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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

144 Followers 127 Following 145 Posts Joined Jan 2025
2 months ago

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔

A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.

Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

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2 months ago
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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal

How cruel and monstrous is this confluence of things?

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3 months ago
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BREAKING: At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City and northern areas as Israel continues attacks across the so-called yellow line truce demarcation.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r

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3 months ago
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Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

Enough of this

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3 months ago

not his brain obviously

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3 months ago
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The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.

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3 months ago
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It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

onslaught

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3 months ago
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For our fourth and final centenary special issue, the artist Malika Favre created “Taking Flight,” the latest adaptation of The New Yorker’s classic Eustace Tilley cover. Read the issue here: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nWkC-7 #NewYorker100

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4 months ago

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.

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4 months ago

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

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4 months ago

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

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4 months ago

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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."

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4 months ago

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.

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5 months ago
old dog sitting on carpet

16 years old

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5 months ago

they are bad at math

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5 months ago

it’s so clear

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5 months ago
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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

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago

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

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5 months ago

blasphemous

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7 months ago
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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.

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7 months ago
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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.

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8 months ago
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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.

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8 months ago

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

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8 months ago
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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."

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8 months ago

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.

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8 months ago

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.

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8 months ago
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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

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