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  Zohran Mamdani Sold Out. Here Are The Receipts. 02.10.2026 41хв

  The NYPD trained its officers that the keffiyeh and the watermelon are antisemitic symbols. On September 29th, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 33-page Strategy to Combat Antisemitism that names the NYPD as one of its four core partners — five days after that department arrested more than 100 people protesting Benjamin Netanyahu.I went through every endnote in the report. 49.1% of its citations draw on Zionist-affiliated sources. Nearly a third come from explicit pro-Israel advocacy organizations. And in the section that establishes the threat the entire program responds to, 61.5% of the data comes from just two: the American Jewish Committee and UJA-Federation.The plan is modeled on Joe Biden's national strategy. J Street praised it. The ADL attacked it anyway. The organizations consulted disagreed only about how Zionist it should be.This is not a video denying antisemitism in New York. It's a video about what gets counted as antisemitism, who decided, and who ends up on the other end of the enforcement.SOURCES"Tackling Hate: The Mamdani Administration's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism," NYC Office of the Mayor, September 2026 — https://nyc.gov/content/dam/nycgov/mayors-office/downloads/pdf/press-releases/2026/2026-09-25-moca-report-interactive-5.pdfAlex Kane, "Training for NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols," Jewish Currents, April 24, 2025Politico on the Biden model and J Street NYC's response, September 2026Jonathan Greenblatt, "It's Time to Admit It: The Left Has an Antisemitism Problem," ADL, July 9, 2021ADL New York/New Jersey statement on the strategy, September 2026Shurat HaDin, "Rage Against the Hate" conference, Museum of Jewish Heritage, October 27, 2025Middle East Eye on Melanie Phillips's remarks at the conferenceHellgate NYC on the NYPD and the West Bank land sale — https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-shields-illegal-land-sale/The Forward on Phylisa Wisdom and New York Jewish AgendaHow Zohran Could/Should Arrest NetanyahuPart 1:Written, reported and produced by Guy Christensen.Support our independent work: https://yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribeCHAPTERS0:00 Zohran Mamdani Started Funding Zionists1:48 Zohran Mamdani's Antisemitism Strategy Announcement3:29 Key Points of Criticism Against Mamdani4:45 Political Alliances and Business Councils6:14 Shift from Radical Views to Liberal Zionism7:15 Analyzing the Anti-Semitism Strategy Document8:33 Political Connections and Praise from J Street9:40 Where Is the Funding Going?11:11 Surveillance and Controversial Museum Trips13:11 Protecting Synagogues Hosting Illegal Palestinian Land Sales14:30 Targeting Pro-Palestinian Figures and Activists15:58 Community Reactions and Criminalizing Anti-Zionism17:38 Footnotes and Conflating Data in the Report19:25 Racial Profiling, Surveillance, and Personal Experience with State Pressure20:09 Personal Consequences of Pro-Palestinian Activism22:02 The Backfire and Pushback from All Sides23:21 Rejection from Both Zionists and Supporters25:24 ADL and J Street Responses27:32 Broader Political Implications and PR Disaster28:29 Lack of Focus on Other Forms of Discrimination30:07 Billionaire Alliances and Missed Economic Sanctions32:13 Reactions and Smears Following Previous Critiques33:56 Call to the DSA and Critique of Electoralism36:07 Systemic Analysis, Class Consciousness, and Support38:41 Postscript: Radio Call-In and FBI Interrogation Memory40:17 Personal Experience with FBI Interrogation Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Now’s The Worst Time To Want To Die: A Conversation With The Student Leading His Own UK Party 02.10.2026 3год 58хв

  I sat down with Adham Alkhatip of the UK Forward Party on Tiktok live to discuss Zionism and the future of British politics.You can follow him on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@adhamalkhatip?_r=1&_t=ZT-9A4IO1l7c3aAs always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  He Said He’d Arrest Netanyahu, Then Netanyahu Came 27.09.2026 32хв

  The mayor of New York City planted an olive tree on Tuesday night and filmed it. The video went out on Thursday afternoon, timed almost to the minute of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, and ended with the words “an olive tree grows in Gracie.” His supporters called it classy. By then the Strategic Response Group; the unit he pledged to disband — had already been arresting people on First Avenue for over an hour.I want to be clear about my own position before I say anything else. I promoted Zohran Mamdani. I promoted him during the recent theater. I am not writing this from a position of having warned you, and I’m not interested in the version of this argument that gets to be smug about it.I’m coming out with this because holding Zohran to a lower standard than we would hold any other head of state is American privilege, plainly. Our comrades in Gaza do not get to be graded on a curve. And because the accountability our movement refuses to apply to the people we elect is precisely the accountability that gets traded away the moment they have something to lose.The argument of this piece is not that Mamdani is uniquely bad. It’s that the specific case against him; a campaign promise abandoned, a police commissioner kept on for the first time in seventy years, a Zionist governor endorsed, a Speaker endorsed one day after his Kushner meeting broke, a protest unit he swore to dissolve making the arrests; is the clearest test case we have for whether electing our own inside the Democratic Party produces anything other than better press.Please subscribe, this one took a lot of work.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  #FreeMohamad Has A Message For You 25.09.2026 7хв

  #FreeMohamad I am SO PROUD of this community for rallying to make sure Mohamad Hamad, 24-year old American student activist for Palestine, is able to finally get the proper legal representation he deserves.I spoke to Mohamad today and he has a message to you and also an ask for help finding the correct lawyer. Please heed his voice because this is a rare chance he gets to speak to the public. Free all our comrades and activists and oppressed peoples of the world.#studentactivism #sjp #macklemore #mohamadhamad #yourfavoriteguy #guychristensenAs always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Inheriting a Surveillance Empire 21.09.2026 5хв

  By yours truly. What’s it like inheriting the surveillance empire? Who, what, why was this reality passed down to us? Do young people have a future under this system? Subscribe and share to support my work.#surveillance #imperialism #palantir #alpr #guychristensenAs always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  They’re Gearing Kamala Up For 2028 21.09.2026 6хв

  Are we really defending Kamala Harris In 2026? Liberal logic is incredibly dangerous logic and needs to have a light constantly shined onto it if we ever have a hope of moving onto a better system. As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  What We Can Learn From Fred Hampton 21.09.2026

  What We Can Learn From Fred HamptonWe owe our fight to people like Fred Hampton.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  The Betrayal Of Abdul El-Sayed 21.09.2026 9хв

  Everyone seems to have bad amnesia from 2024. Using Michigan to launder the reputation of the VP of Genocide after everything Harris did is unjustifiable. Is Trump really worse for Gaza than Harris? Why is Abdul throwing Hasan Piker and his left wing supporters under the bus? We are forgetting not only what Harris is doing now, refusing to call it a genocide, but did then as well! We forget how she used Palestinian bodies as pawns, sent Bill Clinton to Dearborn to lecture Arabs on how their families’ deaths shouldn’t “count”, and rigged a bait and switch for a ceasefire over the 2024 election.Every Democrat who tries to act like they represent the people fall into the same nasty contradictions. Because at the end of the day, you cannot be a voice of the people and a corporate Dem. The truth is that both parties are working in tandem to expand US imperialism and conduct the genocide against Palestine.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Pandora’s Box: Surveillance As a Business Model 20.09.2026 3хв

  By yours truly. What happens to human beings when mass surveillance becomes the most profitable thing any corporation can do?What happens when every human activity and relationship is reduced to a money relation? Support my independent work by swiping onto my profile. Thank you.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Pro-Palestine Activist Mohamad Hamad, Detained For 2 Years, May Not Get A Lawyer 19.09.2026 3хв

  Urgent. Right now there is a 4X multiplier on any contributions made toward’s Mohamad’s lawyer fund: https://chuffed.org/project/162662-justice-for-palestines-voice-help-mohamad-get-a-lawyerI ask of you all to please give at least $1 if you read this. It will turn into $4 and we can easily ensure that we have our student activist’s backs when they need us in their corner.This week, I received a phone call from Butler County Jail. Despite all that Mohamad Hamad has been through thus far, his voice greeted me with bubbling cheer. He explained to me how alone he has been made to feel by federal surveillance, targeting, and now this seemingly unwarranted pre-trial detention for the last year and half. He is trusting that I get his story out to you guys. So please, pay attention to this one. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Chloe Forero: The Danger Of Taking Corporate Checks 19.09.2026 2хв

  Chloe Forero: The Danger Of Taking Corporate ChecksChloe Forero is showing us the perfect example of how taking corporate checks is corrupting. let me explain what lessons we should be learning — also I dont think its useful to harp on Chloe forever for this.IMO being in a position of influence is an immense privilege and therefore we have more responsibility to use it wisely.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  We Have Everything Wrong About Ed Sheeran 18.09.2026 6хв

  We Have Everything Wrong About Ed SheeranThe real ones behind this are so happy that you’re focused on cancelling an individual rather than boycotting their stadiums, their companies, and fighting to tear down these systems. If we cannot manage to start thinking collectively, we will be squashed individually. Free Palestine.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  What It Means To Be An American | W/ Russel Dobular 18.09.2026 4хв

  What It Means To Be An American | W/ Russel DobularI was interviewed on the sidelines of the 9/11, 25 Years Later: The Endless War Turned on You conference by Russ Dobular of Due Dissidence to discuss my journey in activism and what it means to be an AmericanAs always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  The Endless War Turned On You 18.09.2026 10хв

  Twenty-five years after 9/11, from the Patriot Act to Palantir, 9/11 is an event that will forever shape the life of everyday Americans. It is the birth of the United States national surveillance apparatus.At this conference, we’re joined by figures who were directly involved with the NSA program developed before 9/11, designed to process enormous amounts of communications data while incorporating privacy protections for Americans. I am proud to have introduced former NSA officials William Binney, Kirk Wiebe and Tom Drake to share the story of ThinThread.From 9/11, 25 Years Later: The Endless War Turned on YouAs always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Communism Is Common Sense: My Remarks From Marxism Conference 2026 11.09.2026 36хв

  Much of what feels natural or inevitable is shaped by the economic system we live under, but the contradictions of everyday life have a way of exposing those assumptions. Workers are told to compete with one another, yet they repeatedly discover that their interests are shared. We are told that the existing order is simply the way things are, even as millions struggle under conditions that system supposedly exists to solve.Some of the ideas I discussed at the 2026 Marxism Conference in Chicago.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  A Prophecy For The DSA 09.09.2026 1хв

  We cannot afford reformism. We cannot afford to keep trying to save capitalism from itself, only to watch the same crises come back around with a new coat of paint.From my remarks at the 2026 Marxism Conference in Chicago.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Every Accusation Is a Confession: How WE Win the Common Sense of America 09.09.2026 2хв

  They say we are the violent ones. They say we are the threat to democracy. Yet they are the ones jailing journalists and building concentration camps. Too often “common sense” is simply whatever the ruling class has managed to make feel natural. The ideas we inherit about work, property, freedom, continue to disintegrate as they strip away your right to healthcare. It’s the contradictions that expose the limits of that common sense. The worker who stands beside his brother on the job is already demonstrating something capitalism struggles to explain: two people who are supposedly competing with one another can recognize that their interests are shared. Our job is to drag the truth he already knows up into the front out of all the noise.From my remarks at the 2026 Marxism Conference in Chicago.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  THE IMPERIAL BOOMERANG: Gen-Z Has No Future in the United States 09.09.2026 3хв

  Gen-Z came of age under an economy increasingly organized around making wealth for people who already have it.The consequences of American imperialism eventually come home, through deindustrialization and austerity with a political system incapable of addressing the declining material interests of the working people.From my remarks at the 2026 Marxism Conference in Chicago.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  Fired From Burger King For Saying “Free Palestine” 08.09.2026 19хв

  Arianna Hamilton became the center of a national controversy after a viral confrontation at a Burger King in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania from an Israeli customer.Now Arianna is joining us LIVE to tell her side of the story to explain what happened and what it’s like to lose a job over solidarity with Palestine.As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe
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  We All Feel It: Gen Z Has No Future In America 02.09.2026 3хв

  Ask yourselves: Do we deserve to win?As always, you guys are the only sponsors I have. Please subscribe for free to receive my future messages and consider upgrading to paid to support my work.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Guy Christensen at www.yourfavoriteguy.com/subscribe