It shows the struggles of entertainers who faced the same struggles as normal people.
Dawn Robinson is an American singer, actress and media personality. She revealed in March she was living out of her car for over three years.
Robinson, 58 was a founding member of En Vogue. She was the lead vocalist of the group as well as a former member of Lucy Pearl and The Firm.
The 1990s R&B/pop group En Vogue.
Following her departure from En Vogue, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl and released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the successful singles "Dance Tonight" and "Don't Mess with My Man".
In 2002, Robinson released her first solo album Dawn, which produced the single "Envious". In 2005, Robinson rejoined En Vogue for a tour, but departed from the group before they could record another album. In 2009, Robinson briefly returned to En Vogue again for their 20th Anniversary Tour. In 2010, she left En Vogue once again due to poor management and compensation of work. In 2013, she joined the cast of R&B Divas: Los Angeles for the first season of the series.
Over her career, Robinson has sold a combined total of over 11 million records as a member of En Vogue, Lucy Pearl and a solo artist. Her work with En Vogue has earned her several awards and nominations, including two American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, seven MTV Video Music Awards, four Soul Train Music Awards and eight Grammy nominations.
Robinson said she planned to share this information when she first started her channel, though some people told her, “You shouldn’t talk about it because you’re a celebrity and what if they judge you?”
“I’m like ok and what if?” the singer continued. “What of they judge me? So what? We’re all judged. Life is life.”
She then took some deep breaths and made her confession.
“For the past three, almost three years I have been living in my car,” she said, before squealing. “I said it. Oh my God it’s out!”
Robinson explained that back in 2020, she was living with her parents in Las Vegas and “that was wonderful until it wasn’t.” She ended up living in her car for a month when her co-manager offered to let her come stay with him in Los Angeles.
“He said ‘I don’t have a lot of room, but I’ll make room for you,’” Robinson recalled. “But then when I got to his place, he actually didn’t have room for me.”
Instead, she said, she ended up in a hotel for eight months and had difficulty getting an apartment.
Robinson said she started researching “car life” and learned there is a community of people who choose to live in their vehicles.
“I felt free. I felt like I was on a camping trip,” she recalled of how she felt once she adjusted to living in her car in 2022.
Robinson said she didn’t reveal her living situation to seek pity. Instead, she hopes her story of resilience will inspire others.
“It’s not ‘woe is me,’” Robinson said. “I’m learning about who I am, I’m learning myself as a person, as a woman.”
She plans to continue documenting her current life, which she described as an “adventure” and an “unexpected path that I’ve enjoyed quite a bit.”
Rumeysa Ozturk wrote about peace and some far right Jewish extremist group sicced ICE on her.
Y'all voted for this.
What happened to making free speech great again?
What happened to America first?
Only in4 America, it is a crime to criticize or boycott Israel, a foreign country.
A Tufts University student was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is all on the bogus claims of antisemitism by protesters who want the United States to end its relationship with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national studying for a PhD under an F-1 visa. She was on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends when agents from the Department of Homeland Security took her into custody near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to a statement her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, shared with HuffPost.
Mind you, she committed no crime.
A video shared by local news outlet WCVB shows Ozturk walking down the street as an immigration official in plain clothes grabs her. Other agents, also apparently in plain clothes, then surround her.
Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the university had no prior knowledge of Ozturk’s detainment and did not share any information with federal authorities prior to that, according to a Tuesday statement sent to HuffPost.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student with a valid F-1 visa was detained by ICE agents on the streets of the United States.
Her "crime" was writing an op-ed urging Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide and divest from companies with ties to Israel.
✊🏽NOW: Thousands are rallying at Tufts to demand the release and return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by masked ICE agents in Boston yesterday.
Trump’s attempts to stifle the pro-Palestine movement with repression are backfiring — the people won’t be silenced! pic.twitter.com/DJ7OHIjAuw
— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) March 26, 2025
Here is chilling video of Fulbright scholar and Tufts U student Rumeysa Ozturk being snatched by masked ICE agents from the streets of Boston yesterday. Her supposed sin: publishing an article in support of Palestinian rights.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts is being deported for co-authoring an op-ed that called for a divestment from Israel, a country responsible for killing 50+ American citizens.
Meanwhile, we are bombing the Houthis, who have killed exactly ZERO Americans. 😑 pic.twitter.com/BJHfCAz1MS
🚨BREAKING: A major new lawsuit is targeting U.S.-based allies of Hamas. Victims of Oct. 7 are suing American individuals & orgs accused of aiding Hamas terrorism.https://t.co/f6FEkQ5dN8
“From what we have been told subsequently, the student’s visa status has been terminated, and we seek to confirm whether that information is true,” Kumar said. “The university has no additional information at this time about the cause or circumstances of the student’s apprehension and is attempting to learn more about the incident.”
It’s unclear on what grounds Ozturk was detained. However, the incident draws parallels to the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who played a prominent role in campus advocacy before he was abducted by immigration officials.
Ozturk was previously targeted by an extremist group called Canary Mission, which publishes information online about students and professors who have expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments. The website characterized her as engaging in “anti-Israel activism in March 2024,” referencing an op-ed Ozturk co-authored last year, urging Tufts’ president to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.”
America is definitely on the decline.
ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost.
It has been more than 20 hours since Ozturk was detained, but her attorney said in the statement that she still has not been told where her client is.
“This is very bizarre and concerning,” Khanbabai said. “No charges have been filed against Rumeysa to date that we are aware of.”
The attorney filed a habeas petition in federal court the same night her client was detained, requesting that Ozturk not be moved out of the district of Massachusetts, according to court records reviewed by HuffPost.
The judge ruled in favor of Khanbabai’s motion and issued an order blocking Trump’s immigration officials from moving Ozturk outside of the district without first providing advance notice. As of Wednesday evening, however, ICE records first reported by journalist Jose Olivares and confirmed by HuffPost showed Ozturk’s location as the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana.
Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism. From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue when criticizing Israel, Jews, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, members of Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Canary Mission, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
Again, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing religious beliefs, there is no antisemitism when criticizing the Jews.
To clear up the AP's account of Oct. 7, the Israelis used the Hannibal Directive to massacre the settlers to prevent Hamas from taking IDF soliders. The IDF has used the weapons to kill settlers at a festival.
Hamas has been very clear on who they targeted. They targeted the IDF and the walls. They do not target civilians. Israel has exaggerated the way this went down.
They have used American weapons to kill settlers, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, UN peacekeepers and their own IDF soliders. Israel has killed Americans, British, German, Australian, Canadians and French citizens.
No investigations were carried out to why Israel targeted them.
Israel refuses to allow independent monitors into Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
IDF soliders who refuse to carry out orders are often taken out by snipers.
The "hostages" were IDF soliders.
Israel has violated the ceasefire. They are planning on invading Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. They have stopped humanitarian aid as Ramadan begins. They want the U.S. to start a war with Iran.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the real American president. It's not Trump, Elon Musk or Joe Biden.
The supporters of former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris are playing on this "We tried to warn you" nonsense. How can you morally stand on principles of being a progressive and back Israel?
First and foremost, Americans have a right to vote for whomever they chose.
Second, Harris failed to win over voters. She stuck with former president Joe Biden on the economy, Israel, Ukraine, immigration and inflation. The former president failed to listen to voters and his base.
The former president gave unilateral support and cover. We knew Trump would be worse. We demanded that Biden put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel to stop killing and invading other countries.
That shows the "tone deafness" within the Democratic Party.
It is not Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) fault for Biden and Harris' missteps. She warned them that Arab Americans did not like being ignored.
Those fucking hypocrites sat in silence as Israel is killing women and children.
They can fuck themselves.
Israel has killed Americans. No one was held accountable.
The killing of Rachel Corrie did not move George W. Bush to cut Israel loose.
The deaths of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Jacob Flickinger and Kamel Ahmad Jawad were never investigated by the U.S. Justice Department.
Mask off.
Resistance is not terrorism.
Occupation of oppressed people is not peace.
A two state solution is "separate but equal" and a de facto apartheid.
Telling other countries to take Palestinians is ethnic cleansing.
A sovereignty seizing land in a violent conflict is a war crime.
A violent attack on children throwing rocks at tanks is justified in the minds of those who support Israel.
Spitting and shoving Christians, Satanists, non Zionist Jews, Muslims and Hindus is considered a custom in Israel. How is this disgusting act justified?
The double standard in media coverage is the Israelis are hostages and the Palestinians are prisoners. Some of the Palestinians held in Israeli custody are children under the age of 14.
When Russia seized Ukrainian land and Crimea, the U.S. pushed for sanctions.
When Israel seized Lebanese and Syrian land, the U.S. recognized it as Israeli sovereignty. They have actively rejected sanctions imposed on Israel.
Iran supports the resistance. The U.S. and Israel labels it as an enabler of terrorism and war. Yet, Israel has created the conflicts by forcing regime change, killing their civilians, their scientists, their military generals and their diplomats. No one seems to call this terrorism. In fact, some U.S. lawmakers see it as justifiable offense.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion or Iran.
The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the status quo.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
Israel is the red line. If any lawmaker, entertainer, athlete or social media influncer backs the apartheid ethnostate, they will face a boycott.
Regardless of political affiliation, if you are supporting Israel, you are not getting donations or a vote from me.
I will hold President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance accountable.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to", blaming "illegal immigrants" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to focus on ending gun violence, lowering costs, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We don't want any more wars on behalf of Israel. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.
Family Dollar being sold off. Dollar Tree is selling its sister company and raising prices on all products.
Y'all voted for this.
President Donald J. Trump's tariffs are making companies rise prices.
When you visit Dollar Tree, you see prices currently at $1.25 or higher.
Starting April 2025, the retailer will officially sell items at $1.50 or higher. It has officially began in March. The Chesapeake, Virginia based company is raising prices and selling off Family Dollar.
Consumers are starting to voice anger at Dollar Tree as they continue to increase their prices and limit their supply.
As they are closing locations, they are opening locations inside old Rite Aid and CVS stores.
Dayton, Ohio is getting a new Dollar Tree in Clayton. It will likely close the Harrison Township location about three miles down the way.
In an earnings call held this month, Dollar Tree, Inc. announced it’ll be adding hundreds of new items to its store shelves – but at a higher cost. The new maximum price of items sold at Dollar Tree stores will be $7.
“This year, across 3,000 stores, we expect to expand our multi-price assortment by over 300 items at price points ranging from $1.50 to $7,” said CEO Rick Dreiling. “But even as our multi-price assortment expands over time, the vast majority of the items sold in Dollar Tree stores will remain at our entry-level fixed price point.”
The $7 price ceiling is a jump from the limit set less than a year ago. According to Yahoo Finance, a $5 price cap was announced in June 2023.
The base price had also been raised to $1.25 in 2021.
According to Dreiling, the move was made in order to add new products to their shelves. “Over time, you will also see us fully integrate multi-price merchandise more into our stores, so our shoppers will find $5 bags of dog food next to our traditional $1.25 pet treats and toys, and our $3 bags of candy will be found in the candy aisle.”
The recent price limit increase comes not long after Dollar Tree, Inc., who also owns Family Dollar, announced the closure of more than 1,000 Family Dollar stores nationwide.
Dollar Tree plans to close about 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of this year and 370 Family Dollar and 30 Dollar Tree stores over the next several years.
Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar for more than $8 billion in 2015 after a bidding war with rival Dollar General, but it has had difficulty absorbing the chain.
“This dramatic cull is the coup de grâce in the rather botched acquisition of the Family Dollar chain, which has caused Dollar Tree nothing but hassle since it was completed back in 2015,” wrote Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData.
“Basically, almost ten years on, Dollar Tree is still sifting through the mess it inherited and has not been able to completely turn around,” Saunders said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar for $1 billion to a private equity firms. That likely means in less than three years, we may see the end of Family Dollar.
The company moved from North Carolina to Virginia. It will retain its offices in Chesapeake.
The Dollar Tree-Family Dollar concept stores will continue to operate as normal.
America, are you seeing a Golden Age as Trump promised?
Cause we are seeing more Americans work harder for less pay, resources to our government limited thanks to DOGE, our Republican and Democratic lawmakers in hiding because they can't face angry constituents and Trump continuing playing golf while he floods the zone with chaos.
Jasmine Crockett got comedy in her. She poses with DL Hughley.
After weeks of questioning the intelligence of progressive lawmaker and agitator, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), MAGAland now gets upset over more controversial things she says.
She calls Texas governor Greg Abbott, "Governor Hot Wheels" at the Human Rights Campaign event.
It was aimed at the governor passing laws outlawing transgender Americans rights and gay rights.
“Sleepy Joe” “Joe and the Hoe gotta go” “Kamala Harris slept her way up to the top” “Michelle Obama is man” “Fuck your feelings, libtards” “Let’s go Brandon”
Mind you, every one of these assholes love it when President Donald J. Trump hands out nicknames to political enemies.
Democrats got to sit back and take that shit.
Nah, fight dirty.
Do not apologize.
Aim at the target and never miss.
If you offend a certain group, remind them who writes laws that strip those groups.
I mean that Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said far worst things. Mind you these two ratchet lawmakers almost got into a physical confrontation.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is about to get some of Crockett's wrath too.
Gov. Greg Abbott — who uses a wheelchair — as “Gov. Hot Wheels” while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles.
“You all know we got Gov. Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now,” Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, said about Abbott, a Republican, while addressing the Human Rights Campaign event. “And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey.”
The governor of Texas, Hot Wheels.
Abbott was paralyzed in 1984 after a tree fell on him while he was running. The accident severely damaged Abbott’s spinal cord. Abbott, now 67, was elected in 2014.
Crockett, elected to the House in 2022, was roundly criticized by Republicans for the comments, an aside she made during her speech to the civil rights group event after she thanked Morgan Cox, a group board member and fellow Dallas resident, according to video of the event posted to Human Rights Campaign’s YouTube channel.
“Crockett’s comments are disgraceful,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn posted on the social media platform X. “Shameful.”
Crockett suggested Tuesday that she was not referring to Abbott’s condition. Instead, she posted on X that she was referring to Abbott’s policy of sending thousands of immigrants who were in Texas illegally to cities where local policy limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities, such as New York and Philadelphia.
“I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable,” the post stated.
Abbott’s office did not immediately replied to requests for comment.
Crockett has faced criticism from Republicans for suggesting last week that tech billionaire Elon Musk, heading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, “be taken down.”
So when Republicans are comfortable with mocking:
Former president Joe Biden for his age.
Former vice president Kamala Harris for her race, laugh and statements.
Former president Barack Obama for his race, religion, birthplace and suits.
Former first lady Michelle Obama by questioning if she was born a man.
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) by misgendering and deadnaming.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in one statement calling her ghetto then elitist next.
John Kerry's military service.
Hillary Clinton's health.
Hunter Biden’s drug abuse and mental health issues.
Paul Pelosi being attacked with a hammer but thought as a gay tryst.
Lizzo for her weight and playing a flute from the Smithsonian.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on her race, religion, her upbringing and her husband.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on her religion, her upbringing and her stances.
Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) on her race, her alcopea, her stances and her family.
Pro Palestinian protesters as terrorist sympathizers, idiots and call for deportation.
So the Republicans went woke. The Republicans who vowed to eliminate woke and bring comedy back. The very same party that allowed a comedian call Puerto Rico "an island of garbage." The same party that wants to get people fired, deported, arrested and boycotted can't take a joke.
Just you wait when they start mocking disabled people. We will just come back to the remarks about Abbott.
The Israeli regime brutally assaulted the directors of the Oscar award winning documentary.
The directors of the Academy Awards winning documentary are missing. The Israeli regime are snuffing people out.
The AP likes to make the story favor Israel. So I to make it actually right.
Israeli settlers lynched one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses.
The Oscar winning filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians lynched in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel, who is representing them. Police told her they were being held at a military base for medical treatment, but she said Tuesday morning that she had not been able to reach them and had no further information on their whereabouts.
Basel Adra, another co-director, witnessed the detention and said around two dozen settlers — some masked, some carrying guns, some in Israeli Defence Forces uniform — attacked the village. Soldiers who arrived pointed their guns at the Palestinians, while settlers continued throwing stones.
“We came back from the Oscars and every day since there is an attack on us,” Adra told The Associated Press. “This might be their revenge on us for making the movie. It feels like a punishment.”
The Israeli military said it seized three Palestinians under the false claims of hurling rocks at forces and one Israeli civilian involved in a “violent confrontation” between Israelis and Palestinians — a claim witnesses interviewed by the AP disputed. The military said it had transferred them to Israeli police for questioning and had evacuated an Israeli citizen from the area to receive medical treatment.
Hamdan Ballal was released today after spending nearly twenty-four hours in Israeli detention. pic.twitter.com/cv268ySUe0
⚡️🇮🇱 BREAKING: Hamdan Ballal, Director of the movie "No Other Land." has been released and is currently in hospital in Hebron. He was BEATEN by soldiers and settlers all over his body. Soldiers left him BLINDFOLDED and HANDCUFFED in a military base all night. https://t.co/MAWdr5deHtpic.twitter.com/HMhDRyBsc8
"There are no human rights." - Listen to Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian activist and director, who was attacked and arrested by Israeli forces last night, in an interview with red. media from 2022 in Masafer Yatta. pic.twitter.com/3SEForu4Sl
With "No Other Land" codirector, Hamdan Ballal, in his homevillage Susya, after being released from detention, beaten and bruised. pic.twitter.com/QrnciSM0Rg
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 25, 2025
After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 25, 2025
“No Other Land,” which won the Oscar this year for best documentary, chronicles the struggle by residents of the Masafer Yatta area to stop the Israeli military from demolishing their villages. Ballal and Adra, both from Masafar Yatta, made the joint Palestinian-Israeli production with Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
The film has won a string of international awards, starting at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. It has also drawn ire in Israel and abroad, as when Miami Beach proposed ending the lease of a movie theater that screened the documentary.
Adra said that settlers entered the village Monday evening shortly after residents broke the daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A settler — who according to Adra frequently attacks the village — walked over to Ballal’s home with the military, and soldiers shot in the air. Ballal’s wife heard her husband being beaten outside and scream “I’m dying,” according to Adra.
Adra then saw the soldiers lead Ballal, handcuffed and blindfolded, from his home into a military vehicle. Speaking to the AP by phone, he said Ballal’s blood was still splattered on the ground outside his own front door.
Some of the details of Adra’s account were backed up by another eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.
A group of 10-20 masked white Jewish extremist settlers with stones and sticks also assaulted activists with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, smashing their car windows and slashing tires to make them flee the area, one of the activists at the scene, Josh Kimelman, told the AP.
Video provided by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence showed a masked settler shoving and swinging his fists at two activists in a dusty field at night. The activists rush back to their car as rocks can be heard thudding against the vehicle.
Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians want all three for their future state and view settlement growth as a major obstacle to an segregated state solution.
Israel has built well over 100 illegal settlements, home to over 500,000 foreign settlers who have specific Israeli citizenship. The 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under an apartheid controlled by Israeli military rule, with the weak Palestinian Authority administering population centers.
The Israeli military designated Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank as a massacre zone in the 1980s and ordered residents, mostly Arab Bedouin, to be expelled. Around 1,000 residents have largely remained in place, but soldiers regularly move in to demolish homes, tents, water tanks and olive orchards — and Palestinians fear outright expulsion could come at any time.
During the war in Gaza, Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank during wide-scale military operations, and there has also been a rise in settler attacks on Palestinians. There has been a surge in Palestinian attacks on Israelis.
Progressive agitator announces her bid for Congress to take on Zionist Democrat in the Illinois 9th Congressional District.
She is taking on Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).
Meet Kat Abughazaleh, the social media influncer who tracks the far right and calls oit the Democrats for just being the party that sucks
Kat has done numerous videos taking aim at President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan, Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Steve Bannon and Sean "Softball" Hannity.
She is very good at her job.
Kat previously worked at Media Matters for America, Mother Jones and Zeteo. She is a part of the Meidas Touch network.
She is going to take on the 80-year old progressive lawmaker who continues to back the apartheid ethnostate of Israel. She is very vocal about the Democratic Party's leaders being out of touch with the progressive base. She is demanding lawmakers get touch and start listening to the voices that opposed them in 2024.
Progressives were turned off by former president Joe Biden’s stance on Israel.
It did damage to former vice president Kamala Harris and her bid for president.
Now as the Democrats watch Republicans spiral out of control, they see the wind in their sails. But hold up. The Democrats are extremely unpopular. They have no real policies other than allowing Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) make complete asses of themselves.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let them,” Abughazaleh says in the video. “So I say it’s time to drop the excuses and grow a fucking spine.”
After graduating from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in international security, Abughazaleh, 26, took a job with the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters before being hired by Mother Jones in 2024. She is best known for videos in which she derides Fox News and conservative personalities. On TikTok, she has over 217,000 followers, and nearly 200,000 more on X, and some of her videos have received more than 1 million views.
“I’ve spent my entire career reporting on the far right and being attacked by them as a result,” Abughazaleh said in her campaign video, in which a kaffiyeh, the traditional headdress worn by Middle Eastern men that has become a symbol of Palestinian identity, is seen hanging on a wall.
Background
The daughter of a Palestinian immigrant father and a seventh-generation Texan mother, Abughazaleh grew up in an upper-middle-class section of Dallas, HuffPost reported. Both her parents were politically conservative Fox News viewers.
When she moved to Tucson, Ariz., as a teenager, however, her perspective on the world began to shift.
“At least half my high school was low-income or undocumented,” she told HuffPost. “The bootstrap myth just shattered before my eyes.”
Israeli support has made Democrats unpopular with the base. Jan Schakowsky and Joe Biden let the party down.
‘A representation problem’
On her newly minted website, Abughazaleh declares that Democrats “have a representation problem. As in, about half of Congress are millionaires and people born before the moon landing.”
“I'm a renter. I don't have health insurance,” she adds. “My net worth is pretty much just the laptop I bought with my entire severance when I got laid off... and my adorable cat Heater.”
While Schakowsky, 80, was born before the moon landing, and as of 2018, she didn’t qualify as a millionaire, according to Open Secrets. Her net worth was then estimated at $749,017.
Schakowsky has been an outspoken critic of Trump. She boycotted his address to Congress earlier this month, then slammed his remarks as “insulting and disrespectful.”
Last week, Schakowsky joined Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York in denouncing Trump’s firing of two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, calling it “yet another direct assault on our democracy.”
A challenge but Kat Abughazaleh is up for it.
Staunchly liberal platform
Abughazaleh is attempting to tap into rising Democratic anger at old-guard politicians like Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, whom progressives accuse of failing to effectively counter Trump’s moves to dismantle government agencies and fire federal workers.
On her website, Abughazaleh also takes a not-so-subtle shot at Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, whose new podcast has featured guests like the arch-conservatives Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.
“Some Democrats might be happy to throw trans people under the bus for an interview with Steve Bannon, but I’m not,” she states.
Her policy proposals range from enacting more protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, passing the Green New Deal to address climate change, increasing pay for public school teachers, offering universal pre-K, expanding Social Security and abolishing limitations on abortion.
While Illinois’ Ninth District is considered strongly Democratic, the first question Abughazaleh must answer is whether she can debate and beat Schakowsky, who was first elected to Congress in 1999, in the primary.
Schakowsky, after all, can lean on her own liberal record. According to Progressive Punch, a database ranking how members vote, she was rated as the 27th most progressive Democrat in Congress. A former elementary school teacher, she also has received an A grade from the National Educational Association.
Abughazaleh will have to convince Illinois voters that Schakowsky is part of the larger problem progressives see with the Democratic Party. In her kickoff video, the woman known on social media as Kat Abu puts it this way: “We’re focused on meeting constituent needs with one simple rule: What if we didn’t suck?”
Pete Hegseth could be the first major administration figure gone this year.
Vice President JD Vance is tired of Elon Musk screwing up the Trump agenda. He had privately bashed the billionaire and Secretary of Government Efficiency. He and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have to save grace.
The incompetent leadership always falls on President Donald J. Trump. But guess who he is gonna blame for the chaotic first 100 days?
It ain’t him.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may be in some serious trouble. He was the one who launched the Signal conversation. He was the one who leaked out their sloppy engagement with Yemen.
Yemen, had previously allowed cargo ships pass through its sovereignty. Now thanks to the U.S. airstrikes on Sana'a, the country imposed a mandatory restriction of any shipping through its waters. Thanks to the Israelis, Trump may have launched a full scale war with the Yemenis.
Yemen only blocked ships that went to Israel. It was lawfully within its rights.
Yemen said that it would allow Israeli ships to pass if they allowed goods and medication into the Gaza Strip. Israel violated the ceasefire and formally ended it.
Yemen now warns the U.S. that any military or shipping vessels will be targeted.
Well all the groundwork for an invasion was leaked to the junk food media.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a Zionist writing for The Atlantic said the Defense Secretary accidently invited him in and leaked all their plans. Goldberg left college to move to Israel, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces during the First Intifada as a prison guard at Ktzi'ot Prison, where Palestinian participants arrested in the uprising were held. There he met Rafiq Hijazi, a Palestine Liberation Organization leader, college math teacher, and devout Muslim from a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, whom Goldberg called "the only Palestinian I could find in Ketziot who understood the moral justification for Zionism".
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @JeffreyGoldberg. https://t.co/jvBzeJwEuy
Trump on report that cabinet officials were discussing sensitive materials on Signal: I don’t know anything about it.. You’re telling me about it for the first time pic.twitter.com/13LoxXhh9K
I bet you money Goldberg gave it to Israeli intelligence. The Trump Administration is so cooked. These Zionists are working his ass over.
Hegseth and Vance also bashed Trump and the European Union.
Top national security officials for Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story posted online Monday. The National Security Council said the text chain “appears to be authentic.”
Trump initially told reporters he was not aware that the highly sensitive information had been shared, 2 1/2 hours after it was reported. He later appeared to joke about the breach.
The material in the text chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing,” editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported.
It was not immediately clear if the specifics of the military operation were classified, but they often are and at the least are kept secure to protect service members and operational security. The U.S. has conducted airstrikes against the Houthis since the militant group began targeting commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea in November 2023.
Just two hours after Goldberg received the details of the attack on March 15, the U.S. began launching a series of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
Vance and Rubio are stressing.
The National Security Council is looking into the matter.
The National Security Council said in a statement that it was looking into how a journalist’s number was added to the chain in the Signal group chat. In addition to Hegseth, it included Vance, Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence.
Goldberg said he received the Signal invitation from Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser, who was also in the group chat.
Hegseth in his first comments on the matter attacked Goldberg as “deceitful” and a “discredited so-called journalist” while alluding to previous critical reporting of Trump from the publication. He did not shed light on why Signal was being used to discuss the sensitive operation or how Goldberg ended up on the message chain.
“Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that,” Hegseth said in an exchange with reporters after landing in Hawaii on Monday as he began his first trip to the Indo-Pacific as defense secretary.
In a statement late Monday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the president still has the “utmost confidence” in Waltz and the national security team.
Earlier Monday, Trump told reporters, “I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time.” He added that The Atlantic was “not much of a magazine.”
By early evening, the president jokingly brushed it aside. He amplified a social media posting from Elon Musk spotlighting a conservative satirical news site article with the cutting headline: “4D Chess: Genius Trump Leaks War Plans to ‘The Atlantic’ Where No One Will Ever See Them.”
Government officials have used Signal for organizational correspondence, but it is not classified and can be hacked. Privacy and tech experts say the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging and voice call app is more secure than conventional texting.
Trump says it's not his fault. Like always he will deflect blame.
Reaction poured in quickly.
The sharing of sensitive information comes as Hegseth’s office has just announced a crackdown on leaks of sensitive information, including the potential use of polygraphs on defense personnel to determine how reporters have received information.
Sean Parnell, a spokesman for Hegseth, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on why the defense secretary posted war operational plans on an unclassified app.
The administration’s handling of the highly sensitive information was swiftly condemned by Democratic lawmakers. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called for a full investigation.
“This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time,” Schumer, a New York Zionist Democrat, said in a floor speech Monday afternoon.
“If true, this story represents one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense I have ever seen,” said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a statement.
He said American lives are “on the line. The carelessness shown by Trump’s Cabinet is stunning and dangerous. I will be seeking answers from the Administration immediately.”
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that he was “horrified” by the reports.
Himes said if a lower-ranking official “did what is described here, they would likely lose their clearance and be subject to criminal investigation. The American people deserve answers,” which he said he planned to get at Wednesday’s previously scheduled committee hearing.
Some Republicans also expressed concerns.
Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters Monday, “We’re very concerned about it and we’ll be looking into it on a bipartisan basis.”
Reed said he would be speaking with Wicker about what the committee will do to “follow up” on the Signal leak.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he wants to learn more about what happened.
“Obviously, we got to to run it to the ground, figure out what went on there,” said Thune, a South Dakota Republican.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson offered a notably forgiving posture.
“I think it would be a terrible mistake for there to be adverse consequences on any of the people that were involved in that call,” Johnson said. “They were trying to do a good job, the mission was accomplished with precision.”
There are strict laws around handling defense information
The handling of national defense information is strictly governed by law under the century-old Espionage Act, including provisions that make it a crime to remove such information from its “proper place of custody” even through an act of gross negligence.
The Justice Department in 2015 and 2016 investigated whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke the law by communicating about classified information with her aides on a private email server she set up, though the FBI ultimately recommended against charges and none were brought.
In the Biden administration, some officials were given permission to download Signal on their White House-issued phones, but were instructed to use the app sparingly, according to a former national security official who served in the Democratic administration.
The official, who requested anonymity to speak about methods used to share sensitive information, said Signal was most commonly used to communicate what they internally referred to as “tippers” to notify someone when they were away from the office or traveling overseas that they should check their “high side” inbox for a classified message.
The app was sometimes also used by officials during the Biden administration to communicate about scheduling of sensitive meetings or classified phone calls when they were outside the office, the official said.
The official, who requested anonymity to speak about methods used to share sensitive information, said Signal was most commonly used to communicate what they internally referred to as “tippers” to notify someone when they were away from the office or traveling overseas that they should check their “high side” inbox for a classified message.
The app was sometimes also used by officials during the Biden administration to communicate about scheduling of sensitive meetings or classified phone calls when they were outside the office, the official said.
The use of Signal became more prevalent during the last year of the Biden administration after federal law enforcement officials warned that China and Iran were hacking the White House as well as officials in the first Trump administration, according to the official.
The official was unaware of top Biden administration officials — such as Vice President Kamala Harris, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and national security adviser Jake Sullivan — using Signal to discuss sensitive plans as the Trump administration officials did.
Some of the toughest criticism targeted Hegseth, a former Fox News Channel weekend host. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, said on social media that Hegseth, “the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in history, is demonstrating his incompetence by literally leaking classified war plans in the group chat.”
Leak reveals internal debate on Houthi operation.
Vance in the chain of the messages questioned whether Americans would understand the importance of strikes that came with the risk of “a moderate to severe spike in oil prices” and if the timing of the operation might be a “mistake.”
“I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself,” Vance argued. “But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”
Vance also made the case that Europe would benefit much more than the U.S. by the action aimed at decimating the Houthis and securing Red Sea shipping lanes.
“If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance said in a back-and-forth with Hegseth.
“I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC,” Hegseth replied. He added, “I think we should go.”
The vice president’s communication’s director, William Martin, in a statement downplayed the debate. He said Vance “unequivocally supports this administration’s foreign policy.”
The former Utah lawmaker and first Black woman elected as a Republican has passed away from terminal brain cancer.
Ludmya Love professionally known as Mia Love has died from complications of cancer.
She served two terms as the first Black woman U.S. Representative in Congress.
Love was previously a mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah and a CNN commentator.
She was 49.
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Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, 49, daughter of Haitian immigrants and the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at her Saratoga Springs, Utah home, per a family statement.
Love’s family posted news of her death on Love’s X account.
She had undergone recent treatment for brain cancer and received immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial at Duke University’s brain tumor center. Her daughter said earlier this month that the former lawmaker was no longer responding to treatment.
Love died at her home in Saratoga Springs, Utah, according to a statement posted by the family.
“With grateful hearts filled to overflowing for the profound influence of Mia on our lives, we want you to know that she passed away peacefully,” her family said. “We are thankful for the many good wishes, prayers and condolences.”
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox referred to Love as a “true friend” and said her legacy of service inspired all who knew her.
Love entered politics in 2003 after winning a seat on the city council in Saratoga Springs, a growing community about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City. She later became the city’s mayor.
In 2012, Love narrowly lost a bid for the House against the Democratic incumbent, former Rep. Jim Matheson, in a district that covers a string of Salt Lake City suburbs. She ran again two years later and defeated first-time candidate Doug Owens by about 7,500 votes.
Love didn’t emphasize her race during her campaigns, but she acknowledged the significance of her election after her 2014 victory. She said her win defied naysayers who had suggested that a Black, Republican, Mormon woman couldn’t win a congressional seat in overwhelmingly white Utah.
Her family announced her passing early Monday morning.
She was briefly considered a rising star within the GOP and she kept her distance from Donald Trump, who was unpopular with many Utah voters, while he was running for president ahead of the 2016 election.
In an op-ed published earlier this month in the Deseret News, Love described the version of America she grew up loving and shared her enduring wish for the nation to become less divisive. She thanked her medical team and every person who had prayed for her.
Love said her parents immigrated to the U.S. with $10 in their pocket and a belief that hard work would lead to success. She said she was raised to believe passionately in the American dream and “to love this country, warts and all.” America at its roots is respectful, resilient, giving and grounded in gritty determination, she said.
Her career in politics exposed Love to America’s ugly side, but she said it also gave her a front row seat to be inspired by people’s hope and courage. She shared her wish for neighbors to come together and focus on their similarities rather than their differences.
“Some have forgotten the math of America — whenever you divide you diminish,” Love wrote.
She urged elected officials to lead with compassion and communicate honestly with their constituents.
“In the end, I hope that my life will have mattered and made a difference for the nation I love and the family and friends I adore,” Love wrote. “I hope you will see the America I know in the years ahead, that you will hear my words in the whisper of the wind of freedom and feel my presence in the flame of the enduring principles of liberty. My living wish and fervent prayer for you and for this nation is that the America I have known is the America you fight to preserve.”
In 2016, facing reelection and following the release of a 2005 recording in which Trump made lewd comments about groping women, Love skipped the Republican National Convention and released a statement saying definitively that she would not vote for Trump. She instead endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the GOP race, but he dropped out months later.
While seeking a third term in 2018, Love tried to separate herself from Trump on trade and immigration while still backing her party’s positions on tax cuts. Despite Republican voters outnumbering Democrats by a nearly three-to-one margin in her district, though, she lost by fewer than 700 votes to Democrat Ben McAdams, a former mayor of Salt Lake City.
Trump called out Love by name in a news conference the morning after she lost, where he also bashed other Republicans who didn’t fully embrace him.
“Mia Love gave me no love, and she lost,” Trump said. “Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia.”
After her loss, Love served as a political commentator on CNN and as a fellow at the University of Sydney.
Following Trump’s election in November, Love said she was “OK with the outcome.”
“Yes, Trump says a lot of inconsiderate things that are unfortunate and impossible to defend,” Love wrote in a social media post. “However, his policies have a high probability of benefiting all Americans.”
