Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

Sociology prof at CUNY sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COSTS OF BORDERS. she/هي

[Monica💚🍉Free Congo, Palestine & Sudan @BlakPantherBabe]

Y’all fully backed a segregationist but questioning Jeffries ability to lead is racist

😂😂😂 y’all funny

[Iman @Iman4ii]

Fuck u I will get more likes than you

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

BREAKING: Israeli airstrike INSIDE the Nasser Medical Complex -Khan Younis

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

@GadSaad Fucking racist sack of shit. These days are over Gad. You fucking lost

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Two words.

Cry. More.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

@jonathanchait My guy. Not only are you wrong about that on the merits, but you tried to claim Zohran Mamdani as a *centrist* you have zero credibility on what does or does not constitute redefinition of anything related to politics

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Yep.

Massive electoral overpeformers like James Talarico ran as far away from Bernie’s message as possible — lambasting a rigged economic system that makes it impossible for working people to get by, calling out the greed of billionaires and advocating raising their taxes, focusing on a top-versus-bottom vs. left-versus-right division, raising the minimum wage, getting big money out of politics…

HEY WAIT A MINUTE

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

@jeffreynparker I don't even know if they can look more terrible than having hegseth in the first place but maybe. I hope so anyway.

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

He Does. Not. Care. He said already he doesn’t think we need accountability.

He’s busy ensuring his own path to speaker- and 255 “leaders” are watching him and shrugging in unison gesturing for him to enter.

I’m losing my mind.

[Riley Rogerson @riley_rogerson]

I asked Hakeem Jeffries about attendance appearing decisive in the Pete Hegseth vote. (11 House Dems did not vote tonight.)

He told me and reporters: "I haven't had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hegseth resolution, but this is not the end of it. It's just the beginning."

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

least self aware poster on this website.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

If impeaching Hegseth is a priority as Jeffries indicated it was last Sunday, does Jeffries have a plan to discipline those whose conspicuous absence was dispositive in Hegseth avoiding accountability? What’s the plan there?

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

its not lost on me that there're always plenty of absentees when its time to do the bidding of the masses, but can you imagine a world where hakeem failed to whip votes for a funding bill for israel?!?!

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

@DenaKhalafallah Lmao if we’re not suffering are we alive!!

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

@FordMaryam80338 @scott_colom Thank you!

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

I’m the author of this article. Per crisis of illiteracy the community note has 0 to do with what I argue.

It’s not a feat when Dem machinery pumps establishment candidates.

What’s noteworthy is @scott_colom becoming 1st Black senator in Mississippi since 1875 while saying:

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Centrism did not win the Democratic party the election

https://t.co/tEgRoC5h3Z

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

I want to go to there.

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

Not to mention the fact that centrism isn’t a political position.

In this system it’s just proximity to fascism.

No one is voting for you on the basis that you’ll fuck them a little less than the next guy.

No one is chanting we want mediocrity.

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

What’s notable, as I argue, in the article is people winning across the country on progressive and socialist platforms, voters caring about progressive and socialist policy, and in the discourse, even amongst centrists shifting left.

That’s why 2026 didn’t look like 22 or 24.

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

Also centrism isn’t a fucking political position. It’s fascism light. No one is excited to vote for someone who promises to fuck them over just slightly less than the next guy. lol. What are yall even defending?!

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

Everyone and particularity the voters were further left than they’d ever been and more non establishment candidates won across the country than ever before.

That’s the story here. That’s why this looked different than 2022 or 2024. This is what’s changed.