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[Levi Leveridge @LeviLeveridge]

My wife, Sarah, is battling cancer & we are struggling. Please consider supporting this GoFundMe by donating or sharing—every bit of help makes a difference. Thank you!

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[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I spoke with @cmkshama about her independent challenge to one of the worst but most powerful House Dems, Adam Smith (D-WA); why Seattle has re-elected him for 30 years; the DSA, potential for alliance with right-wing populism and more. She's interesting:

https://t.co/d9UvIvK5jZ

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

There are only 3 DAYS LEFT to vote for our antiwar socialist campaign in this primary election!

VOTE BY TUESDAY!!

In their endorsement of our campaign, The Stranger newspaper wrote: “She’d make life Hell for Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration if we send her to DC.”

I'm fighting for free healthcare for all, funded by taxing the rich, for an END to ALL military aid to Israel and full arms embargo, to shut down ICE and the detention centers, and for a public-sector living-wage jobs guarantee. We need to throw out incumbent Democrat Adam Smith, who is bankrolled by the billionaires and the Zionist lobby and who has voted repeatedly to fund ICE and Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

#kent #renton #tukwila #seattle #federalway #southseattle

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Fight alongside my campaign for Congress to defeat the billionaire class and end the cost-of-living crisis tens of millions of us face.

My campaign is fighting for free healthcare for all and a massive expansion of affordable housing, both funded by taxing the billionaires and multimillionaires. We are also fighting for a public-sector living-wage jobs guarantee and for national rent control.

💥VOTE BY TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, in the primary election in Washington state's Ninth Congressional District if you want my campaign to face off against billionaire-backed genocidal Democrat Adam Smith in the November election!

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The path to universal public healthcare does not lie through having illusions that Democratic Party politicians are going to fight for it. Both the Democratic and Republican parties represent the billionaire class.

Canada and Western European nations won healthcare through militant mass movements of workers and the emergence of new parties of the working class that posed a direct threat to the parties of the ruling class.

My independent socialist campaign for the U.S. Congress is fighting for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. I have pledged that, if elected, I will turn my Congressional inauguration into a mass rally of 10,000 people in Washington D.C. and immediately use my office to build nationwide movements.

💥VOTE BY AUGUST 4TH in the primary election if you want my campaign to face off against billionaire-backed Democrat Adam Smith in the November election!

JOIN US FOR THE FINAL PUSH TODAY, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2ND, TO GET OUT THE VOTE IN WA STATE'S NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT! https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I'm very surprised that a magazine run by a former IDF soldier and prison guard would view the DSA as "a parasite hijacking the Democratic Party."

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The United States is not a fascist country yet. But the process to become one is unfolding rapidly. The primary reason for this is the capitulation of the Democratic Party to the corporate donor class. The liberal class — intent on crushing any attempts to subvert the agenda of its oligarchic masters ��� has ushered in this new dark age.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Britain is still supplying arms to Israel. Britain is still supplying intelligence. Britain is still complicit in genocide.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

In 2009, @VanJones68 was forced to "resign" from the Obama Admin after 6 months because Fox News and establishment Democrats denounced him as "the radical left": due to his prior support in the 1990s for Mumia Abu-Jamal, calling a GOP member an "asshole," allegedly signing a petition suggesting Bush did 9/11, etc. His glaring, oozing career ambitions lay in ruins as he was kicked out of decent DC power centers for transgressing too many ideological lines and comportmental rules.

That's when he realized that wealth and celebrity awaited him only if he were willing instead to transform himself into a vehement defender and guard of establishment dogma, a useful tool for those who had just struck him down.

So that's exactly what he did. He renounced his prior "radical" views, repeatedly apologized for his transgressions, became a stalwart, weepy advocate of deary DC media conventional wisdom, and began playing the new TV character his script required: the moderate, sensible liberal who just wants to bring everyone together in the safe, status-quo-perpetuating middle.

His real function: to begin every sentence with "I'm a progressive Democratic" -- the subtext: a black progressive Democrat! -- and then denounce the populist left (and populist right) for crossing the political and ideological lines that he was told to vigorously police and uphold: the lines which nobody is permitted to cross without being denounced and excluded the way he once was. "Look: they're too extreme even for Van Jones!" He was there to protect his establishment bosses by punishing the excesses of the "extremes on both sides": just as he had once been punished by them almost to the point of career destruction.

His service as the "black progressive policeman" for the DC establishment and its dual religious planks of corporatism and militarism were predictably very valuable to them, and very lucrative for him. He got larger and larger CNN contracts. Jeff Bezos gave him $100 million to hand out however he wanted. Jay-Z hired him to lead a new group, etc. etc. Book deals from large NYC publishing houses flowed in, etc. etc.

Since October, 2023, he saw the real opening, one that would catapult him upward even further into the top echelons of establishment servitude: turn himself into the most devoted "liberal media" loyalist to Israel, the most militant defender of Tel Aviv's reputation, as global support for that country collapsed. He dutifully wore his little yellow ribbon pin every day for years on TV as if it were tattooed onto him. He cackled with Bill Maher about how annoying it is to keep hearing all this whining about "dead babies in Gaza." With his patented fake TV tears in his eyes, he heralded Israel as our great ally, and talked about how worried he was for his beloved Jewish friends as anti-Semitism grew on the left and right.

Now he's here to boast that "leaders in both parties" called him this week to profusely thank him for his service to the bipartisan DC agenda. The once-wannabe radical has fully transformed into a prime media instrument for the establishment that once threatened to destroy him. Both parties are now grateful to him for defending their prerogatives and positions.

One thing is for sure: other than Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, nobody's future is brighter at CNN once Larry Ellison's son buys up Warner Brothers and CNN and puts Bari Weiss in charge with the sole mandate to turn the network into an even more vigorous Israeli propaganda network than CBS News has become.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The British public cannot wait until “later this year” for a plan. We need a radical redistribution of wealth, now.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I'm running as an independent socialist against billionaire-backed Zionist Democrat Adam Smith. If you're in Washington state's ninth Congressional District, make sure to vote for my campaign in this primary election.

Ballots have been mailed. VOTE BY AUGUST 4TH!

My campaign is fighting for taxes on the hedge fund billionaires to carry out a massive expansion of publicly owned affordable housing. We're also fighting for a total arms embargo on Israel, for national rent control, and for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

Listen closely to what Krystal said. Adam Smith’s team REACHED out to Breaking Points to come on. This tells me he is concerned about Kshama Sawant’s race against him. This warmonger has been in office for decades. It’s time to bring @cmkshama on! Jungle primary. No excuse.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Krystal Ball:

You just had genocidal arch-Zionist Adam Smith on your show.

I appreciate that Smith was clearly squirming at several points in the interview over his despicable record and close ties to AIPAC. However, the question still needs to be asked: How does it serve the cause of Palestinian liberation for you to platform Adam Smith, and to not even mention that there is an antiwar socialist challenger to him? And that, too, someone running the strongest challenge to Smith in his 29-year career and who has won FOUR Seattle City Council elections as an independent socialist?

We are just two weeks away from the August 4th primary election, and ballots have been mailed out already.

You still have a chance to feature our independent socialist anti-genocide campaign on your program. My campaign is fighting to end all military aid to Israel and for a permanent arms embargo on Israel. I have a long track record of opposing the Israeli state and the brutal occupations of Palestinian lands, as well as winning historic victories for working people like the nation’s highest minimum wage.

Many of your viewers who support our campaign have asked for you to have me on your show. A lot of commenters on this episode are also asking.

While Smith comes off horribly in this interview, it is a fundamental disservice to the cause of defeating AIPAC and U.S. imperialism to not let people who are disgusted by Smith know that they have an actual alternative in this election, and a chance to drive this blood-drenched politician out of office.

You call this recent episode with Smith a “heated” debate. But while you did ask him some difficult questions, this poses no actual threat to him so long as you continue to ignore his socialist opponent, who has raised more than three times as much money (over $690,000) as any of his previous progressive challengers. Adam Smith has taken tens of thousands of dollars just in the recent weeks from Zionist lobby groups and from war profiteers. He just COSPONSORED the June bill for a trillion dollars for war and to fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries. There's nothing ambiguous here, and you owe it to working people and the antiwar movement to give our socialist campaign a hearing.

@BreakingPointsN
@krystalball

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

Kshama Sawant billboards are up in Seattle. Kshama was a city councilor for 10 years. She won the fight for $15. She beat Amazon. She’s running against AIPAC stooge Adam Smith. Kshama and Smith have raised the most money so far. With a jungle primary she can actually win. ✊🏾

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

I think it’s good to do adversarial interviews like this one, and Krystal exposed a lot about why Smith is such a pernicious presence in Congress. What’s odd is Ryan’s insistence that Kshama isn’t a newsworthy figure for an interview, and the failure to mention that Smith is facing a primary challenge from a socialist in a segment about the popularity of socialist politicians. Hopefully that’s just an oversight made during a heated/stressful interview, and they’ll address it on the show later this week.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Krystal was great, but not surprised by Smith bc his opponent, @cmkshama, has been ringing alarm bells about him for ages. She’s a stalwart socialist who put the $15 min wage on the national map after fighting to win it in Seattle despite an attempted ouster by Bezos and the billionaire class. It would be great to see her get as much attention on MR as Platner did— esp given your astute observations re Smith.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Redistribute wealth. End British complicity in genocide. Stop appeasing Reform.

My full interview with the BBC on what needs to be done to bring about real change.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Warmonger Adam Smith has been invited on Breaking Points to “debate” the DSA’s popularity, but his socialist, anti war, pro-Palestine challenger @cmkshama is excluded because, in Ryan Grim’s words, she isn’t “newsworthy.”

Kshama was the first socialist to sit on the Seattle city council since 1877, and in that role, won the fight for $15. Meanwhile, Smith is the Zionist ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, who only backed down off his support of the Israel/US Military tech merger bc of pressure from Kshama in this race.

Smith was rude, dismissive, & prevaricating in response to Krystal's questioning. He holds the racist & contradictory beliefs that Israel should only exist as a Jewish supremacist state, & that no democracy can exist if Arabs have equal rights. He also admitted that while he would vote to remove section 224 from the NDAA, he wouldn't vote against the NDAA if his effort to remove 224 failed. (He also objected to Krystal's accurate characterization of section 224 as allowing the merging of Israel's military intelligence with the US's, revealing his true sympathy for the bill).

At no point during this discussion of the "left" did anyone feel like it was worth informing the audience that establishment corporatist warmongering Smith is facing a primary challenge on August 4th. The Breaking Points audience has to look elsewhere for coverage of that race.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

State Department official calls for pre-crime approach to combat "far-left terrorists" to prevent "plots before they happen."

[Gabe McFadden @gabemcfadden]

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