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“My problem is not with Jews,” he said brownly, stretching his hands out, presumably in the direction of Mecca.
I gathered my courage and timidly asked if Israel had a right to exist as a Jewish state.
His eyes, dark as crude oil, narrowed, Jafar-like, and an Islamic grin spr
Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim, walks a fine line on the Jewish state. On Tuesday night, he told the crowd—as he does often—that his problem is not with Jews.
“All of us love and revere Jewish folk, our Jewish neighbors, the faith of Judaism,” he said, hands outstretched.
Later that night, in a makeshift spin room assembled by the campaign, he rebuffed my question on whether he believes in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
“What do you mean by ‘Jewish state?’ ” he retorted, narrowing his eyes. “If you can’t answer that question, I’m not going to answer it.”
For someone who often waves around his respect for Judaism, he seemed unaware of something elementary: Judaism is not only a religion, but a people with a long-standing connection to Israel that runs through its prayers, traditions, and history.
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Today is martyrdom anniv. of African American Muslim leader #MalcolmX. Let’s recite Surah Fatihah for his soul. 21/2/2017 #BlackLivesMatter
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If we accept this, we will accept anything.
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Greg is the person we wish Graham Platner was. I'm stoked for Stoker.
I’m running for Congress in TX 31 because I’m clearly a masochist who believes a better politics/future is possible.
Non-partisan. If you’re a bot, please free to post culture war and identity politics BS in the comments to help drive engagement.
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I don't want to see that ICE pig's face. I never want to be able to recognize him. In the pit of my stomach I believe he'll become a folk hero to the right, and instead of being in prison he'll do media tours. Rittenhouse 2.0.
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David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
goth music videos
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Art is the ultimate corrosive against othering. Almost nobody on the right spends the time needed 2 learn to do art. AI gives conservatives the ability to create pictures from imagination: A crime against nature.
We published a story last week detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting gun-rights supporters and geo-fencing ads at gun shows.
Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering" tends to instill "aggressiveness"
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How it feels trying to ask Google a simple question these days 😭
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I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.
It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.
ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.
Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.
I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.
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We have returned, like we’ll always do.
📍Gaza City
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I'm saying goodbye to my family now…
And with these words, I say goodbye to you too.
I won't survive this day I can feel it deep within me.💔
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I found it yesterday. A piece of shrapnel, cold and brutal, weighing no less than two kilograms, lying beside the bed of a boy no older than nine.
He slept, or perhaps only pretended. His breathing was shallow but steady, as though his soul had learned to hide from the world.
This grotesque relic of war had torn through the zinc roof above us, followed by a rain of smaller, sharper pieces. They fell without intention, without malice, like the blind fingers of chaos fumbling across the earth, striking the just and unjust alike.
I held the thing in my hand. It was heavy. Heavier than it should be.
Not by mass, but by meaning.
It carried the weight of a question I can no longer answer:
Why are we still alive when so many better than us are not?
There is no glory here. No nobility in suffering. I do not heal. How can one heal in hell? I merely bind what bleeds and pray it holds. They call this place a clinic. But what it truly is… is a final whisper before the silence.
I will confess: I am tired. Not just in body, but in soul. I once believed in duty. In the sanctity of the Hippocratic oath. But now I find myself treating children whose bones I cannot mend, whose pain I cannot lessen.
And I ask myself, with bitter honesty: Is this mercy, or is it cruelty disguised as care?
Jabalia al-Balad is no longer a city. It is a graveyard that hasn’t finished burying its dead.
In three days, over forty buildings vanished as if some monstrous mouth swallowed them whole.
Entire families erased. No names. No graves. No mourning. Only dust and absence.
I considered leaving. God knows I did.
There was even a moment, brief but electric, when I believed I had a right to leave.
But then I looked into the eyes of a mother cradling her burnt child, her lips cracked from thirst, her hands trembling not from fear, but from the weight of love. And I understood:
No one has the right to abandon the wounded when they can still stand.
So I return.
Every other day, I walk into this inferno. I buy medicine with what little money strangers still send us.
And I pray. Not for survival.
But for clarity.
For the strength to keep choosing to care in a world that punishes the caring.
Yes, I am afraid. Terribly so.
Each morning I ask myself: What right do I have to risk what remains of me?
And each morning, a darker voice answers: What right do you have not to?
They say the healthcare system here has collapsed. That doctors are working in ruins.
Yes, it is true. But even that fails to capture the madness.
We work beneath falling missiles.
We stitch flesh with shaking fingers while the sky groans above us.
We whisper words of comfort into ears that may not live to hear them.
And still, the world asks us to prove our humanity.
As if we are the ones in question.
But I tell you: our humanity is not in question.
It is crucified.
And I, a doctor in Gaza, am merely one of many still clinging to the faith. Not because I believe it will save me,
but because I believe that suffering beside the innocent is the last honest thing a man can do.
#GazaGenocide
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why tf do we even have horse cops? such a weird concept if you think about it for 2 seconds. these mfs know about intl combustion? hi yes i'm fresh out the academy i specialized in bow and arrows. officer down get the leeches!
First time bumping into horse cops since they were documented beating the shit out of women and old people during ICE protests.
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