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@elmazessentially.bsky.social
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if you don’t believe in Freedom of Speech. Press, literature, assembly and rights for everyone (and Free Palestine) don’t bother following. #writer #ofcolor #arabamerican #educator #leader #fitnessjunkie

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/12/2025
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
How cruel and monstrous is this confluence of things?
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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/12/2025
BREAKING: At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City and northern areas as Israel continues attacks across the so-called yellow line truce demarcation. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Enough of this
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Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/12/2025
The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
onslaught
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It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/11/2025
For our fourth and final centenary special issue, the artist Malika Favre created “Taking Flight,” the latest adaptation of The New Yorker’s classic Eustace Tilley cover. Read the issue here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nWkC-7 #NewYorker100
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
CNN commentators are commenting on Mamdani with such disrespect starting with Van Jones. bought and sold
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
From the Guardian 2 A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere” and threatening that if they supported “terrorist organisations” they could be arrested."
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
From the Guardian: "Israel also forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison, in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
what did he do actually? create unity? find a cure for a life threatening disease? develop a system for a better world? Come up with a solution for disparities? i mean what did he do? anything worthwhile? people doing those things have been cancelled. this is insulting
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Charlie Kirk memorial latest updates: Trump and Vance to join tens of thousands of people at service for rightwing activist
Funeral expected to start at 11am local time; Erika Kirk, US president and vice-president among the expected speakers
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/09/2025
Senator Jeff Merkely leads the First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state This is long overdue and a critical step forward. www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-lead...
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Merkley Leads Historic Call for U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Statehood - Merkley
First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a historic resoluti...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/09/2025
One underreported fact is Brendan Carr—the FCC chairman who got Kimmel suspended—spent the last four years warning that government censorship of critics leads to authoritarianism. Carr co-authored P2025. He know he's advancing authoritarianism. That's the point. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...
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The Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel
By indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister afoot we cannot ignore
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center
Critics condemn reopening of ‘Camp J’ unit at Angola in service of Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown, noting its history of brutality and violence
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Every time journalists are killed, we are all robbed of the stories. Sending pieces of my heart to their families.
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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
every call all the time. You need to read how Microsoft is big brother and how genocide is the result. Whether you believe that they knew it or not.
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
everything he doged is already costing lives. from healthcare to aviation safety to climate and weather safety. while death camps are built. Taking aim from every possible direction.
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Trump regime officials must be prosecuted for the deaths of the children in Texas flood!
Trump gutted the National Weather Service
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/07/2025
You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
You may be funding this incipient toxic culture that spectacularizes violence. Remember who to boycott. "The UFC is even sponsoring the United States Semiquincentennial dubbed America 250, joining the likes of Amazon, the Coca-Cola Company, Oracle and Walmart."
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Donald Trump’s UFC stunt is more than a circus. It’s authoritarian theatre | Karim Zidan
The planned fight on White House grounds isn’t just macho spectacle – it’s a chilling marker of where the US is headed
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A hideous and indefensible crime. Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. Both Biden and Trump are complicit. So too are those who excuse and defend it.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Do people need to hide in a closet and start a diary cause this shit is stark
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Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening
Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/06/2025
GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.
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As Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raised
GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What the fuuuuuuuuuck www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
From WIRED magazine. The US Is Storing
Migrant Children's DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The right to disappear people?
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US supreme court clears way for Trump to deport migrants to countries not their own
Justices lift judicial order, handing victory to US president in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is huge
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
My response to the councilwoman on twitter: "This is false @VickieforNYC, I'm a private sector entrepreneur with a thriving small business in the heart of Manhattan. Please delete this incorrect tweet. Take out a paid subscription to support entrepreneurialism" www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup
Here's a convenient list of 'economists' who should immediately lose their tenure and never be listened to again.

Worth noting that NOT ONE OF THEM actually has a private sector job working in economics or finance. They're all academics.

And for good measure, might be worth looking into whether any of them are noncitizens here on a visa.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
abc7.com/post/dodgers...
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Dodgers commit $1M to families impacted by immigration raids after pushback from community groups
The Dodgers announced that the organization will donate $1 million to immigrant families impacted by recent raids.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So. Israel does think that striking hospitals is a bad thing? hmmm i couldn’t tell
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Health system at breaking point as hostilities further intensify in Gaza, WHO warns
Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fue...
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
He needs to be stopped
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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Ilanit (illy) @imanor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/06/2025
We’ve truly lost our way in this country. An 80-year-old vet who fought for this country just got arrested protesting Trump‘s parade. He deserves respect, not handcuffs.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening
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No Longer HR Lady Not Named Linda @shi-arm33chandilar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
My president.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Live look at Detroit, Michigan. Let's go, Motor City! Even Fox's streaming channel is calling the No Kings Day rallies "massive." 🍿
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Erin Leiserson @erinleiserson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I am thrilled to see the huge turnouts in major cities! But you know what? I'm equally thrilled to see the proportional turnouts in smaller towns, especially the ones where people know they'll be recognized by their MAGA neighbors. Thank you all -- you can be proud of your communities today!
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sherryjustice.bsky.social @sherryjustice.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I had tears as I drove to my little town court house seeing every overpass, lined with people waving flags and holding signs. Then I find out, it was that way all the way down to Sacramento! People came out today and it was beautiful!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Yes Ma’am!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Show up to the NO KINGS rallies. Be vigilant and peaceful and organized. Don't give in to terror and fear. They want you to be cowed into silence. Speak louder.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/06/2025
Video shows a young man carrying his dead father on a bicycle after he was shot while trying to secure food parcels at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site in Gaza. Israeli forces have killed more than 220 Palestinians at GHF aid distribution sites since they opened.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
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American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
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elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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US immigration officials raid California farms as Trump ramps up conflict
Stepped-up ‘enforcement activity’ to fulfill arrest quotas leads to reports of agents chasing workers across farmland
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Manel Márquez 🍉 [Memòria Històrica] @manelmarquez.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Israel es un Estado criminal, que ha asesinado a 231 periodistas palestinos en Gaza, desde el 7 de octubre de 2023. Al Jazeera ha publicado sus nombres para que el mundo no los olvide. #Israel no quiere que se informe del genocidio que está cometiendo. #NotATarget #FreePalestine
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Vote Blue 🌵🗳️💙🦋🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @lflorepolitics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Gavin Newsom for the win🏆
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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/06/2025
About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.
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One in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR report
About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...
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ICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President
“We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid.
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