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What I learned about Rama Duwaji after a month of calling up dozens of her friends and carefully combing her digital footprint: - anti-Israel politics are the glue of her world: her favorite bookstore is BDS, she shopped for clothes at a “pop-up fundraising for Palestine,” and her go-to restaurant doubles as an organizing space for anti-Israel activists - she attended an anti-Israel rally in the aftermath of October 7 - she liked a post from Tucker Carlson criticizing AIPAC - she traveled to Paris Fashion Week last September, also stopping in London (the mayor's office did not reply to my request for comment on who paid for this, given her income of $8,860 last year, per tax fillings)

I got to chat with Austin Ahlman today. He’s the Independent candidate who just announced—two days after the primary—that he’s running for Congress in District 1 against both Mike Flood and Chris Backemeyer. And his campaign video is going viral. Naturally, Democrats aren’t happy. Even as an Independent, he’s clearly running well to the left of center: pro-choice, Medicare for All, overturning Citizens United, and making billionaires pay their “fair share.” In a way, seems Independent in the same way that Bernie Sanders is. But he’s also genuine—not a GOP-funded spoiler like some people are claiming. When he calls himself “Independent,” he means that he's “anti-establishment.” He represents a faction of the left that many people forget exists: a grassroots, populist counterpart to the Tea Party or Liberty wing of the Republican Party. He sees the establishment as captured by special interests and more focused on overseas wars than on kitchen-table issues that affect working people’s pocketbooks. That’s what makes him interesting. I’ve watched the left for a while, and they’re often so uniform in their thinking that it becomes cartoonish. “Vote Blue No Matter Who.” Ahlman is different. And in a good way. I might not agree with him on a lot of things, but he’s clearly not part of the Blue Dot machine either.

Este año no estaremos en Eurovisión, pero lo haremos con la convicción de estar en el lado correcto de la historia. Por coherencia, responsabilidad y humanidad.

🚨Trump Says Removing Enriched Uranium from Iran Is About “Public Relations,” Not Security President Trump acknowledged in a Fox News interview that retrieving enriched uranium from Iranian territory is not a security necessity, and the demand instead is a political imperative driven by optics. “I don’t think it’s necessary except from a public relations standpoint,” Trump said. “I think it’s important for the fake news that we get it. I’m the one that said we are going to get it.” Trump also offered a favorable assessment of Iran’s current negotiating team. “I think they are actually much more reasonable in many ways,” he said, describing unnamed new officials as “smarter than the first tier and the second tier who are no longer with us.”

What I learned about Rama Duwaji after a month of calling up dozens of her friends and carefully combing her digital footprint: - anti-Israel politics are the glue of her world: her favorite bookstore is BDS, she shopped for clothes at a “pop-up fundraising for Palestine,” and her go-to restaurant doubles as an organizing space for anti-Israel activists - she attended an anti-Israel rally in the aftermath of October 7 - she liked a post from Tucker Carlson criticizing AIPAC - she traveled to Paris Fashion Week last September, also stopping in London (the mayor's office did not reply to my request for comment on who paid for this, given her income of $8,860 last year, per tax fillings)

Senator Cory Booker will rally with Sharif Street, PA-03 candidate, in Philadelphia May 18th