saghira efendi
@taalluq.bsky.social
sir/ma'am they/them, mütemâdiyen seyyâl, prone to awe, yoghurt purist.
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Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
Why must everything be gambling
Wtf are we doing?
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Why must everything be gambling
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Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
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i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
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Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN
Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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« Durant toute la réalisation de ce projet, à chaque choix, on se demandait si on en avait besoin ou si on savait faire avec moins »
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
La Presse en France | Un tramway 10 fois moins cher qu’à Québec ou à Montréal
Il ressemble à n’importe quel autre tramway, roule comme n’importe quel autre tramway et transporte des passagers comme n’importe quel autre tramway. Seule différence : son coût.
www.lapresse.ca
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
« Durant toute la réalisation de ce projet, à chaque choix, on se demandait si on en avait besoin ou si on savait faire avec moins »
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
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In memory of:
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In memory of:
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
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a lot of people on here don't want to admit it but anti-arab racism is a load bearing pillar of US liberal foreign policy consensus
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
a lot of people on here don't want to admit it but anti-arab racism is a load bearing pillar of US liberal foreign policy consensus
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personally I preferred the Atlantic's review
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
personally I preferred the Atlantic's review
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Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon describes the crackdown on schools & speech in response to alleged antisemitism.
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon describes the crackdown on schools & speech in response to alleged antisemitism.
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
There are theocracies in the world without this kind of heavenly mandated supernatural king belief. Wild things continue to happen in the US of A.
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There are theocracies in the world without this kind of heavenly mandated supernatural king belief. Wild things continue to happen in the US of A.
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It’s gonna be so weird to tell your kids in the 2040’s like “Yeah Boomers and Gen Xers, even liberal boomers/gen xers, had a strange parasocial attachment to this middle eastern pariah state. Yeah *that* one.”
lol at her positively talking about going on CBS in the Weiss era
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s gonna be so weird to tell your kids in the 2040’s like “Yeah Boomers and Gen Xers, even liberal boomers/gen xers, had a strange parasocial attachment to this middle eastern pariah state. Yeah *that* one.”
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In memory of:
Adham Ahmed Atwa Abu Arada / ادهم احمد عطوه ابو عراده
Age: 9
We will not forget you.
Adham Ahmed Atwa Abu Arada / ادهم احمد عطوه ابو عراده
Age: 9
We will not forget you.
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In memory of:
Adham Ahmed Atwa Abu Arada / ادهم احمد عطوه ابو عراده
Age: 9
We will not forget you.
Adham Ahmed Atwa Abu Arada / ادهم احمد عطوه ابو عراده
Age: 9
We will not forget you.
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In memory of:
Suad Mohammed Qasim Salem / سعاد محمد قاسم سالم
Age: 76
We will not forget you.
Suad Mohammed Qasim Salem / سعاد محمد قاسم سالم
Age: 76
We will not forget you.
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In memory of:
Suad Mohammed Qasim Salem / سعاد محمد قاسم سالم
Age: 76
We will not forget you.
Suad Mohammed Qasim Salem / سعاد محمد قاسم سالم
Age: 76
We will not forget you.
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White House stenographer Barak Ravid claims in his latest piece, soon to be cross-published to Axios, that Israel is extremely frustrated by Trump's seemingly unconditional support for Syrian reconstruction.
They are angry that sanctions were lifted and angry that al-Sharaa got to meet in the WH.
They are angry that sanctions were lifted and angry that al-Sharaa got to meet in the WH.
בבית הלבן מודאגים מהמדיניות של ישראל בסוריה
ההסלמה האחרונה בין ישראל לסוריה גרמה לתסכול רב בוושינגטון כלפי התנהלות ישראל. בכיר אמריקני: "אמרנו לביבי שהוא חייב לעצור. הוא יחמיץ הזדמנות דיפלומטית ענקית ויהפוך את הממשלה הסורית החדשה לאויב של ישראל...
www.mako.co.il
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
White House stenographer Barak Ravid claims in his latest piece, soon to be cross-published to Axios, that Israel is extremely frustrated by Trump's seemingly unconditional support for Syrian reconstruction.
They are angry that sanctions were lifted and angry that al-Sharaa got to meet in the WH.
They are angry that sanctions were lifted and angry that al-Sharaa got to meet in the WH.
I was talking about how my goal for next year was to spend more time offline, dedicating time to my hands on interests like embroidery, and in community building activities and my gen z sis told me "so you'll just be an elder millennial like you are" and i--i mean--uh, i guess??!
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I was talking about how my goal for next year was to spend more time offline, dedicating time to my hands on interests like embroidery, and in community building activities and my gen z sis told me "so you'll just be an elder millennial like you are" and i--i mean--uh, i guess??!
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In memory of:
Aya Nabil Naim Sharab / ايه نبيل نعيم شراب
Age: 28
We will not forget you.
Aya Nabil Naim Sharab / ايه نبيل نعيم شراب
Age: 28
We will not forget you.
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In memory of:
Aya Nabil Naim Sharab / ايه نبيل نعيم شراب
Age: 28
We will not forget you.
Aya Nabil Naim Sharab / ايه نبيل نعيم شراب
Age: 28
We will not forget you.
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UGHHHHHH! "McCall wrote that no woman or girl in his family is allowed, nor desires, to wear pants. Research provides evidence that pants on women draw a man’s eye to her “creative sanctuary,” he stated, and skirts better encapsulate the “modest restraint” that all women should have."
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
UGHHHHHH! "McCall wrote that no woman or girl in his family is allowed, nor desires, to wear pants. Research provides evidence that pants on women draw a man’s eye to her “creative sanctuary,” he stated, and skirts better encapsulate the “modest restraint” that all women should have."
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Fun fact: The Nightmare Sequence was mentioned in The Conversation’s Best Books Of 2025, thanks to Jen Webb. Another fun fact: this is my first book released in Aus, UK, and the US in the same year and so far it’s gotten zero reviews in mainstream papers and outlets.
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fun fact: The Nightmare Sequence was mentioned in The Conversation’s Best Books Of 2025, thanks to Jen Webb. Another fun fact: this is my first book released in Aus, UK, and the US in the same year and so far it’s gotten zero reviews in mainstream papers and outlets.
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Yesterday, there were a few uninformed takes circulating from people outside of HK.
Since then, there have been 2 more sedition arrests and now the pro-govt politician who facilitated the contract with the construction company is urging investigations into the new OC board (who opposed the bid).
Since then, there have been 2 more sedition arrests and now the pro-govt politician who facilitated the contract with the construction company is urging investigations into the new OC board (who opposed the bid).
DAB’s Peggy Wong, who defended the Wang Fuk Court Owners Corporation in Aug 2024 because they were doing a good job with repairs, is now reporting the OC to the police and ICAC for misconduct, negligence, and corruption
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Yesterday, there were a few uninformed takes circulating from people outside of HK.
Since then, there have been 2 more sedition arrests and now the pro-govt politician who facilitated the contract with the construction company is urging investigations into the new OC board (who opposed the bid).
Since then, there have been 2 more sedition arrests and now the pro-govt politician who facilitated the contract with the construction company is urging investigations into the new OC board (who opposed the bid).
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Worth clarifying that what scares GovHK most isn't demand for accountability, but who the public wants accountable – not just the contractors and specific govt officials but the systemic corruption that enabled this disaster. GovHK clearly sees that as an attack on the govt itself. Which says a lot.
This seems to confirm Beijing/GovHK are fully aware of the potential for anger over the Tai Po fire to escalate into mass action.
Sadly (yet predictably) it looks like they've decided to respond by stamping out all attempts to express that anger publicly and pretend that's what the public wants.
Sadly (yet predictably) it looks like they've decided to respond by stamping out all attempts to express that anger publicly and pretend that's what the public wants.
Go against public opinion? After a year of unrest, Hong Kong people gave their verdict on the protests in the 2019 district council elections. The result was a landslide defeat for the government. Afterwards, China abolished democracy so it could never happen again.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Worth clarifying that what scares GovHK most isn't demand for accountability, but who the public wants accountable – not just the contractors and specific govt officials but the systemic corruption that enabled this disaster. GovHK clearly sees that as an attack on the govt itself. Which says a lot.
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In memory of:
Osama Omar Shahda Al-Khalidi / اسامه عمر شحده الخالدي
Age: 20
We will not forget you.
Osama Omar Shahda Al-Khalidi / اسامه عمر شحده الخالدي
Age: 20
We will not forget you.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In memory of:
Osama Omar Shahda Al-Khalidi / اسامه عمر شحده الخالدي
Age: 20
We will not forget you.
Osama Omar Shahda Al-Khalidi / اسامه عمر شحده الخالدي
Age: 20
We will not forget you.
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I'm not sure "better late than never" applies in this case
Pretty striking to see these two pieces, side-by-side, in the Telegraph and Times last week. ~AA #BrexitDisaster
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm not sure "better late than never" applies in this case