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Bilal Baydoun

@bilalb.bsky.social
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Views here my own. Writing from Dearborn. Formerly: Democracy Director @rooseveltinstitute.org and @Rooseveltforward.org. #FirstGen Go Blue.

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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 7h
Good afternoon from Michigan
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Really insightful piece by Pankaj Mishra. Densely written as usual, but if you’re a generous reader the reward is worthwhile. “The cover-up of salient facts about Israel can no longer be enforced through subtler means.“ harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Disenchantment, by Pankaj Mishra
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Read this and ask yourself if the level of concern about Islamophobia conveyed by our ruling elites is anywhere near commensurate to the threat Muslim Americans face.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdul’s win last night felt revolutionary in more than one way.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Michigan's got it going on!
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's surreal to say out loud. But in 48 hours, Abdul El-Sayed will have surmounted $60+ million in outside spending to become the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, and will be on the path to becoming the first Muslim American Senator in history. What a time to be a Michigander.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I find it troubling that the largest political spender in Michigan's Democratic primary, by far, is a pro-war lobby that assesses candidates not according to their plans for Michiganders, but whether they'll reliably sponsor planes and bombs. My latest: www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Michigan's U.S. Senate primary isn't about politics | Opinion
Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed's U.S. Senate primary is framed as a contest between progressives and centrists. It's really about campaign spending.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/07/2026
Expected, but what is more interesting is that he admits that it is impossible to whip against the vote and so his office will not even try.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I hadn't realized that Kiros was a legitimate victim of actual Cancel Culture: she was fired from her Big Law firm for writing a blog post saying that US law firms were too opposed to pro-Palestine student protests
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 26/06/2026
The top 50 donors in American politics have poured more than $1.3 BILLION so far this cycle into influencing the country’s politics. Anyone else think we need to limit money in politics??
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Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.3 billion into the 2026 election
Billionaires and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk make up the top individual donors.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Some people's lives and livelihoods are called "litmus tests" by political pundits because they haven't fully accepted those people as human. If you are understood as fully human your safety, dignity, belonging is not something to be contested in the political sphere.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Carville wants to secede and form the Confederate Consultants of America.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@daveweigel.bsky.social is right. The big pitch of the establishment, NYT, Yglesias, etc is that they need the keys to the car because they know how to win (and in the Trump era, winning is existential). But nobody really believes that anymore after 10 years of Trumpism
David Weigel & @daveweigel
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I keep saying it; the "Dem establishment" lost its 2021-2024 credibility not just because of Gaza but because it lost to Trump again. Sanders and Zohran rushed into the gap explaining that they lost bc they abandoned working people.
Far harder to make the "electability" case after you lost the popular vote to a heckin' Cheeto
John Podhoretz @ @jpodhoretz •1d
The real villain here is Biden. If he had been honest and bowed out of the race in '23, activists in the Democratic base would be less inclined to join in blowing their party up. They have every reason to believe the establishment is there solely to protec...
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dan Goldman did not just refuse to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. He also refused to acknowledge the occupation. Kind of hard to believe that folks are still committed to that extreme level of dishonesty and denialism.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Every victory against AIPAC is a victory for democracy. Excited for a Michigan victory next!
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said ‌on Tuesday." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an...
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
By what alchemy does “Israel refuses to stop bombing its neighbors despite deal” become this?
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The issue of Palestine is like a giant sieve for American liberal ideals. Human rights, democracy, free speech, academic freedom, rules-based order. Almost nothing makes it through. I've never seen anything like it. www.foxnews.com/media/hillar...
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Hillary Clinton breaks with Democratic critics by backing Trump’s Gaza plan as the 'only game in town'
Hillary Clinton praised President Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza plan as a pathway to security for Israel and self-determination for Palestinians, calling it the only option.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fighting and theorizing about epistemic bubbles when the entire material basis for epistemologies has been captured and deliberately fractured is just grief. Annoying but grief nonetheless.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Look forward to discussing @ahjohnson.bsky.social's extensive body of evidence documenting the commercial press's editorial double standards, corporate PR tactics, discriminatory labor practices, and outright lies that helped frame genocide as a fait accompli. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-sel...
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"How To Sell A Genocide" | An Evening With Author Adam Johnson Tickets, Thursday, June 11  •  6:30 PM - 8:45 PM | Eventbrite
Join us for a discussion with author Adam Johnson on how the US corporate media played a role in enabling the Gaza Genocide.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More to come but I will say this: the liberal institutional infrastructure of mobility is gone. People are mad. Women are people. No one is speaking to that anger. Midterms soon come. But that’s just the start. Here lies the girlboss. First to die but not the last. Good riddance.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like.” — www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza
Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Insane headline.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Scoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...
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Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Stories like this demonstrate why it matters to support independent outlets like @dropsitenews.com. Few mainstream outlets would ever touch this. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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Meet the Top “Content” Producers Linked to Canary Mission
A Drop Site investigation reveals the highest paid employees of the Israeli group running the infamous pro-Israel doxxing site.
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Israel Used Bayer-Monsanto Manufactured White Phosphorus Against Lebanon The use of this incendiary munition, that burns people to death from the inside when breathed in, has been heavily criticised by Human Rights organisations, which state that its use
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The warning signs have been there for years now. If Democrats keep ignoring their censorship problem around Palestine it’s going to cost them. There’s been a generational shift on this issue. www.dropsitenews.com/p/michigan-d...
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This entire interview is Omer Bartov explaining that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza and David Remnick finding various ways to ask “but are you sure it wasn’t something else?” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · April 20 · 40m
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Truly remarkable night
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Huge repudiation of the University’s anti-speech crackdowns. This was improbable.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Israel destroyed every bridge in South Lebanon. Today, some Lebanese created makeshift bridges and risked their lives just to cross into a few parts of the South and see their homes again. Israel has ethnically cleansed a third of Lebanon and vowed that our families will never be allowed to return.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social a gift from the heavens
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Amazing that this happened today. Justice for Rachel ❤️
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It's long past time we stopped sending Israel weapons to enable war crimes. Tonight's vote shows how fast the ground has shifted - and will continue to shift.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
40 Democrats in the Senate voted to block arms sales to Israel. Chuck Schumer voted for the weapons against the wishes of nearly 90% of his caucus. Schumer is voting with MAGA during one of the most grotesque chapters in modern American history. A total failure of a leader.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you live in Michigan, please call Senators Slotkin and Peters and ask them to support the Sanders resolutions to block arms sales to the Israeli military. So many families' lives depend on it, including my own. Peters: (202) 224-6221 Slotkin: (202) 224-4822
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today Israel Bonds continue to fund the Israeli government’s campaign of displacement, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I can't fully describe the sensation of watching sentient adults use phrases like "the chief exporter of terror." It's like watching someone bash their head against a brick wall repeatedly. You want to do anything possible to rescue their faculties for them. But alas, you can only watch.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We are in an utterly terrifying moment.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
All of this refers to Israel, in case that’s not clear. Israel’s war on Lebanon. Israeli warplanes. Israeli missiles. Fear—inflicted by Israel. In case anyone doesn’t understand NYT English.
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It’s just remarkable.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Abdelrahman Mohammed, 24, a Syrian living in Beirut, reacts after he lost 5 members of his family after an Israeli strike on Wednesday, at Rafik Hariri University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2026. 📸 Emilie Madi
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