Lefty Gooner

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[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

1/ 🧵A thread on the complex symbolism of hijab/burqa of muslim women.

The hijab has sparked debates globally, from protests in Iran to restrictions in France.

In this thread lets look at how the burqa's symbolism evolved dramatically during the Algerian War of Independence

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

Oh the poor landlords in New York!
How will they survive this? 😭

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment.

While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately.

You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public.

Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election.

The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason.

Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative.

I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets.

If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners.

While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate.

All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something?

Why am I wrong?

For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

Really wished this Iran team to qualify to the next round especially after all the unfair treatment they received throughout the tournament.

But even their elimination will be remembered and will forever remain a black mark in the history of the FIFA worldcup and football.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Iran are eliminated from the World Cup after a remarkable tournament run 🇮🇷

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

Imagine living in a state where the police can enter your kitchen and arrest you on the suspicion of cooking beef if you are Muslim

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

“We are slipping further into Israel’s strategic orbit, at a time when the world is increasingly pivoting away from it. The Prime Minister’s visit to Israel will go down in history as a bewildering strategic decision.

The spirit of Indian nationhood demands that we speak up for our Palestinian brothers and sisters whose children have been so brutally targeted.”

Through her editorial, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji calls on India to reclaim its independent foreign policy, uphold humanitarian values, and speak up with moral clarity on Gaza.

[Aslah Kayyalakkath @aslahtweets]

Zakariya has spent 17 years in prison.

Seventeen years.

For almost a decade and a half, his trial did not even begin. During all these years, he was out for less than a week in total.

He couldn’t even visit his ailing mother.

And this is not just any mother. It is Beeyumma, now in her seventies, who has spent years fighting for justice for the son she believes was falsely implicated.

Beeyumma’s struggle went far beyond seeking justice for her son. She approached the Supreme Court challenging the use of the draconian UAPA, turning her personal grief into a larger fight for civil liberties.

The irony is painful.

The trial in the Bengaluru blasts case began only a few years ago and is now almost complete. The Supreme Court had directed that it be concluded within months.

But yesterday, the Karnataka High Court transferred the case from the trial court to another court.

Another court. Another delay. Another set of years.

And then there is Quadir. Another prisoner in the Bengaluru blast case.

He died in prison just weeks ago. Even if he had ultimately been convicted, the maximum punishment for the offence he was accused of was three years. Instead, he spent 17 years behind bars until his last breath.

In India, justice delayed is not merely justice denied. Sometimes, it becomes a life sentence without a conviction.

[Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa]

और अचानक याद आया इस देश की राष्ट्रपति एक आदिवासी महिला हैं

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

@abierkhatib @realBrandonGill Why are you amplifying this racist islamophobe?

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

In any other country (even 3rd world like us, forget a country claiming to be a Vishwaguru), even a single such incident in a year would have caused massive uproar.

But for us, it’s probably 50th case in this year of being killed by the all-pervasive corruption-nexus of govt, IAS, and business.

Nothing will change and next time it would you be you or me or our families perishing in this hellhole created by cruel systems.

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

Because its actually "Israel proxy America"

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Why is it always "Iran proxy Hezbollah" but not "American proxy Israel"?

[Marcos Feres 🇵🇸 @marcosvmf_]

Suleiman Al-Obeid, o "Pelé Palestino", assassinado a tiros pelos israelenses enquanto procurava comida para os filhos em Gaza em agosto de 2025.

Gol pela seleção palestina em partida contra o Iêmen em 2010.

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

@thearsfamily97 Where is the RB. An RB is the most urgent position we need to add strength. It cost us a UCL already

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

@ZacDjellab @ben_bowman_ @TalkCPFC Going forward I agree but he might be a bit more exposed in defense without a system like Man City's which might inturn affect his ability to go forward.

[Robert Inlakesh @falasteen47]

BREAKING: Israel Has Just Inflicted A Khan Younis Beach Massacre

Dozens of casualties amongst civilians who were targeted on the beach.

The Israelis are frustrated with their failures in Lebanon & Iran, so they are taking it out on the people of Gaza.

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

Kerala instagram during monsoon is pure bliss 💕

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

🚨 Massive controversy erupt in Wadala (East) ahead of #MumbaiMonsoon.

While private contractors were paid crores for mechanical drain cleaning, residents of LBS Nagar & Korba Salt Pans caught them using child laborers to manually haul toxic garbage out of deep nullahs with zero protective equipment.

​This isn't just a scam; it’s a criminal violation of child rights. Strict action needed NOW! 🚨

​#MumbaiNews #BMC #ChildExploitation @mybmc @CPMumbaiPolice @NCPCR

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[The Muslim Matter India @TheMuslimMatter]

East Delhi: Hindu nationalist supporters affiliated with Jeev Jyoti Jivan Foundation, including its founder Rahul Sharma and Boby Kumar, assaulted a Muslim youth after alleging that he had come to speak with a Hindu girl's parents regarding marriage, accusing him of engaging in “love jihad.” They also recorded a video in which the victim was made to state that he had not been assaulted.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Lefty Gooner @I_AM_dil]

Firstly, quoting Sam Harris in 2026 should be embarrassing enough. He isn’t an expert in anything except Islamophobia.

Also, this is the same argument racists used to defend apartheid in South Africa.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Hi all, please help share this. I’m fundraising for the family of late Palestinian footballer Suleiman Al-Obeid: his widow and five children.

Gaza is unbearable, basic needs are hard to access, and she is trying to provide for them but can’t do it alone https://t.co/mWevJThF82