Things we learned recently:
- CEOs say tax breaks create jobs
- Trump's bill gave Netflix a $930 million tax break
- Netflix laid off 1,000 employees
do the math
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Ben Affleck's mother Chris Affleck passed today. I was unaware of her longstanding activism for Palestine. Now his disgust and revulsion at genocidal Zionist Bill Maher and Sam Harris's deranged racist Islamophobic rants makes perfect sense. RIP, you raised a good son.
El-Sayed: Whatever you think about the right of Israel to exist, I wonder if they have a right to our tax dollars. Every time I come on CNN, you guys ask me the same questions.
I'm running for senate in Michigan and in Michigan, people can't afford their basic needs. I want our tax dollars spent in Michigan, on our schools and on our health care. And the idea that somebody wants to vote to send that money away…
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Egypt’s head coach Hossam Hassan dedicating their historic World Cup win to Palestine, its martyrs, and the people of Egypt.
Bigger than football.
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Wow!
Let this sink in: After the first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad, US intelligence picked up that Israel was planning to assassinate the Iranian negotiators as they were returning to Tehran.
The US told regional states to alert Iran.
Israel is a state that, on paper, is a US partner but in reality is so extreme in its obsession to undermine US diplomacy that it even tries to assassinate those the US engages with in crucial negotiations.
I can't recall a government as terrified of peace as the one running Israel.
nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/po…
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Melat Kiros was fired for speaking out against the genocide in 2023.
Darializa Avila Chevalier was arrested for protesting genocide on Columbia's campus in 2024.
Both are headed to Congress in 2026.
If pro-Israel repression was supposed to intimidate them, it failed.
ADHD Dream Job:
coming up with brilliant ideas and immediately handing them to someone else to execute
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The U.S.-Iran MOU explicitly prohibits threats. Yet amid the Switzerland talks yesterday, Trump via Fox News threatened more war and even the killing of Iran's negotiators.
Vance claims Trump was merely responding to Iranian "trash talk."
But there were no comparable public threats from Iran's president or other senior political and military officials in recent days.
According to Iranian officials, Trump's remarks nearly derailed the talks altogether.
In any case, it's clear that one of the greatest risks to these negotiations will be Trump's inability to separate serious diplomacy from political theater.
Escalatory and threatening rhetoric may play well with parts of his base, but Trump's constant need to perform the role of the tough guy sabotages the negotiations his administration says it wants to succeed.
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This is not a normal statement from a normal cabinet member of a major nation.
This statement from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is the statement of a war criminal.
The racist, extremist Israeli government does not deserve one nickel of U.S. support.
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The next generation of progressive politicians will stand on the shoulders of Mamdani’s moral clarity:
Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.
Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.
Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.
And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.
Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.
And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.
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I get a lot of criticism for supporting Israel for a long time and not coming far enough quickly enough. There is a lot of truth to that. But I grew up in a hardcore Zionist family. Went through the Israeli education system and army. All my life I was brainwashed. I have finally woken up. I wish I had done it sooner and am sorry for the harm I did supporting genocide. But I am here now. Doing my best.






















