ig: shereenshafi

prole model

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

starting a social media platform where you need to pass a reading comprehension test to post

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

(no shade to the actual woman pictured in that wirecutter image of course, who I’m sure is lovely - I’m only taking issue with the editorial decision to center that type of skin when it’s clearly not the type that struggles most with getting full concealer coverage!)

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

if wirecutter wants me to take their recommendations seriously, this can’t be the person who’s testing undereye concealer coverage lmao

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

deepica mutylala didn’t smear her eyes with red lipstick back in the day, then found a beauty brand that offers an actual color correcting concealer in red, just for beauty writers to play in our faces in 2026!

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

@_baitjiji @prettycritical I don’t remember all the details but I think you can bleed for weeks after giving birth, like an extra long period; and one horror story was basically like: if you don’t skillfully massage the area between your vulva and anus it can TEAR during labor 💀

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

@ClodiaMET 20-somethings deal with skin issues tbh, maybe just not aging - hyperpigmentation is more common for some ethnicities & adult acne seems to be increasing. but in this case you could’ve shown me a literal teenager with genetic undereye darkness & that would have been preferable!

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

@mollyfleck or any of us younger (mostly brown) people who have *always* had genetic undereye dark circles!

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

@palomarust very much appreciate you letting me know!!

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

I wanted that bag SO badly when I was 12. and lowkey still do

[#3 sisterwife but #1 in his heart @prettycritical]

THE nicole ritchie????????

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

@aheavytruth “one is based on consent and the other is also based on consent, which is therefore different” lmao

[FJB™️😎 @FakeJoeBizzie]

This is a real tweet from the House Democrats who, six hours later, BLOCKED THIS THEMSELVES.

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

dumb fucks say “follow the legal process” so these people show up for their legally mandated check-ins with ICE, which are now used as a set-up to detain them, and the dumb fuck response is still “well they should’ve followed the law” 🤔

[Sophia Solano @sophiansolano]

Maria went looking for her mom at an ICE office. Instead, she found immigration officials, who told her she could either leave the building or go with her mother. “I’ll go with my mom,” she said, not knowing her mother had been detained.

with @lbowman_98
https://t.co/omezg5CL5g

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Do not buy Fiji Water: two good reasons.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Looks like Democrats deliberately sabotaged the effort to impeach Pete Hegseth 🧐⬇️

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

another entry in this file, lmao

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

makes sense that the primary chatgpt users are the type of people who are too dumb to understand how dumb this makes them look

[𓏻 CEDAR﹑ ❄️ || #jollytetsutwt @rensyoma]

are we serious

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

if he’s so good at his job where were all the house dems during the hegseth impeachment vote? many of the election wins were despite him, not because of him. meanwhile, where he’s supposed to be leading:

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

Here's a radical thought. Maybe, just maybe, it has nothing to do with something so dismissive as charm. Maybe, just maybe, he's just good at the job. 259-176. Those numbers don't lie. It's really not that complicated. Just sayin'.

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

@NathanJRobinson this might help explain

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Dem members of Congress and base voters see Hakeem Jeffries very differently. I'll try to make the case *for* Jeffries, from the perspective of members. Ironically, they like him for the same reason voters don't, which is that he's nice and passive. He's NOT Pelosi.

Pelosi was a control freak, she tracked everything and bossed around the caucus with detail-oriented savviness. To give you a specific example, Pelosi made sure that only a few members could have staff with classified clearances, while most could not. That was a mechanism to ensure that just a few Dems would be able to make key decisions on national security.

She also was the Democrat who took over from the GOP Congress first elected in 1994. Gingrich (and his side kick Tom Delay) had taken apart a bunch of important Dem-leaning institutions to run Congress, centralizing control in the hands of leadership and corporate think tanks. That was the 'K Street Project.' It was a Strong Speaker model.

Pelosi had the chance to undo those changes, but she doubled down on the Strong Speaker approach. It wouldn't be a return to the Office of Technology Assessment and powerful caucuses, it would be the Wall Street-funded Center for American Progress and Congressional leadership in charge. She was a pro-choice Gingrich. Subsequent GOP leaders basically kept this arrangement in place, with Trump operating as the de facto latest strong speaker.

If she liked you, you could do anything. If she didn't. you got virtually nothing. She was in charge. When committees selected new members, Pelosi had a big say. When legislation needed to be finalized, that was Pelosi's call and her advisors choosing which lobbyists to listen to. She raised money, she allocated favors, handed out metaphorical parking spots. She knew everything.

The upside is that Pelosi could whip close votes, and could rule the House. She was able to save the ACA when Obama was ready to give up on it, because of her centralized control of the House. She governed. In some ways, she sort of saved the Obama administration. If you liked the direction she wanted to go, you were happy. If you didn't, you were not. But there were a few significant institutional downsides.

The Democratic Party suffered because Pelosi was a God-awful communicator. Just utter trash. She sounded entitled, she stuttered, she gave wandering obnoxious speeches, and couldn't articulate any coherent goals. To have someone that bad as the party front-person, and then to have the rest of the caucus admiring her, well, it made the party look bad.

On an 'office politics' level, the House was a miserable place where a few people made decisions, and all other elected Dems outside of leadership were merely ornamental. Talented House Democrats often jumped at other job opportunities, because the House was a waste of their talents.

On a substantive level, what it meant is that legislation could only be as good as Pelosi's people could make it. A San Francisco out of touch rich lady, and her advisors, were the ones structuring policy. Pelosi cut out much of the caucus, which means she cut out much of the country. That dramatically reduced the quality of what the House was doing.

On a party level, Pelosi's iron-fisted approach meant that no new leaders could emerge. Rather than embracing, say, the Squad, Pelosi went to war with them. That's not to say the Squad was good, just that Pelosi didn't create space for them to do their thing, whatever that might have been. The result was that there were no dynamic young Democratic leaders in the House, which should have been a talent pool for new people and ideas. Instead the House was a slightly younger nursing home than the Senate.

And Jeffries? Like Pelosi, Jeffries is a very communicator. So to outsiders, he seems similar. But he's completely different as a House leader. He doesn't track very much, he doesn't know what is happening in every corner of the caucus, and he doesn't have strong views. He won't set a direction. He'll listen, he will act if there's a consensus, but otherwise will sort of let things play out. You can talk to him about your concerns, he'll listen and be sympathetic. No one is worried about crossing Jeffries.

The downsides to Jeffries are pretty clear. He's widely disliked as a speaker, he makes the Democratic Party look bad because he clearly doesn't have a view of how to govern. He likes Israel and big money, but he'll do populist things if pushed. He proposed no agenda for the 2026 election, so there's no obvious specific mandate. Do something about 'affordability,' sure, but what? He also won't be able to manage the House. He won't be able to whip close votes, he won't set a direction, and the committee chairs or caucuses will likely run the place. When he speaks publicly, he'll lack the credibility to speak for the caucus. He won't be able to negotiate with Trump one on one, Trump will just go around him to other groups of Dems. It'll be chaos.

He's also not creative. Like Pelosi, he isn't going to reverse the Gingrich changes that ripped out the institutional capacity of the House. But he won't be strong enough to manage the centralized control that implies.

The upside is the same as the downside. Chaos. The House Democrats are going to have to set the agenda themselves, through organizing, committee hearings, and pure hustle. An entrepreneurial member or set of members working together on something will be able to get a real hearing for what they want. New leaders could emerge. There will be bitter fights between and among caucuses. Members could demand real structural changes to how Congress works and make it functional again, and Jeffries would probably eventually go along.

I don't know that members have thought through exactly why they like Jeffries or these dynamics. Certainly the newly elected class has different views, they never experienced Pelosi's management and they don't know Jeffries. Still, when I see Jeffries speak, I am not convinced he speaks *for* the Democratic caucus. I don't think anyone does. And that's good, we need all of those new members from Trump-y districts to have the space to find their voice.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. This thread contains several pieces of writing that I produced recently designed for anyone in your life who is well-meaning and who has progressive values, but who consumes a lot of mainstream news or who listens to what politicians say about crime and safety.