Omair Ahmad
@omairahmad.bsky.social
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People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper
What we know about the special privileges Epstein’s accomplice is reportedly receiving at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
nymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
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This is something that a real person really wrote and meant for reals.
I mean, goddamn, that's some serious white supremacy lol
I mean, goddamn, that's some serious white supremacy lol
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is something that a real person really wrote and meant for reals.
I mean, goddamn, that's some serious white supremacy lol
I mean, goddamn, that's some serious white supremacy lol
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Still bugs me when anyone refers to epstein as a “disgraced financier” like he farted in church instead of raping girls
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Still bugs me when anyone refers to epstein as a “disgraced financier” like he farted in church instead of raping girls
To (mis)quote: reading makes for a full mind, debate a ready mind, and writing, a precise mind.
Going by the Epstein emails, the US elite mind is empty, unready, and totally confused - a wasteland more barren than even the French would have imagined.
Going by the Epstein emails, the US elite mind is empty, unready, and totally confused - a wasteland more barren than even the French would have imagined.
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
To (mis)quote: reading makes for a full mind, debate a ready mind, and writing, a precise mind.
Going by the Epstein emails, the US elite mind is empty, unready, and totally confused - a wasteland more barren than even the French would have imagined.
Going by the Epstein emails, the US elite mind is empty, unready, and totally confused - a wasteland more barren than even the French would have imagined.
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nabokov: you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style
american century of humiliation: bet
american century of humiliation: bet
sending humbert humbert a 100% supportive email so badly written he turns himself in
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
nabokov: you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style
american century of humiliation: bet
american century of humiliation: bet
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Hakeem Jeffries dismissed Mamdani’s team as “Team Gentrifiers,” drawing a line between natives and transplants. “Zohran said ‘no’ to this,” Dandia continued. “The dividing line is not the accident of birth, but the billionaires who profit and the rest of us.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Meaning of a Muslim Mayor
What Zohran Mamdani’s win signifies—and what it doesn’t.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Hakeem Jeffries dismissed Mamdani’s team as “Team Gentrifiers,” drawing a line between natives and transplants. “Zohran said ‘no’ to this,” Dandia continued. “The dividing line is not the accident of birth, but the billionaires who profit and the rest of us.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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Please give to help us grow fearless journalism that doesn’t bow to power in Mississippi. Needed.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Please give to help us grow fearless journalism that doesn’t bow to power in Mississippi. Needed.
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Remember when the Trump admin kept promising to release the Epstein files? No? We’ve got you.
Watch this supercut: zeteo.com/p/every-time...
Watch this supercut: zeteo.com/p/every-time...
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Remember when the Trump admin kept promising to release the Epstein files? No? We’ve got you.
Watch this supercut: zeteo.com/p/every-time...
Watch this supercut: zeteo.com/p/every-time...
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I interviewed Ahmed Moor, writer and 2025 foundation for Middle east peace fellow, on what the pro palestine movement can learn after 2 years of genocide
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>Dana El Kurd speaks with author, activist, and 2025 Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow Ahmed Moor on the pro-Palestine movement in the US, and what we can learn after two years of genocide.</p...
www.iheart.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I interviewed Ahmed Moor, writer and 2025 foundation for Middle east peace fellow, on what the pro palestine movement can learn after 2 years of genocide
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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"Apparently, in Germany, even for Jewish people, there are rules about which words can and cannot be used."
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Apparently, in Germany, even for Jewish people, there are rules about which words can and cannot be used."
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@aloner.bsky.social surveys the “systemic destruction” of Gaza’s cities—which some are calling “urbicide”.
“Rafah doesn’t exist. East Khan Younis doesn’t exist. East Gaza [City] doesn’t exist,” says Eyal Weizman from @forensicarchi.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
“Rafah doesn’t exist. East Khan Younis doesn’t exist. East Gaza [City] doesn’t exist,” says Eyal Weizman from @forensicarchi.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
@aloner.bsky.social surveys the “systemic destruction” of Gaza’s cities—which some are calling “urbicide”.
“Rafah doesn’t exist. East Khan Younis doesn’t exist. East Gaza [City] doesn’t exist,” says Eyal Weizman from @forensicarchi.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
“Rafah doesn’t exist. East Khan Younis doesn’t exist. East Gaza [City] doesn’t exist,” says Eyal Weizman from @forensicarchi.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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The entire field of AI ethics (est. prior to the Dartmouth summer research project of 1956) would like a word.
"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics
time.com/7332888/we-n...
time.com/7332888/we-n...
AI Regulation is Not Enough. We Need AI Morals
"The challenge of our time is to keep moral intelligence in step with machine intelligence."
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The entire field of AI ethics (est. prior to the Dartmouth summer research project of 1956) would like a word.
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“In the regime we live in today, thinking freely itself is perilous”
Activist-author Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Kavitha Iyer reflects on the price he paid, and on preserving his critical consciousness over 31 months in jail
Activist-author Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Kavitha Iyer reflects on the price he paid, and on preserving his critical consciousness over 31 months in jail
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“In the regime we live in today, thinking freely itself is perilous”
Activist-author Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Kavitha Iyer reflects on the price he paid, and on preserving his critical consciousness over 31 months in jail
Activist-author Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Kavitha Iyer reflects on the price he paid, and on preserving his critical consciousness over 31 months in jail
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FOODRAISER TIME!
Please give if you can, and signal boost regardless. This is a great program, particularly on-point now (given the food insecurity re SNAP), and it needs to be supported
Please give if you can, and signal boost regardless. This is a great program, particularly on-point now (given the food insecurity re SNAP), and it needs to be supported
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11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
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It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
FOODRAISER TIME!
Please give if you can, and signal boost regardless. This is a great program, particularly on-point now (given the food insecurity re SNAP), and it needs to be supported
Please give if you can, and signal boost regardless. This is a great program, particularly on-point now (given the food insecurity re SNAP), and it needs to be supported
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in one month of "ceasefire." Gardens, homes, entire neighborhoods turned to dust www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, satellite images show.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in one month of "ceasefire." Gardens, homes, entire neighborhoods turned to dust www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I write @themorningcontext.bsky.social: "The convergence of economic anxiety, cultural resentment, and political opportunity has created ideal conditions for anti-Indian sentiment to flourish. The far-right has successfully reframed Indian-American success... into an invasion narrative."
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I write @themorningcontext.bsky.social: "The convergence of economic anxiety, cultural resentment, and political opportunity has created ideal conditions for anti-Indian sentiment to flourish. The far-right has successfully reframed Indian-American success... into an invasion narrative."
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.”
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.”
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.
So surprising that the exact same people that supported genocide would work to further impoverish poor people.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
So surprising that the exact same people that supported genocide would work to further impoverish poor people.
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Former Israeli military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned after leaking a video showing Israeli reservists raping a Palestinian detainee, attempted suicide early Sunday, Police Commissioner Danny Levy said. She was hospitalized after swallowing about 20 sleeping pills, amid growing...
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Former Israeli military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned after leaking a video showing Israeli reservists raping a Palestinian detainee, attempted suicide early Sunday, Police Commissioner Danny Levy said. She was hospitalized after swallowing about 20 sleeping pills, amid growing...
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Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati was fired after asking the European Commission whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EU says Russia must rebuild Ukraine. His outlet, Agenzia Nova, dismissed him weeks later, calling the question “out of place.”
Today, Euronews’ Vincenzo...
Today, Euronews’ Vincenzo...
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati was fired after asking the European Commission whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EU says Russia must rebuild Ukraine. His outlet, Agenzia Nova, dismissed him weeks later, calling the question “out of place.”
Today, Euronews’ Vincenzo...
Today, Euronews’ Vincenzo...
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It’s too easy – and too wrong – to dismiss the atrocity-ridden crisis in #Sudan by saying "no one cares".
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
“No One Cares about Sudan”
It’s not easy to write about Sudan’s latest round of mass murder. And it’s hard to hear how some people dismiss it.
The recent fall of the city of El Fasher, following an 18-month siege, to the Rapid...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It’s too easy – and too wrong – to dismiss the atrocity-ridden crisis in #Sudan by saying "no one cares".
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...