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Devin S.
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Devin S. @devingtieme.bsky.social · Oct 6
Please read my dear and brilliant friend Sandra's new story, "Sadness of Gaza."

Sandra has endured more horror in the past week than most of us will in our entire lives. Even $5 can bring some much needed light into her life: her fundraising link is in my bio 🙏 #Sacramento #Sac4Sandra #Poem (1/2)
Sadness of Gaza by Samar Adnan Muhammed Kamil Note for screen readers: Pages 1 through 4 contain the English translation of this story. Pages 5 and 6 (in the next tweet) are the original Arabic version. PAGE 1 of 6 In Gaza, a girl sits crying on a broken road. Is she myself or my double? She stares ahead blankly at rooms without ceilings or walls, theaters empty of meaning but heavy with loss. She was left all alone for unscrupulous scavengers. She weeps quietly. At intervals she howls in pain, grief, or need. None offer solace or claim her as kin. She sees me and beckons. With labored breath, she begs me to find her mother, father, and brothers. Her memory doesn't disclose where they went. The road lies between tangles of thorns. A wall looms above it. Outside of the wall, monsters rule the land, sea, and sky. PAGE 2 of 6 She walks north on the road until the world spins around her. Her soul petitions for release but she rejects it. Nearby, a blind old woman trembles in wordless fear. Pan-Arabism is a myth, the girl thinks. It died long ago with the dream of an Ummah. We propped up its corpse with irrational hope. A murmur from the west brings memories of freedom: fresh air, shining waves, and soft golden sands. Perhaps the sea holds the key to restoring the past. She runs there and cries, "Please deliver my people," but the sea cuts her short: "Did you not hear me rage and sigh? I'm trapped here like you are. You're on your own, precious girl." She runs to the south and arrives at iron gates. PAGE 3 of 6 Others precede her: a new amputee, an unemployed worker, a woman sick with tuberculosis, a young man of faith, a medical student whose studies were interrupted, a young girl who dreams of sunrise. She goes to the front. Troops block the exit. They are devoid of all mercy. They view her with contempt and disgust. The girl's heart wildly seizes and pounds. Shame blurs her vision. Her soul cries in anguish: "O Silent Ones who forget our grandfathers were brothers; who forget we descend from one mother and father; who left us helpless and bleeding behind you; "O Silent Ones who used to join in songs of pan-Arabism and unity and homeland; "We used to be family, convened by sacred command, your hands joined with ours until death, our tears intermingled as one. PAGE 4 of 6 "We were a pride of lions, fighters defending one people, delegations assembled in common cause. You forget the strength that we had, the beauty our martyrs bequeathed us. "O Silent Ones, you lock us away with no food, water, or medicine. Divided, our blood thins to nothing. "Your pity demeans us. Your pieties wound us. Your public pronouncements are bullets, pretty diamonds shot into our back. "You are the ones who broke your pledge. You are the ones who forgot our bond. "You are my brothers. You are my family. And you forgot Gaza at the Rafah Crossing." ✍🏾 Samar Adnan Muhammad Kamil 📷 @samarnocturna 📍 Gaza 2025 👂 Translated from Arabic
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devingtieme.bsky.social
Do you not remember that low income workers have died and become disabled from COVID at much higher rates than other workers

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devingtieme.bsky.social Devin S. @devingtieme.bsky.social · 25d
Stancil: under Biden, “unemployment fell and fell”

The people who stopped being counted in unemployment statistics:

Chart 2: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18OI5

Chart 3: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18R1W
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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devingtieme.bsky.social
More K shapes, and studies finding increasing inequality

2. home.treasury.gov/news/feature...

3. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

4. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Washington Post Intergenerational wealth Chart: Share of national wealth owned by each generation, by median cohort age, 2008 through 2019. Baby boomers age 25 to 60 go from having 20% of the national wealth to about 55% of the national wealth. Generation Exers age 20 to 47 go from having about 2 percent of the national wealth to 16% of the national wealth. Millennials age 20 to 33 go from having about 1 percent of the national wealth to 3 percent of the national wealth. U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Rent, House Prices, and Demographics.” Date: June 24, 2024. Figure 5: Per-Age Headship Rates. Excerpt (describing chart): The youngest groups have experienced the largest declines in headship rates. In 1980, 50 percent of Americans aged 25 to 34 were heads of their own household (the lowest line on Figure 4). In 2020, that number had fallen to around 40 percent. The headship rate for Americans aged 35 to 44 also fell substantially: from almost 55 percent to less than 50 percent. The decline in headship rates for younger Americans can be seen in the rise of young adults living at home over the same period, as shown in Figure 6. This rise is at least partially attributable to rising rents and house prices. American Journal of Sociology, “Life Course Trajectories and Wealth Accumulation in the United States: Comparing Late Baby Boomers and Early Millennials.” Authors: Rob J. Gruijters, Zachary Van Winkle and Anette E. Fasang, September 2023. Abstract: Millennials are often assumed to be economically worse off than previous generations because of more precarious employment and unstable family lives. Using sequence analysis and unconditional quantile decomposition, we analyze the work and family trajectories of late baby boomers and early millennials and relate them to wealth holdings at age 35. We find that the poorest millennials have less wealth than their baby boomer counterparts, but the wealthiest millennials have more. Millennials are less likely to enter high-status occupations and are more likely to work in low-skilled service jobs, and family trajectories show a strong decline of traditional early marriage and parenthood; however, changes in life course trajectories cannot account for the increase in wealth inequality. Instead, the distribution of wealth has become more unequal because the economic returns to typical middle-class trajectories have increased, while the returns to typical working-class trajectories have stagnated or declined. Congressional Budget Office, “Income Inequality Increased, Both Before and After Transfers and Taxes.” Date: September 2024. When calculated using income before transfers and taxes, the Gini coefficient—at 0.560—was higher in 2021 than in any other year since at least 1979, the earliest year in CBO’s analysis. When calculated using income after transfers and taxes, the Gini coefficient was 0.443. Despite the reductions in inequality stemming from means-tested transfers and federal taxes, the Gini coefficient was still higher in 2021 than in any other year since 2012. But without the effects of the temporary policies, it would have been 0.468, the highest since at least 1979.
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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devingtieme.bsky.social
These look like K shapes to me

1. www.cbpp.org/media/income...

2. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18R1W

3. www.census.gov/data/tables/...

4. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Income Gains Widely Shared in Early Postwar Decades - But Not Since Then Chart: Real family income between 1947 and 2018, as a percentage of 1973 level Income gains in 1947 are about 50 percent of the 1973 level. They rise for all Americans at about the same rate until 1980. Income gains for the top 5% increase at the same rate while income gains for the median income and bottom 20 percent of incomes flatten. In 2018: The top 5% have about 180% of their income in 1973. The median income is about 130% of the income in 1973. The bottom 20% have about 120% of their median income in 1973. Four lines showing the total labor force participation rate (one line) and participation rates for the following age groups: 16-24, 25-54, and 55 and over, relative to June 2017. All lines rise by about 2 percent from 2017-2020 then drop in 2020. The 16-24 line and 25-54 line rebound then climb to about 2.5% above their 2020 levels, respectively. The 55 and over line briefly rebounds then drops to 5% below its 2020 level. U.S. Census Figure HH-3 Households by age of the householder, 1960 to 2024 Older adult line (age 65 and over) goes from 10 percent to 25 percent between 1960 and 2010, then becomes steeper, going from 25 percent to 37 percent between 2010 and 2024. Younger adult line (under 30) goes from 7 percent to 15 percent between 1960 and 1980 and remains at 15 percent through 2024. National Academy of Sciences, PNAS Nexus, “Missing Americans: Early death in the United States—1933–2021” (June 2023). Long-term mortality trends in the United States and other wealthy nations prior to the COVID-19 pandemic Figure 1 displays long-term trends, 1933–2021, in age-standardized mortality rates for each of the countries in the study. Mortality has fallen dramatically across all countries. The early time series bears the imprint of WWII and its aftermath, with high mortality rates observed in Europe and Japan. The United States had similar age-standardized mortality rates as other wealthy nations in the 1960s–1970s. However, since the 1980s, the position of the United States relative to other wealthy nations has progressively deteriorated. Figure 1. Age-standardized mortality trends in the United States and other wealthy nations. Figure shows deaths per 100,000 person-years: A) 1933–2021 and B) 1980–2021. The solid thick red line is the United States, the dashed thick grey line is the population-weighted average of 21 other wealthy nations, and the thin grey lines are country-specific trends for each of the other nations. Total mortality was age-standardized to the 2000 US population age distribution.
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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divyampersaud.com
No link for this one because I’ve had to say no, even though this is a family from the giving circle!

We need $4,000 total and $1,000 of that ASAP to build a well for a whole neighborhood in Gaza City

pp: divyamper, friends & family, note “water”
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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divyampersaud.com
Same sitch but fifteen families in Jabalia in the rain

chuffed.org/project/save...
Save Devastated Families in Jabalia, Gaza
Although the war has ended, the suffering has not. In fact, it has worsened with the continued siege and the reclosure of border crossings. In Jabalia, northern Gaza, several families who have lost ev...
chuffed.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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divyampersaud.com
Families in the rain in the “safe zone” where massacres are still happening

chuffed.org/project/mawasi-families
Help displaced families in Mawasi
Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.
chuffed.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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divyampersaud.com
Single mom & three kids need food & rent

tinyurl.com/Help-Mai
Help Mai and her family leave Gaza before it’s too late
I'm helping my friend Mai raise funds to help her family survive. All of my transactions to her are listed here for accountability: tiny.cc/Mai-Funds.
tinyurl.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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ryuma21.bsky.social
Every click, every contribution—it all truly matters. This support helps so many lives right now.

Don't let the world forget #Gaza.

Thank you for taking the time to see this. 🍉 Love y'all,
Ryuma
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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devingtieme.bsky.social
Please read my dear and brilliant friend Sandra's new story, "Sadness of Gaza."

Sandra has endured more horror in the past week than most of us will in our entire lives. Even $5 can bring some much needed light into her life: her fundraising link is in my bio 🙏 #Sacramento #Sac4Sandra #Poem (1/2)
Sadness of Gaza by Samar Adnan Muhammed Kamil Note for screen readers: Pages 1 through 4 contain the English translation of this story. Pages 5 and 6 (in the next tweet) are the original Arabic version. PAGE 1 of 6 In Gaza, a girl sits crying on a broken road. Is she myself or my double? She stares ahead blankly at rooms without ceilings or walls, theaters empty of meaning but heavy with loss. She was left all alone for unscrupulous scavengers. She weeps quietly. At intervals she howls in pain, grief, or need. None offer solace or claim her as kin. She sees me and beckons. With labored breath, she begs me to find her mother, father, and brothers. Her memory doesn't disclose where they went. The road lies between tangles of thorns. A wall looms above it. Outside of the wall, monsters rule the land, sea, and sky. PAGE 2 of 6 She walks north on the road until the world spins around her. Her soul petitions for release but she rejects it. Nearby, a blind old woman trembles in wordless fear. Pan-Arabism is a myth, the girl thinks. It died long ago with the dream of an Ummah. We propped up its corpse with irrational hope. A murmur from the west brings memories of freedom: fresh air, shining waves, and soft golden sands. Perhaps the sea holds the key to restoring the past. She runs there and cries, "Please deliver my people," but the sea cuts her short: "Did you not hear me rage and sigh? I'm trapped here like you are. You're on your own, precious girl." She runs to the south and arrives at iron gates. PAGE 3 of 6 Others precede her: a new amputee, an unemployed worker, a woman sick with tuberculosis, a young man of faith, a medical student whose studies were interrupted, a young girl who dreams of sunrise. She goes to the front. Troops block the exit. They are devoid of all mercy. They view her with contempt and disgust. The girl's heart wildly seizes and pounds. Shame blurs her vision. Her soul cries in anguish: "O Silent Ones who forget our grandfathers were brothers; who forget we descend from one mother and father; who left us helpless and bleeding behind you; "O Silent Ones who used to join in songs of pan-Arabism and unity and homeland; "We used to be family, convened by sacred command, your hands joined with ours until death, our tears intermingled as one. PAGE 4 of 6 "We were a pride of lions, fighters defending one people, delegations assembled in common cause. You forget the strength that we had, the beauty our martyrs bequeathed us. "O Silent Ones, you lock us away with no food, water, or medicine. Divided, our blood thins to nothing. "Your pity demeans us. Your pieties wound us. Your public pronouncements are bullets, pretty diamonds shot into our back. "You are the ones who broke your pledge. You are the ones who forgot our bond. "You are my brothers. You are my family. And you forgot Gaza at the Rafah Crossing." ✍🏾 Samar Adnan Muhammad Kamil 📷 @samarnocturna 📍 Gaza 2025 👂 Translated from Arabic
October 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
"You are funding Eurovision with your licence fee"
maniisnala.bsky.social Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 1d
The BBC’s Eurovision Statement Just Blew Open Their Own Funding Story youtu.be/lSF4Srfccso?...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Israel uses video from Gaza genocide to market arms to European, Asian countries - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-uses-video-gaza-genocide-market-arms-european-asian-countries
Israel uses video from Gaza genocide to market arms to European, Asian countries
Despite banning Israeli officials from a recent defence show, British officials turned up to check out Israeli weapons deployed in war on Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
December 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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anjalienjeti.bsky.social
Of note, it was Democratic presidents, especially Biden, that gave Israel totally unchecked power.

“Israel receives treatment that no other ally or partner enjoys. When other countries buy U.S. weapons, the sales are subject to a bevy of U.S. laws; Israel has never truly been compelled to comply.”
The End of the Israel Exception
A new paradigm for American policy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
This is a reply to a young Latina woman who had to watch her father get deported under Obama. They've been told this and instead of deleting their insulting replies they added this
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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ramiismail.com
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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byroncclark.bsky.social
I'm looking for the next writer from Gaza to tell their story, to be published on Feijoa Dispatch and Fightback. We pay NZ$250 (about US$145) and the article can also promote your GoFundMe/Chuffed

My DM's are open so please get in touch
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
That's correct.
kenmiller.bsky.social Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 2d
I've been told Sameer Project is the "gold standard" for sending aid to Palestinians. Of many projects, this one is to keep Gazans warm this winter: shelter, warm clothing, blankets. Now they're in tattered tents w nothing, w/ Israel blocking aid entry despite ceasefire.
chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
Except Upscrolled
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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redtigerad.bsky.social
Those of you in the UK, I implore you to sign a petition like this one, to try and force the UK yo boycott the ESC. I've always loved Eurovision, and cannot stand to see it endorse genocide. c.org/dGMYc4yCBX
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
I wonder what Hillary Clinton would say about him
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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defendourjuries.bsky.social
‘Death risk’ fear for Palestine Action hunger strike activists

“It can’t be overstated that they’ve not been convicted of anything.”

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Death risk’ fear for Palestine Action hunger strike activists | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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djtomdog.bsky.social
The genocide in Palestine has continued. The aggression of the zionist colony has continued across the region. Free Palestine, continue to boycott the zionist entity, remove zionists and zionist organizations from your lives.
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
American tax dollars well spent. I mean...who even wants free healthcare
antizionistjew.bsky.social Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d
💥 #BREAKING | Israel will spend 2.35 BILLION shekels (~$700,000,000) out of its 2026 budget on "Hasbara", Israeli far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich announced

Ayman Odeh, leader of far-left party Hadash-Ta’al said in response:

"The issue is not with Hasbara, but with Israel occupying Palestine"
Bezalel Smotrich post in Hebrew on X.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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benkuchera.bsky.social
If you want to vote for a more polite Trump, do it. But I'm fucking done with your bullshit party telling me to turn my back on my friends and family. I'm sorry you've given up, I haven't.

If you don't want to fight, get out of the fucking way and go be a coward somewhere else.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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jrpurple.bsky.social
After I watched Palestine 36, I thought about how, if Palestinians were a fictional group in a science fiction or fantasy movie, every audience would root for them to get statehood and safety. But as real people … not so much.
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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tinadesireeberg.com
Border Patrol was very active around Glendale this morning. After staging in the Glendale Galleria parking lot, they took two people from the Citi Carwash and multiple gardeners in and around the area. Rapid Responders mitigated their efforts by warning workers of their presence.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM