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@nayyeroar

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Producer #CommandZ Host @SiriusXM #GlobalExperience Writing @msnbc Fmr many things: BNCNews/WH/State/DOD/UN/House. RT = interesting!

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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
This explanation resonates with me: “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”-James Baldwin
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Marrying someone Black does not give you a Pass. Having bi-racial kids does not make you know the experience. You are still YOU. This tweet is for Ellen Pompeo.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
2 years
When the vast majority of the American public support a policy — gun control, abortion rights, gay marriage— that’s not “progressive.” It is by definition the Moderate position. Our labels have not re-aligned for the reality of modern attitudes.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
She may only have had 60 seconds, but @AOC did a hell of a lot with it: historic xenophobia, explosive inequality, systemic solutions... phrases and concepts most electeds don’t ever mention separately let alone together.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
My husband was the first in his family to go to college. He had to drop out for two semesters and work fast food at Bojangles so he could pay for the rest of his degree. We have massive loans for grad school. There was no gaming the system for us.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
I met a guy on a blind date at a coffee shop and now I have two kids with him wtf
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
So you’re saying if Jaime and Cersei stood ten feet to the right they would have lived? #GameofThrones #GOTFinale
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Eid Mubarak! With a bow the size of her head, here is The Intern at our team lunch today.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Cute or The Omen? #ToddlerLife
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Embracing my Asian-ness in public by doing the squat wait. It really is better on your back and pelvis.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
It’s not a shooting incident. It’s a terrorist attack. Especially given the manifesto. #PowaySynagogueShooting
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Somewhere, Kimberly Guilgoyle is still yelling.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Thirteen years ago today I met a random dude for coffee and now we have two kids.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
My Colleague threw a half-eaten pickle at my head and his ass is getting fired today.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Before (testing audio) and after (live on-air.) A lot can be done in 10 minutes when you’re a #workingmom #wfh
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3 years
PSA: In English — The people are Afghans The money is Afghani
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
I AM NINE MONTHS PREGNANT AND THE DAIRY QUEEN LINE IS TEN CARS LONG
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
@NoahShachtman @RollingStone Meanwhile 99.9% of WNBA players are vaccinated. We did a story on their internal vaxx efforts.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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we have both done well for ourselves. But I’ll be damned if you catch me saying that the system is great as-is, no leveling needed. So much future talent is lost to struggle, and so much mediocrity is advanced because of privilege. -fin-
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
@ratemyskyperoom I’d like to thank the Room Rater academy for this honor, Bob the Plant for his contribution, and the Kid for his artistry
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Breaking Twitter leave to bring you these — reactions to explaining the world she now lives in:
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Congratulations @wayfair for making yourself the target for allllll the people who feel like there is nothing they can do to help the kids in CBP custody. More people exercising the power of their wallets is sure to come. #FamiliesBelongTogether #NoKidsInCages
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
In fact, SK is *literally* freer than we are right now - schools open, ability to go out throughout, even baseball games. They’ve had rapid testing, contact tracing, legislative action, and social compliance. None of which we have here in the US, by choice.
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Aaron Rupar
4 years
Here's Seema Verma suggesting that one reason South Korea has been so effective in responding to the coronavirus is because it isn't a "free" country like the United States
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4 years
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Congratulate me! On my first #TikTok , obvs.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Stop underestimating the power of racism. (This is a tweet for white Democrats. White Republicans know this very well.)
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2 years
Deepening America’s racial divides is part of a long-standing Soviet playbook. From me @MSNBC
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
@JoshNBCNews Nope. The 2020 candidates have not been talking about #Russia or impeachment on the campaign trail. They talk about The Issues. It’s all policy and personality contrast to Trump.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
@secupp National security experts used the term compromised all the time to refer to someone vulnerable bc of finances. Ie, Trump has been compromised by Russia.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Thank you @ewarren for pointing out how male candidates loss all the time but never face electability questions. #DemDebates
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Sumo baby is the best baby. Happy Tuesday folks!
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
I deeply felt Kamala’s “I am speaking right now.” Speak! She spoke from a place of strength and dazzled with a smile. Great engagement with the American public. #VPDebate
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
How long before #Netanyahu starts a blog?
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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She’s been brushing her teeth all morning with my toothbrush… just so she can say cheese.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Everything Biden is mentioning for the economy in #SOTU has broad public support. But the current set up and the current GOP blocks it all.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
2020 doesn’t end until Jan 20, 2021.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
2 years
Where’s the lie? Thank you my friend @DrJasonJohnson for saying on cable news what so many are thinking.
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MSNBC
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Jason Johnson reacts to Georgia election workers' testimony: "What angers me so much...about that testimony is that I know that those women are going to get additional threats because they were brave enough to get on television and talk about what happened."
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Blasian kids say HEY to @KamalaHarris pick.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
I would have lost my access and job in national security for this type of stupidity. These Members hanging out in a secure space with active devices need to be held accountable.
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
Rep Andy Biggs
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Reporting from Adam Schiff’s secret chamber.... Chairman Schiff threatened to file ethics complaints against remaining Republican members – not clear what exactly he would file or cite.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
Kudos to networks airing the Democratic rebuttal and all the journalists doing fact checks. THIS is our democracy at work! #TrumpAddress
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
To clarify, there is a statement from SecState about #NPR interview but still no statement defending Yovanovich.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Nat sec watchers have been saying this about Tulsi for quite some time... 🙋🏻‍♀️ Only need to pull a few points from the Dem nominee in key states to hand this election to Trump.
@KThomasDC
Ken Thomas
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"I'm not making any predictions but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She's the favorite of the Russians," Hillary Clinton to @davidplouffe
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Love that Team Biden has hired these two amazing women with deep community roots and policy expertise: @JulieR2019 and @K_JeanPierre
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
2 years
Please know this draft opinion is harsher than Sharia law. #RoeVWade
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Kindergarten me says wassup
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
For those who are new here, here is my Colleague with the Intern
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
@deray Libraries are lifesavers for caregivers of toddlers. Great storytime and play sessions.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Does it start with returning colonial loot? I see you, Star of India
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Imma need White women at Trader Joe’s to stop thinking the Black guy with a baby strapped to him putting groceries in a car works there. Yes, he can own a Lexus too. Context clues vs mind maps = smh
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
I am a 1099 employee. And I have 1099 employees. We only get paid when there is work. The payroll tax break helps none of us. Try again Team Trump.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Listen not just because it’s great to hear a leader speak like a leader, but also for the acknowledgement of Bernie’s/progressive contributions to the (new) mainstream of Democrats’ ideas. #ObamaBiden
@BarackObama
Barack Obama
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I’m proud to endorse my friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let's go:
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Wherein I admit a failure to step up in my own, white neighborhood. Short version: talk to your people about racism, folks. That’s on us. Not on black people.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Can we get some #PMJoy going @JoyAnnReid ?
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
7 years
A quick thanks to @billmaher for having me back on @RealTimers and giving me the space to speak for many ppl not at the table. Bill’s show and commentary is a big part of how my family stays sane. #RealTime
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Please welcome our new intern Zoya (aka Kid 2.0) She already has a lot to say. Watch out world!
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
2 years
@NoahShachtman It discounts everyone who grew up with Roe privacy protections as a default. The professional class has oriented itself around septuagenarians in the Senate, rather than GenX-Z consumers.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
It’s happening! I’m going into media full time! @BNCNews Really excited to tell stories and analyze news, while centering the perspective of communities of color.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
@rauchway So maybe the civil war wasn’t really about state’s rights but about something more sinister. A thought.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
New cut!
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
There’s a tweet for everything #Syria
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
My TL is full of ppl dismayed at the virulence of Bernie peeps. There is literally no ok way to critique him or his strategy. It’s scorched earth at the jump. That’s no way to build up a movement or win voters. cc: @marclamonthill @joanwalsh @ZerlinaMaxwell
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
@yashar I married the man who carried my cancer stricken dog against his chest and let the dog pee on him.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Our commander-in-chief, who has expertly leveraged US intelligence and media transparency, believes Putin has ambitions beyond Ukraine. That is not just conjecture or an off-hand remark, folks.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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@jaketapper @BridgetPhetasy Which ignores the high preponderance of women being raped by men they already know.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Ooh, I’ll say this before some of my pundit friends do: w/o Senate and courts, nothing is going to happen. Ask the candidates what’s their plan for dealing with this political reality. (end routine #DemDebates complaint)
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Appreciate and admire ⁦ @MollyJongFast ⁩ candor and self-reflection. My parents mentioned this feeling too: “I was comforted by his press conferences during the height of the pandemic, which had their flaws but looked pretty good next to Trump’s.”
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
Neither of us had parents able or willing to pay for Kaplan or Princeton Review. They knew nothing about which schools were better placed to give us networks for career building. They told us to follow the rules, work hard, and we would do well in life. By any account...
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
2 years
Hey @SteveSchmidtSES - are you done? Because I’m out of popcorn and need to know if I should get more.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Show prep reality @BNCNews #WFH #Still
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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@bessbell @elonmusk As a woman, I really appreciated your example of
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
My public high school for overachievers had parents paying adults to write their kids’ college essays and “design admission packages.” Hands down, those were the kids coming from the richer parts of NYC. Us bridge-and-tunnel kids barely had parents reviewing for typos.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
I worked my butt off to complete and comply with my security clearance process. A friend didn’t get a clearance bc of a $100 outstanding phone bill from his college days. Seeing the recap of Kushner SF-86 saga - and all the Russian connections - is making me see red.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Slept in my U2 shirt. It’s a beautiful day.
@RadioFreeTom
Tom Nichols
3 years
Slept in my Boston shirt. For a long time.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Who amongst you has not reheated yesterday’s coffee?
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
We finished Charlotte’s Web. The Kid absorbed it all, then rolled over and went to sleep. Me? Reliving decades old heartbreak 💔
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
The artist known as The Kid is working on his next piece. Debut at 11am today, when I appear on the last weekend of #AMJoy with @DrJasonJohnson For pricing pls inquire via tweet.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
I will regret asking this But I mean it sincerely as A Young-Old Pls explain Dua Lipa to me
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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@RadioFreeTom There was far more to that moment than a critique of Biden. It was a black women doing on a national stage what so many people of color struggle to do in their daily lives - to speak up to white colleagues and say, hey, you’re talking about me and my family. 1/
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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Is not age of lack of access to info. Trump is being willfully ignorant when it comes to the threat of right wing terrorism. On @ReliableSources w @brianstelter today 1/
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
6 years
I was lucky to serve as #AlanKrueger ’s spox for some time during the 2008 economic recovery. Alan was thoughtful and focused on helping people make sense of the economic system. He is gone too soon.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Feb 28, 2017 this is what Trump did because Obama. h/t @TBreassealeDHS
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
Shorter Aaron Rodgers: I lied publicly but I want to blame culture wars for my own failing of character
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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@JoshNBCNews 2018 electoral results + new sets of voter turnout + existing bad policies + 39 previous indictments = don’t need anything else to make Trump look bad. Russia stuff has never resonated in the field. Collusion has been a natsec and Beltway concern.
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It’s happening! @RealTimers
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@stevemullis @NoahShachtman BuzzFeed was ahead of the game, they knew what most of us wanted to do with our pencils at 9pm.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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Pregnancy reality: Hubs walked in on me sitting on the kitchen floor, fridge door open, scarfing down cold pastrami. No regrets.
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7 years
Impressed w @JoyAnnReid handling news and issues today. You know who else is? Charlie Crist. Time to move on, people.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
@MsPackyetti Turmeric and yogurt for any skin irritations. It’s the only thing that soothes my eczema. (Turmeric is a natural antiseptic and was used by local troops during the British Raj. The yogurt is cooling) Mix it, spread it, out a wrap around it.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to meeeee, happy birthday to me! Send me your favorite puns pls.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
3 years
If you didn’t catch a song as it started on the radio to record onto cassette, you had to wait for it to pop up again in the rotation... and that was the only way to create your own playlist.
@BigJacks
DJ Big Jacks
3 years
What’s the most random thing from the 80s or 90s you can’t really describe to kids today cuz it just wouldn’t make sense?
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@Phatima_Kills Yellow would look gorgeous on your skin. A real friend wants you at their wedding because you matter to them however you are. She sounds horrible.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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@mehdirhasan Mehdi, you gotta listen to the exchange between him and girl at the end of the song. She says “sooner or later you’ll be screwing around” and he answers “but I won’t do that.” Dude, this was before Google existed!
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
5 years
The latest example of how wealth is used to buy access to college decision makers. This time, the parent doing the buying couldn’t stop talking! Ethics scandal meet PR nightmare.
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
4 years
I think most people go around assuming what they are told is all there is. When I see trans people come out, I am in awe of the courage and self-reflection that must take, and hope my kids get the chance to be that free. cc @cmclymer
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Elliot Page
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She is the emoji 😉
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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@minneapolisnick Xacly. So it’s OUR responsibility to do right by our loved ones. Listen. Learn. Hold space when our loved ones aren’t there. We do NOT get to weaponize or use them as props for our own advantage!!!
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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Nancy Pelosi is gangsta. World class side-eye and death stare. #SOTU @TeamPelosi
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Nayyera (Mostly on 🧵 now)
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Last night on CNN, my #BOLO with @ChrisCuomo - watch out for voter suppression in 2020. 17 million people kicked off the voter rolls in two years... are you still registered to vote?
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