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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
.@Wsj reports that the UAE attacked Iran from the outset of the war and throughout. "The UAE carried out dozens of airstrikes against Iran beginning in the early days of the war and continuing through the day after the April cease-fire was announced." www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | The U.A.E.’s Secret Role in the War Involved Dozens of Strikes on Iran
The attacks, at a level previously unknown, began near the start of the war and went on for weeks.
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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I took this video right before ICE pepper sprayed the crowd at Delaney Hall, including Senator Andy Kim. ICE was dressed like they're going to war, with weapons and an armored vehicle. That's because we are the enemy to them. We just keep standing up to this repression. @north.dsanj.org
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 24/05/2026
Shut Delaney Hall down, NOW.   Today, @menendez.house.gov and I went to Delaney Hall because of the inhumane conditions we've been hearing about.   What I saw and heard is absolutely unacceptable.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I told one of my neighbors that I was supporting Hamawy and she said, "oh yeah, he's the frontrunner, right?" and I have no idea where she got that idea from but I hope she's right.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
An international counsel team acting on behalf of the two sisters of journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is filing urgent appeals with United Nations experts, raising concerns about his arrest, prosecution and ongoing arbitrary detention. #freeahmed #freeahmedeldin #journalismisnotacrime
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Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Healthcare, not bombs.
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Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Plainfield: thank you for coming out on a chilly day!
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Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Special thanks to Quentin and Alex, our incredible student campaign co-chairs at Princeton, Mamouns’ Falafel for having us, and Congressman Bowman for joining!
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Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In Congress, I’ll fight for a livable economy for our next generation and against this President’s war on academic freedom and free speech.
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Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Those in our university communities are facing the same affordability crisis as all of us while also standing on the front lines of attacks on our civil liberties. I will always listen to students, who represent not just the future, but so often the conscience of our nation.
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Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Grateful to all the students, faculty, and community members who showed up for the launch of Princeton for Adam!
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's always been abolish ICE. For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency. I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
White text on a black background has the words "Reform, retrain, defund" crossed out. Below, white text reads "Abolish ICE."
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
To be clear, as an indication of how controversial IHRA is, even many Zionists reject it, including Kenneth Stern himself. He wrote this in Senate testimony last year: www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/do... bsky.app/profile/hoov...
I am a liberal Zionist. I believe in Israel’s right to exist, and a link to Israel is important to my
Jewish identity. That’s true for the majority of American Jews.
But there is a growing number of Jews, particularly younger ones, whose Judaism leads them to
embrace an anti-Zionist position. They can’t justify the existence of a Jewish state, especially
with its implications for Palestinians, with the Jewish commands about repairing the world and
how to treat the stranger.
I disagree with these young Jews about Zionism, but I’m not going to call them antisemites. I
certainly don’t want the government to do this, to effectively come down on one side or the
other of a deep, and sometimes visceral, communal divide. As I documented in my book, this
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Bad NJ Politics Takes @badnjtakes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Context: 1st, the quick 1. The bombs the US violated international law to drop on Iran, w/o justification or provocation, are 30k lbs. That means it weighs about the same as the US supplied/funded F35 that is used for genocide in Gaza daily. The F35 could carry half a bunker buster while taking off.
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Holley Atkinson @holleya.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
WTAF? I was just RTing Sarah Kendzior earlier this evening! @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior • 4m
I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation.
It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going.
It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!
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New Economics for Sustainability & Humans #MMT☘️ @maconnolly888.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
@bsky.app why has Sarah Kendzior been suspended from here?
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Holley Atkinson @holleya.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Find her here substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas
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sadafjaffer.bsky.social @sadafjaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Shame on @frankpallone.govpeeps.us and Josh Gottheimer. They seem to support the Israeli government’s attempts to annihilate the Palestinian people.
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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We have got to pass the Immigrant Trust Act ... newjerseymonitor.com/2025/09/22/w...
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Where NJ's governor hopefuls stand on allowing cops to aid immigration agents • New Jersey Monitor
Jack Ciattarelli (R) says if elected governor, he would ax the state's Immigrant Trust Act. It's unclear what Mikie Sherrill (D) would do.
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Bad NJ Politics Takes @badnjtakes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So, sure Josh, give them as many bombs they can't drop as you want. Only giving Israel weapons they can't use to murder Palestinians? Welcome to the resistance. 2nd: It's obviously bananas to find new, additional weapons to give to Israel during decades of ongoing crimes against humanity & genocide.
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Bad NJ Politics Takes @badnjtakes.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Context: So does this mean he's planning to bring just the apartheid to NJ or the genocide too? A rare tag b/c it's life & death: @mikiesherrill.bsky.social please don't do this. Your Jewish constituents don't support this man, this government, nor racial superiority plans & genocide.
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Bad NJ Politics Takes @badnjtakes.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Screenshot of Jack Ciattarelli's Facebook post: "Prime Minister Netanyahu sat down with us yesterday to discuss ideas on how to expand the New Jersey - Israel relationship." With pictures of him laughing with Netanyahu, a war criminal.
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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 12/08/2025
I wrote about this recently for @publicsq.bsky.social www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...
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Could Mamdani be the generational candidate that transforms the DNC? — PUBLIC SQUARE
New York City, NY: Zohran Mamdani’s overwhelming support in the New York City mayoral primary has reignited the fight over policy, ideology, and identity within the Democratic Party.  Before el...
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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 12/08/2025
It's unfortunate that in trying to highlight how dangerous Republican policies and supporters are, Matt also felt the need to spread the propaganda against a generational candidate. Even more unfortunate that propaganda is being spread by both parties.
Screenshot from piece: "They left no stone unturned. He’s a communist. He’ll bankrupt the city. Residents will flee. Corporations will flee. They added in a sizable serving of racist white supremacy tropes:

He’s not white. (In case you hadn’t noticed)

He’s “foreign born.”

He’s Muslim, so he’ll impose Sharia law.

He's Muslim, so he's a terrorist.

He’s Muslim, so he’s anti-Semitic.

He’s Muslim, so he was involved in 9/11. (He was 9-years-old)

He’s Muslim, … (silence so your own worst Islamophobic fears have room to resonate and grow)."Screenshot from piece: "He didn’t campaign on Palestine, because he was running for Mayor of New York City, not US Senate or President. But he’s Muslim and has an actual conscience (a rarity in political candidates); he was asked non-stop about Israel and anti-Semitism (which, yes, are two completely separate and distinct issues, no matter how much the propagandists try to convince you otherwise). 

It was in those answers that his campaign accelerated into top gear. Yet it was precisely because they were not campaign answers that they resonated, they were deeply held, deeply informed personal values, that he refused to discard to benefit a candidacy. 

His calls for equity and equality in representation and under law, yes, even in Israel, should have been Democratic Primary kryptonite. We have John Federman wearing an Israeli flag as a cape for f–ks sake. But in the end it worked.

It worked because it was about humanity, and humanity resonates in an era when we can pick up our phones and see the worst of humanity in an infinitely scrolling feed"
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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 12/08/2025
But why the false both siding? Zohran has responded to the false accusations of anti-Semitism, over & over, & he's responded well. He separates Jewish New Yorkers from Israel in a way that a majority of voters support. He notes intifada is the Arabic word chosen to talk about Jewish Ghetto Uprisings
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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 12/08/2025
Disappointing to see @mattfriedmannj.bsky.social helping spread racist disinformation about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in @politico.com He attempts to call out that folks Republicans are actively campaigning with are disgusting racists, and are on the record behaving as such.
Screenshot from newsletter: "Like with so many other contests, Republicans have been pressing Mikie Sherrill on whether she supports Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist they accuse of anti-semitism over his criticism of Israel, since he won the New York mayoral primary.

That’s fair enough. Mamdani has said he supported or refused to condemn some pretty controversial sentiments, like “globalize the intifada,” even if he’s lately been gently walking some of that back. And if Sherrill is going to be New Jersey’s governor and Mamdani the mayor of New York City, they’re going to have to deal with each other and policies that come from the furthest reaches of her party’s left flank.

Sherrill has been cagey about her support for Mamdani, giving mushy answers on whether she supports him. And big-name Democrats have done the same, uncomfortably avoiding formal endorsements."
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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My statement with @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social on Senator Gillibrand’s racist, Islamophobic comments about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
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open records nerd ♿️🦮🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @openrecordsnerd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
chris cuomo is going to be the whiniest he has ever been.
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Delia Catalina Ramirez @delia.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I stand with all those across the world who do not want another endless war. Netanyahu & Trump are warmongers. It is the people who suffer the illegal & irresponsible actions of authoritarian leaders. Only Congress has the power to declare war. We must act to protect our safety & shared humanity.
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Politico @politico.com · 05/06/2025
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed fellow Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as her first choice for New York City mayor.
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AOC backs Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor
The progressive standard-bearer endorsed the DSA upstart as he closes the gap with front-runner Andrew Cuomo.
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Some photos from this past weekend’s book event for Spider-Mother at Princeton. Thank you (again) to Ben Baer for his excellent translations and collaboration on this project, to @sadafjaffer.bsky.social for being in conversation with us, and to the Center for Global India for hosting us!
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