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Your tax dollars at work, courtesy of AIPAC.
Anyone who supports Israel is an accomplice to this murder.

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Rest in peace, little one. The doctors tried—but U.S. bombs are too heavy. No hands could lift death from your chest.
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July 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“The Silicon Valley tech industry is becoming more and more aligned with the US war machine, and figures like Maguire are at the center of this shift, leveraging anti-Muslim racism to justify their investments in dystopian militarized tech and imperial violence.”

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This Pro-Israel Silicon Valley Bro Just Went Viral for Islamophobic Tweets About Zohran Mamdani
Meet Shaun Maguire, the multi-millionaire tech VC embracing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate as Silicon Valley pours money into US and Israeli defense startups.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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‘A Real Cultural Reversal’: Ex-Nusra Leader Scripts Syria’s Hollywood Moment

https://www.byteseu.com/1167082/

President Ahmad al-Sharaa, once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, now backs a vast studio complex he once would have outlawed [Damascus] The signing of a memorandum of understanding …
‘A Real Cultural Reversal’: Ex-Nusra Leader Scripts Syria’s Hollywood Moment - Bytes Europe
President Ahmad al-Sharaa, once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, now backs a vast studio complex he once would have outlawed
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July 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There Is No "Context" To Explain Genocide
So shut up, Gaza genocide explainers.
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July 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So much work must be done too identify the hundreds of thousands of victims, and hold the perpetrators accountable.

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How the Assad Regime Buried Its Victims in a Mass Grave in Syria (Gift Article)
A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From today’s must read: “To put it bluntly, when you have a "feeling" that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you, … and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – … – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism.”

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My Fellow New York Jews and I Know Zohran Mamdani Does Not Threaten Us
It's time we all speak out against Jewish self-victimization and not fall into the trap of Islamophobic tropes.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is a great summary of our politics and it ends on a hopeful note.

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"We're Paying For The Weapons": Colbert's Mainstream US Audience Hears Ugly Israel-Gaza Facts
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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July 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Your taxes still at work courtesy of AIPAC
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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President Trump signed an executive order terminating the United States' sanctions program on Syria.
Trump signs executive order eliminating Syria sanctions program
President Trump announced last month that the U.S. would lift all sanctions on the country.
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June 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
TL/DR: Centrist Democrats are resorting to racism and Islamophobia in order to defend their comfortable lives as the well paid employees of billionaire oligarchs

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Why Haven't Democratic Party Leaders Condemned Eric Adams’ “End Antisemitism Party" Stunt?
Adams created a political party to avoid a primary by exploiting Jewish pain with little pushback from Democratic Party leaders.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
June 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I call out shitty mainstream media all the time, so let’s now praise proper journalism. Erin Burnett sits down and interviews Zohran Mamdani, Democratic nominee for NY Mayor and actually asks substantive, fair and important questions.

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Erin Burnett asks Zohran Mamdani what it means to be a Democratic Socialist. Hear his response
YouTube video by CNN
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June 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Why you can’t have nice things. #Israel
June 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is what a 21st century genocide, paid for by your taxes, looks like
June 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“So I take it back. Much has changed since 2012. And it has changed for the worse. Today, Islamophobia is much more prevalent, much more vicious, and much more mainstream in American public life.”

Are you silent about this? Do you think I/we don’t notice?

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Sorry Islamophobes, I'm a Proud Muslim American and, Like Zohran Mamdani, I'm Not Going Anywhere
The insanely bigoted attacks on Mamdani are out of control and designed to intimidate a vulnerable minority community – but they will fail.
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June 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Israel is not hiding their genocide. Why are their supporters here in denial? Isn’t this what you want?
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
June 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
BWAAAAH! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
June 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
File the under “I told you so”
June 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is beautiful writing by Spencer Ackerman. It’s 5 minutes of your time and you will love it

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This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era
Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York
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June 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Jewish Zionist New Yorkers are losing their shit over (insert gasp) a potential progressive Muslim mayor, and are willing to support a sex pest as the alternative. We will find out the results soon enough!
June 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oops! Well, they will have a bomb soon enough. We have left them no choice but to go for a nuclear weapon
June 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM