Ailia Zehra
@ailiazehra.bsky.social
Journalist. (Better on Twitter)
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📽️ WATCH: Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland.
Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit: https://propub.li/3I6nTFk
Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit: https://propub.li/3I6nTFk
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland.
Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit: https://propub.li/3I6nTFk
Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit: https://propub.li/3I6nTFk
I happened to be at a congressional committee meeting yesterday where two congressmen got into a yelling match, with the Democrat calling the Republican a “lapdog” for Trump — so naturally, I had to write about it:
www.alternet.org/higgins-fros...
www.alternet.org/higgins-fros...
House hearing derailed after Dem calls GOP rep 'lapdog to the president' in shouting match
A House committee hearing Wednesday erupted into chaos when Rep. Maxwell Frost (D‑Fla.) and Rep. Clay Higgins (R‑La.) engaged in a shouting match so heated that Frost accused Higgins of being a “lapdo...
www.alternet.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I happened to be at a congressional committee meeting yesterday where two congressmen got into a yelling match, with the Democrat calling the Republican a “lapdog” for Trump — so naturally, I had to write about it:
www.alternet.org/higgins-fros...
www.alternet.org/higgins-fros...
Interesting that Senator Chris Van Hollen who has been bravely fighting for the rights of a wrongfully deported man and went to El Salvador to check on him was born in Karachi, Pakistan
April 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Interesting that Senator Chris Van Hollen who has been bravely fighting for the rights of a wrongfully deported man and went to El Salvador to check on him was born in Karachi, Pakistan
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With DOGE's dismantling of this system, future elections will likely not have the same level of security.
(By @ailiazehra.bsky.social)
(By @ailiazehra.bsky.social)
Election security at risk as Musk’s DOGE 'dismantles' critical network
Some essential components of the election security network, which were largely developed in the last eight years to protect election offices, are reportedly being "dismantled" by the Trump administrat...
www.alternet.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
With DOGE's dismantling of this system, future elections will likely not have the same level of security.
(By @ailiazehra.bsky.social)
(By @ailiazehra.bsky.social)
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Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness
Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness
"A daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life."
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January 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness
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In many areas, Planned Parenthood is the only maternity service
Regardless, South Carolina wants to prevent the provider from receiving Medicaid
For NON-ABORTION treatments
Like cancer screenings
Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court
The cruelty is the point
www.npr.org/2024/12/18/g...
Regardless, South Carolina wants to prevent the provider from receiving Medicaid
For NON-ABORTION treatments
Like cancer screenings
Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court
The cruelty is the point
www.npr.org/2024/12/18/g...
Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood
The state cut off funding to Planned Parenthood because it provided non-abortion services to Medicaid patients.
www.npr.org
December 24, 2024 at 4:27 AM
In many areas, Planned Parenthood is the only maternity service
Regardless, South Carolina wants to prevent the provider from receiving Medicaid
For NON-ABORTION treatments
Like cancer screenings
Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court
The cruelty is the point
www.npr.org/2024/12/18/g...
Regardless, South Carolina wants to prevent the provider from receiving Medicaid
For NON-ABORTION treatments
Like cancer screenings
Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court
The cruelty is the point
www.npr.org/2024/12/18/g...