"It's the banality of evil. It happens around essentially a watercooler." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', 'Andor' star Denise Gough and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talk about the depiction of fascism in 'Star Wars' and its similarities to real world politics.

LIVE NOW: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social takes YOUR questions about Jimmy Kimmel, free speech, and more. Moderated by @premthakker.bsky.social. Watch here: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

“If America is really [the Trump administration’s] priority… then they should not have any hesitation in investigating the death of a US citizen.” Husband of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi—an American shot and killed in 2024 while protesting illegal Israeli settlements—calls for Israel to be held accountable.

TODAY, 11am ET: Mehdi Hasan takes YOUR questions about Jimmy Kimmel, free speech, and more. Join us LIVE for our ongoing ‘Ask the Editor’ series: an unfiltered Q&A with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, moderated by @premthakker.bsky.social! Join here when we're live: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

“Imagine your land, which you've been living on for generations, and a settler comes over & steals it.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks @owenjones.bsky.social how he’d explain what’s happening in the West Bank to the average Londoner. Watch the full ‘Two Outspoken’ episode: zeteo.com/p/are-britis...

“I’m going to shamelessly dodge that specific question.” Keith Ellison treads lightly when asked about Hakeem Jeffries’ performance as House Democratic Leader. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...

"No more censorship. Journalism at its finest." From our podcast 'We're Not Kidding', award-winning actor and activist @markruffalo.bsky.social shares with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social why he's a "day one fan" of Zeteo. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

“The doctors call on their colleagues to denounce the Israeli government’s genocidal actions…” Hundreds of Jewish healthcare workers demand an end to the Gaza genocide in a public letter, writes @premthakker.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

“This is the first time the [Congressional Progressive Caucus] has endorsed legislation directly related to the Israel-Palestine conflict.” @premthakker.bsky.social reports on one of the largest caucuses endorsing the Block the Bomb Act to hold Israel accountable. Read: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

"The Republican official who seems to have played a role in suspending Kimmel once specifically condemned the censorship of 'late-night comedians.'" @premthakker.bsky.social dives into the background of Brendan Carr. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-fcc-...

Last week, Trump: - suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar should be impeached. - signed a presidential memo to deploy National Guard troops to Memphis. - filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. Read the full list of harmful actions Trump has taken: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

‘[Trump] is the whiniest, thin-skinned little snowflake we’ve ever had in our public life.’ On the new Two Outspoken, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social discuss Trump’s clampdown on free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Full episode: zeteo.com/p/are-britis...

“Trump has managed to demean himself, the presidency, and the country he fooled into electing him all at once.” Branko Marcetic unpacks Trump's dangerous and dumb version of Biden’s Foreign policy. Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/trumps-for...

"Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Like Biden’s But Far Worse" In just eight months, Trump has overseen a more bloody, dangerous, and dumb version of what he had accurately called Biden’s 'historically horrible' foreign policy. READ: zeteo.com/p/trumps-for...

“The administration and its allies have used the notion that people are celebrating “political violence” as a cudgel to carry out the speech-chilling campaign.” @premthakker.bsky.social unpacks the hypocrisy of Republicans suspending Jimmy Kimmel in the midst of Trump’s attack on free speech.

“Muhammed is still alive… We're sitting in a building right now where a simple phone call can come out and get him home.” Families of US citizens killed or imprisoned by Israeli forces or settlers speak with @premthakker.bsky.social about their fight to demand accountability from the US government.

“The New York Times... is deeply complicit in this genocide." Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and Gaza volunteer Dr. @ferozesidhwa.org answer a question at Georgetown on how reporting on genocide can sway public opinion. Watch the full conversation here: zeteo.com/p/sold-out-s...

Trump FCC Chair Who Demanded Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Once Slammed Censoring ‘Late-Night Comedians’ FCC Chairman Brendan Carr also once said Trump bears responsibility for the “political violence” on January 6, writes Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-fcc-...

Trump FCC Chair Who Demanded Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Once Slammed Censoring ‘Late-Night Comedians’ Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest: zeteo.com/p/trump-fcc-...

NYC! Join Mahmoud Khalil for an evening of readings and conversation in solidarity with Gaza on Sept 21 at 7:30PM @ Town Hall. Speakers include Zeteo contributors @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social and @mosababutoha.bsky.social among others.

“For the next 40 months, America is stuck with an amoral president who exploits division for his personal benefit.” John Harwood explains how Trump is using Charlie Kirk’s assassination to inflame division. Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/trump-will...

“…we all know there's something really bad going on, but if we look and we see, then we're going to feel compelled to do everything we can to stop it." Actress Cynthia Nixon tells @premthakker.bsky.social how she was pushed not to talk about Palestine during her 2018 bid for New York governor.

Trump Will Always Fail to Meet the Moment. It’s Up to Us to Fill the Moral Void Where other leaders attempted to heal the US in the wake of political violence, Trump and his cronies have inflamed the country with alarming speed and zealotry. By @johnjharwood.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-will...

“UC Berkeley has eroded its reputation as a stronghold of intellectual independence, cultural nonconformity, and political protest.” Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen on his disappointment with his alma mater for giving up names of students & faculty to Trump admin: bit.ly/421m4QK

A judge orders Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation to Syria or Algeria, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. For now, the activist is protected by an earlier order preventing his deportation while his case proceeds, lawyers say. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/immigratio...

“They inspire the violence and then they claim victimhood.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social break down the right-wing’s monopoly on victimhood and the vacuum of silence from the Left that enables it. Watch the full episode of ‘Ask the Editor:’ zeteo.com/p/mehdis-cha...

Immigration Judge Orders Mahmoud Khalil to Be Deported to Syria or Algeria The Palestinian activist's lawyers say he remains protected for now by a federal judge's previous order preventing his removal while his case proceeds, writes @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/immigratio...

The New McCarthyism: UC Berkeley Just Handed Over the Names of 160 Students and Faculty to the Trump Admin Read: zeteo.com/p/the-new-mc...

Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social pay homage to the fallen journalists of Gaza at the Together For Palestine concert in Wembley. “Let us honor their sacrifice not with fear, but with courage. Not with silence, but with our loudest voices.” youtu.be/X1AFgQZW0aA

"It is so hard to keep your moral integrity once you start taking the money." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', actor and activist @markruffalo.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss Rep. Ritchie Torres' bizarre appearance on 'The Adam Friedland Show'.

NEWS: Bernie Sanders says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 20 members of Congress have now said the G-word, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the updated list of every politician, expert, and human rights group to call it a genocide: zeteo.com/p/who-says-i...

JD Vance claims “left-wing extremism” is “part of the reason” Charlie Kirk was killed, and that it’s “a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics” are left-wing. But political violence is overwhelmingly more prevalent on the right. Read the evidence: zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-p...

Vance Says It’s a ‘Statistical Fact’ the Left Commits Most Political Violence. The Actual Stats Show He’s Lying Political violence is overwhelmingly committed by the right, not the left, in the US. Just ask the experts, the DOJ, and even Trump’s own appointees: zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-p...

"…like almost any American family, we didn't understand the situation—Rachel brought us to that situation." Craig Corrie, father of American peace activist Rachel Corrie – who Israel killed in 2003 – reminisces on his daughter, and describes her powerful letters from Palestine.

TODAY: Mehdi Hasan Set to Speak at Historic ‘Together for Palestine’ Benefit Concert The London event will feature some of the biggest names who've spoken out against the Gaza genocide, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Bastille, Florence Pugh, & Riz Ahmed. Read more: zeteo.com/p/today-mehd...

“The effort builds on growing calls for [Israel’s] soccer programs to be excluded from global competition.” @premthakker.bsky.social reports on #GameOverIsrael, a campaign to pressure FIFA and national soccer federations to boycott Israel over its murder of Palestinian athletes in Gaza.

‘Game Over Israel’ Campaign Demands Boycott of Israeli Soccer Clubs Over Government’s Killing of Palestinian Players Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest: zeteo.com/p/game-over-...

“Israel is the ethnostate that MAGA wishes the United States were.” @attackerman.bsky.social explains how MAGA sees itself in the apartheid state. Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/in-israel-...

From the new episode of 'We're Not Kidding', Mark Ruffalo — AKA The Incredible Hulk — answers @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's rapid-fire questions about the Marvel universe, as well as which Avengers character the real world needs right now. Watch: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

The UN just concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in a groundbreaking new report, comparing it with the genocide in Rwanda. Watch this video with @premthakker.bsky.social who asked the American admin the same question, 30 years later: youtube.com/shorts/wymbK...

"Benjamin Netanyahu decided late last month that American right-wingers needed to remember that supporting Israel is part of MAGA catechism." Read @attackerman.bsky.social's latest: In Israel, the Right Sees the America It Wants zeteo.com/p/in-israel-...

Donald Trump bombed two boats off the coast of South America — but a former Pentagon official warns that the US is completely unprepared for a new war with Venezuela. Read @wesjbryant.bsky.social's full article: zeteo.com/p/is-trump-l...

"Doesn't the Genocide Convention say that other countries have to therefore step in to stop the genocide?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which admits that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

“We are in drastic times… This is a famine, a genocide, ethnic cleansing.” Award-winning actor @markruffalo.bsky.social joins @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on the new ‘We’re Not Kidding,’ expressing his thoughts on Gaza and the importance of calling it what it is — a genocide.

“Our protection—our military cover, our diplomatic cover—enables this.” Actor Morgan Spector opens up about his decision to speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Watch more of Morgan and Prem’s conversation here: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

“Can anyone on the Right show me a single person on the mainstream Left with the equivalent following of a Charlie Kirk…who has said Tyler Robinson should be bailed out by a Left wing hero?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social challenges conservatives on Ask The Editor: zeteo.com/p/mehdis-cha...

"Most people are against what's happening because most people are not sociopaths… The people who are left behind defending this sh*t are sociopaths.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social answers an audience question on how to ‘win’ people over on the Gaza genocide. Full panel here: zeteo.com/p/sold-out-s...

Mehdi Hasan is LIVE now talking Charlie Kirk - Bring your questions and TUNE IN HERE: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

TODAY, SOON: Join @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for a live Q&A on the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s killing. @premthakker.bsky.social moderating the conversation. Tune in when we're live at 11am ET / 8am PT. See you soon! JOIN HERE: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

“[Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries] are the absolute antithesis of what the Democratic Party needs right now.” @markruffalo.bsky.social blasts Democratic leaders for refusing to back Zohran Mamdani — on the new episode of 'We’re Not Kidding' with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.