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if you don’t believe in Freedom of Speech. Press, literature, assembly and rights for everyone (and Free Palestine) don’t bother following. #writer #ofcolor #arabamerican #educator #leader #fitnessjunkie

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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

05.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 59647    🔁 10830    💬 1175    📌 515

CNN commentators are commenting on Mamdani with such disrespect starting with Van Jones. bought and sold

05.11.2025 04:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for all the love folks. He left us last week. It was a good run. He was a good friend.

13.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

From the Guardian 2
A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere” and threatening that if they supported “terrorist organisations” they could be arrested."

13.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From the Guardian:
"Israel also forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison, in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept.

13.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
old dog sitting on carpet

old dog sitting on carpet

16 years old

25.09.2025 01:13 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

they are bad at math

22.09.2025 05:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it’s so clear

22.09.2025 05:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Charlie Kirk memorial latest updates: Trump and Vance to join tens of thousands of people at service for rightwing activist Funeral expected to start at 11am local time; Erika Kirk, US president and vice-president among the expected speakers

what did he do actually? create unity? find a cure for a life threatening disease? develop a system for a better world? Come up with a solution for disparities? i mean what did he do? anything worthwhile? people doing those things have been cancelled. this is insulting

21.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Merkley Leads Historic Call for U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Statehood - Merkley First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a historic resoluti...

Senator Jeff Merkely leads the First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state

This is long overdue and a critical step forward.

www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-lead...

19.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 375    🔁 83    💬 7    📌 4
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The Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel By indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister afoot we cannot ignore

One underreported fact is Brendan Carr—the FCC chairman who got Kimmel suspended—spent the last four years warning that government censorship of critics leads to authoritarianism.

Carr co-authored P2025. He know he's advancing authoritarianism. That's the point.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...

19.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 270    🔁 114    💬 10    📌 2
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‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center Critics condemn reopening of ‘Camp J’ unit at Angola in service of Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown, noting its history of brutality and violence

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

18.09.2025 11:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i mean blasphemy against the arts. get out of our cathedral

15.09.2025 04:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

blasphemous

15.09.2025 04:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

Every time journalists are killed, we are all robbed of the stories. Sending pieces of my heart to their families.

10.08.2025 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

every call all the time. You need to read how Microsoft is big brother and how genocide is the result. Whether you believe that they knew it or not.

06.08.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump regime officials must be prosecuted for the deaths of the children in Texas flood! Trump gutted the National Weather Service

everything he doged is already costing lives. from healthcare to aviation safety to climate and weather safety. while death camps are built. Taking aim from
every possible direction.

06.07.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.

05.07.2025 14:39 — 👍 31126    🔁 9623    💬 981    📌 384
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Donald Trump’s UFC stunt is more than a circus. It’s authoritarian theatre | Karim Zidan The planned fight on White House grounds isn’t just macho spectacle – it’s a chilling marker of where the US is headed

You may be funding this incipient toxic culture that spectacularizes violence. Remember who to boycott.

"The UFC is even sponsoring the United States Semiquincentennial dubbed America 250, joining the likes of Amazon, the Coca-Cola Company, Oracle and Walmart."

05.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all.

This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.

Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

27.06.2025 22:47 — 👍 24698    🔁 5624    💬 639    📌 211

A hideous and indefensible crime. Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. Both Biden and Trump are complicit. So too are those who excuse and defend it.

28.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 470    🔁 159    💬 16    📌 8
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Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans

Do people need to hide in a closet and start a diary cause this shit is stark

27.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raised GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.

GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.

26.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 132    🔁 101    💬 2    📌 9

Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs.

What the hell are we doing?

25.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 7531    🔁 2529    💬 356    📌 151
From WIRED magazine. The US Is Storing
Migrant Children's DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

From WIRED magazine. The US Is Storing Migrant Children's DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

What the fuuuuuuuuuck

www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

26.06.2025 00:54 — 👍 1490    🔁 647    💬 70    📌 81
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US supreme court clears way for Trump to deport migrants to countries not their own Justices lift judicial order, handing victory to US president in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations

The right to disappear people?

24.06.2025 01:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

stephen got left out.

23.06.2025 19:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is huge

23.06.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Here's a convenient list of 'economists' who should immediately lose their tenure and never be listened to again.

Worth noting that NOT ONE OF THEM actually has a private sector job working in economics or finance. They're all academics.

And for good measure, might be worth looking into whether any of them are noncitizens here on a visa.

Here's a convenient list of 'economists' who should immediately lose their tenure and never be listened to again. Worth noting that NOT ONE OF THEM actually has a private sector job working in economics or finance. They're all academics. And for good measure, might be worth looking into whether any of them are noncitizens here on a visa.

My response to the councilwoman on twitter:

"This is false @VickieforNYC, I'm a private sector entrepreneur with a thriving small business in the heart of Manhattan. Please delete this incorrect tweet.

Take out a paid subscription to support entrepreneurialism"

www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup

21.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 127    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 3
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Dodgers commit $1M to families impacted by immigration raids after pushback from community groups The Dodgers announced that the organization will donate $1 million to immigrant families impacted by recent raids.

abc7.com/post/dodgers...

21.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 83    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

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