This week, The Left Unsaid bursts out of the living room and into the headlines. Literally.

Our youngest co-host and resident teenage rabble-rouser, Finn, organized a Walkout for Palestine at Chapel Hill High School and made the front page of the local paper.

We bring you the exclusive on how it all went down. You'll be impressed by these students.

But first:

• • the grotesque theater of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (aka deadly military-industrial photo op).
  • The ongoing hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas
• • The inconvenient truth that Hamas wants out of governing Gaza
  • Iran, uranium enrichment, and the looming shadow of another forever war

• Israel's documented use of Palestinians as human shields

This one’s for the kids. And for hoping that the grown-ups finally decide to grow up.

Links:

• • IndyWeek Article on the Walkout
  • Check out this reel featuring Finn's Walkout.

• Contact us or get involved: info@TheLeftUnsaid.net

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4. Sign up for our mailing list at TheLeftUnsaid.net.
5. If you're in Chapel Hill/Carrboro and want to support students, help us keep the school board honest, or connect with like-minded parents, send us a message. We’re building a local crew. Boots on the ground. Eyes wide open.

This week, the McElwee family returns to the belly of the beast - domestic politics - to rip apart Trump’s $4.5 trillion “budget” bill, aka oligarchic looting plan. We break down what’s in the bill, how it’s quietly murdering people with paperwork and poverty, and a truly massive expansion of fascist border law enforcement.

Meanwhile, the genocide rages on in Gaza, two Israeli consulate employees are shot in DC, and the ADL blames it on our favorite Twitch streamer.

Also in this episode: Ms. Rachel inspired Meg to speak out more loudly for Palestine, and should inspire you too! Columbia’s president gets drowned out during her commencement address. (Free Mahmoud!) And the U.S. empire continues to kneecap its own soft power by going after Harvard’s international students.

This one’s packed. Listen in, leave us a comment, call your senator (you can do it after 5pm, introverts), and if you’re able, support us at TheLeftUnsaid.net. No paywalls, no ads, just one semi-functional family trying to tell the truth.

Links:

1. See Ms. Rachel with Rahaf, a young girl who had both her legs amputated after Israel bombed her.
2. Here is Meg's reel for our actual day job, Sew Liberated, inspired to go harder for solidarity with Gaza.
3. You can read Corey Robin, one of Patrick's favorite academics, on Facebook of all places.

This week, we start with the deranged plot twist of the Duck Dynasty guy teaming up with Homeland Security to turn immigration into reality TV. For these people, The Hunger Games was a how-to manual.

From there, we drag our mics out of the simulacra and into the real: the criminalization of journalism, the surveillance of dissent, and borders as literal and ideological weapons.

We discuss famous left-wing streamer Hasan Piker’s interrogation at the airport, Jeremy Scahill’s consistent moral and journalistic brilliance, and Mr. Rogers's humanist commitments.

Plus: Keir Starmer cosplays as Trump, beloved online educator Ms. Rachel get burned for supporting children's right to live, and Trump’s alternative Oligarchy Tour through the Middle East provides both opportunities and traps for global justice.

Also: weird French philosopher Jean Baudrillard,, climate apartheid, trad wives, and the AI-generated Trump Gaza real estate ad.

Links:

• • DropSiteNews.com, excellent news site founded by Jeremy Scahill
  • Hasan Piker and Jeremy Scahill's sit down together
  • Report from the Center on Constitutional Rights about the foundational use of "terrorism" in US law to smear Palestinians
• • Book recommendation: Capital in the 21st Century
  • “Your Border Is Showing”, our episode on India, Pakistan, and borders.
  • Patrick is an Irish skedaddler, for sure
  • That awful AI-generated ⁠Trump Gaza promo video⁠, which was intended to poke fun at Trump but then was endorsed by him.
  • Go show Ms. Rachel some love, especially if you have toddlers!
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