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The Palak Paneer Case & The Politics Of ‘Offensive’ Food Smells From a microwaved lunch of palak paneer to a $200,000 university settlement, “offensive smells” are often less about food — and more about power. Read this seven-point guide.

Hey look, an incisive, comprehensive editorial about olefactory racism AND casteism... from Slurrp's editors. This is like a Teen Vogue moment.
Anyway, go read. Good stuff. (And send to RWA whatsapp groups the next time they complain about non-veg smells)
www.slurrp.com/article/the-...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Folk in the exam hall definitely benefited from me waiting those extra 60/90 mins. In fact some of them even got better scores.

Listen, I was there when the first afghans evacuees got off the plane at Dulles in late July 2021. But a few months later we had nice liberals in the community asking us if they could host a Ukrainian family. "What about Afghan or Congolese?"

"Oh, no thanks"

Racist fucking country, man

Sadly, she's every Trump voter: Someone who, wittingly or unwittingly, voted for their own abuser.

"The Age of Democratic Centrism Must End"

What has a useless, corrupt, ineffectual Democratic centrist done for you lately, except kiss up to the oligarchy, bear hug Netanyahu, and cave to Trump and the Republicans?

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

INDIA! So excited to come and play these shows next month. 🔥 Tickets are available at the link in bio.

Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can Build a Tech Agenda for New York and a Model for the Country | TechPolicy.Press By resisting surveillance, extraction, and exploitation, Mamdani can show how technology truly serves the people, writes Rebecca Williams.

Former FTC chair Lina Khan was just named to NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team—just one sign that his new administration will take tech matters seriously, writes Rebecca Williams. She offers a tech agenda for the new mayor to advance his campaign goals:

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

Zohran Mamdani at Yom Kippur services wearing a Kippah!

Joining him Congressman Jerry Nadler and City Controller Brad Lander.

🎶 John Brown’s body is a-mouldering in the grave…🎶

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

In 2024, the BJP won in Kundarki with an 'overwhelming majority' in the bye-poll. Muslims alleged voter suppression at the time.

scroll.in/article/1086...

Now, a Scroll’s analysis found that there was a higher rate of non-Muslim voters being added to the voter rolls and of Muslims being deleted.

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

The global far-right is making Charlie Kirk a martyr From Germany to South Africa to Japan, ultra-nationalist forces have seized on his death.

“The death of Charlie Kirk is a turning point in our fight for civilization.”

From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultra-nationalist movements have seized on Charlie Kirk's death to make him a martyr.

U may see Greta Thunberg's lifework & think "wow this kid really embodies the Christ Consciousness" but what if I told u a white German South African American man who made his riches selling the blood of young people to now fund AI war machines & turn the US into an open oligarchy said she is Satan

Look who came with

How Trump Sold America Out to His Kleptocratic Friends While the American people get saddled with the staggering cost of his trade war, the president has given the world’s worst actors the license to misbehave.

With little fanfare, Trump announced he was gutting the US's shell company registry, and undoing the biggest anti-corruption step the US had taken in decades.

If "cruelty was the point" of the first term, it's clear that, in the second term, corruption is the point.

newrepublic.com/article/1922...

People are talking past each other in a really ugly way about data sharing, and as someone who has both written terms of service for large-scale digital platforms, and built infrastructure for gathering data for campaigns, it's important to understand the context of threats people are speaking to…

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly."

They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

How Charlie Kirk practiced politics

Just so we're clear, Ezra Klein believes that practicing politics the right way is saying things like "gay people should be stoned to death" just so we're clear. Ezra Klein thinks we need more of that.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.

But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

Elon Musk calls U.S. media and schools 'racist against whites & Asians' Musk posted his comments on Twitter in response to media organizations cutting the comic strip "Dilbert" after its creator, Scott Adams, made racist remarks.

Elon Musk has made false statements about how white people supposedly face discrimination in systems where we actually have tremendous privileges for years. I have shown the facts that debunk him, so have others- but he’ll always do this it seems. www.cnbc.com/2023/02/26/e...