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Our kitchen operates at 30% capacity due to lack of funds, please help us maximize our efforts by donating now: chuffed.org/project/help-us-…
🚨 BREAKING: Half a million Palestinians in Gaza will lose monthly food assistance as funding shortages force major World Food Programme cuts ahead of winter, ABC News Australia reports.
➤ WFP is reducing its monthly reach from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. Families receiving two food parcels will now get one, and flour bags will shrink.
➤ Daily hot meals have fallen from 250,000 to 150,000. Some families in hard-to-reach areas will receive meals every other day instead of daily. Cash assistance for 75,000 families is being cut by 40%.
➤ WFP’s Carl Skau said traditional donors, including the U.S. and Europe, have reduced funding. “It’s not because the needs are down … it’s only due to the lack of funding,” Skau told ABC.
➤ Around 1.4 million people face crisis-level hunger or worse, including 200,000 in emergency conditions. WFP says it urgently needs $450 million for six months of operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Fellow Irish novelist Colm Tóibín defends Sally Rooney. Calls out the UK government over its “insane ban” on Palestine Action.
"British government, insane. Sally Rooney, fully sensible."
#SallyRooney #PalestineAction
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Love Sally Rooney who knows the only way through crazy English civility agreements is to push them to their logical conclusions
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This is what the occupation does to children!! Abood is 14 years old, the younger brother of two of our The Sameer Project team members. He has Type 1 diabetes. A condition that is manageable with insulin, but without it, he risks slipping into a diabetic coma and dying.
Give to Gaza: chuffed.org/project/136892-m…
In August 2026, the International Diabetes Federation reported that insulin pens remained largely unavailable through Gaza's public healthcare system. In September, the UN confirmed severe shortages of insulin for Type 1 diabetics. The Israeli military occupation restrictions and delays on medical supplies continue to put lives at risk.
Insulin. For children. Medicine they need just to stay alive.
Why should a 14 year old boy have to fight for access to medication that should be readily available? Why should his family fear that a treatable condition could become a death sentence?
This is the reality of Gaza's children after three years of genocide. Even survival has been made a struggle.
Abood deserves to live. Every child in Gaza does. We ask you to pray for Abood, for all these children unnecessarily in pain and suffering due to the occupation’s cruel and arbitrary restrictions of medication.
As our team - every doctor, nurse; those inside Gaza and abroad - try to search for the type of insulin Abood needs we need your support to purchase medication in bulk when it becomes available. Support medical cases in Gaza by donation to The Sameer Project’s Medical Campaign: chuffed.org/project/136892-m…
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "MEDICAL")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Al… (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "MEDICAL")
Colin Barrett retweeted
The proper framing of today's news is less "Sally Rooney censored" and more "Sally Rooney personally sanctions the UK to protest censorship of more vulnerable voices" – which is considerably more badass
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What we have allowed in Gaza is so unspeakable that if you speak on it, you yourself can no longer have a voice. Great! thebookseller.com/news/faber…
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"Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A Circus passed the house—still I feel the red in my mind though the drums are out. The Lawn is full of south and the odours tangle, and I hear to-day for the first time the river in the tree." – Emily Dickinson (letter, May 1866)
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The debate about anthropomorphizing machines is an old one and the Twitter discussion on it now is so much less entertaining than reading Dijkstra on it 38 years ago.
I find it especially fun that he threw punches in every direction so I think nobody can claim his view in their current social media battle.
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Non smetterò mai di ripeterlo: questa è una delle frasi più belle della letteratura, se non la più bella in assoluto (da 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘢).
«Scese, evitando di guardarla a lungo, come si fa col sole; ma vedeva lei, come si vede il sole, anche senza guardare.»
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John Thompson has been studying the guqin—a silk string zither—and classical Chinese music since 1974.
Here he is with Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing Hon performing a drinking song first published 1589 and attributed to third-century poet Ruan Ji: Jiu Kuang (Wine Mad)
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stumbled upon this brick this weekend at the used bookstore and picked it up on a whim and today began to read it on a whim and now I can't put it down why aren't more people talking about this book
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Please please please keep donating to the @sameerproject so that they can continue their lifesaving work in Gaza
The Sameer Project started from a desire to help our Palestinian people differently - with dignity, without conditions, and in a way that returned agency instead of creating dependency.
We continued because the genocide continued.
And now, we are devastated to say that The Sameer Project is being forced to pause our daily operations.
Not because the need has decreased. Because the money has run out.
We are panicking. We are stressed. We are heartbroken because we know exactly what this pause means for the people who rely on us.
Mothers still need to feed their children. Families still need drinking water. The elderly and sick still need medication. People are still being killed in airstrikes and shootings while the occupation continues to manufacture deprivation by restricting aid.
We have always been an emergency response group. When you donated, we spent that money immediately on people who needed help NOW. We did not save it for some predictable tomorrow, because in Gaza tomorrow has never been promised.
Now we are reaching a point we never wanted to reach: we do not have enough coming in to keep responding.
This pause is not administrative. It is not harmless. When food, water, medicine, transportation, and emergency assistance disappear, people can die.
We desperately need you to understand the urgency of this moment.
Please help us restart operations. Please donate. Please share. Please do not let Gaza lose another lifeline.
In the coming days we will share with you exactly how to be part of the solution - how to bring The Sameer Project back. The need did not stop and neither can we. Stand with us…
❤️🩹 - The Sameer Project Team
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Journalists in Gaza have held a vigil to mark one year since an Israeli attack killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif and cameraman Mohammed Qraiqea in Gaza, along with other fellow Palestinian media workers.
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❛ Time was hungry – / bicycles, horses, carriages moving / at God's speed. What perforated / the hours but our own machine hands?
Time to clock off with Kit Fan's 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory'.
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In 1983, the poet John Ashbery said that Fairfield Porter was “perhaps the major American artist of the century.” It’s not praise you can take at face value—Ashbery and Porter were good friends, and while Porter’s realism often kept him at arm’s length from the Abstract Expressionists, he was embraced by the New York School poets. “But it’s a tempting thought,” Zachary Fine writes. “Ideas made painters and critics impervious to seeing what was in front of them,” he continues. “Porter’s mission was to make people see again.” Fine considers a new exhibition of Fairfield Porter’s soul-cleansing paintings at the Art Students League: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
