Ishmael Daro

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NEW: Ali Najmi, a close ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and who scored a plum unpaid City Hall gig overseeing judicial appointments, is now appearing in court on behalf of the owner of the Mets and the largest fine in SEC history.

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

Something very funny happening in this California congressional race. https://t.co/bXXzbqhPAO

[alex lei @alexL_E_I]

checking in with the goat

[George Michael @GeorgeMichael]

I HAVE NEVER AND WILL NEVER APOLOGISE FOR MY SEX LIFE ! GAY SEX IS NATURAL, GAY SEX IS GOOD! NOT EVERYBODY DOES IT, BUT.....HA HA!

[Yoko Ono @yokoono]

Who will win the World Cup?
A child who believes in a peaceful world.

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

Link: https://t.co/n8Hhbz7wbl

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

good piece by @karayiannides on Elon Musk's schemes

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

Up now: Finding Elon — Searching for Muskism in Africa — by Efthimios Karayiannides — on the new book by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff:

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

Israeli forces have captured a strategic mountain topped with the Crusader-built Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon in their deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter century https://t.co/FxL7T3lpbU

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

worth taking a look at your Instagram reels algorithm. I fucking love Podcast Season 3

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

the washington post cut hundreds of reporters so that it could instead invest in the worst video podcast you've ever seen https://t.co/GqpQVYP4eB

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

citing Wikipedia in your sneak diss is sooo funny

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

An old, but apt fable:

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

Maybe because the fact-checking schtick is annoying and tedious?

[Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher @tommyxtopher]

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale hasn’t been on the air since March 13. That’s after averaging 12 or 13 appearances a month for several years.

But apparently, there’s absolutely no reason for this.

He’s still doing fact checks. He’s done 16 in the past six or seven weeks. But nothing on the air.

He did one on Friday about the 28 lies Trump told last week. But that one didn’t make it on the air.

[Jesse Aaron Paul ☀ @JesseAPaul]

Gov. Jared Polis, fresh off being censured by the Colorado Democratic Party for letting Tina Peters out of prison early, showed up today to a private, internal party call like this #copolitics

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

NY Post: Mamdani has dishonored Islam

[New York Post @nypost]

Mamdani wears garish Arsenal FC thobe at Muslim holiday event https://t.co/7kuZb0dKd3

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

"The new website North South Notes published an enlightening article on [Bahrain and wartime Gulf politics] by Kareema Abbas and Aamer..."

@IbnKulthum talks to @HeerJeet at @thenation:

https://t.co/MpLegKljuZ

[Ishmael Daro @iD4RO]

the bullies in my high school actually sounded like this

[simone de bolivar @_bitchsword]

they’re calling it the most park slope post of all time