Anshu Sharma

Assam’s agenda for Muslims goes national Demolition, detention, disenfranchisement and deportation: Assam’s blueprint to marginalise Muslims is rolling out across India.

Demolition. Detention. Disenfranchisement. Deportation.
Assam’s blueprint to marginalize Muslims is going national—turning equal citizenship into a weaponized lie.
A must-read by @samar11 in @scroll_in.
#HumanRights #Assam #StopTheHate
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Harsh Mandar's article discusses the chaos caused by the Election Commission's abrupt and unprecedented demand for 89 million Bihar voters to prove their citizenship just a month before the state elections.

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Inside India’s powerful Hindu-nationalist movement A hundred years after it was founded, the RSS is getting closer to its goal of a Hindu-first state

This article explores the foundational and ideological history of RSS, the world's largest right-wing Hindu nationalist movement. With PM Modi and his BJP having strong ties to this organization, understanding its impact and influence worldwide is increasingly important.

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Zohran Mamdani won in a shocking triumph at the NYC mayoral primaries last month.

But the 450,000 South Asian voters in the city hold mixed views. Hindu conservatives oppose him, while groups like Hindus for Zohran support his pluralism.

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From exile to return, doubt to devotion —Tulsidas gave language to the human search for meaning.

On #TulsidasJayanti, may we sit with the verses that still speak across time.

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#BhaktiPoetry #HinduTradition

Government Steps Up Campaign Against Business School Diversity The Trump administration has set its sights on the PhD Project, which points underrepresented students toward business doctorates.

"The effort to dismantle the PhD Project appears to be the first salvo aimed at business schools in a broader campaign to wipe away all traces of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at every US school with federal funding."

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WSJ OPINION The WNBA and Caitlin Clark's Civil Rights If the league won't act to protect its superstar from a hostile environment, the government should do so. By Sean McLean Aug. 3, 2025 at 11:38 am ET

WSJ OPINION Ms. Clark faces a textbook hostile work environment, as the Supreme Court described in Harris v. Forklift Systems (1993), with severe or pervasive conduct altering her conditions. Statistical disparities like those she faces often prompt federal probes and lawsuits. The precedent is clear: In Texas Dept. of Community Affairs v. Burdine (1981), courts outlined disparate treatment under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, letting employees allege less favorable treatment than peers due to race-warranting investigation without direct animus. That shifts the burden to the employer to prove nondiscriminatory motive.

When I saw the headline I assumed the “civil rights” bit was going to be some clunky metaphor, but no, this WSJ columnist is sincerely urging Caitlin Clark to sue for reverse race discrimination under a hostile work environment theory www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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In Gaza Hunger is Rampant and Famine Looms Do Israel's war and restrictions on food supplies amount to genocide?

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"So, here are some people who I think have been proven right. Jehad Abusalim. Yousef Munayyer. Shibley Telhami. Iyad el-Baghdadi. Muhammad Shehada. Noura Erakat. Rula Jebreal. Diana Buttu. Rashida Tlaib."

The Dam Breaks US Discourse on Gaza Has Reached a Tipping Point. We Should Welcome Latecomers but Honor Those Who Were Right All Along

"So yes, welcome people who come to these realizations late, but also elevate and honor people who came to them early in the hopes that we won’t forever be in this cycle in which people who turn out to be right still remain marginalized and slandered and ignored."
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Netanyahu asks ICRC for help after 'profound shock' of Gaza hostage videos The International Committee of the Red Cross stated that it was 'appalled by the harrowing videos.' In response, Hamas's armed wing said it would allow the agency to access the hostages only if food a...

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The UN says 68 Ethiopian migrants were killed when a boat capsized off Yemen's coast The vessel had 154 Ethiopian migrants on board and sank in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday; 74 people remain missing, and only 12 survived the shipwreck. Hundreds of African migrants have died in recent mo...

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'White people shoot at us': Southern Brazil's Indigenous communities fight for ancestral land In Mato Grosso do Sul, a southern state bordering Paraguay, Indigenous people who tried to reclaim the lands from which they had been dispossessed face violence from large landowners. The left-wing go...

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Aid airdrops in Gaza offer little relief given overwhelming need In the face of international pressure, Israel has allowed airdrops of food aid, but the amounts delivered are a drop in the ocean compared to the scale of the humanitarian emergency. Thousands of aid ...

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YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch Let's talk about NPR and PBS as Trump closes the CPB...

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YouTube video by NBC DFW Dallas friends killed in crash near Austin during girls trip

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YouTube video by DC News Now EMT arrested for sexual assault

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Disabled woman dies due to broken wheelchair which caused fatal infection Engracia Figueroa, 51, was admitted to the ICU after a broken replacement wheelchair caused her to develop a skin ulcer that became infected and led to serious gastrointestinal issues

Reminder that damaging wheelchairs can and has killed disabled people. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

YouTube video by FOX 35 Orlando Family says airline damaged wheelchair, left disabled passenger stranded at Orlando airport

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Passenger was left sitting in her urine for hours, forced to take unsafe car ride.

YouTube video by Monte Mader Let there be no more excuses ever tolerated.

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NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so The decision will make it harder for the general public to access critical climate data.

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Solidarity, Commitment & Struggle: In Memory of Awdah Hathaleen “What are you doing in Jerusalem?” Awdah asked me.

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A “Capitalist Tool” Speaks Up for Academic Freedom BY HANK REICHMAN I’m old enough to remember when the venerable business magazine Forbes used to identify itself as a “capitalist tool.”  The publication, now run by former flat-ta…

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YouTube video by Carah Burrell Where’s Tim Ballard?

By @carahburrell.bsky.social

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YouTube video by USA TODAY A $2B NHL team seized control of youth hockey. Parents are fed up.

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‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.

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to people who don't already live here"). Same dynamics as with ethnonationalism: fundamentally right wing goal, but some treat it as left wing because they don't understand safety and solidarity and how none of us are free until all of us are free.

Imo the video is a bit too nice to left NIMBYs, many of whom have the same motivation as right NIMBYs, but either pretend they don't, or say they do and treat it as progressive (concerns about infrastructure/schools/safety/overcrowding/"we don't want to make this community accessible