017 - Emergency Mahmoud Khalil Episode (03/17/2025)

This weeks joint, episode 17, was supoosed to be a music episode but it felt insane to me to not address the illegal detention of Mahmoud Khalil so we switched up the program in the eleventh hour. Palestinian American producer and performing artist Deena Falconetti blessed me by coming on last minute. Listen: the entire point of what Trump is doing by sending fucking ICE goons to dissapear a human being is to scare us into submission. And yo, hats off to half of their mission I guess cuz, I for one, AM scared. So was Deena. I have a lot of friends who share my politics who are scared to talk about them publically and that was before motherfuckers were getting illegally renditioned. So I do not take it lightly that Deena agreed to discuss this topic in front of lights and cameras. It is a gesture for which I am extremely grateful. To say that Columbia University should be ashamed is beyond understatement. Palestine is the moral litmus test of our time and The West knows it. They have lost control of the narrative. The millions of dollars and countless cultural resources they have spent for generations to manufacture consent for this apartheid client state are no longer effective and they know it. Their violence is the lashing out of a dying empire but if we lock arms and refuse to bow our heads and silence our voices they will lose. I promise you they will lose. We will see a Free Palestine in this lifetime inshallah. I truly truly believe that. #freemahmoudkhalil