# abdul (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover abdul. Page: Feed: --- ## [Minimum Wage Hurts Poor Workers, New Study Finds](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/minimum-wage-hurts-poor-workers-new) _2026-08-19 · Ira Stoll · The Washington Free Beacon_ ‘The job loss is concentrated among poor families,’ says paper by UC Irvine professor ## [If We Are Not for Ourselves](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/if-we-are-not-for-ourselves) _2026-08-19 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ Jewish self-defense, communal responsibility, and the danger of outsourcing our survival ## [Byron Donalds’ ad deceptively edited David Jolly clip on gender-affirming care](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/19/byron-donalds/david-jolly-trans-youth-surgeries-florida-governor/) _2026-08-19 · Samantha Putterman · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly said he supports "gender-changing surgeries on kids." ## [Hasan Piker’s Wingman Brother Is Space Engineer With Security Clearances Who’s Worked on Air Force One](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/hasan-pikers-wingman-brother-is-space) _2026-08-19 · Eliana Johnson · The Washington Free Beacon_ Plus, Islamic group pulls 'pedophilic' cleric from convention featuring El-Sayed but keeps imam who called Holocaust 'hoax' ## [‘Dog Rape’ New York Times Columnist Delivers Another Dud as Harvard Prepares to Honor Him](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/dog-rape-new-york-times-columnist) _2026-08-18 · Ira Stoll · The Washington Free Beacon_ ‘Settler violence’ is declining, but Kristof conjures a crisis ## [Florida congressman wrongly said Mamdani is requiring an ID to shop at NYC-run grocery stores](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/18/randy-fine/mamdani-id-new-york-city-grocery-stores-save-voter/) _2026-08-18 · Amy Sherman · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “requiring ID” to shop at city-run grocery stores. ## [MS LIMBO: Israel-Bashing MS NOW Host Ayman Mohyeldin Twists in the Wind After His Third Show Is Canceled in Four Years](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/ms-limbo-israel-bashing-ms-now-host) _2026-08-18 · Adam Kredo · The Washington Free Beacon_ The beleaguered news personality has no new role at the network and has significantly dialed down the anti-Israel rhetoric in his on-air guest appearances and on social media ## [Judge in Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist, McGovern Campaign Aide](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/judge-in-harvard-antisemitism-case-c7f) _2026-08-18 · Ira Stoll · The Washington Free Beacon_ Richard Stearns was Bill Clinton’s roommate and protester pal at Oxford ## [Judge in Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/judge-in-harvard-antisemitism-case) _2026-08-18 · Eliana Johnson · The Washington Free Beacon_ Plus, Foreign Policy magazine spouts anti-Israel views as it cozies up to Qatar ## [The Guard at the Gate](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/the-guard-at-the-gate) _2026-08-18 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ How American synagogues can remain open, warm, and unmistakably Jewish in an age when security is no longer temporary. ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kLYv6gcEV3dO) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [If the Shock Glove Fits](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/if-the-shock-glove-fits) _2026-08-17 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ ICE’s electrified gloves are more desperate than diabolical ## [El-Sayed wrong that Rogers’ legislation ‘kicked off’ opioid epidemic](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/17/abdul-el-sayed/mike-rogers-opioids-michigan-lobbying/) _2026-08-17 · Caleb McCullough · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers “helped to architect the legislation that kicked off the opioid epidemic.” ## [Far Out](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/far-out/) _2026-08-17 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ There’s a maddening tendency among elected officials and the political press to equate “far left” and “far right” candidates as occupying equally extreme, dangerous ends of the political spectrum, though those in the former camp mostly want universal healthcare and affordable housing while the latter is more likely to endorse the forced deportation of non-white \[…\] ## [Some revolutions are too big to see](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/some-revolutions-are-too-big-to-see/) _2026-08-17 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ If you want to understand the 21st century, take a wide-angle view of the 20th. During the 1800s, the technological underpinnings of the 20th century economy gradually arose and got implemented on a large scale. The steamboat and then the railroad revolutionized transportation. The telegraph, telephone, and mass-market newspapers revolutionized communication, creating new possibilities for \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/the-monday-morning-teaser-658/) _2026-08-17 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Usually I take the news one week at a time, but today’s featured post takes a step back to examine a much wider time span: I’m looking at the technological developments that led to the first Gilded Age in the late 19th century, and trying to draw a parallel to the current internet/social-media/AI technologies that \[…\] ## [Abdul El-Sayed Says Wealthy Should ‘Pay Their Fair Share’ But Appears To Take Advantage of Tax ‘Loophole’](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-says-wealthy-should) _2026-08-17 · Eliana Johnson · The Washington Free Beacon_ Plus, with Troy Jackson at the helm, Maine Senate Democrats’ campaign arm took big money from corporate PACs and lobbyists ## [The Box We Cannot Check](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/the-box-we-cannot-check) _2026-08-16 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ California didn't invent this question. It just reopened it. ## [Weekend Beacon: First, I Want to Thank My Agent](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/weekend-beacon-first-i-want-to-thank) _2026-08-16 · Vic Matus · The Washington Free Beacon_ Also: What the Windsors and Kennedys have in common (and don't), a search for solace after loss, bridging the gap in 'Stand By Me,' and an homage to Spielberg in 'The End of Oak Street' ## [The Perils of Pausing AI](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-pausing-ai) _2026-08-15 · Mike Watson · The Washington Free Beacon_ A nonproliferation treaty didn’t stop the spread of nukes. It won’t rein in AI either. ## [The Theology of Ben Sasse](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/the-theology-of-ben-sasse) _2026-08-14 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ I do not know him. ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IBfEdiMuDoJX) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Abdul El-Sayed To Headline Islamic Event Alongside Pakistani Cleric Who Forced His 13-Year-Old Niece Into Marriage, Was Denounced for ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric’](https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-to-headline-islamic) _2026-08-14 · Chuck Ross · The Washington Free Beacon_ Tariq Masood urged his congregants to marry off their own female children and invoked Sharia law on the question of women’s education ## [Leak: Top Democratic Org's “Anti-Extremism” Project Targets Left](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-democratic-org-anti-extremism) _2026-08-14 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ Joins Trump's war on “Far-Left Extremism” ## [Alexander Vindman overstates what is known about Ashley Moody’s role in Hope Florida scandal](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/13/alexander-vindman/ashley-moody-senate-hope-florida-medicaid/) _2026-08-13 · Samantha Putterman · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ Then-Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody transferred “$10 million in taxpayer money meant for children’s health care to a campaign fund.” ## [What Thomas Friedman Gets Wrong About the Jews](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/what-thomas-friedman-gets-wrong-about) _2026-08-12 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ Why Jewish Self-Determination Is More Than a Formula ## [No, COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause an 82% miscarriage rate as Sen. Ron Johnson said](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/12/ron-johnson/covid-19-vaccine-pregnancy-miscarriage-dr-fauci/) _2026-08-12 · Caleb McCullough · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ There is “an 82% miscarriage rate with women who got the (COVID-19 vaccine) injection in the first or second trimester.” ## [After 100s of millions of safe MMR shots, Trump baselessly said the vaccine is possibly ‘quite lethal’](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/11/donald-trump/mmr-measles-vaccine-safety-cdc/) _2026-08-11 · Amy Sherman · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ When the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are given together in the combined MMR vaccine, "there could be a possibility they're quite lethal.” ## [The Rebels Already Won](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-rebels-have-already-won) _2026-08-11 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ It's lame duck hunting season ## [Doctors don’t inject kids with soda bottle’s worth of vaccines. Trump’s claim is Pants on Fire.](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/11/donald-trump/vaccine-soda-bottle-injection-children/) _2026-08-11 · Grace Abels · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ There are vaccines the size of a "bottle of soda … poured into a little child’s body.” ## [What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Death?](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/what-do-we-talk-about-when-we-talk) _2026-08-11 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ Before death, we need the courage to speak. After death, we need the courage to listen. ## [Why We Need to Talk About Death](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/why-we-need-to-talk-about-death) _2026-08-11 · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ Judaism has an entire technology for facing death. We’ve stopped using it. ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xtmbh1Oqkhy9) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [Republicans attacking Abdul El-Sayed say he supports Shariah in the US. That distorts an old video.](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/10/tweets/abdul-el-sayed-sharia-muslim-cair-michigan-senate/) _2026-08-10 · Amy Sherman · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “openly calls for Sharia law in America.” ## [Interested Parties](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/10/interested-parties/) _2026-08-10 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Tyranny is the handmaiden of the moneyed interests. – Robert Reich “The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan“ This week’s featured post is “Why the freak-out over El-Sayed?“ Ongoing stories This week’s developments This week everybody was talking about the economy Wednesday, Donald Trump told a crowd in Las Vegas that this is \[…\] ## [Why the freak-out over El-Sayed?](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/10/why-the-freak-out-over-el-sayed/) _2026-08-10 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Don’t react to labels, paraphrases, or guilt by association. Listen to what he says. It wasn’t the blow-out the polls had predicted, but progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed defeated the Democratic establishment’s candidate Haley Stevens in the Michigan Senate primary. El-Sayed will face Republican Congressman Mike Rogers in the fall election. Not being a Michigan voter, \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/10/the-monday-morning-teaser-657/) _2026-08-10 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ This week I’ve gotten fascinated by the winner of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Abdul El-Sayed. I hadn’t paid attention to him until last week, when the Sift came out the day before the election. I heard the “he’s unelectable because of X, Y, and Z” arguments and looked around for something solid to hang them \[…\] ## [Donald Trump said prices are ‘all coming down now.’ They’re mostly going up.](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/10/donald-trump/inflation-consumer-prices-groceries-gasoline-iran-war/) _2026-08-10 · Louis Jacobson · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ Prices are “all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it's all coming down.” ## [Jewish Dignity Is Not Contingent Upon Jewish Innocence](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/jewish-dignity-is-not-contingent) _2026-08-09 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ Antisemitism is dangerous. The willingness of decent people to explain, excuse, and tolerate it is more dangerous still. ## [Which Jews Does Abdul El-Sayed Care About?](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/which-jews-does-abdul-el-sayed-care) _2026-08-09 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ It is easy to condemn antisemitism. The harder test is whether you will stand with Jews when Jewishness itself becomes politically inconvenient. ## [In Michigan Senate race, Mike Rogers falsely ties Abdul El-Sayed to Twitch streamer’s 9/11 comments](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/07/mike-rogers/abdul-el-sayed-9-11-hasan-piker-michigan/) _2026-08-07 · Caleb McCullough · PolitiFact - Social Feed_ Abdul El-Sayed “believes America deserved 9/11.” ## [How Abdul El-Sayed Won, and What Peter Beinart Refuses to See](https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/how-abdul-el-sayed-won-and-what-peter) _2026-08-06 · Rabbi Steven Abraham · Rabbi Steven Abraham_ Fifteen thousand votes, sixty five million dollars, and a story written before the ballots were counted. ## [Chuck Schumer Eats Shit](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/chuck-schumer-eats-shit) _2026-08-05 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ Abdul El-Sayed’s victory is earthquake for Democratic Party old guard ## [Will Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed Get Elected?](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/will-francesca-hong-and-abdul-el) _2026-08-03 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ Washington's plan to block them ## [Going Long](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/03/going-long/) _2026-08-03 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ So, how did we get here? Not because one party discovered a winning campaign slogan, a charismatic leader, or because of one presidential election. We arrived here because one political movement developed a deep understanding of how power operates within the American constitutional system. – John F. Terzano, “The Long Game“ This week’s featured post \[…\] ## [Power is more than just votes](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/03/power-is-more-than-just-votes/) _2026-08-03 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Good short- and medium-term political news has emboldened some writers to remind us of the longer-term bad news. The good news is that polls for the fall elections keep looking better. The unpopular and unpromising Iran War, Trump’s tariffs, the continuing inflation that the war and the tariffs make worse, ICE’s repeated acts of unjustified \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/03/the-monday-morning-teaser-656/) _2026-08-03 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Polls for the fall election are looking good. Trump is unpopular and Democrats have a sizeable lead in the generic congressional ballot. At the moment, they’re even winning Senate races in states where they shouldn’t, like Texas. It’s now easy to imagine a Democratic House majority next year, and maybe even a Senate majority too. \[…\] ## [The Pentagon’s New Missile Gap](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-pentagons-new-missile-gap) _2026-07-31 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ From almost the beginning of the Iran war, the experts have complained that the Pentagon is running out of missiles, a supposed problem that says more about the nature of the national security debate than the state of the US military. ## [Establishment Extinction Event Reaches Wisconsin](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/establishment-extinction-event-reaches) _2026-07-29 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ Francesca Hong and the death of old school politics ## [FEMA’s New Mission: Domestic Terrorism](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/femas-new-mission-domestic-terrorism) _2026-07-28 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ The disaster response agency forgets the weather, embraces pre-crime ## [Left of what?](https://weeklysift.com/2026/07/27/left-of-what/) _2026-07-27 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ People \[are\] calling us the “far left” and we are literally just out here talking about funding public schools and keeping hospitals open and paving roads. – Jess Piper There is no featured post this week. Ongoing stories This week’s developments This week everybody was talking about the war with no end in sight We’ve \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/07/27/the-monday-morning-teaser-655/) _2026-07-27 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ There’s no featured post this week. But the weekly summary will have a lot to cover: the on-again-off-again war, the wildfires in Europe, the latest pretext for Trump’s tariffs, anticipating the Musk crash, the state of the Senate midterms, and several other things, concluding with a big battery in Finland that is just rocks inside \[…\] ## [Exclusive: Francesca Hong Takes on National Security](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-francesca-hong-takes-on) _2026-07-23 · Ken Klippenstein · Ken Klippenstein_ Wisconsin candidate for Governor talks NSPM-7, Iran War, ICE + more