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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h
Hearing from CBS sources that Tony Dokoupil will interview Benjamin Netanyahu on tonight's CBS Evening News.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h
The Los Angeles Times is running a full webpage advertisement promoting tourism to Israel. The ad is backed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. The ad also includes a map of Israel that erases Palestine.
LA Times page promoting tourism to Israel
"Israel:

You'll Find It Here

Israel is a country shaped by ancient traditions and diverse cultures, where every region offers a distinctly different atmosphere. You can spend the morning walking ancient pilgrimage sites, the afternoon floating in serene waters or relaxing on the coast, and the evening eating your way through vibrant market stalls before heading out for a night that ends when the sun rises.



From sacred sites to desert adventures, these guides offer different ways to explore the country. There’s no single right way to experience it, so follow what interests you, mix and match along the way, and leave some room to wander."

Also includes a disclaimer from LATimes:
"This Paid Program is either (i) produced by the advertising department of the Los Angeles Times on behalf of the Advertiser or (ii) supplied by the Advertiser. The newsrooms or editorial departments of the Los Angeles Times are not involved. For those with questions, please email paidpost@latimes.com."
LATimes ad for Israel continued. Includes map of Israel that erases Palestine.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h
Hegseth announces new effort to study "future of warfare" led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Newt Gingrich. Luckey: — Trump donor — Self-proclaimed "radical Zionist" — Secretly visited Israel to meet with Netanyahu — Trump Jr & Jared Kushner's brother have major stakes in his weapons company, Anduril
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: CBP just seized an American attorney's phone as he returned from Palestine, despite it containing attorney-client privileged communications. …Here's some interesting context — this attorney is married to another lawyer who *just last month* filed an ethics complaint against this Florida judge:
Zeteo news story headline:

Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Says, 'To Be American Is to Be a Zionist'

Judge Roy Altman boasts about taking '10% of the entire federal judiciary in America" on trips to Israel, and promotes his genocide-denying book from his chambers.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Earlier today, @zeteo.com revealed that Israel has kidnapped an American teenager and has kept him in detention for three months, with no charges. And then hours later, only one Republican voted to even somewhat hold Israel accountable for acts like this.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is among the most under-covered stories in America — Israel is now holding *THREE* young Americans in prison, and no mainstream media is touching it
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The JD Vance touch is so powerful that the news can report that you’re becoming his friend and could even be his running mate, and then just hours later you mesmerizingly place your rake on the ground and proceed to stomp right onto it
Axios tweet

Scoop: First-term Sen. Eric Schmitt has grown close to VP Vance and is seen as a top prospect to become a potential 2028 running mate.Aaron Rupar tweet:

® Schmitt beclowns himself @
Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his
"evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury.
There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong.
Here's the whole sequence:u
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tonight I’ll launch CROSSING THE RED LINE where its message is most needed: DC So excited to be at @politicsprose.bsky.social in conversation w/ the brilliant @premthakker.bsky.social 🙏🏽 (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social & I hoped to have this chat but circumstances mean we’ll have it at a later date)
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's an honor to know brothers Mahmoud Khalil & @premthakker.bsky.social & to be in the struggle for life & truth with them. Join us! Together, we will win. Thank you to @redemmas.org & the Parkway Theater for bringing us all together, & THANK YOU, BALTIMORE for showing up & showing out! ❤️✊🏽
Photo of Mahmoud Khalil (left), Max Alvarez (center), & Prem Thakker (right) together in Baltimore. Text on screen says "Mahmoud + Max + Prem" "let's go save the world, friends"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daaaang www.pressherald.com/2026/09/27/i...
Portland Press Herald Editorial Board headline:

It’s Maine’s turn to be concerned about Susan Collins | Editorial
The senator’s complacent response to open allegations of bribery sends voters a very clear and disrespectful message.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only 2 Democrats have so far joined the demand for top Biden officials complicit in the Gaza genocide to be boxed out of future admins: —Rashida Tlaib —Chris Rabb …Democrats support prosecuting members of the Trump & Biden admins for acts related to Israel's genocide by a *+35* margin, 57-22
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 25/09/2026
“Everybody is up for criticism, especially… someone who is seeking the speakership to reflect the will of the entire party and the entire country.” @melatkirosco.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that her vote for Jeffries as Speaker is “up in the air.” Watch: zeteo.com/p/firs-gen-z...
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Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
News: Elon Musk endorsed 'socialist' healthcare before he became the world's richest man. Now, he's running super PAC ads attacking Democrats for wanting to give every American healthcare. @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk Endorsed Socialist Healthcare Before Campaigning Against It
Musk once acknowledged the government ‘should take care of’ healthcare. Now, the world’s first trillionaire is running super PAC ads attacking Democrats for wanting to give every American healthcare.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins refuses to answer to new ProPublica reporting of a pay-to-play scheme between her and a defense contractor. Collins’s campaign manager responds to Zeteo’s reporting on her husband working for the lobbyist running her super PAC, admitting they still work together.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Among those protesting Netanyahu in NYC: — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Melat Kiros, Brad Lander — Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon — Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone, Sarah Sherman — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker — Chelsea Manning
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Among those at the NYC protest against Netanyahu, risking arrest: — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Chi Osse, Emily Gallagher — Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon — Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker — Chelsea Manning
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Right before Netanyahu was set to address the UN in NYC, Zohran Mamdani preempts him with this moving video — He hosted Palestinians who were forced to leave or lost family in Gaza, and planted an olive tree with them at Gracie Mansion:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The polls are so bad that a pro-ICE Kansas Republican is now preemptively begging ICE to not shoot one of his constituents now that they're active in his state
When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe.
I'm closely following what's happening in SW Kansas and have been in direct contact with Secretary Mullin and local law enforcement as ICE executes warrants in order to keep Kansans safe.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi! Do you know anyone who works at State Department or embassy to Israel? (or used to?) Or who has interacted with Marco Rubio or Mike Huckabee in any capacity? Please text me on Signal premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be safe Even if you don't, please boost — because your followers might :)
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Gallup poll has US approval of socialism at highest level ever. Women, people of color, Democrats, and people aged 18-34 all view socialism more positively than capitalism. Among people aged 35-54 and those who make less than $99K, socialism & capitalism are neck and neck.
Positive Views of Four Economic Concepts, by Subgroup
Just off the top of your head, would you say you have a positive or negative image of each of the following?
% Positive
Free enterprise
Capitalism
Socialism
Big business
U.S. adults
77
55
43
35
Gender
Men
80
66
35
37
Women
75
45
49
34
Race/Ethnicity
White adults
People of color
74
48
50
43
78
59
39
30
Age
18 to 34
69
43
57
29
35 to 54
73
50
45
35
55 and older
85
65
34
38
Education
College graduates
81
59
44
30
Non-college graduates
74
52
42
37
Household income
$100,000 or more
82
65
40
31
$50,000 to $99,999
77
51
Less than $50,000
73
47
47
41
48
30
Party ID
Republicans
86
75
14
79
56
35
45
32
65
17
Independents
Democrats
65
Aug. 3-24, 2026
Get the data. Download image
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GALLUP
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers just held a press conference alongside an attendee of January 6. More in @zeteo.com's First Draft newsletter:
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SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda
Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Plus: Justin Baragona on the Democratic AGs who caved to the pro-Trump Ellisons and greenlit their takeover of CNN.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 21/09/2026
Excited to announce that @premthakker.bsky.social will be joining Mahmoud Khalil in conversation at our event this Thursday at the Parkway Theater—if you'd like to attend, we have a waitlist going and will be letting people in until every single seat is filled: withfriends.co/event/291584...
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9/24 - Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" in conversation with Prem Thakker by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Read today's 'First Draft' by @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/scoop-isra...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers just held a press conference alongside an attendee of January 6. More in @zeteo.com's First Draft newsletter:
zeteo.com
SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda
Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Plus: Justin Baragona on the Democratic AGs who caved to the pro-Trump Ellisons and greenlit their takeover of CNN.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“I assume it will be a shitshow," a CNN staffer told me about the Paramount merger being back on. "This is a sad day in America. Truly," a CBS News senior staffer said after Rob Bonta caved to the Ellisons. Read more in today's First Draft with @premthakker.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/scoop-isra...
zeteo.com
SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda
Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Plus: Justin Baragona on the Democratic AGs who caved to the pro-Trump Ellisons and greenlit their takeover of CNN.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Israel is paying for a new website to seemingly influence AI chatbots to spout out pro-Israel answers, per foreign agent documents. It's barely been a month and the site has already churned out 110+ articles.
zeteo.com
SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda
Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Plus: Justin Baragona on the Democratic AGs who caved to the pro-Trump Ellisons and greenlit their takeover of CNN.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A close read of Ed Sheeran’s new statement, and why it’s a flop
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A close read of Ed Sheeran’s new statement, and why it’s a flop
TikTok video by Prem Thakker
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Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Last year, the Kennedy Center lost $30M in pledges and grants, and $16M in program revenue, and wrote off $48 million in “bad debt” amid Trump’s takeover — all by Sept. 30, 2025, before Trump put his name on the building.  New at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/the-kenned...
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The Kennedy Center Lost $30 Million in Pledges and Wrote Off $48 Million in ‘Bad Debt’ Amid Trump’s Takeover
Tax records obtained by Zeteo show the Washington cultural landmark writing off lots of debt as Trump struck. Up by the White House, a senior House Republican sounds a midterms alarm.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New: Students suing Columbia for its response to a library demonstration last year. Student Jessie Rubin recalls officers "shouting racist & homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, & dragged their bodies across the stone floor."
Student protesters sue Columbia University for illegal detention and assault in class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK, NY – Plaintiffs Nisreen Khokhar, Jessie Rubin, and Hayes Buchanan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 18, 2026, alleging that Columbia University falsely imprisoned and assaulted nearly 100 students and community members during a pro-Palestine teach-in last May. The lawsuit seeks to hold Columbia accountable for its collusion with the Trump Administration and for violating students' constitutional rights, and seeks damages and injunctive relief to prevent Columbia from similarly targeting other campus activists.

The teach-in on May 7, 2025, included speeches, a reading syllabus, and guided discussions on the writings of Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian teacher and intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli government in 2017. Flyers with five demands distributed at the teach-in extended the April 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampments’ call for Columbia to divest its holdings in corporations complicit in the US-backed Israeli genocide.

According to the suit, Columbia responded to the teach-in by kettling participants in a reading room and barricading all exits for nearly four hours, all while denying food, water, and urgently-needed medical assistance.

The unlawful and violent confinement ended only after the NYPD's Strategic Response Group entered the room and began arresting participants — most of them students in their own library — on trespassing charges.

Rubin recalled “Public Safety officers shouting racist and homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, and dragged their bodies across the stone floor.”

The arrests and disciplinary hearings that followed resulted in the largest sweep of suspensions and expulsions in Columbia’s history. Plaintiffs allege that Columbia's actions have severely and permanently impacte…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “So it's not political to say children shouldn't be killed if they are white but if they are brown or black it is? That's racism.” “We're not going away and we are not going to stop saying not to use our tax dollars to hurt and kill kids and people.”
Ms. Rachel:
“So it's not political to say children shouldn't be killed if they are white but if they are brown or black it is? That's racism.”

“Please stop being racist and care that over 20,000 kids in Gaza were killed and that children continue to be killed. Understand that everyone is outraged because killing thousands and thousands of kids is so obviously wrong and horrific. We're not going away and we are not going to stop saying not to use our tax dollars to hurt and kill kids and people.”
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"You might actually ruin your career by being bad at your job" would be like, an unprecedented earthquake for the Blob
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Human rights and anti-war organizations are launching a campaign to demand the top Biden officials who promoted or lied about the Gaza genocide be boxed out from future Democratic administrations and other liberal spaces. Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on. More expected to join.
zeteo.com
EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
77% of Democratic voters agree Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. 74% oppose additional economic and military aid to Israel. So far, only Rashida Tlaib and Chris Rabb are signed onto this campaign to keep the officials complicit in that genocide out of future administrations:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, and Bernie Sanders have introduced a joint resolution of disapproval against the Trump-Vance admin's new proposed $5 billion sale of bombs and JDAMs to Saudi Arabia.
Senator Markey Introduces Joint Resolution of Disapproval on U.S. Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia
 
Resolution Text (PDF)
 
Washington (September 17, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, along with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), this week introduced a joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) for the Trump administration’s proposed sale of conventional weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The weapons include thousands of joint direct attack munitions (JDAMs) and five thousand 2,000-pound bombs.
 
Separately, the Trump administration recently submitted an agreement on U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation to Congress—as is required by law—but has classified two important side letters, which is unprecedented. Because the side letters affect the obligations and operation of the underlying agreement, Congress and the public cannot fully assess what the United States and Saudi Arabia have agreed to without seeing them.
 
On September 16, Senators Markey and Merkley led a bipartisan group of senators to press the Trump administration to declassify and publicly release the two side letters accompanying the proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement, referred to as a “123 agreement.”
 
“The United States must not send thousands of conventional weapons to Saudi Arabia or allow it to develop a nuclear program. I am deeply concerned by the Kingdom’s human rights abuses, the security of the region as the war in Iran rages on, and the proxy war that is escalating between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Further escalation in the Saudi-Iran proxy war will worsen an already dire humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and risks setting off a nuclear arms race between Iran and Saudi Arabia,” said Senator Markey.
 
As a founder of the national Nuclear Freeze movement, Senator Markey has long been the Congressional leader on ending the proliferation of nuclear weapons. On …
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.”
Ms. Rachel Instagram:

“I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.
Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.
We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The U.S. "War on Terror" death toll is at least 4,500,000
Costs of War research examines the human toll of U.S. military operations and spending, for U.S. service members, veterans, military contractors, and allies; and for civilians killed and displaced.
An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who died "indirectly," as a result of wars' destruction of economies, healthcare systems, infrastructure and the environment. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Human rights and anti-war organizations are launching a campaign to demand the top Biden officials who promoted or lied about the Gaza genocide be boxed out from future Democratic administrations and other liberal spaces. Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on. More expected to join.
zeteo.com
EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you have any info or tips about the donations that Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft, or others in the NFL are planning — or anything else related — please text me on Signal @ premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please boost below. Even if you may not know anything, your followers might :)
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you have any info or tips about the donations that Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft, or others in the NFL are planning — or anything else related — please text me on Signal @ premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The six organizations Macklemore will be donating his $1 million earnings to: — PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund) — Anera (American Near East Refugee Aid) — HEAL Palestine (Health, Education, Aid and Leadership) — MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) — Gaza Soup Kitchen — UNRWA USA
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore: "Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child…Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I represented Israel at the World Baseball Classic…times change…those of you that equate belief in a government to Judaism, you're not going to like what comes out of my mouth…Netanyahu is a war criminal…I have a very big problem when Jews specifically try to use Judaism to justify oppression."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Nothing happens among NFL owners without…Robert Kraft." "Kraft is very good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu…I'm Jewish, hi, played for Israel — Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal…The most Jewish thing you can be is pro-Palestine." From "The Regulars" sports podcast:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
F1 Driver Lewis Hamilton expresses support for Macklemore: “Thank you for using your voice, standing with you.”
Screenshot of Macklemore’s instagram statement about being dropped off Ed Sheeran’s tour — and Lewis Hamilton’s comment on the post that reads: 
“Thank you for using your voice, standing with you.”
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