"For those who squirm when caste becomes too close, too bloody. Kisana’s book offers no reprieve from this discomfort. He drags the reader, especially the savarna reader and holds their face up to the mirror of their own making," writes Anjali Chauhan. Read review: scroll.in/article/1086...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Wrote about RF Kuang's 'Katabasis': more clever than compelling. thewire.in/books/alices...

incredible that the Abundance guys took a dead-simple idea (it's better to talk about a future where there's more things and it's good) and made it toxic in part by being the whiniest dweebs.

“Indian-Americans are successful, wealthy and visible, but not willing to be mobilised as a real political force for India. Modi’s noisy rallies and community events may have led to asset-building headlines but they have not built anything of substance.” www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/poor...

“For a foreign policy premised on diaspora and bipartisan bonds, this is a very public reckoning. The assets Modi so loudly counted on were never tested before. When the time came, they failed.” I write in The Telegraph (Kolkata) on how all those Modi has hailed in the US didn’t speak for India.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

i'm going to keep running around doing my little science projects, but "elites driven mad by mean posts" is basically the only theory you need to explain this young century

1/3 There are at least 3 types of erasure via data 1) Data not collected because we’re too small a population, we don’t matter to economics or politicians and/or lumped with OTHER groups 2) Data is collected and is either not used, ignored or used to avoid accountability and action & lastly

Indian regime and courts once again doing the impossible by being so repressive they make Musk's Twitter appear like they're on the right side of an argument (of course, this is only because Musk doesn't like taking orders from anyone rather than anyone at Twitter caring about free speech).

Trump's explosion of rage last night over ABC's reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel shouldn't be greeted with fear and weepy hand-wringing. It should be seen as a sign that his authoritarian designs are running into very deep resistance and that he's weak and losing on many fronts.

For those of you not familiar, Alaa was an Egyptian political prisoner for much of his adult life. He was deprived of time with his son, his siblings, and his mom who went on hunger strike and nearly died trying to free him just in the last month. He was just released via a presidential pardon.

“Why are you now building Khartoum and not saving the people of El-Fashir? Instead of building Khartoum, why don’t you first save the people of El-Fashir?” A thought-provoking piece on Sudan and what it looks like when governments invest in the capital at the expense of other areas.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

"The problem is not that we lack abundance. It is that abundance is hoarded... It is this real scarcity that the right has harnessed, engaging in a bait and switch where they scapegoat immigrants and other minorities for the failures of the neoliberal system they promote." Excellent.

Uuuugh. You can pitch "AI for nose hair removal" and have a billion dollars dumped on your head overnight, but perhaps the most important civic function in democratic politics is starving to death.

Please enjoy @nslayton.bsky.social's interview with Curtis Evans, the man in this extremely badass photo. taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Broaden it. Leftists want USPS to build a dedicated pipeline for drug delivery complete with tracking location, express delivery, and dedicated dealer collection agreements. Hormone Therapy? Overnighted. Abortifacients? Same Day. Marijuana? On demand. Scare me with the improved efficiency, baby.

Sometimes people even on the left trip on this because of how dumb the body politic has been degraded into being by the GWOT and all its associated neuroses and discursive frameworks. Of all the things that matter about al Sharaa, AQ and HTS being designated terrorist orgs means literally nothing.

8th stage of grief: Pyrotechnics

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

Again Bouie from the top rope

I will never not repost this when it rolls by.

Given how the UK and the EU is treating Trump, their willingness to confront dictators (read: Putin/Xi) is just obvious bullshit. If democracy survives, it will not be because of these weak-kneed knaves.

Y'all. @adambecker.bsky.social reviewed the new Eliezer Yudkowsky book for the Atlantic and he *does not miss.* www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

trump: *has sex with a porn star while wife is pregnant and pays her hush money* trump: *adjudicated of rape* trump: *was best friends with jeffrey epstein* trump: these transes are sex perverts!

Too little too late. They didn’t drop Israel as a client when Anita Dunn, its founder, was Biden’s top political adviser in the White House and had massive conflicts of interest flagged to her by ethics officials she ignored.

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

I've been reading anti-trans articles, and others explaining anti-trans stances, for 9 years now - more than any cis person I know could possibly imagine doing - starting as an aspiring journalist as a college freshman. This is the single best explanation of the anti-trans crusade I have ever read.

"There may be room for [latecomers] in the tent, but to meaningfully participate will require teshuva, the Hebrew word for 'repentance'—honest self-examination and a dedicated, continuous, lifelong effort to atone for even passively supporting this genocide." – @davidklion.bsky.social

these posts really blow up the theory that he was antifa and the theory that he was groyper AND the theory that he was an irony-poisoned nihilist. there's still a lot we don't know but based on this, he may well have been the last thing anyone expected: Just A Guy.

our first entry in our new weekly series "Until It's Done". Written by Zohran's truly world class speechwriter the great Julian Gerson, we'll be spotlighting New Yorkers throughout this city's history who never relented when it came to fighting for a better city for everyone. we hope you enjoy it

that article, btw, of which i’m extremely proud

There's a mythology of working farmers, maintained as much in kids books as anything, but the reality is these folk constitute the American Gentry, a very wealthy but not ultrawealthy class that votes for disciplining labor and protecting their fiefdoms. This is "dog caught car" territory for them.

Braga and Tegtmeier are smart, capable officers, which is why they rose to the top of Delta and 75RR. But they also went and stayed there because the version of the GWOT that JSOC was fighting—all killing and capturing all the time, no hearts and minds—was the version that appealed to them.

My dudes, the Rapture happened. Nobody qualified.

The elites of the Democratic Party have expended more energy distancing themselves from Zohran Mamdani than they have from a man who almost killed his wife because he couldn't stop watching IDF snuff videos on his phone while driving 70+ down the Interstate.

The bill is indeed bonkers and has deeply alarming implications. The idea that it could be used by a future Democratic administration is silly though - this Supreme Court will 100% allow it for Trump and declare it unconstitutional the moment a Democratic president tried to use it.

Who after Modi? Is Amit Shah the eternal bridesmaid? Who else are the contenders to succeed Modi? Where Hartosh and I discuss what this reveals about power, succession and democracy in today's India. In The Caravan Long View

A fitting riposte to those who talk about the death of the book?

i'm writing a feature for a major US outlet & i'd like to interview people who: - are dem voters - feared the worst of trump from early on - felt frustrated/dismissed/ like those fears weren't listened to reply/DM me