Progressive California state lawmaker Aisha Wahab made history last week in a special election that will make her the first Afghan American in Congress.
Wahab overcame a flood of attack ads from pro-Israel groups to beat her Democratic rival, Melissa Hernandez, in a race to replace disgraced Congressmember Eric Swalwell, who resigned in April amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Wahab tells Democracy Now! she appreciates voters in her district for “seeing through” the “lies that were spread by AIPAC,” referring to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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Labor + Coalition + One Nation just cut a secret deal to pass laws on ASIO's power to detain and interrogate you without charge with a warrant issued by a politician. They're trying to do this while media is distracted.
That year, opium production rose to a staggering 6,400 tons. A record 210,000 hectares were under opium poppy cultivation and Afghanistan supplied 95% of the world's heroin. In the US, the number of heroin users for the first time hit 1M, with 10,000 fatal heroin overdoses.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week.
This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison.
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Maybe we just stop collaborating with regimes that engage in war crimes, illegal wars of aggression and crimes against humanity. That seems like a good line to draw. I wonder why that isn’t the test being proposed by Labor or their mates at Newscorp?
"In 1933, all Germans were Nazis, therefore death to the Nazis means death to millions of Germans, so it's a call for murder and genocide, actually."
The gaslighting of Zi🇮🇱 Pretzel Logic.
2022 🇷🇺: “Somebody in Russia [should] take [Putin] out.”
2023 🇷🇺:“Russians are dying… best money we’ve ever spent.”
2023 🇵🇸: “Gaza should be flattened.”
2024 🇵🇸: “This is Hiroshima & Nagasaki on steroids.” “If I were Israel, I’d do the same.” “Do whatever you have to do.” “Pull the Palestinian school system up by its roots and destroy it.”
2025 🇵🇸: “We’re killing all the right people.”
2026 🇮🇷: “We will obliterate them” over Strait of Hormuz.
I’m shocked that so many people are mourning his death. Mourning a monster doesn’t humanize the monster. It dehumanizes the mourner.