Taking a break from politics posting to show this picture of my latest attempt at Kerala/Nadan Chicken Curry. Probably my best attempt at a Malayali dish, not quite ready to compete with the best in Kerala...but hopefully it would accepted by the Keralites

And worth pointing out after the fact that my post which Dr Julie Chernov Hwang clearly read highlighted several other of my analyses linking all three attacks together. All these which I produced ONE MONTH AGO. Sorry not sorry, Julie. Your lies are falling apart.

Dr Julie Chernov Hwang didn't respond to me on Bsky, but only responded to my post on LinkedIn. She claimed that my work had nothing to do with, quite forgetting she had reposted my exact article that discussed the Paragon Siam attack before (clear evidence of consumption).

Good piece by @yashicadutt.bsky.social on the Garg's recent statements and the reaction from Indian Americans, especially given the former's support for figures like Usha Vance and Trump. A few thoughts (hopefully I'll write something later)... yashicadutt.substack.com/p/zarna-garg...

What was once one of the largest opposition forces has, on paper, technically been folded into the new security forces. But as @ajaltamimi.bsky.social points out in @syriatransition.bsky.social , integration has so far been mixed www.syriaintransition.com/en/home/arch...

"What is true regarding Israel and Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese is also true in Syria and for its people. Again, an inclusive political system — that is, political justice — is the basis for a permanent Syrian peace." - Yassin Al-Haj Saleh newlinesmag.com/essays/the-u...

"Assad is gone, but the obedience and opportunism, the reflexes, the fears, the worship of a single strong leader — the survival tools of his regime — remain ingrained in the muscle memory of an entire population." - Loubna Mrie www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

A lot of interesting details regarding the role of Maklouf, Hassan, and others in their roles working with the regime remnants in Lattakia and Tartous. A really fascinating read from Feras Dalatey and Timour Azhari www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Interesting results from (from my knowledge) the first comprehensive survey done in post-Assad Syria. www.foreignaffairs.com/syria/what-s...

The memes from Somali Americans in the other place is top notch.

Bookshopping, Black Friday edition

Desi boys when they see the opportunity to join in the manosphere

Check out my latest piece for @csohate.bsky.social on how the cauliflower meme, a coded call for promoting anti-Muslim violence among the fringe trad movement, has increasingly become adopted by politicians.

Okay cool after I posted this, @thebrownexperience.bsky.social helpfully uploaded a video breaking it down. Yeah folks are stupid and people need to have their podcast equipment and phones taken away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6b...

A good piece by Hebh Jamal on eliminating the "hierarchies of solidarity" between the Palestinian and Sudanese causes. She also mentions Sinthujan Varathas and Moshtari Hilal's excellent book on the subject. www.newarab.com/opinion/suda...

Trying to keep up with this whole Akaash Singh's wife drama....if I'm understanding it right...she's getting blowback for not being a virgin when she married Akaash, and she allegedly makes jokes about him and tells sex stories? Like atm the whole thing just screams "we're insecure men"

Anyway, in my new essay, I point out that the anti-Politics of Star Wars is resonating in America, and the movie needed sane centrists who could push the rebels and empire to listen to each other and engage in democratic coalition building, instead of glorifying political violence

Theres a movie review essay that was written by a MENA focused political scientist on how recent films showcase political violence.....that somehow manages to be an essay with minimal grounding in American politics, history or cinema...

Anytime I feel kind of sad on the state of brown representation in the US...I just take a look at the UK and go well shit atleast we got time to prevent us from becoming that crazy.

This was the first case that gave us a taste of what "Naya India" would be. Disgraceful

Got enough time during my layover in Chicago to give them shit as only a good Sconnie can do

The UAE talking about Sudan like....

I know nuance dies on here, but FFS, there is a lot of criticisms you can have of Shara'a: His authoritarian rule in Idlib, how he handled the coast + Sweida, etc. Hell even his former affiliation with AQ. But if you're calling him the ISIS dude in Syria, you're just idiotic

Its still wild to me that Tucker Carlson was promoting white nationalist and anti-Semitic shit for years, including when he was in Fox News...but he's getting blowback from the rest of the conservative movement now for mainstreaming Nick Fuentes and openly being anti-Israel

Episode 2, and still they haven't passed the bechdel test

All's Fair: a show with terrible writing, questionable acting, incredulous pacing decisions, the most vapid form of faux feminism I've ever seen on screen, and minimal to zero character development. I love it

If Desi parents expectations weren't enough, now brown boys might not be able to go on Hinge without matches asking if you're the next potential Zohran Mamdani 😭

Was waiting for Shekhar Gupta to commission a "as a Muslim....Mamdani actually needs to answer for everything bad a Muslim person has done" piece as the good "liberal" he is

If you ever feel you're suffering from imposter syndrome, just remember there are "academics" who can't comprehend the title of the book, let alone be bothered to read said book, or take 5 minutes to look the authors corpus before making these bold claims. This shit slaps hard if you're dumb

*smokes blunt*

An awesome short documentary about the Kushti wrestlers in Kolhapur who struggle to keep the artform alive while contending with a world focusing on more "modern" grappling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-m...

NYC city is an anomaly, but Dems making huge gains in Virginia, Michigan, California, Mississippi, and other states....is proof that we actually need to become more RW and forget about marginalized people. On this podcast with Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias, we will...

He legit did Dhoom Machale to end the night.....LEGEND

I can't believe I got to be here for the creation of the Islamo-Marxist Republic of New Yorkistan 😜

My own personal politics aside (and hell yeah im a leftist supporter), its hard not to feel joy and pride after being a Desi boy raised in the US after 9/11 and experiencing all the racist bullshit, just to see a South Asian Muslim Socialist win the mayorship.

Zohran won LETS FUCKING GO

New Performative Male (ultramasculine edition) just dropped. Excellent analysis by @hampton.bsky.social on the lineage of Kash Patel's challenge coin

Keeping my fingers crossed that the elections in NYC and Atlanta go well today. But I hate I got that anxious and hopeless feeling instead of the ecstatic joy everybody else is in atm

How Yglesias presents someone's arguments on moderation....vs the person's actual argument on moderation

With a lot of attention rightfully turning to the genocide in Sudan, @aymanmak.bsky.social has a helpful video on how (and how not) to advocate for Sudan www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...

Theres a really dumb new engagement farming trend on Instagram where they post something like "I want coffee (but without the fee) Apples (but without the ples) X Y Z Now read it from the middle" Which is so dumb and idiotic I wish I had the power to take away followers from each of these accounts

There's always gonna be something darkly hilarious about Hindu nationalists realizing in 2025 that a significant portion of Trump's base is anti-Indian + anti-Hindu but ignoring this for the past decade because they loved the anti-Muslim + authoritarianism in the movement

There's always gonna be something darkly hilarious about Hindu nationalists realizing in 2025 that a significant portion of Trump's base is anti-Indian + anti-Hindu but ignoring this for the past decade because they loved the anti-Muslim + authoritarianism in the movement

Dems centrists really released a report going "you know, we should just let Republicans decide what the framing on the issues are"

All the footage included in this video has been taken by RSF forces themselves. I am raising funds on behalf of Ghaima Initiative to support the relief effort. All links in my bio. #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

There are few brown commentators whose trash takes i despite more than Tunku. My Muslim friends (and some non-Muslims who were brown) who grew up in NYC told me how they faced threats and violence as KIDS from other folks because of "looking Muslim"

Damn this is brutal www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

I'm impressed. There are so many cringe diaspora in the world and on this hellsite....and somehow Iranian monarchists keep setting themselves apart as the most cringe of the cringe

Excellent piece on the flaws and problems with our "depolarization" discourse. "We have better vocabularies and tools that more accurately diagnose and respond to the problems of contemporary societies: emancipation, justice, resistance, liberation." vortex.uni.mau.se/2025/10/agai...