It was one of those days where I felt great admiration for ppl trying to stop HIV in a part of the world that doesn’t even have paved streets, privilege about my own position, & anger at Trump, Musk & the US for harming these kind souls who have so little and are just trying to help their neighbors

"As a member of the Jewish-Arab leftist Hadash Faction in the Israeli Parliament, I would like to congratulate Zohran Mamdani for his remarkable victory in yesterday’s election.

From New York to the Middle East, may there be peace, justice and equality for all!" - Ofer Cassif, Jewish Communist MK.

Hanan Ashrawi, chairwoman of the board of trustees at Birzeit University in the West Bank and a former official for the Palestine Liberation Organization, called Mr. Mamdani’s victory “a wake-up call to the U.S. and the world, especially to the Democrats who worked against their own progressives.”

Rent freeze, free buses, city-run grocery stores. DC.

The judiciary is a subsidiary of the overarching occupation and apartheid.

It also seems like a missed opportunity to let a bunch of ignorant racists have a monopoly on the promotion of and pride in Persianate culture and create this rather artificial divide between Islam and the Persianate world. They go together!

One eastward-looking missed opportunity I think Iran had could have been some kind of Iranic/Nowruz/Persian-speaking alliance, especially post-USSR, in Central Asia. I know Ahmadinejad sort of tried but it seemed always second fiddle to looking west. Hope it’s renewed. Gotta start somewhere.

I think instincts like this arise from a form of pessimism that our interlocutors in a diverse society will never accept us on our own terms, and so we must join with them to locate and find another even more hated minority. This is self-defeating and we should all reject this logic.

At the same time, this should be a cautionary tale for Muslims in the US curious about Fuentes and co. There are Muslims looking to make a similar bargain, like those who joined as plaintiffs in Mahmoud. It’s not going to work!

I help my family with their ballots every year (or as they say, I tell them the “answers”) and I was SO relieved at the one question!! I didn’t realize how complicated CA ballots are until leaving!

And it wasn’t just college kids either.

But I really don’t think people realized every single one of those college kids they were demonizing was someone’s precious child.

It's really under discussed just how aligned the Israeli and Emirati lobbies are.

Still, the suffering of the Sudanese people is on a whole other level. The indifference isn’t owned by the West alone; it’s shared by those closest too. Arabs watch Africans burn and feel nothing, just as others once shrugged as Syrians fought the flames. It’s not geography. It’s hierarchy.

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