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The Left Unsaid takes a wild, politically-charged joyride through the myths we’re taught in school and shouted from the news. Join Pat, Meg, and Finn as they question official narratives, complicate history, and crack jokes at the crumbling empire’s expense. Critical thinking, dark humor, and a refusal to obey in advance, all from the comfort of our living room.The Left Unsaid Política y Gobierno
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  • Canvass Against the Machine: From the front line of the Mamdani campaign
    Jul 10 2025

    After a brief hiatus due to vacation, COVID superspreading, and a flood event here in Chapel Hill, we’re back with our very first interview.

    This week, we talk with our cousin Chiara Kimelia, Dartmouth student and freshly minted canvassing superhero, who hit the pavement for Zohran Mamdani’s historic, come-from-the-left win in NYC’s mayoral primary.

    We explore the generational and community politics motivating voters to support Zohran, and how a campaign built on affordability and human dignity can beat Cuomo with a war chest.

    Plus, Chiara shares what it was like watching U.S. imperialism from abroad, as she backpacked alone for a year after high school, then landed back on at Dartmouth, a university that called the cops on its own community.

    Also in this episode:

    • ​Medicaid got gutted.
    • ​ICE is set to become the largest police force in U.S. history.
    • ​Trump threatens to “take over” NYC.
    • ​Israel explicitly plans to set up concentration camps.
    • ​And we get rare good news from the North Carolina Democratic Party.

    LINKS:

    • ​Ryan Wang has some great shorts on the NC Dem Party’s resolutions for a People’s Primary + Israel arms embargo. Part 1: about the resolutions. Part 2: how they pulled it off. Part 3: what it all means.
    • Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa, a wonderful piece of Palestinian fiction.
    • Deaf President Now documentary. (Now streaming on Apple TV.)

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  • Manufacturing Dissent: No War on Iran
    Jun 23 2025

    This week, Trump launched a full-throttle, unprovoked strike on Iran, violating U.S. law, international law, and any shred of moral credibility.

    The oligarchy is flexing its muscles, but we can flex back.

    We examine the opposition to this war, a populist opposition that covers the spectrum from MAGA to Bernie and the left.

    CNN, Fox and other mainstream outlets start to manufacture consent, but we've got tools to fight back.


    TAKE ACTION. CAIR has an easy set of action alerts that make it easy to contact your Representative and your Senators.


    We remind ourselves how to innoculate our minds against manufactured consent to war, dissect the liberal feminist Trojan horse arguments for “liberation by airstrike,” and remind folks that this exact imperial playbook led us into Iraq.

    Also this week:

    • Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil is finally out on bail after ICE disappeared him for leading campus protests.

    • The Senate Parliamentarian tells Republicans that they can't cut food stamp cuts.

    • The Democrats once again show they hate nothing more than a charismatic leftist by throwing everything they've got against Zohran Mamdani. (Go VOTE if you're a New Yorker!)

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    Links

    • Watch "The Encampments" on Watermelon+
    • Recommended read: “Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law." by Suzy Hansen in New York Magazine.
    • ⁠Ask your Representative to oppose war.⁠
    • And ⁠your Senators⁠ too.
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  • Welp, They Got Their War on Iran
    Jun 17 2025

    This week on The Left Unsaid, we skip the burgers and throw something juicier on the grill: the imperial myth machine.

    It’s a Father’s Day edition, so naturally we’re spending it exactly how Dad likes—tearing into bipartisan war propaganda and the elite penchant for fascist-adjacent pageantry.

    Finn and Patrick debrief from their trip to DC where The Left Unsaid crew filmed CodePink giving Congress hell and glimpsed Trump’s weak military cosplay.

    We then returned home to experience the odd pageantry of surburban liberal resistance at our local “No Kings” protest, with its awkward fusion of patriotic aesthetics and moral outrage.

    Also:

    • the history and latest stage of Israel’s illegal war on Iran, praised as “stunning” by the mainstream media.
    • the long history of Israeli fear-mongering about Iranian nukes (Bibi still crying wolf after 33 years).
    • the West’s grotesque double standards.
    • why the Democrats remain stuck in their usual position: verbally “concerned” while materially complicit.
    • plus the rapid rise of Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent NYC mayoral campaign.


    This Father's Day, we'll recommmend 2 books:

    1. From Zohran's dad, the seminal Good Muslim, Bad Muslim,
    2. and Sim Kern’s Genocide Bad, about Israeli propaganda and how to answer it.


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