The North Star with Shaun King

The North Star with Shaun King

🚨 I want to get super nerdy and tell you how math proves a scandal in the United States Senate

55% of Americans say Gaza is a genocide. 77% of Democrats say it. Yet just 1 of 100 U.S. Senators says the word. The math proves this is not democracy — it’s what happens when the Senate is paid for.

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Shaun King
Sep 19, 2025
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Family, let me show you something extraordinary — and infuriating. This week Bernie Sanders became the first United States Senator to call Gaza a genocide. But here’s the problem: Bernie is 1 out of 100. That means that 714 days into this campaign of mass death, a staggering 99% of the Senate refuse to call it a genocide.

That’s not just disappointing. I…

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