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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 7h

All of this: "People who have dedicated their lives to studying one very specific thing share what is meaningful about that thing with others. In return, those of us listening experience the joy of learning something new"

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Soothing British Radio Show That Blew My Mind — and Put Me Right to Sleep

www.nytimes.com

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 8h

OK I laughed out loud at that one

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran Mamdani is American.
He's Ugandan.
He's Indian.
He's Muslim.
He's the son of a Hindu mom.

Meet NYC's new mayor:

t.co/jIAQmabMEo

https://www.tpr.org/2025-11-03/zohran-mamdanis-extraordinary-india-story

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says. n.pr/43bcc7y

Meet the Austrian nuns who fled a care home to break into their old convent

Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Kwame Mamdani is American.

Ugandan.

South Asian.

Muslim.

Son of a Hindu mother.

I unravel some of the threads that weave the cloth of Mamdani’s identity from Mumbai, where his father was born

www.kgou.org/politics-and...

Zohran Mamdani's extraordinary India story

New York City's next likely mayor is Indian, African, American, a Shiite Muslim and the son of a Hindu mom. These strands may guide how he governs.

www.kgou.org

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 1d

A story where I get to play clips of Zohran Mamdani rapping about his grandmother (with bleeps), the hottest scene out of Mississippi Masala and an ode to the chapati as I untangle the threads that weave the cloth of Zohran Mamdani's identity. A fun listen here:

www.kgou.org/politics-and...

Zohran Mamdani's extraordinary India story

New York City's next likely mayor is Indian, African, American, a Shiite Muslim and the son of a Hindu mom. These strands may guide how he governs.

www.kgou.org

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 6d

Yuval Abraham of @972mag.com reports: "Google and Amazon submitted to highly unorthodox “controls” that Israel inserted into the deal, in anticipation of legal challenges over its use of the technology in the occupied West Bank and Gaza."

www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

Inside Israel’s deal with Google and Amazon

To secure Project Nimbus, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and tip Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.

www.972mag.com

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 7d

"a destruction of trust"

masked gunmen in unmarked vehicles snatching people, including American citizens off the streets

what an investigation by @npr.org

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

Trump administration relying on unmarked vehicles in immigration enforcement

Some federal immigration agents have been using masks to cover their faces when arresting migrants. But an NPR investigation found agents are also disguising their vehicles.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 9d

A tale of two Indias: Hindu nationalists celebrate centenary celebrations. Across town, thousands renounce Hinduism and convert to Buddhism, in an event that celebrates the father of India's constitution, BR Ambedkar.

With Omkar Khandekar in Nagpur

www.npr.org/2025/10/25/n...

A tale of 2 religious celebrations in 2 Indian cities

As a powerful Hindu nationalist group celebrated its centenary in the Indian city of Nagpur, across town, hundreds renounced their Hindu faith and converted to Buddhism.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 9d

How to fall in love with India (again). An @npr.org postcard

www.npr.org/2025/10/22/g...

Greetings from an Indian Railways coach, with spectacular views from Mumbai to Goa

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 12d

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ (and repair, and refuse) but also: Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations.

theconversation.com/reduce-reuse...

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is corporate gaslighting – the real change must come from the fossil fuel industry

Recycling and cutting personal waste isn’t enough. Polluters must be regulated, and reparations paid by companies that have harmed the environment.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · 19d

When I joined NPR in 2017, I was taken around the building and introduced to our "founding mother," a phrase I found baffling - and pleasantly subversive. As was Susan Stamberg herself.

There's a reason people called her Mama

May your next journey be as joyful

www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 24

And here's the skit that made me laugh through working this story: www.tiktok.com/@thedailysho...

Red Lobster lost $11 million on their latest Endless Shrimp deal and Ronny knows exactly why. #DailyShow #RedLobster #RonnyChieng

TikTok video by The Daily Show

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 24

Thanks so many folks who kindly gave their time for this story, from Sita B, Chinni, Shoumtiro Chatterjee, Pawan Gunturu, Arjili Dasu, advocates for American shrimpers, for the oceans, for a better shrimp industry. And Indian journalist @AlmaasMasood, who ate dust with me

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 24

Americans are so hot for shrimp that Red Lobster lost $11 million after offering a $20 endless buffet.

Much of it came from India, until Trump's 50% tariffs punched the industry down and left women searching for work to pay rent. With Almaas Masood

www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

Americans are crazy for shrimp. Much of it came from India — until now

India's shrimp exports to the U.S. were once a success story. Now the industry faces ruin amid President Trump's 50% tariff on imports from the country.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 23

The feeling that I am on borrowed time in my own home is a familiar one.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Opinion | This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 22

“Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet.”

Nazis are coopting marches in Australia against migration & the rising cost of living. The next marches are in October.

www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception

Anti-immigration rallies that have drawn tens of thousands of Australians are being secretly controlled by neo-Nazis – part of a co-ordinated “fraud on the public”.

www.theage.com.au

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 22

valuable thread for those outside the trump bubble

Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · Sep 22

I feel like more than any of the hundred+ Trump events I’ve watched, the Kirk memorial — an event notably not about Trump — was the most clarifying about his political movement.

The whole event was, save for his speech, was about faith and evangelizing.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 17

!!!

I can't get over Scottish slang. I only recently learned about a jobbie which was definitely NOT what I thought it might be.

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 17

"I'm going to tell him about you!"

President Trump tells ABC's John Lyons that he's gonna dob on him to Albo.

And if there's one thing Australians can't stand... it's a dobber

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

'You're hurting Australia': Trump hits out at ABC journalist, flags Albanese meeting

Donald Trump takes aim at the ABC's Americas editor during an extraordinary exchange at the White House, as the president suggests he will meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese "very soon".

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 15

"the couple strangled the children while they were sleeping and submerged their heads in a bucket"

Then the father died by suicide, and mother was caught before she could The family was hounded over a medical debt.

So who killed who

www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...

After killing minor children, man ends life and wife rescued

Caught in a debt trap over the medical treatment of a man who became bedridden after a road accident four years ago, a couple killed their two minor children and decided to end their lives

www.thehindu.com

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Sep 1

“At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”

NPR is the most prominent US news organisation that has signed on

rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...

RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Aug 28

Devastating reporting by @NPR:

"Even Biden himself had to make calls negotiating what number of aid trucks would be let in from the border crossings...they appeared to be part of an Israeli strategy to bog the U.S. down in the details."

www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

The road to famine: How U.S. policy failed Palestinians in Gaza

As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S. role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Aug 27

Environmentalist Bill McKibben: just flood the world with solar power panels. Look at Pakistan, he says, where cheap panels coincided with tiktoc videos showing people how to jigger them -- and the equivalent of half the national grid went online last year

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...

A Modest Proposal

What if we just flooded the planet with cheap or even free solar panels?

billmckibben.substack.com

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Diaa Hadid @diaahadid.bsky.social · Aug 26

Then AI came for OnlyFans. Fascinating piece from @restofworld.org's Michael Beltran

restofworld.org/2025/onlyfan...

A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over

Impersonators for OnlyFans models said their sales quotas are soaring, and once AI improves, they could be out of work.

restofworld.org

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