Wishing my readers a restful July 4th. This week on Let’s Address This: •Interview former Rep Cori Bush, and Carlos Calzadilla on Disrupt •Break down 8 SCOTUS rulings •Ask, “Does Israel recognizes Palestine's right to exist? •Ask why does USA keeps electing kings? www.qasimrashid.com/p/july-4th-e...

On America’s 250th, don’t be fooled by self hating immigrants who seethe at the success of immigrants who love themselves for who they are, not for who racists want them to be.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s July 4th 250 speech is America. Period. Take a few minutes and watch this. Historic. ❤️✊🏽 youtu.be/G53Nc5JoehQ?...

"They didn’t send it back. They voted 3-2 to keep it. Then they spent $6.9 million of it on new radios for the sheriff’s department instead of the river sirens people had been talking about for a decade." 😡🤬

"Texas leadership consists of this. Children die on their watch, the adults whose job it was to protect them do nothing, and the state’s response is to change nothing so the next set of children can die in the next preventable disaster."

"When asked during the hearing whether a President could hypothetically “assassinate his political opponent as an official act,” Trump’s lawyers said, “Yes.” Notwithstanding this catastrophically dangerous world view, the Court voted 6-3 to expand Presidential immunity."

139 people died in last year's Texas floods. One year later: zero officials fired, almost none resigned. Meanwhile Camp Mystic just filed for bankruptcy—while running a GoFundMe to "rebuild." Read the latest from Let's Address Texas State Director Saadia Mirza.

This week, the Illinois Safe Schools for All Act took effect — making IL the first state to explicitly guarantee every child's right to a free K-12 education, regardless of immigration status. ICE has been on Chicago's streets since last fall. This law is one way Illinois is fighting back.

A MAGA got offended I called the Founders "colonizers," rebuking me that "the original 13 colonies were beacons of freedom." I asked him to repeat that part...slowly. Apparently "colonies" is respectful—but calling those who built colonies "colonizers" is not.

A sitting President operates with virtually unlimited immunity, his financial conflicts in the billions, his illegal wars unchecked. But Trump did not emerge out of a vacuum. Understanding how we got here is how we revive an America where justice is our standard. If we're not already too late.

Israel drops the world’s biggest non nuclear bomb on Lebanon. Corporate media is silent. The United States must hold these war criminals accountable.

When it happens, I want Mitch McConnell to be honored the way he honored Justice RBG. That is all.

I believe Lebanon has a right to exist and defend itself from foreign invaders

Palestinians are also Semites

TX DEMS “For rural Texas…they voted to protect rural hospitals from closure, expand telehealth, & impose moratoriums on data center construction that drains rural water supplies & strains the grid…to regulate water use, protect farmland from unregulated industrial expansion, expand rural broadband.”

I hope the DNC reaches out to the Muslims who were literally kicked out of the GOP convention, but... #NotHoldingMyBreath

You are 100,000 % correct

A novel idea: helping the people

As Melat Kiros joins the list of Dem Socialists winning across the country, our IL State Director Dylan Blaha examines which Illinois Reps & Senators actually stand with our working class, support Medicare for All & blocking military aid to Israel—and which ones take corporate cash instead.

A quick reminder to stop making everything about race. Thanks. Sign up for my paywall free human rights newsletter dedicated to people-powered politics and the accountability too often ignored by corporate media: qasimrashid.com/subscribe

Two Texas conventions, two opposite visions—laid out in full by @saadia---m.bsky.social. Republicans banned halal food and IVF. Democrats funded schools, expanded Medicaid, legalized cannabis, taxed billionaires, recognized Palestine. Saadia's reporting is the deep dive Texas politics needs.

Meanwhile Mayor Mamdani has significantly increased funding in education, social services, libraries, and parks. Proof once more that safer communities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Legacy media never fails to ask politicians, “Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?” You’ll never hear: “Do you believe Palestine has a right to exist?” They scream antisemitism at criticism of Israel, while their goal is to prevent a Palestinian state. These receipts prove the hypocrisy.

Sometimes I think I’ll get bored citing facts to dunk on Christian nationalists. Then I dunk on them again to debunk their hateful propaganda & remember how fun it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Reminder: SUBSCRIBE to my independent media platform that has no algo restrictions: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe). ❤️✊🏽

RUNNING ON DSA WORKING FAMILIES ISSUES ONLY WORKS IN NYC MAYORAL RACE!!* *And NYC Congress (Lander, Valdez, Chevalier) BUT still NYC *And NJ Congress (Mejia, Hamaway) BUT it’s next door *And Philly (Rabb) BUT same region *And Denver (Kiros) BUT…but… Goal posts shift faster than speed of light😅

A Nigerian nun was cuffed by ICE a block from her church, on her way to Sunday Mass. Sister Letty is a registered nurse who has worked for a decade in South Texas hospitals. DHS still won't say why they detained her. More from Let’s Address Texas State Director Saadia Mirza below.

ICE agents are illegally obscuring their license plates in IL—and getting more violent about it. This week, an agent assaulted a teen for filming his unmarked vehicle, reaching for his taser as he charged. Filming ICE in public is legal. Assaulting someone for it is not. More from Dylan Blaha.

This week's SCOTUS ruling barely preserved birthright citizenship—a 5-4 decision on a right explicitly written into the 14th Amendment. Wajahat Ali and I break down the rulings, Islamophobia targeting Abdul El-Sayed's Senate race, Musk’s banned film, and more.

Every fascist accusation is a confession.

Melat Kiros is a refugee from Ethiopia who become a lawyer in the USA. Her law firm fired her because she condemned Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Tonight she won the Democratic nomination in deep blue CO-1 against a 15-term AIPAC entrenched corporate Democrat This is how we make America great❤️

We need a new country. For that we need a better party. This bodes well.

BREAKING: Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term AIPAC Rep. Dianne DeGette in Colorado District 1. A new era is rising and I am here for it! Here’s a my recent interview with future Congresswoman Kiros! youtu.be/ocdVYWisf-s?...

SCOTUS declined to hear Trump’s appeal to E Jean Carroll, leaving permanently intact his obligation to pay Carroll $5M in fines + $100M in jury awards. In other words, SCOTUS upheld that Donald Trump is a rapist. It’s forever in the historical record. Beyond restitution, this demands resignation.

Let’s take the win but as many have already stated, should’ve been 9-0

Three SCOTUS justices said that the constitution doesn’t say what it actually says. That is scary motherfucking shit. Alito, Thomas , and Gorsuch will decide whatever they want, whenever they want, with no boundaries.

I was live with Don Lemon the moment the Supreme Court's latest wave of rulings came down. Watch the interview and read my pithy, no-legalese breakdown of exactly what happened below & why it matters.

To anyone who is running for federal office; to get my vote, get Clarence Thomas out of power.

BREAKING: SCOTUS votes 6-3 to PROTECT Birthright citizenship in Trump v Barbara, holding that a POTUS cannot repeal a Constitutional right by executive order. Gorsuch, Alito, & Thomas (A BLACK MAN) voted against Birthright Citizenship. All three need to be impeached and removed. This is absurd.

BREAKING: SCOTUS upholds Birthright citizenship, holding that a President cannot repeal a Constitutional right by executive order. This is a massive win for Constitutional rights and due process of law. The fact that we were unsure it would be upheld speaks to how far the Overton window has shifted.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS holds in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n that spending limits on dark money violate the First Amendment. Billionaires can now spend unlimited dark money to buy elections and no one can do anything to limit them in any way.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS holds in West Virginia v. B. P. J. to ban trans kids in girls sports.

Justice RBG died only 6 weeks before the 2020 election & Mitch McConnell had Barrett replace her anyway. McConnell has been in the hospital for 16 days. No one has seen him or knows his status. Just pointing out for no reason at all that we’re currently still more than 18 weeks from Election Day.

Threading the needle through the fiber of what it means to be an American. 😉 #DadJokes

Unbelievable Another major setback for women, minorities and vets Disgraceful & disgusting

If you're a woman, your GOP House Rep most likely voted against you.

Call your Senators No NO Absolutely NO

Today, House MAGAs obliged to their cult leader and passed the SAVE Act. Here are the receipts on the SAVE Act, how it will fully gut voting rights for Black people, women, and low income people, and why we must make sure it does not become law. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

AIPAC spent $13 mil to take out former Rep Cori Bush. Her response: "I'm coming to tear your kingdom down." She's running to reclaim her seat in Missouri District 1. Also in this episode: the Left has its answer to Turning Point USA. I sit down with Disrupt Founder Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio.

While I am an optimist, I must also admit that I will be shocked and surprised if SCOTUS does right and actually protects birthright citizenship—as enshrined in our Constitution and upheld by every single Court since the Civil War. My expectation of this rouge MAGA SCOTUS is they’ll tear it down. 😐