Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that." 470153545190
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis. 167116432428
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026Katie Phang: "[Todd Blanche] says the Privacy Act has to be read in conjunction with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and that it's totally proper for him to hide and obfuscate and protect the identities of enablers, rapists, traffickers of children. He thinks that's fine." 15146211724
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJosué Ungido @jota-equis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s almost as if he doesn’t care whether he’s making sense or not. 055
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026EL-SAYED: Now you've got a situation with the Strait of Hormuz where we can't move oil and gas-- FOX: That's not true. The WSJ put out a piece the other day that said we're almost a level of getting oil out of the Strait that we were at before the war started AES: So why are gas prices so high? 2033443752
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years and years pressing -- has that made us safer? Are we more safe because of the war in Iran?" 16951801111
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption? 701236668559
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluStan Forrest @stan-forrest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The good, the bad, and the #FauxNews 055
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Texas Republican State Rep. 661512319
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluStan Forrest @stan-forrest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Godwin’s Law can’t save them from being this obvious 055
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16/09/2026⭕️ House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks says he will not clear the Trump admin.'s proposed $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. "The Trump administration has not provided sufficient assurances that these weapons will be used by the Netanyahu government... 35523
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be. 522229435783
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJohn Drake @tedgammon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026IDK, ask Henry Kissinger (1973). Or Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat (1978). Or a literal army (UN Peacekeepers, 1988). Or Mikhail Gorbachev (1990). Or Arafat, Peres, & Rabin (1994). All Nobel laureates for peace. The china was broken before the bull entered the shop. 051
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It’s ok to strongly dislike Netanyahu. Hell, it’s ok to strongly dislike Israel as a whole. It’s not ok to blame all Jewish people for the actions of Bibi or Israel. That’s like blaming all Christians because Donald Trump is an asshole. 45266671193
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/05/2026Israel's strikes continue, with more than 2,600 killed since March 2, despite an ongoing ceasefire. aljazeera.comAt least 12 killed in latest Israeli attacks on LebanonIsrael's strikes continue, with more than 2,600 killed since March 2, despite an ongoing ceasefire. 68379
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE @amerliberal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026In case anyone has forgotten, the Crusades (1095-1291) was 200 years of Religious Extremists (European "Christians") attempting to wipe out every man, woman & child of another religion (Muslim) and to steal their land. Is that REALLY the image any civilized human being would want to identify with ⁉️ 042
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 24/03/2026some reporter should get him to agree that the fourth crusade was the best one. guaranteed he doesn't know the difference and will just agree if the reporter appears friendly 061
Yusuf Aslanoğlu @yusuf-hoca.bsky.social · 19/03/2026And no words for the slur against Kat Abughazaleh? (Ignore the thread parsing the reference for some sort of relevance to Kat personally. It's an obvious anti-Arab slur, pure & simple. Its cluelessness is a feature, not a bug.) 091
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files. 941312687809
Yusuf Aslanoğlu @yusuf-hoca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It's AIPAC. They put out a monstrous attack ad against her a couple weeks ago. They're terrified of seeing another (w/ Rashida Tlaib) Palestinian-American in Congress. 070
Reposted by Yusuf Aslanoğluonion person @junlper.beer · 11/03/2026“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say 24980251733
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Not really breaking any news here. 1227271245915
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure. 33774602183
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste 577120063304
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views. 29544131110
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026Warren: "It is still the case that the Trump admin cannot explain the reasons we entered this war, the goals we're trying to accomplish. The only part that seems clear is that while there is no money for 15m Americans who lost their healthcare, there's a billion a day to spent on bombing Iran." 7833451116
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026you see we didnt hit iran. iran slipped and fell in the kitchen and thats why iran has a black eye. if iran would just stop being clumsy we wouldnt have to get so mad at them. if iran would just use its brain we wouldnt have to yell at iran... 1062365523
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...nytimes.comMamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack 34594211934
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse." 714255876882
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJohn Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Has there ever been a time when the strategy of "if we just keep bombing civilians eventually they'll finally rise up to overthrow their oppressive government" ever worked? 097
Reposted by Yusuf Aslanoğlujks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"Numbers make things real. Numbers aren’t opinions. They just are. Being dead is not a matter of conjecture." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...link.mail.beehiiv.comWhy now is the time to be loudly anti-warWe don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin. 031
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluMeira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026It’s me, a scholar of tours of Hell: fear and shame are excellent and effective pedagogical motivators. The idea that no one should ever be afraid or shameful is bad for society! 041
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time." 10162688809
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Probably the most common bit of advice I give to students to improve their writing. 3849956
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages... 26904182
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The United States killed all these children last Saturday. 170 of them. Every. Single. One. 11017801434
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluJohn Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Was Hamas hiding inside of the children? 152
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace. 470118203335
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluTrump Legacy Epstein War Lies Tariffs and Stupidity @tarifffied.bsky.social · 05/03/2026First Lady of Republic of Iraq says to leave Kurds alone not hired guns Send the ICE goons instead 011
Yusuf Aslanoğlu @yusuf-hoca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Remembering history may not prevent its reprise, but it might help us learn when to get out of the way:youtube.comHow Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire | Soumaya Ghannoushi | MEE OpinionYouTube video by Middle East Eye 050
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluThe Ghost of Mark Twain @ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Apparently Trump is also now clairvoyant. His feelings Trump intelligence. Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people familiar with the matter said. 97357147
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluThe Ghost of Mark Twain @ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Well THIS is a hot take ... 19532
Yusuf Aslanoğlu @yusuf-hoca.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I get that Khamenei & the Islamic Republic generally are tremendously unpopular among Iranians, but I'm curious how they feel about the makeup of the Interim Leadership Council 120
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluResist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Chaos in Gaza after Israel blocked the gate to Egypt, extreme lack of food reported 22631
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.reuters.comUS military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualtiesThree U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday. 44178732628
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/03/2026AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America? ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed AYMAN: Where? LUNA: Are you serious right now? AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation 2132206725356
Reposted by Yusuf AslanoğluGod @thegodshow.com · 02/03/2026They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played. 237109533124