John Fetterman’s First Primary Challenger Is a Progressive Born in Gaza. Meet @AhmedMoor:
"I’m a Palestinian American writer, formerly a journalist. I worked in financial services in the past as well. And I’m a foreign policy guy. I just finished up a fellowship at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. I’m running for US Senate here in Pennsylvania, targeting the seat that John Fetterman currently holds."
"It would be untruthful to say that I didn’t come to this decision through genocide. I was born in Palestine, I was born in Gaza, and I have family there today. But genocide doesn’t happen overnight. Genocide is just the worst manifestation of what it means for our public policy to be captured by special interests, in this case by the Israel lobby."
"I think you can broaden that analysis and say that generally we suffer from a deficit of democratic governance in America. That all of our public policy has been captured by special interests. And you see that in the way that data centers have sprung up across our landscape in Pennsylvania. You see that in the way that AI has begun to intrude into our daily lives unbidden. We didn’t have a conversation about this."
- via @MotherJones
Axios: Rep-elect Don Leonard (D-OH) says he told Hakeem Jeffires that the Democratic establishment brand is in the toilet and that the Jeffries is synonymous with the Democratic establishment.
do all the people defending chuck schumer by saying he deserves credit for bringing in 9 new senators have any answer for why all these new senators do not want to back him as leader?