Reposted by Tarek AnousDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place. 683523431
Reposted by Tarek AnousDavid Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social · 06/03/2026How George Bush’s preventive war on terror and Barack Obama’s drone killings pave the way for Trump’s illegal war against Iran www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...nybooks.comThe Lie of ‘Preventive’ War | David ColeIn January, during a lengthy New York Times interview with President Donald Trump, one of the paper’s reporters asked him whether he saw “any checks” to 077
Reposted by Tarek AnousKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Senate war powers vote fails 52-48. Funny how they always have just enough votes to stop these things! 1112098360
Reposted by Tarek AnousAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2026good morning mr president heres your daily read out on the war in iran…no sir, i didnt catch kimmel last night…yes sir, very mean and nasty sir…no sir ive never heard of joyce carol oates either sir 71905174
Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Pretty fun to have a media ecosystem so brainless that a legacy publication can put out an unchecked opinion piece in which a sponsor of apartheid demands that other people find their own personal Mandela. 010
Reposted by Tarek AnousPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026this isn't the worst of the Democrats' statements, but statements like this are a stark reminder that to many people, the real issue with the Iraq War was that Americans died. everything else is a footnote. 161845234
Reposted by Tarek AnousDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 06/01/2026🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Mon., storming the campus, injuring students and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency & other outlets. At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and... 36960
Reposted by Tarek Anousderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/01/2026overthrowing govs, sending people to detention facilities for torture, cutting taxes for the rich, slashing social spending for the poor, increasing military spending, promoting christian nationalism, demonizing gays, surveilling citizens under "national security." same old GOP. 213227410
Reposted by Tarek AnousNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated. Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom. #FreeAlaa Always. freealaa.net/alaa-responsefreealaa.netStatement in response to historic tweetsI am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu... 1234487
Reposted by Tarek AnousDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025youtu.be/ImkjqHD9iHw?...youtu.beTrailer | Coexistence, my Ass! | Amber FaresYouTube video by visionsdureel 1206
Reposted by Tarek AnousDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now 1288
Reposted by Tarek AnousDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 31/12/2025“Ben Gvir is weak against criminals, and strong only against children.” — Israel’s Knesset member Ayman Odeh writes. Read below. 18526
Reposted by Tarek AnousDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 31/12/2025⭕️ Dec. 2025 monthly briefing by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society documents the latest in Israel’s “campaign of extermination” inside Israel’s prison & military detention system, currently holding more than 9,300 Palestinian... Key findings in thread below 🧵👇 13521
Reposted by Tarek AnousClive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages. 065
Reposted by Tarek AnousThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/12/2025Over 100 years after a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti was first taken to Berlin, the largest effort to bring her back to her homeland is underway. But German museum authorities are hardly eager to hand over one of the country’s most famous artifacts.washingtonpost.comNew Egyptian museum brings fresh pressure for return of Nefertiti’s bustOne of Egypt’s most famous and beautiful artifacts lies in a Berlin museum, and the calls for its return have received a renewed push with the opening of a new museum. 1111824
Reposted by Tarek AnousNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless. 152292227
Reposted by Tarek AnousSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025“The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race.” Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comConservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution BackThe Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble. 3396145
Reposted by Tarek AnousAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth... 663220625
Reposted by Tarek AnousAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comRacial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard CrimsonScreenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat... 621959480
Reposted by Tarek AnousAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted? 933019
Reposted by Tarek AnousGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/12/2025Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good. 172274504
Reposted by Tarek AnousMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction." 12770481522
Reposted by Tarek AnousAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them 482434525
Reposted by Tarek AnousMonty Boa @montyboa.bsky.social · 19/12/2025TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins. 24210
Reposted by Tarek AnousErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/12/2025Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come. 14634111330
Reposted by Tarek AnousAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025bsky.app/profile/bren... 1168679
Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Hunger strikes by prisoners protesting human-rights abuses are commonplace in my home country, Egypt. Looks like the practice has followed me here, as has the apathy of our politicians. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comPalestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’ 010
Reposted by Tarek AnousMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind 683054898
Reposted by Tarek AnousBoo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him. 361317180
Reposted by Tarek AnousT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/12/2025People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors? Sure, ok 👍👍 521049143
Reposted by Tarek AnousNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/12/2025It's wrong to accuse Pete Hegseth of murder: those two Venezuelans had pre-existing health conditions. by Bret Stephens 281000121
Reposted by Tarek AnousTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Trump pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas (an repeated progressive target in Dem primaries, he narrowly survived multiple times) from bribery and conspiracy charges. Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties. 28367103
Reposted by Tarek AnousErick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025A reminder that in both 2020 & 2022, when he was facing a tough primary from Jessica Cisneros, Democratic leadership propped up this corrupt clown’s campaign. He won by a few points in 2020 and by just a few hundred votes in 2022. More own goal, clown behavior from Dem Congressional leadership. 820367
Reposted by Tarek AnousBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them. 22657671732
Reposted by Tarek AnousPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol 452279337
Reposted by Tarek AnousKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/12/2025I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like. 482714402
Reposted by Tarek AnousThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Nobody in the room did shit when he said this, but all of them would have locked arms around her if she asked super flattering questions to Trump and then it turned out she was fucking him. 959798
Reposted by Tarek Anoussouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation. 1033013744
Reposted by Tarek AnousKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison. Tonight he’s finally free. Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida. He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank. He had double digit weight loss & developed scabiestheguardian.comPalestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine monthsIsraeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old 5362164
Reposted by Tarek AnousOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity 424034913
Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I'm loving the high octane football Gasperini has instilled in this team 120
Reposted by Tarek AnousRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 22/11/2025This is fucking insane www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...lemonde.frNicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ... 04521
Reposted by Tarek AnousBrian @brian215.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Ah yes, this warrants the Both Sides approach. 553565