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https://xcancel.com/SubBrief/status/1987506023892943009

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38764769

Title. I swear this pic existed, and I **need ** it.

Hey comrades :) <3!!!…I’m here again with another update from us in Juba. Things are still really rough, honestly worse than before. We’ve now gone two days without bathing. We’re only using a little water to brush in the morning and keep some for cooking and drinking. The 10 liters we had left are almost gone. It’s not that we don’t want to fetch more…it’s just the fear. The last time we went to fetch water, we were attacked by unknown men. We survived but the fear hasn’t left us. Every night I still think about it.

The caretaker still hasn’t come back but he left us with a big burden. We have to pay the remaining 244 usd of our 900 usd rent before he reconnects our water. After paying half 531 usd …he reconnected our WiFi and electricity, which helped us feel a little normal again but without water, even simple things feel impossible.

For those seeing this for the first time, my sisters and I are trans refugees from Uganda. We fled because of violence and ended up here in Juba, South Sudan. Life has been about survival…our shelter was once attacked and burned and we’ve had to start from zero again and again. Through everything, the kindness of this community has kept us going.

I hate asking again but I don’t know where else to turn. Life was already hard before I found this space and I can’t go back..especially in a place where being trans is dangerous. Your help has been the only light we have and it’s what keeps us holding on.

Sharing our story here is the only way to stay seen and hope for solidarity from people who understand. So many generous people have helped us before and I’m forever grateful. I always dream of helping others the way you’ve helped me and my girls.If you know any trans community or kind people who might want to help, please consider to share our story.

I’m sharing this with honesty and hope, praying it reaches a kind heart who can share or support. Every small donation really makes a difference. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for taking a moment to read this and for standing with us.

Support link is in my profile With love and hope, Onandrah

Caveats:

1. this is really badly written too long and out of date; maybe even a respost. but goddamned it pissed me right the fuck off.
2. I'm not saying anything pro or con about Mamdani just about this melt down freakout inflammatory publications. Will it escalate?

Banner image is screenshot of Anti-Defamation League launches 'Mamdani Monitor' to check mayor-elect's administration for antisemitism (Nov 5 2025). The whole page is strongly communicative. It's worth dragging your fingers over.

"hostile to Jewish people" "surge in reports of anti-Jewish hatred" "Mamdani espouses views that are antisemitic" "fan Jew hatred" "fears".... People really like to hear about how scared they are (or should be) I guess.

Haven't been online too much for a few days; I don't suppose this is any news by now. I don't generally read NY Post. Is this normal for them? I just reached for the story and course traipsed into some thorny bush.

First, I must share this image and caption, which I have not interfered with any way. Editor gets ChatGPT to do their work for them?

From the sidebar, I clicked into Graceless sore winner Zohran Mamdani immediately drops his mask and declares war on NYC (also Nov 5) which is actually way worse. I don't want to copy/paste the whole article because it's overall incredible racist trash. the feeling communicated is of seething, virulent rage. But of course, they are too much a coward to claim it. There is no first person. Instead project their fool ideas into the millions of people around them.

I don't know what speech this person watch. Is there an AI enhanced version going around? The one I watched was very ok.. Not much more.

The tone is fanatical and frenzied. Facts are alluded to but never asserted, so the sympathetic reader can fill in the gaps with whatever shit is laying around in their mind. It's probably effective that way.

At the outset there is some flagrantly hypocritical stuff about people who have change country of residents. I don't know how anyone can survive writing this on stolen indigenous land, and in support of the stealing and much worse than rudeness in Palestine. I am surprised their mitochondria didn't fall out of their cells the way they shit talk an immigrant for being insufficiently humble and deferential towards their "hosts":

• "no hint of grace or gratitude"
• "sneering, triumphalist tone" "unbecoming for an immigrant"
• "opponents were scorned or ignored"
• "self-aggrandizing armor"
• "offered only the back of his hand"

Three years ago, if I were reading this article with references to "jew", "mulsim", names etc redacted, I would have placed good money that it was some kind of anti Semite screed, either a blog or the kind of newspaper you can only subscribe to by meeting someone at a gun show.

Consider language like the below which is consistent with antisemitic tropes, with bit of anti-Muslim/orientalist sprinkled in.

• "obsession with class and wealth"
• "socialist agenda"
• "declares war on NYC"
• "Big Government man"
• "power and ideological supremacy"
• "newly crowned ruler"
• "exposed as a fraud"
• "mask dropped"
• "fangs of contempt and bitter grievance."
• "leaders fooled"
• "our, sneering"
• "battle cry coming from the interior of the Trojan Horse"
• "chosen ones"
• "masks"
• "contempt"
• "dark heart"
• " flashed that toothy grin"
• "as if to signal"
• "fellow members of the brotherhood of the enlightened"
• "flattered by his attention"
• "fleeced and condemned"
• "snookered"
• "benighted ilk"
• "Muslim mayor’s promises"
• "Jew-hating"
• "a puppet whose strings are pulled"
• "cryptically"

(the above is not comprehensive; I only included the most terse allegations/defamation. Listing each one results in a document longer than the original!)

Not that I was expecting much by way of analysis but I am actually kind of shocked how purely emotional this is. But that's all they have. The facts that forced their way in, are able to speak through the trembling hands of the writer.

His dark heart came through loud and clear in his depiction of New York City as something of a modern slave state where a ruling class of landlords, bankers and even neighborhood merchants sucks the life out of everyone else.

Then it was back to all property owners, declaring that “We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.”

this is basically hot the article is closed out:

His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Columbia University professor who can be seen on a video from a 2022 conference arguing that Hitler got his idea for the Holocaust by studying how Abraham Lincoln and America dealt with native Americans.

“The US put Indians in reservations. … They herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things: One, that genocide was do-able, it is possible to do genocide. That’s what Hitler realized,” Mamdani’s father said.

Every single post with a woman immediately results in a 50 long comment thread of gooners going "lol I'm jorkin muh penus"

And now they have gifs

I am grateful for this sites strict no horny posting policy

I know I'm fuckin 2009-core posting with this one

The entire blog post is ~1,600 words. These are the first few paragraphs.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

https://xcancel.com/infinite_jaz/status/1987258877889368214

The President and the Speaker of the House are enjoying themselves at a football game, all while federal employees are left unpaid and the economy is spiraling downward. 🤔

Trump was rooting for the Washington Commanders to win vs the Detroit Lions.

Meanwhile on r/NFCNorthMemeWar:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NFCNorthMemeWar/comments/1osvpzh/sorry_if_its_too_political/

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We've been trying to reach you about your caws extended warranty

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38725765

https://www.latintimes.com/mamdani-breaks-silence-about-maduro-cuban-president-diaz-canel-how-jorge-ramos-daughter-paola-589809

My name is Soliman, and I am writing to you from Gaza.

You may have already heard about my story — the siege, the destruction, the struggle to survive.

And yes, it’s all true.

The war has not ended yet… and even when it does, our suffering will not simply disappear.

We will still need your support and donations, because after every war comes another battle — the battle to rebuild.

When we return to our village, Khuza’a, we will find only ruins: homes turned to rubble, water wells destroyed, and the farmlands we once depended on burned and lifeless.

We want to rebuild them — to bring life back to our land, to plant our crops again, and to restore hope for the children who have lost so much.

Please, don’t forget us.

Your donations mean more than you can imagine.

Every contribution, no matter how small, will live forever in my memory and in the hearts of my little brothers and sisters.

We pray for every person who stands with us — for your kindness, compassion, and humanity.

I know I may seem like a burden, or that I’m asking too much…

But I truly need you — your help, your generosity, your support.

On days when no donations come in, I face a real financial crisis, not knowing how to provide even a single meal for the day.

So I ask you, from the bottom of my heart — please don’t stop helping us.

Every amount you give makes a real difference.

Even the smallest act of kindness can mean survival for a family like mine.

May you always remain safe, surrounded by love, peace, and security. ❤️

👉 Please donate and support us here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/surviving-an-onslaught