Matthew S Schweber

Democratic Senator gets put on the hot seat after Bill Maher asks if she would take AIPAC money. MAHER: “Would you take AIPAC money?” ELISSA SLOTKIN: “So, actually, it’s interesting. Long before October 7th, I stopped taking AIPAC money… because they were giving money to people who had been participating in January 6th.” MAHER: “Who was giving money?” SLOTKIN: “AIPAC. They give money to both Democrats and Republicans, and people who had been involved in inciting January 6th… And as someone who barricaded herself in her office on January 6th, I didn’t agree with that.” MAHER: “Convenient for you.” Stephen A. Smith raised doubts and pressed her with further questions:

I did not have Uganda threatening to declare war on Iran to defend Israel on my 2026 bingo card.

🚨Endorsement Alert! 🚨 “People are excited to vote for someone who will actually fight for them. Not just nibble around the edges.” Thank you, Senator Warren. Together I look forward to taking on Wall Street and the billionaires waging a class war against the rest of us.

Dems should be for the working class, not the Epstein class. I plead guilty to coining the phrase.

The number of X posts from Susan Abulhawa on the subject of Jews/Zionists/Israel is very considerable Zohran Mamdani's wife provided illustrations for Abulhawa's recent book

🚨 UTS Pushed “Death to the Akademy” Online. Former Columbia Professor Muhammad Abdou Used the Event to Call for Jihad and Praise Elias Rodriguez Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia affiliate, canceled the in-person portion of “Death to the Akademy” at the eleventh hour, with organizers later indicating the event would continue online. Organizers, Queer Muslims of NYC and Students for a Liberated Palestine at UTS, blamed “Zionist reactions” and accused the seminary of “flagrant Islamophobia.” At the online event itself, Muhammad Abdou told students to engage in jihad. “Let us fulfill that threat, and you know what I mean, with all the details , with the full blunt force. Let us engage in jihad, and there are rules for jihad, and Muslims know that Allah has commanded rules. We don’t engage in wanton violence, but we don’t accept the negative peace either.” He also praised Elias Rodriguez for the “assassination of two Zionists.” “God bless him. He took action. He took action. Elias, he took action. Take action. Not only that kind of action, just to be very clear, because there’s also building. We need to destroy. We need to create alternatives.” Elsewhere in the same event, he urged students to use their leverage in academia, arguing that without students, higher education would grind to a halt. “If you throw a wrench into that system, you’ll discombobulate. So be a threat, fulfill it.” The strongest argument for the seminary’s intervention may have been Abdou’s own words. This is not a fringe figure, but an individual who has taught at multiple universities, including Columbia, Cornell, the American University in Cairo, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University.

For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.