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Ali Gharib
@Ali_Gharib
I write think pieces on twitter. | Views are my mine and mine alone.
Apr 24, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
In Constantinople, on this day in 1915, the crumbling Ottoman empire rounded up hundreds of intellectuals, poets, religious figures, and other leading members of the Armenian community.

It was the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, which is memorialized annually on April 24. Many of the Armenian community leaders were tortured and killed by the empire in the following months, along with about a million and a half of their kin, part of a broad program of extermination.
Feb 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What to do about the people in the replies? Sometimes, when they are abject liars or right-wing maniacs, I'm soooooo tempted to respond.
Nov 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
While we're at it, I would like to tweet about two recent NYT pieces on Trump's marginal gains among non-white/people of color/working-class immigrants. Taking them in chronological order, I appreciated this piece from @jbouie, who can always be counted on for a thoughtful entry. nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opi…
Nov 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yes what gifts have you given your editors, people?!?!? Jk jk the pleasure of doing high-quality journalism with you is gift enough.
Nov 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Quitting Coca-Cola is the second hardest thing I've ever done. Back in the before times, when I would to to a movie, I'd get a popcorn and an $11 bottle of water and stare wistfully at the fountain Cherry Coke for a few minutes before going into the theater.
Jan 29, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Pretty gross that @maggieNYT shared this extremely garbage Free Beacon hatchet job on the Quincy Institute.

Let's go thru a few of the bullshit points in here!

A long thread! The article mentions Koch in the hed ("New Koch Group Dogged by Charges of Anti-Semitism") and mentions in passing that the group is also funded by Soros, then has this whopper:
Mar 30, 2018 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Super proud of all the work at @theintercept on Noor Salman's trial.

What follows are links to some of our work on the case over the past several weeks. .@ggreenwald and @MazMHussain wrote early on about questions regarding the purported motive of attacking an LGBTQ community. theintercept.com/2018/03/05/as-…