@ashwinivasantha.bsky.social
Legal and political theory | migration, authority, obligation, oppression and the ethics of resistance | writing a book on why immigrants should not 'integrate' www.ashwinivasanthakumar.com
"No to war... and free Palestine"
Javier Bardem
ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days.
The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished.
Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me.
My latest for @nbcnews.com
"An Afghan man who fought with U.S. forces and was legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul died this week within a day of being arrested by federal immigration officers in Texas ... The reported death would be at least the 24th in [ICE] custody this fiscal year."
Beyond appalling.
“The extended family says the father and the mother did not know that Israeli forces were there as they were in a Palestinian car,” she said, adding that this was just a family of six trying to have a normal day.
To lose one strait controlling the global oil supply may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- Oscar Wilde
“The extent of Canada’s problem with far-right extremism stared me in the face on an ordinary Wednesday night.” 🇨🇦
After The Tyee published @rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s report on a white nationalist club meeting at a Montreal gym, today she reports the fallout.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
I don’t think this is satire.
"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought:
You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another though. The process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
WHY did I have to keep going down this path? Nate Cavanaugh was part of DOGE outing Mohammed Halimi, who was exiled from Afghanistan.
DOGE accused Halimi of sending money to the Taliban through his work at the Institute for Peace.
The Taliban then kidnapped Halimi’s family.
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
Stay beaver, folks.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
Pretty sure this is not what "Keep calm and carry on" means.
Separately Colvile has the brass neck to complain about "the soft left calling us racists" after adding his own voice to the ethnonationalists "remigration" agenda.
bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
I remember seeing Jared Kushner at the Israel-Palestine “negotiating” table on the news here in Holland and it was like a slap across the face. Why the hell was he there? Why wasn’t he being mentioned? This article by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social explains A LOT. Hold on to your hats ladies & germs 🧵
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Such an incredible show. I would *love* to know where Angela Chase is now.
Daily reminders of what we’re up against, pretty much for the rest of our lives.
this is one oil depot, the US and Israel hit at least two more and a refinery, nightmare
I know what the Western press called it when Iraqis used IEDs against Americans in 2004. It wasn't an "anti-American demo."
