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This is pretty shocking.

Mike Bivens was a big part of the independent coverage of PNW's far-right protests back in the day. I got him a paid photo credit when I was interviewed in the New Republic (below). Now attacking Jewish, black, and Muslim buildings... wow.

"[T]he reason why we take actions matters – and they have different effects,” he explained. “When you spray paint ‘Die Juden’ on a #synagogue, you don’t just inconvenience a building owner, you intimidate an entire community — and that’s what these bias crimes are about.”

Bivins’ rampage began April 30, 2022, when he smashed a window at Congregation Shir Tikvah, an east #Portland synagogue, and broke a window at Everybody Eats PDX, a Black-owned restaurant in the Pearl.

He then #vandalized Congregation Beth Israel in Northwest Portland and, on May 3, used an accelerant to set fire to the back of the #Muslim Community Center in North Portland, according to surveillance footage."

oregonlive.com/crime/2025/07/f

newrepublic.com/article/154110

oregonlive · Former alt-weekly reporter in Portland guilty of arson, hate crime spreeBy Zane Sparling | The Oregonian/OregonLive

talkorigins.org/

This is an old #website about #Creation VS #evolution ... mostly showing what #Science can tell. You can "Browse the Archive". For many people, these are the best arguments against #Christianity ... at least, if we do not study Religion extensively... but you can believe in #God and not be #Christian or #muslim or Jew or hindu or #Buddhist (etc.): faith by Natural Theology. As a religion, it may be called "Philosophical Theism". I've also written about this on my #blog

talkorigins.orgTalkOrigins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution ControversyExplores creation/evolution/intelligent design, gives the evidence for evolution, and tells what's wrong with intelligent design & other forms of creationism.

It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)

from #KenKlippenstein
Jul 01, 2025

"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old #Muslim, #immigrant, and #socialist who is unapologetically critical of #Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed #AndrewCuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.

I didn’t expect #ZohranMamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.

* Money Doesn’t Decide.
* Young People Do Vote.
* Saying Controversial Things is Okay"

kenklippenstein.com/p/its-offi

#USA #US #USPolitics #NYC #NewYorkCity #DemocraticSocialist
#news #press #politics

Ken Klippenstein · It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats CuomoBy Ken Klippenstein

“They Don't Hate Mamdani Because he's a Muslim Radical. They Hate him Because he's a Muslim Normal”

by Alon Mizrahi in The Mizrahi Perspective on Substack

@palestine
@israel

“For clarity, simplicity and consistency, racists, white supremacists and Zionists love their enemies prominently stereotypical”

open.substack.com/pub/alonmizr

The Mizrahi Perspective · They Don't Hate Mamdani Because he's a Muslim Radical. They Hate him Because he's a Muslim NormalBy Alon Mizrahi
#Press#US#NewYork

Oligarchs 'Terrified' #DemocraticSocialist Mamdani Might Win #NYC Mayoral Primary

"This is a tale that we're seeing across this country, where it's a battle of organized money versus organized people," #ZohranMamdani said on the eve of the election.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Jun 24, 2025

[Since this article was written, #Mamdani has won the Democratic primary.]

"The prospect a Mamdani victory is deeply worrying to many of the Wall Street bankers, corporate executives, real estate developers, mega-landlords and others who are bankrolling #Cuomo... Backers include billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg; financiers Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb; Wall Street titans Blair Effron, Steve Rattner, and Antonio Weiss; Palantir founder and co-CEO Alex Karp; and former President Bill Clinton."

commondreams.org/news/billiona

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #AOC #Bernie #BernieSanders #Muslim #Islamophobia #SouthAsian #Indian
#news #press

Common Dreams · Oligarchs 'Terrified' Democratic Socialist Mamdani Might Win NYC Mayoral Primary | Common Dreams"This is a tale that we're seeing across this country, where it's a battle of organized money versus organized people," Zohran Mamdani said on the eve of the election.

"But the escalating war in #Gaza was an ever-present concern for her class through their high school years, Yao said, noting that her school has a large #Arab and #Muslim population.

"I have seen it affect the students around me, as they have gone on walkouts and protests in the past in order to make the Canadian government aware of what is going on," she said."

#censorship
#Palestine

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/vale

CBCValedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech | CBC NewsElizabeth Yao, the graduating valedictorian at Bell High School in west Ottawa, was told not to go to school on Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.
Continued thread

#Trump has long railed against migration from #Muslim-majority countries. During his first presidential campaign, he proposed a full ban on #Muslims entering the country. In his video message, Trump alluded to increased migration into Europe in the last decade.

“We will not let what happened in Europe happen to America,” he said.

Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during annual procession through Jerusalem
[with 5 photos]

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 3:20 PM EDT, May 26, 2025

'JERUSALEM (AP) — Chanting “Death to #Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through #Muslim neighborhoods of #Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday during an annual march marking #Israel ‘s conquest of the eastern part of the city.

#Palestinian shopkeepers closed early and police lined the alleys ahead of the march that often becomes a rowdy and sometimes violent procession of ultranationalist #Jews. A police officer raised his arms in celebration at one point, hugging a marcher. It was blazing hot, with temperatures hitting 98 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius) in late afternoon.'

apnews.com/article/israel-pale

#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine