(((Beth Balsam)))

Every GD word. @kenmartin73 @TheDemocrats - are you paying attention?

Two of the young men in this photo have been executed‌ today in Iran. The other ten have been transferred to solitary confinement, they are next in line to be hanged. These are the same prisoners president Trump publicly announced that, the Islamic Republic had promised not to execute. That promise was a lie. You all watching war headlines but no one talks about the war being imposed on us Iranians by our own regime that hanging its own people in silence. They are people who said: we want freedom. If no one speaks, the regime will kill more protesters. Please join me and help us to #StopExecutionsInIran.

While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today. His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child. He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows. Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him. This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion. Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.

🚨 Queens Synagogues Vandalized Thursday July 16th at 11:45 PM: • Young Israel of Jamaica Estates • Young Israel of Holliswood Both hit with a brown liquid (likely motor oil) and feces in a clear antisemitic attack. This is disgusting and unacceptable. NYPD Hate Crimes is investigating but we must hold those responsible accountable. Jewish institutions deserve real protection not just statements. Thank you @StopAntisemites for the images. Where is the mayor?? @NYPD107Pct @NYPDHateCrimes @NilyRozic @NYCMayor #Antisemitism #QueensNYC #JewishSafety

The far left doesn't want Israel to exist. They want Jewish folks to get out the middle east. That ain't happening. It won't be nothing left of Palestine before that even happens. Sorry guys.

Lucy McBath flipped a red district. Sharice Davids flipped a red district. Lauren Underwood flipped a red district. Ossoff and Warnock flipped both of US Senate seats in Georgia that were once held by Republicans. DSA could NEVER accomplish that!!!

@k1nghenryIV @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Jews aren’t victims. The Israeli economy is thriving. They are the strongest army in the region. We’re good. Thanks for your concern though.

@bbalsam @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan And there it is. Funny that you don’t see how this statement is racist, or how people hate Jews not “because they’re assholes”, but because of the behavior and actions of Jews. You’ll forever be stuck in the victim mentality though.

The idea that murdering 1000s of families, entire bloodlines, in Gaza was the right or appropriate response to the murder of this poor Israeli family is as absurd as it is racist as it is sociopathic. Palestine life has no value to people like Guttenberg.

A whole lot of people who think they are "left-wing" are actually far-right: against race mixing, supportive of theocracy, anti-technology, anti-innovation, antisemitic, and anti-thinking.

@mehdirhasan Interesting that you don’t mind when the antizionist haters and useful idiots make Israel their entire personality. It’s just an issue when someone defends our great ally.

Every day he is on Fox, every day he is talking about Israel. Beyond parody, at this point.

@k1nghenryIV @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Bc they’re a—holes. Again pretty obvious

@bbalsam @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Hahaha. And WHY do they hate Jews? You’re getting so close

@k1nghenryIV @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Bc they hate Jews. Was that not obvious?

@bbalsam @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Ahh.. and WHY might they be attacking you?

Because tapping into Jew hate is literally the Democratic party’s new electoral strategy. The same way MAGA specifically recruited racists

So many College Dems do really great work. The Convention having letting Hasan Piker speak is a terrible decision. He is totally reprehensible and has nothing constructive to add to Democratic Party discourse. He should not have been platformed, humored, or given the time of day.

Welp. Jackson will lose and Collins will get another term. This was all easily avoidable if Democrats had done the right thing and denounced Platner immediately when the Nazi tattoo came out.

@LeoTerrellDOJ As a Democrat I certainly will. I’ll also remember @VP Vance spreading conspiracy theories about Jews.

Remember the haters!

@dumbsillymfer @k1nghenryIV @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Tell me you know nothing about Israel and have never been there. Half the country is brown skinned Jews who were thrown out of Arab countries and found safety in their ancestral homeland.

@k1nghenryIV @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan When you make up a country for people from all around the world to have 2nd homes in the Mediterranean at the expense of pushing out brown people it is just kinda fucked up #FreePalestine

@k1nghenryIV @fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan Exactly right. If only Israel’s neighbors would stop attacking them, there could be peace.

@fred_guttenberg @mehdirhasan This exchange is a perfectly illustrative example of why there will never be peace in the Middle East. The world’s only jewish state has been at almost nonstop war since its inception.

To Those Who Compare Gaza to the Holocaust After years of suffering, starvation and disease in the ghettos, the Nazis offered desperate Jews a way out. They promised them jobs and a better future. They told them they were being relocated to labor camps where they could support their families. Believing they had finally found hope, the Jews boarded the trains. Those trains took them to extermination camps. Upon arrival, they were told they would first take a “disinfection shower” before entering the work camp. The gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms. Many only realized they had been deceived when the gas started flowing. That was systematic, industrialized murder built on the intent to exterminate an entire people. In Gaza, when Israel wants to target Hamas infrastructure, it evacuates entire neighborhoods in advance, even though this gives Hamas time to escape. Israel does this specifically to minimize civilian casualties. These two realities are fundamentally different. Comparing them dishonors the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

@AnnieGrayerCNN Don’t they know. Hating Jews - oh I’m sorry, Zionists, is all the rage these days.

New: When a coffee shop announced it was banning Goldman over his views on Israel, some of his Jewish colleagues wanted leadership to weigh in But even as the controversy rocketed the internet, Jeffries remained silent Inside the Dem conundrum on Israel cnn.com/2026/07/18/pol…

@Ok_Solly Agreed!

I have no problem saying w my whole chest that I would have much preferred Susan Collins, the most moderate Republican in the Senate, than the guy with the Nazi tattoo & a long history of saying & doing disturbing, disqualifying things. This shouldn’t be hard.

I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas. I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life. But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE. If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas. On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas. They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters. Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas. Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice. But we see you. Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes. They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩