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I don’t have words. Just look at it. This was an ancient city that was THOUSANDS of years old. THOUSANDS.

Joe Biden said the destruction of Rafah was his red line, then he let them destroy it. Now we see what it looks like.

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DO YOU BLAME HIM????

I think I can make this easy.

If someone killed your mother what would you do?
What if it was your mother and father?
And your brothers and sisters?
And your grandparents?
And your aunts and uncles?

And your neighbors?
And your elementary school teachers?
And most of your friends?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO??????

If you couldn’t simply call 911 or report it to law enforcement, and people just kept killing and killing and killing and killing EVERYONE you know….

WHAT WOULD YOU DO??????

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Here is the list of nations that just walked out on Netanyahu at the United Nations. Look who is there and who is missing. It’s VERY TELLING.

Afghanistan
Algeria
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Cuba
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Dominica
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Guyana
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritania
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nicaragua
Niger
North Korea
North Macedonia
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Panama
Peru
Qatar
Saint Lucia
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Slovenia
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sudan
Syria
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Yemen

And don’t get me wrong - I absolutely love it, but….

I only wish these same nations would walk out on Israel economically.

It’s beautiful to walk out on a speech - now walk out on their economy like nations did to Apartheid South Africa.

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Do you see him? He must be terrified.

My dear mother, who was born just one decade after the Holocaust ended, always taught me about it when I was growing up. She would show me documentaries and movies and books about it. And learning about it had a huge impact on me. And one of the most distinct memories I have, including in movies like Life Is Beautiful (whose lead actor speaks out on the genocide in Gaza by the way), is of little kids, often boys his age, hiding wherever they could from the Nazis.

Now they hide from the Israelis.

I truly believe that in the future, generations will think of Israelis just like I grew up thinking of the Nazis. It’s already happening.

I am so ashamed of the world we live in. I feel like the tide is turning, but it’s WAY too slow.

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Here are the words from Gaza from the people forced to actually live through this dystopian madness.

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(I wrote and edited this without the assistance of AI, so please forgive any errors.)

You may not remember, but that photo is of the graves of the school children of Minab that the United States, paid for by most of you reading this, slaughtered earlier this year.

I don’t think most journalists would ask you to do this, but before you read what I want to tell you, I need you to read this article by some investigative reporters. I provided a free version for you. I think it’s the most important thing written in a while.

In summary, the details how, on February 28th, the United States basically had AI generate a ton of its military plans and targets in Iran. Then, without any true human vetting, they approved military war plans to bomb the hell out of those targets.

And one of those targets was an elementary school. The United States bombed it. Waited a few minutes then bombed it again. And appears to have waited a few more minutes then bombed it one last time.

DOZENS of the children that were killed were completely EVAPORATED. No bones, no human structure, just guts everywhere. Some were destroyed to nothing but DUST.

And here’s the point I want to make…

I don’t think most Americans even care.

I honestly don’t. This shouldn’t be shocking. Nobody is talking about it. The Bloomberg article I shared above should’ve been viral. All of this should be a massive scandal.

I am not speaking in hyperbole, but it’s literally a war crime to blow up an elementary school. If that shocks you, just imagine the roles being reversed?!?!

I have to say things like this often, but imagine the outrage if Iran bombed an American elementary school and killed most of the students and teachers. It would be one of the single most painful moments in modern American history. We’d know every name, every story. Monuments would be created. And can you imagine, not just what the United States would do to Iran, but the entire world would join in. I don’t even know if Iran would still exist anymore if they did that to an American elementary school.

This isn’t conjecture.
Everybody knows this.

But this very thing happened to Iran, and I think people have almost moved on outside of Iran and maybe their closest allies. Why?

I think we are all now VERY used to death. Constant death. Brutal death. I see kids, mothers, even pregnant mothers in Gaza blown to pieces every day.

I saw a man blown in half yesterday.

Gross, cheap death is everywhere right on my phone right before celebrity gossip and after some sports news.

Trump blows boats full of poor people to pieces constantly - killing hundreds.

Citizens were slaughtered by the United States all over Yemen.

But I also think that Iran has been so demonized, and Shia Muslims are so demonized, and Muslims are so demonized in general, that people are programmed now to just stop caring. Like - even people that speak up for Gaza seem afraid to speak up for the kids of Minab.

It’s very telling for me. After nearly 3 years of a genocide, it’s just now starting to be socially acceptable to advocate for Gaza in the United States, but speaking out for school children in Iran seems to be a bridge too far for some people - even American Muslims.

First, the massacre is just awful and outrageous and we all paid for it. Bottom line.

But do you know what this means? AI is being used to target and kill people in Gaza, in Iran, in Yemen, and who knows where else.

And the AI companies know it.
The governments of the world obviously know it because they are the ones using it.

And nobody is hardly even saying a word. We are just accepting this.

While we are all afraid of the world in which AI is used to kill us, that world is already here. It’s been here. It’s just being used to kill people far away from here, but one day it will be us.

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I am not sure if you are aware of this, but Israel is now openly admitting that it spends BILLIONS of dollars to artificially influence the American media, the world media, social media, but now they are also openly admitting that they are trying VERY HARD to influence what different AI engines say about them.

Did you know that Trump’s previous campaign manager is literally A REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT FOR ISRAEL? And that he’s being paid to find ways to influence AI and technology for Israel? They openly admit this. It’s wild.

But I saw something today that actually shocked me - not because the truth itself shocked me, but it shocked me that the AI engines were still willing to tell the truth like this.

And then it dawned on me - at least for now - historical documents can’t lie. They are just data. They simply say what they say. So AI is struggling to protect Israel WHILE also admitting that some documented facts just can’t be denied.

Let me show you, OK? First, I saw this.

So I was curious what ChatGPT had to say about this, and it said this when I simply shared the graphic above and asked it to verify it for me…

The following is a word for word cut and paste from ChatGPT.

((The line below is where ChatGPT BEGINS.))

The central claim is real: the CIA withheld a reference to Israeli intelligence in the specific memo Grok names. I compared the National Archives’ 2018 and 2025 versions.

The document is an FBI memorandum dated January 13, 1967, discussing information received from James Angleton, the CIA’s counterintelligence chief. It states:

“CIA Directors permitted Angleton to run several intelligence projects, many of them with the Israeli Intelligence Service.”

The next sentences explain that Angleton had authority to handle those projects and report directly to the CIA director. The FBI received information through this arrangement and attributed it to “Bureau Informant 100.” Original memo, page 2

The redaction is directly verifiable. A CIA review annotation dated August 7, 1998, approves release except for bracketed material. The phrase identifying Israeli intelligence is bracketed—and appears as a blank rectangle in the publicly released 2018 version. 2018 version, page 2

What makes the document historically significant is its description of CIA–Israeli intelligence cooperation through an unusually restricted reporting arrangement—and the continued concealment of that reference decades later. The memo itself does not identify those projects or explain why this particular phrase remained classified.

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((The LINE ABOVE is where ChatGPT’s response ENDS))

Then I saw Grok say this:

So I asked ChatGPT to verify and it said this…

((The line below is where ChatGPT BEGINS.))

The FBI concealment instruction is real and explicit.

1. Angleton did insist that information circulated outside the FBI conceal its origin.
An April 30, 1954 memo says he frequently supplied information without clearing it through regular CIA channels. In almost all instances, the understanding was that reports distributed outside the FBI would be written so the information:

“cannot be traced back to either Angleton or CIA.”

It also says FBI supervisors normally sought Angleton’s clearance before distributing his information about Israeli matters. April 1954 memo, page 2

2. The clearest intelligence flow described here is Israeli sources → Angleton → FBI.
A June 10, 1953 memo identifies Israeli intelligence as his principal foreign source and discusses protecting his identity when the FBI passed along information he supplied. The same memo explicitly required internal records identifying Angleton as the source, so “could NEVER be traced” overstates the concealment. June 1953 memo, pages 3–4

3. The arrangement predates Kennedy and remained active afterward.
A March 17, 1965 memo says the FBI continued receiving valuable information regularly through this channel, using the designation “Bureau Informant 100.” It identifies the Israeli intelligence relationship and says Allen Dulles authorized Angleton’s dissemination to the FBI. Together with the earlier records, this supports continuity through Kennedy’s presidency, although this particular confirmation was written afterward. March 1965 memo, page 2

4. The records describe secrecy authorized by CIA leadership.
In March 1954, Angleton requested that other agencies not be told his identity when receiving information also sent to him. His stated reason was protecting sensitive CIA operations, including Israeli intelligence projects; the memo also records Dulles’s approval of the correspondence arrangement. March 1954 memo, page 2

((The LINE ABOVE is where ChatGPT’s response ENDS))

I don’t give you a ton of my own commentary here. I want to just show you what some of the leading AI engines, in spite of billions of dollars, are still revealing about the depths of Israel’s intelligence arrangements with the United States.

At a bare minimum it’s simply fascinating. But I think it’s much more than that.

What do you think?

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Do you see the missile?

This photo is one of the single most brutal and painful photos you will ever see. I will try to explain it to you, then show you the full video of what we are all paying for each and every day in Gaza.

That bloody Palestinian man in the dirt was a local hero - a civil services worker who helps pull people from the rubble named Sharif Lubbad. He had just been hit by an American missile moments earlier.

So the 15 year old boy you see standing, Mohammad al-Zinati, rushed to try to rescue him. And as he did, Israel dropped an American missile right on him as well.

Here is the video.

Here is Mohammad.

Here is his father mourning over what was left of his son.

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I could write 10,000 words about this, but to be sure that you clearly understand me I am going to be very brief. First let me explain what happened then I’ll give you my take.

What Happened

If you weren’t aware, the pop singer Ed Sheeran had the rapper Macklemore on tour with him. Macklemore’s most popular recent tracks, and his most relevant recent positions in the world, have been advocating for Gaza. This is widely known.

But last week, when he performed his songs at a concert in New York, a few dozen Jewish people who attended posted tweets saying how offended they were to hear him call for a “Free Palestine” and how it made them feel “unsafe.”

Then Jewish organizations piled on.
Then Israeli organizations piled on.

Then the venues where the concerts were being held said they were being pressured to cancel the entire concerts if Ed Sheeran didn’t remove Macklemore.

So, faced with either canceling the tour or getting rid of Macklemore, he got rid of Macklemore.

Now, I see those Jewish and Israeli organizations celebrating their victory for “Jewish safety.”

That’s what happened.

Here Is My Take

I have so much I could say but I want to make one very simple point.

If Jews and Israelis sincerely think removing Macklemore from a pop tour because he says “Free Palestine” is going to make them safer, they are wrong.

This man wasn’t out here being bigoted towards Jews.
He wasn’t threatening violence against Jews.

He was advocating for Palestinians. And if your position is that simply advocating for the human rights of Palestinians makes you unsafe…

I swear to you that you are actually maker yourself unsafe by doing so.

I see it happening in real time.

I see people all over social media saying how angry it makes them AT JEWS that a rapper has been removed from a tour for advocating for Gaza - in the name of protecting Jews.

IT INFURIATES PEOPLE.

I see people that have advocated for Jews their entire lives say it infuriates them.

I see literal Jews that advocate for Gaza saying that what other Jews and Israelis are doing by forcing people who advocate for Gaza off a tour is making them LESS SAFE.

And it is. It just is.

In America, it can’t be the case that you can advocate for anyone you want, and against anything you want, except one thing: You cannot speak out against Israel.

You can speak out against America.
Against Trump.
Against Biden or Obama.
Against the leaders of your city or state or congressional district.
Against Canada or Mexico.
Against war.
Against genocide even.

As long as none of it involves Israel you are fine.

You don’t even have to mention Israel. You can just advocate for Palestinians and they still say it “makes them unsafe.” And I am telling you - doing this is making people IRATE. I see it getting worse and worse online.

Let me give you a parallel scenario….

Over 90% of African Americans oppose Donald Trump.
And a big percentage of African Americans truly believe that Trump is a danger to African Americans.

But African Americans are fully aware that people still:

Get to rally for Trump.
Get to gather for Trump and celebrate him and even worship the man.
Get to have concerts for him. Give awards to him.
Get to honor him outside or inside. At concerts or dinners.

African Americans simply know that to be a citizen of this country means that even the people who aren’t fighting for you get to have platforms and events.

African Americans have also lived in this country long enough to know that if you suddenly started banning people from even being able to gather for Donald Trump, and shut down every event they have for him, and cancel every venue, and make it literally impossible to even say you support him - or you will lose your job…

African Americans have lived in this country long enough to know that doing something like would be such overkill that it would actually become DANGEROUS for African Americans to make it such that you lose your job if you even say you support Trump or go to an event of his. It’s crazy.

That’s all.

None of this makes Jews safer. I swear it doesn’t. And I’m doubtful anyone even believes it does. It seems like an arrogant flex of power more than anything else.

I think they want to scare people away from ever advocating for Gaza.

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Did you see what just happened??? (Or at least what we just now found out about)

In news that is literally taking over the UK as we speak, it was just reported that the Trump administration used the American military to sneak an American diplomat out of the United Kingdom after it was found that he had child pornography on his phone and in his apartment. It appears the entire goal was to get him out of the country before he could be questioned by British police. It also appears the Trump administration completely cleared out his apartment of any evidence.

Like….ummmmm…..WTF.

Imagine if Barack Obama’s administration had done this.
Imagine if it was Joe Biden.
Imagine if Mamdani or ANY MUSLIM had done such a thing.

The outrage would be OVERWHELMING. I literally think conservatives would be calling for heads and threatening to overthrow the government if it was reported that ANYONE other than Trump was smuggling such a man out of the UK in the dark of the night.

This is why I believe independent journalism has to be willing to make powerful people uncomfortable. We cannot let the seriousness of an allegation depend on whether the president’s supporters find it politically convenient. If you value that work, become a member of The North Star and help me keep doing it.

Family, as most of you know, I am just about 1 month away from a life-altering spinal surgery. I said that to say - I have never been known for holding my tongue or filtering my words to be politically correct, but a month out of surgery - I truly don’t care what people think about my words. So let me speak VERY PLAINLY.

Trump protects pedophiles either because he was one, is one, likes them, or just doesn’t have a problem with them.

His entire campaign and the entire MAGA movement was about “holding the Epstein class accountable” and “releasing all of the Epstein files,” but as soon as Trump took office, it was painfully clear he had no intention on doing any such thing - even if it tore his entire movement apart.

To protect pedophiles Trump has lost Joe Rogan and Theo Vonn. He has lost Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. This man has literally lost Alex Jones. In part, they all actually believed Trump and his team were going to hold pedophiles accountable.

It was all a lie.

Trump was literally “best friends” with Jeffrey Epstein for nearly a decade. And it is universally hailed that Epstein was an intelligence asset for Israel. To hold the Epstein class accountable Trump would have to turn himself into authorities. He is the living embodiment of the Epstein class.

But now, to literally sneak an American accused of having child porn out of the country in the dark of the night so that he couldn’t be questioned??? Like what are even talking about. Politicians in the UK are PISSED. Conservatives and liberals alike.

How does a single Trump supporter justify supporting this man any more? It’s why his approval rating is at a record low 32%, but that 32% should literally be ashamed of themselves.

Do you know what conservatives would be saying about the ENTIRE RELIGION OF ISLAM if any Muslim politician did such a thing? They would be talking about banning Muslims, deporting Muslims, and banning Sharia law.

But when it’s a literal member of the Trump administration - they seem to not even care.

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I am just sharing my heart today. I have so many stories and photos and videos I want to share with you from across the world, but today I just want to speak to you about mine. I am coming to grips with some important truths about my future.

I also have a request at the end - not for money, but something much better.

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve had 5 major spinal surgeries, fractures to my shoulder, two torn rotator cuffs, carpal tunnel surgery, over 400 stitches on my face, my left eyelid and bottom lip sewn back on, damage to 20 teeth, massive damage to my sinuses, and more. I’ve lost count of it all to be honest.

I am basically being held together by duct tape at this point.

In March of 2025, I had two titanium discs put in my neck. My body is basically rejecting those two discs, it’s causing rapid bone deterioration, and I have to get those discs removed, then fused.

But, I am having such severe pain that doctors see the need for several more serious surgeries up and down my spine.

And if you know me, I am an endless optimist, but I am realistic as well. My upcoming surgeries are going to do a few things:

1. At the very least they will keep me home for nearly a year as I recover from the worst of it.

2. Cause massive limitations to the movement of my neck and spine.

3. Require me to live and move very differently than I have for a lot of my life.

4. Depending on the severity of it all, it may seriously affect my ability to move and travel without great pain for a very long time, if not forever.

So I am starting to come to grips with the fact that a lot of what I love to do as a person and a leader - I might not be able to do for a long time, if ever. And Alhamdulillah if that’s the case I accept it. Allah knows best. I trust God.

Writing is one of my first loves. I’ve been a writer since I was at least in 2nd grade. I wrote fictional cartoons and comic books until I was in middle school, then I started using my love for writing and thinking in all of my essays.

I was the lead opinion writer for our newspaper at Morehouse College, and have been writing ever since. My love for writing is the foundation for my entire life as a speaker.

I’ve spoken in 49 states and all over the world - for META - the company that has now banned me. For Spotify. For Google. I spoke in jails and prisons FULL TIME for years. I was a pastor for 15 years and wrote hundreds of sermons.

I started a full time blog in 2006 and soon threw my heart and soul into MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

I’ve written over 2,000 articles about injustice around the world and our fight against it.

I am a writer.

I do other things. I have other skills. But writing is a key passion and I am learning more and more how I will be able to write, from home, even with all of the challenges ahead. Many people with far worse injuries and even worse pain have remained writers and I aim to do so…

But here is my only request….

Of course I’d love your prayers for myself and my family.

However, I simply ask that you stick with me as I navigate these challenges ahead. That’s all I am asking for.

I am committed to my best writing and my best work being ahead of me and not behind me - regardless of the challenges.

I am just learning how to adjust to writing while in so much pain. It’s different.

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Shaun

If I’m ever absent, it’s almost 100% sure I am either in too much pain or seeing doctors.

Inshallah I’ll be back tomorrow.

His name was Ubaida Sheikh Al-Eid. If was Jewish he’d be all over the news, but because he’s Palestinian, because he’s a Muslim, because he’s not white - you won’t see him ANYWHERE. It’s almost as if we don’t show his face and tell his story that it literally won’t be seen by 99% of you.

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