Making sense of senseless cruelty on Palestine (with Sana Saeed)

Mahmoud Khalil — a key figure in anti-gen*cide protests at Columbia University — was just getting home from an Iftar dinner when agents from the Department of Homeland Security shoved their way into his building and demanded his arrest.But Khalil is a lawful permanent resident of the United States with a green card. Now, he's being held in a Louisiana detention centre. Authorities are pushing to revoke his green card. All this is happening with zero stated evidence of a crime.To help us make sense of the senseless, award-winning media critic Sana Saeed joins us on the show.---In this week’s news roundup, we will — as we always seem to have to these days — be talking about the latest with tariffs and annexation.But Canada is also getting a new prime minister! In fact, by the time you’re listening to this, we’ll already have one.Elon Musk is having a very hard time with all of his companies these days, which is hilariousThe U.S. is finally throwing Ukraine a bit of a bone after abusing its leadership in front of the world while kissing Russian ass.Meanwhile the Trump administration is remaking the department of education and the environmental protection agency — and while the former is bad for America, the latter is scary for the entire world.And lastly, we’ll talk about the horrific violation of Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom of speech.---FOLLOW SANA:Substack: https://sanasaeed.substack.comBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sanasaeed.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanaface/Twitter: https://x.com/SanaSaeed----SUBSCRIBE ✨SUBSTACK: https://rachelgilmore.substack.comPATREON: https://patreon.com/rachelgilmoreTWITCH: https://twitch.tv/rachel_gilmoreYOUTUBE: https://YouTube.com/@AtRachelGilmoreSPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uP73DlOq5hVf5zlPadObD?si=3e49f0a371734d55APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/bubble-pop-with-rachel-gilmore/id1796286766