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Prem Thakker ツ

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Huh. So it's unclear who's funding this campaign to pay influencers to attack Kat Abughazaleh.

But the guy coordinating also has a company called Advocators AI, which just won an award for work for…Daniel Biss — her opponent.

One of the campaigns the company boasts about promotes trips to Israel.

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🚨 The Pentagon is now sending a Marine expeditionary unit — meaning thousands of marines — to the Middle East.

If you work at the Pentagon or in the armed forces, please text me on Signal: premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected.

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The Dumb Reason Trump Keeps Calling His Iran War a ‘Little Excursion’ Describing his war as an ‘excursion’ is the latest way Trump is screwing things up, not worrying about the details, and refusing to correct course.

Have you wondered why Donald Trump keeps calling his disastrous war on Iran an "excursion"?

…According to close sources, it's because Trump is confusing the term “military incursion” with a "military excursion."

@swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report:

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Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

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Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year? Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'

BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia — the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention.

DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.

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For those who may not know — this move the Pentagon is making now was also the first deployment in the Vietnam War…

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One critical way we’ll get through this is by active duty service members reaching out to journalists and telling their stories.

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🚨 The Pentagon is now sending a Marine expeditionary unit — meaning thousands of marines — to the Middle East.

If you work at the Pentagon or in the armed forces, please text me on Signal: premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected.

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If you work at CNN and have any info or tips you’d like to share, text me on Signal @ premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected

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Veteran Whose Arm Was Broken As He Protested the War on Iran Speaks Out Brian McGinnis talks about Palestine, propaganda, how senators reacted when he was brutalized, and how the US doesn’t actually 'support its troops.'

NEW: Veteran Brian McGinnis speaks out.

He describes senators behaving like “robots” after a Republican helped break his arm as he protested the Iran War.

He says "shallow" slogans like “support your troops” are just used to distract people from "thinking critically."

And much, much more:

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Veteran Brian McGinnis says when a Republican helped break his arm as he spoke out against the war, other senators in the room ignored it all and were "acting as robots."

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The Israeli military has dropped charges against soldiers who were on camera raping a Palestinian detainee.

@premthakker.bsky.social explains, the whole story is even worse.

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Yes. siR I love the extra breathing room. Thank you , sir... Ha ha.. No, they fit perfectly.. You're looking very handsome today by the way, new bronzer ? No sir I'm allergic to peanuts, please si-- ok sir I'll have one, they're *cough* ve-vewry thasty

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My gosh. The Israeli Defense Minister also openly says here that the role of the Israeli military's legal system is "to protect and safeguard" soldiers — not to hold them accountable, for instance, when they rape someone on camera:

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Tweet from Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:
Justice has been done.

I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them.

This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled.

The role of the IDF's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas.

I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.

The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.

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This was *the* case pro-Israel defenders would point at to say "See? Israel takes human rights violations seriously!"

And after all that — including mobs of Israeli rioters and politicians storming a military base to protest the arrest of these soldiers — it's being dropped.

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NEW POLL: Most Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal An exclusive Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress survey also finds likely American voters are split on whether Trump is more responsive to the American people or to Israel.

New poll shows most Americans believe Trump was at least partly motivated to launch the Iran war to distract from Epstein.

The poll also remarkably finds the public *completely split* on whether Trump is more responsive to the American people or Israel.

From Drop Site/Zeteo/Data for Progress:

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Republican Senator John Kennedy tried cornering Immigration expert David Bier. It didn’t go well.

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Janet Mills' "Issues" page, which is blank, and not navigable to from the website menu bar.

It's been 147 days since Janet Mills launched her campaign for Senate in Maine.

The Chuck Schumer-recruit's "Issues" page is hidden from the website menu bar. You can only find it by typing in the URL.

And even if you find it, there's no info on the page. Just a donate button.

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Poll of Iranian-Americans position on the US-Israeli war on Iran
49.3% opposed
48.9& support

One look at cable news, you'd think Iranian-Americans are fully in support of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

A new poll shows it's actually evenly split — with opposition actually being slightly higher.

@niacouncil.org poll conducted by Zogby Analytics:

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First Draft: Debunking Donald’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Remarks Prem annotates and unpacks Trump’s insane remarks in Florida on everything from the Iran war to mail-in voting, while Israel continues to terrorize the people of Lebanon.

We are 10 years into Donald Trump’s dominance of American public life, and still…his remarks yesterday were perhaps another level of bonkers, even for him. We annotate and debunk it all in this morning's First Draft @zeteo.com —>

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New: @imeupolicy.bsky.social & @justicedemocrats.com spending $100K to back Junaid Ahmed in IL-8 Democratic primary

Opponent Melissa Bean support includes: Pelosi, Landsman, Hoyer; pro-Israel, Crypto, AI donors

Ahmed support includes: Sanders, Warren, Khanna, Ramirez, Jayapal

Election next week

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U.S. Military Action Against Iran: Over Half Of Voters Oppose It, 74% Oppose Sending Ground Troops Into Iran, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Vast Majority Expects The Conflict To Last ... "Voters are unenthusiastic about the air attack on Iran and there is overwhelming opposition to putting American troops on Iranian soil to fight a ground war," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analy...
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A Cover-Up? Survivors of Israel’s Attack on US Ship Still Waiting for Answers 58 Years Later A Zeteo special investigation gets a first-hand account of Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty from a survivor and examines why the truth remains so elusive.

A Cover-Up? Survivors of Israel’s Attack on US Ship Still Waiting for Answers 58 Years Later

A Zeteo special investigation by @premthakker.bsky.social gets a first-hand account of Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty from a survivor.

Read:
zeteo.com/p/coverup-su...

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New Quinnipiac poll shows 44% of voters — a record high — think the US is too supportive of Israel.

It is the highest percentage since Quinnipiac first asked this question in 2017:

New Quinnipiac poll shows 44% of voters — a record high — think the US is too supportive of Israel.

It is the highest percentage since Quinnipiac first asked this question in 2017:

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First Draft: President Lindsey Graham? Prem on how the hawkish Republican senator got the Iran invasion he’s been pining for and now wants to attack Cuba too, while Donald Trump is still not worried about exploding gas prices.

“He’s one of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen… you’ll end up starting WWIII with a guy like that.”

— Donald Trump on Lindsey Graham in 2016.

Now, Graham is right alongside Trump, as the pair pierce any illusion of Trump being a dovish exception to the war-hungry conservative movement.

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Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

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Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

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