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I never brag how real I keep it, because it’s the best secret
new by Roqayah for DYA:

“What is unfolding in southern Lebanon is … all on behalf of satisfying American overseers hoping to turn Lebanon into another Dubai-like orientalist wonderland”
Last Week in Lebanon: Israel kills Lebanese children, too | Delete Your Account
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February 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
ep 257 of DYA: Historian Navid Zarrinnal returns to discuss his report for @btnewsroom.bsky.social on the protests in Iran, the evidence of foreign-backed terrorism, the government’s response, and how Iranians view the threat of another US-Israeli attack
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 257 – Iran's Protests Explained
This week, Iranian historian and returning guest Navid Zarrinnal calls in to the show from Tehran via telephone amid Iran’s continued internet shutdown to elaborate on his recent dispatch for , “Iran’...
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January 26, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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This was amazing, thank you
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM
ep 256 of DYA: Prisoners for Palestine campaigner Audrey Corno on the criminalization of Palestine Action UK, the philosophy of direct action, and how organizers are shutting down Elbit Systems even while fighting for their lives on hunger and thirst strike
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 256 – Prisoners for Palestine
This week, Roqayah and Kumars introduce an interview with former Palestine Action UK prisoner and current Prisoners for Palestine campaigner Audrey Horno, who talks to Kumars about the criminalization...
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January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
on the new DYA AFTER HOURS: Roqayah and I welcome back the great and powerful @nicke.bsky.social to talk colonial violence and resistance in Minnesota, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Iran
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 255.5 – Homeland Security (free preview)
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January 20, 2026 at 9:37 PM
the Palestine Action organizers imprisoned by the UK have been more effective than any of us in the West in fighting the Israeli death machine. Now they’re fighting for their lives at the same time. Find out how you can support them and their demands here:
Support – Prisoners For Palestine
Prisoners for Palestine is a prisoner-led collective in the UK representing those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
episode 255 of DYA: Roqayah and I welcome back historian extraordinaire Alexander Aviña to discuss his analysis of the US attack on Venezuela, the criminalization of President Nicolas Maduro, the response from US media and Democrats, and what happens now
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 255 – ¡Yanquis de mierda!
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña for an emergency update on the US attack against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolas Madur...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
this week only, Roqayah’s column is unlocked and free to read!

We hope you’ll subscribe so you don’t miss any of her intrepid reporting and insightful analysis from south Lebanon and Beirut. We need your support now more than ever
Last Week in Lebanon: On Frantz Fanon and the US plan to disarm Hezbollah | Delete Your Account
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December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
on the new DYA AFTER HOURS: the inimitable Rasha Abdulhadi returns to look back on the year that was and the lessons for organizers going forward
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 254.5 – America's Mayor (free preview)
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December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

"In a video recorded after an attack on the southern Lebanese village of Jbaa, a man is asked if he blames the Resistance for these attacks; 'on the contrary,' he said. 'It is the Lebanese Resistance that protects us.'"
Last Week in Lebanon: Respect existence or expect resistance | Delete Your Account
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December 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

“UNIFIL has counted more than 10,000 violations of the ceasefire since it took effect … As our 82nd year of ‘independence’ begins, it is an all-too obvious reality that our sovereignty is under constant attack.”
Last Week in Lebanon: For southern Lebanese, Israel's slow genocide is the new normal | Delete Your Account
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November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
ep 254 of DYA: writer and organizer @omarzahzah.bsky.social joins guest host @norabf.bsky.social and me to unpack his groundbreaking new book on the tech industry’s digital settler-colonialism and how Palestinians have successfully changed the narrative in spite of it
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 254 – Terms of Servitude
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and first-time guest Omar Zahzah to discuss Omar’s new book, Terms of Servitude: Zi...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
ep 253 of DYA: the great and powerful Alexander Aviña returns to break down the Trump administration’s plans for regime collapse in Venezuela
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 253 – Days of the Dead
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

"Reports from human rights organizations stress the disproportionate impact on Lebanese citizens. Living here, one experiences these violations not as abstract policy issues but as tangible intrusions on safety, dignity, and any kind of normalcy."
Last Week in Lebanon: Drones over the Dahye | Delete Your Account
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October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
on the new DYA: Roqayah is joined in Beirut by war reporter Hadi Hoteit of @freepalestinetv to discuss the “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel’s targeting of rebuilding efforts in south Lebanon and popular support for Hezbollah’s refusal to disarm
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 252.5 – Resistance Mindset (free preview)
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October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
don't miss Roqayah's latest for the DYA blog:

"Sayyed Hassan was more than a military or political figure; he was a symbol of integrity, humility, and the kind of unwavering belief that leads one to choose death over a life of submission."
Last Week in Lebanon: For Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, on the anniversary of his martyrdom | Delete Your Account
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October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ep 252 of DYA: Eliza Salamon, organizer with @antiwarinitiative.bsky.social and coauthor of a new report exposing Cornell University's role in the imperial war machine and the colonization of Palestine, joins Roqayah and me to break it all down
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 252 – R&D for the Devil
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Eliza Salamon, anti-Zionist Jewish organizer and recent alumna of Cornell University, whose direct ties to imperial violence she and her coauthor document i...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
don't miss Roqayah's latest for DYA! $5/month gets you access to every column and bonus episode
Last Week in Lebanon: Thousands march to honor martyrs of Israel's pager attacks | Delete Your Account
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September 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
ep 251 of DYA: Roqayah and I break down the factions of the Lebanese resistance, the US-installed puppet government’s campaign to disarm Hezbollah and the implications for national sovereignty in the Middle East
Delete Your Account Podcast: Ep. 251 – To the Dispossessed of Lebanon and the World
This week, Roqayah and Kumars share some life updates and break down the latest developments in Lebanon as the government ramps up its campaign to disarm the Lebanese resistance and Israel’s deadly vi...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
thought I saw Fetterman jaywalking in Pittsburgh but it wasn’t him
September 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
grateful to still be collaborating, after all these years, with someone doing the kind of unflinching work Roqayah is doing in Lebanon. And it's still $5 a month to support us, read her latest column for DYA, and hear all of our bonus episodes
Last Week in Lebanon: Israel's 4000+ ceasefire violations still unanswered by the Lebanese state | Delete Your Account
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September 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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basilica hands ✅
August 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Miss Kitty was named after a character on Gunsmoke, which was about 60 years ago. Buddy and Dolly are probably more common among humans these days.
if you give your pet a human name it better be something no human has actually been called in the last 60 years
August 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
if you give your pet a human name it better be something no human has actually been called in the last 60 years
August 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM