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Salil Tripathi
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Writer of books / drinker of coffee / hater of cilantro /

Senior advisor - @ihrb.bsky.social / Senior associate - @cisl.cam.ac.uk / Contributing editor - @indexoncensorship.org, Singapore Unbound / Board member - PENinternational.bsky.social
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#India: We welcome the imminent release of academic Hany Babu following the approval of his bail application. Detained without trial for over 5 years, this ruling recognises the grave injustice he has faced.

Learn more ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/india-a...
India: Academic Hany Babu’s bail hearing to take place after five years in jail without trial — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Update (4 December 2025) : The Bombay High Court has granted bail to Hany Babu, following his application on the basis of his prolonged detention without trial. Following the completion of formalitie...
www.pen-international.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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leahfeiger.bsky.social
NEW: You've read a lot about immigrants kidnapped, forcibly detained, and held in ICE facilities -- what about the immigrants *trying* to leave the country? Turns out its wildly difficult for them too.

don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:
The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit Show
The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money. But some immigrants say it’s been nearly impossible.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
'Hegseth relayed the plans in a private Signal chat set up to coordinate the strikes on the Yemen-based Houthi group, but stripped the classification markings, according to a second person.' www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Pentagon’s Signalgate Review Finds Hegseth Violated Defense Department Regulations
The Defense Department watchdog also stated that as Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth has the authority to declassify information.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
'the Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands' www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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anjalienjeti.bsky.social
Goodness, I love this family.
Mamdani Family Values
Mahmood Mamdani, Zohran’s father, just published his twelfth book. The subject? Dictators.
www.newyorker.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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indexoncensorship.org
As the Battle for the Soul of Europe begins, @martinbright.bsky.social speaks to organiser #FrankFuredi about free speech, his institution’s links to Viktor Orbán, & its funding from a Hungarian oil company which imports Russian oil under an EU exemption: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/12/fran...
Frank Furedi: The new face of right-wing free speech - Index on Censorship
Index talks to the director of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium which is hosting a conference this week entitled the Battle for the Soul of Europe
www.indexoncensorship.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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joemenn.bsky.social
Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?

HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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somoamsterdam.bsky.social
🚨Exposed: how a secretive alliance of US companies is working to tear down the CSDDD.

They:
- Aimed to get “the most extreme position” in the European Parliament
- Worked to mobilise pressure from non-EU countries
- Paid for a think tank report

Full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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neilpollyticks.bsky.social
Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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shashj.bsky.social
'After an October 6 strike also left survivors, the military did not follow up with a “double-tap” strike like it did on September 2. Instead, it rescued the men and sent them back to their home countries.' edition.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p...
6 big questions about the Trump administration’s boat strikes controversy | CNN Politics
For days, President Donald Trump and his allies pilloried half a dozen Democrats for their video that urged troops to disobey any potential illegal orders from the administration
edition.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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shayan86.bsky.social
Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.
Avoid this place in London! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3LLq2Z5e8 Avoid this place in London! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3LLq2Z5e8
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee - vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation.

Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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dinyarpatel.bsky.social
A recently discovered album of photographs from 1930-1 shine new light on the Civil Disobedience Movement, demonstrating the scale of female participation and leadership. My article in BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...
India freedom struggle: The hidden heroines found in long-lost photographs
Newly found photos highlight women’s key role in Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement against British rule.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘Jean-Marie Le Pen was himself a torturer in Algeria. He didn’t like the term “torture”: “French soldiers shouldn’t be embarrassed about what they did.” Often enough, they weren’t.’

Alexandra Reza on the Rassemblement National and France’s new immigration bill

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Alexandra Reza | Death over a Low Heat
On 30 October, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National introduced a bill to revoke the 1968 accord and put Algerian...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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tracyquannyc.bsky.social
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes... When zero was new and different.
Shakespearean Numbers | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
The new @theobserveruk.bsky.social app is pretty. pricey.
Observer app Monthly sub £15.99 Annual £143.99
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants "on a massive scale." The man identified as the suspect was said to have worked with the C.I.A. and fled Afghanistan in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a program born after the sudden fall of the Afghan government in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces and the o Taliban took control of the country. The suspect received asylum from the U.S. government in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
“My name is Inigo Monturkey. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
A turkey holding a photoshopped sword stands in a grassy field.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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nicolaspurr.bsky.social
This tower block fire in #HongKong is terrible, with so many painful resonances to the #Grenfell fire.

Police have already arrested 3 people involved with the Hong Kong buildings & seized documents & evidence. Grenfell survivors still waiting for justice.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Hong Kong fire: what we know so far
Dozens are confirmed dead, with hundreds more missing, after fire broke out and spread quickly via bamboo scaffolding
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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bradheath.bsky.social
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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shashj.bsky.social
Any attempt to court martial a political critic for a factual statement is an outrage. But the way Kelly et al made their intervention not ideal & potentially dangerous. No good telling troops they can refuse illegal orders without explaining risks of doing so & complexities of judging lawfulness.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM