Saad Kassis-Mohamed

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

The tragedy of Delhi is that heat has become a class experience. For some, summer means moving from AC home to AC car to AC office.

For others, it means labouring in streets made hotter by concrete, pollution and neglect. Air conditioning may cool rooms, but it cannot cool an unjust city.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

Delhi shows how AC can become a substitute for serious urban thinking. Instead of trees, shaded streets, breathable housing, water points and climate-sensitive planning, the city increasingly offers escape for those who can pay.

A city cannot call itself developed when survival from heat depends on income.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

Delhi’s dependence on air conditioning is not simply about heat. It is about a city that has made livability private.

The wealthy move between cooled rooms, cars and malls, while street vendors, workers and the poor are left to endure the public climate. That is not adaptation. It is urban inequality made visible.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

AC is one of those inventions that solves a problem while making us less willing to confront it.

It gives immediate relief, but also lets bad housing, poor planning, concrete heat, and climate neglect continue. Sometimes the machine is not the solution. It is the excuse.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

The strange thing about AC is how quietly it changes public life. People disappear indoors, streets become emptier, and comfort becomes something experienced alone in sealed rooms.

A good city should invite people outside, not make the outside world feel like something to escape.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

Air conditioning is useful, but our dependence on it says something sad about modern life.

We no longer design homes and cities to breathe. We overheat the world outside, cool small rooms inside, and call that progress.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

The more I think about air conditioning, the more it feels like a private escape from a public failure.

We built hotter cities, worse housing, fewer shaded streets, and then called it normal to hide indoors with machines. That is not comfort but a warning.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

Taxing income above $1 million at 80% is not about punishing success. It is about refusing to let success become political domination.

Extreme private wealth should not have more influence over society than workers and public needs.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

Millionaires should not be treated as victims because society asks more from excess wealth.

An 80% tax on income above $500K would not destroy ambition. It would restore balance in a country where working people carry the system while the rich capture its rewards.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: The odds of the California one-time billionaire tax passing surge as Gavin Newsom releases video urging an “economic reset.”

36% chance it passes.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

@RoKhanna An 80% tax rate on extreme wealth is not radical. What is radical is allowing a handful of people to accumulate more power than entire communities while workers are told healthcare, housing and education are unaffordable.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

Taxing the ultra-rich at 80% is not punishment. It is democratic self-defense.

No society can remain free when wealth becomes so concentrated that private fortunes begin to shape politics, media, technology and public life more than ordinary citizens do.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

What should we stand for?

Medicare for All
Tax the Billionaires
No Foreign Wars/No Genocide
Workers over AI
Marshall Plan for America

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

There is something deeply dishonest about pretending to care for victims only when their suffering can be used against Muslims or Pakistanis.

Abuse must be confronted without mercy. But collective ethnic blame is not protection. It is racism dressed up as moral concern.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

The phrase “Pakistani grooming gangs” is designed to make an entire people look criminal. It does not protect victims; it turns their pain into a political weapon.

Real accountability must name perpetrator and social neglect — not manufacture racial guilt.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

What is fake is not the suffering of victims, but the racial narrative built around it. “Pakistani grooming gangs” has become a way to turn individual crimes and institutional failures into collective blame against a whole community.

That is not justice but prejudice using victims as a shield.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

The victims deserve justice. But the idea that an entire ethnic or religious community can be reduced to “grooming gangs” is a racist fiction.

Justice means prosecuting perpetrators and exposing institutional failure, not turning Pakistanis and Muslims into collective suspects.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

There is a difference between skepticism and moral evasion. When aid is withdrawn, the consequences are not always immediate, theatrical, or easily traceable to one headline.

People die through systems collapsing around them. The absence of a viral name is not the absence of harm.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly.

And they cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the “millions” they falsely claim have died. Not a single name!

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

@elonmusk The poorest victims of policy rarely leave behind names that billionaires encounter. They die in clinics without medicine, villages without food, and places without journalists.

To demand individualized proof before admitting mass suffering is a failure of moral imagination.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

The Shia tradition has kept the memory of Karbala alive in a way that still moves people today.

It reminds us that dignity and sacrifice are not abstract words. They have a cost.

[SNEAKO @sneako]

I will ally with my Shia brothers resisting tyranny, over my Sunni brothers signing Abraham accords in a mall.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

@sneako Karbala is why the Shia tradition speaks so deeply to people. It is about standing with truth even when power is against you, and refusing to trade dignity for safety.

[Saad Kassis-Mohamed @sdkassis]

@KenRoth Sudan’s future cannot belong to those who helped destroy its homes, cities and families. The RSF should not be normalized or rewarded.

Sudanese civilians deserve a country free from militia rule.