What irks me the most in life is disingenuity. Of any kind, in all sorts of people, from all walks of life. Knowing what you’re doing is a grift, a ploy to manipulate and shut down criticism, yet having the audacity to front like you’re serious.

Please stop torturing us with antisemitism as a linguistic manipulation to get away with crimes that uphold your privilege. The jig is up.

Is there anything more annoying in this world than the people who simply cannot understand something is just over? Your wife caught you cheating; stop finding excuses and trying to manipulate your way out of it. You have been found out. Just give it a rest.

The great noticing is here

How are we still entertaining this conversation in 2026? How are we still explaining ourselves to those who consciously and dishonestly use antisemitism to shut down conversation and escape accountability?

We have watched 1,063 days of livestreamed genocide unfolding on our phones; the images of children’s limbs blown off their bodies are imprinted in our minds and will stay there until the end of our time. And yet, we’re still discussing antisemitism, not the genuine one, but the one used to shut down legitimate conversation.

It’s grotesque what the Zionists are doing to this man, day in day out. They are attaching an antisemitism smear to a man who spent the last four years bravely advocating for halting the mass murder of toddlers and civilians, regardless of what that stance professionally cost him.

And that is precisely what bothers them: a man whose moral compass is tuned so correctly that nothing, absolutely nothing, no threats, no smears, no lies, can make him falter in standing up for the humane treatment of all human beings.

The merger

In this latest attempt of trying to slap an antisemitic label on Mark Ruffalo, the issue is a Paramount/Warner Brothers merger, a grotesque consolidation of power that would crush job opportunities and, as Mark pointed out, see a loss of 4500 direct filmmaking jobs and the loss of another 10k ancillary jobs.

Mark voiced a legitimate concern about an $111B merger that would put enormous power into the hands of one family—a family headed by the largest single donor to the IDF and a company whose former CEO just casually stated on camera is producing “profoundly scary technology” for Israel.

A profoundly scary technology for a state currently committing a genocide and set out to create a surveillance state for us all.

We are not angry enough, folks.

These people are taking us for a ride, and we’re still not getting off.

Mark’s Instagram story about the merger

This is what Mark Ruffalo wrote on his Instagram story about this merger. All legit concerns:

Why are we always explaining ourselves? Why is Mark, anyone, all of us constantly needing to explain what we meant?

The biggest criminals on earth are known for this classic MO: audacity and an accusatory tone, deliberately misinterpreting their opponents’ words when those words are right there for all to see, forcing you to explain yourself rather than forcing them to explain their crimes.

I want to literally puke on my living room sofa if I hear one more time that “it’s not antisemitic to be critical of the Israeli government,” followed by calling every single sentence directed to that crime syndicate pretending to be a state—antisemitic.

“It’s not antisemitic to be critical of the Israeli government.”

Unless you are a student on a campus calling out the Israeli apartheid.

Or a singer calling out the IDF’s war crimes.

Or Ms. Rachel saying Palestinian kids should live too.

Or a flotilla activist carrying baby formula to Gaza.

Or a person boycotting food associated with the apartheid state.

Or someone protesting an Oracle executive threatening the world with “profoundly scary technology.”

Or an American actor opposing consolidation of power.

Or the NBC crew attacked by violent settlers in the West Bank.

A grift to end all conversation

Just take a look at this piece made by our favorite hasbarist for hire, Noa Tishby; only, I broke her down too. Not a single word she said about Mark is accurate, and every single word Mark uttered is verifiably true.

And yet, her video full of propaganda, lies, and smears about this man ended up on his Google search profile. Media consolidation? How can a nobody’s video, unrelated to this man, end up on his Google search?

Let’s finally have the honest antisemitism conversation, shall we?

There is only one correct and intellectually honest definition of what antisemitism is. It’s not thoughts or feelings or paranoia. Antisemitism is an actual, tangible action taken against an individual. Not a feeling. Or discomfort.

You will not find a more honest breakdown of antisemitism than what Norman Finkelstein, a son of Holocaust survivors, explained at the Robinson Erhardt podcast. He gave this man a schooling that only Norm can produce:

Robinson:

For the sake of comprehensiveness, there are two more arguments I'd like to touch on. I think it's pretty undeniable, at least from my own experience, that there is very rampant antisemitism in the United States, at least.

Norman:

I don't agree with that at all. There was an era in which one calculated antisemitism not by a person's thoughts, because you can't control a person's thoughts, there was an era where, when you talked about discrimination, when you talked about antisemitism, it meant—does it affect your job opportunities, does it affect your access to certain institutions of higher education, does it affect where you're going to live, does it affect negatively your interactions with the law—that's what antisemitism meant.

There were quantifiable, palpable, and lucid expressions of this phobia, whatever you want to call it, antisemitism or a hateful genocidal intent.

Can you name me a place in the United States where a Jew would have trouble purchasing a home or renting an apartment? Name me one place; I'd be curious where that person would have trouble purchasing a home or renting an apartment. Can you name me one university, one college in the whole United States where a Jew would have trouble getting in because he or she was Jewish?

Could you name me one profession? Does the medical profession discriminate against Jews? Law, there was once a problem; that's why Jewish law firms were created because they couldn't get into the WASP law firms. Does that exist anymore?

It’s just completely and totally ridiculous to talk about antisemitism in the United States. On the contrary, being Jewish gets you into professions because Jews are such a dominant force in the medical field and the law field. There is clannishness; every group has its clannishness. It's an asset, not a disability. It's an asset in our society.

In publishing, being Jewish makes a big difference. You know what they used to call the New York Review? They called it a review of each other's books because they were all Jewish. So in the face of that reality, to speak about antisemitism strikes me as ridiculous and self-indulgent on a Herculean scale.

Antisemitism is not thoughts passing through your head.

Brothers Bloom

I met Mark in 2006, during the shoot for Brothers Bloom. The club I was running at the time was one of the film’s locations, and my then-boyfriend had a tiny role in the film. I hung out with the crew for almost a month; one day the first AD (the First Assistant Director) on the film developed a little crush on me.

“I’m going to put you in the film; I need someone like you in the scene,” he declares to me one day.

“Nah, I don’t act, I pass,” I say, thinking that’s that.

A few days later an assistant calls me to confirm I’m on the call sheet for tomorrow. What? No. I said I’m not interested in being in front of the camera. “Well, you are on the call sheet, so you have to come,” she says matter-of-factly.

I roll up to the unknown, my then-boyfriend slightly annoyed, pretending to be supportive; that man never did enjoy sharing the spotlight. I report to the lady that called me, slightly puzzled why I need to be here and what for. The first AD sees me, rolls up, and says, “Do not worry, you’ll be great; you have a scene with Mark Ruffalo, the assistant will escort you to your coordinator to practice with the knives a bit, because you will have to stab Mark through his fingers several times but not actually stab him.”

I never acted in my life (except for fun, in real life), and I need to stab-not stab Mark Ruffalo on cue.

But Mark was great. He helped me tremendously and made me feel comfortable and wasn’t impatient, and I managed not to hurt him. We spoke about so many things about this world while rehearsing and shooting the scene, and I saw this streak in him—having a need to instantly correct the wrong, call it out, and expose it.

My then-ex did something silly a few days earlier, a self-serving act that was not exactly in the spirit of teamwork, and Mark called him out on it instantly. From what I gathered during that entire month of spending time with this cast and crew, Mark’s sense of right and wrong was so deeply ingrained in him. He had this strong combination of logic, justice, and empathy that made it completely unsurprising to me that he would become what we see today: a stand-up human being, a friend and colleague willing to fight for and risk his career for the benefit of people less privileged than him.

Imagine what this world would be if every single one of us, famous or not, powerful or less influential, with big or small reach in life or social media, had the courage to take on this rotten system of power that is running our lives?

A superhero, in the literal sense of the world. A real-life Avenger.

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After two years of creating cover for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, mainstream media finally published a piece this week informing us that Israel did, in fact, slaughter a 5-year-old child, her family, and the paramedics who came to rescue her.

CNN informed us that “Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab as it opens criminal probe,” while the BBC informed us that “Israel confirms soldiers fired at car in which Hind Rajab was killed and opens criminal investigation.”

Huge undertaking. Do they have enough people?

Two and a half years later, we finally know the truth, thanks to CNN, BBC, and co. Top-notch journalism.

Israel admitted it killed her, and it will investigate itself to determine how a 5-year-old child was riddled with 355 bullets in an area where Palestinian children represent a demographic threat to the state of Israel.

Legacy media openly writing about Israel’s war crimes; times are changing, right?

No, times aren’t changing. Mainstream media didn’t suddenly grow a conscience. This is a journalistic trick. These reports mean absolutely nothing. Mainstream media are once more assisting Israel to manipulate their war from accountability.

What’s the play here? Why now?

Media + Israel, two historical partners in crime, took on this project in tandem. There are two parts, two missions, and each is doing its part to make sure Israel never answers for its monstrous war crimes.

Mainstream media’s part

I wrote this article in 2023, exactly one month before Hind Rajab was murdered. Check it out; it’s a very useful detection tool, or a shit-o-meter for your favorite media, something I figured out very early in this Zionist-powered game.

There are three tricks media is playing on us in order to cover, justify, and help Israel complete its ethnic cleansing endeavor without interruption.

Trick #1 — Reporting on something we already know about

The New York Times does this impeccably. Throughout Israel’s genocide in Gaza over the past four years, they have repeatedly published articles like Israeli Military Admits Fault in 2 Deadly Strikes in Central Gaza, months later, about crimes that have already happened, crimes they never reported on, and crimes we already know about. Or articles like What Happened in Israel’s Deadliest Attacks in Gaza, again, something we already saw on our phones, months before they published it.

These months, or even years late “reports” are always published in an obligatory passive voice, a directive straight from Tel Aviv, no doubt. Palestinians are never killed, only mysteriously found dead.

When respectable, legacy media reports on something we already know about, there’s nothing at stake for the ethnostate they are trying to shield from public scrutiny. We already know this information from social media. This is not journalism—it would be if they actually reported on it, when it actually happened, to inform you. The reason why they’re publishing these reports after the fact is to create an illusion of impartiality.

Trick #2 — Making both sides in this “conflict” equal

This trick is a masterclass in media manipulation—understood only if you have knowledge of world history or are willing to spend hours daily informing yourself.

“It’s not a genocide; it’s a war. Israel is fighting Hamas militants.”

A nuclear superpower cannot fight a militia made up of orphans whose only means of resisting their occupiers are makeshift rockets and stolen rifles.

When mainstream media reports on both sides in the manner of—well, they sent the rocket, and then we launched an airstrike, and then they sent some fireworks, and then we bombed a refugee camp—it makes this “war” appear equal. It’s not equal, and it’s not a war. It’s a deliberate erasure of an entire people.

Mainstream media invite guests on TV shows in a tit-for-tat format, inviting people on both sides to condemn the actions of the opposite side; will you condemn the Hamas rockets, or will you condemn the Israeli airstrikes—this is a deliberate editorial process, a well-thought-out tactic for you to forget the context and the issue here: 5.5 million people from one population are living at the mercy of, under the rule of, and under the military occupation of another population.

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Trick #3 — “Criticizing” Israel

Notice the words legacy media never uses while criticizing Israel. Media will never say the word genocide even when the number of victims crosses the threshold of other declared genocides in history, even when the genocidal intent has been heard from the mouths of Israeli government officials, soldiers, and supporters. Media will criticize some particular policy of Israel’s state but won’t ever discuss the apartheid and the military occupation carried out by the Israeli state.

They won’t print how the structural situation is fundamentally one of occupation and dispossession. This is how legacy media is assisting in upholding Israel’s status quo. To convince you of this circle of violence from both sides. Use the guise of safety to keep the military occupation running, indefinitely. Maintain the ethnostate.

Israel’s part

Why is Israel finally admitting that it riddled Hind Rajab’s tiny body with 355 bullets and killed the paramedics who came to rescue her, after vehemently denying it for two and a half years?

Because they want to create an illusion of accountability.

Why now?

Because Israel is facing renewed legal scrutiny over its genocide in Gaza and its strikes in Lebanon and in the region.

TRT World reports:

Under the Rome Statute’s complementarity regime, the International Criminal Court is only meant to step in when a state is “unwilling or unable” to genuinely investigate its own nationals, which means a state facing prosecution has a direct incentive to manufacture the appearance of domestic proceedings before the admissibility question is decided against it.

“Israel is currently subject to active ICC proceedings, faces genocide referrals before the ICJ, and is operating under the July 2024 Advisory Opinion finding its occupation violates peremptory norms. Under Article 17 of the Rome Statute, a state may challenge admissibility before the ICC by demonstrating that genuine domestic investigations are underway. The timing of the announcement lines up with Israel losing ground on its case before the ICC, not with any new evidence coming to light.”

— Nasir Qadri, international law practitioner and critical legal scholar at Koc University.

TRT continues:

That framing captures what two years of watching Israel investigate itself has taught rights groups and the family alike: an internal probe has never once translated into meaningful accountability for Palestinian deaths, and there is little in the record to suggest this case will be the exception.

In other words, nothing will come out of this, as usual, when Israel conducts these performative criminal investigations into their own SS Division.

According to the Hind Rajab Foundation, of 52 publicly known Israeli military investigations into violations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, 88% were closed without any finding of wrongdoing or left open indefinitely with no outcome ever published, and only one produced a prison sentence.

“We see this new probe as a pattern, not a genuine pursuit of justice, but a charade meant to whitewash crimes against Palestinians,” a spokesperson of the Hind Rajab Foundation told TRT World.

“The timing is obviously strategic. These announcements come when international pressure is high, and they serve to create the illusion of accountability.”

“Given Israel’s history of such probes ending without meaningful consequences, this appears designed to deflect criticism, not to deliver justice,” the spokesperson adds.

If that part the TRT just laid out for us needs any clarification: Israel very well knows what they are committing are grave war crimes; they know they are erasing an entire population whose land they covet, and they are intentionally murdering them while trying to get away with it.

And they always do get away with it.

Israel has been doing this for decades

• Whether it’s killing 10 activists on the Mavi Marmara flotilla.

• Or murdering paramedics, then burying their ambulances and belongings while lying about it before the phone of one of the paramedics was also discovered, buried, containing video evidence.

• Or striking a World Central Kitchen convoy, killing seven humanitarian workers.

• Or double-tapping Nasser Hospital and killing 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews, and five journalists.

• Or riddling a 5-year-old with 355 bullets, accompanied by some of the most disturbingly graphic audio a human being could ever hear.

The pattern is always the same: first, they say Hamas or Hezbollah did it; then they deflect or shut the conversation down with accusations of antisemitism or counterattacks. Then, after international pressure, when even their mainstream media partners in crime can no longer run cover for their war crimes, they investigate themselves, find inconclusive results, and conclude it was a “grave error.”

The result is always the same. No accountability. No legal action. No time served. Case closed.

186 humanitarian workers killed.

260 journalists killed.

Never stop talking about this. The only accountability they currently face is the judgment of humanity itself, in the court of global conscience, reminding them of their crimes with every step they take outside their ethnostate.

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Zionist ideology isn’t compatible with civilization outside of their community. Everyone sane knows that. We can also stretch our brains wide enough to inhabit the reality of Zionism being deadly to Palestinian people, having watched limbs being blown off the bodies in Gaza since Israel’s invasion of the Palestinian lands, but what is it to the rest of us?

They aren’t killing us; we’re good, right? Everything that’s not killing us is not that bad, right? Zionism is just incompatible for anyone that doesn’t believe in it or support it, right?

We need to be more serious about this. Zionism is much more nefarious to the rest of the world outside Palestine than we realize, and it is damaging an entire planet, in addition to committing war crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, and throughout the Middle East.

Dual citizens are deciding our future.

This post by Nikki Shapiro Vinckier showcases it well. As Nikki reports, many Jewish voters in Michigan are deeply afraid by Abdul El-Sayed winning the Democratic primary. Many have said they will leave the Senate race blank in November, and others are considering voting for Republican Mike Rogers.

These choices, made by people who have been gaslit about the “evil” Muslims all their lives, are not considering what is best for their fellow Michiganders. They are willing to hand this seat to MAGA because their priority is Israel’s interests in the American midterm election.

As Nikki rightly points out, this is a seat we cannot afford to lose. This is the seat that could help determine who controls the U.S. Senate. A seat that will vote on federal judges, reproductive rights, healthcare, voting rights, and the future of our democracy. A seat that could either challenge Donald Trump’s agenda or give him another vote to advance it.

This slide in Nikki’s post was particularly telling. Check out what Stacy thinks about electing a medical doctor, an epidemiologist, and an Oxford Rhodes scholar whose priority is passing a Medicare for All bill. So devoted to this issue, he wrote a book on it—Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide.

But Stacy, patient zero in the Zionist cult agenda, confidently calls other people brainwashed, warning us all about the Rhodes scholar Abdul El-Sayed and his entire family “Islamic terrorists.”

But Stacy confidently calls other people brainwashed, warning us about the “Islamic terrorism” of Rhodes scholar Abdul El-Sayed and his family.

Whether it’s regular people allowing their obsession with Israel and the Jewish victimhood narrative to prevent desperately needed social and economic policies from being represented in the U.S. Senate, this is hurting American citizens.

The issue with Stacy’s worldview wouldn’t be a problem if she lived in Israel and despised all the Muslims living in her vicinity. But Stacy lives in America, and like millions of other people devoted to Israel and gaslit by the Israeli government and their upbringing, she will deprive the American people of the benefits and policies we need because she lives in a country where she has voting rights, while the interests of that country and its people are not her concern.

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Wouldn’t this be something that would make people around the world angry? Not only do we have to watch the wholesale slaughter of an entire people on our screens, paid for by our tax dollars, and feel powerless to stop it, we also cannot have a government that will work in the interests of its own citizens.

How bloody insulting is it to package it all into antisemitism—to prevent us from voicing our disdain.

What about the politicians?

Nearly all politicians in all of the Western countries around the world work for the benefit of Israel. Politicians are not chosen by what they can do for you; they are chosen by what they can do for Israel.

All the policies that these politicians put out are just a smokeshow; they work for Israel. Therefore, the nice, well-spoken, palatable contenders camouflaged as progressive candidates are even more dangerous.

Like Barack Obama, who dutifully completed the task of expanding the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and clipped Gaddafi before he managed to implement his gold-backed currency, which would have allowed Libya and its partners to trade oil and resources directly for gold, bypassing the U.S. dollar and the entire Western banking system, protecting Libya from Western economic sanctions.

Israel could not have that.

Who did it benefit?

And how many lives and futures were destroyed for it?

Michigan.

In November of 2025, Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss, a Democrat and an openly gay politician who made history as the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to the Michigan Senate, was caught on tape saying:

A hot mic moment, undercover reporting:

A video of this hot mic moment caught on tape was made viral last Wednesday. A day after the man caught on tape, an American State Senator Jeremy Moss, who declared America is not his homeland and that he doesn’t think it’s wrong for Israel to use America as a pawn, won his primary.

This undercover reporting happened in November of last year. Why did it make waves the day after this man won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District?

His opponent in this race, Aisha Farooqi, a pro-Palestinian candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District, tweeted this audio on July 21st, but it wasn’t picked up or widely shared. Simply, not many people knew about it until after the election.

On the post I made about Jeremy Moss’ tape, as soon as I was made aware of its existence, Aisha Farooqi replied to some of the commentators asking about why media outlets aren’t picking this story up.

Isn’t it big, huge, breaking news that an American state senator running for the U.S. House of Representatives is saying America is not his homeland and that it’s not wrong for Israel to use America as a pawn?

Apparently not.

Aisha Farooqi’s campaign shared this video weeks before the election, yet no local progressive groups wanted to share it.

I have spoken to Aisha for Congress campaign staff, and they stressed that they have circulated the audio, but weirdly, it was never made viral.

How can something this scandalous not go viral?

I was made aware that the audio was widely known among progressive and Democratic-aligned organizations in the weeks before the vote. The sense was that many chose not to amplify it because Moss had the backing of the broader Democratic establishment, and there was reluctance to work against a candidate who was seen as the anointed choice.

Do you see what’s at play here?

The treason is bipartisan.

Democrats are not fighting MAGA or a foreign influence in our politics. In fact, they are a part of it. Just packaged into a nice, progressive, LGBTQ+ supporting party that is the reason MAGA is in power in the first place.

Just look at what kind of write-ups Jeremy Moss gets in mainstream media:

Pride Source, June 15, 2023:

Michigan Sen. Jeremy Moss Is Here, Queer, And He Doesn’t Care If You Get Used To It

Moss, at a solidly Millennial age of 36, is just as much a product of his generation as he is a product of his blue-collar upbringing. He’s vocal on social media and well-versed in the modern culture wars. And yes, he’s openly gay.

No, he doesn’t shy away from that part of his identity. In fact, he wields his queerness in a way that immediately makes Republicans intent on pushing absurd claims about LGBTQ+ community members look irrelevant. He’s loud, he’s proud, and he really doesn’t care if you get used to it or not. He’s got work to do.

“He’s always been passionate about politics, and it’s so awesome to watch him actually carry out his childhood dream and make a difference in state government,” Seagle adds. “It’s especially meaningful to see him proudly represent both the queer community and Jewish community.”

Moss, Hoskins adds, has been unwavering in his defense of the LGBTQ+ community against hateful rhetoric for years. “It serves as an inspiration to us all, reminding us that true leadership emerges from authenticity, empathy and a relentless pursuit of a better world for everyone.”

What’s the work? Pushing Israel’s agenda through palatable, openly gay, LGBTQ+ progressive values?

Better world for everyone? Or just Zionists?

So, like groomed to become an Israeli asset in the U.S. Congress? Just how ridiculous do Jeremy’s interviews and profiles now sound, knowing what he really thinks and why he’s implemented in U.S. politics in the first place? To work for Israel and the Zionist agenda. The man literally told you himself.

“The entire purpose of my career is to make sure America continues to support Israel, I don’t think it’s wrong for Israel to use America as a pawn, America is not our homeland, we have been victims of antisemitism here.”

Continued.

Haaretz, August 5, 2026:

Pro-Israel Jewish Democrat Jeremy Moss Wins Michigan Congressional Primary

Moss has previously voiced traditional liberal pro-Israel positions. In August 2024, responding to Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' convention speech addressing Israel and the war in Gaza, he said: "The overwhelming majority of American Jewish voters believe that both Israel has a right to defend itself from terrorism & Palestinians have a right to self-determination in a peace-seeking state."

In April 2024, Moss addressed antisemitism in the state Senate.

“The overwhelming majority of Jews believe in a place of refuge in a Jewish homeland. But if you even mention how woven the Jewish religion is with Jewish sovereignty in Israel, today you get called a ‘colonizer,’ a ‘racist,’” he said. “Zionist is now being weaponized as a slur, and it is infuriating that the same people who will say that also post ‘Happy Passover’ to all who are observing without acknowledging what we’re actually observing.”

In August 2023, he posted an image of himself at protests against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul, writing: “I just returned home from Israel. Democracy can be messy – and after this past week, both Americans and Israelis know that more than most – but it’s always worth fighting for.”

This one’s good.

Jewish Insider, July 31st, 2026:

Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss has a lot of endorsements in his campaign for Congress in a Detroit-area Democratic primary — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and several other state and local officials — but AIPAC is not one of them.

Say what, Jeremy?

Continuing, Jewish Insider, July 31st, 2026:

Do you understand what is going on here? The openly gay, LGBTQ+ supporting Democratic state senator who supports the U.S. attack on Iran has been funded by AIPAC, but also by major Donald Trump and MAGA donors. And when his opponents point out the deceptiveness of his campaign, he says that these legitimate public criticisms “touch many people’s ears as if it’s trafficking in antisemitism.”

These people do not believe in the party.

They only believe in Israel. And you are expecting these Democrats are going to save you from MAGA?

The treason is bipartisan.

We all know what Zionists in the U.S. government are here to do. Their actions speak where their words don’t have to. But to hear this guy, who is camouflaging his supremacist, genocidal beliefs behind his openly gay, progressive facade, actually say the words is nauseating.

It’s even more nauseating to hear people like Rep. Nancy Mace, without any proof in action or words, but driven by her inherent Islamophobia, smear Muslim politicians like Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed, who are demonstrably working on policies and legislation that improve public services and the lives of all American citizens.

Zionists are exactly what they are blaming Muslims and anti-Zionists for. They are the Trojan horse. Jeremy Moss is the literal prototype of the Trojan horse, implemented in the U.S. government to work for Israel’s interests, to the detriment of every American citizen.

I mean, the guy LITERALLY TOLD YOU SO:

“The entire purpose of my career is to make sure America continues to support Israel, I don’t think it’s wrong for Israel to use America as a pawn, America is not our homeland, we have been victims of antisemitism here.”

People like Jeremy Moss should be treated not only like traitors but, quite literally, as enemy combatants.

Jeremy Moss and his Zionist and MAGA-affiliated donors beat other candidates like Aisha Farooqi, John Torres, and Don Ufford, Democratic candidates whose campaigns are focused on the needs of the ordinary Americans, not the interests of a foreign state.

Just look at what these candidates’ policies are:

Aisha Farooqi: Healthcare for all, education, immigration, child care, gun safety, civil rights and liberties, defending democracy, economic development, reproductive freedom, support for seniors, environment, expanding pathways to homeownership, foreign policy, abolishing ICE, AIPAC influence out of U.S. politics.

John Torres: Women’s healthcare, debt-free opportunities for the next generation, dignified retirement for every senior, no data center in the community that doesn’t want them, abolishing tax cuts for the wealthy, abolishing ICE, immigration reform, ending the war in Iran and genocide in Gaza, preserving the enviroment, medicare for all.

Don Ufford: Lower costs for Michiganders, building good jobs in the state of Michigan, protecting healthcare, protecting our democracy, fighting Washington corruption.

Michiganders.

The citizens of Michigan were denied all these possibilities. They were denied a candidate who could have worked in their best interests, all so that Israel could have a Trojan horse, camouflaged as an openly gay, progressive senator, who was caught on tape declaring that the entire purpose of his career is to make sure America continues to support Israel.

Jeremy Moss is quite literally an enemy combatant, dropped into the United States Congress to work against the benefit of American citizens.

As usual, Zionist assets on social media are hard at work blaming Muslims, without any proof in action or word, for their own Zionist actions and missions.

Never forget—Zionists cannot make you love and support Israel after watching their war crimes in 4k for four years; instead, they will go out of their way “by the ways of deception,” to quote Mossad, to make you fear Muslims. After everything you have seen, you cannot be gullible to this.

Look at what people are actually saying and doing, instead of listening to the Israeli asset fearmongers telling you what people will do.

How to remove Jeremy Moss from federal office?

That’s the infuriating part. We can’t. Not for the next two years, at least.

Jeremy won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District. His opponent in the November midterm election for this seat is a Republican Ethan Baker, an even bigger AIPAC shill and the member of the American Jewish Committee—another “global advocacy group” whose only business of order is shutting people’s voices under the guise of “combating antisemitism” and “standing for Israel.”

Also, this seat, currently held by Hailey Stevens, yes, that Hailey Stevens who currently stands at $35,849,713 million in AIPAC donations but got beaten by Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, is a comfortable Democrat seat. Jeremy Moss will win this seat.

I have spoken to Aisha Farooqi, a Michigan first candidate who told me she will challenge Jeremy in 2028, and will run to unseat him. As Aisha pointed out, “There is clear disdain for Moss and a lack of confidence in his ability to legislate on behalf of working people.”

Yes, I know. Two years is a long period of time during which Jeremy Moss won’t have the interests of the people of Michigan as his priority, but those of Israel. We need to continue to inform, build, and organize.

I invite you to check out Aisha Farooqi’s for Congress campaign and donate to her efforts to unseat this foreign agent.

What we can do now is make sure every single person in America hears this tape and knows what Jeremy Moss is and who he represents. We should never let him live this down and ultimately let his own words be his downfall.

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People in power do not want to share their power or resources. Throughout history, the way they maintained control was by controlling information through mainstream media, which, contrary to what we thought, was never truly reporting on the halls of power but instead sitting comfortably too close to them.

Politicians and powerful corrupt organizations have always produced a distorted reality through the mainstream media vehicle, and as Julian Assange rightly predicted some ten years ago, what will eventually work against that trend will be the internet. Social media, to be exact. In Julian’s own words, “It will allow one person with one truth to speak to every single person who wants to hear that truth.”

The phenomenon of social media allowed us all to finally discover what the Palestinian people have been trying to tell the world for decades—Israel is an occupier, an aggressor, and a manipulator embedded in the US government, lobbying for armaments they use to kill their families.

There is no way to fight this, Israel learned, as buying TikTok and investing $150 million in global public diplomacy (hasbara) in 2025, followed by a record-high public diplomacy budget of roughly $730 million for 2026, changed no minds about Israel's crimes in the Middle East.

Reality, simply, cannot be censored. As of today, 69% of US adults hold an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government.

Ceuta

What happened at the Spain-Morocco border at the city of Ceuta this past Thursday?

The internet was flooded with the scenes of nearly 60,000 Moroccans flooding into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, a small Spanish autonomous city that, alongside Melilla, sits on the northern coast of Africa, shares a land border with Morocco, and sits near the Strait of Gibraltar.

The images were straight out of a far-right wet dream. Far-right parties and politicians around the world, building their political projects on anti-immigrant fearmongering, had their talking points ready to go.

What happened at Ceuta has no relevance to the US, and yet Donald Trump, aware that serving Israel’s interests had damaged his standing with his base ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, used an incident unrelated to the country he governs to score political points by exploiting anti-immigrant fears.

His statement was ready to fly into the world:

“You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected. If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.”

Donnie is whoring himself for your midterm votes in November.

The same echo came from the UK. Per Zeteo:

“Christmas came early for the global far right, as images showed tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco breaching the borders of the Spanish enclave Ceuta.

From Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, the far right reacted exactly how you would think – by stirring up fear about a fake “invasion” and weaponizing the so-called crisis to rally their bases.

Trump said the surge should be used as a “talking point” in the midterm election, while Farage used it to promote his Reform UK party.”

What actually happened in Ceuta

The hordes of people that entered Ceuta didn’t look like desperate refugees. The Nation reports:

The human wave that entered Ceuta, including the dozens who drowned trying to get around the border fence sticking out into the sea, were not such desperate refugees, however. Video footage indicates that virtually none of them were carrying bags or other personal belongings. There are also videos showing truckloads of young men, apparently organized by the Moroccan government, being ferried to the edge of Ceuta, as well as scenes of Moroccan border guards waving them through. It even appears that Moroccan intelligence agents were among the crowd in an apparent effort to get a better sense of border security and the Spanish response. Indeed, having tens of thousands of people simultaneously appear at the frontier undoubtedly required major logistical support.

This provocation appears to have been designed by the Moroccan regime to embarrass Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in response to his efforts to warm relations with Morocco’s longtime geopolitical rival Algeria, a key supplier of natural gas made scarce as a result of the Ukraine and Iran wars and whose president he met with the previous week. The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali, whose nation Morocco claims for itself, into the country for medical treatment.

Perhaps not coincidentally, this comes at a time when the American and Israeli governments have been furious at Spain’s Socialist government over its support for Palestinian rights and opposition to the Iran War.

The problem

The ruling class is in a bind. They can no longer distort reality and control the flow of information as they once did. Ordinary people on social media, armed with a different political perspective, influence, and nothing more than a phone in their hand, have become a threat to the halls of power.

And the far-right powers around the globe are not in the mood to share their power or any of the resources; they want to continue hoarding.

After four years of watching the absolute blasphemy of global politics—the people allowing, arming, protecting, and justifying a state committing a livestreamed genocide—we have become trained to detect bullshit within milliseconds.

Anti-colonial, colonial lesson

The Nation, again, calls it all out brilliantly:

While having any European territory on African soil is certainly problematic regardless of its particular history and demographics, it is hard to imagine that these right-wing figures are actually motivated by anti-colonialism.

In addition, the wave of border crossings has created images that far-right parties in Europe are now using to claim that there is an uncontrollable refugee crisis, feeding racist and xenophobic attacks against Sanchez and other left-leaning governments for allowing a foreign “invasion” of EU territory. Conservative European governments have demanded that Spain be removed from the Schengen Zone that allows for passport-free movement within most of Europe despite the fact that Spain maintains tight internal migration control between the presidios and the Spanish mainland and that none of 50,000 who illegally crossed into Ceuta have made it onto the European continent.

Meanwhile, in the United States, Vice President JD Vance blamed the border crossings on “radical left-wing globalist policies that have enabled the Invasion of the West,” while Trump warned that scenes similar to those of the tens of thousands of dark-skinned people storming the border in Ceuta would occur in the United States as well if Democrats get back into office.

Important part

Ironically, rather than being anti-colonial, Morocco itself is a colonial power, having illegally invaded, occupied, annexed, and colonized the nation of Western Sahara, a full member state of the African Union and recognized by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory. The United States and Israel are the only two countries to formally recognize that occupied country as being under Moroccan sovereignty.

Who benefited the most from this manufactured “crisis”?

Far-right parties and politicians around the world who are building their political projects on anti-immigrant fearmongering. Regardless of video records of truckloads of young men coordinated by the Moroccan government to bust through Ceuta, the far-right, anti-Muslim, immigrant-hating, racist base will eat this up.

Who paid the price?

The 67 people who died as instruments of someone else's political agenda. Per NPR, “The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67; they included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.”

Whether this global far-right wet dream was orchestrated in D.C., Tel Aviv, Rabat, far-right Europe, or all of the above; whether it was the Moroccan authorities calmly leading the "immigrant crisis" out of the trucks or mainstream media using language such as "military-age men" and "Islamist invasion," the result of this, and of every political theater built around someone's ideology, is the same: dead bodies.

Brilliant researcher, going deeper to explain this fake “invasion.” Take a listen:

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On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including Section 219, a provision sneakily inserted into this bill by the deviant mind of Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure its passage—an act of treason that will permanently embed the U.S. and Israeli militaries.

A merge, so they call it, a polite, romantic term that disguises the loss of sovereignty, the erasure of national identity, and the catastrophe it represents.

Was the American identity ever really anything other than what American Zionists decided it would be, with the benefit of Israel always operating on the backend of American pride?

Tucker Carlson called this treacherous act a humiliation ritual. More on that later. In preparation for this piece, I checked the Twitter grapevine to see what people were saying about this treacherous act by our sitting representatives.

And this thread I stumbled upon captures this moment in our history so perfectly that it could tell the entire story without any help from me. It contains everything needed to reveal the absurdity of this bill, the provision buried within it, what it represents, and how we arrived at this point. It is a masterclass in storytelling, a performance art:

What to even add anymore? There isn’t a better way to describe this moment in American history than to repeat Tucker’s humiliation ritual.

Zionists in power are lying to you by describing this bill as sharing “defense supply chains while also including joint collaboration on military technologies, data sharing, and research & development.”

In reality, Benjamin Mileikowsky understands the American citizens are appalled by Israel’s war crimes; the approval for that genocidal state is in such a gutter, the Congress cannot fight the public disapproval for yearly military funding for Israel for much longer, and his 10-year deal is soon over.

Per NBC News, in 2016, the U.S. and Israeli governments signed a memorandum of understanding for the 10 years through September 2028 that provides $38 billion in military aid, $33 billion in grants to buy military equipment and $5 billion for missile defense systems.

How do you continue getting the military aid while the entire world saw you maim children en masse for 4 years straight?

By deviously implanting the Section 219 provision into a defense bill to prevent a separate vote on it. By placing the Israeli Army inside the Pentagon, removing the need for yearly military funding to have to be approved yearly by Congress—voila, problem solved.

Netanyahu didn’t hold his breath for long, claiming an idea to “shift the framework for US-Israel defense cooperation from aid to partnership.”

This letter, his words and rhetoric, this arrogance in such a transparent takeover of American sovereignty for Israel’s gain, bypassing the scrutiny of military aid being approved every year amid a climate of a raging, disapproving American citizenry, is the scariest document I have ever read.

213 Republicans voted for this bill, every single one except for Thomas Massie. 5 Democrats voted for this bill and committed a blatant act of treason. They are Don Davis, Jared Golden, Adam Gray, Vicente Gonzalez, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

The bill still needs to pass the Senate. The Senate will vote for it. Our government is fully captured.

“Oh, how convenient that there are always *just enough* Democratic votes to help the Republicans get their agenda through!” — Blakeley

What is left for us citizens to do?

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“Never Again” offends me. Every time I hear it, I recoil. It’s a sham, a myth, a lie — the most cynical pretense of all.

Never Again is a platitude. We convinced ourselves that those two words signified a lesson learned, that the memory of past genocides would stop us at even the slightest hint of another, and that the phrase itself carried the power to prevent it. But in reality, Never Again means nothing. It's as hollow as "How are you?"—a ritual we recite without expecting an answer.

Never Again is a lie, a moral leash the West uses to police the rest of the world while continuing to commit the very atrocities it claims to condemn.

Never Again is a comfort mantra. It’s said for show, to make the person saying it feel as though their moral compass is properly calibrated. Never Again is an entire performance, a phrase repeated out of habit, not conviction. It’s no longer a vow, just noise.

July.

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. Peculiar word …

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Last night’s clean sweep for Zohran Mamdani-endorsed candidates in New York’s Democratic primary sent a clear message to not only the citizens and the establishment of the United States but the entire world: we do not want corporate money in politics; we don’t want fascism on our streets; we don’t want wars; and we don’t want our tax money funding Israel, a state committing genocide and ethnic cleansing of their neighbors and the people they occupy.

I love this breakdown by ABC Eyewitness News:

“New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political muscle Tuesday, getting a clean sweep as his three endorsed congressional candidates advanced to November’s general election, ousting two incumbent Democratic congressmen.

The mayor said it was a question of electing “better Democrats” who would “put working people back at the heart of politics.” The approach consternated some in Democratic leadership, but the outcome showcased Mamdani’s rising influence.”

Flexed his political muscle.

You got that…

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Seeing the images of Israel pounding the ancient city of Tyre in the past week, as well as ordering the evacuation of the entire city on Tuesday, got me reeling. I grew up in the Balkan War of the 90s—bombing historic sites, churches, mosques, harbors, and civilian infrastructures is uncomfortably familiar to me.

My hometown is built around an ancient Roman palace—1,800 years old, called Diocletian’s Palace. If you’ve watched Game of Thrones, you’ve seen the ancient walls of Split. Like historic sites in Tyre, Diocletian’s Palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Diocletian's Palace is what the entire identity of the citizens of Split is built on. During the Balkan War, the Yugoslav Army and Navy launched a heavy artillery naval attack on the city. The Yugoslav Navy destroyer Split—ironically bearing the city's name—opened fire on Split, hitting the city center and the port, with Diocletian's Palace among its targets.

The Yugoslav Navy s…

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There’s something about seeing the Global Sumud Flotilla activists getting sadistic treatment on camera, after being shot at, kidnapped, beaten, sexually assaulted, degraded, dehumanized, and then beaten at the Bilbao airport that sent me packing. It’s not by any means the worst thing I’ve seen in the last three years, but the meaning behind it, and what it portends, is.

I think it finally dawned on me what kind of world we are actually living in. All this time, I subconsciously kept waiting for something to stop so we could return to some version of normal life, one that at the very least didn’t exist under the constant threat of nuclear weapons looming over everyone’s heads, only to realize that nothing will ever feel normal until Palestine is free of the military occupation.

It finally dawned on me. The stage we’re in. I don’t think we even quite realize the extent of what’s been done all around the world for Israel to have “the right to exist.”

Something about Ita…

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Michael, Part Two

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This past weekend, a friend asked me to see the Michael movie with him. I have tickets, where do we meet? This is a friend I usually go to the theater with; we don’t ask each other what we want to see, one of us buys the tickets and tells the other where to show up. When I told him I couldn’t go, he casually asked — busy today, what day can you go? No, I can’t see this movie. Ever.

I spent about 45 minutes on the phone explaining to one of my closest friends why I can’t see a Michael Jackson biopic, and probably never will, and he just wasn’t getting it. Miranda, you’ve been obsessed with Michael for 4 decades, what the fuck, let’s go see a fucking movie.

I figured out during that phone call that I’ll never be able to explain why my body physically can’t walk into that theater and watch that movie unless I give you the full picture. And that picture begins on June 25, 2009 — the day Michael Jackson died. I was there, ten minutes from his house. When the news broke, I went to his home. I…

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This is going to be a quick run-through of the key points I wanted to highlight about the Met Gala. I genuinely do not want to invest more than the bare minimum of my energy into the tech bros and billionaires who have infiltrated every space and taken so much from us already. I refuse to give them even more of my attention on top of everything else they’ve taken.

You have all the money in the world, your workers are pissing in the plastic bottles to meet the productivity quota, you fund ICE, you enrich yourself from the genocide; can you at least get the fuck out of our sight?

Lauren Sanchez-Bezos did a Met presser on Monday afternoon and said she’s grateful to be there and: “The Met has always understood something the rest of the world is finally catching up to: fashion is art.” Where do you go from here? What did we expect, allowing billionaires to pay their way into creative spaces?

Tech bros and billionaires infiltrated The Met, Art Basel, Coachella, Burning Man, Sundance, Tribeca —…

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What a week this has been. This has to be the absolute dumbest timeline in history. The world has seen its share of horrors, but we might be living in the most profoundly stupid timeline since Adam and Eve. Not the most violent, not the most tragic. The dumbest.

Every Sunday that I wake up still semi-sane, not yet driven to bang my head against a wall, I count it as a victory. Another week endured under a ruling class that is both comically clueless and disturbingly violent.

This week’s collection hit me for exactly that reason: the combination of an absurd, comical display — paired with a total disregard for human life beyond one’s own circle.

Why do I do this to myself? A stranger on Instagram asked me today: ”How’s your mental health with all this? You seem to process so much news, and then you write about it, to contextualize it all. Serious question: what do you do to keep sane and normal?” I was startled, as no one usually asks me how my mental health is —…

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I wasn’t planning on giving Jack Schlossberg an entire article; I already covered his performance on the I’ve Had It Podcast last week on my Instagram, where nearly 952 people chimed in on his verbal gymnastics about Israel’s war crimes.

But clips of his views — revealing exactly how he plans to govern, if elected —keep resurfacing on social media, and this is another one I want to immortalize on Antagolist, in case he wins, God forbid. We’ll be seeing a lot more of him, I’m sure, and the receipts need to live somewhere.

This was during the ‘No Kings’ protest in New York, and where do I even begin with his rodent voice + boomer politics? Jack says, “We’ve got to get the money out of politics; I do not have a super PAC, or a corporate PAC,” while shilling for Israel before he’s even won the office. Those who don’t do it for the money but for the love of the apartheid game are even more nauseating.

How is this guy so bad at this?

“We will never have no kings as lon…

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What a week, folks. It ended quite well, if you ask me—hopeful, even. The White House posting an image of Donald Trump looking rather defeated, with his Truth Social rambling in all caps: “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK ”YOU!” really sets the tone for what this world is becoming. And you should feel very hopeful.

Strait of Iran, Trump says. And in three little words, here lies the incompetence and absolute delusion of the most powerful empire on earth. Defeat.

Let’s revisit what the United States and Israel accomplished in Iran over the past six weeks: a failed coup, failed regime change, and a failed attempt to collapse Iran through isolation and sanctions. They bombed Iranian infrastructure, killed Iran’s supreme leader and members of his family, killed schoolgirls and teenage volleyball players, lied about it, and failed to take responsibility.

They showed the world that they are untrustwort…

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Iran’s delegation departed for Islamabad today for negotiations with the United States. This sounds hopeful, one might think, after all, no one wants WW3 to interfere with our summer plans, the World Cup, and gas prices. Yes, this was sarcasm. I’m at my wits’ end.

Negotiations are good. Talks and agreements matter when there’s a credible partner. Traveling to negotiate with terrorists who, on the first day of an unprovoked aggression against your nation, double-tapped your elementary school with a Tomahawk cruise missile, killing 168 schoolgirls, is not diplomacy; it’s futility.

Even the mafia has rules. The United States and Israel have none.

Why would you travel to negotiate with the terrorists who bombed 800 of your schools, over 30 universities, healthcare facilities, and other civilian infrastructures?

Why would you travel to negotiate with the terrorists who openly brag about assassinating your leaders?

Why would you travel to negotiate with the terrorist…

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This Friday, on the first Good Friday of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV entered the Colosseum in Rome to begin the Via Crucis. The new 70-year-old pope decided to carry the cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross, holding it up in front of his face for nearly two hours as he prayed “for victims of war, the defense of human dignity, the despairing, and the lonely.”

A chilling sight, seeing the new Pope walking the Way of the Cross where early Christians were martyred.

Talk about a powerful moment. For Christianity? Humanity?

This marks the first time a pope carried the cross for every station in more than three decades. Pope John Paul II was the last pope to do so, carrying the cross from 1980 to 1994.

When asked about his decision to carry the cross for all 14 stations, Pope Leo told reporters he saw it as a sign the world needed right now:

“I think it will…

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I wrote an International Women’s Day poem in 2024, and I’ve been posting it every year since. It’s always current, always fitting — nothing seems to change. The world has descended into a permanent state of imperial stupor, so it always applies. It goes like this:

This year, I feel like expanding it, given the sheer Western arrogance of this moment — Women, Life, Freedom in action. “Help is on the way, Iran,” claim US and Israeli politicians, activists, influencers, and Iranian diaspora hasbarists; liberation underway, one bomb at a time, war openly marketed as feminism, and the liberation of the Iranian people.

Over the past two years, we watched Palestinian and Lebanese women face levels of violence, displacement, and trauma unimaginable to the rest of us. Entire families wiped out. Mothers and daughters buried under rubble. Hospitals and maternity destroyed.

Yet these women rarely appear in the speeches of the same politicians or social media posts of the p…

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In case you haven’t already figured this out, Hollywood isn’t innocent in creating the dystopian world we live in. In fact, it’s an active participant — a creator, an accomplice, an extended hand.

American arrogance doesn’t stop at geopolitics or failed diplomacy; it seeps into culture, cinema, music, entertainment — into the narratives that teach the world how to perceive power. Hollywood is not simply complicit in the global power structure. It’s one of the most morally corrupt cultural institutions of our time.

In a country overwhelmed by political dysfunction, cultural fragmentation, and ideological chaos, people pointed to an actor. A talent emerged in the American landscape, seemingly out of nowhere, and he made people feel something that felt clean, grounded, and human.

Connor Storrie.

I was scrolling through Threads the other day when I came across a post asking, “Is there one good thing about America?” A surprising number of people gave the same answer: “Connor Storrie.”

It’s si…

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The Berlinale stage is not a neutral living room. It’s one of the most visible cultural platforms in the world, where silence is not accidental. Also, a tiny reminder — there is no such thing as “apolitical art.”

Every film, every performance, every red-carpet moment, every acceptance speech carries the fingerprints of the political world that produced it.

This year’s Berlin Film Festival is a parade of spineless, apolitical cowards posing as artists. It’s hard to comprehend the pile of nonsense that came out of so many mouths over the past couple of days.

Being an artist, standing on one of the world’s largest stages, at one of the most political festivals, backed by a government funding an ongoing genocide — while living through deadly ICE protests in the U.S., the Epstein scandal, a livestreamed genocide in Gaza, genocide in Sudan, human rights violations and sexual violence in Congo, and the rise of fascism in the UK, the U.S., and Germany…

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