transes, no unhoused" agenda is fucked up.

but i forgot how much of the armenian diaspora have direct ties to Palestine, in jerusalem and other cities. also, fuck canary mission.
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM