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Left Support for Biden Replacement Must Be Conditioned on Ending Gaza Genocide
Thus far, progressive electeds and organizations have treated Gaza as an afterthought. This moral abdication must end.
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Adam Johnson
The Biden Administration’s Fake “Ceasefire” Gambit Seems To Have Mostly Worked
No longer are the daily horrors coming out of Gaza seen as the fault of the President. Instead, they are something more abstract—and authorless.
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Adam Johnson

June 2024

Media Keeps Playing Along With Fiction There Is an “Israeli Ceasefire Deal”
Don’t squint too hard, one may notice Israel is clear they have no intention to “end the war.”
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Adam Johnson
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May 2024

There's Always a Reason Nothing Can Change and Nothing You Do Matters
Our media produces a nonstop torrent of ready-made takes and reporting justifying inaction and indifference.
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Adam Johnson
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Why Does the NYT Keep Lying About Biden “Trying to End the War”?
Partisan wishcasting from the paper of record is in direct contradiction with the White House’s own statements.
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Adam Johnson

March 2024

NYT, WSJ Laundering Israel's Obviously Bogus UN "Hamas Links" Story Helped Starve Gaza
Uncritically passing along Israel’s racist tabloid misinformation paved the way for mass starvation of Palestinians. There needs to be accountability.
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Adam Johnson
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On Gaza Protest Voters, Dem Pundits Don’t Need to Rally the Troops 8 Months Before Election
This careerist media posture only serves one functional purpose.
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Adam Johnson
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The TikTok Ban Is an Act of Elite Desperation
TikTok isn’t some revolutionary force—and NatSec hatred for it is long simmering—but the nonstop images of dead Palestinians is absolutely what sealed…
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Adam Johnson
For the Biden Campaign, Gaza Is a PR Annoyance to Manage, Not a Genocide to End
Israeli propaganda is full-blown alternate reality. Biden White House propaganda is something much more sinister.
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Adam Johnson
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February 2024

January 2024

The Profound Nihilism of Gaza Voter-Scolding
Shifting the burden from the specific and powerful to the abstract and powerless has blinkered our moral—and political—thinking.
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Adam Johnson
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Sec. Blinken Casually Admits Entire Gaza Strategy Is Premised on Pointless Mass Death
This should probably be a bigger scandal.
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Adam Johnson
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