“After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — ‘the best thing I ever wrote,’ he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included ‘all my recommendations to the African National Congress’ about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities”

Sichuanese is perhaps the greatest cuisine in the world.

Very illuminating thread.

the internet did deliver on its promise to connect people and spread ideas around the world and unfortunately the ideas that it is best at spreading are conspiratorial and fascist

These people are not on the left. The left starts at anti-capitalist.

One of the top-ranked South Asian studies programs in the US… really abysmal times for South Asian grad students hoping for careers in academia.

We are in some truly dark times where we’re going to have to be grateful just to have any sh!t job.

I am dying

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

ET runs to print fudged financial stats for modi year after year but does real reporting on Musk, the model of the future appears to be that you follow domestic politics through international sources because they all suckle at the teat of their own domestic regimes

R1 research universities should be ashamed. Most have simply caved to “following state laws” or whatever crap excuses they come up with, while people in institutions with so much to lose are publicly taking on this regime.

Buon compleanno, il migliore. You have never been more correct, more important to us.

“The continued discriminatory practices by Meta against Palestinian content constitute a clear violation of international standards for freedom of expression." ifex.org/erased-and-s...

Ladies and gentlemen, Marc Maron.

Gutted. Absolute king.

Launch events for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF: Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi Jan 29: The Common Press, London Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Amen.

i've been thinking lately about the loss of the future--not in the historical sense, because the future just keeps on coming--but the loss of the future in the ideological sense, the loss of the future as an organizing principle of politics this is as true of liberals as it is of the left

Always gets me . Good morning.

LMAO

Posts about the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder are literally why I was on X all day today because the hilarious responses are leaving me in SPLITS… Bluesky’s too goddamn serious, come on already.

Hello all, my former editor, Zubair ( @zoo-bear.bsky.social ) is here. Please add him to India sky feed and other misinformation/disinformation reporting starter packs. Thanks.

How are people saving posts here for future reading? Why does this app not have a Save or Bookmark option?? 💆🏾‍♀️

UnitedHealthcare CEO shot dead in New York City, and over on X, not one post expresses horror, sympathy or condolences... except for politicians. Otherwise, it's all-out celebrations. The people are righteously mad.

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"If I were asked whether a student would learn more about US foreign policy by reading [Chomsky's] book or by reading a collection of the essays that…U.S. officials write in journals such as Foreign Affairs or the Atlantic, Chomsky & Robinson would win hands down.” foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/c...

#Germany is a parody of Germany, part 7. “From the river to the sea” is illegal in Germany, unless you mean Greater Israel and the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians - and also the Golan Heights coz why not Via @queirdo.bsky.social

I just had the honor of writing the blurb for this stupendous new @blaft.bsky.social publication: Gujarati Pulp Fiction, translated by @vishwambhari.bsky.social ! Strongly recommend a pre-order on this one if you want to be thrilled and chilled and amazed! www.blaft.com/collections/...

On 24th Nov 2024, I co-led All We Imagine As Bombay with Payal Kapadia, a karwaan heritage walk inspired by her film ‘All We Imagine As Light’. Set in Lower Parel, once Bombay’s mill hub, we traced stories of labor, migration, chawls, and gentrification. Don’t miss her film—it’s in cinemas now!

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/v...

Oh…you mean a kind of immunity developed from exposure to racism… kind of like a… vaccine? 💆🏾‍♀️ Get the RWers off this site, for gods’ sakes.

This is an incredible treasure trove of public broadcaster media from a certain era in the Indian republic that has had very little sustained engagement by media/cultural studies scholars. Hoping it gets more attention now.

One of the benefits of being non-tenured & having little support for thinking, writing, publishing is feeling completely out of the loop with trending conversations in my field(s) of study. Leaves me free to think with people I’m far more aligned with on the fringes/outside academia.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

In this week's New Yorker: My profile of Ganesh Devy, who assembled the first Indian survey of languages in a century, and who now lives in Dharwad as a protest against forces who will kill writers and impose religions and languages [1] www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If this is Whatsapp that got them caught red-handed, it is such poetic justice. 🙏🏽

“An ode to a “forgotten” India which needs to be given its rightful place in a Euro-American-centric globe ends up replacing one form of cultural supremacy with another.” Wonderful piece by @kikumbhar.bsky.social www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

Child-murdering nation-state.

I’d like Bluesky to hit a perfect balance of nice smart handles saying insightful things about our world but also embracing anti-serious whimsical absurdities of our lives. I mostly see the former & not the latter. As someone seriously committed to not taking myself too seriously, this app sucks.

I began rewatching Ally McBeal and god, this show has aged terribly compared to Kelley’s other shows. Each episode in the first season seems worse than the previous one. What was my poor desi brain in India absorbing when I watched this at 13, 14, 15? 🙈

Markedly less Palestinian & Lebanese content here, though that might be an effect of immediate networks and algorithms, though I hear Bluesky has been suspending accounts as well. The difference from X is nonetheless eerie & alarming in the midst of genocide & war.

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

hard to read this shit and not be convinced that a small influx of outspoken minority students at elite colleges in the early 2010s completely broke the brains of their professors www.ft.com/content/f4db...

Some interesting work on arboreal politics in Palestine: placesjournal.org/article/a-si... placesjournal.org/article/batt... thebaffler.com/salvos/fores...

Poetry Magazine is pretending this isn't happening & rolling merrily along. lithub.com/over-2000-po...

Seeing resentment by Jewish commentators *cough*JuliannaMarguiles*cough* on being betrayed by Black & queer folks for their support of Palestine... Robin DG Kelley here, on how solidarity is not a market exchange, which is how some people see social causes. black-ink.info/2020/01/16/s...

Cebul coined this model “supply-side liberalism.” He meant it as a way to describe how the government would rather influence markets to achieve social progress than work toward the social progress itself"