Qasim Rashid, Esq.

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2026-04-08 10:27:06 UTC

So the Dem tent can apparently include people who:
•Mock DV survivors
•Use the N word
•Fund and then deny genocide
•Demonize Muslims
•Oppose abortion access
•Deny climate change
•Dehumanize LGBTQ people
•Support the war in Iran
•Oppose voting rights
•Support killing civilians in war
But the line is: a Muslim who opposes Israeli government policy and says so loudly. The hypocrisy is disgusting, dangerous, and destructive.
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/the-hasan-piker-witch-hunt-exposes-everything-wrong-with-corporate-democrats/

2026-03-30 20:31:53 UTC

BREAKING: Israel's parliament has approved the death penalty BY HANGING as the default for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis
Meanwhile, multiple human rights orgs including Israeli orgs like B'TSalem confirm that Israelis kill Palestinians with impunity and face no accountabilty.
This is what apartheid looks like and shame on anyone gaslighting otherwise

2026-03-20 18:56:53 UTC

Today is Eid al‑Fitr — the joy after a month of Ramadan. If Ramadan was only about abstaining from food and water, then Eid would simply be the end of a difficult month. But Ramadan transforms us, softening hearts, sharpening conscience, and connecting our lives to others.
Eid Mubarak to all!
Read my full article here:
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/eid-mubarak-to-all/

2026-03-19 04:49:21 UTC

AIPAC is gloating about "stopping progressives in IL" and claiming its proof that "being pro Israel is good policy and good politics"
But that's a lie. And AIPAC knows its a lie.
AIPAC spent $22M on Illinois primary elections without EVEN ONCE mentioning Israel or AIPAC. Instead they ran as "Elect Chicago Women" or "Progressive Caucus Chicago" because they know just how toxic AIPAC and Israel are. They are not "good politics."
Don't fall for AIPAC propaganda. They are losing and know it.

2026-03-08 01:09:08 UTC

The people who claim we had to attack Iran to liberate women are silent on the women and girls Trump has raped
The ones who claim to protect Iranian girls are mocking the 175 Iranian girls brutally murdered by US bombs
The ones who claim Iran had imminent nuclear weapons are silent on Iran’s full compliance with Iran nuclear deal & silent on Israel’s 200+ nukes in violation of every international law
This war is not about justice. It’s a modern day crusade by Christian nationalists & fascists

2026-03-04 23:00:06 UTC

BREAKING: Senate vote on War Power’s Resolution fails 47-52
46 Dems in favor, 1 Nay (Feckless Fetterman)
51 GOP against, 1 Yea (Rand Paul, who co-sponsored the bill with Kaine)
It is absolutely unhinged that we even need a war power’s resolution to restate what is already explicit in the United States Constitution. Yet here we are. smh

2026-03-01 05:38:33 UTC

All yall defending the Iranian regime seem to forget that their nationalist police murder 2000 people a year, the regime kills 70,000 people a year by denying them the basic medicine they need to live, this year their supreme leader cut aid to hungry civilians and killed 600,000 innocent people, and since 2001 they’ve waged imperialist wars that have killed 4.6 Million people
How Do You Defend That?!?
Ahhh my bad. I just described the United States Govt and the number of people it’s killed.😐

2026-02-27 17:49:59 UTC

Did you know Haiti had to pay reparations to France for 125 years for daring to free themselves from slavery? Up to 80% of its GDP went to its former colonizer. Here’s more about the history they don’t teach you.
Let’s Address This.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XN0VAVVUb6Q?si=cu-_tNCola3Cu0WY

2026-02-09 16:31:10 UTC

Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.
They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.
Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???
"We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.
I'm uninstalling my RING today.
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2026-01-15 00:21:15 UTC

We don’t need AI medicine. We need healthcare people can afford, not algorithms filling the gap when care is out of reach.
Today on Let’s Address This, I publish a guest essay by public health experts Pari and Eve from the Women in America podcast.
If you or someone you know has ever used AI or ChatGPT for medical advice, you’ll want to read this. Make sure to follow Eve & Pari for more clear, action-focused analysis on healthcare and reproductive rights.
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/guest-post-if-you-cant-afford-a-doctor-big-tech-has-a-solution/

2026-01-02 22:53:46 UTC

Yesterday, I witnessed NYC’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, take his oath on the Holy Qur’an. As an American Muslim, the joy & reverence I felt watching the moment is hard to describe.
This is what makes America great. Unity without sameness.
Predictably, online outrage followed over a Muslim public servant swearing an oath on his own sacred text. Those reactions reveal a misunderstanding of Islam & what American pluralism actually means.
Read the full article.
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/heres-a-free-copy-of-the-quran/

2025-12-10 21:38:37 UTC

Your reminder that there is no “war on Christmas” and no one is trying to ban saying “merry Christmas.”
Case in point. I'm Muslim. It doesn't offend me when people wish me Merry Christmas. Offensive is when MAGA politicians cut food stamps, healthcare, & education, while giving trillions in tax cuts to billionaires, and claim that's the Christmas spirit.
If you don't get why that's a problem, y'all need Jesus, and common sense.

2025-11-01 14:57:55 UTC

Just to be clear. MAGAs are gutting:
•Medicaid—which 60M Americans rely on to survive
•SNAP—which 42M Americans rely on to eat
•School Lunch—which 30M kids rely on daily
•Housing Assistance—which 5M families rely on to live
ALL to cut $4.5T in taxes for 800 Billionaires
This Is Barbaric.

2025-10-17 23:37:24 UTC

Here's some good news to share.
In response to ICE fascists in unmarked vehicles refusing to provide identification or even warrants while kidnapping people, Cook County’s chief judge Timothy Evans has signed an order banning federal immigration agents from arresting people around local courthouses without a warrant.
Judge Evans "Reaffirmed the common law privilege against civil arrest while attending court."
Every Judge in America should be doing this. This is leadership & justice.

2025-10-16 14:50:21 UTC

As Trump prosecutes Letitia James, James Comey, Adam Schiff, Jack Smith, strips visas from critics of Kirk, pardons war criminals & convicted felons, grifts crypto for tens of billions, shuts down the Govt, fires tens of thousands of federal workers, destroys farmers, destroys public health, occupies cities, & so much more crap I cannot even begin to list—I just wanna ask Merrick Garland & Joe Biden about their militant obsession with “norms” & refusing to prosecute, convict, & sentence Trump?🤔

2025-10-16 13:10:49 UTC

This horror demands answers:
1. How did these Palestinians die?
2. When did they die?
3. Were they shackled before or after they died?
4. If before, why were they not given medical attention as international human rights law requires?
5. If after, for what purpose? Why mutilate a corpse?
6. Why were they denied their names, and instead given numbers like the Nazis did to Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
7. Who ordered these atrocities?
8. Who acted upon these orders?
The ICC MUST investigate.
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2025-10-13 01:57:02 UTC

Spoke to a friend today who is a tenured professor of neuroscience. I asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?
He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.
This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳
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2025-10-06 22:58:07 UTC

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.
Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina-re-intros-bill-to-kill

2025-09-10 15:38:32 UTC

This week SCOTUS issued a ghastly ruling, that Trump's ICE fascists can use ethnicity as a ‘relevant factor’ to detain people, specifically citing Latino ethnicity.
Here’s the harsh truth: This Supreme Court’s extremism is not an aberration, but a manifestation, of Supreme Court extremism throughout U.S. history. Here are the devastating receipts:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-supreme-court-has-always-upheld

2025-09-10 05:11:55 UTC

Imagine if in the last year Hamas attacked Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, & Qatar, assassinated its leaders, raped prisoners, used civilians as human shields, snipered babies, shot teen boys in the testicles, bombed hospitals, schools, churches, & mosques, starved millions to famine, & genocided minimum 100K—all while claiming self defense.
Would you buy that sick excuse?
Because Hamas did none of that—but that’s the exact excuse Israel uses for doing all of that.

2025-09-07 19:49:23 UTC

A few hours ago I received a violent series of texts on my private cell, threatening me because I'm speaking up for Palestine.
They sent me a home address I used to live at, said they'll "wipe me off the street" and are backed by Canary Mission.
This is how fascists defend genocide.
I am not going to be intimidated or silenced so easily. I’ve reported them to the FBI and and posting more details soon. God help us.

2025-09-06 21:17:02 UTC

I'm a human rights lawyer. I've worked on countless immigration, asylum, & refugee cases.
As the fascist in chief sends ICE and the military to target immigrants in Chicago, here are tangible steps you can take to protect your immigrant neighbors.
(No paywall)
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-protect-your-immigrant-neighbors

2025-07-27 19:50:43 UTC

I can report that 300+ paid subs have cancelled their subscriptions to my human rights newsletter—many citing my advocacy for Gaza.
I have 2 options. Tone it down, or double down. So let me be absolutely clear: Unsubscribe. Block. Cancel. Report. Do whatever the hell it is you need to do. I will not stop condemning Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Free Palestine.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-300-paid-subscribers-have-cancelled

2025-07-20 16:01:59 UTC

The Israeli military has opened fire and killed at least 67 more Palestinian civilians seeking aid at a designated aid site. The UN reports that Israel has now murdered at least 800 Palestinians seeking aid since late May.
This is genocide. These are war crimes. Why does the world continue to remain silent? Every politician—Dem or GOP—silent on this is complicit. I hope history remembers them as such. Horrific.

2025-07-19 22:50:11 UTC

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.
Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.
It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

2025-07-17 15:05:40 UTC

Local journalists are reporting that the Israeli military just bombed the very church in Gaza that Pope Francis used to call every night. Israel killed 2 Christians and injuring 6 more.
Was Hamas in the church now?
If you still actually believe this is "Muslim vs Jew" and not War Criminal vs Civilians, then idk what to tell you but you're helping whitewash genocide.

2025-06-27 17:53:26 UTC

This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight.
You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify this and cheer it on.
Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.
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2025-06-24 14:20:14 UTC

A reminder that while Netanyahu was bombing Iran, and while Trump was bombing Iran, not only did Iran never have a nuclear weapon, but the Israeli Govt is still committing genocide of Palestinians, taking Gaza by forced occupation (a war crime), and a new Harvard study shows per the Israeli military itself at least 377,000 Palestinians are dead or missing.
Continue to raise your voice. Do not be silent to this ongoing genocide perpetuated every day by war criminals. Silence is complicity.

2025-05-31 21:01:45 UTC

Trump just got SCOTUS to rule that 500,000 previously documented people are now undocumented.
A reminder that whenever MAGA cultists claimed they only opposed "illegal" immigration and not "legal" immigration, they were lying. They oppose non-white people, because MAGA is a white supremacist cult.

2025-05-25 16:11:28 UTC

A reminder that Netanyahu is still starving Gaza by blocking aid—which is a war crime.
Recall that when Yemenis blocked ships to prevent genocide, they were bombed. Now, as Israelis block aid to enable famine, they’re protected.
If you don't see the grotesque white supremacy in our foreign policy then you're either not paying attention or you're happily complicit.
The world must unite to end this blockade and stop this genocide.

2025-05-21 20:53:30 UTC

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Also, this is the West Bank, not Gaza. It's Occupied Palestine. Any claims that the Diplomats went "off route" and therefore the Israeli military had to open fire is an admission that the Israeli military is violently occupying land that is not theres, and needs to stop. Period.
I've been to Occupied Palestine. I've seen with my own eyes the restrictive suffocating nature of military occupation. Sadly, what these diplomats experienced is not the exception, but the norm. And that's the problem.

2025-05-21 19:33:13 UTC

WOW. The Guardian is reporting that Israeli troops fired ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank. The delegation comprised ambassadors and diplomats representing 31 countries, including Italy, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Kingdom.
Israel claims it was an "inconvenience" and they're investigating.
Make no mistake, this is deliberate intimidation by a regime committing daily genocide. If this is how they treat diplomats, just imagine how they treat Palestinians.

2025-04-17 20:11:50 UTC

Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien."
Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the United States. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.
This is absolute fascism. They are absolutely coming for all non-white US Citizens next.

2025-04-16 13:44:54 UTC

Fascism is when there are documented cases of the KKK mass murdering at least 5000 Black people and terrorizing millions more, but they're still allowed to exist and hold public marches due to "free speech," but Black and brown people are disappeared, deported, and tortured on the mere accusation that they said things the Government doesn't like.

2025-04-02 17:05:55 UTC

Guy worth $340B spending $25M in WI is like the median American worker who makes $39,982 a year spending $2.94.
Meaning, a $5 cup of coffee has a greater financial impact on a working American than $25M did on a maniac billionaire.
This is how democracies collapse.
TAX BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE.

2025-03-14 20:08:43 UTC

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.
Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.
This is historic. Now the question is whether Harvard will listen to its students or its donors.

2025-01-07 05:01:03 UTC

This story is beyond the pale of humanity.
RN Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman in Virginia is charged with breaking the bones of Black infants in the NICU. Authorities are aware of at least 7 babies so far.
She's 26. She's not from "another time." This is 2025 USA. Just incomprehensible evil. My God.
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2024-12-30 19:23:35 UTC

The Lancet reports that every year at least 68,000 people die preventable deaths due to a lack of healthcare—1 every 7.7 min
Meaning, since the UnitedHealth CEO's death on 12/4, at least 4862 people have died preventable deaths due to the for profit health exploitation system
Outrageous & barbaric

2024-12-23 20:34:20 UTC

Hours ago the House Ethics Committee published their findings of former MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz. I read the entire report so you don’t have to, and it is worse than many of us may have imagined.
Statutory rape, drug abuse, and more—below I relate the five most damning findings the Committee documents.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-house-publishes-gaetz-ethics

2024-12-18 17:49:24 UTC

Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.
Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism.
Class warfare is when wealthy CEOs are a protected class but working Black people are not.

2024-12-06 01:47:59 UTC

I agree it is horrific to shoot a man dead.
Problem I have is with the people who only condemn that, and meanwhile employ AI to reject critical medication claims for sick people thereby ensuring they suffer a slow painful death which is then deem justified because it increases shareholder value.

2024-12-05 19:02:19 UTC

A man murdered the UnitedHealth CEO in broad daylight, and the majority of people watching laughed. Why?
My take on America's violent health system, and what we must change immediately going forward.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-violent-health-system

2024-12-05 00:14:09 UTC

No, I don't think violently killing CEOs is the answer.
I do think it's outrageous & disgusting that 70,000 Americans die preventable deaths annually because health insurance mega corps prioritize profits over healthcare & we don't acknowledge that as violent.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

2024-12-04 12:22:03 UTC

MAGA: We're cutting Govt waste!
So—cut bloated Defense budget?
MAGA: NO
Stop funding Pentagon until it can pass an audit?
MAGA: NO
Adopt universal healthcare which costs 50% of private insurance?
MAGA: NO
Then how?
MAGA: Cut food stamps, housing, SS, & Medicare & give billionaires more money

2024-12-02 00:29:19 UTC

Before leaving office Joe Biden is set to pardon his son Hunter.
He can't stop there. Right now ~2500 people sit on federal death row. When Trump was in office he lifted the moratorium on executions. Biden should commute their executions to life in prison. Do it.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-joe-biden-can-still-slow-maga

2024-11-22 18:15:33 UTC

Netanyahu’s response to the ICC arrest warrant is to claim antisemitism. But this is without merit. Not only is the ICC charging both Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes, among the key advisors to help issue these arrest warrants is 94-year-old attorney, renowned humanitarian, and Nazi death camp survivor, Theodor Meron.
Netanyahu is accusing one of the last living Holocaust survivors of antisemitism😐 https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-icc-issues-arrest-warrants

2024-11-12 15:05:07 UTC

Dems just handed Trump a trifecta Govt—again
Here are 5 things Joe Biden can still do in his final 2 months as President to slow down MAGA fascism.
Biden's failure to act will cost more American lives. He needs to act now & we must pressure him to act.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-joe-biden-can-still-slow-maga

2024-11-01 21:46:52 UTC

Watching MAGAs panic at the thought that women might vote opposite their husbands reminds me that after no fault divorce was legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%
The "strong 1950s family unit" that GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating DV, & 0 female financial autonomy.
GOP was always about control of women, and nothing about that has changed today.

2024-10-18 14:28:56 UTC

Johns Hopkins reports that Texas abortion ban led to 216 additional infant deaths in 2022
Journal of American Medical Ass’n reports in the 14 states that banned abortion 134 women are impregnated by rape Daily
Northwestern reports that maternal mortality has doubled & rapidly increasing post Roe
Every medical & academic institution reports that banning abortion is killing women & babies while empowering rapists—yet GOP doubles down
It was never about life—it was always about control of women

2024-10-07 00:14:20 UTC

Being a good husband and boosting my wife Ayesha’a small business, Equal Entrance—which focuses on women’s empowerment and elegant scarves and shawls.
Order link to her collection of hand made Silk Route Heirlooms from Pakistan: https://equalentrance.com/products/mother-mary-shawls
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2024-09-10 17:08:31 UTC

Let’s be explicitly clear.
The Electoral College exists because enslavers wanted to count their enslaved in their vote total without freeing them, much less giving them voting rights. That is the one purpose the Electoral College ever served.
Pro Electoral College is pro white supremacy. Abolish it.

2024-09-09 15:22:54 UTC

Thinking about how Sonya Massey called cops for help and they shot her in the face at point blank range because her pot of water was threatening—and how Colt Gray killed 4 people and cops got him to put down his AR-15 and arrested him unharmed.
White supremacy is when a Black woman holding a pot of water is more threatening than a white mass shooter holding an AR-15 that he just used to kill 4 people.

2024-08-08 02:47:12 UTC

Just saw Kamala Harris’s response to protestors and y’all this ain’t it.
This was a golden opportunity to show empathy to people in deep pain because their family is suffering torture, famine, displacement, & genocide. They don’t want Trump to win. They want the suffering to stop. Don’t push them away. Invite them in.
She should remedy this asap. This is the moment to lean into empathy and humanity. These aren’t MAGAs you shut down—they’re people willing to vote for you. Hear them.

2024-07-30 21:34:04 UTC

Irrelevant that the Project 2025 head fascist is resigning—he’ll be replaced by another advancing the same fascist agenda. Don’t be distracted. Stay active and organized to stop the advancement of fascism and theocracy in USA.

2024-07-29 22:13:49 UTC

The absolute vileness of MAGA republicans mocking women who do not have children is just beyond the pale of decency & integrity.
The only thing men need to know about why a woman does or does not have children is that it’s none of our [explicit word] business. End of discussion.

2024-07-05 22:40:56 UTC

I've been on Facebook/Meta for decades, and just yesterday for the first time ever, they censored an article I wrote. The topic? Criticism of Netanyahu for his war crimes.
This is a deeply concerning trend and one that undermines human rights. My latest: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/meta-facebook-has-begun-to-censor

2024-07-05 13:53:52 UTC

The NY Times published this piece on July 4th, to convince Americans to NOT vote, written by a guy who DOES vote, a guy who is a right wing Christian nationalist, a guy who reportedly supported the January 6 insurrection, and a guy who cosplays Hitler.
Legacy media is absolutely failing us and hastening the downfall of democracy. Smh what a disgrace.
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2024-07-01 19:55:01 UTC

Expanded POTUS immunity, bribery legalized, homelessness criminalized, insurrection decriminalized, abortion care denied, pollution authorized—and that's just this week.
SCOTUS proves once again why it is our nation's greatest blockade towards justice.
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/scotus-hurtles-the-usa-towards-dictatorship

2024-06-10 22:41:57 UTC

BREAKING: UN Security Council passes permanent ceasefire resolution that requires release of all hostages: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-calls-un-security-council-vote-cease-fire-proposal-gaza-rcna156373
Israel has already said they REJECT this ceasefire.
Hamas has said they ACCEPT this ceasefire.
This would be the third time in the last month Israel has rejected a ceasefire resolution, except now its a binding UN Security Council resolution that even the United States voted for.

2024-06-10 14:03:57 UTC

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@npub1uc0…nh76 Some reports suggest IDF killed 3 hostages as well. Waiting on confirmation.

2024-06-10 03:00:48 UTC

ICC: Seeks to charge Netanyahu for war crimes
ICJ: Condemns Netanyahu for enabling genocide
Gantz: Leaves Israeli Govt in protest of Netanyahu
Hostage families: Condemn Netanyahu for undermining hostage release
US Govt: Let's invite Netanyahu to address Congress!
Utterly Absurd.

2024-05-29 06:30:45 UTC

Does a Red Line for Rafah even exist?
Despite declaring attacks on Rafah as a "Red Line," the Biden Administration says Israel's attacks on Rafah killing 45 civilians including 32 children is not a deal breaker.
OpEd going live at 8am CST. Subscribe here to receive automatically in your inbox: https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/does-a-red-line-for-rafah-even-exist?r=fyvxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2024-05-29 01:55:06 UTC

WOW this is incredible & terrifying.
Israel spent over a decade spying on ICC prosecutors to "retroactively investigate incidents of interest to ICC to prove Israel’s legal system is accountable."
Meanwhile Israel has banned all journalists from Gaza and has killed 100+ journalists. This is totally what you do when you're not guilty of war crimes.
How much longer will the USA, UN, & the world enable this injustice?
https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/

2024-05-24 16:18:33 UTC

As you watch Justice Thomas and Alito explicitly endorse racism and gerrymandering, and even go as far as to slam the Brown v Board ruling—a reminder that this corruption is who SCOTUS has always been.
Here are the receipts: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/what-if-the-greatest-obstacle-to

2024-05-24 14:57:19 UTC

Why we must divest from funding the siege on Gaza. My remarks before my city council last week make the argument historically, contemporarily, and looking towards the future—as the right and moral thing to do.
https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/why-we-must-divest-from-the-siege?r=fyvxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2024-05-20 04:36:35 UTC

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@npub1c2n…4ge3 how would you feel if I agreed with you but also said…for at least since 1857?

2024-05-07 20:52:35 UTC

This is just absurd. Israel is invading Rafah and meanwhile…
“Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed indefinitely.”
INDEFINITELY😐
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/07/israel-gaza-state-report-00156619

2024-05-02 00:10:40 UTC

This is unprecedented. Brown University strikes a deal with its students to end their peaceful protest & encampment, in exchange for a formal divestment vote from Israeli interests. And no student will be punished for protesting. This is democracy at work.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4633580-brown-university-israel-divestment-vote-student-palestine-protesters/

2024-05-01 23:53:03 UTC

US House has just passed HR 6090 to expand the definition of antisemitism to include the criticism of Israel. This is a massive chilling of free speech and makes no sense.
Subscribe to my human rights project “Let’s Address This,” to help counter media bias and instead demand universal human rights: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/368/510/526/571/163/original/0be2bfd307f17161.mp4

2024-05-01 22:32:33 UTC

BREAKING: The House just passed HR 6090, which expands the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.
Let me be clear. People have rights. State governments do not have rights. This terrible bill sets a dangerous precedent & does nothing to actually decrease or stop the scourge of antisemitism. The Senate should not pass this bill and Biden should not sign it into law.

2024-04-28 19:41:51 UTC

So we're just going to ignore that authorities confirm an anti-Palestine agitator yelled "Kill the Jews" to ignite discord & get people arrested?
Antisemitism is a real threat to humanity, and extremists like this harm both Jews & Palestinians. Shameful.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-israel-agitator-shouts-kill-the-jews-gets-everyone-else-arrested

2024-04-17 23:15:18 UTC

BREAKING: A special State Dept panel told Sect Blinken in December to sanction the IDF due to war crimes and rapes—& he’s taken no action.😳
Remember, the US Govt immediately pulled UNRWA funding on the mere allegation of Hamas, and without any evidence, but now 5 months later zero action against IDF despite extensive documentation of rape & murder by IDF as proven by the U.S. State Dept itself!😐
https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

2024-04-12 20:29:03 UTC

Outrageous. “Duke University announced it is ending a full-ride scholarship program for Black students”
Duke admits 11% of the general applicants but 23% of legacy applicants—whose parents and grandparents parents were accepted during Jim Crow.
Duke didn’t even accept Black students until 1963. Now Black scholarships are banned but racist Jim Crow Legacy thrives.
This is America. https://t.co/dNK2Rst99y

2024-03-26 15:12:14 UTC

SCOTUS is hearing arguments to ban Mifepristone b/c “FDA failed to address concerns about whether the drug is safe for women.”
Mifepristone reports 5 deaths per 1M people who use it—a death rate of 0.0005%.
Viagra has a 10X greater death rate.
So…when do we ban Viagra??🤔

2024-03-01 22:51:33 UTC

March is Women’s History Month.
A reminder that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%.🤯
The "strong 1950s family unit" GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.
Or maybe that’s the GOP’s goal.😐

2024-02-22 05:24:08 UTC

GOP: We demand small government!
So…abortion is legal?
GOP: No
Contraceptives?
GOP: No
Mifepristone?
GOP: No
IVF?
GOP: No
Teaching about Sex Ed?
GOP: No
So what exactly does “small government” mean???
GOP: Billionaire tax cuts, EPA regulation cuts, & unlimited gun access

2024-01-10 21:46:07 UTC

When Serena Williams spoke out she was demonized as the angry Black woman
When Lebron James spoke out he was told to shut up and dribble
When Colin Kaepernick took a knee he was labeled as anti-American
But as Aaron Rodgers spews right wing conspiracy theories he's a truth teller
I can't qwhite put my finger on the difference🤔

2024-01-05 05:13:44 UTC

*NOT A FINANCIAL ASK*
TAKE 5 SEC AND EMAIL CONGRESS TO EXPAND MEDICARE TO PROVIDE OBESITY MEDICATION.
NEED 1000 LETTERS ASAP
https://bit.ly/3tj149R

2023-10-29 02:42:18 UTC

Truly unbelievable that after bombing Afghanistan for 20 years, & bombing Iraq for 20 years, & leaving both nations in even worse condition by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians—people still think that bombing Palestinian civilians is the path to peace.😐
#CeaseFireInGaza

2023-10-27 00:49:57 UTC

MAGA Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Drag shows: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-Public Schools: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Books by Black or LGBTQ authors: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#Lewiston

2023-10-26 03:35:24 UTC

Devastated at the Maine mass shooting. My deepest love & condolences to the at least 22 fatal victims, dozens more injured, & thousands more traumatized.
Maine is the 565th mass shooting of 2023. It’s the 298th day of the year. We are suffering a mass shooting every 12.5 hours.😓
No other developed nation allows this perpetual atrocity. This is a barbaric policy choice & we are paying the ultimate price.
We need a federal ban on assault weapons & a ban on lobbyist money in politics ASAP.

2023-10-15 19:04:58 UTC

Horrific. I am Beside myself.
In Plainfield, IL, a 71 year old man is in custody for stabbing to death an 6-year-old Palestinian child named Wadea Al-Fayoume & nearly killing his mother.😓
The murderer stabbed the child 26 times & yelled "you Muslims must die!"😳
No charges filed yet. Police are investigating.
Please be safe my friends. Be diligent and look out for each other. God help us.
https://abc7chicago.com/plainfield-il-breaking-news-lily-cache-road-will-county/13914218/
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2023-10-13 15:03:11 UTC

The Israeli army has issued an order for the immediate relocation of 1.1M Palestinians from northern Gaza to the south in 24 hours. The UN has categorically condemned this order.
Forcing 1.1M people, including 550K kids, to evacuate in 24 hours or be bombed to death is even more cruel considering THERE’S NOWHERE TO EVACUATE TO.
We need a ceasefire.
The response to war crimes against civilians cannot be more war crimes against more civilians. I’m horrified that this is a controversial take.

2023-10-11 14:16:48 UTC

I’m scheduled to give a major keynote address tonight. The event organizers specifically invited me in light of my work as a human rights lawyer. A few days ago they saw my comments regarding the violence in Israel and Palestine.
They called me yesterday—not to object—but to actively express their solidarity & support of my efforts to uphold justice above all else. Let me tell y’all—that seemingly small act was powerful.
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2023-10-09 17:04:41 UTC

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@npub1nqz…838y Thank you for being a voice of reason and compassion in an unreasonable and cruel time.

2023-10-09 03:57:16 UTC

I wrote this 11 years ago about Israel & Palestine. I'm deeply pained that it is just as relevant today.
Anyone who claims Hamas is acting "per Islam," is ignorant or lying. Prophet Muhammad's (sa) rules of war reject killing civilians for any reason—ever.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/prophet-muhammads-rules-of-war

2023-10-07 19:31:44 UTC

I stand by what I've long said. Attacks on civilians are never justified. Hamas terrorist attacks, which have killed 200 Israeli civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, and horrific. My deepest condolences to the loved ones of those lost.
Furthermore, Hamas is not Palestine. Israel's attacks, which have killed 230 Palestinian civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, & horrific. Israel now cutting off electricity to 2M+ Gazan civilians is collective punishment & violates international law.
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2023-10-05 19:57:43 UTC

Wow. Rep @RoKhanna to intro major bill to increase congressional & judicial accountability:
•12 year Congress term limit
•18 year SCOTUS term limit
•Judicial code of ethics
•Ban Congress from trading stocks
•Ban Corporate & PAC donations
Count me in!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/ro-khanna-unveils-blueprint-term-limits-stock-trading-ban

2023-10-01 17:44:37 UTC

An appeals court has ordered a Black venture capital firm to stop grant apps supporting Black women founders b/c Fearless Fund—a right wing org—alleged racial discrimination for only helping Black women
•They wont pay Black people reparations for slavery
•They wont pay Black people reparations for Jim Crow
•They wont give Black farmers the COVID19 aid white farmers got
•Now they wont let Black people use their own money to elevate Black people
White supremacy—alive & well
https://t.co/kkK9FEYSvs

2023-09-30 20:14:02 UTC

Final day of the quarter 😳
8 hours until our deadline ✊🏽
157 donors to goal ❤️
If you’re like me—you also despise corporate money in politics. My campaign for Congress is the only campaign in this race that is 100% people funded.
Help me prove that people funded campaigns are the way to go. $11 or $1100—Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/qasim-founding-donor

2023-09-29 20:13:08 UTC

As we face yet another Govt shutdown I reflect on these absurdities. In the United States:
•1 Senator can block all military confirmations—but it takes 60 Senators to overrule him
•1 Speaker can shut down the entire government—but it takes 218 House Reps to overrule him
•1 bought SCOTUS Justice can strip away rights for hundreds of millions of people—and it's virtually impossible to remove him
This is not a functioning democracy. It is GOP exploitation. Vote GOP Out. Reform our government.

2023-09-28 02:51:37 UTC

I need to vent. Because I love y’all. As you watch the GOP debate and see our democracy at risk of failing under their control—channel that rage into action. It’s time to crush this.
Join my campaign for US Congress. Sign up to volunteer or donate at www.qasimrashid.com because Justice Can’t Wait. #justice #QasimForCongress
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/140/490/749/676/643/original/81660272da3a9bd2.mp4

2023-09-27 19:18:16 UTC

GOP: Reduce the debt!
Repeal Trump $2.1T billionaire tax cuts?
GOP: NO!
End Corp welfare?
GOP: NO!
Audit military budget?
GOP: NO!
So reduce the debt how?
GOP: Cancel Vets healthcare, Meals on Wheels, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, school lunch, & Title 1

2023-09-15 14:34:06 UTC

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@npub1hz7…26xr Yep. Conservatively $15B stolen annually. It's an atrocity enabled by politicians funded by corporations to look the other way.

2023-09-15 14:18:11 UTC

Auto workers are demanding a 40% raise to match the 40% pay increase CEOs of the Detroit automakers got over the past 4 years.
CEOs are calling this absurd, but they couldn't be more wrong.
THIS IS A COMPROMISE. Why? Because worker's real wages have fallen 30% over the past 20 years. They're foregoing 16 years of wage theft for 4 of equity, and consistent equity going forward. That's basic justice.
Pay workers. Unionize workers. Tax billionaires. Save our economy.

2023-09-14 16:04:38 UTC

I get Romney is retiring & doing his tell all book but—
1. We already knew all this. Him affirming it makes zero difference.
2. He's still in power. He can vote w/Dems & pass BBB, child tax credit, abolish filibuster, etc—but won't.
Talk is cheap. Let's see action for justice.

2023-09-14 16:03:37 UTC

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@npub1p90…5svf oh so you don’t have an answer but won’t admit you’re wrong. Got it. Peace.

2023-09-14 14:04:01 UTC

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@npub1p90…5svf when was this magical time you are mentioning that surpassed the 60 vote threshold to abolish the Jim Crow filibuster and do all these things?

2023-09-14 00:54:08 UTC

Fact: 12 of the last 15 government shut downs have happened under a GOP President & 15 of the last 15 government shut downs have happened while the GOP controlled the US House.
Remember folks, Republicans claim government doesn't work—then they get elected & prove it.
Vote GOP out.

2023-09-08 17:50:04 UTC

Today, tell your kids about Ruby Bridges—the first Black child at all-white public elementary school in South.
Today Ms. Bridges turns 69.
69.
She's younger than both my parents. And more importantly, she's a reminder of the courage of our youth, of the ever present reality of systemic racism, and of the need to lead with anti-racism to counter this hate.
Let us look to leaders like Ms. Bridges, and build that more perfect union for all people in this country—grounded in true Justice for all
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