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Tarek Anous

@tarwreck.bsky.social
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Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (he/him) Physics and Cigarettes (One thing old, one thing new, one thing false, one thing true)

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Running 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.
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David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
How 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/...
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The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War | David Cole
In 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
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Senate war powers vote fails 52-48. Funny how they always have just enough votes to stop these things!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
good 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
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Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Pretty 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.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
this 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.
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Drop 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...
🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Monday, storming the campus, injuring students, and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency and other outlets.

At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and shrapnel, and were treated in hospital, Anadolu reported.

Witnesses said Israeli troops smashed the main gate, entered multiple university buildings, and fired tear gas, stun grenades, and live ammunition as students fled across campus. 

Several students, journalists, and the university’s vice president for academic affairs were detained during the operation, according to Xinhua. Israeli forces also seized equipment and property belonging to student groups, the Times of Israel reported.

The raid followed a student event held in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and coincided with preparations to screen the film “Hind Rajab,” which documents Israel’s murder of the five-year-old child during Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Israeli forces entered the campus shortly before the scheduled screening, which had been organized as part of student-led activities, Anadolu reported.
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Documentation: Students at Birzeit University near Ramallah flee as gunfire is heard in the background, today.
Use according to section 27A of the Copyright Law
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Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That ship set sail in Gaza
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
overthrowing 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.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I 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-response
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Statement in response to historic tweets
I 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...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Trailer | Coexistence, my Ass! | Amber Fares
YouTube video by visionsdureel
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now
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Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Rifftrax commentary is the only thing that can make that movie bearable 😅
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Drop 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.


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איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh
@AyOdeh
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Ben Gvir's police force has been operating in Tura al-Sharqiya in the Negev for four days already. Hundreds of police officers arrived at the settlement, not to enforce the law but to participate in the TikTok Minister's propaganda videos.

And in the end, it turns out: they came to arrest children.

Ben Gvir is weak against criminals, and strong only against children.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 31/12/2025


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איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh
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This is what the home of a 60-year-old citizen in the country—an activist against crime—looks like after Ben-Gvir's police raided it on the claim that it contained weapons.

What did they actually find? A folded Palestinian flag in the closet, and a few magnets on the fridge.

And while organized crime rages in our streets, and real weapons flow freely, the Kahane government isn’t fighting crime; it’s fighting those who truly oppose it, and mainly the Arab citizens.
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Drop 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 🧵👇
⭕️ December 2025 monthly briefing by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society documents the latest in Israel’s “campaign of extermination” inside Israel’s prison and military detention system, currently holding more than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners. 

Based on dozens of lawyer visits, the report notes Israel has institutionalized torture, starvation, and medical neglect as policy since the start of the Gaza genocide, treating prisons and military camps as extensions of that war. 

Prisoners are beaten daily, denied food and treatment, frozen through winter, completely isolated from families and lawyers, and deliberately humiliated. 

Women, children, the sick, political leaders, and Palestinian civilians abducted from Gaza are all subjected to the this system. The report describes practices that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, while Israeli courts and authorities continue providing cover.

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Ryan Grim
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I think it’s hard for people to fathom what daily life in these Israeli detention centers is like. Hell on earth.
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We need more interviews like this from recently released prisoners. Exposing what they deliberately try to cover up and hide is also resistance.  x.com/infinite_jaz/s…
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Israeli occupation forces released a detainee from Gaza after he lost both of his eyes due to torture inside the detention facility.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Abd 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.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/12/2025
Over 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.
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New Egyptian museum brings fresh pressure for return of Nefertiti’s bust
One 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.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Donald 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.
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Sam 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...
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Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Something 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...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I 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...
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Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots 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...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/12/2025
Yes, 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.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Zohran: "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."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The 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
"Suck it up, raise your game, success isn't a birthright" is a good response to modest unfairnesses. It's a message that stops selling when the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding people of your race and sex at all.
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Monty Boa @montyboa.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/12/2025
Just 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.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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The hot dog guy "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme
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Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Hunger 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...
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Palestine 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’
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
During 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
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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Sitting 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.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
People 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 👍👍
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It's wrong to accuse Pete Hegseth of murder: those two Venezuelans had pre-existing health conditions. by Bret Stephens
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/12/2025
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Trump 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.
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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A 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.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hegseth 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.
@PeteHegseth on X: Let’s make one thing crystal clear: 

Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.

America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Tomorrow 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
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/12/2025
I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Nobody 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.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A 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 scabies
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Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
the 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
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Tarek Anous @tarwreck.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I'm loving the high octane football Gasperini has instilled in this team
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This is fucking insane www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Nicolas 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 ...
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Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Ah yes, this warrants the Both Sides approach.
RFK is a monster who will have more blood on his hands than Jackie O had on her dress.
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