Progressive social media sensation #Kat #Abughazaleh released a video Monday that kicked off her bid to unseat Democratic Rep. #Jan #Schakowsky of Illinois.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece,
and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let them,”
Abughazaleh says in the video.
“So I say it’s time to drop the excuses and grow a f***ing spine.”
After graduating from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in international security,
Abughazaleh, 26, took a job with the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters before being hired by Mother Jones in 2024.
She is best known for videos in which she derides Fox News and conservative personalities. On TikTok, she has over 217,000 followers, and nearly 200,000 more on X, and some of her videos have received more than 1 million views.
Illinois 9th District has only been represented by two people since 1965,
and there hasn’t been a competitive primary since the race Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the district’s current representative, won in November 1998.
“I wouldn’t be born for another four months,” deadpans
#Kat #Abughazaleh,
the TikTok-famous political commentator now running to represent the district.
Abughazaleh is transparent about the fact that she is not what anyone thinks of as shoe-in for Congress:
a 26-year-old narcoleptic freelance social media creator who doesn’t live in the district and has only lived in the state for less than a year
-- challenging a Democratic Party leader who has represented this part of Illinois for more than a quarter of a century.
That’s kind of the point:
She is a normal person — with a rental lease she can’t break before it’s up,
financial pressure bearing down on her,
and prescription medication that she needs to function properly
and that has been challenging to obtain since Elon Musk went after her employer, and she and many of her colleagues were laid off.
And when she looks to Congress, not only does she not see enough people who are concerned with the practical day-to-day challenges she and so many of the people she knows are struggling with
— the costs of housing, health care, groceries, transportation
— she also doesn’t see anyone confronting with any level of seriousness the peril of our current moment,
two months into Donald Trump’s second term
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kat-abughazaleh-congress-1235301996/
When Daisy (behind Ivy, my cat) comes for a short stay they always have to get used to another. This time it's going really well.
Superschuwe wilde kat al met ‘tientallen’ in Nederland, met dank aan groene loper
Terwijl de wolf sinds zijn herintroductie in Nederland schapenhouders uit hun slaap houdt en sommige kinderen de stuipen op het lijf jaagt, weet een ander terugkerend zoogdier juist geruisloos terrein te winnen. De Europese wilde kat verspreidt zich langzaam maar gestaag over Limburg en mogelijk zelfs al naar Brabant.
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/superschuwe-wilde-kat-al-met-tientallen-in-nederland-met-dank-aan-groene-loper~a10652ea
