Azeema Faizunnisa

It started at $200M in donor money, then went up to $400M, then rose to $1 BILLION in taxpayer money.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Really good turn out today at the #NoKings protest in Honolulu despite the bomb threat. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/03/28/b...

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

Since Trump’s election: 🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats 🔴 Republicans have flipped 0

Social media platforms are deliberately designed to keep us hooked, no matter the cost to our mental health & well-being. And hateful content online no longer comes down to just bad actors. The problem is bad platforms. More from @imranahmed.bsky.social on Offline with @jonfavs.bsky.social ⤵️

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

As @nyc.streetsblog.org reported today, Mayor Mamdani helped fix the Williamsburg Bridge exit (nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/06/g...), but no project is official until I take the first ride!

Looking forward to the exciting papers in this hybrid conference.

The author John Green found an audience of millions making YouTube videos with his brother, Hank. As more people aspire to become influencers, Green warns that internet fame may make it feel as if everyone knows and loves you, “but in fact, no one knows you.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/m...

The world's worst people are about to have an epic meltdown after Mamdani's win. Their tears will be sugar for my chai.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

WTF www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A Muslim Cop Was Killed By An Active Shooter, But That Doesn't Stop MAGA from Promoting Bigotry and Islamophobia open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding. By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org

Kristi Noem didn't renew the expired call center contracts for five days, resulting in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) failing to answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line from flood survivors in Texas. It's malevolence mixed with incompetence again and again.

59 Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israel strikes or shot while seeking aid https://twp.ai/4ioHNR

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

I was thinking about subscribing to NYT recently, but never doing it. How come they are always siding the side I am not supporting. Perhaps I need to change my news sources. Legacy media is dead. Long live Substack and YouTube channels.

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Sometimes sources have their own motives………

My latest: "The Nervous Breakdown of The Elite" The NYT's shameful smear of Zohran Mamdani and whitewashing of a racist, eugenicist source is the latest example of the establishment's nervous breakdown over the next mayor of NYC. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-nervou...

I hate mammograms. I wish they would develop a more comfortable test or some blood test to figure out the cancer thing.

Thoroughly enjoying triggering all the right people the past 2 days with my post on Mamdani and the NYT. Your outrage and racism and meltdowns are the sugar of my chai. Happy 4th of July weekend. Also, Mamdan is going to win. Inshallah ;)

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

www.nycfoodpolicy.org/states-with-... States that Have Passed Universal Free School Meals (So Far)

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

Bernie’s op ed on Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Will the Democrats learn from Zohran Mamdani’s victory? | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian

What the Dem party doesn’t understand is that the election in NYC is a test for the 26 midterms. Young people are testing to see if they will ever be allowed to assert their priorities over the priorities of monied interests who buy elections like Bloomberg, and old school patrons like Cuomo.

Things like this is what makes America great. atxtoday.6amcity.com/perks-austin... Little-known perks at the Austin Public Library - ATXtoday

Jeff Bezos is an absolute trash human.

Take note.

I wouldn’t even wipe my ass with The New York Times at this point.