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

[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]

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

[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.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Neera, why do you lie so much?
1. I tweet about/attack you?? Just a couple of days ago, you, unprovoked, came to dunk/quote-tweet on me when I wasn't talking to you, or tweeting at you, and kicked off a long back and forth that you didn't let go. You have retweeted people in the past 72 hours calling me a racist and a misogynist. But only I'm attacking you?? Why do you lie so much?
https://t.co/72ioyFC23W
2. I tried not to tweet at you at all after our Al Jazeera interview, and said nothing, but you tweeted at me incessantly, demanding I respond to you and debate you. So I did. Now you play the victim. Why do you lie so much?
3. 300 tweets? Lol. I know you and Matt Yglesias hate me counting tweets, but anyone can use Twitter search to see that in the past week you've tweeted about me as much, if not more, than I've tweeted about you. Why do you lie so much?
https://t.co/clbj13hd1e
4. Block me? I didn't tweet at you or tag you or even mention you in the tweet below; I was responding to a clip, to the substance of the clip. You searched for yourself and came looking for a fight and to play the victim. Why do you lie so much?
5. Isn't this really all deflection? From the question I have asked you six times - where is the tweet that you claimed to have posted on the day of the llhan Omar house raid in which you claim you condemned it as "outrageous"? - and that you got caught lying? Why do you lie so much?
https://t.co/DEPCrk3KSn
6. Per you logic, shouldn't @hasanthehun take out a restraining order against you on this platform?

[Don Leonard @DonforOhio]

Hey y'all. I've been neglecting this account for a while now, but happy to reintroduce myself! I'm the Congressman-elect for Ohio's 15th district. 👋

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all.

Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on.

Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9?

Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Please pick a different Speaker, Dems. Please.

FFS.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Do it @RepPressley. The people need you!!!!

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

I dunno Matt maybe to get people healthcare

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

What is the purpose of this commentary?

We just had an election. Nine seats flipped. Only one of the seat-flippers embraced this idea in the campaign. Why the determination to make people mad at the people who just won?

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

Lmaoooooo

Angela is LEGIT 💀🔥

[Angela Gonzales-Torres @Angela4CA]

Haven't tweeted anything in over 6 months but I guess you have time now.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

@JimmyGomezCA

[Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed]

@dearwhitestaff @Angela4CA 💀

[Angela Gonzales-Torres @Angela4CA]

Haven't tweeted anything in over 6 months but I guess you have time now.

[Sam @halaljew]

guy who heard that Abdul El-Sayed was going to institute sharia in Michigan and is now really pissed that he hasn’t

[Darializa for Congress @DarializaforNY]

From being a Columbia University encampment organizer to becoming the next Congresswoman for Columbia University's district. 💗

[tanvi @Tanvim]

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