Dilan Tulsiani

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Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time.

You can watch live on YouTube.
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Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....

‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’

Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Cuomo: I am now running on affordability.

Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.

British forces’ role in suppressing the Arab Revolt (1936-9) by training and brutalising Israeli forces to target civilians in Palestine is hardly known of in the UK:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

What was National Service? National Service, a standardised form of peacetime conscription, came into force in 1949 for all able-bodied men between the ages of 17 and 21.

1/3 The untold story behind National Service. From 1949 - 1963, two million British men did military service mainly to retain control over British colonies, because “Indian independence in 1947 meant that Britain no longer had the huge Indian Army at its disposal”.

www.nam.ac.uk/explore/what...

Imperial Mismeasurement Kemi Badenoch, The Institute of Economic Affairs and the Distortion of Colonial History[1] Alan Lester De Beers African Migrant Labour Compound, c.1886 The IEA (Institute for Economic Affairs) was …

1/3 Quick round up of blogs contesting nationalist right wing historical revisionism in last two years:

1. Slavery & colonialism were not irrelevant for Britain’s economic development:

blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...

If what Musk is posting about Trump tonight is true, it begs the question of why he was happy to sit on this information while he was in government.

I know many people are enjoying this cage fight, but what a sickening display of the morals behind this grotesque political alliance.

The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news—for now China may have met an important milestone ahead of schedule. We'll see if it persists.

China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.

But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."

from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org

Only a third of recommendations to tackle endemic racism in UK implemented Guardian analysis exposes lack of action taken despite major reports published over the past 40 years

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Brilliant job there Labour - your voters think you're anti immigration (while they're pro) and reform and Tories think you're pro immigration (while they're anti)

this is such a good article

this so unbelievably awful
i can't imagine what those parents are going through

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

“Sinners,” the new film from the writer-director Ryan Coogler, is an unabashed vampire movie—and a strange, profound spectacle, David Sims writes: https://theatln.tc/uXXvtdY6

In 2024, Paris banned cars from its city center to make room for cyclists and pedestrians with remarkable pollution reduction as a result. Earlier this year, Parisians voted to create even more car-free zones in the city.

Visual: The Washington Post

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It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art.

'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art'

Read full article here👇🏾

doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein
@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave

A clear war crime, among many.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

In 1885, in one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in U.S. history, a white mob killed at least 28 Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and burned down the town’s Chinese quarter. @michaelluo.bsky.social writes about the little-known atrocity.

How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking? English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

An estimated 1.5 billion people—roughly one in every five human beings—speak English, making it the most widely used language in the history of humanity. Some researchers worry about what we’re losing with its expansion.

The Madness of Donald Trump To Benjamin Netanyahu’s delight, Trump proposes the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the creation of a new “Riviera.”

“Morality is of no interest when there is a real-estate deal to be made.” David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s declaration that two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip.

Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

“The point is not a policy fight, it’s an execution. They are killing one agency to terrify a thousand others.” Susan B. Glasser writes about Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s takeover of the White House, and the dismantling of the U.S.A.I.D.

Many of my US friends say that they are coping by not turning on the news. I understand it and don't blame them but I guess this is also how descent into authoritarianism works - most people, understandably, just concentrating on getting by in their lives and in their local community.

Whoever claims that this Nazi salute was accidental is....mistaken.

His body language: Biting his lip. Slapping his chest. "I'm doing it! I know some of you hate it! But I love it. So there!"

David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78 With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

There was no other director like him, and it's kind of a miracle that he was able to do all the wild, weird and strange work that he did, for as long as he did, and mostly with studio money. RIP.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

young man next to a large painting of houses

David Lynch with his first painting (Christmas, 1963).

I’m watching ”Hook”—which is charming and nostalgic. With Robin Williams as Peter Pan. Perfect.

But then I remembered that Robin Williams had died.

And the movie became strangely sad and poignant at the same time.