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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 1d

I think Israel is going to go the Pakistan route of fully being able to recover its image after doing a genocide with US backing.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 1d

Most people: transnational repression 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
@governor.ca.gov: transnational repression 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 1d

All because some rich Hindutva donors asked him. He literally sacrificed the security of Californians for a few dollars from people who have actively engaged in TNR. How can @governor.ca.gov ever be trusted to keep the nation safe if he were to become president?

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 1d

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social vetoed a bill to combat transnational repression, despite support for that bill from every major human rights organization, federal and state law enforcement, and immigrant communities.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 1d

Know your rights at work! Join @SALDEF on Oct 15, 8PM ET / 5PM PT for a bilingual (English & Punjabi) webinar on H-1B visa changes, ICE visits, & worker protections.
RSVP: www.saldef.org/kyr

#WorkersRights #Immigration #H1B

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d

Arab dictatorships spreading the good word all over the globe

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Scroll @scroll.in · 2d

LIVE NOW | Allegations of election fraud are everywhere. But Scroll has been ahead of the curve, reporting and analysing election fraud since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSD...

Join Shoaib Daniyal, with reporters Ayush Tiwari and Aryan Mahtta for this online event.

LIVE | Vote Chori Explained: Shoaib Daniyal in conversation with Ayush Tiwari and Aryan Mahtta

YouTube video by Scroll.in

www.youtube.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Venezuelan officials, hoping to end their country’s clash with the U.S., offered the Trump administration a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that lasted for months, according to people close to the talks.

Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict

Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease President Trump.

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 3d

The deportation of pro-democracy dissidents to their home countries is a major reversal of years of U.S. policymaking on a topic that had bipartisan support.

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

foreignpolicy.com

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 3d

Not for nothing, but Bengal is brimming with rage over this. Bengali has become a shorthand for Bangladeshi, which itself is now treated like a slur.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 3d

Many people are saying things like “Modi is learning from MAGA,” but it’s actually the other way around. This is what MAGA wants - for brown and Black Americans to become stateless in the way that Modi and Shah are trying to steal India away from its 200 million Muslims.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 3d

The BJP failed to pass the National Registry of Citizenship Act (which threatened to make hundreds of millions of Muslims stateless) and is now using these deportations as a backdoor to NRC

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 3d

Most of these people are Bengali-speaking Muslims who have long been labeled “infiltrators” by the far right in India, including the Prime Minister himself.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

In the aftermath of a deadly militant attack in Kashmir in April, authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Muslims from India, often at gunpoint. n.pr/473MnY4

India is forcibly deporting Muslims, including its own citizens, after Kashmir violence

In the aftermath of a deadly militant attack in Kashmir in April, authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Muslims from India, often at gunpoint.

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

In the aftermath of a deadly militant attack in Kashmir in April, authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Muslims from India, often at gunpoint. n.pr/473MnY4

India is forcibly deporting Muslims, including its own citizens, after Kashmir violence

In the aftermath of a deadly militant attack in Kashmir in April, authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Muslims from India, often at gunpoint.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 3d

"Asked what freedom felt like, [Alaa] said: “It is overwhelming. It is also comfortable and natural, and I am immediately fitting in with them, including witnessing three family fights in two days. The usual stuff."

Don't miss this Guardian interview: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Politico @politico.com · 5d

Republican Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt condemns the deployment of Texas's National Guard to Illinois.

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if [Gov. JB] Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration,” Stitt told The New York Times in an interview.

GOP Oklahoma governor criticizes Texas National Guard deployment to Illinois

Kevin Stitt, the chair of the National Governors Association, broke with his party in an interview with The New York Times.

www.politico.com

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 5d

El rey de pop verdad

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5d

Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are freaking out after photos emerged of Super Bowl singer Bad Bunny sitting during “God Bless America” at a New York Yankees playoff game.

MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Sits for ‘God Bless America’

The singer is causing anger among Republicans for his actions during a baseball game.

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Scroll @scroll.in · 5d

Join us for an essential online discussion on the integrity of India's electoral process, as reporters Ayush Tiwari & Aryan Mahtta join Political Editor Shoaib Daniyal to discuss how polls in India might be getting subverted.

Tune in at 4 PM on Sunday, October 12.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSD...

LIVE | Vote Chori Explained: Shoaib Daniyal in conversation with Ayush Tiwari and Aryan Mahtta

YouTube video by Scroll.in

www.youtube.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 6d

Need someone to work on a version for India too (mirror to the Pakistani one!)

Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 6d

"There are many valid reasons to oppose Western imperialism ... But real anti-imperialism is consistent. It does not choose which structures to excuse and which oppressed people to ignore. It does not sacrifice indigenous communities on the altar of geopolitics."
nakedpunch.com/the-anti-imp...

The ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Idiots: Pakistani Left Edition - NAKED PUNCH

(inspired by Leila Al Shami)

nakedpunch.com

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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 6d

"There are many valid reasons to oppose Western imperialism ... But real anti-imperialism is consistent. It does not choose which structures to excuse and which oppressed people to ignore. It does not sacrifice indigenous communities on the altar of geopolitics."
nakedpunch.com/the-anti-imp...

The ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Idiots: Pakistani Left Edition - NAKED PUNCH

(inspired by Leila Al Shami)

nakedpunch.com

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 7d

Stealing Zohran’s style but won’t endorse okay

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 7d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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