Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) lectures his and AOC’s (@AOC) Michigan crowd on Arabic meanings while admitting that calling him Mohamed is not racist because it is his middle name: “Donald Trump and JD Vance can’t keep my name out of their mouths. He’s taken my name. Abdul El-Sayed means ‘servant leader.’ He’s taken to calling me Mohamed, which is my middle name. Mohamed means ‘praised one.’ He took me from servant to praised one.” Yeah, I don’t want my U.S. Senators lecturing me on foreign languages.

Thanks to @qatarairways my US trip now stands canceled. Somehow the Kolkata flight got delayed and that led them to choose an option for me which would land in SF at 1:15 PM 21st Oct (delayed by a day). So, it forced me to ultimately cancel it. Absolutely gutted for this. But maybe this is what Maa Durga wanted as I was leaving her amidst the festivities.