Mike Amitay
@mikeamitay.bsky.social
On this rock for shits, giggles and fighting fascism
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The future of war may depend less on what AI can do, and more on what governments choose to restrain.
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
Israel’s recent campaign in Gaza marks a turning point in modern warfare: the fusion of counter-insurgency and artificial intelligence. Will Western
warontherocks.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The future of war may depend less on what AI can do, and more on what governments choose to restrain.
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The anti-Muslim attacks against Mamdani are part of a worrying trend. New research shows in the last three years, Islamophobia has sharply risen in the United States, across almost every demographic.
More from @theISPU: ispu.org/poll25
More from @theISPU: ispu.org/poll25
American Muslim Poll 2025 - ISPU
ISPU's 2025 poll reveals striking insights into the youngest, most racially diverse faith community in the country, including their civic participation, voting patterns in 2024, and resilience in the ...
ispu.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The anti-Muslim attacks against Mamdani are part of a worrying trend. New research shows in the last three years, Islamophobia has sharply risen in the United States, across almost every demographic.
More from @theISPU: ispu.org/poll25
More from @theISPU: ispu.org/poll25
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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...
They are demanding that the Times conduct an independent review of...
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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...
They are demanding that the Times conduct an independent review of...
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Why is Mamdani constantly asked about Israel and Palestine, but no other candidate who parrots Israel's talking points is ever asked if they condemn a genocide, occupation, and apartheid?
Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Why is Mamdani constantly asked about Israel and Palestine, but no other candidate who parrots Israel's talking points is ever asked if they condemn a genocide, occupation, and apartheid?
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We joined 3,700+ nonprofits who've signed a powerful letter condemning the Trump administration’s illegal attacks on civil society. We will not be intimidated or silenced.
READ: bit.ly/3700strong
READ: bit.ly/3700strong
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We joined 3,700+ nonprofits who've signed a powerful letter condemning the Trump administration’s illegal attacks on civil society. We will not be intimidated or silenced.
READ: bit.ly/3700strong
READ: bit.ly/3700strong
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“Palestinians are being intentionally starved to death. Although signs of the coming horrors were clear within months of the war’s onset, many governments averted their eyes. Now, they are failing in their duty to prevent and stop a genocide.”
Starvation in Gaza and Our Global Shame
Binaifer Nowrojee sees ample evidence that the country is committing the most serious of crimes in Gaza.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Palestinians are being intentionally starved to death. Although signs of the coming horrors were clear within months of the war’s onset, many governments averted their eyes. Now, they are failing in their duty to prevent and stop a genocide.”
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Wow: 1/4 of US senators now oppose more American weapons to Israel.
Context: until 9 months ago Congress had *never* voted on blocking weapons to Israel.
Context: until 9 months ago Congress had *never* voted on blocking weapons to Israel.
July 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Wow: 1/4 of US senators now oppose more American weapons to Israel.
Context: until 9 months ago Congress had *never* voted on blocking weapons to Israel.
Context: until 9 months ago Congress had *never* voted on blocking weapons to Israel.
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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"Iran doesn't have nukes. Israel does.
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't.
Israel has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't."
But Israel is the victim? My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased.
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Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't.
Israel has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't."
But Israel is the victim? My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased.
zeteo.com/subscribe
June 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Iran doesn't have nukes. Israel does.
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't.
Israel has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't."
But Israel is the victim? My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased.
zeteo.com/subscribe
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't.
Israel has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't."
But Israel is the victim? My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased.
zeteo.com/subscribe
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Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.
June 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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Trump-Connected Gaza Aid Chief Johnnie Moore Took Part in Secret Influence Operation Promoting Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant, and Anti-Qatar Content, by @marcowenjones open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
Trump-Connected Gaza Aid Chief Johnnie Moore Took Part in Secret Influence Operation Promoting Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant, and Anti-Qatar Content
Johnnie Moore handed out content connected to influence operation to Katrina Lantos Swett at an interfaith conference in 2024, and kept shtum about where he got the material
open.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump-Connected Gaza Aid Chief Johnnie Moore Took Part in Secret Influence Operation Promoting Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant, and Anti-Qatar Content, by @marcowenjones open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
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Clown show
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Clown show
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State Department Plans to Launch ‘Office of Remigration.’
The idea of “remigration” has a troubling history; it originally comes from far-right, neo-Nazi circles in Europe and is typically used to advocate for the forced removal of migrants. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...
The idea of “remigration” has a troubling history; it originally comes from far-right, neo-Nazi circles in Europe and is typically used to advocate for the forced removal of migrants. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
State Department Plans to Launch ‘Office of Remigration.’
The idea of “remigration” has a troubling history; it originally comes from far-right, neo-Nazi circles in Europe and is typically used to advocate for the forced removal of migrants. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...
The idea of “remigration” has a troubling history; it originally comes from far-right, neo-Nazi circles in Europe and is typically used to advocate for the forced removal of migrants. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...
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I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea
April 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea
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‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor
‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor
The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew Cuomo
Can a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York?
Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assembly member in Queens, has been the surprise package in the Democratic primary and is now poised to take on the frontrunner in the race, ex-state governor Andrew Cuomo, who is mounting a political comeback after being forced from office in the face of a series of sexual harassment claims. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor
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DUI Hire.
"There are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week, key Pentagon reporters have been telling sources privately."
Opinion | Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details ‘Month From Hell’ Inside the Agency
The total chaos at the Department of Defense is becoming a major distraction for the Trump administration, writes John Ullyot.
www.politico.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
DUI Hire.
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Israel's government cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and local officials two days before they were to start a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, the group said. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Israel cancels visas for French lawmakers
Israel's government cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and local officials two days before they were to start a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, the group…
www.al-monitor.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Israel's government cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and local officials two days before they were to start a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, the group said. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
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If there isn't a cost for the Trump administration defying this judge’s order, Bondi and co will just defy other judge's orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
Trump Administration Defies Judge Seeking Details on Plan to Return Wrongly Deported Man
The administration’s refusal to comply with a judge’s directives threatened to erupt into a showdown between the executive and judicial branches.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If there isn't a cost for the Trump administration defying this judge’s order, Bondi and co will just defy other judge's orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
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Defense acquisition needs an overhaul, but this is another play by Trump to profit off of picking who wins and loses federal largesse, this time for big military bucks.
The MAGA ideology is a fascist fantasy to hype up rubes—his real game has always been the grift.
defensescoop.com/2025/04/09/t...
The MAGA ideology is a fascist fantasy to hype up rubes—his real game has always been the grift.
defensescoop.com/2025/04/09/t...
Trump directs Pentagon to tee up major acquisition programs for potential cancellation
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that could lead to the cancellation of major defense acquisition programs, boost the procurement of commercial technologies and shake up the workfor...
defensescoop.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Defense acquisition needs an overhaul, but this is another play by Trump to profit off of picking who wins and loses federal largesse, this time for big military bucks.
The MAGA ideology is a fascist fantasy to hype up rubes—his real game has always been the grift.
defensescoop.com/2025/04/09/t...
The MAGA ideology is a fascist fantasy to hype up rubes—his real game has always been the grift.
defensescoop.com/2025/04/09/t...
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Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
April 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
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BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.”
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
www.uscis.gov
April 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.”
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...