Nora Doaiji نورة الدعيجي
@doaiji.bsky.social
I am Saudi-American. I breathe Freedom. I bleed Oil. • Harvard PhD Candidate • ∞ زوجي @alamer.bsky.social • @Ana3rabeya on Twitter • NoraDoaiji.com • ☮️🍋 •
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An absolute gem of an article on how Saudi ex-Muslim turned extreme-right wing Islamophobe Taleb Abdulmohsen came to drive into a X-mas market in Magdeburg. Very enlightening on the deeply divided ex-Muslim scene, the new Atheists and the surgebin atheism in KSA. Also reminds me of a friend...
🧵How A Saudi Atheist Became A Killer
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
bsky.app/profile/newl...
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
bsky.app/profile/newl...
NEW: Taleb Abdulmohsen’s attack on a German Christmas market last December concluded the story of a paranoid personality with a record of inserting himself in just causes — only to adopt unjust means in their pursuit. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
March 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
An absolute gem of an article on how Saudi ex-Muslim turned extreme-right wing Islamophobe Taleb Abdulmohsen came to drive into a X-mas market in Magdeburg. Very enlightening on the deeply divided ex-Muslim scene, the new Atheists and the surgebin atheism in KSA. Also reminds me of a friend...
🧵How A Saudi Atheist Became A Killer
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
bsky.app/profile/newl...
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
bsky.app/profile/newl...
NEW: Taleb Abdulmohsen’s attack on a German Christmas market last December concluded the story of a paranoid personality with a record of inserting himself in just causes — only to adopt unjust means in their pursuit. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
How a Saudi Atheist Became a Killer
Taleb Abdulmohsen's warped sense of justice led him from secularism and feminism to an attack on a Christmas market
newlinesmag.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🧵How A Saudi Atheist Became A Killer
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
bsky.app/profile/newl...
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
bsky.app/profile/newl...
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This fascinating essay by @doaiji.bsky.social reads like a detective story, full of plot twists, as it explores the life of a Saudi ex-Muslim refugee in Germany who carried out a horrendous attack on a Christmas market two months before the elections.
NEW: Taleb Abdulmohsen’s attack on a German Christmas market last December concluded the story of a paranoid personality with a record of inserting himself in just causes — only to adopt unjust means in their pursuit. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
How a Saudi Atheist Became a Killer
Taleb Abdulmohsen's warped sense of justice led him from secularism and feminism to an attack on a Christmas market
newlinesmag.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This fascinating essay by @doaiji.bsky.social reads like a detective story, full of plot twists, as it explores the life of a Saudi ex-Muslim refugee in Germany who carried out a horrendous attack on a Christmas market two months before the elections.
🧵🪡 THREAD on Taleb Abdulmohsen, the man accused of attacking Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
December 21, 2024 at 5:38 AM
🧵🪡 THREAD on Taleb Abdulmohsen, the man accused of attacking Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
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lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 26, 2024 at 12:49 PM
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Great article, love the phrase “broligarchy.”
Ans I second the advice to watch “The Lives of Others,” a film about life and surveillance in east Berlin.
Ans I second the advice to watch “The Lives of Others,” a film about life and surveillance in east Berlin.
This is a test run. Just a test. @sdkstl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 26, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Great article, love the phrase “broligarchy.”
Ans I second the advice to watch “The Lives of Others,” a film about life and surveillance in east Berlin.
Ans I second the advice to watch “The Lives of Others,” a film about life and surveillance in east Berlin.
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There’s something uniquely stupid about all the fawning “will Elon Musk do to the U.S. government what he did to Twitter?” coverage, just as the dessicated husk of Twitter topples over.
November 25, 2024 at 4:36 AM
There’s something uniquely stupid about all the fawning “will Elon Musk do to the U.S. government what he did to Twitter?” coverage, just as the dessicated husk of Twitter topples over.
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Floating signifies like "woke" work for the right because they are a way to game journalism's objectivity norms:
If you stipulate a made up grievance, there is no other side to counter your point. And you are just allowed to state things like "my grift will fix cancel culture."
If you stipulate a made up grievance, there is no other side to counter your point. And you are just allowed to state things like "my grift will fix cancel culture."
As contempt for cancel culture and self-censorship on college campuses continues to drive a political divide across the country, Jon Wertheim reports on a new start-up university, the University of Austin. Sunday on 60 Minutes ⏱️
November 25, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Floating signifies like "woke" work for the right because they are a way to game journalism's objectivity norms:
If you stipulate a made up grievance, there is no other side to counter your point. And you are just allowed to state things like "my grift will fix cancel culture."
If you stipulate a made up grievance, there is no other side to counter your point. And you are just allowed to state things like "my grift will fix cancel culture."
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Since some seem determined not to get it:
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Since some seem determined not to get it:
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
US media likes to mirror what it thinks its viewers believe.
The media has mostly decided that pres election results show that most Americans hate gov institutions, red tape, immigrants, & the price of eggs.
And so now we get this at CNN.. a timid, but explicit endorsement of Musk & Vivek’s DOGE.
The media has mostly decided that pres election results show that most Americans hate gov institutions, red tape, immigrants, & the price of eggs.
And so now we get this at CNN.. a timid, but explicit endorsement of Musk & Vivek’s DOGE.
"Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of DOGE, are both brilliant, and the federal government has clearly become too expansive..."
November 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
US media likes to mirror what it thinks its viewers believe.
The media has mostly decided that pres election results show that most Americans hate gov institutions, red tape, immigrants, & the price of eggs.
And so now we get this at CNN.. a timid, but explicit endorsement of Musk & Vivek’s DOGE.
The media has mostly decided that pres election results show that most Americans hate gov institutions, red tape, immigrants, & the price of eggs.
And so now we get this at CNN.. a timid, but explicit endorsement of Musk & Vivek’s DOGE.
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When you bend the knee they kill you anyway. Fuck em up to the end.
NPR has spent the last few years softening its coverage to appease Republicans and here's their reward
"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR
She accused the public radio network of doing "nothing for the American people."
www.salon.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:27 PM
When you bend the knee they kill you anyway. Fuck em up to the end.
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Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
So far, the one feature I miss most on Bluesky is “drafts.” cc @support.bsky.team
November 24, 2024 at 3:20 PM
So far, the one feature I miss most on Bluesky is “drafts.” cc @support.bsky.team
Sometimes, there is power in your absense.
I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.
November 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Sometimes, there is power in your absense.
Ah, Bluesky now has its own cat accounts 😻
November 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Ah, Bluesky now has its own cat accounts 😻
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This is my second rodeo
November 23, 2024 at 6:04 AM
This is my second rodeo
I’m not sure anything can be truly “billionaire proof.”
But.. I’m listening, @jay.bsky.team.🦋
But.. I’m listening, @jay.bsky.team.🦋
CEO Jay Graber told Jonathan Vanian, @jonathanvanian.bsky.social a reporter for CNBC, that Bluesky is “billionaire proof.” www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/b...
November 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM
I’m not sure anything can be truly “billionaire proof.”
But.. I’m listening, @jay.bsky.team.🦋
But.. I’m listening, @jay.bsky.team.🦋
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Sometimes I think about writing a book and having it show up in a library in New Zealand.
And trying to tell the dyslexic teenager me who was fat and weird and loved learning and words but didn’t understand why writing was so hard and guessed I was just “bright but lazy” for real. Wish he knew.
And trying to tell the dyslexic teenager me who was fat and weird and loved learning and words but didn’t understand why writing was so hard and guessed I was just “bright but lazy” for real. Wish he knew.
I've put a hold on a library copy, here in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand.
November 23, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Sometimes I think about writing a book and having it show up in a library in New Zealand.
And trying to tell the dyslexic teenager me who was fat and weird and loved learning and words but didn’t understand why writing was so hard and guessed I was just “bright but lazy” for real. Wish he knew.
And trying to tell the dyslexic teenager me who was fat and weird and loved learning and words but didn’t understand why writing was so hard and guessed I was just “bright but lazy” for real. Wish he knew.
Musk’s X is a propoganda, porn, doge memes, and data collection machine. It broadens no one’s horizons.
Yet its users are chastised for trying out alternate apps like @bsky.app?
Yet its users are chastised for trying out alternate apps like @bsky.app?
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Musk’s X is a propoganda, porn, doge memes, and data collection machine. It broadens no one’s horizons.
Yet its users are chastised for trying out alternate apps like @bsky.app?
Yet its users are chastised for trying out alternate apps like @bsky.app?
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Sometimes I wondered why fintwit, reporters, academics, posters/take artists, and a few other communities all ended up sharing a platform but in a Dark Knight’s Joker “I think you and I are destined to do this forever” way maybe that’s just how it’s meant to be.
November 23, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Sometimes I wondered why fintwit, reporters, academics, posters/take artists, and a few other communities all ended up sharing a platform but in a Dark Knight’s Joker “I think you and I are destined to do this forever” way maybe that’s just how it’s meant to be.
I joined Twitter as @Ana3rabeya in May 2011. That one decision changed my life, forever.
There may never be another beloved Blue Bird.. but there will always be Blue Skies to fly. Let’s see what you got, @bsky.app. ☁️🦋
There may never be another beloved Blue Bird.. but there will always be Blue Skies to fly. Let’s see what you got, @bsky.app. ☁️🦋
November 23, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I joined Twitter as @Ana3rabeya in May 2011. That one decision changed my life, forever.
There may never be another beloved Blue Bird.. but there will always be Blue Skies to fly. Let’s see what you got, @bsky.app. ☁️🦋
There may never be another beloved Blue Bird.. but there will always be Blue Skies to fly. Let’s see what you got, @bsky.app. ☁️🦋