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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7h

Free speech? What’s that?

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7h

I think we need to help get Letitia James out of the US and quickly.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

Any Democrat who claimed they were “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” should never live that bloodthirsty lie down. Let them be shamed for it for the rest of their lives.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

Is there anyone within the Democratic Party Establishment that actually believes in the Party anymore? They all sound like Zionist parrots repeating talking points they no longer believe in but they just don’t want to be the first to break away from them long enough to produce an original thought.

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

Please let this be a permanent ceasefire. Please let Palestinians have the big beautiful joyful free lives they deserve.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom the Nightmare
“Gov Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill that aims to clamp down on antisemitism in schools, shrugging off objections by a powerful teachers union & others that it will restrict what teachers can say about Israel’s war in Gaza & other hot button topics.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom targets antisemitism in California schools with new law

In signing the law, Newsom rebuffed objections from the state's main teachers union and others.

www.politico.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Ahmed sent me this video of how his family is living now that they’ve been displaced they are trying to get a proper tent www.gofundme.com/f/help-ahmed...

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

Hallelujah! Nurse Jackie is finally on Netflix. Been wanting to watch this show for ages.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Abolition is the only way forward. Good luck to those of you who still believe, even under authoritarianism, that the police will protect you.

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

My Drop Site News subscription is worth every penny.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

So many “progressives” fell over themselves to defend dehumanizing language as political opinion. This is the kind of terrorizing chain reaction they’ve put into motion.

“In the days and weeks following Kirk’s death, several HBCUs and Black students have been targeted with racist threats.”

‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization

Black, brown and LGBTQ+ students across the US are puzzled by all the praise the far-right commentator has received after his killing

www.theguardian.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

Isr@el continues to block food, medicine, and baby formula from getting into Gaza while imprisoning humanitarian volunteers.

Israel intercepts Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessels en route to Gaza

The Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

Oh and Newsom doesn’t give a shit about trans people either.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

If I ever have to flee Georgia I’m not heading to California, I’m going to Illinois. I’m not impressed by governors with nice haircuts who destroy homeless encampments and host white supremacists on their podcast.

Give me a leader like JB Pritzker instead.

'I won't back down,' Pritzker says as Trump orders hundreds of troops to Chicago

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday blasted President Donald Trump's "unlawful and unwarranted" plans to deploy hundreds of troops to Chicago.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

Wow this is quite a spread.

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 3d

New poll on the California redistricting amendment has it at 54% yes, 36% no.

punchbowl.news/article/camp...

Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll

News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

punchbowl.news

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 2d

This is the kind of poetry that should never have had to be written. Tweet from Gaza doctor Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzinggaza).

Two years ago, on a Friday that now stands outside of time, my father prepared a feast. It was meant to honor life, my graduation, my return, the promise of a future. The table was full, not only with food, but with faith: the quiet, unspoken faith that tomorrow would exist. How easily we believe in continuity, in the mercy of another morning.

We gathered as one family, laughing, speaking over one another, breaking bread with careless joy, pouring juice into glasses as though it were the wine of peace itself. Each gesture was a prayer, though none of us knew it. My father’s hands moved as Christ’s once did, blessing the bread, dividing it among those he loved. And somewhere, though no one could name it, there hung in the air that same fragile foreboding that filled the upper room in Jerusalem, when love spoke its last words before betrayal.

The air trembled with that kind of happiness which only later reveals itself as farewell.

And then, silence.
The silence that only the dead can teach.

When I look now at the photographs, I see the faces of the condemned, though they did not know it. More than half of them are gone, devoured by what men call war and what truth calls murder. The homes that once contained our breathing, our prayers, our smallest tenderness, crushed. The gardens that smelled of oranges and evening, erased. I walk in memory as one walks through ruins, touching the stones of vanished laughter.

October 7 was not the birth of a war; it was the death of illusion. On that day, history tore itself open, and the wound has not closed. It bleeds through every surviving soul. And in that blood I see not only the crime of one nation against another, but the crime of humanity against itself, the old, endless betrayal that men repeat while invoking God.

If justice still exists, it must weep.
If God still looks upon this earth, He must avert His eyes.

This day should be marked forever, not as an event of politics, but as a revelation of the human abyss. Let every flag descend into silence. Let every tongue fall still. Because what was taken from us was not only life, but the very rhythm of being alive, the rustle of bread torn by a father’s hand, the sound of a child laughing before she learns what grief is.

They took from us the ordinary, and left us with eternity.

And yet, I remain. I, who ate with them, who still taste that bread in my mouth as though it were guilt itself. I live, and I do not know why. Perhaps only to remember. Perhaps only to tell the world that history is not written in treaties or speeches, but in the trembling of hands that once passed a dish across a table, in the laughter that did not know it was bidding farewell to the world.

There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people.
And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend.
But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice.

#GazaGenocide

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 3d

From WaPo firing Karen Attiah to CBS anointing Bari Weiss, fascism and the oligarchy have completely taken over legacy media.

Support hard-hitting, independent and/or nonprofit media—Drop Site News, Zeteo, Capital B News, The Marshall Project, ProPublica, The Xylom—there are so many others.

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

www.npr.org

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 3d

It's starting to get real. T-minus 4 months until my third book, BALLOT, enters the world. You can pre-order Ballot anywhere books or sold. Support independent bookstores by pre-ordering through Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/ball...

White title page with the words Ballot, Anjali Enjeti, Bloomsbury Academic.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 3d

S. Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein received death threats & then her house burned to the ground, injuring 2 family members. Last month, Harmeet Dhillon criticized her for blocking the state’s election commission from releasing voter files to the Department of Justice.

This can't be a coincidence.

Agents investigate cause of fire that destroyed judge's home on South Carolina island

State investigators are trying to find the cause of a fire that destroyed a judge's home on a South Carolina island.

apnews.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

Spokesperson for the Gaza Municipality notes the bombing has not stopped despite Trump’s order to Netanyahu:

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