Mahad Zara

Writer: occasionally read words of significantly more occasional validity; @Columbia #SOAWriting; uber flaneur; aspiring alchemist; hopeful human(?); etc.

[Yasmin Rafiei @YasminRafiei]

Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker https://t.co/cQzbWggk46

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

I am just leaving the Port Authority Bus Terminal, where I welcomed asylum seekers getting off buses from Texas.

This morning a record # of migrants arrived, approx 250 men, women and children.

I am truly appalled by how they have been treated prior to their arrival here. 1/

[Mahad Zara @MahadZara]

@hrk299 Advisable. (Congratulations!)

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic.

To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar…

[Mahad Zara @MahadZara]

@victorlavalle A million congratulations, Victor! Celebrate in kind good sir. (And eagerly awaiting!)

[Patricia Smith @pswordwoman]

I am in love with an airport.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

POWERFUL! An airline crew made up of all Black women took flight for 1st time in American Airlines' 96-yr history to honor the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman receiving her pilot’s license. This extraordinary accomplishment proves that representation truly MATTERS!

[Mahad Zara @MahadZara]

@victorlavalle Who do you think is the DJ Khaled of blurbs?

“X hits send on his blurb email.

Yelling: ANOTHER ONE.”

[Mahad Zara @MahadZara]

@ChiSportUpdates tf? almost the entire rest of the conference is more of a rival…

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

Someone drugged my drink this weekend.

Here’s are some symptoms of a spiked drink that I wish I knew beforehand (and was never told):

[Mahad Zara @MahadZara]

Given that production of the #FastandFurious franchise will outlast humanity, can we have a Dom and Friends (Before Brian) prequel? (This is largely motivated by wanting a backstory for Jesse, the most underrated character ever.)

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

I can think of little more bourgie than going through security of Martha Vineyard airport and the TSA pre-check line is packed but the regular line is empty and all those folks refuse to go to the empty line because they have TSA pre-check. What. 😂😂😂

[Translate Things @TranslateThings]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's personal library was destroyed in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.

Both books are sadly beyond repair, and he hadn't even finished coloring one in yet.

[Amy Pechacek @pechacek_amy]

It feels illegal to know about these 20 websites:

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

One of my favorite Bill Russell moments… RIP Legend �

[Rob Lopez @r0bato]

that one time Bill Russell flipped off Charles Barkley just because

[Mahad Zara @MahadZara]

cute how late capitalism (commoditized) politics enables comparisons akin to those for franchise equivalents overseas: “McDonald’s of Mali”, “MAGA of Canada”, “Pizza Hut of Karachi”, “AOC of Saudi Arabia”