There's cattle-class justice for common citizens. Then there's VIP justice for elected representatives, that involves unleashing 80 cops in 48 hours to nab a chain-snatcher.

Trusting your lawyer can get you declared a foreigner. Falling ill as well. Not seeing a notice stuck to an electric pole? Same.

That’s how India’s citizenship trials work in #Assam. 1st of 2-part analysis on a new report

article-14.com/post/when-ci...

Efficiency Isn’t Everything Successful delivery of state services requires judgment, not chainsaws.

An overemphasis on efficiency in the delivery of state services harms democratic processes, Yamini Aiyar and Dan Honig write. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/07/d...

YouTube video by Article 14 Inside Assam’s Detention & Deportation Project: Part 2 | Article 14

In #Assam:
- 165,992 people declared 'foreigners'
- 30,115+ forced across #Bangladesh border
- 266 in detention on Jan 2025
- 31 deaths in custody
- 100+ children grew up in detention centres
- Thousands await appeals in higher courts

youtu.be/H6geUPPg4Fk

My personal pet peeve:

The Desi Hip-Hop playlist on YouTube doesn't have any malayalam rap songs.

And we wonder why Indians think of Kerala as a separate entity within India.

And so the TBR pile grows fatter and fatter. 🙈😂

Bwuhahahahahahahahahaha 🤣 This is a wild collab I never even dreamed of - CRED x T. Rajendar! Laughed really hard at VTV Ganesh's cameo 😂

Abeyaar, PTI - weren't your own "official sources" 'spreading unverified information'? 🤷‍♂️

Gaslighting by an elected leader 🙄

It my mind could scream
Even in my dream
It would still be OK
For being engulfed
In a sadness and guilt
Of being incapable
I lie in my wreath
Waiting for a genocide to end.

apocalypses are slow. we’ve been taught to expect a sudden onset, a single catastrophic event, an immediate ending. but it’s the incremental, gradual, interminable removal of all the elements that comprise a polite society.

America constantly tells teachers that they’re supposed to do it for the love of the job, not to get “rich” at 50K. But then you’ve got members of Congress making almost 200K acting like they’ll starve if they can’t do insider trading and manipulate the stock market

Field Notes: Kajal Devi & The Betrayal Of Democracy SYED ABUBAKR & SUMIT SINGH

In every train Sumit Singh & Syed Abubakr took, they met election officials scrambling to meet unrealistic deadlines to revise #Bihar’s electoral rolls. One late-night conversation between exhausted officers revealed a chaotic, struggling system

article14.substack.com/p/field-note...

Depending on the audience and the season, his blood composition may differ, I suppose.

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Episcopal Church won't resettle white Afrikaners, ends work with U.S. government www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...

What do you call people who accept a Qatari sky yacht as a freemium Air Force One?

Snakes on a plane

I keep saying that orange man didn’t win without the 3-letter people being involved and it sounds like a wackadoodle conspiracy now. Let’s see if it’s in the history books that they gave up on a pluralistic democracy in favor for white autocracy. That is, if Black people are allowed read.

Only a billionaire could be so pathetic as to call himself a man while saying that more Americans should go hungry.
Nobody is more pitiful or lazy than the rich.
The Bible is right, the wealthy are truly worthless. 🤷

this full moon is bringing a deep emotional reset

a penguin is covering its face with its hands and the word sorry is written above it ALT: a penguin is covering its face with its hands and the word sorry is written above it

Damm. I apologise.

Wanted to start figure skating 4 years ago at 38 and finally starting to see some progress on it now! I might not be learning as fast as the younger skaters, but so happy to keep going! 💪

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

1955: Whites-only water fountains

2025: Whites-only immigration.

I don't cry.. I just train my sadness to walk.

This weekend I taught my 17 yr old how to handle being pulled over by the cops. I asked a bunch of questions while she stared straight ahead and kept her mouth shut.

Aaaand there it is.

Happy 42nd Birthday, Yaya Toure! 🥳

🤷‍♂️🪄

You mean Oscar bob?