This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Come walk with us awhile, and Tridip and I will tell you about the most interesting person in Gandhi’s cohort in the tumultuous 1940s: Manu was his witness, biographer, co-experimenter and much else to boot. I dig her muchly, and you will too.

I got myself four Sliman Mansour posters last summer. Let me introduce you to them between now and Sunday, when this ceasefire actually (🤞🏽) sets in…

Yup yup - it’s stayed with me since I first came across it years ago. I think we’d all do well to sit with the questions it raises again.

I’m going to be in conversation with the always fabulous @saliltripathi.bsky.social about his gorgeous book on Gujarat and the Gujaratis this Friday: if you’re in Ahmedabad, you don’t want to miss this. Come say hello and help us think through who we are (and why we are like this only ;) )

Wrote a thing: will be of interest to anyone plagued by that little imp who goes by the name of one Mr MK Gandhi. #academicsky (but also, not). www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

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Seems like @susanabulhawa.bsky.social is here but I have no mutuals to confirm with.

Thank me later. Jolt.com - go watch. Corrupt, venal + genocidal - any wonder Bibi and our own strongman leader are BFFs? 🙃

Cannot - and I can’t stress this enough - recommend this more. You need to watch (and rewatch) this: in a world of disgustingly specious propaganda like the Sabarmati Report, seek truth like Final Solution instead.

Such a world of this. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

"Yoon, Trump, Bolsonaro and Netanyahu are the antidote to the sentimental idea that liberal democracies in name only are the bulwark against extremism. These treacherous times demand honesty, not complacency." — #AJOpinion by Andrew Mitrovica ⤵️

This is wildly interesting. It is here, this AI companion who affords the simulation of intimacy, but what we do about it or what it does to us is anyone’s guess. www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

This is the energy we will need!!

A couple of years ago it became clear to me we’re going to have to reimagine what assignments will mean and be in a world of AI. So I started getting my students to play with it like so :) PS. hilarious freakin’ thumbnail because I’m an animated monkey. Deal with it.

Google pulling this up as the first results = we see who their paymasters are.

‘Land back’ begins with this ✊🏽♥️

What a waste of oxygen this cretin is - who hurt you so, Abhijit Mitra?

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Israel is allying to ISIS affiliated criminal gangs to starve Gaza. You can read about this in the Israeli press. Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West? New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...

"Sending more troops & reimposing AFSPA will not help heal these fraught relations." scroll.in/article/1076... Rights activist explains what this new escalation in violence means for Manipur and why AFSPA and additional troops can't resolve it. By Rokibuz Zaman

Damn straight. Plus there’s the small fact that what ails us cannot possibly cure us, no? There’s no way we are buying ourselves out of this unholy mess. We will become circular economies or we will die out as a species. It’s quite literally that simple.

Damn you for going and breaking my heart like this, Maharashtra - what a bizarre dissipation of the “change is a-coming” energy of the General Election results just a few months ago 💔 scroll.in/latest/10759...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is protecting Gautam Adani, and he is involved in corruption with Mr. Adani. This is becoming increasingly clear," said Rahul Gandhi. Watch full video here: www.instagram.com/p/DCoC3LhiyKb/ Video: PTI

Israeli PM Netanyahu and ex-Defence Minister Gallant face ICC arrest warrants for "war crimes committed from at least 8 Oct 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.” aje.io/mse8rr

This is huge. Expect the Indian government to tie itself spectacularly in knots as Modi tries to rescue his BFF #modaniforever ;)

Single most stunning thing, and I’ll wager this gladly, most of us will read today. bioneers.org/robin-wall-k...

This is an interesting debate to watch out for, I wonder how it will be resolved. While per capita emissions seems like one good way to measure climate impact, I think the contentious argument that large populations are equally damaging would come up soon enough! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Doesn’t this sound ruddy glorious? www.fastcompany.com/91229942/inside-the-anti-cop-a-summit-for-climate-activists-who-are-fed-up

+++NEW ANALYSIS: China’s CO2 emissions have now caused more global warming than EU+++ Our new analysis comes as the "principle of historical responsibility" is being cited in #COP29 talks on a new climate finance goal THREAD with details, caveats + bonus chart www.carbonbrief.org/...#COP291/12

🔴 Israel continues its bombardment on Gaza while launching its "most violent" attacks on Lebanon's Nabatieh amid escalating regional tensions. Follow our LIVE coverage ⤵️ aje.io/v3v04w

giving grok access to my twitter worked

#academicsky 1. Monograph on a dying river in Western India (and the epistemic breaks between the categories human and nature which inform and perpetuate the devastation of our living environments more generally) 2. How to bolster what Kimmerer calls the grammar of animacy (+ Rights of Nature)

I stayed away from Twitter all these years (and laughed through most of 2022, at the beginning of its end: my decision couldn’t have felt more validated). Curious enough about this ‘ere social experiment to see what it is all about for myself. And cue: Mr Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra.

"'I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.' Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump 'Racially Purifying' the US" The acclaimed novelist's essay for Zeteo on the Republicans' attempt to take us back to the 19th century – and where he finds hope.

Having watched the modi process for stealing a democracy, the real canary in the coalmine coming up , and it 100% will, is when the cable news media and collected lackeys start conflating criticism of Trump/GOP with criticism of the US and demand fealty to one as proof of fealty to the other