I’m sure many other blogs have made their own list but here are some of my favorites!
USA:
Let Them Live will pay for your bills during and after your pregnancy
GetYourCare to find a clinic near you
Baby2Baby and HopeSupplyCo for baby supplies
Find a Title X clinic near you (confidential reproductive health care for teens and adults)
International:
Save the Storks is also great, as is Stand Up Girl
A collaboration adoptable done with my friend Eddy Currently open for money offers, starting from $100, payment via PP, you can DM me if you want to make an offer! Current offer: $200
Hydrangea fantasy by Teuni Stevense
I love stories of pagan converts to Christianity during the Dark Ages because most often these warrior kings and chieftains would listen to the story of Christ's crucifixion and without missing a beat they'd be like "If I was there with my boys we would've saved him."
Hes a little confused but hes got the spirit
Please pray for a coworker of mine. She announced her pregnancy about a month ago, but at the doctors yesterday, they were unable to find a heartbeat.
I gave up on being pro life publicly and online. The genocide in the Congo and in Gaza have proved it to me that many western women who run those pro life accounts don’t care for children. Many babies have been lost due to hospital bombings. More children are displaced with no families.
I’ve tried reaching out when they talk about saving children in generic posts because very real babies are losing their lives by IDF terrorism. And I get blocked or I get told “that’s different/ they’re Muslim/they should have left already/I don’t care” over and over and over again. The countless videos are already out that have children begging and crying for their families they lost or the homes that can’t be saved. Some of the worst messages I read criticized and blame the Palestinian men too that they should be protecting the kids, so when they die, it’s actually Palestinians fault. Not the IDF. Meanwhile those “young men” are just teenagers because their parents are dead. The Congolese topic is worst. Many are begging people to stop buying the iPhone 15 to raise awareness over the issues there but I got told by one girl who likes to call herself an anti woke submissive wife that she couldn’t care less about the Congo, she’s going to do whatever her husband wants, if that means ignoring genocide then that’s what she will do too. It’s her god given to have freedom over dead bodies l…
I’m fed up. I’m sick of the hypocrisy. I’m sick of seeing stupid homestead content of how they’re at peace taking care of a home as they purposefully condone genocide. If some hacker group exposed all these “submissive Godly trad wife” accounts as being agents for Israel to distract the west from IDF war crimes, I wouldn’t be surprised the least. Their apathy is demonic
@not-your-average-prolifer is the only pro life blog who passed the vibe check as far as I know. She reblogged posts about the emergency of pregnant women in Palestine and also post about mental health of middle east women. I think she is left leaning (correct me if I'm wrong!) so I'm not surprised to see her with more empathy about whatever's happening to women abroad, unlike Conservatives who are extremely stupid & uneducated when it comes to foreign affairs, if not straight up xenophobic.
I hope for every single Christian I know to never open their mouth about uwu Christianism is from Middle east uwu ever again the next time someone calls Christianism white man's religion or I'll go berserk on them. They better shut up forever. They had no problem to keep their mouth shut witnessing the martyrdom of our brothers - they better keep it that way permanently and stop summoning their struggle once it's convenient to them. YES, they proved they definitely consider Christianism a white man thing, considering our little care they have for our (non white) Christian brothers overseas. They better keep them out of their mouth permanently.
"They're Muslim" it's been well documented that there are Christians in Palestine. But even if they weren't, Christ wants everyone to be saved and accept him as their lord and savior - refusing to extend some basic empathy to people being bombed and killed in their sin is not the way to go. Never forget that Jesus didn't heal or saved only Jews, but also pagans, prostitutes, etc. It's insane how so unemphatic "Christians" have become.
Christian Palestinians are actually some of the oldest Christians - like, where do they those idiots think Jerusalem was?? where did the Pentecost happen? IN MIAMI?? KANSAS?? "They should have left" WHERE?? aren't the ppl pulling out this argument the same crybabies whining about woke culture destroying western civilization? Why didn't they leave the western zone already??? Also aren't they the same against immigration and how men fleeing their country are lazy cowards? so why are they mad at Palestinians sticking to their land?? Damn, Western politicians/diplomacy have the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible and mass import Palestinians in western countries to abide Zionists requirements in Israel 💀
And LOL oh so now Palestinian men are supposed to protect children? what are they supposed to do when the IDF is bombing their house? Take weapons to defend/get back their land and shit? Oh my bad, that makes them terrorists (and let's be clear : what happened on October 7th is unjustifiable but let's not act like the Hamas wasn't called terrorist much earlier than that). It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't. If they do nothing, they're cowards, and if they do, they are terrorists - because in this case, resistance is defiance. Ultimately they just want to deflect from their own lack on empathy and find a rational explanation to that.
Conservative scrotes are the LAST people who should lecture anyone about defending the children when there are acting bullying kids young enough to be their grandchildren calling them wokes, leftists, or whatever. I won't even start about gun violence and how deflective they are about protecting the children only to protect their precious right to carry. Ghouls. They only care abt unborn babies because they are unable to call them out on their bs yet. Once they do, they'll cuss them, call them woke, and all sort of -ists.
On TikTok there was a Christian girl saying how Christians are "too emotional" and how we should keep supporting "God chosen people" (Israel). I already made a post calling out how this "god chosen people " narrative didn't stand now that we were in the NEW COVENANT. But let's follow her train of thought: isn't humankind made from God image? Where do emotions come from? Didn't God himself have emotion? Why? What's the right or wrong place to have emotion? She and all the clown who agreed with her would never be able to reply those questions. We've all seen the videos. I did what I could to avoid them but they're quite unavoidable at this point. What's the correct emotion after seeing 2 kids younger than 10 carrying a third one crying while one of his foot was hanging with only one tendon?? This girl, along with every single Christian unmoved by this disaster has to shut up. Their heart is a stone and they should stop trying to lecture people who still have a heart made of flesh. We're not the same. Christ is PEACE. Not war or violence.
And girl, you really shouldn't even engage with women labelling themselves "anti woke submissive wife" 💀 why would you expect them to care about anything but their idol (husband)? Stay focus on what really matters. Peace and God. We're in the end times and God is slowly but surely unfolding the truth. The masks are slipping. Take note of all the so called who remained silent witnessing satan action, take proper action, and go on.
@papirouge @not-your-average-prolifer If you look at the bottom of my post about why abortion is genocide, under the cut, you'll see me go off about the genocide in Palestine.
There's a group of us on IG who are making a video about being pro-life pro-Palestine. Anyone interested in being featured should send me a non-anon ask stating that so I'll add you to the chat. 🍉🇵🇸
It's not anti-semitic to recognize and declare that the IDF has trapped innocent Gazan civilians in an open-air prison ghetto and is exterminating them systematically with bombs and starvation. It's proven that Israel and the US lied about this years ago to justify mass murder and they're lying again. Fuck the war industry propaganda.
Some reasons why some pro-lifers haven’t spoken up the way you like:
1) Almost no blame is placed on Hamas and they are sick of people deflecting said blame when it’s brought up. I personally find most people willing to dialogue when you validate their anger and pain first, and ask them if they are willing to hear your own in respectful, nuanced conversation. Not randomly online demanding they act a certain way.
2) Being pro-life means being anti-abortion; you can make that as detailed or as simple as you feel is best for the work you fulfill. This doesn’t mean you have to care about all other issues at the same time or have to agree on something specific in order to do other work concerning abortion. Unborn lives have a right to their own justice movement without people with born privilege trying to sideline it.
3) Actual anti-semitism has happened before during and after the Hamas attacks precisely because people use that rhetoric to deflect blame. People will get very defensive on the topic for a reason. You can deny being anti-semitic but your actions may or may not have that effect as a collective whole (the same can be said for those who are pro-IDF but claim to feel sympathy for Palestinians).
4) Some people may be doing something about it but on a different platform or in other parts of their life. Given that this topic is very divisive, I don’t blame them. They also don’t owe you visible proof of their work.
5) I, personally, have yet to find anyone who is speaking up for Palestinian lives without also dismissing and redirecting the conversation of Jewish women being raped to death, of Jewish babies being beheaded, and how Hamas continually use their own citizens as meat shields. Talk about IDF crimes until you are blue in the face, but don’t act shocked when no one cares after numerous people dismiss the very real crimes of Hamas.
6) People are traumatized, and processing/helping under the radar, since they don’t want their pain triggered for their by debates/threats. Other than a single post condemning Hamas, I didn’t do more than that (on here) because the disregard for the women and child victims of the attack was bringing back unresolved trauma from when I was advocating for the rape victims of ISIS and no one cared until years after the fact, and by then many people were broken. People like me do not owe you a public performance to make you comfortable in your politics.
It’s a very polarizing, heated situation and it’s hard finding a place that is genuinely nuanced and non-polarizing. I know people on the left and right like to jump to conclusions and assume the worst about others; I have even done that myself. But I am learning that almost no one cares about solutions or discussions unless you forcibly dismiss the other person’s pain and make them agree with you 100%.
I follow a lot of pro-life blogs and have not seen a single one echo the sentiments the anon or op claim many pro-life blogs are doing.
I know I have personally talked a lot about the war and some people accuse me of not caring about Palestine children because I put more blame on Hamas for the killing of Palestinian civilians than I do on the IDF. So when I see people claim that pro-lifers “don’t care” about the children in Palestine I think that is just a weak accusation made towards people who just aren’t putting the blame for the killing of these children with who you want it to be put with.
And for all the people claiming there is a genocide in Gaza (although I’m not sure how genocide results in the increasing of a population and not the decreasing of it) I haven’t seen any of those people condemn Hamas at all. No word on their October 7 attack where they intentionally targeted and slaughtered 1400 civilians, raping women and children, beheading babies, burning them in ovens, shooting household pets, taking over 100 hostages. No one who cares about the Palestinians will even acknowledge the atrocities of Hamas.
So it’s very disingenuous to accuse pro-lifers of not being pro-life for Palestinian children and say that we just respond that it’s not the same “because they’re Muslim” just because a lot of us put most of the blame with Hamas, the terrorist organization directly responsible for the majority of Palestinian deaths.
the sacred tree,thousands years of Populus euphratica
“The Rape of Nanking should be remembered not only for the number of people slaughtered but for the cruel manner in which many met their deaths. Chinese men were used for bayonet practice and in decapitation contests. An estimated 20,000-80,000 Chinese women were raped. Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched. Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them get torn apart by German shepherds. So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of bestial machinery.”
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The rape of Nanking by Iris Chang.
(found Via here. Trigger warning for photos of disembodied heads.)
We should never ever let the Japanese forget Nanking, just like nobody let’s America forget Hiroshima.
One of the poli science teachers at my college was the only one out of 35 members of his family to survive it. He gave a speech on its anniversery that chilled you to the core and made your bones ache to imagine the barbaric things he witnessed and what he survived.
What the fuuuck that is… just awful and unimaginable wtf
So yea, the Japanese were to China and southeast Asia as the Nazis were to Jews, Gypsies, etc.
This is one of the most grievous examples, but others include testing distribution of plague fleas on Chinese villages, sharing medical experiment notes with death camp doctors, and other general shenanigans.
The reason I like reading a book in one day is because I love watching people look at the size of the book in pure horror and then back at me like I just became terrifying in their eyes
I had a guy in highschool look at me one day and go, “why do you have a different book every other day? Why not just read one??” I just kind of paused and said, “they’re different because I read them and get a new one?” And he made this face
these are the moments i live for
THE SECURITY GUARD AT MY JOB IS ACTUALLY SCARED OF ME BECAUSE I HAVE A DIFFERENT BOOK WITH ME EVERYDAY. HE SAYS ITS NOT NATURAL. HAHAHA GOOD
the second day after my ship’s change of command ceremony, i see the new cap come around the corner so i call attention on deck and everyone freezes and clears the way.
he walks past me and i’m about to relax but then he, stops, backs up and looks me up and down. i’m sweating bullets because we knew nothing about what kind of a cap was he going to be like was my shirt untucked or something oh god what did i do now???
and he just goes “where’s your book?”
and i blink because i am a third class petty officer but a captain is still kind of terrifying and he’s new and I DON’T KNOW WHAT BOOK HE IS TALKING ABOUT is he a stickler do i need to have a copy of the bluejacket’s manual on me at all times or what?
so i screw up my courage and ask him, “my book, sir?”
and he checks my name patch again and says, “you’re petty officer xxxx, you always have a book. where is your book? are you okay?”
like
cap has been onboard for less than 24 hours HOW DOES HE KNOW THIS?
(i mean, he’s not wrong, i got a lot of shit from other senior personnel about the pocket on my uniform being stretched out because it always had a book in it.)
but i have an answer and he’s the new cap, so i give it: “i finished my last one and haven’t had a chance to get to my bunk and grab a new one.”
and his eyes bug out
shit
i broke the new captain goddammit LT is gonna kill me
and he goes “BUT YOU JUST STARTED THAT ONE YESTERDAY!”
and i’m just staring back now like HOW DOES HE KNOW THIS OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK OUR NEW CAP IS PSYCHIC OR SOME SHIT
and because my brain has broken under the stress of this encounter i ask him
and he’s like “i saw you on the mess decks on my tour with [old cap] and you were on like page ten that book is like 400 pages how did you read it in one day?”
and i’m like SHIT he’s gonna be pissed because he thinks i was slacking because i read a bigass book in one day fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK
like this was not the first time i’d gotten in trouble for reading when i was on watch or whatever but i had maintenance watches i’m literally waiting for something to break and my chief didn’t mind
BUT THIS IS THE CAP IF HE MINDS CHIEF’S OPINION ISN’T WORTH A FISH FART IN THE OCEAN
and so i stammer, “i read a lot? so… i… i read fast?”
and he just stares and i don’t know what the expression on his face means
before i can process this though and come up with a new response, he’s grabbing my shoulder and turning me and pushing me ahead of him where little baby petty officers do not walk because CAPTAIN GOES FIRST
and i’m like “welp this is how i end up in the brig i get to be the new cap’s first captain’s mast it was nice knowing everyone”
idk that or he’s gonna throw me over the side honestly who knows my whole world was upside down at this point
and then he starts talking
he’s like “go get a new book what are you reading next did you like your last book tell your chief i sent you if he asks why you were gone what is your favorite genre and author have you ever read” and basically escorts me to my berthing grilling me about books and everywhere we go people are staring and oh god i’m going to die i am just going to die of shame and horror and this is it this is what takes me out does this count as dying for my country i don’t even know
and that’s how we learned that our new cap was married to a librarian and an avid reader and was not going to have an illiterate crew, dammit.
i never caught shit for having a book in my back pocket or reading on watch again. :D
this is so cute i love you so much im so jealous
This is the best story I have ever read, god bless
IT GOT BETTER
Reblogging this for the phrase “Chiefs opinion isn’t worth a fish fart in the ocean”
I love learning about other culture's Houseguest Protocols but I hate hate hate when they don't match up cause like
I (PNW Canadian, raised with etiquette from my old British great-grandparents) sleeping over: Can I help with dinner. Can I do the dishes. PLEASE let me do something useful. Im sorry I'm here. I can sleep on the floor it's fine. You don't need to cook for me I can go outside and drink pond water. Do you hate me
My friend (Indian, raised by entire extended family in Dubai) hosting me: Why won't you let me feed you. Do you need more coffee. Am I doing something wrong. Do you have enough blankets? I will buy you warmer clothes. Here, you can sleep in my room, I'll take the couch. Why are you crying? Oh God am I a bad host
Also,
Me (PNW, raised European etiquettes) making direct eye contact with a family member I have wronged: They will know by my forthright and direct body language that I am owning my mistake and not trying to lie or minimize my actions. By looking them in the eyes they can know that they have my full attention and I am fully dedicated to making things right
Family member (Cree, raised with Cree etiquettes) seeing me stare them down like I'm daring them to try shit: I can tell by their unwavering death-stare that they are not the least bit ashamed of themselves. Obviously they are lying to my face and also think I am an idiot. This is an act of severe disrespect
Me, oblivious: I'm doing so good at Apology
Soul on the edge of God's Wound
Is this a prank? What….
Edit: holy heck it’s real…
They might be able to help us…
The stage that they're at is animal testing but it sounds like it's been successful in mouse and primate models.
My understanding: The way autoimmune diseases usually seem to work* is the immune system is "flagging" the wrong thing as harmful/not needed and destroying it. The typical treatments for autoimmune diseases are just tamping the entire immune system down so it can't destroy anything, which leaves a person vulnerable to infection.
The newer method is basically "tricking" the body using a method that... the human body already came up with. Cells flagging the wrong thing apparently happens all the time, so there are multiple defenses against immune disease, and one of them is in the liver. So scientists figured out a way to tell the body "hey, you flagged this wrong" and sent it to the liver and the liver/body recognized this signal.
There is still a lot of work to be done and it sounds like this isn't foolproof (ie: what if the liver is whats broken? unsure, and what if the immune system flags things wrong again?) but this is literally so amazing. i was tearing up reading it, and i hope that everything goes well in clinical trials.
*theres like a lot medical science doesnt know about the immune system
Thank you for this explanation/synthesis of the article! It's important for us to understand that they're still in early development and testing of these methods, but also that they've seen it work in mice and primates (rather than just petri dishes of human cells). I hope this goes well.
Hi! I'm a microbiologist and I've done work in academia, pharma, and clinical trials.
So the most exciting thing about this article is the last paragraph tbh (working on getting the actual paper, it's not up on sci-hub yet).
The company mentioned, Anokion, has four registered clinical trials for both Celiac and MS patients. The trial for Celiac just submitted data from their phase 1 trial (meaning there's good data it is safe) and are recruiting for a Phase 1/2 trial (meaning they are now testing efficacy). After that, the big hurdle is phase 3, which looks at whether or not it is better than a current treatment. The projected completion date is spring 2025. They are also preparing for a Phase 2 trial but are not yet recruiting.
The phase 1 MS trial is currently active, estimated completion in summer 2024.
I checked the company website and it looks like they are in the process of submitting an investigational new drug (IND) application for Type 1 diabetes. This is the first step to starting clinical safety and efficacy trials.
Now clinical trials can get delayed for a variety of reasons, but this is a really good sign! It's way further along than I initially thought when seeing the news. If the treatment does well, we could see new drugs on the market for Celiacs as early at 2030ish and MS as early as 2035.
I literally just burst into tears and woke up my partners.
Holy shit. The idea of not having celiac disease anymore is so completely overwhelming.
Update: I have registered for the trial and if you also have celiac and want to register the link is here.
Brothers
Mushrooms releasing spores into the wind. Captured by Paul Stamets
The weather dried up enough for a autumn walk through a new woods 🥰
