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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 6h

Israel’s unlawful detention and torture of prisoners www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 11h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 1d

"Do you think Trump is directing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies?"

Yes: 54%
No: 23%

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"Do you think this is justified?"

No: 56%
Yes: 24%

YouGov / Oct 13, 2025

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 1d

RIP

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 1d

In the 24th century the Holodeck is a sentient right.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 7d

<- Proud DSA Member.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 7d

You won’t be surprised to hear the next mayor of NYC @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social did an amazing job crainsnewyork business leaders breakfast. He is going to be a visionary mayor- the leader we need.

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 8d

the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands .

ALT: the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands .

media.tenor.com

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 8d

Here's a chart of DSA membership over the past 5 years:

Line chart showing the number of DSA members in good standing between October 2020 and September 2025.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15d

Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.”

Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 16d

Here's Cuomo's spokesperson retweeting a MAGA influencer who posed for a photo with Cuomo and declared that she "Can't let zohran the terrorist Mamdani win."

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 17d

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 18d

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

www.avclub.com

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 20d

You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. This is not new news.

Nor is someone coming on my timeline acting if they know a lot about something they do not.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19d

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 20d

When Joint Terrorism Task Forces were first set up, people predicted they could eventually be used by an authoritarian government to go after political enemies. And now they are.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20d

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20d

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 20d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 22d

Re: autism and its causes.

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Noah Popp @noahpopp.bsky.social · 22d

He’s not the surgeon general.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 23d

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

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