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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1h

My Drop Site News subscription is worth every penny.

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 8h

Wow this is quite a spread.

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 3d

Millions striking and protesting against Israel in Southern Europe — Spain, Portugal, Italy.

Tens of thousands march in Barcelona to protest against Israel's war in Gaza

Tens of thousands of people are marching in Barcelona as Spain, Italy and Portugal gear up for mass demonstrations to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.

apnews.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 5d

The Chicago ICE raid has proven once again that US citizenship is irrelevant. It is race or perceived race that matters. Anyone Black or brown is a target. Our Christofascist regime is accelerating ethnic cleansing tenfold.

Elections will not save us from this.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve known Ruwa Romman for years and have been lucky enough to work in coalition with her. I’m grateful she’s throwing her hat into the ring. We needed more progressive options in this Georgia gubernatorial race.

Palestinian American denied slot at DNC competing for Georgia governor: ‘We’re trying to rebuild the coalition’

Ruwa Romman is ‘running to build a movement’ and ‘restoring civic ethos of being involved in the government’

www.theguardian.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 5d

The Mikeno got so close The ship made it to Gaza territorial waters before being intercepted. It's the closest any Flotilla ship has gotten.
My heart breaks for the Palestinian children standing on the shore, with signs welcoming the volunteers, who now, once again, have nothing to look forward to.

Global Sumud Flotilla's Mikeno vessel enters Palestinian territory amid Israeli interceptions

One of the vessels participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, the Greek-flagged vessel Mikeno, has successfully entered Gaza’s territorial waters, according to the flotilla’s live tracker on Thursday...

ilkha.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

Badass.

“The McCarthy Era ended when Americans from across the political spectrum finally came together and stood up for the principles in the Constitution against the forces of repression…Those forces have returned. And it is our turn to stand together in defense of our constitutional rights.”

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

www.theguardian.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

The Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian mission carrying baby formula, medicine, and food to Gaza, is currently being intercepted by Israel. Thiago Avila speaks truth to power. May the members of this mission be protected. May this genocide end.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 6d

Thiago Avila holding a mirror up to a regime that’s illegally hijacking boats full of civilians, doctors, journalists and humanitarians — kidnapping them in international waters — for trying to get formula to babies the regime is actively starving.

Where are our governments?

Global Sumud Flotilla❤️

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

Turning Point is leading the charge to quash free speech at universities and get professors fired but y’all insisted that its founder’s dehumanizing rhetoric was “political opinion” and “debate” so now here come the full-on Nazi purges.

UNC professor responds to being put on leave for alleged affiliation with anti-fascist organization

An outspoken University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor was placed on administrative leave following reports of concern about his alleged advocacy for politically motivated violence.

www.wral.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

The live feed of the Global Sumud Flotilla. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

m.youtube.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

I love my 100% cotton jockeys

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

Nearly fifty ships with hundreds of volunteers from around the world are on a humanitarian voyage to bring food and supplies to Gaza and they now no longer have any protection.

Italy's navy to quit Gaza flotilla as risk of Israeli attack looms

Italy's navy will stop following the international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza once it gets within 150 nautical miles (278 km) of the shore, the Italian defence ministry said on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely deranged.

"In his latest stab at interfering in the race for City Hall, Trump threatened to slash funding to the city if Mamdani beats Republican Curtis Sliwa and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent."

Trump warns he will starve NYC of funds if Mamdani elected as mayor

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Monday warned New York City voters not to elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor, threatening to starve the city of federal funding if the Democratic nominee wins in Novemb...

www.yahoo.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 9d

“My library was like paradise; I would travel and sail among its books to seize wisdom and the self I had forgotten since the first day I was forced to abandon reading and became bound to writing blood, tears, and forgotten remains.”

— Omar Hamad, September 29, 2025, Gaza

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