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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social
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Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver. Editor of The Left Hook Substack (thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli wajali.com wajahatmali@protonmail.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
VALKYRIES!!!! LET'S GO, GOLDEN STATE!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Valkyries...1 minute away!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Should be bigger news, right? A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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France promises 3,000 extra teachers in bid to calm student protests
Education minister Edouard Geffray makes the offer after another day of sometimes violent demonstrations by high-school students.
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Jason Normann @jason-n.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Tate Drops Bomb on MAGA From Jail
Endless Urgency is always free to read, because we are here to root out corruption, demand transparency, hold powerful people accountable, and keep following consequential stories long after the headl...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Total collapse at Moscow’s airports 🛩 🚫 Ukrainian sources report that Ukraine has initiated its long-promised operation to disrupt russian air traffic. Delayed at the request of our partners, but now finally underway.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Democrats Have a Bill Maher Problem
Establishment Democrats obsessing over Hasan Piker’s every move seem to have no issue talking to Maher, despite his decades of open bigotry.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump escalates effort to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
A commission that will report to the president will assess the mortgage fraud allegations against her and consider evidence from a hearing next month.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨New from Cook Political: 18 more House ratings move in Democrats’ direction, including four Republican incumbents from Toss Up to Lean D.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@darializaforny.bsky.social is showing the leadership tonight that Hakeem Jeffries and others are lacking.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good time to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison"
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ABOLISH ICE.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Foucault wrote about this. It's meant to terrify and control the public. It's a spectacle for domination. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans are going all in on anti-Muslim bigotry to win the midterms. Will it work?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...
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Palmer Luckey on his idea for using oxytocin to help strengthen marriages
YouTube video by Peter H. Diamandis
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Damn!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ABOLISH ICE www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Person shot during encounter with ICE agents in New York City, source says | CNN
A man was shot during an encounter with federal immigration agents in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Police Department.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans will get innocent people killed.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To make up for this atrocity, now we're going to have public firing squads. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Christa Pike, Confused After Failed Tennessee Execution, Is at Center of Legal Storm
Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
JD Vance's Pope, Thiel, takes on the actual Pope. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LORD nypost.com/2026/10/08/h...
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Sexually transmitted diarrhea is on the rise — and it’s morphing into a drug-resistant superbug
The infection is evolving into something that’s “close to untreatable,” one expert said.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dark. The people (Republicans) who did the right thing to protect our country on 1/6 are now being punished. A clear message to anyone who stands against what they have planned next. We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MAGA would introduce Hunger Games if they could. You think I'm joking. apnews.com/article/fort...
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten
The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Penn...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The far-right's favorite "intellectual" says the quiet part out loud.
A tweet from Curtis Yarvin that says "what if Open AI solves the Jewish problem"
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Valkyries!!!!! 2-0!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's go Valkyries - a few more seconds! Go up 2-0!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
Cunningham is making transphobia her entire personality to parlay it into being a conservative media darling. It's all she has at this point and it's pathetic. www.latimes.com/sports/story...
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Sophie Cunningham appears to troll transgender community with hat at Missouri football game
Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham appeared at Missouri’s homecoming game with a hat bearing a slogan that seemed to imply that transgender women are not actually women.
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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After 34 years taking their collection from 1,000 to over 150,000 movies, Scarecrow Video’s beloved longtime buyer Mark Steiner is calling it a career after having helped shape Seattle’s (and the world’s) largest physical media store📽️ My story @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Mark Steiner, longtime Scarecrow Video employee, is shown in the Seattle store Sept. 10, with shelves upon shelves of movies expanding out behind him that he helped to bring to the location over 34 years.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He will still be president…
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
how are we still fucking doing this
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A billionaire Trump supporter will now own much of the news media. It is going to be important for all of us to become the media. www.huffpost.com/entry/elliso...
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One Billionaire Trump-Aligned Family Will Soon Own All These Channels
The father-son Ellison duo will reign over a kingdom of media properties now that Warner Bros. shareholders approved a major deal.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
President Trump is heading to Texas for the second time in less than a week amid Republican worries about losing support from the blue-collar workers and Latinos who helped build their winning coalition in 2024.
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Trump returns to Texas, where Republicans are struggling
Republicans are spending heavily to defend a state the president won comfortably two years ago.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become ambassador to Greece when she asked a donor for $100K to pay AmEx, in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to AmEx.” Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ties to the KKK bc of course. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-candid...
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Trump Pick’s Campaign Hit With Explosive Staff Revelations
Affiliates of Georgia candidate Mike Collins have ties to a group he has denounced as a “hate organization.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They are so shameless and gifted in their grift. Mashallah. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why didn't the FBI follow up? All the stories connect to the single, bigger story, folks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser
Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, add to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pathetic
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Back to School, in Gaza
My nephews study in a big tent surrounded by bombed-out houses. They have no access to chairs or desks, so they sit on the dirt.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.
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