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Ilana Hairston

@piliana.bsky.social
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Sleep scientist, college professor, socialist and outraged by injustice

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/10/2026
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons & military detention camps over the 3 years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. That count covers... www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons and military detention camps over the three years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. 

That count covers only those whose identities have been confirmed. The fate of dozens more detainees from Gaza remains unknown due to enforced disappearance.

The report documents an escalating system of arrest, torture, starvation and denial of medical care that has led to killings inside prisons and camps. It also found:

➤ More than 26,000 arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem
➤ More than 800 women and 2,000 children arrested
➤ More than 3,100 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial, and 1,419 held as "unlawful combatants"
➤ Israel is holding the bodies of 100 Palestinians who died in custody

The groups also pointed to Israel's approval of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, and to the growing use of "incitement" charges to arrest Palestinians over their speech, which they say has created a climate of fear and self-censorship.

With no independent oversight and the Red Cross still barred from visiting prisoners, the report says what is happening inside Israel's prisons "cannot be separated from the genocide."

🔗 Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documented his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin for Drop Site. Read our latest: "Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison" below.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In case there was still doubt that the US government is 100% Epstein Class news.sky.com/story/us-off...
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US officials 'secretly flew diplomat out of UK' after indecent image allegations
UK ministers are understood to be in contact with the US embassy over the incident, which is reported to be connected to an investigation in the US.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Worth reading beyond headlines. Just one example Federal officials have stopped short of formally linking Iran to the recent attacks on local water systems,..." www.reuters.com/world/us-war...
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US warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants
The warning comes amid widespread cyber incidents targeting local water systems in multiple states in recent weeks in attacks cybersecurity ​experts suspect are linked to Iran.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We are a nation that has moved at speed from the realm of fact colored by opinions to a kingdom of delusion infested with fear,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about Vice President JD Vance’s recent interview with Joe Rogan.
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Opinion | Call the Veep, Agent Mulder!
Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/07/2026
In 1997, a court ruled New York violated its own welfare laws by offering too small an allowance to put toward rent, leaving poor families with children at risk of homelessness. A new lawsuit argues that three decades later, that’s still happening. w/ @nysfocus.com
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New York Hasn’t Raised Housing Allowances for Needy Residents in Decades. That’s Unconstitutional, a Lawsuit Says.
The state constitution makes an unusual promise to residents: to provide care and support for the needy. But a recent lawsuit accuses it of failing to meet that mandate by putting low-income household...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/06/2026
“We don’t see the type of outrage that we would see if a Western journalist was killed by a country that is not a U.S. ally."
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Remembering Ahmed Wishah, the Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed in Israel
Israel is continuing to attack Gaza despite the so-called ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, and at least six people, including two children, on Saturday. Wis...
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@MSNOW @chrislhayes.bsky.social @ayman.msnbc.com @velshi.com have become sooo centrist on Israel. Not criticizing the deaths and displacement in Lebanon, the violations of the cease fire and rising death toll in Gaza. Its like #AIPAC is underwriting this network. Very disappointing
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@theweekendprime.bsky.social just unbelievable that on MSNOW with host @ayman.msnbc.com all the pundits are criticizing the Iran deal from the Right!! Thats why the Democratic party is a fossil. Might as well give the stage to Lindsay Graham
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@rhodesben.bsky.social if you want women to buy your book, perhaps framing it as a "dad book" is not the best idea. Especially as women read more than men, across genres
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Word zeteo.com/p/is-mtg-rea...
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Is MTG Really Better Than AOC on Gaza? Mehdi Debunks This ‘Ludicrous’ Argument
In his latest monologue, Mehdi corrects the record on what AOC and MTG have actually said and done on Gaza, on Biden and Trump, and on Jan. 6.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Both @allinwithchris.bsky.social and @jenpsaki.bsky.social spent their A blocks focusing on Cash Pattel's incompetence and suspected excess drinking, yet not a word on the FBI raid of fellow journalist Hannah Natanson.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Listening to @maddow.bsky.social you'd think the only thing happening in the US is building of detention centers. No wars in the Mid. East, no blown up "drug boats", no corruption. Even the involvement of Russia (pet peeve) in the negotiations with Iran goes unmentioned. #irrelevant on primetime
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Remember when Karoline Leavitt said that Trump had "a feeling based on fact" that Iran was an imminent threat? Here it is. Exclusive: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan book on Trump, "Regime Change," coming in June www.axios.com/2026/04/07/e...
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Exclusive: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan book on Trump, "Regime Change," coming in June
The book is causing high anxiety in Trumpworld.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
@theweekendprime.bsky.social A movie about the rescued airmen?! Ks have been killed in Iran 10s of ks injured, plenty of war crimes have already been committed. Can't u get 1 single report from Iranians in Iran to disillusion u from "some Iranians may WANT us bombing of the regime?
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Reading the headline and first couple of lines you’d think that #NoKings was a handful of disgruntled democrats. It’s pretty shameful that this is how the @nytimes.com chose to report on the 8-million strong protest. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
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A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@ms.now @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social the problem with the #IranWar is NOT tactics or Hegseth's stupidity and ignorance. The war is immoral, illegal and a rolling war crime. #GrowASpine
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Annoying how progressives refer to Iraq, Afghanistan wars as examples of US defeat. These wars lasted decades, decimated the countries,killed millions. While the US was largely unchanged. Loose to Iran is not the reason this war shouldn't have started. The reason should be the sanctity of life.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So Trump is un-pardoning him? Good news that its possible. There are a lot of Jan. 6 rioters that can be un-pardoned as well www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
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U.S. Seeks Extradition of Maduro Ally Pardoned by Biden
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/03/2026
President Trump's aggression toward Cuba, Venezuela and other Latin American countries is part of "a bipartisan and decadeslong strategy of undermining and breaking the left governments in Latin America and consolidating a pro-U.S., right-wing bloc throughout the hemisphere," says Jake Johnston.
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“Donroe Doctrine” Summit: Trump Seeks to Build Right-Wing Power Bloc in Latin America
President Trump is hosting right-wing leaders from across Latin America in Miami for a summit discussing his so-called Shield of the Americas initiative. This comes as the U.S. deploys special forces ...
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Wait, what!?!? Isn't this what you'd call a constitutional crisis? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
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After Stunning Setback, Trump Finds Other Ways to Impose Tariffs
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
While I get why focusing on Minnesota is important totally ignoring the pending and completely unjustified war on Iran seems negligent @chrislhayes.bsky.social @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u... So how does this work? The US attacks Danish sovereignty then NATO attacks the US, namely Trump arrests himself? How stupid are the people in the Trump administration?
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Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If you still had doubt as to on who's side the US is in the Russia-Ukraine war all you need to look at is the unilateral, illegal attack on Venezuela
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Israeli settlers are harassing Palestinian residents in Al-Maniya village, south of Bethlehem.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... Pretty sure this headline will be regretted in the near or far future
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Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
@MSNOW not a word about #COP30 ? Epstein, Epstein all the time.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/10/2025
Rights groups say the RSF paramilitary group committed mass atrocities as it seized the besieged city in North Darfur.
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Massacre in el-Fasher: What’s happening in Sudan right now?
Rights groups say the RSF paramilitary group committed mass atrocities as it seized the besieged city in North Darfur.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/10/2025
Was DC’s ‘No Kings’ protest a ‘hate rally’? @premthakker.bsky.social brings you inside the US capital’s huge, historic mobilization — and speaks to Mehdi Hasan, Bill Nye, Chris Murphy, Al Green, and the protesters. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Watch and read more: zeteo.com/p/no-king-tr...
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
קיבלת במתנה כתבה מאתר הארץ. "ישראל האחרת" מציעה אולי מצפון, אך לא חשבון נפש ושינוי | דעה www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202... חובה לקרוא!
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"ישראל האחרת" מציעה אולי מצפון, אך לא חשבון נפש ושינוי | דעה
הביטוי "גרמניה האחרת" נכנס לשיח הציבורי בישראל בראשית שנות ה–50, בתקופת הדיונים על הסכמי השילומים, אך מקורו מוקדם בהרבה: עיתון קטן בברלין של שנות ה–20 נשא שם זה
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2025
Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues. This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):
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She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police. Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
RIP Jane Goodall, what a light substack.com/@poemz/note/...
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Amy King (@poemz)
Dr. Jane Goodall recorded this interview in March 2025, with the understanding that it would be released only after her death. #drjanegoodall
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
FYI: in Israel, which despite its current psychotic status still has a better health system than in the US, #COVID vaccines are only recommended for people at risk (i.e., have a chronic illness, are 65+, are pregnant). JFK Jr is mad as the Mad Hatter, but on the COVID vaccine he's not wrong.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@nicollewallace.bsky.social the ad for Deadline Whitehouse - you think "we should have faith it will all be ok" needs to be taken down. It's White privilege BS. Be ok for who? Immigrants deported to Rwanda? Black & Brown poor who were barely survived before and now don't have SNAP? #detached
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Unf**king believable. The UN agencies should sue this people right back for defamation. Pretty sure the evidence favours the UN agancies www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...
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American Victims of Hamas and Hezbollah Attacks Sue U.N. Agency
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
@velshimsnbc.bsky.social Thank you for not spending the whole show on Epstein files, and focusing things that actually affect people's lives, like prices of meds and the potential firing of the Powell 🙏🏼
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
How genocide works @velshimsnbc.bsky.social @dropsitenews.com @ayman.msnbc.com www.972mag.com/drones-grena...
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Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones
Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Israeli soldiers in prayer getting ready to go kill more Palestinians, or returning from a kill. Think of this next time people talk of Muslim jihadis. @zeteo.com @krystalball.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Finally, they noticed the carnage in Gaza at the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
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The Lethal Risk of Seeking Food in Gaza
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Musk’s businesses have received 38 billion in government loans and contracts over 10 years. #nationalizeMusk
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21/05/2025
A 10-year-old was hoping to fetch bread from his aunt in Gaza when an Israeli bomb killed him, his family said. Just a few hours earlier, Israel had announced it would begin letting some aid into Gaza after a blockade of nearly three months.
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Family mourns boy killed by Israeli strike as he searched for bread
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a mounting backlash at home and abroad over the lack of food, medical supplies and vital supplies in the enclave.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@allinwithchris.bsky.social thank you for interviewing Omar El Akkad, especially given that MSNBC keeps silencing and sidelining critics of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Please share the segment so people outside the US can watch and listen to this important voice.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
@zeteo.com excellent discussion with @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social youtu.be/V7KLxGSFRNM?...
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The ‘Bullsh*t’ of Bill Maher — Gianmarco Soresi on Israel, Antisemitism, and ‘Anti-Woke’ Comedy
YouTube video by Zeteo
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Despite platforming @maddow.msnbc.com who champions the resistance, #MSNBC fails to understand that resistance starts at home. @ayman.msnbc.com is a truth-teller and watering down his show to weekend info-tainment is shameful. Here's an example www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyel...
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'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This': author speaks out on Gaza
As Israel’s onslaught in Gaza continues, it gets less and less public attention, and the images of carnage run the risk of becoming normalized. Journalist and author Omar El Akkad has been covering Ga...
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...
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Opinion | I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?
Detained at his citizenship interview, the Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi speaks of his ordeal.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
@therestpolitics.bsky.social please explain what is happening in Syria with the Druze? Seems that Israel is using it as an excuse to bomb Damascus. It would be great to get a deeper understanding, if possible.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
To all the spies on my phone and computer, that try to anticipate what I want to buy or see next: Not sure how you haven't figured it out already so to be clear, I will never, ever, ever buy anything from Temu, I will not download the Temu app. So the inceasant Temu ads need to stop.
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@chrislhayes.bsky.social strongly recommend interviewing Lori Wallach of the American Economic Liberty Forum. She was on The Nation's podcast, and had the best analysis I've heard so far of Trump's tariffs
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social strongly recommend interviewing Lori Wallach of the American Economic Liberty Forum. She was on The Nation's podcast, and had the best analysis I've heard so far of Trump's tariffs
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Ilana Hairston @piliana.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com can't believe we're back in Trump-Russia conspiracy theory realm again. It didn't work the 1st time and won't work now. Trump is an ignorant bully and an autocrat who likes like-minded autocrats, e.g., Putin, Orban, Bin Salman, etc. please stop 🙏🏼
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