Rashid Yasin
@rmyasin.bsky.social
Medical robotics engineer. Muslim, dad, husband. Leftist (by handedness and politics) 🇧🇩🇸🇩🇺🇸
On the one hand, centralizing these fascists in one place makes actually defunding the police possible. On the other, if we just dismantle ICE and don't hire any of them back, we have a de-ba'athification problem. The ICE scars will be here for a while.
New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
ICE is Eating the Soul of America
Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
www.doomsdayscenario.co
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
On the one hand, centralizing these fascists in one place makes actually defunding the police possible. On the other, if we just dismantle ICE and don't hire any of them back, we have a de-ba'athification problem. The ICE scars will be here for a while.
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
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Not all troops engage in atrocities but this kill anything/everybody mindset is endemic to the American way of war -- and has been since before the dawn of the Republic. I chronicled it re: Vietnam War. Others have done so in terms of other conflicts and contexts
www.amazon.com/dp/125004506...
www.amazon.com/dp/125004506...
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not all troops engage in atrocities but this kill anything/everybody mindset is endemic to the American way of war -- and has been since before the dawn of the Republic. I chronicled it re: Vietnam War. Others have done so in terms of other conflicts and contexts
www.amazon.com/dp/125004506...
www.amazon.com/dp/125004506...
Lays out clearly the *depth* of the cost of living crisis in the US and the failure of our benefits regime to actually help so many of the people who need it because of the phaseouts at what are still poverty levels. Distressing. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Lays out clearly the *depth* of the cost of living crisis in the US and the failure of our benefits regime to actually help so many of the people who need it because of the phaseouts at what are still poverty levels. Distressing. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The monstrosity of the NYT's "neutrality" (and by proxy most mainstream media outlets) is obvious to anyone who's paid attention to the coverage of Irael's genocide in Gaza, but this lays out the terrain in a broader sense very clearly lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The monstrosity of the NYT's "neutrality" (and by proxy most mainstream media outlets) is obvious to anyone who's paid attention to the coverage of Irael's genocide in Gaza, but this lays out the terrain in a broader sense very clearly lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
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Hell yeah
Mamdani: "More than one million Muslims in this city, existing while being made to feel that we are guests in our own home. No more."
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hell yeah
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Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin
Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
September 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin
Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
USA needs to catch up to Brazil
September 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
USA needs to catch up to Brazil
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"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
It's interesting and I hope instructive how the Trump admin is referring to the people it kills as "terrorists". Throughout the GWOT, the term didn't have any real meaning other than the post-hoc label for people we have killed. Hopefully this overreach clarifies the underlying meaninglessness.
September 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's interesting and I hope instructive how the Trump admin is referring to the people it kills as "terrorists". Throughout the GWOT, the term didn't have any real meaning other than the post-hoc label for people we have killed. Hopefully this overreach clarifies the underlying meaninglessness.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
Taking parental leave earlier this year is one of the best things I've done in my life.
June 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Taking parental leave earlier this year is one of the best things I've done in my life.
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Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
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Israel's Act of Piracy on the High Seas (illegally storming the Madleen & kidnapping its crew) serves one purpose: To defend its right to continue unobserved and unimpeded the Genocide of Palestinians. An Act of Piracy is thus committed in the process of concluding a Genocide.
June 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Israel's Act of Piracy on the High Seas (illegally storming the Madleen & kidnapping its crew) serves one purpose: To defend its right to continue unobserved and unimpeded the Genocide of Palestinians. An Act of Piracy is thus committed in the process of concluding a Genocide.
I read this while my infant son slept in my arms and could not help but weep: what a world we have created to rip parents and children apart just so that other parents and their children may continue to be killed in Palestine by our bombs and the ongoing blockade.
“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I read this while my infant son slept in my arms and could not help but weep: what a world we have created to rip parents and children apart just so that other parents and their children may continue to be killed in Palestine by our bombs and the ongoing blockade.
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The United Nations' food stocks for families in Gaza depleted a week ago. Children are being deliberately starved by Israel, and it is all being done openly.
Since the 2nd of March, Israel has been preventing food from entering the Gaza Strip.
May 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The United Nations' food stocks for families in Gaza depleted a week ago. Children are being deliberately starved by Israel, and it is all being done openly.
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
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Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.
gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
April 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.
gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
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Millions of people across the United States could be drinking contaminated water, according to a new report.
Thousands of Water Systems Across US Have Dangerous Cancer-Causing Chemicals
Millions of people across the United States could be drinking contaminated water, according to a new report.
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April 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Millions of people across the United States could be drinking contaminated water, according to a new report.
This is horrifying; I reflect after every new revelation of malign illegality at home that it's rooted in the dehumanization of Palestinians by the ongoing support for a genocide abroad. Fascism is colonialism turned inward, evil compounded and reflected zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is horrifying; I reflect after every new revelation of malign illegality at home that it's rooted in the dehumanization of Palestinians by the ongoing support for a genocide abroad. Fascism is colonialism turned inward, evil compounded and reflected zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
The real scandal is murder: "The U.S. is killing innocent people in Yemen because our leaders lack the courage to stop Israel’s killing of innocent people in Gaza. The U.S. must end its enabling of the genocide and it must halt its attacks on Yemen." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-s...
The Real Scandal Is the Illegal War in Yemen
Dozens of innocent Yemenis are dead and many more are maimed so that Trump and his allies could congratulate themselves for being “tougher” than Biden.
daniellarison.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The real scandal is murder: "The U.S. is killing innocent people in Yemen because our leaders lack the courage to stop Israel’s killing of innocent people in Gaza. The U.S. must end its enabling of the genocide and it must halt its attacks on Yemen." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-s...
One of my most lib-coded takes is that consistency is good, actually. I think it comes from reading Chomsky early and his perspective that basic reciprocity would indict American hegemony as unjust. It's a shame that it's a worthless argument against conservatives who don't care at all.
March 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One of my most lib-coded takes is that consistency is good, actually. I think it comes from reading Chomsky early and his perspective that basic reciprocity would indict American hegemony as unjust. It's a shame that it's a worthless argument against conservatives who don't care at all.