Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid

@hafizr.bsky.social

Back at work writing about breaking news at @newrepublic.com

@apothetes.bsky.socialReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

"Journalists staged a sit-in outside the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS) in Cairo, demanding the release of the Matsadaash staff. Members said they would keep the sit-in open ended until the journalists were released, and the EJS said it would convene an emergency meeting on Monday."

@baylisswagner.bsky.socialReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."

@thetnholler.bsky.socialReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social: “Billionaire spending has gone from 0.3% 20 years ago to 20% — corroding our politics… if we would see clearly, politicians would say there is genocide in Gaza, and we’d zero out aid to 🇮🇱 and stop giving them weapons killing children.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

@walterolson.bsky.socialReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

One indicted Macalester prof, on Signal, allegedly urged people who knew organizers to "ask them to focus on Whipple and not downtown". Another was allegedly "helping to maintain a database of license plate numbers belonging to vehicles used by ICE." [@elizabethweill.bsky.social @theappeal.org]

@stelhami.bsky.socialReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

Americans get it: Pew poll shows that negative of Israel are as high as negative views of Netanyahu personally - even slightly more negative (within margin of error).

@dmehro.bsky.socialReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.

w/ @regret.bsky.social

wired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
@mikehixenbaugh.comReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
@freedom2b.cryptoanarchy.networkReposted by @hafizr.bsky.social

NSPM-7 regards as "terrorism": "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality"

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