Today, my Kentucky Wonders joined the tomato party— along with some VERY hot peppers

Now it all comes in, all at once

Friends, keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I am about to attempt the doomed and harrowing passage known as Costco on a Sunday Afternoon. Alone. I know it is a brave and foolhardy quest from which return is not assured, so hold me in your hearts.

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

Make a concrete difference in my wife’s refugee family’s future and survival. Thank you for helping— it truly means everything. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAid #Refugees #AfghanRefugees #Afghanistan

All the bounty of summer. Wish I could share it with Mashal’s Afghan refugee family facing deportation back under the Taliban— who need resources more practical to survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAid #Refugees #Afghanistan #Resist

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

Mashal’s Afghan refugee family are ten deep— three generations, including Aliyah, the grandmother, and her three children and three grandchildren. They are in danger of being sent back under the Taliban. Help us help them survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd#Mut... #Refugees #Afghanistan

Make a difference for my wife’s refugee family. We are so close! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Make a difference for my wife’s refugee family. We are so close! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Blessed to have my aunty’s visit the mainland from Oahu, and to be treated to a deluxe chirashi bowl. But I am thinking of what my wife’s Afghan refugee family has to eat. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Fresh from my garden. Wishing I could share this with my wife’s refugee family, who cannot get fresh food. Please help them survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #mutualaid #refugees

Please help us meet our goal— help this refugee family survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd . #mutualaid #refugees #refugeeswelcome

Please help Mashal’s Afghan refugee family— now in peril— survive. You CAN make a tangible impact— guaranteed. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAid #Refugees #fundraisers #LiveAid

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

This is the logic of the fascist: some lives matter more, some people— because of ethnic, cultural, national, regional, or religious background, matter less. Help this refugee family survive— refute/resist. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAidRequest #Refugees #AfghanRefugees

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

Every child, refugee or not, deserves a future. Melika, Kawsar, and Mo need help to survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost #Refugees #Afghanistan #AfghanRefugees

How do we measure the value of a life— how do we decide some lives matter, but others are expendable? Please help my wife Mashal’s Afghan refugee family survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd. #mutualaid #Refugees #Afghanistan #StopHazaraGenocide

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

Help us reach our goal— and ensure a future for three Afghan refugee children and their parents! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

My wife’s refugee family’s asylum case was canceled by Trump. Now they are in peril. We are SO close to our goal— please help them survive!

We are SO close. Please help my wife’s Afghan refugee family survive! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #refugee #humanitarianaid #fundraising

Help is make a future for these children! #fundraising#humanitarian #charity #stopthehazaragenocide gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

We are asked to accept the logic that some lives don’t matter, in some places, for people of certain backgrounds. Help refute that logic; help this family survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

We’re so close! Please help these children have a future! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Kawsar and Melika, the two girls, dream of being able to go to school (they cannot, as refugees in Pakistan; they cannot if deported to Afghanistan). Little Mo doesn’t yet know what he wants, beyond a better place to play. Help them find a future. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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It’s the 4th of July, when Tommy J declared independence. Help this family pursue the dream of survival in Pakistan, where they are Afghan refugees from the Taliban. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Thanks!

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I spent all night beseiged by MAGA keyboard warriors who mostly mistook my post to be about the US, and came with “joyful” deport memes. Others wrote, “Assimilate or die!” And still others wrote, “This is money going to the Taliban?” Thank you for helping: gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Trump ended their asylum to the US. Now they are in great danger. Please help: gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Please help my wife’s family survive! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

Here is Aliyah, Mashal’s family's grandmother who recently had to have emergency liver surgery, and her daughter and son. She is currently bedbound, and if deported from Pakistan will not have access to the healthcare she needs to survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd