Notices by Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social)

The 18 senators who voted to uphold the law & stop arming Netanyahu:

Durbin
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
King
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Ossoff
Sanders
Schatz
Smith
Van Hollen
Shaheen
Lujan
Warnock
Warren
Welch

Baldwin voted present

Remaining 82 support Netanyahu’s war crimes & genocide.

Hot Take: Democrats will win up and down the ballot when they become a true left party that prioritizes economic, social, and climate justice. As long as they run as Republican lite, they won't ignite or inspire their base, and will always run as the lesser of two evils. That's not a strategy to win, it's a weak attempt to not lose.

You can't out shame the devil so stop trying to be like him.

Hegseth: I forced her to sign an NDA & paid her a lot of money but trust me, she's lying about rape

Gaetz: I resigned to prevent the release of my ethics investigation into child trafficking but trust me, its a false report

Fettermen: I reject investigation into Israel committing genocide but trust me, its a false claim

Powerful men who commit or enable abuse all have the same MO—they demand you to trust them contrary to all the evidence in front of you.

I swear I read this somewhere before.

The Pentagon has just failed its 7th consecutive audit over its bloated $824B budget.

If working Americans fail an audit once, let alone 7 times, we get fined and possibly arrested. When the Pentagon fails an audit 7 times it's called standard operating procedure and they get an even larger budget the following year.

This is how democracies collapse.

Update on US population vs Trump's nominees

As a percent of US population:
•White men: 30%
•Women: 51%
•People of color: 40%
•Black: 12%

Trump's nominees so far:
•White men: 68%
•Women: 20%
•People of color: 16%
•Black: 0%
•Men credibly accused of sexual assault: 12%

Look at that meritocracy go!

Speaker Mike Johnson wants to block the ethics report about Matt Gaetz sexually abusing a child, because when someone is innocent of sexual abuse, you definitely want to block the report exonerating him.

A kakistocracy is defined a “government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.” Donald Trump’s nominees to key cabinet positions represent the unholy fusion of incompetence, white supremacy, cruelty, and many of them have a history of sexual abuse. This is a living breathing example of kakistocracy.

Here are the receipts, and they’re not pretty:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-nominees-are-not-just-a-joke

Gaetz has never tried a case & is a credibly accused child sexual predator—Trump wants him as AG

Hegseth has never worked on defense policy & is a credibly accused sexual predator—Trump wants him as Defense Sect

Huckabee doesn't believe Palestinians are human & helped pardon a man accused of Medicare fraud & enabling sexual abuse of children—Trump wants him as the Israeli Ambassador

3 wholly unqualified wealthy white men—but y'all wanna lecture Black & brown people about "DEI & meritocracy."

Help me Demand Congress expand healthcare BEFORE Trump takes office. Takes literally 5 seconds—need only 400 more signatures.

Demand urgency to protect healthcare as a human right: https://bit.ly/48FBAE1

Here’s how Republicans *Actually* stole the 2024 election. Some claim Elon Musk used Starlink to change voting machines & help Trump win. There’s no evidence for this claim—instead the harsh truth is MAGAs worked in broad daylight to steal elections by passing voter suppression bills.

If we have any hope of saving our republic, we must reject conspiracy theories, and instead effectively repeal the GOP’s real and destructive voter suppression tactics.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-republicans-actually-stole-the

MAGAs will have full government control next term, and Joe Biden is now a lame duck President.

Yet, Biden can still slow down MAGA fascism & meaningfully protect Americans, if he has the courage to act right now.

Here are 5 things Biden can and should do ASAP: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-joe-biden-can-still-slow-maga?utm_source=activity_item

Trump just picked Fox host Pete Hegseth to be his Secretary of Defense. In 2019 Hegseth said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing.”😐

It’s official. We’ve all lived long enough to see Idiocracy transform from parody to documentary.

I keep hearing “we need a left version of Joe Rogan’s podcast.”

Hi. I’m Qasim Rashid. I’m an immigrant, faith & racial minority, & human rights lawyer. Since 2021 I’ve run The Qasim Rashid Show—my podcast & SiriusXM show—& am nearing my 150th episode.

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I keep hearing “we need a liberal version of Joe Rogan’s podcast.”

Hi. I’m Qasim Rashid. I’m an immigrant, faith & racial minority, & human rights lawyer. Since 2021 I’ve run The Qasim Rashid Show—my podcast & SiriusXM show—& am nearing my 150th episode.

I cover economic, social, gender, & climate justice, human rights law, & politics with nationally known activists & elected officials.

Our progressive podcasts are here. We need your support—Subscribe & let’s go: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

MAGA: We condemn all censorship!

So—no anti-BDS laws?
MAGA: Except that

No more book bans?
MAGA: Or that

No firing people disloyal to Trump?
MAGA: Or that

No banning DEI & climate change?
MAGA: Or that

What censorship do you actually condemn?🤔
MAGA: Opposing white supremacy

Amazing how American Muslims weren’t a large enough voting bloc to speak at the DNC yet so large they single handedly cost Democrats the Presidency.🤔

I give you, Schrödinger's Muslim!

On Nov 6 the Isreali military announces that it will not allow Palestinians to return to Northern Gaza.

This is ethnic cleansing & forced displacement. These are war crimes.

Joe Biden could stop funding this at any moment but even now he won't. Reckless.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/palestinians-will-not-be-allowed-to-return-to-homes-in-northern-gaza-says-idf

May not be a popular opinion but the person single most responsible for Kamala Harris's loss is Joe Biden.

He gave her an impossible task and refused to step back. The loss was not inevitable, if Biden just did what he initially promised to.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/what-went-wrong-in-the-democratic

Biden can still, and should, stop all arms to Netanyahu. Do it now. There never was a valid excuse to keep arming him -- not practical and not legal. His own State Dept confirms Netanyahu is violating the law. And now with the election over, there's not even a political excuse to keep arming him.

Stop funding genocide. Uphold Constitutional & Int'l Law.

Asked during an interview, “Are you still in despair about the world?” James Baldwin responded: “I never have been in despair about the world. I’ve been enraged by it. I don’t think I’m in despair. I can’t afford despair. I can’t tell my nephew, my niece. You can’t tell the children there’s no hope.”

Later I will post a detailed analysis of what happened in last night’s election. But I want to send this brief note for two reasons:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-short-reflection-before-response