I go off-piste a bit, on the media and its no questions asked celebrity worship. www.mxmindia.com/columns/some...

FUN FACT: He advised Queen Elizabeth to pardon her son 3 years, 5 months & 12 days after she passed away. Please add "UNINFORMED" to my list. Thank you for your attention to this embarrassing matter.

A Complete List of the President's Positive Qualities:

How the mighty fall. The Economist and the Election Commision of Indua. I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/columns/ranj...

I ✍️ a letter to Dehradun, to try and save something of itself for the future. questionofcities.org/dehradun-we-...

The RSS always were and still are the useful idiots of western empire and as I finish writing the section on them in my book, I cannot tell you the rage I feel that their stooge has led the Indian republic to this point. Just sacrificing actual sovereignty in the name of performative nationalism.

Of God, belief, spirituality and other things I cannot do. I ✍️ Ranjona Banerji | Of God And Other Critical Narratives share.google/JG0d8CgCemJg...

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis “are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special,” Ashley Parker writes.

Gotta say, so far I'm really happy I voted for her.

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

People in the US have taken to the streets after the ICE shootings in Minnesota. They're willing to fight. Put themselves out there. Not us. We've lost that. In the past 11 years, if I've seen even 300 people where i live, out to save something, it's been an aberration.

Mark Tully, a journalist to remember! I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/remembe...

In an imaginary democracy how would an imaginary media respond to an absent imaginary prime minister? I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/columns/ranj...

Just precious. DHS guidelines forbids firing at a moving vehicle. Imagine that!

Keep your eyelashes safe, your sanity intact and here's to whatever 2026 throws at us! I ✍️ Ranjona Banerji | May Your Eyelashes Remain Safe In 2026! share.google/P6nfz4iMNZ11...

The shaming of women by men using @X's Grok and the shaming of gig workers by billionaires demonstrates the double whammy of social media. I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/ranjona...

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Murder

Claire Bretécher, French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women #WomensArt #BackToNormal #FridayFeeling

The @theguardian.com 's obit on my aunt, Sara Banerji. Writer, painter, gardener, teacher, free force of nature. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

Hallo to 2026!

"Although doctors can scream themselves hoarse about the dangers of air pollution in Delhi, newspapers may well tell you which pranayama exercises to do to save yourself," I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/polluti...

Have made a huge mistake. Added my date of birth to Bluesky. Now they will send me "age appropriate" stuff. 😱😭😭

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart

Karen Ongley-Snook, UK multi media artist who specialises in glass #WomensArt

Amrita Sher-Gil, Little Girl in Blue, 1934 Indian modernist painter #WomensArt

Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

total mentions on Fox News so far today Obama: 30 Epstein: 2

Hillary Clinton's emails: 6

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The White House said it would ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool covering President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, its latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to Jeffrey Epstein.

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

War or peace or both? I ✍️ about the varying and contradictory ideas we live with. www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/colu...

War or peace or both? I ✍️ about the varying and contradictory ideas we live with. www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/colu...

How our mainstream "news" channels spread misinformation and rumour, with total disregard for consequences. I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/when-ru...

i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.

this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?

Who are the most dangerous people in India today? Not terrorists, silly, it's satirists! I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/ranjona...

Just look at our galaxy. We live in a magnificent place at a magnificent time.

Nothing new about "toxic masculinity". Just generational naivete and wilful refusal to face reality. I ✍️ Yeah, I'm angry. www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/colu...

You little anarchist. They told you to switch to airplane mode, and you just … didn’t. But does it even matter? Well, your flight probably won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.

There is good journalism happening out there. A shout out to important, courageous work! I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/good-jo...

By far one of the most mind-blowing, fascinating, intense, erudite and readable books in recent times. Venki Ramakrishnan's Why We Die. I ✍️ www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/bo...

We're getting kicked in the teeth! I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/ranjona...

Our brave media takes its cue from Government. So we can neither take on Trump and his #tariffs, nor can we take on Modi, even now. I ✍️ www.mxmindia.com/news/trumps-...

ditto, like there was always the boys club and boys will be boys comradery + patriarchy... it's just the same old poison in a new bottle with fancy label.

Someone please tell me when this "manosphere" did not exist.