Ismat Mangla
@ismat.bsky.social
Managing editor at Analyst News. Previously at Quartz, Al Jazeera, Money, MarketWatch, Columbia, Umich. Go Blue.
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He was a Whopper, I was a McRib—back for a limited time, only at participating locations. He told me to "have it your way," I was content enough to say "I'm lovin' it." Could I really be his Burger Queen? He doesn't have a worm in his brain by the way. So the memes are wrong, the ones about the worm
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
He was a Whopper, I was a McRib—back for a limited time, only at participating locations. He told me to "have it your way," I was content enough to say "I'm lovin' it." Could I really be his Burger Queen? He doesn't have a worm in his brain by the way. So the memes are wrong, the ones about the worm
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
I think we all know what we need to do…
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think we all know what we need to do…
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It is difficult to put into words how this headline makes me feel. Especially the framing of “the mother says…” as if there is any doubt. The cruelty is the point.
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It is difficult to put into words how this headline makes me feel. Especially the framing of “the mother says…” as if there is any doubt. The cruelty is the point.
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so we won’t learn why he had a saudi passport and a bunch of very high level israel connections
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
so we won’t learn why he had a saudi passport and a bunch of very high level israel connections
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Epstein Files Transparency Act says that the Attorney General shall make public "all unclassified records" but has a carveout for "kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy"
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November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Epstein Files Transparency Act says that the Attorney General shall make public "all unclassified records" but has a carveout for "kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy"
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
🧵Zohran Mamdani went from a no-name assemblyman polling at just 1% in February to being the front-runner for NYC mayor in a matter of months.
I write for @analystnews.bsky.social on what his meteoric rise *and* the intense backlash to his campaign tell us about democracy in America.
I write for @analystnews.bsky.social on what his meteoric rise *and* the intense backlash to his campaign tell us about democracy in America.
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🧵Zohran Mamdani went from a no-name assemblyman polling at just 1% in February to being the front-runner for NYC mayor in a matter of months.
I write for @analystnews.bsky.social on what his meteoric rise *and* the intense backlash to his campaign tell us about democracy in America.
I write for @analystnews.bsky.social on what his meteoric rise *and* the intense backlash to his campaign tell us about democracy in America.
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Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
I’ve been thinking about how, my whole adult life, the word “terrorist” has been indispensable to Western imperialism. It’s a magic term that absolves the need for proof, debate or context.
August 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I’ve been thinking about how, my whole adult life, the word “terrorist” has been indispensable to Western imperialism. It’s a magic term that absolves the need for proof, debate or context.
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For two years, Palestinians begged for food, water and medicine only to be met with silence, or worse, euphemisms.
Now Western headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But don’t mistake this shift for a newfound conscience, writes Ahmad Ibsais.
Read:
www.analystnews.org/posts/why-th...
Now Western headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But don’t mistake this shift for a newfound conscience, writes Ahmad Ibsais.
Read:
www.analystnews.org/posts/why-th...
Why they prefer us starving | Analyst News
How the world learned to mourn Palestinian death without naming Palestinian murder.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For two years, Palestinians begged for food, water and medicine only to be met with silence, or worse, euphemisms.
Now Western headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But don’t mistake this shift for a newfound conscience, writes Ahmad Ibsais.
Read:
www.analystnews.org/posts/why-th...
Now Western headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But don’t mistake this shift for a newfound conscience, writes Ahmad Ibsais.
Read:
www.analystnews.org/posts/why-th...
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“It’s not a complex issue. It’s super simple.”
In one of his final appearances before his death in 2020, Jewish American commentator Michael Brooks called Israel-Palestine what it is: apartheid.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/shorts/fA5dP...
In one of his final appearances before his death in 2020, Jewish American commentator Michael Brooks called Israel-Palestine what it is: apartheid.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/shorts/fA5dP...
Michael Brooks: Israel-Palestine is not “complex.” It’s apartheid.
YouTube video by Analyst News
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August 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“It’s not a complex issue. It’s super simple.”
In one of his final appearances before his death in 2020, Jewish American commentator Michael Brooks called Israel-Palestine what it is: apartheid.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/shorts/fA5dP...
In one of his final appearances before his death in 2020, Jewish American commentator Michael Brooks called Israel-Palestine what it is: apartheid.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/shorts/fA5dP...
My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever.
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PHOTO ESSAY: Starvation attacks the bodies of these children in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In some tents and shelters in northern Gaza, emaciated children are held in their parents' arms. Their tiny arms and legs dangle limp.
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August 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever.
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Somehow this came across my feed on X and this is genuinely hilarious. Tablet Mag is arguing that a performing arts center in New York is actually a secret Kaaba, because... uh... it's a cube? And the Kaaba is a cube? And they both have some marble on the outside, so check-mate libs.
![Tablet Magazine
@tabletmag
The Perelman Performing Arts Center was unveiled in September 2023, steps from the footprint of the Twin Towers. Critics called it “glamorous” and “a retort to terrorism.”
But no one mentioned something almost too strange to believe: It’s a ringer for the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine. The cube-shaped building is even veiled in marble that recalls the Kaaba’s black kiswa, and one corner points directly toward Mecca.
This is not an internet conspiracy theory. It’s a thing anyone could see. But not a single one of the dozens of distinguished art and architecture critics and urban planners who commented on the site for dozens of high-level newspapers and magazines ever so much as noted the similarity to the Kaaba, even in passing. Standing on a site visible to hundreds of thousands of people, the building has somehow rendered itself invisible.
[Underneath is a still shot from a video, showing the white cube of the Perelman Art Center, with "American Kaaba" written above it by the edits. The only comparison to the actual Kaaba is that they are both cubes.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreighg42gvs54nbngdftc2v7xyr75d3q6372wtq7hrdwq2hfkf5pnya@jpeg)
July 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Somehow this came across my feed on X and this is genuinely hilarious. Tablet Mag is arguing that a performing arts center in New York is actually a secret Kaaba, because... uh... it's a cube? And the Kaaba is a cube? And they both have some marble on the outside, so check-mate libs.
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“The blood is on our hands as Americans. We are profoundly complicit and deeply responsible.”
@peterbeinart.bsky.social says the U.S. is not just silent—it is actively enabling famine and genocide in Gaza with weapons, diplomatic cover and billions in aid.
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@peterbeinart.bsky.social says the U.S. is not just silent—it is actively enabling famine and genocide in Gaza with weapons, diplomatic cover and billions in aid.
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“The blood of Gaza is on our hands as Americans,” says Peter Beinart #gaza #israel
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July 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“The blood is on our hands as Americans. We are profoundly complicit and deeply responsible.”
@peterbeinart.bsky.social says the U.S. is not just silent—it is actively enabling famine and genocide in Gaza with weapons, diplomatic cover and billions in aid.
youtube.com/shorts/HT4uh...
@peterbeinart.bsky.social says the U.S. is not just silent—it is actively enabling famine and genocide in Gaza with weapons, diplomatic cover and billions in aid.
youtube.com/shorts/HT4uh...
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I am so angry, I can’t speak on it anymore.
July 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I am so angry, I can’t speak on it anymore.
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"In the camp, I came to understand the true cruelty of this genocide: the suffocating overcrowding, the mass of refugees forced out of their homes, and the endless stories of hunger. " Must-read from @analystnews.bsky.social
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We are starving. | Analyst News
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza’s children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help th...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"In the camp, I came to understand the true cruelty of this genocide: the suffocating overcrowding, the mass of refugees forced out of their homes, and the endless stories of hunger. " Must-read from @analystnews.bsky.social
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Is the new Superman film anti-Israel, or just another attempt at rehabilitating America’s image? | Analyst News
Viewpoint: James Gunn’s Superman flirts with critique but ultimately serves the same purpose as most superhero films — sanitizing American militarism for global audiences.
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July 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Is Superman anti-Israel—or just another piece of Hollywood propaganda?
Cambridge doctoral candidate Iffat Mirza unpacks the film’s messaging in a searing new viewpoint:
“Superman dodges the deeper critique: America’s complicity in global violence.”
Cambridge doctoral candidate Iffat Mirza unpacks the film’s messaging in a searing new viewpoint:
“Superman dodges the deeper critique: America’s complicity in global violence.”
July 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Is Superman anti-Israel—or just another piece of Hollywood propaganda?
Cambridge doctoral candidate Iffat Mirza unpacks the film’s messaging in a searing new viewpoint:
“Superman dodges the deeper critique: America’s complicity in global violence.”
Cambridge doctoral candidate Iffat Mirza unpacks the film’s messaging in a searing new viewpoint:
“Superman dodges the deeper critique: America’s complicity in global violence.”
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CUFI claims 10M+ members and a divine mandate to support Israel — but more and more faith leaders are rejecting that theology of empire.
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The faith leaders standing up to America’s largest pro-Israel Christian lobby | Analyst News
This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence and is republished with permission.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
CUFI claims 10M+ members and a divine mandate to support Israel — but more and more faith leaders are rejecting that theology of empire.
Read the full story⤵️
www.analystnews.org/posts/the-fa...
Read the full story⤵️
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The groups protested on Capitol Hill on July 1.
July 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The groups protested on Capitol Hill on July 1.
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🧵“Our faith does not align with genocide.”
That’s what rabbis, pastors and peace activists of other faiths told Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby in the U.S., as they protested its influence on U.S. foreign policy fueling the war on Gaza.
That’s what rabbis, pastors and peace activists of other faiths told Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby in the U.S., as they protested its influence on U.S. foreign policy fueling the war on Gaza.
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🧵“Our faith does not align with genocide.”
That’s what rabbis, pastors and peace activists of other faiths told Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby in the U.S., as they protested its influence on U.S. foreign policy fueling the war on Gaza.
That’s what rabbis, pastors and peace activists of other faiths told Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby in the U.S., as they protested its influence on U.S. foreign policy fueling the war on Gaza.
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🧵The U.S. is sanctioning @franceskalbs.bsky.social for her devastating new report on the
“economy of genocide”—how mass atrocity in Gaza is being monetized. 1/6
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🧵The U.S. is sanctioning @franceskalbs.bsky.social for her devastating new report on the
“economy of genocide”—how mass atrocity in Gaza is being monetized. 1/6
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People you know just keep getting older — even the young ones! — and something about it just doesn’t sit right with me
May 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
People you know just keep getting older — even the young ones! — and something about it just doesn’t sit right with me
Who would have guessed that the person demonstrating the most moral courage and clarity in the midst of a Western-funded and backed genocide would be the woman who makes YouTube videos for babies and toddlers? Ms. Rachel is an incredible role model for children, yes—but most especially for adults.
May 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Who would have guessed that the person demonstrating the most moral courage and clarity in the midst of a Western-funded and backed genocide would be the woman who makes YouTube videos for babies and toddlers? Ms. Rachel is an incredible role model for children, yes—but most especially for adults.