Basil Awartani

I spent the past week in Burlington with my cousin Hisham and his friends, who are recovering after being shot. While I was praying for a better outcome, Hisham’s injury turned out to be life-altering. The bullet lodged in his spine has caused paralysis from the chest down. Hisham has a long journey ahead. To help Hisham prepare for this next phase of his life we started a GoFund me page (gofund.me/026fa8da). Witnessing Hisham dealing with this with absolute grace has been mind blowing for me, and I think with your support he’s gonna make the impossible possible.

@Yuchenj_UW It actually did a pretty good job for me

@metzgov we’re still going

btw Polymarket has already accomplished what it set out to do with its DC pop-up bar, which is to get all of you to talk about it

😂😂

@Polymarket When is it gonna open?

We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵

@AsadFromNYC Hard disagree with Professor Mamdani. If that was the case my fragile Palestinian stomach would be able handle American food

"The thesis of Professor Mamdani’s next book will be that people are by nature migratory beings and that the notion of a homeland is a fiction. This applies to groups in Africa and it applies to Jews, he said." nytimes.com/2026/03/14/wor…

@clashreport Can’t lie I’m jealous of the vibes

Outdoor dining, Shahed and C-RAM. 📍 Baghdad, Iraq.

@unusual_whales I’m honestly impressed that he was able to list all these countries verbally

Trump: They weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked

Manus has been an absolute game changer for me

@MooJacob27237 @voiceofrabbis There are countless Palestinian sources who covered this and confirm that dude burned himself. I got the story from people who were there on the ground. But hey let’s spread fake news.

@AwartaniBasil @voiceofrabbis sounds conveniently coincidental, so he lit himself on fire because the police came to arrest him, then the police are nowhere to be found and let him burn gasoline and fire and ran away? And they let it happen knowing its a danger to public safety? Yeah okay, work at meta?

This is not Judaism; it is Retzicha (murder). Our sacred Torah strictly prohibits such barbaric cruelty. These settlers represent Zionism, a secular nationalist ideology that has hijacked the Jewish name, they do not represent the Jewish faith. A Torah-observant Jew would never, ever commit such a heinous act. This is a Chillul Hashem (desecration of G-d's name) of the highest order. Source @TorahJudaism @authenttorahjew

@IhabHassane This mosque is right next to my house 🥰

The Israeli army is invading Ramallah in the West Bank right now, about 500 meters from the home of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority headquarters.

@hasanthehun Been avoiding watching it because I already feel heavy

watched the voice of hind rajab. haven't cried this much in years. there are tens of thousands of calamities like hers in the hands of an unstoppable evil that kills with impunity. we will put an end to it. we cannot let their deaths be in vain.

@barbarismcrit @PixieOfDeath Been seeing those, makes me sad because the new generation of Palestinian millennials/zoomers don’t have this kind of aura and command over the Arabic language

My for you page on TikTok has been serving me Palestinian rap battles and they’re incredible

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

@paulg @thatreiguy Why would you shovel when you can deploy five agentic AI agents to automate and streamline this process?

Teaching my boys to shovel snow would be the worst ROI lesson possible. Every hour they spend on manual labor is an hour not learning to build systems that eliminate manual labor. Same reason I automated property management instead of hiring more hands. x.com/paulg/status/2…

Umm can any meteorologists explain why we’re going from summer weather to snow in the same day?

The weather is so nice outside, let me go buy a book I’ll never read

@AwartaniBasil The modern game is losing some of the magic with the removal of designated hitters and adding pitching clocks… although seeing Ohtani and his WAR/ERA makes you feel like you’re watching babe Ruth again, just hope he doesn’t need a Tommy John anytime soon

I finally thought I mastered the English language then I heard two Americans discussing baseball..

@NYCMayor Can’t wait to see the @nypost headline on this 🫠

For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.