✍🏽 Tomorrow, I’m Back to Writing/Reporting Full-Time After Fundraising for Gaza for Most of 2026.

Thank you for carrying the humanitarian work with me. Now I return to the journalism this moment demands.

Hey My Friends,

Starting tomorrow, and for the rest of the summer, I will be returning to full-time journalism. The humanitarian work will continue, and I will keep donors updated privately on the projects they helped make possible, but my daily public focus is now shifting back to reporting, analysis, investigation, and truth-telling.

And there is a lot to cover.

Before I get into what I’ll be focused on, I want to ask you directly to support this work. Independent journalism only survives when readers decide that truth-telling is worth funding. If you value my reporting, my investigations, my analysis, and my willingness to say what others will not, please click here to become a member of The North Star. Your membership helps make this work possible without corporate advertisers, billionaires, or political gatekeepers deciding what can and cannot be said.

Of course, I will continue covering the genocide in Gaza with the urgency, moral clarity, and consistency it demands. I will also be covering how this crisis has expanded into Lebanon, the role of Iran in the region, the Trump presidency, the corruption that continues to rot American politics from the inside, and the new and old forms of injustice shaping this country every day.

I will be digging back into mass incarceration, civil rights, human rights, police violence, political corruption, and the systems that continue to crush poor people, Black people, immigrants, Muslims, Palestinians, and oppressed communities across the United States and around the world.

Where I can, I also want to help teach the truth about Islam.

I am still a relatively new Muslim, and I am learning every day, but I also know that so many people in this country have been lied to about Islam, Muslims, Palestine, Arabs, and the global Muslim community for their entire lives. Islamophobia is not just personal prejudice. It is political. It is profitable. It is used to justify wars, surveillance, censorship, deportations, hate crimes, and the dehumanization of entire populations. I want to help my readers understand that more clearly and honestly.

This summer, I will be writing with focus.

I will be following the receipts.

I will be naming names.

I will be explaining the systems, not just reacting to the headlines.

And I will be doing my best to connect the dots between what happens in Gaza, Washington, Beirut, Tehran, prisons, courtrooms, police departments, campaign offices, and the lives of ordinary people trying to survive under systems designed to break them.

Thank you for walking with me through these past weeks of humanitarian fundraising. What we have done together has mattered deeply. Now I am asking you to stay with me for the journalism ahead.

Please click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member. We have a lot of work to do, and I am ready to get back to it.

Love and appreciate each of you.

Your friend and brother,
Shaun