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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 3d

Politically motivated prosecutions violate our Constitution. Looking at the indictment, it is hard to see anything but the weaponizing of the DOJ against a Democratic candidate and peaceful protestors. @katmabu.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Protesters of Immigration Crackdown, Including House Candidate, Indicted

www.nytimes.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4d

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · 4d

Gen Z (and those of us who are more ‘seasoned’) know that @KatAbughazaleh is exactly the leader we need in this moment. Learn more and donate what you can here 👇🏽
katforillinois.com

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Staz Trudeaux @shejstaz.bsky.social · 5d

Kat Abughazaleh is running for congress in Illinois. A headline says she’s in the lead, so, of course, she was indicted within 7 hours later. 😑

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4d

Let's be very clear: Donald Trump's Justice Department is not just going after @katmabu.bsky.social.

Trump is going against the youth movement that will kick his ass in the midterms and destroy MAGA for good.

Kat is fighting for all of us. We need to fight for her.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests

Abughazaleh called the charges "yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up."

www.nbcnews.com

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) called the indictment of Kat Abughazaleh and five others an "alarming abuse of power."

Full statement below:

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · 6d

There was never a ceasefire!!!!

Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to immediately carry out 'powerful' attacks in Gaza reut.rs/42X27uY

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 12d

The International Court of Justice just dealt genocidal Israel another major legal blow.

Four highlights from its ruling today ⬇️

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Counterstream Media @counterstream.bsky.social · 27d

Today, we’re revisiting a powerful story from Peace & Riot with @raniabatrice.bsky.social that explores the intersections of climate justice and Palestinian liberation.

Read the story here: tinyurl.com/palestine-cl...

Palestinian Land, Heritage, and Identity — Peace & Riot

As the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Rania Batrice has blazed a life path as a voice for the silenced including the topics of gun violence, climate change, immigration, and women’s rights. Rania...

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Mauritania, Oman, Serbia, and Slovakia. Enough complicity. Enough excuses.

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Sweden, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Australia, Finland, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina, Jordan, Kuwait, New Zealand, Poland, Bahrain. Colombia, Pakistan, Uruguay, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Indonesia,

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

• The release of all hostages illegally detained, including the volunteers of the GSF.
The countries represented by the GSF volunteers are: Türkiye, Italy, Spain, France, Tunisia, Malaysia, Greece, USA, Switzerland, Algeria, Ireland.

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

We must act. Call on world leaders to demand:
• An immediate and permanent ceasefire
• An end to the genocide
• That Palestinians lead decisions about Palestine

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

Now, Israel has crossed yet another line: illegally detaining Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) volunteers in international waters, denying them legal representation, and holding them in inhumane conditions.

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

Governments around the world have funded, armed, and defended the Israeli occupying regime. Their silence and complicity have allowed Israel to kill with impunity.

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Oct 4

For nearly two years, the world has watched a genocide unfold against the Palestinian people—on top of 77 years of apartheid, abuse, and ethnic cleansing.

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Rania Batrice @raniabatrice.bsky.social · Sep 30

The right wing mob at AIPAC at it again…volunteer, post, donate. Let’s get @katmabu.bsky.social in and the assholes funding the atrocities in the US and around the world out.
www.katforillinois.com

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 30

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 29

Georgia for Ruwa Romman! @ruwaromman.bsky.social

Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · Sep 29

Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15.

I'm running for Governor to change that.

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · Sep 29

Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15.

I'm running for Governor to change that.

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Marie Follayttar @mariefollayttar.bsky.social · Sep 23

🚨 500 Mainers packed the room in rural Ellsworth, Maine for @grahamformaine.bsky.social’s first town hall!

This is more than a campaign to win—it’s a movement “to build real organization, real community, and real power.”

Ellsworth showed us: people are ready.
Let’s unshuck the system together. 🦪✊🏼

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 16

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 12

If you want to send a message to ICE agents and support an aggressively anti-ICE campaign, we just released a shirt for you:

www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...

PRE-SALE: Kat for Illinois: ICE Out of IL

White, Blue, and Red Ink on a Black T-shirt (100% Preshrunk Combed Cotton). Made in the USA/Union Made by Iowa-based Dignity Apparel Union Screen Printed by Iowa-based RAYGUN Size Chart can be viewed here. Contribution rules I am a U.S. citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident (i.e., green card holder). This con

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 11

1930 Beach Street.

Broadview, IL.

7:00 AM.

See you there.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 11

ICE is acting as Trump’s secret police to torment and destroy our communities. But we aren’t helpless. Join me and hundreds of committed activists at ICE’s main Chicago-area facility Friday morning at 7 am.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 16

As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US.

Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.

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