Saqib Razvi

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The double standard in the Michigan Senate race is an absolute abomination.

On one side, you have Abdul El-Sayed, who is laser-focused on fighting to make the lives of working-class Michiganders better. Yet, the press routinely badgers him to defend himself by relentlessly posing racist, bad-faith questions about terrorism — as if being a Muslim automatically puts him under suspicion of being a terrorist. What the fuck?!!

Meanwhile, Mike Rogers' bigotry gets a total free pass. He runs on a platform of white supremacy, shamelessly pandering to the most rabid Islamophobic bigots in Michigan, and mainstream media outlets barely blink an eye.

The fact that a dedicated public servant is subjected to non-stop xenophobic vetting while a blatant bigot gets a free pass to inject hate into this election is a damning indictment of a failed press. It reveals the pathetic, broken state of American politics in 2026 — a toxic rot engineered, normalized, and driven entirely by Donald Trump.

[Clipping Wings @ClippingWings]

Mehdi Hasan: Haley Stevens' entire campaign against Abdul El-Sayed revolves around the fact that he won't condemn bigotry.

The irony is she's with Mike Rogers, a man who is pushed some of the most disgusting racism. This is disgusting. It's reprehensible, it's dangerous.

And really, I mean, in a sense, we expect it from the Republican Party. What we shouldn't normalize is Democrats going along with this.

Either turning a blind eye or as we just saw with Haley Stevens being complicit in it.

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

It’s official: @rephaleystevens is a 100% traitor and she wants to sabotage the campaign of @abdulelsayed. And she is pimping Black folks by saying that @mikerogersformi will support Black businesses. SHE IS A LIAR. What he will do is support to right wing Supreme Court justices that will continue the GOP War On Black America! Black Michigan peeps, Say hell no to Rogers and turn out in a massive way for Al-Sayed!

[Marcos Boyington 🧢 @iBringBalance]

Watching all the posts fly about Patrick Stewart, I have noticed something incredibly interesting that reaches deeper into the core of humanity: everyone, across the political spectrum, loved Picard.

The original Picard, from the 1990s. It seems people from all walks of life feel a heartfelt loss, and I think there is more to it than just nostalgia or a celebrity passing.

The TNG stories spoke true to everyone, no matter their politics. It was an era where we were able to agree on fundamental things, where our shared humanity and its complexities were spoken through timeless storytelling. It makes you wonder if that balance is why the 1990s feels like such a golden age in hindsight.

I often see the argument that when the original Star Trek came out, traditionalists were offended by it, and that heavy-handed ideology and corporate pandering in the recent Star Trek series are the same thing. But I would ask: what about The Next Generation? It, too, asked deep, challenging societal questions about the human condition - yet everyone, left and right, loved it.

I realize it was just a show, just a fictional character. But I think there is more to it. It represents something we are all sorely missing today: depth and a sense of shared humanity, delivered without constant virtue signaling, and without corporations trying to monetize every last ounce of our attention.

Perhaps the true magic of Picard - and the era he represents - was that he challenged us to be better without ever making us feel talked down to. He invited us to reflect on our flaws rather than policing them. In losing Patrick Stewart, we aren't just mourning an icon; we are mourning the standard of grace, curiosity, and mutual respect he embodied so brilliantly - and which is becoming harder and harder to find.

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[Aashish Mehrotra @AgniBankai]

As a 40-year-old man, I try to understand why celebrity deaths hit me so hard. I am a grown man. I have built a family and a community I love. Surely the deaths of people I have never met or interacted with shouldn’t affect me to the point of grief.

Today, when I heard of Sir Patrick Stewart’s passing, I realised something. It’s not just the person. It’s the moment they came into our lives.

For us millennials, TV and cinema were a very different experience. It was mass media at its truest.

Today? We live with different algorithms and feeds. My wife follows celebrities and influencers I have never even heard of, recommending Netflix shows that never even pop up on my “you should watch” feed.

But growing up?

Catherine O’Hara was everyone’s mum.

Robin Williams was everyone’s Mrs. Doubtfire and Mork.

Anthony Bourdain was everyone’s guide to food.

Matthew Perry was everyone’s Friend living next door.

Hayden Panettiere was the cheerleader we all wanted to save.

And Sir Patrick Stewart was everyone’s Captain.

We saw them at the same time, on the same channels, at much the same ages.

This grief we feel is a collective one. We grieve the characters we shared our time with, who made their way from screen to heart. We grieve that time we no longer have, and the childhoods we can’t quite recreate for the next generation.

And perhaps the largest grief of all? The feeling that the last pieces of our inner child are fading away with every loss.

These people helped us understand the world. Their stories make up the mosaic of our souls. They shaped our understanding of right and wrong, and of what the world sorely needs right now… empathy.

I don’t know what lies ahead of us.
I just know that I must boldly go.

Let’s, together,
Make it so.

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Another beautiful to Sir Patrick Steward tribute that I ran across on Reddit

If the creator of this would let me know, I am happy to flag it

Collection of scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Paying tribute to a great actor and a fine human being

[Tommy Santos @tommysantos14]

Tillamook Halal-Certified Cheese Facts:
- Halal-certified means Tillamook switched from animal rennet to fermentation-produced microbial rennet. That's it.
- They actually switched in 2016. You've been eating Halal-compliant cheese for a decade.
- Their recent step was putting the certification on the packaging.
- Tillamook cheese is also kosher and vegetarian.
- MAGA needs rage bait so people forget they pay more for everything and vote in the midterms.
- MAGA doesn't actually give 2 shits about a label on cheese products.
- You're not Christian because you boycott halal-compliant cheese.
- MAGA are morons.

That's the entire fact pattern, in a few bullets.

[Bek Lover @BekLoverNYC]

Gas is $6-$8 a gallon strangling the Average American family.

Food is the highest it has ever been.

Quality Meat is becoming a luxury for many Americans.

The cost of housing is crushing most, especially the youth…

What do our politicians push out to the masses…?

Shariah Law and Muslims are coming for you…

Muslims are 1% of the American population,

Shariah law is not the official law of any town or city anywhere in America, therefore what are we banning in reality?

Nothing.

No one tells the Jew don’t keep Kosher or don’t follow the Torah.

No one tells the Hindu, eat beef and violate Hindu faith…

No one tells the Amish they have to use electricity and technology, because they have their faith and way of following their religion.

When they say ban Shariah law, what they are really saying is, Muslims should
Not have the right to pray, follow their faith.

I have never heard a Muslim Imam ever tell their congregation to violate US Constitution, or break any local town, county, state or National Law.

Muslims have become the great distraction to the American people…

To deflect attention from the failed politicians with unlimited term limits, their filthy lobby paid leadership, their endless wars, their 40 trillion dollar national debt, placing us in to the highest inflation, Epstein’s web cover up , COVID and vaccine scandal cover up, and the quickly eroding freedoms they have taken form Americans .

Americans have lost more rights in the last 25 years, and some unconstitutional. Like the right to boycott.

The same people who claim to protect the constitution are the same ones violating it.

Wake up

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[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Mask fully off. Haley Stevens just posted a completely unhinged rant accusing Dr. Abdul El Sayed of "blaming all of America's problems on the Jews."
This is disgusting, racist, false, and puts both Muslims and Jews in danger.
This is disqualifying. Haley Stevens should be ashamed of herself that she translates condemnation of genocide as "blaming problems on Jews."
Reject this corrupt and dangerous politician bought by $60M in dark AIPAC money. Vote instead for Abdul El Sayed for MI Senate.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “Maybe electable candidates are the ones who don’t need $60M from corporations and special interests to run and win campaigns. Maybe electable candidates aren’t the ones who have to carpet-bomb the airwaves with 30-second glossy ads lying about themselves and about their opponents”

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

have to say, Abdul's message of encouragement to supporters today is one of the most moving things I've read in 10 years of covering politics

[Saqib Razvi @DrRazvi]

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[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

It’s not an antisemitic conspiracy theory when a foreign lobby openly brags that they bought two congressional seats with candidates who will be loyal to Israel.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

A tip for the American people:

Whenever your politicians invoke a grievance against Iran - for example, "Iran seized our embassy", "Iran attacked our troops in Iraq" - just ask two simple questions:

What happened before? And what happened after?

Ask what happened before, and you get historical context. Those Iranian students didn't storm your embassy out of gratuitous hostility. They stormed it because two decades earlier, your government ran a coup from that same building to destroy their democracy and install a brutal monarchy in its place.

Ask what happened after, and you'll find that America took its revenge many times over, even when the matter had been formally settled. The hostage crisis was resolved by the 1981 Algiers Accords. Yet your government proceeded to arm Saddam Hussein to invade Iran, then looked the other way while he gassed Iranian soldiers and civilians for eight years straight.

Do this for every allegation on the list. You'll find that none happened in a vacuum, and all were repaid in Iranian blood well beyond any proportion.

Then ask yourself a third question: why are you never told the full story?

Because unresolved grievances are useful. They justify permanent hostility. And if you look carefully at who works hardest to keep them alive - who funds the think tanks, fills the panels, writes the op-eds - you'll find they are largely not acting in America's interest at all. They are mostly agents and apologists of Israel with a vested interest in ensuring that tensions never truly subside, regardless of the consequences of war.

[₵ØⱤⱫ₳ ⱤɄ₵₭ɄŞ @Pepe733745533]

In 1983, Mossad received specific intel from an informant: Shiite terrorists were fitting a large Mercedes truck with massive bomb compartments, clearly targeting the US Marine barracks in Beirut.

Mossad chief Admony was asked whether to warn the Americans with details. His reply: “No, we’re not there to protect Americans. They’re a big country. Send only the regular information.”

On October 23 1983, the truck smashed into the US barracks, killing 241 American Marines. Minutes later, another truck hit the French paratroopers HQ, killing 58 more.

Mossad had warned its own people to watch for that exact truck. Americans received only a vague general warning.

When ex Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky questioned it, he was told: “Just shut up. We’re giving the Americans much more than they’re giving us.”

Internally, Mossad was relieved it wasn’t them and said “let them pay the price.”

From: By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky, pp. 321 & 322.

PDF: https://t.co/9YT659GsU7

[michael stone @stoney16]

Hey @Xfinity you would be doing tons of goodwill if you allowed @wxyzdetroit to be back on your system from 3;30-7:00 on Sunday so thousands of your customers can watch @DetroitPistons game 7

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

It hasn’t been released because it proves that the genocide in Gaza is the reason Kamala lost. The DNC doesn’t want that information out because they plan on continuing to support Israel. They’ve learned no lessons, and they will continue to ignore the concerns of the base.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

NEW IRAN LEGO VIDEO: “We love Americans. We’re not your enemy, we’re prisoners of the same cause.”