Love Queerbeat's amazing articles too. This is the most recent ... www.queerbeat.org/stories/why-...

Pakistan media says more than a dozen targets have been hit in Indian Kashmir including Srinagar Air Base.

I haven't seen any other country in this century humiliating prisoners, let alone uncharged ones, on TV like this.

Elected officials in power in India are literally saying "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to insult those in power". Like we are already at that stage where they are questioning the very core logic of freedom of speech!

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wrote about the new Anoushka Shankar EP for Pitchfork. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

At some point the press needs to stop adopting right-wing framing that this is a "DEI purge" and call it what it is — white supremacist violence against our collective past. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Dem marks claiming Dem senators can’t do what the dumbest man in the #Senate (Tuberville) did

Location: Kolkata, West Bengal Date: March 11 BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari told the press outside the state assembly that when they come to power, they will kick all Muslim MLAs of TMC out onto the streets. He also accused the police and government of being communal, terming them “Muslim League 2.”

We are so fucked as a country. www.newsx.com/india/sambha...

If Samay Raina and Beer fucking Biceps lead to the return of this draconian, unconstitutional bit of censorship law, i'm gonna scream.

Really digging this new EP by Baalti. UK bass meets Nashik Dhol and West Bengal sound-clash. open.spotify.com/album/49T7FV...

AAP was the political party for, of and by LinkedIn bros. All this so called analysis is just a bunch of hot air

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

thinking about roads not taken a lot

It must feel extraordinarily freeing to have not a single vestigial shred of integrity. Nothing to slow you down or make you flinch or even pause. Just cravenness and ambition with zero wind resistance.

If anyone whines that we "self-segregated ourselves from X" and "aren't in the conversation anymore," feel free to show them this screenshot of my "For You" tab.

Has anyone told him that it’s impossible to run a decent arts org without gay people

Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.

#DelhiElectionResults | BJP maintains lead over AAP, Kejriwal trails As per the figures at 1.20 pm, the BJP won four seats and was ahead in 43 seats, while the Aam Aadmi Party was ahead in 21 constituencies and won in two. More updates: scroll.in/latest/10788...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to simply take the urinal next to some lad next time you’re in there and strike up a conversation.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.    He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.   Congress must investigate.

The ISKCON guys are either the laziest or the most efficient songwriters in the world. I'm just sat here watching a group perform a whole half hour set featuring just three words—Hare, Ram, Krishna.

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

“journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise in India” If accurate, this is a bizarre and damning statement by the government of India. #FoE #journalism

Strongly recommend this Asian funk mix by Nishant Mittal, who runs the amazing record store Digging In India. www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/exp...

I don’t blame anyone who stays on social media despite it being an increasingly worse space to exist within. A lot of people don’t seem to understand that social media has replaced social life for vast swathes of the populace. Alternatives have disappeared. People are left lonely and desperate

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

Just got a 'Relationship Trends 2025' PR email from Ashley Madison, and can someone explain to me why that website is still around?

Morning Blueys x Coffee

As he was being taken into custody, the man took out a Nazi flag from his backpack and told the authorities that he admired Adolf Hitler. Read more: scroll.in/latest/1078100 #IndiaUSA #SaiVarshithKandula. .

This just in, all Meta snack stations have been replaced with a wide selection of GNC whey protein and Prime hydration boosters

Just before an election?!?!

Article in the Lancet estimates the number of direct casualties in Gaza up till the summer of 2024 at 64,260. 40% above official estimates. With excess mortality, the death toll will be in the hundreds of thousands. The question is how many hundreds. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Before allowing a billionaire to embarrass himself in your op-ed pages, you could probably remind him that he has yet to answer reporters' questions about his former lover's apparent suicide. But what do I know.

No western scandal is ever as insane as in India, for instance the biggest scam in National Stock Exchange history was recently unearthed and the govt appointee who was caught claimed the orders to do corruption were being telepathically imprinted on her by a holy man living hidden in the Himalayas

Gauri Lankesh murder:~ All accused out on bail after Bengaluru court grants bail to last one in custody 😪 www.barandbench.com/news/bengalu...

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Election campaigning in flowery poetry, governing in dreadfully boring prose.

In conclusion, the history profession is a land of contrasts.

From the first minute, the Israeli government instrumentalized the sexual violence of Hamas's 7th of October for its war propaganda, while betraying the victims and their families. Not so surprising or unusual. That's what this government does. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Because killing educators and blowing up universities is bad?

My personal opinion is this is at least partly fuelled by a fundamental error in the approach in the counter-disinformation on focusing on foreign actors rather than treating information disorder as a societal issue. An extensive piece on that to come.

layoffs suck so please help a great writer out before he has to deal with that shit (if you can)

The shakhas (lit. branches), the key organizing mechanism of the RSS, were modeled on Opera Nazionale Balilla after BS Moonje's visit to Italy. Martial arts training is part of the routine discipline of all RSS shakhas, including in the US. It's terrifying to think of gun culture colliding with that