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Amira Hassan
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I do politics but would much rather talk about pop culture.
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Same vibe as Harris saying she wouldn’t do anything different from Biden.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Platner has already chided Mills for her relationship with Collins, who has represented Maine in the Senate for nearly 30 years. Asked recently whether Collins has done enough to push back against some Trump administration policies, Mills told NBC affiliate WCSH of Portland: "She's in a tough position. I appreciate everything she is doing." Platner responded with a one-line statement: "I do not appreciate everything that Susan Collins is doing."
October 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Why should I care about Palestine?

Because it has been the defining issue creating our political landscape since Citizens United.

Trump term 1 and Trump term 2 were brought to you by the Adelsons’ unwavering commitment to apartheid, occupation, and genocide.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
Screenshot of article paragraph The Adelsons' ambitions in politics were unleashed by a 2010 US supreme court ruling, Citizens United v FEC, which removed limits on political spending by corporations. Two years later, Sheldon told Reese he planned to give several million dollars to support Newt Gingrich's unlikely presidential campaign, and subsequently forked over a total of $20m. Reese recalls that he told Sheldon, "it's going to change everything. You guys are testing a new law." In this year's midterms, their donations went largely to Republican candidates, and political action committees supporting them, across the country.
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A must read piece by Diana Buttu on the announced ceasefire deal news.

zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The idea that Dems will be in a better negotiating position in 7 weeks…during the holidays…beyond naive.

Whatever Republicans will want in exchange for the ACA subsidies will be heinous…

Best chance of getting it right is to have the fight now…and not blink
But Thune also thinks Democrats could be motivated by the member-level discussions taking place around what bipartisan work can be done under a functioning government - for instance, pairing an extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies due to sunset Dec. 31 with some policy changes sought by Republicans. The talks gained momentum in floor huddles Wednesday as senators voted against the House GOP's stopgap for the third time. Senators were mostly "spitballing" ideas, as Sen. Ruben Gallego put it. Some Republicans suggested working out a framework for the "mechanies" of negotiations around the tax credits in exchange for Democratic votes to end the shutdown.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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True to form, ynet continues to be unreliable source. Pretty sure folks at ynet didn’t even read the book and they ChatGPTed the article because that excerpt they describe doesn’t exist in the book.

She actually cites a poll to double down on her position that Gaza didn’t matter to young voters…
mascum are Polling revealed that many of these young voters didn't feel they knew me. And contrary to some predictions, they did not vote primarily on reproductive rights, or Gaza, or climate change. They voted on their perceived economic interests. In a postelection study conducted by Tufts University, 40 percent put the economy and jobs as their top issue. (The next priority was abortion, 13 percent. Climate change was a top issue for 8 percent; foreign policy, including Gaza, 4 percent.) My policies, which would have helped young voters with protection for renters, a home down payment, or student debt relief, or elevating the opportunities of non-college graduates, or increasing
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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1.) Protestors were reckless NOT anyone in power for unequivocally supporting a genocide

2.) Included a poll that said Gaza wasn’t a factor for youth voters

3.) Used discredited ADL stat

4.) Affirm Israel’s supreme right to do whatever it wants before offering a few words on humanitarian aid
Polling revealed that many of these young voters didn't feel they knew me. And contrary to some predictions, they did not vote primarily on reproductive rights, or Gaza, or climate change. They voted on their perceived economic interests. In a postelection study conducted by Tufts University, 40 percent put the economy and jobs as their top issue. (The next priority was abortion, 13 percent. Climate change was a top issue for 8 percent; foreign policy, including Gaza, 4 percent.) For any enduring peace, we have to let go of extreme rhetoric on both sides. The war in Gaza is not a binary issue, but too often the conversation about it is. I wanted to acknowledge the complexity, nuance, and history of the region, but it seemed very few people had the appetite for that or the willingness to hold two tragic narratives in their mind at the same time, to grieve for human suffering both Israeli and Palestinian. Loud voices on either side claimed there were no innocents on the other, a position I found inhuman. And I know Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who was tirelessly hauling himself from Jerusalem to Doha to DC, sincerely wanted to end the suffering on all sides. Right from the beginning of the campaign, protesters who thought we hadn't done enough for Gazans tried to disrupt my rallies. Iwas born amid dissent. Civil rights were won through protest. My parents took me to demonstrations when I was still in my stroller. The people at my rallies had every right to do what they were doing. I understood them, I understood why they were angry. Usually, the crowd drowned them out, and I went on with the business of my speech. But at a rally in Detroit, as I was detailing Trump's threats to climate policy and the Affordable Care Act, a noisy group chanted: "Kamala, Kamala, you can't hide. We won't vote for genocide." The threat to withhold their vote got to me. It felt reckless. Either Trump or I would be elected. The issue was not binary, but the outcome of this election certainly was. It was distressing to see how this issue was dividing Americans Ten thousand incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism, and more than 150 physical assaults. A six-year-old Palestinian child stabbed to death, his mother wounded, by their own landlord in II. linois. Synagogues, temples, and Jewish community centers scrambling to protect themselves with new security measures. Three Palestinian college students shot in Vermont, leaving one a paraple-gic. Posters of Israeli hostages defaced and torn down from walls in New York City. Campus protests, some of which harassed and threatened Jewish students and created an atmosphere of tension and fear. These rising expressions of hate were chilling. I sincerely reaffirmed my commitment to Israel's right to defend itself. I added that how Israel did that mattered.
September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Senator Peter Welch is not mincing words and making it clear that Israel is starving the people of Gaza to death on purpose. It’s a choice NOT an unforeseen natural disaster.

Senators who continues to vote for more weapons to Israel are not serious about stopping their policy of forced starvation.
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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If there’s one thing you read this week, make it this!
Reflecting on his childhood under Mussolini, the novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco observed in a celebrated essay that fascism typically has an “Armageddon complex” – a fixation on vanquishing enemies in a grand final battle. But European fascism of the 1930s and 1940s also had a horizon: a vision for a future golden age after the bloodbath that, for its in-group, would be peaceful, pastoral and purified. Not today. Alive to our era of genuine existential danger – from climate breakdown to nuclear war to sky-rocketing inequality and unregulated AI – but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats, contemporary far-right movements lack any credible vision for a hopeful future. The average voter is offered only remixes of a bygone past, alongside the sadistic pleasures of dominance over an ever-expanding assemblage of dehumanized others. But you don’t need to be a biblical literalist, or even religious, to be an end times fascist. Today, plenty of powerful secular people have embraced a vision of the future that follows a nearly identical script, one in which the world as we know it collapses under its weight and a chosen few survive and thrive in various kinds of arks, bunkers and gated “freedom cities”. In a 2019 paper titled Left Behind: Future Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth, the communication scholars Sarah T Roberts and Mél Hogan described the longing for a secular Rapture: “In the accelerationist imaginary, the future is not about harm reduction, limits or restoration; rather it is a politics driving toward an endgame.”
April 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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If you weren’t worried before…now is the time to really lock in and understand the stakes.

We have just taken another big step down the road towards full blown authoritarianism. And idk how many more steps are left…

ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
Screen shot of text. At the end of the hearing, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court, saying: “I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process. This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.” "Today, we saw our worst fears play out: Mahmoud was subject to a charade of due process, a flagrant violation of his right to a fair hearing, and a weaponization of immigration law to suppress dissent. This is not over, and our fight continues,” said Marc van der Hout, founding partner of Van Der Hout, LLP. “If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone over any issue the Trump administration dislikes. We will continue working tirelessly until Mahmoud is free and rightfully returned home to his family and community."
April 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Just a reminder…
January 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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My favorite passage
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Just finished reading the profile on young MAGAlites and this little throwaway stood out

nymag.com/intelligence...
January 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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There’s zero reason this should come up on my FYP.

All week I’ve been getting funky maga videos…I hit block each time and don’t stay in the videos…but yet…they keep appearing
Screenshot of the Charlie Kirk Show TikTok account. White man, in a blue shirt. With a receding hairline grinning scarily..
January 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I wanted to touch grass today and not be online but the way Minnesota is set up right now…
January 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Next 4 years will be the ultimate smash and grab and Melania is dressing the part
January 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Oh…the whole family is making a bag.
January 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Not MY SHAYLA

It’s not even midnight….what the efff. They went for maximum drama
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Welp…it’s really happening
January 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Welll….it reallly is the end…
January 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Listening to the DNC officer forum… there’s been like two questions on Gaza and each time it’s still framed as an exclusively niche issue only Arab-Americans in Michigan care about…

Survey says…that’s delusional.
January 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Not the point of the article but this nugget stood out.

An American CEO would probably have gotten a bonus after cutting 9,000 jobs and tanking the company.
December 23, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Opened TikTok and the first video I see….a thirst trap edit of Luigi.

The internet moves at lightening speed.

Lmao. I’m crying at the song choice.
December 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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I’m the bots lmao
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Get up. We’re throwing ass.

So far, banger after banger.
November 22, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Lock in babes. Kendrick dropped.
November 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM