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Ex-Muslim Atheist 🇲🇦🏳️‍🌈
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Fellow | But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge - AHA
views = my ownJoined June 2013
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Asra Nomani
@AsraNomani
🌬️💨🌬️💨🌬️💨🌬️💨 At 27 in 1993, I only knew how to work hard as an immigrant girl — then Danny Pearl gave me a passport to America — open mic nights, a “prom” at 28, a keg party for my 30th. I miss this dear friend and thank you
@yudapearl
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Lex Fridman
@lexfridman
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare." - Muhammad Ali
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Raif Badawi
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Today my father will turn 39, but today is the first time in 10 years that he celebrates his birthday as a free man. Unfortunately my father will have to spend his birthday without his family happy birthday dad we love you.❤️ #LetRaifFly
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Jacob Mchangama
@JMchangama
I´m sooooo excited to share this news. I have long admired the work of
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Ideas Beyond Borders
@IdeasB2
Our first translation of this year is Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media by @JMchangama! We hope this book will remind our readers across the MENA region about the importance of this prime value, from which all our other freedoms depend.
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Lex Fridman
@lexfridman
A bunch of folks mocked me for including "basic" books in my reading list (Orwell, Camus, Hesse, Dostoevsky, etc.) I picked many books that I love and have re-read multiple times. They are not basic. They are profound. In 2023, I hope for less mocking and more celebrating.
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Lex Fridman
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I hope that Twitter becomes a place for civil debates between people on the left and the right. Many folks will mock this idea. But I refuse to accept cynicism. I think social media, when done well, can be a great place for high-quality, entertaining, good-faith debates.
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Thomas Sheedy
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Privileged to have been invited to Stony Brook University to witness a panel on protests by Iranian women against the current regime. In the presentation I learned that over 300 protesters have died and five of the protesters are facing death sentences for "crimes against God."
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Freely Ashley
@FreelyAshley92
Disagreement isn't hateful. Disagreement isn't bigotry. Disagreement isn't due to a lack of compassion or empathy. It means we have different perspectives based on our own knowledge and experiences. Stop screaming "hateful" just because someone doesn't ascribe to your worldview.
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J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
Millions of us stand with these women. The Iranian regime must be held accountable for its femicide.
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Masih Alinejad 🏳️
@AlinejadMasih
This is today Tehran. After killing #MahsaAmini and many protesters, of course we will not take step back. We’ll resist hijab. In 21st century #WalkingUnveiled is a punishable crime in Iran and in the eyes of Islamic republic we the free women are master criminals. #مهسا_امینی
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J.K. Rowling
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The unspeakable bravery of these Iranian women. Murdered because they refused to be constrained and controlled by men. #MahsaAmini
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Masih Alinejad 🏳️
@AlinejadMasih
Her mother Minoo Majidi was killed by the Iranian regime while protesting the tragic death of #MahsaAmini. Now she stands at her mother's gravesite, unveiled herself and in her left hand she holds the hair she cut from her head. This is the true face of iranian freedom fighters.
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These two Iranian girls are quite literally risking their lives by 1. Not wearing the hijab 2. Singing in public The Iranian ppl deserve to be heard #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution
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Omid Memarian
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Two young girls happily sing in public before the Azadi (Freedom) Tower in Tehran. No scarf. This is the generation the Islamic Republic is fighting with now on the streets. You lose—no doubt about it. #MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022 #مهسا_امینی #OpIran
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Greg Lukianoff
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I do get a little tired of people on social media, who only care about censorship if it comes from one political direction assuming (often without any research) that everyone ELSE is a hypocrite. My term for this is “hypocrisy projection.”
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Nicholas A. Christakis
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Fine initiative at
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: "Mill Institute [teaches] skills & mindset needed to inspire intellectual risk-taking, expand empathy, & deepen conversations. We turn down heat on controversial topics so educators & students can untangle complex issues."
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The Mill Institute at UATX works in educational settings to teach the skills and mindset needed to inspire intellectual risk-taking, expand empathy, and deepen conversations. We turn down the heat on...
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Masih Alinejad 🏳️
@AlinejadMasih
This video brought tears to my eyes. Women & men burning compulsory hijab in the streets of Tehran where #MahsaAmini was beaten up to death by hijab police. The woman who took the video says; our dream comes true Finally we are burning the symbol of our oppression in the street.
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