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Paul Nabil Matthis

@paulnm.bsky.social
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Syrian American author & musician. Multiple interviews on Al-Jazeera. Rep'd by Speilburg Literary. On submission. He/Him. No one is free until we all are. beacons.ai/paulnm

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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've seen this painting in person. It was overwhelming.
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World Food Programme @wfp.org · 01/09/2026
WFP assistance helps displaced families in the West Bank afford the basic food they need each day. Now, severe funding constraints put that support at risk. WFP’s Shaun Hughes explains what the cuts could mean for families like Aysha’s. ⤵️
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On 18 August, we remember Khaled al-Asaad, the heroic Syrian archaeologist who was murdered by ISIS on 18 August 2015 for refusing to reveal the hidden treasures of Palmyra. www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a...
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
His fans spent over a year collecting evidence that might set him free or at least get him a mistrial. Meanwhile, Luigi Mangione:
Zac Oyama on Dropout.tv's Game Changer saying, "I killed him, yeah."
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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I grew up in like 5 different countries I will never judge someone for unconscious code switching their accent
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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How the Farmer’s Salad Got its Name
CookNSolo, Salata Falahiyeh, and the Flattening of SWANA Jewish Identity
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A response video to the most common arguments I get from liberal Zionists on my content, so now I can just direct them here instead of having to repeat myself over and over. Yes, it's 20+ minutes and in vertical format, it is what it is ok youtu.be/xG6IS4uqnwo
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A Liberal Zionist and an Antizionist Debate the Palestinian Right of Return
YouTube video by Paul Nabil Matthis
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
RIGHT??
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Very happy to have hosted this roundtable with Tech For Palestine on migrating away from big tech. You can watch the full discussion on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHS...
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Tech for Palestine Roundtable: Moving Away from Big Tech
YouTube video by Tech For Palestine
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I mean it's pretty self-explanatory
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026
also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers
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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026
bisexual final boss
Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NOT THE FLYWHEEL 💀
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Harlow Lombard @harlowlombard.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is a fantastic resource on Palestine for citations, info, and documentation. Well done, @paulnm.bsky.social ✊🇵🇸 #westbank #gaza #palestine #syria
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Quick tour of the new Palestine List website, including a new SmartSearch feature powered by Thaura, an ethical AI companion supported by Tech for Palestine. youtube.com/shorts/hyAF2...
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Tour of the new Palestine List resource list website #booktok
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century
The black-and-white photo A Great Day in Harlem shows 57 musicians gathered around the steps of a Harlem brownstone, while some kids sit on the curb. The photo was originally shot for an August 1958 issue of Esquire Magazine.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Imagine my shock
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Death of the Holocaust Industry
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Excellent article today from @charleslister1.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. The Assadist scourge of Captagon persists in Syria, and Israel is its primary pusher. newlinesmag.com/argument/how...
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How Israel-Backed Sweida Became Syria's Narcotics Capital
The militias profiting from the drug trade do not answer to Damascus
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Potentially landscape-shifting legislation in Hawaii. TLDR, corporations doing business in Hawaii do not have the power to engage in local, state, or federal political campaigns, since that was not one of the powers enumerated in the state’s corporate charter. prospect.org/2026/05/18/h...
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Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics - The American Prospect
A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Israel now ranks dead last in "global overall perception" according to the 2026 Democracy Perception Index (DPI), which is the world’s largest annual study on democracy conducted by Latana in collaboration with the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today, the minimum total count of Palestinian villages eradicated is 418, though Salman Abu Sitta estimates at least 531 confirmed depopulated localities, with the true number possibly over 560. Further reading: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé. bookshop.org/a/104178/978...
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Check out The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - <B>The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from &lsquo;Israel&rsquo;s bravest historian&rsquo; (John Pilger)</B><BR><BR><B>Renowned Israeli his...
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
By March 1948, 40 or so villages in Palestine had already been violently ethnically cleansed, well before Plan Dalet had even been enacted. After Plan Dalet, of course, nearly 250 villages were depopulated by June 1948, but that operation began in April '48, not May. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Da...
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Plan Dalet - Wikipedia
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The first village massacre and depopulation committed by Zionist militias was Al-Khisas. On Dec 18, 1947, the 3rd battalion of the Palmach (part of Haganah) massacred 10-15 unarmed Palestinians, Lebanese, and Syrians there, including 5 children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khis...
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Al-Khisas raid - Wikipedia
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is May 15, 2026, marking year 78 of the Nakba. It's known as #NakbaDay, but really it marks the UK withdrawal from the Mandate, and the first full day of the official Israeli occupation under Zionism. This however has little to do with the actual history of the Nakba.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'd thought the multiseason point tally for @makesomenoise.dropout.tv had @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social as the clear leader with a googolplex of points, making all other points totals trivial. However, Frank Garcia-Hejl got infinite points in S1, but "infinity" is not a number. So, who's winning?
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Actual footage of Microsoft firing its Israeli GM Alon Haimovich www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxnp...
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Shocked that gambling is happening - Casablanca (1942)
YouTube video by Raindog's House of Oddities
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My Palestine Timeline just went live on the Palestine List site. Multisourced anticolonial approach beginning in 1770 until present. Converted from the og Google Doc via a fair amount of automated tasks, so feedback is welcome if you catch something that looks off. palestinelist.com#supplements/...
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The Palestine List | Sources, Citations & Other Media
A comprehensive collection of multimedia resources for Palestine covering history, current events, how to get involved, and more.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
media.tenor.com
a man and a woman are dancing together in a room .
ALT: a man and a woman are dancing together in a room .
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Birds of a feather 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My Firefox instance prevents ads so recklessly it sometimes breaks the site itself and I have to disable plugins 😅 commenting this through a mobile adblocker VPN btw
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
palestinelist.com exists as a website now instead of a redirect to a Google Doc (the doc will also continue to be updated along with the site). This has now expanded to around 60 pages worth of resources regarding Palestine.
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The Palestine List | Sources, Citations & Other Media
A comprehensive collection of multimedia resources for Palestine covering history, current events, how to get involved, and more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Never forget who you’re fighting for.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
American Sardine Bar in south Philly. Thank me later.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’
Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court:
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas has an alarming record of horrific abuses and abject neglect within its walls. Call your Senators and Representatives and urge them to work towards the release of all children in abusive detention camps!
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17/02/2026
"We see [Israeli] attacks still occurring. But we also see complete impunity." Amnesty International USA’s Amanda Klasing tells @premthakker.bsky.social the organization warned the White House in 2023 about Israel’s non-adherence to international humanitarian law. Watch: zeteo.com/p/how-the-us...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
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Jeff Galvin @docgalvin64.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
That... is the opposite of correct 😂 1. obviously Zionists will say Zionism is good, and 2. That is not even remotely how a strawman argument works.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
On the contrary, I think it sounds like you have no idea what Liberal Zionism is and how it works. This article is written by an Israeli-American antizionist doctor of psychology. “As an effective propaganda tool, Liberal Zionism promotes a normalisation which colonises the mind.” aje.io/n5wela
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On empathy and other liberal zionist canards
As an effective propaganda tool, Liberal Zionism promotes a normalisation which colonises the mind.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Haaretz is not left-wing, it's liberal Zionist. Liberal Zionism is still Zionism, just with a different approach to the propaganda.
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Paul Nabil Matthis @paulnm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Beejhy Barhany is literally an IDF soldier. She posts videos with Noa Tishby. Please don't spread Haaretz propaganda. New York does not want IDF soldiers running restaurants in Harlem.
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