Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests - Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-democrat-running-congress
83 Comments
PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world · 113 pts · 300d
Speed run getting elected as a Democrat this cycle, get arrested or indicted by the Trump regime.
It’s the Michael Scott meme, “I’m going to vote for her even harder”
PeacefulForest@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 300d
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 300d
Yes, she’s been at the ICE facility constantly for a while now. She was the woman where video was captured of an ICE agent picking her up and slamming her down on the ground.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 300d
She should press charges but of course everyone "won't recall" which agent that is…
Tire@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 299d
These unaccountable secret police are disgusting.
pyre@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 299d
piece of shit grabs her by the boob too
BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 299d
Fashy is coppin a feel
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 299d
Rape is a foundational tenet of the MAGA philosophy.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 299d
Masked men in unmarked cars snatch people from the streets of the USA.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 299d
This has the cadence of the Monty Python strange women in ponds skit.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 295d
Sorry, it's not a skit
ksigley@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 300d
Yup. Been following her on BlueSky. She's the real deal.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 301d
Her comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPlDZajxr3Y
And she's almost hit her 150k goal for legal defense:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/abughazaleh-legal
Not super familiar with her, but she's been on a couple podcasts Ive listened to and seems to be legit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOcxNqE_bCQ
deacon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 300d
She is turbo legit. Money well donated.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
I been following her on YouTube she legit.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · -11 pts · 300d
That video has annoying cuts
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 300d
That would be constructive feedback if you had specified which and I made either...
But you had an opinion and felt it needed shared, so thanks I guess
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · -13 pts · 300d
Well first three cuts at least (didn't watch longer)
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 72 pts · 300d
This should be good for her, assuming she doesn't get jailed.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 300d
Trump will approve of her being in the government if she’s a criminal, right?
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 299d
Lol
rockettaco37@feddit.nu · 27 pts · 299d
Welcome to America. The first amendment only applies to fascists.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 299d
They also always been hogging the 2nd for much the same reason. It was supposed to protect from tyranny.
rockettaco37@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 299d
These people are the exact sorts of people that the Second Amendment should be used against...
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 299d
I just donated to her campaign fund, not a lot but more effective than spewing anger over what they did to her.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 299d
Yeah, this will hopefully end up being a huge boon to her campaign. It’s proof that she’s not just an empty talking head; She actually puts her words into action. People are sick and tired of out-of-touch nonagenarian lawmakers shitting in the pool right before they get out.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 299d
Finally someone with some balls. Funny how it’s a woman though.
Good on her.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 11 pts · 300d
A cute women that knows what she wants?
Silence her!
frongt@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 300d
Her appearance has nothing to do with this.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 300d
i follow her, she's awesome and I really hope she wins.
but it would be false to claim her youth and aesthetic don't help her charisma.
it does, but that doesn't mean she isn't serious or competent.
Hope she wins, we need her and people like her.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 8 pts · 300d
helps and hurts. wish I was in her geography as I would vote for her.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 300d
doesn't really hurt her. just bigots will insult her for being pretty, or if she wasn't, they would insult her for not being pretty. they'll always use misogyny against any woman who's against them.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 300d
You don't think being a young woman has ANY negative affect on being elected in the USA?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 300d
i meant that conservatives are going to hate her no matter what.
She could be a 60 year old grandma, and they'll use that against her.
if course she has an uphill battle.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
Some of them may even be republicans.
Tinidril@midwest.social · 1 pts · 299d
I think it hurts AOC more than it hurts Kat, and I can't put my finger on why. Both are attractive and intelligent small women with a "young" look, but I think AOC has to fight a little harder to come off as a "serious adult". Maybe it's ethnicity, but I don't think that quite accounts for it. Might be just me.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -24 pts · 300d
She should not win. My district is not lacking in leftists, and deserves someone who lives in and actually pays attention to the community.
Leomas@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 300d
She obviously pays attention to the community, she got thrown to the ground and got hit in the face doing so.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -20 pts · 300d
Literally no. She cares about immigrants. She doesn't care about the community specifically, at all. And doesn't even care enough to live there. We don't need to go from someone who responds to the community to someone who doesn't even care to check the communities needs before doing unnecessary giveaways
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 300d
That explains it, "She cares about immigrants"
hello, are you aware that immigrants are part of the community? ones who are being kidnapped by the state? which she is fighting? maybe it is you who isn't paying attention to the community.
you outed yourself as a racist, by "community" do you mean white people only?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -8 pts · 300d
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -9 pts · 299d
Community as in the actual future of the community itself, not just the larger socioeconomic underlying issues. Immigrants are part of the community, but they are not the only part of the community. She focuses on charity saviorism, without regard to actual distribution of need, which is not something good for a politician to have.
Leomas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 299d
What are her policies you disagree with?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 299d
I don't like her as a politician for 3 main reasons: performative giveaways, where she gives away what is already provided and pretends her being in charge will allow these things to be provided, which they already are. It shows she doesn't really care about learning about her community, and instead just prefers to virtue signal.
She is running a campaign without living in the area, with majority of donations from outside the area. Influencer first politician second is a red flag, and especially considering she's showed bo willingness to actually move into the area despite repeated claims she will shows she's already lying, not a good sign.
And the third is that despite living in a leas leftist area with someone who deserves to be contested more/not already solidly leftish politics, she decided to run in the district she does not live in.
Going straight to higher office without attempting to gain practice or build up a "resume" in lower office is questionable as well, but less so than the rest.
there is no shortage of people as left as her running in the district to vote for, who do not have nearly as many red flags.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 300d
instead of raising money for ads, she is using it to feed the people in her district.
if that isn't something who pays attention to the community, I don't know what you want
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -15 pts · 300d
No, she doesn't pay attention. She did free give aways for things already fully provided to those in need. That's not paying attention, not doing research.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 300d
Got any sources that ain't your local fox "news"?
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 299d
i love that any type of backlash someone gives your automatically a fox news subscriber lol.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -6 pts · 300d
I don't watch fox news. Her giveaways of backpacks and school supplies were fully supplied in Evanston already.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 300d
Kat made a post on Bluesky once where she showed a tweet by a Republican who was asking people to "stop posting photos of [Kat] when they attack her because she's genuinely attractive and that makes the attack not land" or something along those lines. I wish I'd saved it. It was a solid self-burn.
That Republican was basically afraid that Kat would steal male GOP votes simply by looking good lol
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 300d
She is cute af on that real though
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 299d
And of Palestinian descent. Even if for really dubious reasons, humanizing Palestinians and extending any shred of support is a no-go in certain circles.
AreaKode@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 300d
To her opponents, appearance is basically the whole of her worth.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 300d
They understand in the current media environment that attention is power and attractive people get attention
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 300d
I mean, it kinda does. The fact that she is young, attractive, and media savvy means that people will pay more attention to her (not saying that's good, just that it's how our society works). The more attention she gets, the more of a threat she is to the regime, which is why the they're trying to prosecute her for getting assaulted by ICE.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 5 pts · 300d
Aren't you a smart one
You haven't been paying attention to the Republicans have you.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 299d
who cares what she looks like
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 299d
republicans
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 299d
As pointed out by multiple people already, if you bothered to read anything, Republicans care.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 299d
conventionally attractive people typically find more success in life.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 299d
Bingo
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 299d
Bring it on Nazis. This ain't gonna go the way you think it's gonna go.
Rezoie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d