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Zeeshan Aleem

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · Nov 12

an intro note to pin to my profile:

Hello! I’m a political columnist & editor. I have left-wing views but I value independence and critique actors and ideas across the political spectrum — including those on my side. It's okay if you don't always agree with me; I often don't agree with myself.

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Diana Moreno @dianamor.bsky.social · 19h

Some personal news: I’m preparing to run for Zohran’s Assembly seat.

As a Queens mom, an immigrant organizer, and a democratic socialist, I’m ready to fight for the working people of Queens! LET’S WIN THIS!🔥

(DM me for volunteer/ donation form ✊🏽)

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Former DSA leader Diana Moreno hopes to replace Zohran Mamdani in the Assembly

She is one of three DSA members currently planning to run for the seat.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 1d

omfg

Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 1d

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies.

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.

“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that drives me crazy about the whole enterprise is that there is no substantive position other than "it is disrespectful to question leaders," a kind of unthinking institutional conservatism masquerading as ... "independent" renegade thinking??

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about Karine Jean-Pierre's tragicomic book tour. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | What Karine Jean-Pierre’s disastrous book tour reveals about Biden loyalists

The former White House press secretary's new book exposes a problem in the Democratic Party — just not the one she thought it did.

www.msnbc.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

🚫 NO DMS 🚫 NO CRYPTO 🚫 NO TELLING ME THAT SOMETHING IS "BOFA" 🚫 NO SLEIGHT OF HAND TO MAKE IT APPEAR AS THOUGH YOU HAVE PULLED A QUARTER OUT OF MY EAR 🚫 NO PRETENDING TO HAVE "GOTTEN MY NOSE" 🚫 NO ASKING ME "PETE AND RE-PEAT WERE IN A BOAT, PETE FELL OUT, WHO WAS LEFT" 🚫

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

New pandemic just dropped www.fox8live.com/2025/10/28/t...

Truck carrying lab monkeys from Tulane University crashes on I-59

Officials said the monkeys weigh about 40 pounds each, are aggressive toward humans and require personal protective equipment to handle.

www.fox8live.com

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

There is a lot of movement involved, but also the appreciation of life.

Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social · 3d

Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals

Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds

www.theguardian.com

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think it's a perfect movie, but I appreciated Kathryn Bigelow making a movie that questioned the security state instead of fawning over it. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | "A House of Dynamite" is a reminder of the folly of our nuclear era

Kathryn Bigelow's riveting national security thriller raises questions about the world's complacency on nuclear policy.

www.msnbc.com

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 2d

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

screenshot of amazon corporate blog post announcing massive layoffs, titled, "Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizations"

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Which is to say, if the NYPost was culturally literate instead of filled with illiterate xenophobes, they'd know it's completely accurate.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of people here don't know that in many South Asian cultures, this is literally *the accurate terminology* for referring to an aunt. So this isn't even something like a casual drift in terminology, or loosely referring to a loved one as an aunt or an uncle.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 3d

lmao

My Post headline

Mamdani didn’t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ who feared for safety post-9/11

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 was actually his dad’s cousin.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Which is to say, if the NYPost was culturally literate instead of filled with illiterate xenophobes they'd know it's completely accurate.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

In 'Independent,' Karine Jean-Pierre says the two-party system isn't working

Karine Jean-Pierre has spent most of her career as a Democrat, working on four presidential campaigns and serving in the Obama and Biden administrations. But her days as a member of the Democratic Par...

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely mind-boggling that this insane rhetoric is coming from a professional communicator.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 3d

Isaac is an excellent interviewer, but if you see KJP in other recent interviews you'll see that it's not hard to get her to sound as if she has no clue what she stands for. It's particularly hard to watch with the premise of her book / new identity being that she's "independent."

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 3d

humiliating interview. KJP is a remarkable figure honestly.

Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 3d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

Semafor newsletter via @willsommer.bsky.social. I have expired. I am deceased.

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis has largely stayed out of the public eye as the paper has scaled back its staff and altered the direction of its opinion page. But that hasn't stopped him from recruiting. In recent months, Lewis attempted to hire the Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold, two people familiar with the situation told Semafor, an idea that he discussed with owner Jeff Bezos, who supported the move. The idea was for Reingold to serve as one of the first new faces in the paper's overhauled opinion section, with Bezos' new focus on free markets and personal liberties. The attempt to hire Reingold to create written and video opinion content is part of the Post's push to make the paper's journalists engage in different mediums; the paper announced earlier this year that it was launching a creator network and hiring staff to create more personality-driven content. Reingold declined to comment; a spokesperson for the Post said the paper doesn't comment on hiring discussions.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

In my Chicago neighborhood this weekend: candy drive for kids who can't safely go out to trick or treat because of ICE; big visible letter-writing campaign at an outdoor block party; low-flying Blackhawk helicopter over a children's baseball game; whistle brigades everywhere. #chicagostrong

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Human beings were not built to be perceived by 1000s of strangers every single day. Again, this is not natural. The younger you are the less tools you have to withstand this.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 6d

speaking in really broad strokes, in general "fame" broadly defined is unpleasant in many ways for most people., and it fucks up probably a plurality of them?

Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 6d

for sure! and also a better baseline for what's "normal" and better intuition for when validation is coming from the wrong place.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 6d

I think most adults don't either! And many who think they can handle it become visibly psychologically and spiritually disfigured by it. I'd probably sub in "resilience" or "stoicism" or "healthy ego & ability to detach" for "fortitude" in terms of how I'm thinking about it though.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 6d

I think I'm probably going to delete my post because, to your second point, I may be underestimating the diversity of grievances among the crowds and was abroad during the last one (so read online about it).