Writer. MFA. @kundimanforever Fellow. @RAWInews member. @cyoapub author. IG: readingrana (she/her)
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Progressives/leftists need to be bringing the same energy to centrist/moderate Democrats that the Tea Party brought in 2010. They got almost the entire moderate wing of their party kicked out. Refused to accept moderate speakers like John Boehner and Harry Reid.
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streets are saying abdul el-sayed is going to replace the national anthem with this come january
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Americans have given the democrats a mandate to crush the republicans. There can be no “we must work together”. They spent the past two years making everybody’s life miserable, sending ICE to torment our coworkers and neighbors. There must be a reckoning.
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Never forgive and never forget that the Democratic Party is responsible for the genocide in Gaza, as Refaat Alareer reminded us before Israel killed him.
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She's still going
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Leftists in Blue States: make sure to vote! This election is important
Leftists in Red States:
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Yes, some evil people will pretend to be against this when it’s too late, like they pretend to have been anti-Iraq now. But they’ll still be in power, and committing new atrocities. To cite that as a reason for optimism is just incredibly tone-deaf and insulting to Palestinians.
Zohran Mamdani on the Gaza genocide: “There’s a book by writer Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The reason that stays in my head is it’s such a succinct way of describing the fact that the more years pass, the most people will feel comfortable coming forward and saying that was horrible. And we’ll eventually get to a point where some of the people responsible will start to say that was horrible”
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What a digusting way of looking at OEA's statement. He was calling out this exact cowardice:
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
Zohran Mamdani on the Gaza genocide: “There’s a book by writer Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The reason that stays in my head is it’s such a succinct way of describing the fact that the more years pass, the most people will feel comfortable coming forward and saying that was horrible. And we’ll eventually get to a point where some of the people responsible will start to say that was horrible”
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Look, we have no reservations about criticizing Tina Kotek’s priorities (and do so frequently), but she didn’t start the illegal war in Iran that is wreaking havoc on fuel prices and the global economy.
That was Daddy Trump.
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Sean Ward, who opened fire outside the Belleville synagogue on Yom Kippur, was likely a second wave QAnon guy, discharged from the CAF for refusing the COVID vaccine, and radicalized through antisemitism. There’s no indication it had anything to do with Israel, or antizionism.
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More than a thousand Palestinian infants have been killed in Gaza over the past 3 years.
Each one was beginning to know and love the faces that smiled down at them.
May we never be forgiven for how we failed them, for how we let monsters extinguish these little universes.
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Ansarallah made huge gains against Saudi, humiliating them but the Pakistanis refused to get involved saying that the situation didn’t require the Mecca agreement to be implemented.
So then there was an “attack” on Mecca blamed on Ansarallah..
.:and now this.
BREAKING: Pakistan's defence minister says time has come to implement Mecca pact following Houthi attacks
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/cc84eq?update=49590…
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Biden officials most responsible for arming, lying for, and covering up genocide in Gaza have moved on to cushy media, academic and think tank jobs. This is unacceptable: so @TrackAIPAC, @justfp, and @DemSocialists helped create a mechanism to prevent this dropthegenocide20.org/
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Ok I did. I imagined I was wrong and Israel is not committing a genocide. Nothing happened except for now I have a justification for every single murdered Palestinian man woman and child I’ve seen over the past 3 years.
Now you go. Imagine yout wrong & it’s a genocide. Uh oh…
Imagine for 1 second that you have it wrong and Jews are telling the truth. That the genocide libel is bs. That Hamas are terrorists. That you are being manipulated to desire the removal of Jews from society.
Do you understand if we’re right, that makes you the millions of European and African and Asian friends and neighbors who wiped millions of us off 3 continents just a few decades ago?
What’s more likely - that we, the tiny minority who have been libeled and blamed and persecuted by every society in which we’ve ever lived for centuries, are the bad guys? Or that you, the non-Jewish masses who have hounded and defamed and slaughtered us all over the world over and over and over again, have once again been suckered in by propaganda you unquestioningly latch onto because it gives you a scapegoat to blame for your own problems and sins?
“History repeats itself… except this time! I’m different!” Is essentially what every Jew hater tells themselves. No. You are no different than the Iraqi or Soviet or German or Algerian who turned on their Jewish neighbors the second they got the societal green light. Never in the history of the world has the group persecuting Jews been “on the right side of history.” Not once.
Courage isn’t going with the crowd to hate on us some more. That’s easy. Courage is looking in the mirror, in a history book, at what is happening to Jews in our society, and saying stop this train, I’m getting off.