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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · Jan 25
Listen in to yours truly:
shrinkingtrump.bsky.social Shrinking Trump @shrinkingtrump.bsky.social · Jan 24
Shrinking Trump livestreams at 3pm EST today. Pass it on. We discuss “Day One” of the new regime and the blitzkrieg of executive orders with New Republic reporter Hafiz Rashid.

www.youtube.com/live/Kfu0mwU...
Trump’s First Day will Live in Infamy | Shrinking Trump
YouTube video by Really American
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Choose your own media adventure: @nytimes.com says Abigail Spanberger is obsessing over Trump. @politico.com says no, she's actually campaigning squarely on an economic message.

(Politico is right, and NYT's route to their conclusion was tortured and unconvincing.)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d
"I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

A year ago today, a racist tried to make a 'joke' about me being killed by Israel. It was the 1st time I've ever walked off of live TV. That night CNN said they'd ban the racist from their air. But in the year since, I myself haven't been invited back on CNN.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Oct 29
Absolutely insane moment on CNN
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d
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Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now BREAKING: 300+ writers, scholars & public figures refuse to write for the New York Times Opinion section in a collective effort to hold the paper accountable for its role in the genocide in Gaza.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d
More than 300 writers, scholars, and public figures, including nearly 150 past New York Times contributors, have pledged to boycott the paper’s Opinion section under the banner “Genocide Is Not a Matter of Opinion.”

They are demanding that the Times conduct an independent review of...
Drop Site @DropSiteNews More than 300 writers, scholars, and public figures, including nearly 150 past New York Times contributors, have pledged to boycott the paper’s Opinion section under the banner “Genocide Is Not a Matter of Opinion.” They are demanding that the Times conduct an independent review of anti-Palestinian bias and publish new editorial standards, retract its discredited “Screams Without Words” article, and that its Editorial Board call for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel. Signatories include Rashida Tlaib, Sally Rooney, Rupi Kaur, Gabor Maté, Mohammed El-Kurd, Greta Thunberg — and Drop Site’s Alex Colston and Sharif Abdel Kouddous — among others.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 5d
A horrifying testimony from the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp in the Negev that includes physical and psychological torture.
Two days later, Khaled told me his story. His detention began in November, 2024, at a checkpoint on Salah al-Din Street. “I was forced to remove all of my clothes in front of seven Israeli soldiers,” Khaled told me. He said that the soldiers confined him in a bathroom and then interrogated him. They asked him about the hostages in Hamas custody and whether he was a member of Hamas or the militant group Islamic Jihad. When he said no, Khaled added, they beat him with the butts of their rifles. “You are lying,” he remembered a soldier saying. “I will shoot you.” He said that at Sde Teiman, an Israeli military base used as a detention camp, he was blindfolded and handcuffed for a hundred days, and twice a week soldiers subjected him to attack dogs, sound grenades, and pepper spray. He spent his days kneeling on what felt like gravel. “When I tried to sit on my butt, an Israeli soldier would kick me,” Khaled said. “We were given very little food. We had to use the toilet while still blindfolded and shackled.” Khaled was briefly transferred to Ofer Prison, where Adnan al-Bursh, an orthopedic surgeon who once led Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, had died in 2024, after being tortured. Then Khaled was sent back to Sde Teiman. “That was during what they called ‘the disco period,’ ” he told me. “There’s a loudspeaker blasting music at unbearable volume. You’re shackled like a dog. You wear diapers. They beat and humiliate you.” At times, he wished he could die. I was particularly shocked by one detail. During one interrogation, Khaled was accused of being a member of Islamic Jihad, which he again denied. “I’m only a farmer,” he replied. Khaled’s greatest fear was that his wife and children, one of whom had been waiting for a surgery, would be killed in an air strike. He told me that an Israeli intelligence officer showed Khaled a photo of them. “It was a photo from our family insurance card,” Khaled told me. He had no idea how the officer had gotten it. “Detention was a hardship in itself, but the threat to my family was a torment of another kind—just as heavy, if not worse,” he said. After four days, the questioning stopped, and Khaled understood that his file was being closed. He was not released, however. He spent about a month in a different section of Sde Teiman. Eventually, he was moved to Al-Naqab (Negev) prison, where detainees slept in tents. “Soldiers would storm our tents and fire rubber bullets at our legs and knees,” he said. “Those who were injured were left to bleed.” He said that some of their wounds became infested with maggots. Khaled learned of the ceasefire deal from some guards. On October 10th, the guards at Al-Naqab ordered him and several others to line up. Khaled assumed he was being moved to yet another prison, until he was taken to a place called Ward A. “That’s the ward for those scheduled for release,” Khaled said. “We all started to feel hopeful.” Two hours later, they were handcuffed and taken for fingerprinting, and their hope grew stronger. Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/there-is-no-peace-in-gaza?_sp=1a1ad68c-8a2a-4655-8e7d-1330bb83ed4f.1761383404754
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5d
Millions and millions of dollars that people donated to official organizations for Gaza are sitting somewhere gaining interests, while Palestinians still have to
beg online
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 5d
"It is the first time the US administration has spoken in detail about the potential timeline for the reconstruction of Gaza, which has been devastated in two years of war." www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
Rebuilding Rafah could happen in 2 to 3 years, Vance says as he leaves Israel | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance left Israel on Thursday with an optimistic note, saying Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza strip, could be rebuilt in two to three years.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 6d
Zohran Mamdani just gave an address about being Muslim and the experiences of Muslims in NYC, and it's really fucking moving:
LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives remarks on Islamophobia outside a mosque in the Bronx, NYC
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 6d
I'm so sick of this imbecilic argument. There is a simple explanation for why American leftists/anti-Zionists pay exceptional attention to Israel's domination of the Palestinians: because Israel gets more support from the U.S. than any other country in the world.
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · 6d
I wrote about it today! newrepublic.com/post/202225/...
Steve Bannon Reveals There’s a Plan for a Third Trump Term in 2028
Just another reminder that this is completely unconstitutional.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d
The Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combatting Antisemitism attacks Jerry Nadler for endorsing Mamdani

"Representative Jerry Nadler is an embarrassment to the Jewish people"
•@RepJerryNadler is an embarrassment to the Jewish people. Mamdani is a dangerous Islamist whose rise would spell ruin for one of the world's most vibrant cities. His election would mark a major triumph for the red-green alliance - the unholy pact between the radical left and militant Islam - and a catastrophe not only for the United States but for one of the great pillars of Western civilization.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d
Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.

What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed
From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.
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Joshua Sharfstein @drjoshs.bsky.social · 8d
CDC is the nation's leading public health agency, but it's been a very tough few months for those who work there.

An interview with Yolanda Jacobs, AFGE chapter president.

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Public Health On Call: 966 - “CDC is a horrible place to be at this time”
About this episode: Following months of personnel cuts, funding terminations, and escalating violence, CDC employees face a new hurdle with the government shutdown. In this episode: Yolanda Jacobs, pr...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 8d
ICE terror in Chicago has forced residents to take community safety into their own hands—alerting each other to raids, delivering groceries to neighbors, and watching out for at-risk families during school dismissal. From Emma Janssen: trib.al/M2yVqcD
Two Months of ICE Terror in Chicago - The American Prospect
Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual. But the response to the federal incursion knows no boundaries.
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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 8d
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!

Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
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Map of US with purple and blue icons over central US indicating severe weather billion dollar disaster events in 2025 and one fire in LA.
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · 8d
In the VF article he says that his sister-in-law is Jewish and that he grew up listening to Dropkick Murphys and Dead Kennedys
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · 8d
My first story since returning from leave. He’s still going, too.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8d
The government may be shut down, but at least one Democratic senator is still working. trib.al/hO171T7

“Trump wants us to believe that Portland, Oregon, in my home state, is full of chaos and riots. Because if he can say to the American people that there are riots, he can say there’s a rebellion."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9d
“In some cases, ICE appears to have violated protections that still remain in official policies by failing to allow undocumented parents time to find an appropriate caregiver or to make travel plans for their children as they are taken into custody and deported, CNN found.” #FamiliesBelongTogether
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 9d
Black lung is still killing America’s coal miners. Last week, a group of black lung patients made the long journey to Washington D.C. with a simple plea for Trump’s Department of Labor: enforce the silica rule, and stop this plague.

My report for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump Has Handed Coal Miners a “Death Sentence.” But They’re Not Going Without a Fight.
After the government betrayed them by refusing to enforce a crucial workplace health rule, a group of coal miners traveled to DC to put Trump on notice.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 9d
Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

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"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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