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I am heartbroken to share that my father, Dr. Inayat Ullah Mangla, returned to his Creator in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 18. He had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 81 years old.
Inna lillahe wa inna elaihe rajeeon.
To Allah we belong, and to Allah we return.
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Thoughts on the Michigan vs. UConn game.
-I was impressed with Mike Boynton. He made good adjustments to UConn’s over aggressiveness. And he tried to play as many guys as possible to see if anyone could score.
-Dan Hurley is cool. But a jagoff when your team is playing him.
-If we got ANYTHING from Goodman, Liburd, Costello or Noland we win.
-Rebounding and turnovers will be a problem this year.
-Thiam was clearly sick or still recovering. Played 15 minutes and had 2 & 5.
-Roddy Gayle may have to take on more scoring especially early on in the season until everyone’s role is defined.
-The floor was fucking terrible. Was it made of legos?
-We did not play well and was still only 4-5 plays away from winning.
-We’ll get much better as the season goes on. I expect a top 10 team.
-Last year’s team was the best team of all time.
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Michigan is by far the most slept on state in the US. All 4 major sports team, multiple big cities, a stupid amount of sightseeing for anything from nature to history to sports buffs.
The midwestern welcoming environment makes it no surprise.
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The utter unwillingness among centrists and the mainstream press to at all reckon with the Islamophobia they’ve displayed during the last few months is not helping them dissuade widespread concerns among Democratic voters that they’re able to actually meet this moment
To be clear, since people are misreading this tweet, sigh, the snark/jibe is not aimed at Roy Cooper, who did pull off a pretty amazing big win in NC, but at the people on this hellsite who keep trying to elevate his and other moderates’ victories while minimizing what El-Sayed achieved and what a political rockstar he has undeniably become. Not everything in politics is measured by WAR scores.
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If the Michigan men’s basketball team is going to split its 2026 games against UConn, I’m glad we won the won that was for a National Championship.
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A 🧵on the curious case of Americans electing Muslims to Congress - with comparisons to India and Pakistan.
Only 1.5% of the US population is Muslim, yet Americans just elected 8 Muslims to the 535-member Congress - that's also 1.5% of all seats.
This is somewhat of a puzzle.
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lol I’ve been saying this about French cuisine for years
Riz Ahmed says French cuisine is overhyped because cooking a steak doesn't compare to the complexity of South Asian food
“I do feel that French cuisine is, I guess, a little bit overhyped”
“It's relatively simpler things that are done executing very well and with care”
“Coming from a background where it's about curries slow cooked, intense layering of a dish like nihari, the amount of spices and things going into it, it's just incredible. The flavor profile and the range of things, the time it takes...”
“Whereas, not being funny, but a steak, it's a steak”
“Like you get the thing, you put it on and the trick is like, oh, 28 seconds or 33, and it's like boom”
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The story surrounding the @umichwbball program in recent years has been this is a team on the rise but it can’t get The Big Win.
Folks: The Big Win has finally arrived.
Michigan knocks off No. 2 UConn at Crisler. What a win. What an environment. What a moment.
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El-Sayed says he’d back Van Hollen as majority leader over Schumer
thehill.com/homenews/senate/…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser says Israel is "actively fomenting" antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews:
"It's asking a lot of people to say that there's this Jewish army of this Jewish state with this Jewish star on their flag, and they are mercilessly slaughtering tens of thousands of children, but don't confuse them with Jews," Moser said.
He argues that the reported rise in antisemitism is simply a rise in anti-Zionism, "people reacting to Israel and the evil, wicked things that Israel has been doing in our names."
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This is a stunning upset for so many reasons.
Members of UofM Board of Regents are typically from the state’s richest families and biggest party donors.
Amir not only unseated a regent in the primary who went after pro-Palestinian student protestors hard but now the lawyer who represented these students sits on the board of a major university. That’s a first.
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“When they go low, we go high” & “basket of deplorables@ failed against Trump’s unapologetic bravado. Mamdani changed the formula, matching Trump’s energy (cruel, chaotic, insecure) but channeling it in the opposite direction - Joyful, disciplined, unafraid nails it. His rise - campaign AND administration - undoubtedly helped pave the way for a new wave of left-leaning populists who fought back w/o resorting to failed strategies or nasty politics. Honey really does attract more flies than vinegar. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
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Hillary Clinton once again displaying her infallible political instincts.
Hillary Clinton warns Dems that GOP's anti-communist platform will be 'very effective attack' trib.al/7tSls5t
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For 18 years, corporate media effectively banned the few of us who dared to utter this lesson about Obama turning hope and change into more of the same.
I am glad @corbintrent said it - and that it is finally allowed to be uttered in corporate media.