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Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
With Haley Stevens’s fiance coming out as a Republican donor and supporter, it's time to look at how we got to this point.
The narrative of this campaign has been set by the Republicans, and then by the centrist Democrats and "liberal" media who give the Republican attacks airtime—or even echo and repeat them from the primary all the way to the general.
In this demonstration, we can look at how often centrist talking heads and mainstream media voices align on their narrative creation around progressive candidates.
Progressives need to work twice as hard to win, because the campaign to beat them comes from both sides of the establishment, and starts in the primary.
The three polarizing issues that will ensure that the Democratic establishment will work against a candidate: Healthcare, challenging unconditional support for Israel, and taking on Big Tech/Oil.
Abdul El-Sayed is the trifecta, and he's popular. It's a dangerous combination to those with entrenched political power. Despite all the efforts to beat him, nothing has succeeded.
That is why they are now getting very desperate, and being very obvious in ways that they usually don't have to be. Usually, the DSCC can simply cut off independent expenditure funding, and that's enough to sink a candidate.
But this time, Abdul El-Sayed is set to win anyway.
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Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
You can’t make this up. Minouche Shafik, the former @Columbia president who caved to hostile politicians in a disastrous hearing, called the NYPD onto her own campus, had students arrested by the hundreds, then resigned in disgrace, is now in charge of @LSEnews new forum for “democratic debate.”
Will she call the police on the debaters too?
lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-f…
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
Hasan Piker just admitted, under no pressure btw, that he nutted untouched from looking at the CNN polls that were favoring the Democratic Party for the Senate races:
"We're talking Blichigan. We're talking Blaine. We're talking Blansas and maybe Bloklahoma, Blorida, Blidaho, Blouth Dakota, Blorth Dakota. Fuck it. GUAM." 😭
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
El-Sayed: Trump called me Abdul Ramadan. Ramadan is the month in which Muslims fast. The thing is groceries under his leadership have gotten so expensive, I wouldn't be surprised if he is like, “listen, we could just do Ramadan for all.”
“Why are you fasting?”
“I can’t afford food”
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
Q: How do you expect us to start families young when the average price of a home feels out of reach?
JD VANCE: I want to point out that I've only gotten one question about Jon Husted's ass
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
The latest aerial footage reveals the scale of Israel’s genocide in Gaza—devastation beyond words. We are entering the fourth year, and Israel still bars international journalists from entering the Strip.
Be a voice for Gaza, for its victims, its innocent civilians, and those whose stories remain untold. Do not stay silent!
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
🔦A covert ad campaign pushing racist, anti-Muslim, anti-migrant and anti-Qatar propaganda has racked up more than 533 million recorded exposures across Europe, Lebanon and the United States, 30 different countries, since October 2023, according to a new investigation by researchers Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza. Its funder remains hidden, but several trails lead to Israel.
The campaign began with billboards in Lebanon blaming Iran and Hezbollah for the war, with Israel left out entirely. It then blamed Qatar, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, with ads pressuring Sheikha Moza, the Emir's mother, over Israeli captives and urging boycotts of Qatari-owned brands. It soon escalated into "Great Replacement" conspiracy content describing Qatar as the hidden force "Islamising" Europe.
The operation spent over $1.2 million on Meta ads by mid-2024 alone. It ran dozens of fake front groups across six platforms and reached Times Square and a 2024 CPAC stage shortly before Donald Trump spoke.
Among the leads the researchers found:
▪️ A campaign poster traced to Johnnie Moore, the evangelical Trump adviser who later led the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose PR firm also publicized a campaign protest
▪️ A Wikipedia sockpuppet network linked to an Israeli IP address
▪️ Video files with Hebrew labels, made on a Sunday-to-Thursday workweek, pointing to an Israel-based production team
🔗 The report and a detailed thread are below. The operation is still running.
Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US.
Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries.
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Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
Vivek made the choice to attack victims with a disgusting ad, so we attacked Vivek with our own... except ours is going to keep running because we won't let a sick man get away with what he did.
Ramaswamy ad of Acton's estranged mother no longer airing in Ohio dispatch.com/story/news/poli… via @DispatchAlerts
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
Senator @ChrisMurphyCT reveals that war plan briefings by the administration show that Trump and Israel are planning an extreme escalation to win the war of choice wth Iran.
Murphy calls the plan "insane." Not only will it fail, but it will also lead to "the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law."
What Sen. Murphy says here is that Trump and Israel are planning a military campaign that violates every rule of war, including every American law regarding the conduct of war.
It is not a war plan; it's a war crimes plan.
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
EL-SAYED: RFK JR. was in town this week. He said that the 500 million Arabs in the world had never contributed anything to science. But to be fair, he is an expert on people who never contributed anything to science.
He didn't bother to show up when 8000 people were infected by the shit lettuce. But he wants to come here and lecture you about potentially electing and arab-american to the U.S. Senate
My guy has zero doctorates. I have two of them
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
EL-SAYED to TRUMP: I will go through a metal detector if you will sit for a lie detector. My first question, Epstein. Second question, did you win the 2020 election? I will go through a metal detector every day if you sit through a lie detector one time.
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
Look at the massive crowd in Kalamazoo tonight at the @AbdulElSayed rally. Senator @ElissaSlotkin is joining him tonight on this campaign stop.
💪💙🗳️
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
Take a look at the thousands in line for Kalamazoo rally with @AbdulElSayed and @ElissaSlotkin 👀
Musings of a Curious Nature retweeted
If Haley Stevens was the nominee, and Abdul’s wife was voting for Mike Rogers and had donated tens of thousands of dollars to Susan Collins, I have a sneaking suspicion your response would not have been “Big Tent!”
