Abdirisak H. Aden

Bluegram - Talent Frontiers

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 YOUNG AMERICANS ARE COMING BACK FROM EUROPE ASKING THE SAME BRUTAL QUESTION: “WHEN DID AMERICA BECOME SO LIFELESS?”

No walking.
No neighborhood cafes.
No beautiful public spaces.

Just highways, parking lots, strip malls and the same corporate chains in every town.

One woman says she became depressed after returning from just two weeks in Europe because she suddenly realized how much everyday American life revolves around driving somewhere just to exist.

Another says American towns have become so identical you could photograph 20 of them and barely tell them apart.

McDonald’s.
Walmart.
Burger King.
Highways.
Parking lots.

Meanwhile, they say Europe feels built around actually living with walking, cafés, late dinners, public spaces and people outside enjoying their cities.

Be honest... does Europe actually offer a better quality of life or are Americans who say this just spoiled and romanticizing vacation?

[Elham Ishmael ✍︎ @EIshmael_]

Very good acting and sadly, it reflects the reality of politics in #Somalia. Too many politicians seem more focused on chasing clout, paying TikTok influencers, and trying desperately to become internet-famous than on carrying out their responsibilities properly. Instead of proving themselves through clean leadership and real work, they are obsessed with online attention.

[Abdirizak A. Hassan @AbdirizakAH]

So now you understand the meaning of a Somaliyeyste?

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

A cancer on mankind.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, leaving nearby farms barren https://t.co/yzqIHVNnla

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Putting your hand up to participate in democracy is no easy thing. Thank you for running, Congresswoman. Looking forward to uniting this fall to beat Mike Rogers. Because what unites us is so much bigger than what divides us.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He’s not a ‘counterterrorism expert’ - he’s with the Center for Security Policy, which is a far-right group of cranks, once designated a hate group by the SPLC, and which even accused Huma Abedin of being a Muslim Brotherhood spy and got condemned by John McCain and Marco Rubio.

Since we’re talking about El-Sayed’s dad, is it true Senator Cruz that your dad helped kill JFK? That’s what Donald Trump once suggested, right? Is he correct?

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

No politician in Kenya builds and supports Islamic institutions like Waziri Duale...he is a lion not a hyena!

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise.
But he’s betrayed us all.
Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center.
The movement has begun.

[SNEAKO @sneako]

160 schoolgirls in Iran was not enough, now Trump is attacking kindergarten girls in Minnesota for dressing modestly.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This is quite astounding. The Prime Minister of Qatar and the American Vice President are not just negotiating the deal, but they are actively typing it into the laptop.

They are doing the legwork, not just the decision-making.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

This is the largest sporting event on the planet, despite what some Americans may believe, and the decision to prevent Africa's leading referee from participating in the World Cup sends an extraordinarily damaging message about the United States and the direction in which it is heading.

I am genuinely astonished that FIFA has not lodged a formal protest with the United States Government and sought intervention to ensure that this referee, who is held in the highest regard within the international refereeing community, is granted a visa to undertake one of the most important roles in world football. For any referee, appointment to a World Cup is among the greatest honours the sport can bestow.

A person's country of birth should never be the sole reason for preventing them from entering a country to carry out a specific professional duty at a specific international event. Particularly when the President of the United States publicly assured the world that participants would be welcomed.

If nationality alone has been the determining factor, then this is a serious stain upon both the tournament and the host nation. It raises profound questions about fairness, equality of treatment and whether political considerations are now taking precedence over sporting merit.

The World Cup is supposed to bring nations together. Decisions such as this achieve precisely the opposite.

[Abdirizak Mohamed MP @AbdirizakOm]

Ex NISA chief discloses what wasn’t intended for public. Is it divine act or outright stupidity on his part in admitting that in 2022 his electoral delegate illegally elected six other seats.He admits corruption is at the core of indirect model,yet he continues to advocate for it

[Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed @abdiwelisheikh]

What happened in Baidoa today has no heroes.

A rushed election was held to preserve political self-interest, resulting in compromised outcomes. Federal troops were deployed not on constitutional principle but in response to a breakdown in personal loyalty. This is not an anomaly in Somalia’s federal system. It is the system working exactly as its structural flaws have always guaranteed it would.

The federal project in Somalia was built on personal allegiance rather than institutional foundations. When that allegiance held, the absence of functioning institutions was tolerable. When it broke, as it has now broken in South West State, there was nothing else to stand on. No Constitutional Court to adjudicate the dispute. No genuine independent electoral commission to validate or invalidate the process. No agreed framework for what happens when a Federal Member State (FMS) and the Federal Government reach an irreconcilable disagreement. Just competing claims, and ultimately, force.

The consequences are serious and should be stated plainly. Every remaining FMS administration is today asking the same question: if the Federal Government will deploy troops to resolve a political dispute it cannot win through legitimate means, what protection does any FMS have against the same fate? That question - unanswered, unanswerable under the current framework - is more destabilising than anything that happened in Baidoa today. It transforms what should be a federal partnership into a conditional arrangement, revocable at will from the centre.

The deeper design flaw is this: Somalia’s federal architecture was never completed. The Constitutional Court mandated in 2012 was never established. The electoral commission, which should have been independent, became an instrument of the ruling party. These are not administrative oversights. They are the load-bearing walls that were never built, and what collapsed in Baidoa today is the structure that depended on them.

This crisis will not be resolved by determining who was more wrong. It will only be resolved by building what was never built - the institutions that make this kind of confrontation unnecessary. A Constitutional Court. A truly independent electoral commission. A federal compact that all sides recognise because all sides shaped it. Until those institutions are built, Somalia will continue to reproduce these crises with different actors and in different locations. The names and locales may change, but ultimately the same structural issues will persist.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I am not a fan of Tucker Carlson. I disagree a lot with Carlson. But as an interviewer, Carlson actually, brilliantly, asks follow-up questions, and keeps going, in a way that pretty much no US TV interviewer has done with pro-Israel guests since Oct 7.
And Huckabee falls apart.

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

In his upcoming visit to UK, President Trump should try Somali food at Sabiibi ...@WehliyeMohamed

[Abdirisak H. Aden @abdirisakaden1]

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Time has a way of revealing true character. Some of us pay closer attention than others, and not everything is said out loud.

[Marx Roble @Marxroble]

Young generation, rise above fadhi ku dirir, gossip and clan mentality. The world is open to you — knowledge is at your fingertips. Use it to uplift your people and cleanse the wounds left by those who came before you. Example? 👇🏽

[Hodan Ali @hodansomali]

If shame had a face - this would be IT.

They lead a country on the verge of dismemberment.

Ravaged by drought/disease/poverty.

Corruption is the only game in town.

Plagued by extremism.

Yet, they walk like they are in a cheap Bollywood movie.

#106Days