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Mehdi Hasan moved to America in 2015, just 5 years after delivering a speech which compared non-Muslims to cattle. Hasan Piker was an anchor baby but he spent his entire youth in Turkey as the son of a top Islamist businessman who helped cofound an Islamist political party that hosted events with the political leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh. Mahmoud Khalil moved to the US in 2022. He openly defends Hamas and the October 7 massacres and has helped organise protests for the “destruction” of the “US empire.” I watched Hasan Piker’s live stream from this event. He kept referring to himself as a Turkish “Muslim socialist” and he responded to Zohran’s victory by declaring it a tragedy that the USA defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War. AOC hugged him right before that. Legal migration to the US keeps producing major political figures who openly despise the United States, major political figures with massive ethnic and religious resentment towards the majority population of the country

It’s crazy how some people are claiming the $10 billion in weapons for Ukraine 🇺🇦 as a US 🇺🇸 aid package It’s a European 🇪🇺 aid package, fully financed by Europe, purchased from US manufacturers and US stock. It’s like saying Canada 🇨🇦 purchasing a NASAMS for Ukraine was US aid

All night long, emergency crews in Kyiv were battling fires in apartment buildings and cars after Russian drone strikes on residential neighborhoods. Unfortunately, there are injured children and adults. Everyone has received the necessary assistance. In Cherkasy, an ordinary dormitory was on fire. Last night, Russian forces also targeted the Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv regions with Shahed drones. In total, 165 UAVs were launched overnight – most of them Iranian Shaheds. Throughout the morning, guided aerial bomb strikes on the Donetsk and Sumy regions are continuing. The Russians are calling for a ceasefire on May 9 while striking Ukraine every single day. This is top-level cynicism: just this week alone, Russia has used over 1,180 attack drones, 1,360 guided aerial bombs, and 10 missiles of various types against Ukraine. A real ceasefire is necessary. Ukraine is ready for silence to begin on any day – but for no less than a month, to bring the war to an end. If there’s silence, it must be every day. If there’s a ceasefire – then not for their holidays, but for every day. I thank all our partners who continue to support Ukraine and put pressure on Russia.