More looks into America’s future by looking at the past 12 years of Modi in India.

If you want to see into America’s future under Trump, just look at India under Modi. Brilliant parallels here from @themodsisyphus.bsky.social

1/29 Graham Platner reacts to Senator Collins's announcement about alleged end to ICE surge in Maine #maine #MEpolitics

Yeah, so Collins told Trump this could cost her re-election, so they just pulled back, because they know that removing dangerous people from the country was never really the mission, it was always just about terrorizing anyone who stood up to Trump.

Homan is going to make everything worse. The only solution to this is to remove every member of the Trump regime from power as quickly and expeditiously as possible. This is abuser language: Look what you made me do.

Please repost widely. They are abusing and terrorizing children that look like my nephew and niece. We need to move @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov to action.

It’s about who we are, not who “they” are. After 9/11, it was: should we give “terrorists” due process? Then, it was: Should we let asylum seekers in the country? I said it then and I say it now: we lost the “war on terror” on day 1, when we gave up who we are because we have been terrified.

Nurses are pissed. This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

I spent two weeks in Würzburg, Germany in the summer of 2009. Two things happened to me there that have stuck with me and are stunningly relevant to us today.

Obligatory “Lord, help me, I’m quoting Bill Kristol” statement…and also read all his skeets for this plan. Contact your elected officials and ask for exactly this.

Murder. Shot in the back three times. Don’t turn away. Please share.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

🚨"The Ku Klux Klan used to call themselves the invisible empire, and they wore masks, and they used to raid immigrant communities—much like ICE is right now," -one of THOUSANDS of Minneapolis ICE protesters marching in -10 degrees as part of statewide generals strike. LIVE NOW⬇️

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out! Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings. Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...

Luna: first team All-American (special teams) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

This is what democracy looks like (in Denver).

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

I'm a Black woman. I know democracy isn't meant for me but I've fought for it because of my ancestors who've come before me. @antheabutler.bsky.social at CU Denver event. @thejainguy.bsky.social

TODAY! Dr Anthea Butler and Dr Randall Balmer will discuss “White Christian Nationalism and the Future of US Politics.” Doors at 6:00 PM; event starts at 6:30. SCB 1600. Free and open to the public! @cudenverclas.bsky.social @antheabutler.bsky.social #whitechristiannationalism

Next on “Shameful Displays of Fascism by Billionaire Trustees of Ivy League Universities” that would be easily thwarted with real shared governance. Anyone who thinks that university admins & trustees and Trump aren’t on the same side is a fool.

Talking about the Cairo Geniza today in my Indian Ocean class. I like to think of it as the productive value of never getting around to doing that chore you were supposed to do.

Meta tried to hide that it trained its AI on pirated books. One staff member wrote: “If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues” Fantastic @knibbs.bsky.social story

FWIW, here's a 1970 version of that apocryphal Thomas Jefferson prayer that Mike Johnson read in the House of Representatives today. It appeared in The Cross and the Flag, the magazine of Gerald LK Smith, a white supremacist & Christian Nationalist who was America's most notorious antisemite.

A thing of beauty…x2. #notredame #sugarbowl

Fucking SEC refs. #sugarbowl

Well worth the read to understand the insane idea that billionaires are the real populists.

This fascinating new book by Sunila Kalé and Christian Novetzke shows us #yoga in a refreshingly unconventional light: its political and even militant applications over history. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-yog...

Y’all: do you think rel studies has something to offer to address major challenges in the world? Do you want to encourage the turn in RS scholarship toward more public engagement? Please offer feedback on draft AAR guidelines on evaluating public scholarship: aar.wufoo.com/forms/r1rkox... #aarsbl24

@aasasianstudies.bsky.social In light of recent videos of white supremacists carrying Nazi flags and chanting racial slurs marching in Columbus, site of the 2025 annual conference, a statement would be in order.

And for those whose work focuses on South Asia, any culture, tradition, or discipline—though likely humanities and social sciences at its core go.bsky.app/BugNwc7 This list too is a work in progress; please comment to be added or suggest adds. #southasia #academia #asianstudies #humanities

@arianam.bsky.social Thanks for the follow! Need a Jainism scholar in the starter pack? 😬🙋‍♂️

I’m honored to now hold the Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed *Chair* in #Jain Studies at the University of #Colorado #Denver! Thanks to the US Jain community, we will have MA fellowships, grants for students and faculty, and public programming to learn more about #jainism & Jain ethics! #GoLynx

I’m #48,838 in line for the throne. Does this make me effete?

Hot off the press! I’m super excited to dig into Tyler Williams book, If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP).

Happy #MahavirJayanti! #MahavirJanmaKalyanak Mubarak Ho! In this image, Indra, king of the gods, takes the newborn Mahavir to the top of Mount Meru, the axis mundi, to give him his first bath.

I read scary stuff for a living, but this is one of the scariest things I have read in a long while. And unless stopped it is coming to every military and police department near you. This how a reality where everyone is a STEM major and nobody cares about humanity, morality, and values looks like.

Tampa! Join me at U South Florida, c/o the Bhagwan Padma Prabhu Endowment, to kick off the #Jain Community Lecture series next Wednesday (Mar. 6). I’ll discuss my forthcoming book, Reimagining Jainism in Islamic India: Jain Intellectual Culture in the Delhi Sultanate (Routledge).

A story on contemporary transnational Jainism, with some quotes from yours truly. www.tabletmag.com/sections/com...

Like all fascists, the Likud Party will burn the down the world to rule over the ashes. There is no regaining one’s own humanity after committing genocide. Nuclear weapons on Gazans will not “restore this country’s dignity, strength and security.” www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-isr...

Thinking about this today.

The first rule of Aimee Mann fight club is hush hush.

So if Twitter is becoming X, can Bluesky become…Twitter?

Are we getting serious on here yet? Because this is seriously an awesome project on Hindutva! @themodsisyphus.bsky.social

A clear take on recent efforts to add #caste to anti-discrimination laws, which have been increasingly muddied in the media, from the South Asia Scholar Activist Collective #sasac. via Religion News Service