Shafiq Islam

Retired Economist

[Shafiq Islam @sqislam]

@RL9631 @mgtymoose13 The customer was shouting at the two Muslim employees and being rude. You cannot videotape someone against her will.

[Shafiq Islam @sqislam]

@taslimanasreen Taslima, why don’t you ever write about how Muslims are being attacked, harassed and discriminated against in India? Why don’t you ever mention how so many Muslims have been assaulted and even killed for the “crime” of eating beef?

[Shafiq Islam @sqislam]

@TheDavidBergman Because they don’t care! Did one of these governments do anything when Israel continued to commit genocide in Gaza and starving Palestinians to death by blocking all food aid to Gaza for months? Did even one of those “civilized” countries cut off diplomatic relations with Israel?

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Does any "Western" leader have anything to say about this?

[Mas Mas X (❖,❖) @IlhamOfficially]

@MrPutinsnappy

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

A lot wrong here.

1. re point 2: There is no evidence as yet to suggest that it was "women voters" as such who prevented Jamaat-e-Islami from coming to power. There is evidence, however, that the Jamaat's defeat in many consituencies was down to a sufficient number of Awami League voters supporting the BNP.

2. re point 3: This is so sloppy and conspiratorial. The claim that "the US-UK" gave "all-out backing" to the Jamaat is simply ridiculous. As is the idea that the Mohammad Yunus's "master" is Western governments and international NGOs.

3. re 5th point: Bangladesh does not have a "secular majority". What it does have is a majority that does not want a fundamentalist islamic party. Those are two very different things.

[💥OS-Media💥 @OShitMedia]

@BillMelugin_ Thank you, I support ice but that ice agent was the aggressor and fucked up

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House."
https://t.co/prMS10No4B

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

If you’re not following @TheSysMechanic you should be…
He’s the guy on the right…

[Sandee ☮️ @sandeew18]

@SecScottBessent @POTUS

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump did a whole lot of lying on "60 Minutes." Here's a fact check of 18 of his false claims to Norah O’Donnell, the vast majority of them previously debunked:

- It's not true grocery prices "are down"; Trump told this lie even after O’Donnell told him they're up
- It's not true there is now "no inflation" (it’s at 3%) or that it's "less than 2%" (it's at 3%)
- It's not true it was "my idea, which nobody, frankly, had thought of," to have AI facilities generate their own power on-site (they were already starting to do that while he was out of office, with Biden administration encouragement)
- It's not true “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now" (this fictional figure is nearly double the White House's own wildly inflated "announcements" figure)
- It's not true each alleged drug boat "kills 25,000 Americans" (this figure plainly makes no sense given US overdose death totals)
- It's not true some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act "28 times" (Ulysses S. Grant has the record because he invoked it on six occasions)
- It's not true Trump has ended "eight wars" (among other issues, his list includes two situations that weren't wars at all, one war still going full tilt in the DRC, and the Gaza conflict where killing also continues)
- It's not true the Kamala Harris interview Trump sued "60 Minutes" over aired "two days" before the election (it was more than four full weeks before Election Day)
- It's not true Biden gave Ukraine "$350 billion" (inspector general says the US had disbursed $94 billion through June 2025 and appropriated $93 billion more, including funds spent in the US)
- It's not true foreign countries pay his tariffs (US importers make the payments and often pass on costs to consumers)
- It's not true Trump inherited the worst inflation of all time (it was 3% the month he took office, same as now, and even the 9.1% Biden-era peak in 2022 was not close to the all-time record)
- It's not true the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen" (his usual lie) 
- It's not true the Presidential Records Act says he was allowed to have classified documents at his home post-presidency (it says all presidential records are to be in government custody the moment a president leaves office)
- It's not true Trump never instructed the Justice Department to go after Comey and James (he explicitly pressured the head of the department to do so in a social media post we all saw)
- It's not true Democrats are trying to give $1.5 trillion to illegal immigrants in the shutdown battle (even the White House's own disputed figure is a small fraction of that) or that Biden let in 25 million migrants (it's well under half that even if you count millions who were rapidly expelled)
- It's not true foreign leaders have emptied their prisons to somehow insert criminals into the US as migrants (Trump's own team has never been able to corroborate this story experts say is baseless)
- It's not true Nancy Pelosi flipped out after finding out his controversial 2019 call with Zelensky “was taped” (there remains no known US tape; what Trump released was a rough transcript, which bolstered rather than undermined Pelosi’s move toward impeachment)

Link for more details: https://t.co/TYsDd514Fk

[Chelsea Clinton @ChelseaClinton]

The White House became my home when I was twelve years old. I always understood that it wasn’t my ‘house’; it was The People’s House.

https://t.co/4nwSllGaRj

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

A Trump-appointed federal district judge, Karin J. Immergut, has (at least temporarily) blocked Trump from dispatching federal troops to Portland: https://t.co/TImpjv5cd7

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

As the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla - the largest initiative of its kind - is expected to enter a high-risk zone in the Mediterranean where Israeli forces may attempt to intercept it as they did before.

The flotilla, carrying urgently needed food, medicine, and humanitarian supplies, set sail after nearly two years of Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and 18 years of an illegal blockade that has left Palestinians in Gaza deliberately starved and deprived of essentials, as part of Israel's ongoing unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory.

The persistent inaction of states in the face of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has forced activists from across the world to take peaceful measures to break the siege.

States have a responsibility to guarantee the flotilla’s safe passage. They must step up pressure to protect the flotilla and demand an end of Israel's genocide, and of its unlawful blockade once and for all.

[Shafiq Islam @sqislam]

@JonathanTurley Why is this a big news? Do you see signs of free speech being muzzled? Your president and his cronies are doing that everyday. How come you never say anything about that???

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

@JDVance Just gonna leave this here…

[Deep-Fried Peace 🎼💚💚🪴🫂 @Kerrybear100]

@JDVance a very important reminder: 👇🏼

[Trump is a PEDO ⚖️ @TrumpPedophile2]

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