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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bolstered by $75bn in funding from Congress, the Department of Homeland Security - the US government agency that oversees ICE - has more than doubled its workforce this year to more than 22,000 officers and staff. It has also vastly expanded its capacity by working with local police, sheriffs, highway patrol and even fish and wildlife agents. As of 15 September, ICE had signed more than 2,500 287(g) agreements.

ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 25/09/2026
"No lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” New York City's mayor said of the Israeli prime minister.​
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'Baseless Lies Meant to Sanitize His Genocide': Mamdani Hits Back After Netanyahu's Attacks During UN Speech
“Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” New York City's mayor said of the Israeli prime minister.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused France of applying a “double standard” after it allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane to cross its airspace while President Emmanuel Macron was calling for respect for international law. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260924-amn...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 24/09/2026
‘By Jensen’s logic we ought at this point be shutting down OpenAI. Their software has repeatedly been shown to be reckless, and because they have consistently covered things up we cannot trust them. They seem neither competent nor trustworthy.‘ garymarcus.substack.com/p/i-think-th...
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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 23/09/2026
At the UN General Assembly this morning, Trump called Cuba a “failed state” that was also somehow capable of providing a safe haven to foreign adversaries that “threaten America” and cultivating “subversive groups” in the U.S. Cuba’s UN delegation walked out while Trump spoke.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 22/09/2026
The vast majority of Democratic voters believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza. According to a new poll, 57% of them believe the officials who enabled it in both the Trump and Biden administrations should face prosecution.
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Majority of Democratic Voters Want to Prosecute Both Biden and Trump Admin Officials Over Gaza
​The vast majority of Democratic voters believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza and want its supporters in both parties to face consequences.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/09/2026
Hakeem Jeffries assured the public that the Democratic Party is taking strong measures to combat the AI Doomsday threat roiling the country. His prime example: a Democratic House commission on AI stacked with lawmakers who’ve received huge amounts of money from Big Tech.
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Democrats Backed by Industry Super PACs Are Writing the Party’s AI Plan
Members of the commission received outsized financial support that seems intended to shape the party’s policy response.
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Kevin Gosztola @kgosztola.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An Israeli military court extended the detention of Palestinian American journalist Naqaa Hamed. She has not been charged with a crime.
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Israel Keeps Palestinian American Journalist In Jail
The Committee to Protect Journalists demands the release of Palestinian American journalist Naqaa Hamed as an Israeli military court keeps her in detention.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 16/09/2026
"Entry-level postings have fallen off a cliff and the first rung of the ladder in tech is under pressure."
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AI Really Is Eviscerating Entry-Level Jobs, New Data Shows
New data on entry-level job postings in New York City found evidence of a bloodbath for recent computer science graduates.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16/09/2026
Nearly 1.7 million Palestinians are now spending a 2nd or 3rd year in unsafe, makeshift shelters because Israel & the US continue to block mobile homes, or caravans, from entering Gaza, leaving units that have been lined up on the Egyptian side of the border outside the Strip for more than a year...

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Nearly 1.7 million Palestinians are now spending a second or third year in unsafe, makeshift shelters because Israel and the United States continue to block mobile homes, or caravans, from entering Gaza, leaving units that have been lined up on the Egyptian side of the border outside the Strip for more than a year unable to enter.

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Children in Gaza are dying from falling into flooded wells. People are being battered in tattered tents by hail force winds and rain. But Israel continues to block thousands of mobile homes from entering Gaza.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today marks 44 years since the Israeli-sponsored Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. It is high time to suspend Israel’s membership in the UN, at the very least, and impose lawful broad sanctions against its regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, occupation and genocide.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: 22 senators are joining @vanhollen.senate.gov to force a vote to direct the State Department to investigate Israel's killing of American citizens and the status of human rights for Palestinians living under Israeli military rule in the West Bank. Tell your senators to join at:
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Message Your Senators: Expose Israel's Violence and Human Rights Abuses — IMEU Policy Project
We need to pressure our U.S. Senators to take real action. Tell them to report on human rights violations in the West Bank and hold Israel accountable.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Palestinian children watching The Lion King on a projected screen in a tent city. Behind the tent city are the ruins of Gaza.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/09/2026
Prices have fallen sharply since the famine of 2025, but with purchasing power destroyed by nearly three years of war and displacement, food on the shelves remains out of reach for the majority of Gaza's population. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/food...
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Food has returned to Gaza’s markets, but most people still can’t afford to eat
Prices have fallen sharply since the famine of 2025, but with purchasing power destroyed by nearly three years of war and displacement, food on the shelves remains out of reach for the majority of…
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 10/09/2026
"Enough is enough. We need to make sure that the pace of development isn't outpacing the pace of risk."
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'Could Mean the Demise of Humanity': El-Sayed Backs Pause on AI Development
"Enough is enough. We need to make sure that the pace of development isn't outpacing the pace of risk."
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 10/09/2026
A far-right hacker that touts cyber attacks on leftist sites has close ties to DataRepublican, the X account of a Pentagon employee.
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Pentagon Employee DataRepublican Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against the Far Left
A far-right hacker posts in tandem with DataRepublican, the X account of Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds, about hacks against the left.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not completely China space-related, but i found this so cool: China puts scientists on its LED walls—Qian Xuesen, Tu Youyou, Yuan Longping. A space pioneer, a Nobel-winning malaria researcher, and the father of hybrid rice. A powerful reminder of who helped build modern China.
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
before china's communist revolution tibet was a feudal theocracy with life expectancy in the thirties. when you hear westerners say "free tibet," remember that mao already did
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 04/09/2026
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz admitted this week that Israel’s goal for Gaza is the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza in “every way possible,” despite denying allegations of ethnic cleansing for years.
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Israel’s Gaza “solution” is to empty it of Palestinians, defense minister says
“There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” said Israel Katz.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/09/2026
Marc Rowan, a Trump appointee overseeing Gaza’s redevelopment, has given $1.5 million to AIPAC’s super PAC this cycle. buff.ly/XoszlGG
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 02/09/2026
Wrote about the Israeli leftist plan for a socialist kibbutz in the West Bank to promote "coexistence" with Palestinians, how the kibbutz has always been a tool for expelling Arabs, and about the proposals to build kibbutzim inside Gaza itself. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/your-west-...
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Your West Bank Settlement Is Not Leftist
The Israeli kibbutz is an instrument of Palestinian dispossession, not coexistence.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has been urged to 'come clean' on several military flights to Israel he has authorised since entering office www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/08/2026
“It’s not a crime to post a YouTube video, and it’s not at all clear why the government is demanding this information about Lemon and Fort’s YouTube accounts.”
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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ecocide in Iran The U.S.–Israeli war has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies. A new must-read @tomdispatch.bsky.social by Ashley Gate. theintercept.com/2026/08/31/i...
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Ecocide in Iran
The U.S.–Israeli war on Iran has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies.
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Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I began looking into the CCPSA after at a listening session in January about ICE & CPD collaboration. Residents complained for hours about the commissions ineffectiveness. Once I started talking to those in the body, I began to understand why. Read my latest piece for @unraveledpress.com
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 27/08/2026
Dockworkers have refused weapons cargo, shut down 21 Mediterranean ports and helped propel mass strikes across Italy. @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports that unions representing workers at 40 ports are now calling for another international day of action.
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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 26/08/2026
While U.S. casualties from the Iran War tick up, the Pentagon has been quietly seeking mortuary services. interc.pt/3UCvmSd
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Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War
A government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties.
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: records reveal how undercover US agents spied on ICE protesters in Minnesota, posing as concerned citizens in community meetings and Signal chats + getting directly involved in organizing. Here are photos an agent took during their investigation. FULL STORY: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
screenshot of internal DHS report of an undercover agent's photo of a table of books, including Coloring Our Socialism, Climate Solutions, and Shackled and Chainedscreenshot of internal DHS report showing an undercover agent's photo of a protester writing Chinga La Migra in chalkphoto of an undercover agent's photo of a poster saying JD VANCE IN MINNESOTA, featuring an edited image of the vice president with heavy eye makeup.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/08/2026
With their tow truck ditching them, it looks like the ICE agents are bailing from the scene. As they retreat back to their other vehicles, the crowd chants "fuera ICE!" and "whose streets? Our streets!"
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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CGTN @www.cgtn.com · 20/08/2026
How China turns sand green, taking its ecological playbook global More: news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
$10 to any reporter who asks Jeffries or any other anti-MFA politician: “Why do you think American people deserve worse healthcare than Israeli citizens?”
Wiki article about healthcare in Israel
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CGTN @www.cgtn.com · 15/08/2026
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi responded that the strait "cannot be seized by tweet," adding that it "has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian."
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 14/08/2026
Self-serving politicians might try to scapegoat calls to "defund the police," but the reality is that it never happened. In fact, since 2017, police funding has increased rapidly, now costing the U.S. more than $200 billion a year.
Graph showing that, when adjusted for inflation, policing cost $190 billion in 2017. In 2025, it cost $203 billion.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/08/2026
A new legal filing in Minnesota federal court accuses the U.S. government of opening unwarranted investigations into multiple left-leaning groups just four days after federal agents shot and killed protester Alex Pretti.
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Federal Agents Began Spying on Minnesota Left-Wing Groups 4 Days After Alex Pretti Was Shot
Organizations surveilled included unions, socialist collectives, climate action groups, and others.
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026
With the revelation that ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain, it's worth looking at how this apparel, designated as a non-lethal tool for law enforcement, actually works.
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually Work
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12/08/2026
Amid escalating raids and statements by Israeli officials promising a massive military operation against refugee camps in the West Bank, Palestinians in Ramallah-area camps say it’s not a question of whether their turn will come, but when. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/is-t...
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‘Is this how our story ends?’ Palestinian refugees live in fear as Israel takes aim at West Bank camps
Amid escalating raids and statements by Israeli officials promising a massive military operation against refugee camps in the West Bank, Palestinians in Ramallah-area camps say it’s not a question of…
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 08/08/2026
"Has Trump’s invasion of Greenland already begun?" That's what one expert asked after it was revealed that an oil company with close ties to the president had begun to move drilling equipment to the island without government permission.
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'Has Trump’s Invasion of Greenland Already Begun?': Experts Fearful as MAGA-Linked Oil Company Prepares Unauthorized Drilling
​"Let nobody think Trump has given up on taking Greenland," warned one professor of European politics.
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Abby Martin @abbymartin0.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Mass funeral of 112 people in Gaza This picture alongside millions will be a testament to the apathy, inaction, inhumanity of our brutal world. We could’ve stopped it. You definitely could have. May it haunt the whole world.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 07/08/2026
The author of the 2024 "autopsy" report on Kamala Harris' loss found that her support for Israel's genocide in Gaza cost her votes. But he did not provide that finding to the DNC.
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Author of DNC Autopsy Found Gaza Policy Hurt Harris in 2024—But Never Submitted Finding to Party Leadership
​"This is all strange in ways that either suggest dishonesty or stupidity," said one critic.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 06/08/2026
"I’m happy to burn your money for you, and then we can get on to the business of governing​," Abdul El-Sayed said in a message to AIPAC.
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'See You in November': Progressives Welcome the Fight as AIPAC Plots Round Two Against El-Sayed
"I’m happy to burn your money for you, and then we can get on to the business of governing," Abdul El-Sayed said in a message to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed overcame a record $30 million in AIPAC spending to defeat pro-Israel candidate Haley Stevens in Michigan. The race was widely viewed as a referendum on the political influence of the Israel lobby. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/abdu... #Palestine #Israel
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Abdul El-Sayed overcomes massive AIPAC spending to win Michigan primary
Abdul El-Sayed overcame a record $30 million in AIPAC spending to defeat pro-Israel candidate Haley Stevens in Michigan. The race was widely viewed as a referendum on the political influence of the Israel...
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Communist Party USA @communistsusa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
McCarthism 2.0 is on the loose. If they come for our comrades in the morning, they'll come for us at noon.
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