I just listened to a clip of this and jesus christ you fucking got it. there are like 3500 people in the whole united states who speak this and two of them are in a very fraught marriage four feet below me

[ID/ A reply by @ veryspecificfantasies saying: “Yes actually not pidgin but a full language called ladino!!! It’s like Yiddish for Sephardic Jews – a combo of Portuguese/Spanish and Hebrew. Quite a rare language but I heard people speak it in a bagel place once and it really sounds like nothing else.” /End ID]

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

at the UN the PRCS revealed that one of the paramedics had been recording throughout. the video was recovered from his phone by his family, which had been buried with his body.

the video provided concrete proof that the IDF had been lying about how and why the paramedics were killed (i didn't bother mentioning that the IDF denied the accusations in the post above, because if you don't know that the IDF lies about killing palestinians as a matter of policy—now you do)

the new york times covered the video's release, a significant correction as they had been lending credence to israel's denials for the past week (if you don't know that the new york times is functionally a stenographer for the IDF, now you do). they only show the first few minutes in the article, which prove that the ambulances were lit and the rescuers were in their gear

what they don't show is the remaining four minutes, which are audio only, in which you can hear paramedic refaat radwan say his last prayers, over and over, and finally apologize to his mother: "forgive me, mother, i chose this path to help people" while israeli gunshots ring in the background. he was found with a shot in the head.

this is the second time in my life that i have heard posthumous audio from the PRCS in which a palestinian prays to God and pleads for their mother while israeli gunshots are heard in the background. the first was a six year old girl. the second was a young paramedic on his way to rescue people buried under the rubble.

As far as I know, she is the first woman arrested bc of this law. The law requires that the trans person be warned to leave the bathroom by a state official, and then if they stay they are guilty of trespassing after a warning.

So like, me, my gf, others just piss and nobody asks or tells, but this young woman sent a statement about the law to over 100 FL lawmakers so they would know she was coming, the cops were ready for her, she brought a reporter and went in anyway and spent the night in a men's jail. She is out on bail, and is hoping this will inspire change of the law. But if found guilty, and the law is upheld as constitutional, then she could spend up to 60 days in a mens county jail.

Seriously, this is extremely Rosa Parks coded. Good looking, religious college girl. It's the whole playbook. She also added this selfie.

I support her and hope this goes as well as it can.

Shoutout to trans women for being the only ones to do something actually politically radical with the recent trend of girlcore catholicism

Her name is Marcy Rheintgen

Marcy Rheintgen!

This is the time to do your part! Rosa Parks isn't famous just for her civil disobedience, but for the widespread change that it helped bring about. If you want to help Marcy? You need to get LOUD about her arrest being unjust. You need to talk about it, you need to call your representatives about it (especially if you live in Florida), and you need to organize around it.

Start a phone or email campaign to put pressure on your national and state legislature. Organize a demonstration in support of her and in opposition to this and similar laws. Social change is not affected by individual heroes, but by large-scale social movements; don't let her arrest be in vain!