On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
138 things Briahna Joy Gray said, verbatim, from July 24, 2026 to October 18, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“Israel’s “project lavender” was AI targeting software that allowed for 20 Palestinian civilians to be killed as collateral damage. The MSM didn’t care when it was reported out in 2024, so now imperial boomerang is about to do its thing. Chickens coming home to roost etc etc.”
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“Listen to these representatives from Israel’s political parties jockey to show who is LEAST supportive of a Palestinian state, and remember this when Democrats try to blame Netanyahu alone for the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians.”
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“This poll doesn’t measure public opinion about “Netanyahu’s Israel.” It simply asks about Israel, which the public dislikes not because of Netanyahu, but because it’s a genocidal apartheid state that cannot exist without denying rights to and ethnically cleansing the indigenous population.”
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“I don’t think we have to worry “from the river to the sea” is too aggressive a slogan.”
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“Also, he *fully* walked back his campaign promise re arresting Netanyahu, and “legal barriers” to doing so is not an excuse. Mehdi asked him about his legal capacity to arrest him *during the primary* and Zohran doubled down on the promise then. So he either was negligent and”
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“"What about Israeli Jews? 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.' Okay, where in that slogan, which I say slogans have to be very precise...Where do Jews fit into 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free?'" - @normfinkelstein "It's not about Jews. It's not about Jews! We're talking about a subjugated people wanting freedom from a Jewish state!" -BJG VIDEO PREMIERE”
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“While "left" Democrats spend their time objecting to pro-Palestine protesters levying concrete demands in the richest city in the imperial core, there's a genocide ongoing in Gaza.”
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“Israel and the US have spent the last 3 years bombing historic churches & mosques, digging up cemeteries, and destroying UNESCO Heritage sites.”
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“All of the bigoted teens in this video will quite literally have guns in their hands within a few years when they're sent by Israel to enforce apartheid conditions on the Palestinian children they imagine to be so violent.”
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“Well, AOC and Zohran feel he should lead the House despite being AIPAC’s best friend in the chamber and sabotaging the left, so I can appreciate why he would feel pretty comfortable and empowered meeting with whomever he wants.”
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“A pro-Palestine Muslim candidate campaigning with an accessory to genocide. Sorta feels like if a Black person were to campaign with a segregationist...wait.”
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“How Ansar Allah Brought Saudi Arabia to its Knees (w/ @shireen818 ) "What are the Saudi's supposed to do? They can't continue playing this game anymore where they just get to wage a genocidal war in Yemen with no concequences. For the very first time they're realizing that there are concequences to what they've done in Yemen."”
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“When progressive electeds stay silent on the violent, supremacist ideology held by their fellow Democrats, they normalize it: Just like Donald Trump normalized bigotry and hate. Abdul et al could be heightening the contradictions, but by campaigning with Zionist Kamala Harris, he's effectively papering them over.”
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“Listen to this in full and really sit with how evil gets done in the name of neutrality. I’m so thankful for voices like @marclamonthill”
on claims that neutrality enables harm, referencing commentator Marc Lamont Hill
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““Neutrality” is anti solidaristic, and solidarity is the most powerful tool we have.”
on neutrality being opposed to solidarity as a political tool
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“I wish she had this energy for top AIPAC-recipient Hakeem Jeffries.”
on Hakeem Jeffries's AIPAC funding compared to another lawmaker's activism
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“Good thing the democratic socialists pictured endorsed AIPAC Shakur.”
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“Doom & Loomer (w/ @MaxBlumenthal ) Top journalist Max Blumenthal on the Laura Loomer-backed witch hunt targeting his Iran reporting, the centrist dem-backed witch hunt against Rula Jebreal ("AIPAC Monkey"-gate), & new reporting that Netanyahu knew about 10/7 & did nothing to stop it. https:// patreon.com/c/badfaithpodc ast …”
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“"Charlie Kirk was going through this shift in his thinking & consciousness about Israel, & his base was turning against Israel...Israel was drawing Trump into this disastrous [Iran] war & Charlie Kirk saw that coming...And he was caught between his donors, including Bill Ackman, who I'm told was donating something like $400k to TPUSA...and the grass roots -- the young people that he was supposed to deliver to the Republican Party...In comes Laura Loomer, she was attacking Charlie Kirk left & right, basically on behalf of what seems like her clients who are like, Zionist crime bosses...And she starts coming after me because I started exposing what was going on behind the scenes." - @MaxBlumenthal VIDEO PREMIERE https:// youtube.com/watch?v=tL5oHp ohHOA&feature=youtu.be …”
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“This Zionist is gloating about how effectively AIPAC has weaponized Black politicos to marginalize pro-Palestine voices. Zionists love a human shield.”
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“The AOC & Zohran backed future leader of the House running cover for Israel's genocide.”
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“Over 21,000 children have been reported dead in Gaza.”
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“"I think that for a lot of politicians, Israel/Palestine is like BLM. Right? Where they'll go out there, they'll wear the kente cloth, they'll take the knee & put their fist up, but when it actually comes time to do something you won't do shit." - @TrueAnonPod (@ around 41 min)”
on politicians offering symbolic support for Palestine without real action
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“Isreal openly talks about ethnically cleansing Gaza yet the conversation is still about whether *Israel* has a right to exist.”
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“AOC struggling to make sense of her unqualified support for the House’s most vocal Zionist after his meeting with Trump’s son in law.”
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“"We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF."”
on claims NYPD tactics are shaped by IDF training methods
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“It’s an interesting choice to push a woman who carried water for a genocidal administration at the DNC as a pro-Palestine candidate. AOC has had two years to make amends for “tirelessly fighting for a ceasefire.” Instead, in that time, she’s endorsed Zionist Hakeem Jeffries for speaker, called BLM-era politics “crazy,” & distanced herself from national DSA.”
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“The Dem nominee will 100% be pro Isreal. They’ll just be subtle enough about it to not to embarrass all the vote blue no matter who leftists with Palestine flags in bio.”
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“NEW: Hakeem Jeffries recently received AIPAC PAC's largest ever earmarked contribution to his joint fundraising committee. Today, he came out against cutting billions in Israel aid. https:// readsludge.com/2026/07/14/jef fries-opposes-bid-to-cut-israel-aid-after-record-aipac-earmark/ …”
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“"There is growing support for a cut off of aid to Israel...We have not seen any meaningful change in that direction. I think that is the change that the Democratic Party establishment, that Hakeem Jeffries, & certainly a lot of the Republican establishment as well, are working very very hard to try prevent. And that's again why they're using these release valves, why they're using these rhetorical tricks, why they're trying to refocus anger & discontent..." - @EliClifton VIDEO PREMIERE https:// youtube.com/watch?v=SqNdwm wiVeg …”
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“Leaders of the American left are falling over themselves to tell us how much they want to keep funding this.”
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“Hakeem is going to pretend to moderate on Israel which gives AOC/Zohran a little relief for supporting him and allows them to more easily fold the left into the corporate Zionist Democratic Party. Palestine: you deserve better. All the victims of western imperialism do.”
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“Well, this would be awkward for AOC who very much wanted Biden, and then Harris, to be president, going so far as to lie to the public that Harris was “tirelessly” working for a ceasefire.”
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“Are the leftists who dog piled Hong over her Thanksgiving tweet also going to abandon Abdul? At what point will the left learn that they gain nothing from running away from their values? Both Hong and El Sayed are right about Thanksgiving. Acknolwedging history is not "weird." It would be so easy to say, "I know you like doing genocide apologia Ken, but you can't erase history or pretend Gaza isn't an 80/20 issue hurting the establishment of both parties.”
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“The extreme position is funding the toddler killers, not defunding them.”
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“"I, personally, was disappointed when President Biden came into power & he rebranded the [Yemen] war as defensive & not offensive...What does that mean? You just invented a word that never existed before in this context, & what it meant was nothing. Nothing changed on the ground. The US continued supporting the Saudi-led coalition, but now they had a rebrand behind them to make them look like they were the good guys... "I was disappointed in the months that followed that Congress was not willing to act against President Biden. And they could have questioned him harder during those months. They could've continued that ferocious drive toward ending this war once & for all now that they had a president on their side, supposedly, who came in with promises to end the war...I was very disappointed by some of these people saying, well, let's give the president a chance." - @shireen818”
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“‼️Which Way Western Socialist? (w/ @eshaLegal )‼️ "[AOC has no courage on foreign policy. She lacks both knowledge and courage...You should expect every elected representative to actually do what they promised before election and there are no unreasonable expectations at that point...[Jacobin has] been trying to water down & modify the definition of Socialism to get accepted on mainstream media."”
on AOC's record on foreign policy compared to her campaign promises
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“Is the American left failing at its ONE job? "Practically speaking, it is very unlikely that there will be mass possibility of actual socialism happening in America, so the primary responsibility of the American left should be to lend their hand to anti-imperialist struggles like that engaged by Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus, Nicaragua, Argentina, Ecuador..." - @eshaLegal”
on the American left's role backing anti-imperialist movements abroad
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“Should we fund state-backed extra-judicial murder, or defund it?”
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““As a citizen, I’d prefer to have cameras everywhere as a deterrent and to solve crime.” One finance guy to another at an airport bar. The other one: “Yeah, Google already knows everything that happens in my house.” We’re cooked.”
on public acceptance of surveillance cameras and personal data collection
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“unpopular opinion: buying groceries is NOT cheaper than eating out for a single person.”
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“I mean, there absolutely should be a baseline standard of food, medical care and housing for all. It’s pretty core to what leftists are fighting for.”
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“In a world where socialism polls better than capitalism, I don’t think anyone needs to adopt the right wing framing. Just state that socialism is more popular bc it priorities “society” and the people who comprise it over capital/profit. “I work for the people, not monied interests” etc.”
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“In July, Tucson funded an increase to the police budget by requiring residents to pay for their own trash cans & raising water bills. City pools will also charge lap swimmers two dollars a visit.”
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“So, the Pentagon is failing its audits while receiving more money year after year and the answer is to “scrutinize it” but not defund it at all? What are we doing here?”
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“So, there's a Prince & the Pauper switcheroo-style story with Seth Rogan & Aziz Ansari where they skewer Amazon and the gig economy & it opens with Keke Palmer trying to organize a workplace & it's on Amazon Prime?”
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“AOC cited his commitment to “securing public housing” as the reason for her support for Jeffries as speaker of the house.”
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“‘I’m not for abolishing ICE. Why would I want to abolish ICE when [insert crime committed by undocumented person.]’ We understand that immigration enforcement occurred before ICE was founded in 2003, & similarly, the left should not promote the idea that public safety or accountability requires a corrupt, racist system of policing that defends property over people.”
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“Small note: It might be more useful to start saying "defund ICE" or "abolish ICE" since that's what needs to happen.”
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“Let’s reform the gestapo that just murdered several Americans in cold blood”
on calls to reform federal immigration enforcement over deaths in custody
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“This quite simply explains the different reaction to "Defund ICE" vs "Defund the Police."”
on why the public reacted differently to defunding ICE versus police
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“There’s been a lot of discourse about Abdul El-Sayed’s Ezra Klein interview wrt Palestine but Klein’s anti M4All propaganda is insane. “Vermont tried Medicare for all just a few years ago”? California tried and failed? Is he serious? Vermont failed (12 years ago) bc 5 people live there and the pool is too small. California Dems have gotten paid off to scuttle it again and again. People like AES have got to stop treating these arguments like Klein’s a good faith actor.”
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“There’s been a lot of discourse about Abdul El-Sayed’s Ezra Klein interview wrt Palestine but Klein’s anti M4All propaganda is insane. “Vermont tried Medicare for all just a few years ago”? California tried and failed? Is he serious? Vermont failed (12 years ago) bc 5 people live”[post continues]
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“Funny dynamic during Pod Save interview with Seth Moulton: Jon Favs asks Moulton if he is more moderate than Ed Markey. Moulton, someone defensively, says no— he’s also progressive and there’s very little daylight between them on policy. Jon argues that Moulton would do better to identify as a moderate bc some moderate policies are more popular, like a public option vs Medicare for all. Moulton goes on to agree on that policy point, saying that Medicare for all who wants it is better policy and more likely to get done. Moulton seems to understand that it’s better to be seen as a progressive, and is trying to downplay where he’s more moderate than Markey, but Jon is still stuck in a 2008 triangulation mindset, and wants Moulton to brag about his centrism. He is also still refusing to acknowledge that “Medicare for all who wants it” is incompatible with Moulton’s claim that he believes health care is a human right.”
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“I’m old enough to remember when Gretchen Whitmer, a Blue Cross Blue Shield heir, rallied private health insurance interests to defeat Abdul El-Sayed who was running on a state-wide Medicare for All platform. https:// theintercept.com/2018/02/22/gre tchen-whitmer-executives-are-working-hard-against-a-pro-single-payer-candidate-for-governor/ …”
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“The LA police budget is 1/4 of the total city budget. Maybe with a little more money they can figure out how to stop blinding citizens protesting ICE.”
on LA police injuring protesters at demonstrations against ICE
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“Joe Rogan making a better argument for "defund" than half the Jacobin-left.”
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“Talking about Luigi as a “killer” without mentioning the tens of thousands of deaths Brian Thompson was responsible for is manufacturing consent for corporate genocide. The problem with cops is their selective enforcement of crime. It’s about protecting monied interests. Not you.”
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“There's no need to race to the bottom just because Bernie stooped down there. What you say is this: "Bernie doesn't seem to realize that what he described -- funding programs that are proven to improve public safety and defunding those that don't-- is exactly what defunding the police is about. I don't know many Americans who aren't in favor of that approach."”
on redefining defunding police as shifting funds to effective safety programs
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“Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are doing a great job explaining the problems with AI including from a labor perspective. Yang is reading @doctorow ’s book on AI and summarized it well, and Roger’s ended the segment by reasoning we’ll have to have socialism bc the government will need to provide if billionaires destroy the labor market. My head spins sometimes thinking how different everyone sounds compared to 10 years ago.”
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“Listening to Ezra’s interview with Bill Gates on my long run and it feels like Klein got mad that Bill was rather dismissive and belittling of his AI takes and decided to pull the Epstein card— a level of pettiness I didn’t know he had in him.”
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“Being Alive (w/ @xriskology ) "What is safety research all about? It's about aligning a super intelligence with our values. That's what they say. But what they mean is the values of transhumanists to long-termists." Philosopher Émile Torres exposes the philosophy driving tech CEO's as the plan for human extinction.”
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“In Antitrust We Trust (w/ @BedoyaUSA ) Former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya returns to Bad Faith to explain the role Gavin Newsom & other west coast Dems played in undermining a lawsuit to block the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal. He also weighs in on the AI doomerist scuttlebutt of the last few weeks, & explains why he believes the big tech handwringing was about a desire for favorable regulatory conditions -- not a robot takeover.”
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“Is the Pod Save crew overly credulous about the threat of AI ending the world, and too dismissive of the way big tech is using said threat to achieve favorable regulatory conditions? Former FTC commissioner Alvero Bedoya weighs in. VIDEO PREMIERE NOW”
on whether tech is exaggerating AI risk to shape regulation
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“Is A.I. Really Gonna Kill Us? (w/ @GarrisonLovely ) BJG: "No other level of human activity poses this level of danger. Ok Garrison, how concerned should we be?" GL: "Very." Author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us weighs in on Jacob Coxon's viral thread & the incentives driving tech CEOs to want to pump the breaks on AI.”
on whether AI poses an unprecedented risk to humanity
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“lol he’s kind of right. The progressive caucus could’ve held Nancy Pelosi’s speakership hostage to bring attention to this issue *in the middle of a pandemic* and they instead chose to “keep their powder dry.” #forcethevote”
on the progressive caucus not using Pelosi's speakership vote as leverage during the pandemic
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“BREAKING: Jewish Leaders currently estimate that 70% of their Congregants will vote against Abdul El-Sayed. 130,000 Jews live in Michigan.”
on Jewish voters' expected opposition to Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
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“Mamdani broke norms to keep her on in the first place, but the establishment left won’t let facts get between their tongues and their emotional support politician’s rear.”
on Mamdani keeping an official on and criticism from the establishment left
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“One key feature of the left is that they will erect monuments of scaffolding to obscure that they have power and thus are accountable for the bad things that happen on their watch. Rotating villains, the parliamentarian, the filibuster— these are all tools that allow the left to pretend they are mere “smol beans” and not complicit stakeholders.”
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“This is a question that should’ve been asked and answered in the affirmative before AOC & Zohran endorsed him for speaker of the house.”
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“It’s interesting to watch @RoKhanna go viral daily for advancing a left AI policy or shutting down Islamophobia or competently advancing left foreign policy goals while the Jacobin-left ignores him while they gush over AOC if she manages not to gaffe during a walk and talk.”
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“Can We Stop the Co-Opt? (w/ @ajamubaraka ) "There's a history of even those forces that might temporary define themselves as progressive or the left will be incorporated into the state -- into the system." Director of the Black Alliance for Peace North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, and Green Party 2020 VP candidate Ajamu Baraka on Mamdani's controversial anti-Semitism grant, Abdul El-Sayed's defense of capitalism, & defending the left from being co-opted.”
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“El-Sayed said he's a capitalist to avoid criticism for being a socialist, but now Fox news is using it to create a wedge between him & the self-identified socialists who support him: 'Aren't you upset that these crazy kids don't believe in capitalism like us?' The left never wins by bowing to corporatists' framing.”
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“Her life experience presents such a striking contrast to the throng of wealthy lawyers that typically comprise our political system. She sees her job as helping people like her. Chuck Schumer says his job is "to keep the left pro-Israel." He's refusing to fund her campaign.”
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“Did a single major left channel show any curiosity about Vega's race? I know that I interviewed him as did Sabby Sabs. It's a shame to think it might have made a difference in a race against one of the most outspoken Zionists in congress. Anyway, @samhusseini is currently running for congress and available for interviews.”
on left media attention to Vega's congressional race and Sam Husseini's run
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“"Harm reduction arguments are not wrong because harm isn't reduced when you vote for the lesser or two evils. Harm reduction arguments are wrong because they are the ticket to making sure that a Democratic Party never becomes a resistance party, & always just follows one step behind the most evil version of itself Republicans can invent." https:// youtube.com/watch?v=NWoYHz c1NmU …”
on why voting for the lesser evil keeps Democrats from becoming a resistance party
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“The Left Will Be Disciplined (w/ @WajahatAli ) "I was very glad to hear Joy Ann Reid say in conversation with you that she no longer supports Vote Blue No Matter Who, but it does feel a little dissonant for people who were so instrumental in policing and diciplining those who were critical of the democratic party sort of change their minds." As more centrist figures start to embrace the Mamdani, El-Sayed, the squad & even Piker, is that evidence of the party moving left? Or is it evidence of left figures being disciplined into centrist-compatible positions? What does it mean to be pro-Palestine and pro Hakeem Jeffries' leadership? Who really benefits from an AES/Harris rally?”
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“"Why do we think that they, especially Zohran Mamdani...believe that AIPAC Shakur, who has taken more money than anybody else in the House from AIPAC, that refers to Israel as the 6th borough of NY, should be leader of the House?" -BJG "Symone Sanders said respect will be DUE to Hakeem Jeffries when he becomes Speaker of the House...If you look at the comments of her own MS Now viewers, everyone's like, 'yeah, Rula's comment was out of pocket, but Hakeem ain't the dude.' Respect has to be earned.'" - @WajahatAli VIDEO PERMIERE NOW https:// youtube.com/watch?v=NWoYHz c1NmU …”
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“No one has announced a 2028 campaign, but parts of the left are quick to discipline anyone wanting to expand the 2028 conversation to include genuine anti zionists who haven't lied to run cover for the genocidal party they voted for in 2024.”
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“This controversy is such a nothing burger. Hilarious that some of the same people who didn't care if Graham Platner went back for successive mercenary tours to kill Afghans are giving Troy Jackson the Francesca Hong treatment for not having a butch enough drink.”
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“Not proud centrist Angela Rye immediately teeing Angie Nixon up to disavow the DSA and Nixon politely sidestepping by saying she is a member of both the DSA & the NAACP and laying out her progressive policy priorities.”
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“If you’re wondering who supposedly benefits from Kamala campaigning with Abdul listen to this clip. Joy credits her for “turning a corner” on Gaza by “reaching out to uncommitted folks.” No shift on policy. No arms embargo. Just photo ops and vibes.”
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“Proud to have voted for the anti-Zionist pro peace candidate. Anyone who wanted her votes could’ve simply chosen to not back a genocide. It’s not her fault Kamala wanted to facilitate genocide more than she wanted to defeat Trump.”
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“Ken's right. Piker's views aren't reflective of the Democratic Party. Which is why the populist majorities that agree with Piker on Palestine/Medicare for All etc should find a new home.”
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“The Democratic party’s selective passion for Black candidates that love Isreal and hate universal healthcare is about to be on full display.”
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“This is the doing of Zohran & AOC-backed Hakeem Jeffries, but the Jacobin left continues to insist that it's 'logic and strategy' for them to back AIPAC Shakur prior to Dems even retaking the house. Imagine if DSA electeds used their national platforms to call out the insidiousness of Dems rather than running cover for them.”
on Hakeem Jeffries backing a candidate over objections from the DSA left
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“"I am feeling very afraid of the consequences of the sort of DSA/Democratic Party entryism and the neutering of the platform that's happening as these folks are getting into office...It feels like the effect is weakening progressive stances not changing the Democratic Party. And I'm more invested than ever in figuring out alternatives to the duopoly." Last month's episode with Green Party congressional candidate @samhusseini is now UNLOCKED. Catch it here or wherever you get your podcasts: https:// patreon.com/badfaithpodcas t/posts/unlocked-episode-166927400 …”
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“Everyone is saying this but it seems obvious to me that she doesn’t want to be at odds with Zohran who said it wasn’t legally possible. (Which is debatable btw). It’s just another triangulation.”
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“Every day the 2021 Force the Vote campaign becomes more salient. The DSA progressives’ unwillingness to have an adversarial relationship with the corporate Zionist Democratic Party increasingly looks like a feature, not a bug.”
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“In addition to being a staunch Zionist, the guy who both AOC and Mamdani back for speaker is also bad at his job.”
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“Inside the DSA (w/ @GoodVibePolitik ) "I think AOC is a political careerist, traditionally an opportunist, & on international issues, someone who generally has to be pressured significantly into even making minor concessions." James Ray from Philly DSA joins Bad Faith to unpack the good, the bad, & the ugly debates going on within the Democratic Socialists of America, to distinguish the conservative reformist chapters from the genuine leftists, & explain the battle for the soul of the acronym on ever Neoliberal newscasters' tongue.”
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“Why is Jacobin magazine publishing articles telling elected progressives they shouldn't use their leverage to extract concessions from establishment Democrats the way the House Freedom Caucus did from establishment Republicans? What is going on with the reformist left? https:// patreon.com/badfaithpodcas t/posts/full-video-whats-168218175 …”
on criticism of Jacobin for opposing progressives using House Freedom Caucus style leverage
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“Imagine if all the energy spent begging democrats to let the left help them win was spent building something outside of the corporate Zionist duopoly.”
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“"Half the candidates...have already thrown the DSA under the bus, hilariously & embarrassingly for the DSA. But the DSA is still like: 'Well, maybe they'll like me again if I change everything about me.' I mean, they're like a scorned girlfriend who's like: 'I can fix him! Maybe if I lose another 15 pounds they'll come back to me!' It's pathetic! I'm sorry, it is." - BJG”
on DSA candidates distancing themselves from the party ahead of elections
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“Ok, but Zohran has offered unqualified support for Jeffries to be speaker. Also a collaborator?”
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“It gives me no pleasure to be cynical, but how many times do we have to do this before voters realize they’re being duped into voting for corporatists who have no interest in “fixing” anything? Notice what Trump managed to accomplish *without* a supermajority? Remember how Biden had a trifecta when Roe was overturned? Remember when Obama had a supermajority?”
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“It is sort of odd that Angie Nixon identifying as a capitalist is less of a barrier to DSA support than DSA member & committed socialist Kshama Sawant’s choice to run outside of the Democratic Party.”
on DSA treating Angie Nixon's capitalism differently than Kshama Sawant's independent run
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“A Zionist establishment Dem is dangling Hakeem Jeffries being the "first Black speaker" as an inducement to get people to vote for the establishment over leftists, at the same that left electeds, who built their careers on pro-Palestine advocacy and rejecting superficial identity politics, are pledging their allegiance to Jeffries.”
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“I thought the DSA had nothing to do with this primary? No DSA endorsement. No Bernie endorsement. No AOC endorsement— not that AOC is a member of the DSA.”
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“Wow. An answer like this really exposes AOC and Zohran who offered Jeffries unqualified support.”
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“Respect to the DSAers with enough ideological integrity to keep fighting for what’s right even when it’s not yet popular. It’s our job to raise the salience of programs that will improve the lives of working people— not to consensus build or genuflect to appease the corporate establishment.”
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“If you’ve been listening to Bad Faith, you’ll know that I said this would be the centrist line back when the Bernie/AOC oligarchy tours were happening. Establishment Dems couldn’t come out and fully disapprove of the large crowds, but they characterized the excitement as being about ‘action’ rather than any specific policy belief. Unsurprising that Jason Johnson, who in 2019 claimed that “oligarchies” could only be in Russia in an attempt undermine Bernie surrogate Nina Turner, is using this pivot.”
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“He needed to be primaried in 2026 but Mamdani said no.”
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“So many DSAers worked so hard to get candidates like AOC & Zohran elected all for them to pledge loyalty to Zionist, anti-single payer corporatists like Jeffries.”
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“Woke 1 vs "The Catharsis of Winning" (w/ @FDsignifier ) "I don't even begrudge Mamdani & AOC and all of them for the way they're behaving, because that is what they're meant to do in the position they're in. And when they come back to us for our vote and support again, we're going to have an evaluation." THE DEFINITIVE, most comprehensive breakdown of the "Woke 1 was crazy" contraversy with the left's most prolific video essayist. Nearly 3 hours you wont want to miss.”
on not blaming Mamdani and AOC for how they act in office
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“It’s actually hilariously sinister to pretend everyone knows what is meant by “woke one” but no one knows what is meant by “defund.””
on confusion over the term woke one compared with defund
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“Exhibit 23949853: Democrats hate the left more than Republicans. Good luck reforming this party.”
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“Hillary Clinton warns the GOP’s attacks portraying Democrats as communists could be “very effective” with voters”
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“It is very funny how normie lib the Platner left sounds as they continue to punch left.”
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“Preparing for the Graham Platner left, who used pro-Palestine sentiment push Platner despite his history as an unrepentant mercenary, to tell you to vote for a genocidal Democrat in 2028. It's going to be 10x worse than their embarrassing "Biden is the most progressive politician of our lives" schtick.”
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“If I were part of the Platner-left, hot off an access journalist soft ball interview with AOC and a year of defending the Nazi tattoo guy who lamented he couldn’t fight in the Indian wars, I, too, would want to do avoid reflecting on the role I played in this cycle.”
on criticism of the Platner-aligned left's response to the primary cycle
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“Complicating the narrative about "DSA" wins: Not only did Will Lawrence intentionally let his DSA membership lapse so he could dodge questions about the DSA platform, he has now joined AOC and Mamdani in pledging to vote for Zionist Hakeem Jeffries as speaker.”
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“I'm very glad that someone in @cmkshama 's district has been volunteering for her campaign after hearing about her for the *first time* on Bad Faith weeks ago, but it's a poor reflection of the independent left-media sphere that her campaign didn't get more attention earlier on.”
Posted it themselves
“The relative lack of attention to @RepCori ’s race is interesting. I met up with a friend from St Louis last weekend in Chicago and she told me her (Black) family is getting absolutely inundated with flyers and ads for Bell, and it’s difficult for her to break through & make the case for Cori even to her own kin. Would love to hear from organizers on the ground about what happened whichever way it goes.”
Posted it themselves
“"AOC & some others did do entryism -- have been trying that strategy for eight years now, unsuccessfully...[but] the narrative is that they have been obstructed by Republicans, that there's been a pandemic -- there's a lot of excuse making that gets made that causes people to”
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“"Xavier Becerra doesn't pretend to be out there being a man of the people. He's not out there calling himself the fire breathing populist. Yet that is the game that Gavin Newsom plays online -- at least when it comes to fighting the president & his allies. So that is why I put the bulk of the blame here on the Governor." - @BedoyaUSA "Is there anything they can credibly point to that they can say they 'won' as they bend the knee?" -BJG”
on Gavin Newsom's online populist image versus his actual record
Posted it themselves
“He did not, in fact, stop taking money from AIPAC.”
on a politician's claim to have stopped taking AIPAC campaign donations
Posted it themselves
“She's lying about doing anything about this, but it's funny to live in a timeline where Kamala Harris is like 'pack the court!' and DSA candidates are saying 'preserve the Senate!'”
Posted it themselves
“Karine Jean Pierre over-relied on her notes but she could, in fact, read them.”
Posted it themselves
“First They Came for the Communists (w/ @drcbs_ ) A new State Department report assues American leftist groups of being part of a "sustained campaign of subversion" against the United States. Does the left/ liberal response to these accusations, which is largely to distance”
Posted it themselves
“It’s very funny how many “leftists” rushed to cancel Francesca Hong for having a very mainstream opinion about US settler colonialism. (Didn’t have the same distaste for a certain Blackwater mercenary though).”
Posted it themselves
“The Civil Rights movement's power derived from a series of labor actions from pullman porters through the Montgomery bus boycot & the Memphis sanitation workers. The US government was also under pressure from the Soviet Union, which leveraged American mistreatment of black folks as evidence of the superiority of their system.”
Posted it themselves
“More than a million Africans were forced to fight in WWII and toil in labor camps to support the war effort.”
Posted it themselves
“Your average Black American has a substantially deeper claim to this country than your average white American. We've all been here since *at least* 1808 when the importation of slaves was banned. Most white immigrants came between 1820 and 1920.”
Posted it themselves
“It's actually like making an ad about homelessness where the homeless person is white, which is appropriate since *most* homeless people are, in fact, white. As are most people on welfare.”
Posted it themselves
“The white conservative urge to keep their own people from getting help is mind boggling.”
on white conservatives opposing help for their own communities
Posted it themselves
“Kamala Harris has always underperformed with Black voters, did less well with Black voters than Biden or even Bernie in 2020, and Black voters are faithful general election Dems -- unlike other swing demographics. This logic relies on a reductive, borderline racist view of Black voters.”
on arguments about Kamala Harris's standing with Black voters
Posted it themselves
“It's always "slavery was so long ago" and never "there's a tortoise older than the Civil War."”
Posted it themselves
“Thinking about that time Obama stopped the NBA from striking over BLM.”
Posted it themselves
“Watching an old Michael J Fox movie in which he can’t get a job because he’s not a “minority woman,” but ultimately, he gets one from his uncle who is the head of a huge corporation. The mantra throughout is that he’s going to “make it to the top all on my own.””
Posted it themselves
“He just accused his love interest at the firm, a corporate exec who was having an affair with his uncle, the boss, of “sleeping her way to the top.” Note that he was also sleeping with his uncle/boss’s wife.”
Posted it themselves
“The CBC's primary purpose isn't to advocate for Black American interests. It's a front group used to launder a wide variety of oligarchic interests as righteous, including, but not exclusive to, Israel's interests.”
Posted it themselves
“"I think the 'craziness' part is usually tethered to not so much the protests & the demands around policing. The 'crazy' part is tied to liberal sentimentality & the interpretation of the demands of Black Lives Matter...The ways in which anti-racism, or being an anti racist, was embraced as a corporate strategy & that was then deployed...That's the crazy shit, right? Because it was just liberal sentimentality that had nothing really to do with the structural realities that were determining the life changes of folks who were encountering the police..." - @esglaude”
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“"What they are going to do now that the settlement has gone through is merge not just movie studios, but two massive media conglomerates into one in a way that's gonna kill thousands of jobs, raise a bunch of prices, & make dissenting against this government even harder on the means of communication that they control...There are five legacy film and TV studios, this will take two of those and make it one." - @BedoyaUSA https:// youtube.com/watch?v=icY1W_ 7i2AE …”
Posted it themselves
“I lost most of my income when I was fired by Rising and have no regrets. So I have absolutely no sympathy for these spineless millionaires.”
on being fired from Rising and criticizing wealthy pundits' silence
Posted it themselves
“As we observe how focused the liberal corporate media can be as they discipline Piker, consider how they’ve never held Democratic politicians to task for failing to back Medicare for All (88% approval among Dems), for supporting Israel’s genocide, for abandoning a living wage, etc.”
Posted it themselves
“Well, all the campus protesters are either rounded up by the cops, or in Gracie Mansion supporting the cops doing the rounding up.”
on campus protesters being arrested or backing the crackdown from Gracie Mansion
Posted it themselves
“Ok, but I was *actually* a journalist cancelled because of "wrong think," and it wasn't because of "woke." It was because of Israel.”
on being cancelled as a journalist over Israel, not woke politics
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