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Kumars Salehi
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I never brag how real I keep it, because it’s the best secret
ep 254 of DYA: writer and organizer @omarzahzah.bsky.social joins guest host @norabf.bsky.social and me to unpack his groundbreaking new book on the tech industry’s digital settler-colonialism and how Palestinians have successfully changed the narrative in spite of it
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 254 – Terms of Servitude
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and first-time guest Omar Zahzah to discuss Omar’s new book, Terms of Servitude: Zi...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
ep 253 of DYA: the great and powerful Alexander Aviña returns to break down the Trump administration’s plans for regime collapse in Venezuela
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 253 – Days of the Dead
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

"Reports from human rights organizations stress the disproportionate impact on Lebanese citizens. Living here, one experiences these violations not as abstract policy issues but as tangible intrusions on safety, dignity, and any kind of normalcy."
Last Week in Lebanon: Drones over the Dahye | Delete Your Account
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October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
on the new DYA: Roqayah is joined in Beirut by war reporter Hadi Hoteit of @freepalestinetv to discuss the “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel’s targeting of rebuilding efforts in south Lebanon and popular support for Hezbollah’s refusal to disarm
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 252.5 – Resistance Mindset (free preview)
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October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
don't miss Roqayah's latest for the DYA blog:

"Sayyed Hassan was more than a military or political figure; he was a symbol of integrity, humility, and the kind of unwavering belief that leads one to choose death over a life of submission."
Last Week in Lebanon: For Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, on the anniversary of his martyrdom | Delete Your Account
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October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ep 252 of DYA: Eliza Salamon, organizer with @antiwarinitiative.bsky.social and coauthor of a new report exposing Cornell University's role in the imperial war machine and the colonization of Palestine, joins Roqayah and me to break it all down
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 252 – R&D for the Devil
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Eliza Salamon, anti-Zionist Jewish organizer and recent alumna of Cornell University, whose direct ties to imperial violence she and her coauthor document i...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
don't miss Roqayah's latest for DYA! $5/month gets you access to every column and bonus episode
Last Week in Lebanon: Thousands march to honor martyrs of Israel's pager attacks | Delete Your Account
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September 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
ep 251 of DYA: Roqayah and I break down the factions of the Lebanese resistance, the US-installed puppet government’s campaign to disarm Hezbollah and the implications for national sovereignty in the Middle East
Delete Your Account Podcast: Ep. 251 – To the Dispossessed of Lebanon and the World
This week, Roqayah and Kumars share some life updates and break down the latest developments in Lebanon as the government ramps up its campaign to disarm the Lebanese resistance and Israel’s deadly vi...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
thought I saw Fetterman jaywalking in Pittsburgh but it wasn’t him
September 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
grateful to still be collaborating, after all these years, with someone doing the kind of unflinching work Roqayah is doing in Lebanon. And it's still $5 a month to support us, read her latest column for DYA, and hear all of our bonus episodes
Last Week in Lebanon: Israel's 4000+ ceasefire violations still unanswered by the Lebanese state | Delete Your Account
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September 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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basilica hands ✅
August 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Miss Kitty was named after a character on Gunsmoke, which was about 60 years ago. Buddy and Dolly are probably more common among humans these days.
if you give your pet a human name it better be something no human has actually been called in the last 60 years
August 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
if you give your pet a human name it better be something no human has actually been called in the last 60 years
August 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

"A man from the village of Marja'oun told me, 'I know everyone wants the fire and the action to happen now, especially after all that we've been facing, but it isn't realistic. ... We are prepared to hold on as long as there is air in our lungs.'"
Last Week in Lebanon: Truth, Justice, and the Bullet | Delete Your Account
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August 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
ep 250 of DYA: @codepink.bsky.social national codirector @danaka.bsky.social on the demands of anti-imperialist solidarity work today, how they’ve been changed by the escalation of genocide in Gaza, and how CODEPINK is adapting to meet them
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 250 – Think Pink
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Danaka Katovich, Chicago-based organizer and National Co-director of the feminist antiwar group CODEPINK: Women for Peace, where she oversees all of the org...
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July 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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All of our one-star podcast reviews are from people calling us liberals and getting mad at what we've said about Trump or the Russian Revolution or whatever. Please offset them if you like us by going to your podcast app of choice and giving the Boiled Leather Audio Hour a nice review
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July 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
this week on DYA: the first of a new series on the bonus feed with Roqayah and Lebanese war reporter
@hadihtt.bsky.social of @freepalestinetv.bsky.social
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 249.5.5 – Wartime Cafe (free preview)
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July 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

“To many people of the region … the arms carried by Hezb'Allah and other resistance factions are shields of dignity, carried in the name of their people and the oppressed, and they refuse to abandon them.”
Last Week in Lebanon: Reflections on Ashura | Delete Your Account
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July 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
on the new DYA: an emergency update with Roqayah on the US-Israeli attack on Iran + a preview of @urorientalist.bsky.social and Navid Zarrinnal on the significance of Iran's retaliation, the influence of Iran's diaspora and the decolonization of the region
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 249.5 – Steel your nerves (update + free preview)
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June 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
new from Roqayah for DYA:

"'I hope this makes people realize how necessary the Lebanese Resistance is,' one woman told me. 'We don't expect anything from the two American assets in office. What are they going to do? Release another statement?'"
Last Week in Lebanon: There was never a ceasefire | Delete Your Account
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June 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky
May 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A must listen:
May 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
ep 248 of DYA: @sinatoossi.bsky.social, Assal Rad, Sina Rahmani and Navid Zarrinnal on Trump’s nuclear extortion and Iran's commitment to Palestinian liberation
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 248 – Iranian Exceptionalism
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by an all-star panel of new and old friends of the show to discuss the growing threat of war against Iran and the challenges of renewed nuclear negotiations as...
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May 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
new by Roqayah for DYA:

"Every occupier, no matter how well armed or well funded they are, will have his day, and in south Lebanon the people hold to this unwavering position: that the occupier will answer on our terms."
Last Week in Lebanon: Israeli ceasefire violations surpass 2000 | Delete Your Account
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May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM