Mohammad Ali Haider

Non-whirly dervish.

[Hiba Sameen @hibasameen]

Many weekends and a lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into building an interactive district-level map of Pakistan's census and survey data. All open data from @PBSofficialpak. 🇵🇰

https://t.co/X3C2dMfXEP

[Mohammad Ali Haider @MohammadAliHQ]

@pseudorebel Lahore aa jaa, the salad bar is back :)

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.

I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.

Jeff

[Mohammad Ali Haider @MohammadAliHQ]

@aeyakuze Congratulations Aidan!

[Khurram Husain @KhurramHusain]

Yes the economy has stabilized, but this always happens in the first year of an IMF program. The real challenge is in how to get growth started, and there they have no ideas whatsoever beyond begging for $ from benefactors.

My piece in Dawn today.
https://t.co/Wp1EkkkfHO

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

A moving excerpt from Pete Hegseth's book, "American Crusade, Our Fight to Stay Free" (2020)

"Simply put: if you don’t understand why Israel matters and why it is so central to the story of Western civilization—with America being its greatest manifestation—then you don’t live in history. America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete. If you’re going to crusade, you need to know the totality of your mission.

This brief section is not intended to provide a full defense of Israel; but as an aspiring American Crusader, consider it homework. A great place to start, once again, is PragerU. Check out videos such as “Why Don’t You Support Israel?,” “Israel’s Legal Founding,” and “Why Does America Spend So Much on Israel?” After that, read A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu. You’ll quickly realize the depth of connection among education, Israel, and Americanism.

If you love America, you should love Israel. We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom. We love free people, free expression, and free markets. And whereas America is blessed with two big, beautiful oceans to protect it, Israel is surrounded on all sides by countries that either used to seek, or still seek, to wipe the nation off the map.

The battle wages on Israeli soil as well. With each trip I take to Israel for FOX Nation, and on my personal time, I discover a new way in which Islamists and their leftist enablers seek to deny Jewish history and heritage. Today, Islamists in Jerusalem are attempting to claim that the Holy Temple built by King Solomon and rebuilt by Herod never existed. Apparently, they want us all to believe that Jews—from Abraham to Jesus—never sacrificed, built, or worshipped on that particular piece of real estate. “Temple denial” is yet another tool by which they seek to erase the Jews and the Jewish state. If that isn’t delusional enough, on a recent trip to Bethlehem—the birthplace of Jesus—I discovered that Palestinians now claim that Jesus was not in fact Jewish but instead a Palestinian. Try that one on for size—or watch my two FOX Nation documentaries on the subject: Battle in the Holy City and Battle in Bethlehem."

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

There’s no overstating how good election night was for Elon Musk.

With Trump’s victory, Musk—already the richest man in the world—has also made himself a major force in politics. https://t.co/aVt9ZvafZ4

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

macron after trump’s win (and a little too much tofu):

“the world is made up of herbivores and carnivores. if we decide to remain herbivores, then the carnivores will win and we will be a market for them”

“i think, at the very least, we should choose to become omnivores.”

[Mujtaba Rahman @Mij_Europe]

The election of Donald Trump is a “decisive moment in European history”, the French President @EmmanuelMacron said today. “We must decide if we want to write that history or have it written by others”. 1/

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

RIP Quincy Jones, the platinum standard of music production. During all my years in the music business, he was the role model every producer looked up to.

[Abdul Moiz Jaferii @Jaferii]

What a write up @AsadRahim.

Every sentence a marvel, every paragraph a treat. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

https://t.co/qisvOKPzis

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

Kids - they’re all kids my god

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

An entire generation of liberals has been inculcated to believe that you cannot oppose evil unless you can justify it as good swing-state politics. This whole generation has been lobotomized into believing they are political strategists rather than citizens in a democracy.

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

Comparing gov't complexity in 2 charts: NZ vs Norway https://t.co/q8SNQagXAb

[Asad Rahim Khan @AsadRahim]

This is an assault on the Constitution; a PCO for judges; and the destruction of the Supreme Court. Do not be complicit.

Open letter to the judges of Pakistan’s constitutional courts:
#NoToPCOCourt

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Forcing a country to borrow from the private market at 11% should never be the result of an IMF policy -- if this really was done as a financing assurance, those financing assurances need to be rethought

(h/t @murtazahsyed)

1/x

https://t.co/AZG32XFpe3

[Fasi Zaka @fasi_zaka]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

Haniya Aslam passes away. What a talented musician and kind soul. May she Rest in Peace. Truly saddening.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

It's as if Biden supporters don't know that the DNC literally canceled the primaries this year.