Salil Tripathi

As Bangladesh Votes, Few Women Are on the Ballot Parties failed to meet a modest commitment to field more female candidates, despite the leading role of women in the 2024 protest movement.

I write about the erasure of women in the Bangladesh election: foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/11/b...

#HongKong: Charging the father of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok under the national security law marks a dangerous new step in transnational repression. It is a deeply worrying sign of the lengths the authorities will go to punish and intimidate exiled activists.

Full house at the #OECD #Garment Forum on Responsible Business Conduct today.

General Manager at Pakistan garment factory on stage saying his company currently has to abide by 45 different certification standards, & spends 220 days per year under audit. Madness!
#Bizhumanrights #Sustainability

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Children ending up in the ICU.

Children trying to end their lives.

Children refusing to eat and drink because the food has worms and the water makes them sick.

Children held for 8 months or longer.

These are the kids ICE holds at Dilley.

They’re pleading to be let out.

Exit poll: Center left wins Portuguese presidency Center-left candidate António José Seguro is projected to defeat far-right leader André Ventura and become the country’s next head of state.

Projected result is a heavy defeat for the far right

Seguro 68%-73%
Ventura 27%-32%
www.politico.eu/article/exit...

Andre Ventura of Chega (change) running on anti-immigratiom slogans like "this isn't Bangladesh" and "Portugal is ours" has lost the Portugal presidential election in a landslide.

He was second on 23% to 31% in the first round but losing about 30-70 in the run-off to socialist António José Seguro

Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe? In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week’s big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement. Also, the anti-trans mob’s latest target: tight clothing.

My weekly newsletter is up. Along with the usual assortment of fascism and sadness that is this country’s news cycle, I think Sam Alito just shadow dropped his retirement announcement with his book launch.

B&W photo of man looking at camera in white shirt and tie in front of a desk with several papers on it. National parks no longer calling Medgar Evers KKK murderer a 'racist' Story by Fernando Alba • 9h Photo caption: Medgar Evers was the first national Civil Rights leader to be assassinated, according the National Parks Service © Getty Images The Trump administration has ordered the National Parks Service to remove visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Mississippi.

Medgar Evers KKK murderer will now be called a “white activist”

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Trump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself.

25th Amendment now.

I have a screen shot and a link but can’t bring myself to post either.

Exclusive | Trump Jokes About Suing Warsh if He Doesn’t Lower Interest Rates The president later said he didn’t extract any concessions from the Federal Reserve nominee.

Trump, who shared a table with Chief Justice John Roberts, said he couldn’t make jokes about him because he needed to “kiss his ass.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Amount of time devoted to the Epstein Files tonight on the Big 3 network newscasts:

ABC: 4 minutes
NBC: 2 minutes
CBS: 30 seconds

CBS was the only network that didn’t have a full report on Epstein tonight; instead, its DC reporter mentioned it at the end of her gov’t shutdown story.

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

I’m adding this 🧵 to offer more context to my comparison. Thank you for the thoughtful critique.

Black female profs still aren’t plentiful in the academy & rarely are afforded the full protections they deserve & their white colleagues enjoy. This is esp. true when it comes to academic freedom… /1

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.

Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.

With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.

Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

My feed now alternates btwn videos of brutal ICE kidnappings—kids, elderly, & pregnant folks & large protests/school walkouts.

ICE kidnapped a family & left their dog in the desert. org formed to save pets of ICE-kidnapped families rescued him. They post reels on insta hoping family might see them

Read: white xtian nationalism has willing servants in a DOJ that has a fruitful partnership with a WH spearheading a broad, resegregation project.

Without enforcement, no law will stop WH & DOJ willing to ignore courts, arrest/prosecute journalists, violate 1, 4, 8, 10, 14A rights, & murder people.

Chicago Woman Shot 5 Times By Border Agents Will Testify In Washington Next Week Marimar Martinez will speak at a federal forum on immigration agents' use of force as she fights to unseal evidence in her now-dropped prosecution.

Marimar Martinez is a hero.

She was shot 5 times by ICE.

The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire.

He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”.

DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her.

Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

A screenshot of a Twitter post from Amanda Litman showing that Taylor Rehmet spent almost 2.2 million dollars less than Leigh Wambsganss in their Texas Senate race

A noteworthy takeaway from tonight's Texas result is that the Republicans spent a metric truckload of money on this race. They spent millions more than the Democrats. The loss itself aside, this is a gigantic, flashing warning sign for the GOP's finances.

YouTube video by Missed Conversations With Rahat Beri Episode 19 - Rahat Beri X Salil Tripathi | Gandhi | Modi | Trump | History & Human Rights

My podcast with Rahat Beri about those who influenced me and what I know I can't influence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAY...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

when the feds essentially abandoned the scene today after gassing us, we saw upon returning to the intersection this pile of what we were pretty sure was alex’s coat & some of his clothes, a lighter & a crampon, with crime scene tape in it

we created the barrier to preserve likely evidence

The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal responses After ICE agents killed the nurse on Saturday, lawyers took quick action in cases challenging the Trump administration's increasingly deadly efforts.

“It is an astounding order.”

Via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/the-ice-ki...

walked around my neighborhood this evening in the subzero cold and there were so many lit candles in the snow for alex

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Former Prime Minister Liz Truss tweets that Robert Jenrick is a "trojan horse" who is "getting his orders" from some unidentified shadowy force of global conspirators