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My child just came to me with our backup nightlight just in case they cut electricity tonight and I had to tell her even that won't work coz it also runs on electricity. Fuck y'all and your rasmale gulhimale and thilamale

Claiming that "this waterway is a global public good" requires facing two questions: First, where was the EU when this "global public good" was available to everyone except Iran—a coastal country on the Strait of Hormuz? For years, Iran’s oil and trade were disrupted by the Americans through their unilateral and illegal maximum sanctions. Yet, Iran exercised self-restraint for decades; the EU noticed this but did not bother to reiterate that the Strait of Hormuz is a "global public good." Second, the flow is constrained by the aggression of the American and Israeli regimes, why then tout the EU’s Aspides naval mission instead of stopping the aggression itself?

@Midhuamsaud @androimad Maldivians have ideas. It's mostly that an enabling environment for entrepreneurship, honest work and good governance is absent. Thieves, liars and arselickers tend to progress easier in our system unfortunately.

Proud that Maldivians had this kind of vision a decade ago. But it’s equally sad to realise that the barrier wasn’t lack of talent, it was our own system, our own decision makers. And maybe even more uncomfortable that the system and the decision makers are a reflection of us. A country’s progress depends on its decision-makers and those decision-makers come from its people. When they fail, we as citizens share that responsibility too… especially when we stay silent. Thank you for sharing this @reallynattu

@kudanai @reallynattu @Midhuamsaud Haha 😂

@reallynattu @Midhuamsaud 🤣

Alhamdhulillah, we have no shortage of talented people. One of the real costs of corruption, though, is that those very people don’t get the chance to show what they’re capable of and many end up leaving the country to find better opportunities. The MTCC scandal is just one example. I’m already looking into a few more and honestly, there’s probably a lot happening that we haven’t even uncovered yet. Next up: the questionable case of Housing Ministry portal: handed over to a “travel agency”, under questionable reference letters, with clear conflict of interests, while well-known developer companies were somehow disqualified. Keep an eye on the name BOOLEAN. And do note that some of those behind these deals aren’t just about money. Sometimes it’s about access to personal data… and control. Housing ministry portal is a lot about the latter

A timeline of Dhiyana’s political trajectory, with context: 2008: Appointed as the first Attorney General under the new Constitution in President Nasheed’s administration (the first democratically elected Gov under the new constitution), at a time when MDP governed through a fragile coalition with the Jumhooree Party (JP). May 2009: Dismissed after six months. Officially, this was to form a cabinet that could command confidence in an opposition-controlled Parliament. Politically, it reflected the breakdown of the MDP–JP coalition, which she was aligned with through JP. 2010–2011: Despite her dismissal, Nasheed reappointed her as Envoy for South Asia and later nominated her as the first female SAARC Secretary-General, indicating continued professional confidence in her at the time. 2012: Resigned as SAARC Secretary-General before completing her term and returned to Maldives during a period of major political upheaval following Nasheed’s forced resignation from office amidst a military and police led coup. She initially aligned with the new administration and served even as a Minister. Post-2012: Subsequently shifted her position, publishing The Silent Inquiry and pursuing legal action arguing that Nasheed’s resignation had occurred under duress, reflecting a significant reversal in stance as the political narrative evolved. 2020: Served as defense attorney for former President Abdulla Yameen, at a time when opposition politics were consolidating and legal battles became central to political strategy. 2026: Now publicly supports proposals aligned with the current administration, including synchronizing presidential and parliamentary elections, a position that has again drawn attention to alignment with the prevailing power structure. Across this timeline, what stands out is not a single event, but a pattern of movement across shifting political contexts, coalitions, and administrations. This also reflects the shifting sands of her husband or ex Jabir’s political & business ambitions. Everything aligns perfectly with such movements. Supporters may view this as engagement across evolving constitutional and legal landscapes. Critics see a recurring alignment with changing centres of power. The history is there. The interpretation is yours.

I have decided

When I logged back into X today, I was wow-ed, the dev community on X has really done the heavy lifting on this one. Here’s what’s come out so far: 1. MTCC Assistant GM Abdulla Farish and the owner of FixedMaldives are both registered at the same address, Daisymaage. 2. Farish handled the tender process… and is also leading the project from MTCC’s side. 3. On the FixedMaldives side, the project is led by a police officer, Ismail Hassan, who apparently goes by the name “ghost.” 4. MTCC’s MD is a former police officer too. Not only that, he and Ismail Hassan aren’t just ex-colleagues, they’re both from HA. Hoarafushi. 5. And of course, the app wasn’t even ready for launch. The website they rolled out last night is full of issues and data leaks, already exposed in detail by local devs. Great debut. 6. Yesterday, MTCC launched an internal investigation… to figure out who leaked the information. 7. Last night, after the ceremony, the “PO guy,” MD, and Ismail Hassan met at the Hulhumale ferry terminal to “handle the crisis.” Not sure what your next move is or how this will be spun, but just a heads-up: payments for “Milestone 1 & 2” to FixedMaldives are already traceable. Massive credit to @WhoIsFishie @raftalks @dash8x and everyone else who put in the work to uncover the leaks and issues. At the end of the day, it’s our money, our taxi system, and our data. If the institutions meant to protect them won’t, then people stepping up like this is exactly what needs to happen.

Let’s correct the misinformation being pushed. The $500M Sukuk did not put national assets “at risk.” That narrative is false, and it was clarified multiple times at the time of issuance. Only Dharumavantha Hospital was used as the underlying asset, and even then, it was not mortgaged or up for seizure. This was a standard sovereign Sukuk structure with the asset transferred to a 100% government-owned SPV, Maldives Sukuk Issuance Limited, and then leased back. Payments made were rental, not interest, in line with Islamic finance principles. Critically, the government explicitly stated the hospital would not be sold or mortgaged at any stage. And here’s what is being deliberately ignored: - In sovereign, asset-based Sukuk, investors do not have the right to seize or sell the physical asset in the event of default. Their claim is contractual against the government, not ownership of the asset. - Repayment is through a repurchase undertaking, where the government buys back the beneficial ownership at maturity. So no, the hospital was never “on the line.” What we are seeing now is a deliberate attempt to distort how Sukuk works, to mislead the public and rewrite a narrative that was already clearly explained. Facts matter. When misinformation is being used as political messaging. Especially to influence an election.

Not even halfway through this administration, support for PNC & Muizzu is at all time low; imagine how unpopular he will be by 2028 presidential elections. So it is very obvious that we would be saying NO to Muizzu & PNC parliament members, giving MDP parliament supermajority and MDP winning presidential election. Your Math is not Mathing @dhiyanasaid and please address wasteful spending by Muizzu to influence LCE. There is no way this wouldn’t be considered bribery & no one wants to talk about it, especially from dheenee lens.

You haven't explained how concurrent elections help achieve a balanced parliament. Your argument is rhetorical. And I say this as someone who used to respect you.

An app worth 13mn. A name registered to another business. And the majority doesn't give a shit as long as it doesn't directly have an impact on them. That's the jungle we live in.

Israeli torture is the cruellest of all. The guard has threatened to rub some tuna spread on her most private area. So the dogs will know where to focus. They don’t know she is praying. Praying the whole time or reciting poems in her head. Layla is sitting on her knees. They put sharp pebbles on the floor. She pretends to suffer more from them than she actually does. They could be doing far worse to her. The cuts on her knees hurt a bit, but more painful is the strain on her back and hips. If she goes and lies on her straw mat a guard will come and beat her with an old phone book. It’s the only phone book she has ever seen, because nobody uses those anymore. Sometimes she invites a beating with the phone book. At least she gets to stretch her legs while the guard is beating her. She is allowed to lie on the straw mat only when the light is switched off. The switch is located outside her cell. Food comes in via a slit in the door. Pork sausages and the hardest crackers you can imagine. The pork sausages she never touches, for obvious reasons, but the crackers she keeps in her mouth until they soften up a little bit so she can chew them without breaking her teeth. There’s water, but it tastes foul. It smells kinda like moth balls. From time to time a guard comes in with dogs. The dogs bark and smell her all over. She is always terrified the dogs might bite her. The guard has threatened to rub some tuna spread on her most private area. So the dogs will know where to focus. So far the worst has been listening to the screams of other teenagers being tortured. She suspects that some of it are recordings. Sometimes the sounds go on for too long to be real. There’s also the wailing of babies. She hopes they don’t have babies here. When it starts she tells herself they are recordings. Maybe even created with AI. She hopes. Every time a guard sees her the guard, male or female, says: ‘Confess.’ They never specify what she should confess to. Probably something sufficiently terrible to keep her here forever. She wonders if her parents know what happened to her. They didn’t take her sister that day, she thinks. Unless she was taken later. Maybe she made it home and told their parents how the soldiers took Layla. Maybe they know the soldiers dropped a knife at their feet and claimed Layla had tried to tape it to her leg and it came loose and clang to the cobblestone road. She knows they are raping the boys. They are even tougher on the boys than on the girls. They use police batons on them. Sometimes broomsticks. Even flashlights. She’s seen a dead boy dragged through the halls. She saw it when they took her to an interrogation room. It was very clever what they did there. Something like a buffet was put on a table in front of her. She could eat and drink whatever she wanted. She didn’t trust it and didn’t touch a thing. The interrogator, a woman in her twenties, kept telling: ‘You’re such a silly, paranoid girl. You want to suffer. All your sufferings are your own fault. We never mean you any harm.’ Layla couldn’t suppress some laughter. Israeli settlers have burned the sheep shed of her grandparents four times. Until her grandfather gave up and sold all his sheep. Well below the average market price. One night they also came and plowed salt into his fields. So much salt they managed to ruin some of it. Maybe ten percent. Luckily they were too lazy to finish the job. Israeli settlers are not exactly known for their hard-working spirit. It’s usually the Israeli army that does all the hard work in their settlements. And, ironically, Palestinian workers. The same people they hate come and build their kitchen or their terrace. Today a guard has told her something that is making her feel light with hope. ‘If you get exchanged for our kidnapped people in Gaza we will catch you again soon enough. And maybe you will die before you get exchanged. It would be a mistake to let a little terrorist like you walk free. You will only kill good people.’ All Layla did was throw a rock at an Armoured Personnel Carrier. The only thing she is sorry about is that she missed. At night Layla is even more hopeful, because her guards step up their torture. That must mean she is close to being released. Her rough gray colored toilet paper, more like sand paper, is replaced by toilet paper that has verses of the Koran printed on it. If she wants to receive her daily food allowance she has to spit on a portrait of Arafat. She actually wouldn’t mind spitting on this portrait. First of all, it’s just a portrait, the portrait has no feelings, and second of all, according to Layla Arafat messed up and never decided if he wanted to resist the Israelis full on, milititarily, or resist them full on effectively through peaceful means. If you try to capture two rabbits you catch neither one. Add some tactical mistakes to this like supporting Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and some spitting doesn’t like like such a sin anymore. She refuses because she wants to comply with as few things as possible. If you comply they raise the bar and come up with worse stuff for you to comply to. You have to be very stingy with your compliances and only comply if it’s really worth it. She won’t touch the pork sausages and she can do without the crackers for one evening. At night they blast Hebrew heavy metal through the speakers in the whole prison. So unless the guards have ear plus this is torture for everyone, not just the prisoners. In the middle of the night the guard with the dogs visits her. He has several tins of tuna spread with him and a can opener. ‘Confess’, he says. Layla remains silent. She prays and prays and prays. Her thoughts go to her parents, to her sister, her grandparents. She convinces herself that resisting now is an act of love towards all her family members. If she can hold on to her dignity in this situation everything that follows in life will be a breeze. Two female guards pin her on the ground. Layla is not there. Her body, yes, not her spirit. Layla is travelling all over the world. Through time. She visits Palestinians who lived in Palestine before 1948. She visits her great grandparents who she only knows from the stories she was told. The dogs come and eat. Layla doesn’t feel a thing. This is the only part of her captivity she will never ever share with anyone. She will also never tell anyone the real reason why she instantly vomits whenever she smells tuna. The next day Layla is released. There was a deal about captives between Israel and the Palestinian resistance. Layla has defeated her captors. One of them spit in her face as she walked through the gate, but she feels victorious. The first thing she does at home is pray with her sister. Then she helps her mum weave baskets from palm leaves. She and her mum supply the whole village with baskets for free. Don’t worry, they get a lot of free items in return. Herbal remedies for Layla’s scarred knees, for example, and jars with pickled vegetables. Layla threw a rock, but her heart never turned to stone.

It's socialism — not capitalism — that creates prosperity. Norway has one of the strongest welfare systems in the world. In Singapore, most people live in housing built by the government. In Luxembourg, social spending as a share of GDP is among the highest in the EU. Most countries that score well on this chart do so because they have socialist policies in place that increase social mobility and reduce economic precariousness.

@drpezeshkian These Iranian girls are trolling Israel at the next level Israel is attacking Iran’s historical sites but Iran can’t respond the same way because Israel has no history.’ 😂

As we head into tomorrow’s constitutional referendum, I trust that the people will reflect carefully and do what is right for our nation’s future. Every vote matters.

Not even batting an eye at candidates offering “prizes” for attending their campaign “luckydraws” and completing their “quizzes” and in broad daylight offering futsal mubaaraaiy prizes conditioned at a specific result. @ACC_Maldives @ElectionsMv do you even open your offices?

In the past 3 days we visited and knocked on every door in Feydhoo, Maradhoo and tonight, maradhoo Feydhoo.. Feydhoo flats being an exception. We aren’t being paid to do this. #Noonekey

You soft-headed Americans, the ones still playing innocent while your bombs rain down on the other side of the world, you keep asking why Iran shouts Death to America after the revolution. Stop it. Just stop. Go read the tweet from your own barbarian president right now, the one crowing about smashing that bridge to hell. There is your answer, plain and bloody. Read it and swallow it whole. And after this do not ever ask Iran that question again. You already know. You have always known. And you, you orange pig rooting around in the White House, listen close. That magnificent bridge your jets just turned into rubble was raised by Iranian engineers. The same engineers who, under the iron weight of your sanctions, still stand third in the world for producing brilliant minds. They built it once under your boot and they will build it again, taller, stronger, more defiant than anything your death machine can dream up. You think you broke them. All you did was prove how small and savage you really are. Americans, wake the fuck up. Stand for your own basic rights, the ones your country never bothered to hand you in the first place. Not for Iranians. For yourselves. Look in the mirror and feel the shame burning in your gut. Then get off your knees and dismantle this death machine before it finishes devouring every last decent thing left in you.

F**k this government.@MMuizzu adhi @ameen3d ge bodaa kamaa kiburu verikan fenigen midhany. Gaanoon muguraalaa thimaage PR mathi veythoa molhethi stunt jahsan thiulheny rahyithun kaley thi kuraa kan kan bala eh nuganey. Adhi mi ekanyeh nun. Mathy dhilley board nudhilli gen ethah driver eh joorimanaa kuri irugaa thi car thakuga a nuves neh. Adhi 4 dhorufaih hama nuvaa car thakeh genes gaanoon muguraalany. Kaley men thy bayaku vote dhee gen hovaa varu bayeh nun.

MP W and Minister X wanted the project handed to a Chinese company… Minister Y and Rtd Najah wanted it handed to ABC. Both parties wanted a cut and that’s what dragged it all this way, right up till the election. In the end, Minister Y and Rtd Najah won the battle. MP W is silent….