larry krasner you a badass and we love you

Never tire of watching this scene. The attention to detail in the background is just fascinating.

According to an Iranian account, David Cameron called after Iran's retaliation against Israel and said he couldn’t sleep last night.

The Iranian official responded: ‘For six months, rockets have been falling on [Gaza] and you slept well every night.’

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a truly impressive feat of Orwellian narrative shift, thousands of college students arrested, clubbed, kicked out of school for protesting mass killing in Gaza and our biggest media brains insist these students are Actually The Real Authoritarians because their tone is strident

If you're on the left, the results are very heartening indeed.

- The Tories got smashed, and will lose the next election

- But this is nothing like 1997.

Labour had a 17 point lead over the Tories in the local elections before the 1997 general election.

This time, they have a…

A lot of people are here saying how hard it is to get a historian or some who could depict historical things in a right way. Well it's indeed very difficult in this thread I'll mention the tiny accurate things that I have found astonishing in Pakeezah.

Wow. This is a BJP CM justifying taking away of more than 4500 lethal weapons from state armouries. For self-defence. Then what was his state government and the Modi government doing in Manipur?

The reason London has become the worst nightmare of the hard right is very straightforward.

People from different backgrounds not only live together and mix together, but they enjoy doing so.

That's the future of Britain, which is an apocalyptic vision, sure, if you're a bigot.

India saved billions of dollars? Ok if you say so. Economic newspaper reported that the bulk of the benefit of lower Russian crude prices went to private refiners, not public refineries owned by the government but I am sure you know stuff that was not known to others

In other places it is possible to differentiate between the political right, the academic right, the conservative right etc. In India no such difference exists, because all branches of the right wing in India eventually end up in the service of defending BJP and its ideologues.

FUCK THE EU how tf can one country ban someone from visiting all 26 other members

Yes, for those who don’t know, this series of Oxford Introductory Paperbacks are all essentially pocket-sized reads!

I've been complaining a lot about #Heeramandi
Turns out I've written quite a lot about India's great courtesans and the culture that sustained them. If you're interested, here's a short list. 🧵

[Malagir, great Delhi courtesan 1815, Lalji or Hulas Lal William Dalrymple]

Claims “I didn’t disrespect her mother” literal next sentence is “Tell your mother to go and get fcked” Sanghi bhakt logic for you 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Some of my fellow Jews will with good intentions take that bait, will walk into the rightwing invitation to speak for 'the Jews.' There's no such thing as 'the Jews,' there's only Jewish people. There aren't 'Good Jews' & 'Bad Jews,' there are only Jewish people. 11/

The way some college administrations & politicians speak of 'Jewish safety' is contemptuous of Jewish safety. It is not even about Jewish safety; it's the utilization of *some* Jews as cover for a political project that erases other Jews. 3/

I am a Jew. This week, a trustee of Dartmouth 🌲, the college at which I've taught 14 years, Chris Sununu, declared a protest there '100% antisemitic.' A protest in which Jewish students, faculty, & staff took part. Sununu's statement isn't just wrong--it's antisemitic. 1/

Thankfully initial reports suggest no fatalities. But we are in an exceptionally dangerous period of India-Pakistan relations. Any of these attacks could trigger a major crisis.

I'm old enough to remember the collective West losing consciousness over Palestinians taking down images of Israeli victims. Now, when it's other way around, even crickets don't bother to show up

The BJP has only one path on which it seems hell bent on taking the country down - all out communal warfare.