Tom Hall

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City In taking a stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of…

In taking a stance against Israel's genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of anti-Zionism in the city that goes back over a century. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/zohr...

Great, another one who saw “The Hunger Games” and thought Coriolanus Snow was the hero.

I like how the author of that article described Boyle’s glaring hypocrisy as having “a life that’s a tangle of contradictions”.

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Vijay Prashad (@luciddialectics) [The story of my fight with depression] Over a Billion People in the World Suffer from Mental Health Ailments: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2025) - https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/men...

This is so important. and beautifully written.

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It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

Thanks! As an average monolingual American I have nothing but respect. Back to the piece, I don't much like the phrase 'virtue signaling' but it seems like at least a distant cousin of 'wank' if not more closely related. Thoughts on that?

@iris-meredith.bsky.social I found your essay from a repost by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and it was great, thanks! However I must have read your "working definition" of wank a dozen times and I just can't parse it. Please tell me there's a typo or a missing word so I know I'm not crazy.

Rabbi Elhanan Beck, of Palestinian born, advocates for the return of all occupied lands to Palestinians, the establishment of a FREE PALESTINE, and calls for the elimination of the racist and genocidal Zionist Israeli project!

(Credit: Jewish Voice)

Episode 2. of Occupied Tech deep dives into the world of digital rights, surveillance and the escalating cyber warfare against Palestinians. From Israel’s systemic digital apartheid to what experts… Digital Genocide EXPOSED: Big Tech, Surveillance and Automated Killing

New episode of Occupied Tech with guest Eric Sype from @7amleh.bsky.social. We discuss Big Tech complicity, how Meta's censorship works, and the digital siege of Palestine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EF...

An Awkward Confession I really hate to say this, and I wish I didn’t have to, but I’m 56 years old and for the first time in my life I’m extremely uncomfortable around Jewish people, or people who I think might be Jewish.

“I really hate to say this, and I wish I didn’t have to, but I’m 56 years old and for the first time in my life I’m extremely uncomfortable around Jewish people, or people who I think might be Jewish.”

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Good advice, but a tool or service that makes that easier could be a great project. If anyone decides to do it, apply to the T4P incubator (techforpalestine.org/incubator/) and maybe we can help!

It Was Always Genocide The NY Times published a “Guest Essay” today by Omer Bartov called I’m a Genocide Scholar.

I expanded on the thought: open.substack.com/pub/webzetet...

A few thoughts about the coming wave of epiphanies from supporters of Israel, and how they will try to whitewash their prior complicity and refusal to condemn the genocide.

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The author cites the evacuation and destruction of Rafah in May, 2024 as what flipped his opinion, but genocide and holocaust scholar Raz Segal came to that conclusion (written in "A Textbook Case of Genocide") after the evacuation of a million people from North Gaza TO Rafah on October 13, 2023.

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As social media companies continue to censor their users for standing up for Palestinian rights, Palestinian app developers have taken matters into their own hands with a new platform called Upscrolled.

See, this is the problem with woke ideology. If these boys had been able to play with GI Joe when they were kids they wouldn't feel the need to cosplay now.

Yikes. Pretty mean of Netanyahu to do this when the Democrats have shown him nothing but love and devotion.

“What I’ve had to come to terms with is that some people not only *don’t care* about the suffering of others, they *revel* in it.” — @abbymartin.bsky.social

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Noted. FWIW the post I was responding to showed up in my feed without context so I didn't realize it was part of a different argument.

It is insane that some are still talking about the casualties on October 7, when in *just the past four months* (since breaking the ceasefire), Israel has killed nearly 6x as many Palestinians as died on that day.

“You’re involved emotionally, but that’s it. What have you done? You’ve done nothing. Largely you don’t want to do anything. If you did, you wouldn’t have to have somebody tell you what to do.” --Hayward Wilson of CORE, speaking to a room of white wanna-be integrationists in Dearborn, MI, 1968.

Honestly at this point it seems very obviously more antisemitic to continue supporting Israel. Hard to imagine being proud to be Jewish while a genocidal state keeps insisting they are doing it for the Jews.

Is it at least a Boeing?

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

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