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I'm really not sure what to think of this, given the imminent takeover by the "Board of Peace", the plans for further ghettoisation of Gaza and Israel's seemingly permanent annexation of 70% of the territory.

Perhaps they're attempting to stop Israel from accusing everyone and anyone of being khamaaaas by simply disbanding? ​​

I held a fundraiser for families in Gaza yesterday and collected only $200 in donations. People have so much energy for posting about Palestine and trying to triangulate the most correct takes but can't even give a freaking dollar to a mutual aid fund for people in Gaza. Yes, American leftists are obviously for the most part not individuals part of the wealthy elite but for fucks sake a lot of them are middle class and can skip the take out and reduce other luxuries they have to send money to Gaza. It is annoying to come on Reddit and see American leftists wax poetic about the need for revolution in the US to make change but they cannot even tolerate the discomfort of making a basic lifestyle downgrade to send money to the people surviving the genocide waged with our tax dollars. It is pitiful. It's exasperating.

I have chronic migraine w/o aura and some of the migraines are vestibular migraines. Sometimes during a migraine episode my ears get extremely itchy, it feels like fluid is draining from my ears down my throat and after the episode ends if I stick my finger in my ear I'll feel dampness like a tiny amount of fluid drained out of my ear. Does anyone else get this? My doctor brushed it off like she's never heard of it being a symptom?

ETA I don’t have Ménière’s disease. I got evaluated by an ENT and I have no hearing loss and my ENG came back totally normal. In fact, my hearing is better than most of the general population. According to the testing I can hear pitches at decibels most adults can’t! Lol 😂 Don’t you hate it when you get a test result that’s not just normal but markers of excellent health and doctors are like “your blood work is excellent, nothing is wrong with you” and brush off your extreme pain??

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Just for the people tuning in who are struggling right now, I was having 25-30 headache days a month for two years and after I started Emgality, Botox, 100mg CoQ10, 400mg Riboflavin (B2), 2500 iu viamin D3, 600mg calcium, 1000mg vitamin C, and 400mg of Magnesium citrate it reduced my headache days to 10 a month. That's still a lot of headaches but it's enough to get by with 50mg Ubrelvy + 220mg naproxen + 1000mg acetominophen (paracetamol) as an abortive. My life is more normal now. But the itchy wet ear thing still happens!!!

I have chronic migraine w/o aura and some of the migraines are vestibular migraines. Sometimes during a migraine episode my ears get extremely itchy, it feels like fluid is draining from my ears down my throat and after the episode ends if I stick my finger in my ear I'll feel dampness like a tiny amount of fluid drained out of my ear. Does anyone else get this? My doctor brushed it off like she's never heard of it being a symptom?

ETA I don’t have Ménière’s disease. I got evaluated by an ENT and I have no hearing loss and my ENG came back totally normal. In fact, my hearing is better than most of the general population. According to the testing I can hear pitches at decibels most adults can’t! Lol 😂 Don’t you hate it when you get a test result that’s not just normal but markers of excellent health and doctors are like “your blood work is excellent, nothing is wrong with you” and brush off your extreme pain??
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Just for the people tuning in who are struggling right now, I was having 25-30 headache days a month for two years and after I started Emgality, Botox, 100mg CoQ10, 400mg Riboflavin (B2), 2500 iu viamin D3, 600mg calcium, 1000mg vitamin C, and 400mg of Magnesium citrate it reduced my headache days to 10 a month. That's still a lot of headaches but it's enough to get by with 50mg Ubrelvy + 220mg naproxen + 1000mg acetominophen (paracetamol) as an abortive. My life is more normal now. But the itchy wet ear thing still happens!!!

>ISRAEL’S CAMPAIGN TO raze huge swaths of southern Lebanon may destroy not only people’s homes, but also their ability to even show they owned the properties, according to locals and officials from the Lebanese government — potentially leaving as many as a quarter million Lebanese unable to prove that they have property or homes at all.
Aerial imagery from Bint Jbeil, the seat of a municipality by the same name, shows what residents describe as burn marks at sites where official records were kept: civil registration files, land deeds, the paper infrastructure of a city’s legal existence.

>With the notary gone, civil administration buildings bulldozed, and widespread destruction of homes that contained important personal documents, residents of the 36 villages of the Bint Jbeil district fear Israel’s total war has meant the destruction of all their records could permanently untether them from the homes they left behind when they fled under Israel’s evacuation orders.

>That could make reconstruction after the war a nightmare. Bint Jbeil is Lebanon’s most southwestern district and the site of an Israeli campaign to evacuate entire populations before flattening their villages.

>“The Ministry of Interior has not yet been able to obtain the civil registry records for Bint Jbeil district.”

>Some Lebanese even see it as an intentional tactic, part of Israel’s plan to empty out southern Lebanon and establish a buffer zone south of the Litani River Israeli leaders hope will put northern Israel out of the reach of Hezbollah’s rockets.

>Some Lebanese even see it as an intentional tactic, part of Israel’s plan to empty out southern Lebanon and establish a buffer zone south of the Litani River Israeli leaders hope will put northern Israel out of the reach of Hezbollah’s rockets.

>A mukhtar, or local official, confirmed to The Intercept that civil registry records had been digitized up to 2020 only, which offers limited reassurance. Much, however, remains unaccounted for. There are the last six years of records along with countless others that were not officially registered thanks to Lebanon’s notoriously chaotic bureaucracies and lax enforcement of registration rules, which are at times flouted to avoid paying taxes.

>At the center of the crisis is Bint Jbeil’s Grand Serail, the old administrative building that houses land deeds for thousands of families across more than 20 villages in the district. Since Israeli forces moved in, Lebanese authorities have not been able to reach it, despite making efforts through the International Committee of the Red Cross with requests to the so-called Mechanism Committee that administers the Israeli-Lebanese ceasefire agreement.

>"Yallah Bye." After 16 years, artist Liad Hussein Kantorowicz is saying goodbye to Berlin. Kantorowicz is leaving as a result of the Rechtsruck (political shift to the right) and the ongoing restrictions of political and artistic freedom. And in a final irony, those restrictions are disrupting her departure. 

>As part of her farewell to the city, Kantorowicz was set to open a retrospective exhibition on Sunday at Pink Dot Life, a queer gallery in Prenzlauer Berg. But on Thursday, the announcement disappeared from the venue's website. Kantorowicz later got a call that her exhibition was cancelled.

>The irony is that the exhibition has nothing to do with Palestine or Israel.

>The abrupt shutdown is a “clear case of political persecution against me,” Kantorowicz wrote online. The 48-year-old moved here in 2010, and her time in Berlin has coincided with the city's maximum hype. Her art seeks to investigate how the city's famed freedom was destroyed by changing material conditions, from rising rents to increasing repression. 

>She’s also long been a key figure of Berlin's Jewish left, hard to miss at pro-Palestinian demonstrations with her curly pink hair and signs like "BDS and BDSM". 

>"The irony is that the exhibition has nothing to do with Palestine or Israel," Kantorowicz told HEIST. 

>It appears, however, that its cancellation might. In recent months, Kantorowicz has documented the process of renouncing her Israelicitizenship. This included a post of a costumefrom an old art performance: an Israeli flag with a hole cut in the middle ("You can imagine where on my body the hole fit."). She also made a song about how "everything I fight for is illegal," and in the video the banned slogan"from the river to the sea" appears on a piece of paper.

>This was enough for Berlin to take action: Kantorowicz got a letter about a criminal investigation, and then, she says, the gallery started getting calls with accusations of antisemitism. 

>Ina Rosenthal of Pink Dot Life declined to comment to HEIST on any calls, or the reason that the show isn’t going forward as planned. Kantorowicz claims the pressure came straight from the Berlin Senate’s cultural administration; the department did not respond to a request for comment.

>State repression against both political demonstrations and artistic exhibitions has been justified in the name of fighting antisemitism and protecting Jewish life. But it's hard to overlook the fact that this censorship has disproportionately affected Jewish artists and intellectuals, such as Candice Breitz, Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, and Yuval Abraham, just to name a few. An estimated25% of deplatforming cases have targeted Jews, who only make up less than 1% of Germany's population.

>In the eyes of Berlin’s government, by rejecting an Israeli flag and identity for herself, Kantorowicz went beyond the pale. But it’s not clear how her rejection of Zionism should be any more criminal than the disturbing signs of antisemitism among the city's elites. We've recently seen the CDU hand over millions of euros for fighting antisemitism to far-right influencers with a record of spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories themselves. Berlin mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) continues to praise Heinrich Lummer, a conservative politician who was one of the worst antisemitesin Berlin's postwar history, and has declined to criticise Elon Musk for his Hitler-like salute and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

>Fortunately, Berliners can still say goodbye to Kantorowicz before she relocates to Barcelona. After a race to move her art across the city, the exhibition will take place at Flutgraben in Treptow on Sunday from 15:00 to 22:30, with performances every hour. It will no longer be a vernissage, but rather a finissage. "I'm the only one who will close my exhibition," declared Kantorowicz on Instagram, "not the Berlin Senate for Culture."

Please support them!!! What could you forgo today to send $36 in mutual aid to a Palestinian in Gaza? A deli sandwich? A cup of coffee? A t-shirt you didn’t need? They are surviving solely on international generosity. Borders are closed right now, please send aid directly to Gazans!

Link to a verified fundraiser for my friends in Gaza: https://give4gaza.org