Naomi Attar
@naomioh.bsky.social
I have a cockapoo called Yofi who looks like she is a spaniel
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Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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Someone turned it into a meme 🤣🤣🤣
February 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Someone turned it into a meme 🤣🤣🤣
Got no particular issue with Nicola Sturgeon, but I think it's a tough sell to say she is more charismatic than Kamala or Hillary!
Did Donald Trump win because Hillary and Kamala lacked charisma? Are Starmer and Reeves similarly too lacking in X factor? And was it a bad idea for a husband and wife to run the SNP?
my Lunch with the FT with Nicola Sturgeon, under whom the SNP won 8 elections in a row www.ft.com/content/2f91...
my Lunch with the FT with Nicola Sturgeon, under whom the SNP won 8 elections in a row www.ft.com/content/2f91...
Nicola Sturgeon: ‘The independence movement has proven itself resilient’
The former Scottish first minister on SNP scandals, falling out with Alex Salmond — and why pressure for a new referendum will return
www.ft.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Got no particular issue with Nicola Sturgeon, but I think it's a tough sell to say she is more charismatic than Kamala or Hillary!
Enlightening, sobering interview with Andrew Norfolk, the journalist who did more than most to expose the grooming gang scandal
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The journalist who exposed Britain’s grooming gangs
Podcast Episode · The Story · 09/01/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Enlightening, sobering interview with Andrew Norfolk, the journalist who did more than most to expose the grooming gang scandal
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past
January 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past
Incisive and insightful from @hannahsbee.bsky.social … how grooming gang victims have been cynically exploited by the far right — but abysmally failed by the establishment
They have been let down by everyone
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
They have been let down by everyone
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
The truth about the grooming scandal
The media did not ignore the gangs or the violence – but the victims still await justice.
www.newstatesman.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Incisive and insightful from @hannahsbee.bsky.social … how grooming gang victims have been cynically exploited by the far right — but abysmally failed by the establishment
They have been let down by everyone
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
They have been let down by everyone
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
‘Based on the letters I receive, it appears it is much easier to commit fraud than to extricate yourself from being a victim of one’
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
My identity had been stolen but Three failed to respond
I’ve always had a Vodafone account but a law firm stated I owed money to Three and we are caught in a nightmare
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
‘Based on the letters I receive, it appears it is much easier to commit fraud than to extricate yourself from being a victim of one’
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
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The fact that no news channel is discussing the kidnapping of the venezuela oppositions son, but Trump and Greenland is all over, just means it will be four years of the same BS trap
January 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The fact that no news channel is discussing the kidnapping of the venezuela oppositions son, but Trump and Greenland is all over, just means it will be four years of the same BS trap
if you were wondering why he first drove to Las Vegas, CO then rerouted to Las Vegas, NV...
Soldier who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT to plan attack
Soldier who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT to plan attack
Deployed twice to Afghanistan, the Green Beret searched the AI platform for information on explosives and ammo
The soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack,…
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if you were wondering why he first drove to Las Vegas, CO then rerouted to Las Vegas, NV...
I hope one day there is a reckoning for this level of brazen corruption, but I fear that day if it ever comes is a long way off
Bezos is getting worse and worse. Pathetic, small man.
Amazon licenses Melania Trump documentary as Bezos cozies up to president-elect www.cnbc.com/2025/01/05/m...
Amazon licenses Melania Trump documentary as Bezos cozies up to president-elect www.cnbc.com/2025/01/05/m...
Amazon licenses Melania Trump documentary, as Jeff Bezos cozies up to president-elect
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has had a contentious relationship with Donald Trump in the Washington Post. But things appear to have changed in recent months.
www.cnbc.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I hope one day there is a reckoning for this level of brazen corruption, but I fear that day if it ever comes is a long way off
Blistering byline from @suzannemoore.bsky.social
"Above all, this is a problem of male violence.
[No one has] any real answers to this.
The feigned outrage makes me nauseous. These girls have surely been used enough by angry men… yet here it is, happening again."
telegraph.co.uk/gift/5182366...
"Above all, this is a problem of male violence.
[No one has] any real answers to this.
The feigned outrage makes me nauseous. These girls have surely been used enough by angry men… yet here it is, happening again."
telegraph.co.uk/gift/5182366...
The victims of male grooming gangs have been exploited yet again by powerful men
To tackle child sexual abuse, we have to face unpalatable facts about male violence – to focus on one ethnic group misses the wider point
telegraph.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Blistering byline from @suzannemoore.bsky.social
"Above all, this is a problem of male violence.
[No one has] any real answers to this.
The feigned outrage makes me nauseous. These girls have surely been used enough by angry men… yet here it is, happening again."
telegraph.co.uk/gift/5182366...
"Above all, this is a problem of male violence.
[No one has] any real answers to this.
The feigned outrage makes me nauseous. These girls have surely been used enough by angry men… yet here it is, happening again."
telegraph.co.uk/gift/5182366...
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Toxic floods of lies on social media platforms like Facebook have destroyed trust not fact checkers. Let me reiterate: Mark Zuckerberg has never cared about that and never will.
"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S," Mark Zuckerberg announces
He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Toxic floods of lies on social media platforms like Facebook have destroyed trust not fact checkers. Let me reiterate: Mark Zuckerberg has never cared about that and never will.
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I dread the daily drama. The government run by tweets. The oligarchy plundering the country. The ignorant masses making excuses for the imbecile they exalted.
I’m embarrassed.
I’m ashamed.
I’m embarrassed.
I’m ashamed.
January 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I dread the daily drama. The government run by tweets. The oligarchy plundering the country. The ignorant masses making excuses for the imbecile they exalted.
I’m embarrassed.
I’m ashamed.
I’m embarrassed.
I’m ashamed.
Prison-bound Rudi G complained to the court artist - he thought her sketch made him like a dog (his own dog, to be specific)
Why he wouldn’t take the upgrade at this point in his sheer vertical downfall is beyond me
Why he wouldn’t take the upgrade at this point in his sheer vertical downfall is beyond me
January 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Prison-bound Rudi G complained to the court artist - he thought her sketch made him like a dog (his own dog, to be specific)
Why he wouldn’t take the upgrade at this point in his sheer vertical downfall is beyond me
Why he wouldn’t take the upgrade at this point in his sheer vertical downfall is beyond me
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“We’re seeing this impulse to surrender across American society right now. Where the forces of authoritarianism never give up and never apologize, big chunks of liberal society are bargaining and capitulating without even trying to try to stay independent first.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...
Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey
Capitulation is contagious.
www.thebulwark.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“We’re seeing this impulse to surrender across American society right now. Where the forces of authoritarianism never give up and never apologize, big chunks of liberal society are bargaining and capitulating without even trying to try to stay independent first.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...
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It will always haunt me that the guy with the zip ties had his mother drop him off at the riot.
January 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It will always haunt me that the guy with the zip ties had his mother drop him off at the riot.
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The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.
Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues
The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the ...
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January 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.
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Mike Pence: on January 6, President Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution…
I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the US.”
(August 2023)
I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the US.”
(August 2023)
January 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Mike Pence: on January 6, President Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution…
I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the US.”
(August 2023)
I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the US.”
(August 2023)
Her name was Debrina Kawam - remembered by her school friends as smiley, fun and kind
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...
Friends From Debrina Kawam’s Happy Past Aghast After Subway Burning (Gift Article)
Debbie Kawam, as she was known in high school, was a cheerleader and a sunny presence. As the decades went on, she fell into an abyss.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Her name was Debrina Kawam - remembered by her school friends as smiley, fun and kind
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...
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This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
Fake Jobs and Fake Facts
By Misrepresenting Constitutional Law, Muskawamy Prove Brandolini's Law
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
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As @davidpepperoh.bsky.social has written, this also means that there are politicians who face no competition, feel no need to be interested in voters and can be as corrupt and/or extreme as they like
Competition in 2024 House races was scarce, with only 37 districts decided by 5 or fewer percentage points. For the most part, it’s because of gerrymandering.
How Gerrymandering and Fair Maps Affected the Battle for the House
Four takeaways on how voting maps made the difference in a tight fight for the House in 2024.
www.brennancenter.org
January 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
As @davidpepperoh.bsky.social has written, this also means that there are politicians who face no competition, feel no need to be interested in voters and can be as corrupt and/or extreme as they like
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"To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a game changer…and dangerous for a free press."
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a game changer…and dangerous for a free press."
Another court agrees, the asshat-elect is still a rapist
#GiftArticle #FreeToRead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/n...
#GiftArticle #FreeToRead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/n...
Trump Loses Appeal of Carroll’s $5 Million Award in Sex-Abuse Case (Gift Article)
The president-elect had asked a court to overturn the defamation judgment against him in the case, which centered on E. Jean Carroll’s account of a sexual attack in a dressing room.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Another court agrees, the asshat-elect is still a rapist
#GiftArticle #FreeToRead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/n...
#GiftArticle #FreeToRead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/n...
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📣 Release the Body Cam!!
Randall Adjessom was shot 4 times during an unauthorized, “no-knock” raid on 11.13.23. A Federal lawsuit has been filed by the victim's family.
The raid was to search for marijuana that belonged to his brother who was not there.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Randall Adjessom was shot 4 times during an unauthorized, “no-knock” raid on 11.13.23. A Federal lawsuit has been filed by the victim's family.
The raid was to search for marijuana that belonged to his brother who was not there.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in AL, suit says
Officers left the teen bleeding out in the hallway for more than four minutes, body camera footage shows, according to the suit.
www.miamiherald.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:36 AM
📣 Release the Body Cam!!
Randall Adjessom was shot 4 times during an unauthorized, “no-knock” raid on 11.13.23. A Federal lawsuit has been filed by the victim's family.
The raid was to search for marijuana that belonged to his brother who was not there.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Randall Adjessom was shot 4 times during an unauthorized, “no-knock” raid on 11.13.23. A Federal lawsuit has been filed by the victim's family.
The raid was to search for marijuana that belonged to his brother who was not there.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...