Sustaining a Politics of Extermination and Climate Chaos / Omar El Akkad

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Award-winning author Omar El Akkad joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”, published by the Penguin Books. Check out Omar’s book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-by-omar-el-akkad/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9NZpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRHlIY5dAk3hrnB8dk0wOc9P_cL3vOlRO6pa78Ux07cr9tv4PR_GhwkMrg_aem_ltRUIYUqFxKHG-AUz9rHsg Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support

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0:00.0	I'm thinking man.
0:03.0	Take it back.
0:05.0	Thank you. This is hell.
0:41.2	Manufacturing dissent since 1996.
0:50.5	This is hell, and today we are offering a dissenting point of view, not a dissenting point of view from one party or the other, from the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, but also from conservatives and liberals. All of them.
1:02.0	It's a dissenting point of view no matter how you label yourself within that small spectrum, Republican, Democrat, conservatives or liberals. It's a descending point of view from all of that.
1:13.7	One week ago, during President Trump's joint address to Congress, he said, I have stopped
1:19.7	all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.
1:24.6	Earlier the same day, he posted online that all federal funding will stop, all caps,
1:30.3	for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests, which is the opposite of
1:35.8	bringing back free speech. To Trump in the far right, bringing back free speech seems to be
1:43.0	nothing more than a dog whistle for neo-fascist to be openly racist and misogynist again.
1:48.0	Then the Associated Press reported that on Saturday, a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University, is facing deportation following his arrest by federal immigration agents over the weekend.
2:01.8	He was then transported to Louisiana out of the New York City jurisdiction, where they have
2:07.9	much more conservative justices and a view of law.
2:12.3	Mahmood Khalil, who graduated from the University in December, was arrested by immigration
2:16.4	and customs enforcement agents. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest, December, was arrested by immigration and customs enforcement agents.
2:18.0	The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest, saying it was a result of President
2:22.1	Donald Trump's executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism. Cleoel has not been formally charged
2:28.0	with any crime. His lawyer, Amy Greer, said the agents who took Khalil into custody at the
2:33.8	university-owned
2:34.5	home near Columbia initially claimed to be acting on a State Department order to revoke
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