Kuldeep

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

- S. mcnutt

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

“Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can’t read anymore, write.”

- James Baldwin.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

गाड़ियाँ शास्त्रीय संगीत में हॉर्न बजाएँगी और मीडिया राग दरबारी में।

[Anurag Minus Verma @confusedvichar]

Such is the societal pressure that on the result day even people who have never appeared for UPSC exams feels a strange kind of guilt for not being able to clear the exam.

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

This is why the world needs more women leaders - Mia Motley, Prime Minister of Barbados at the UN “Who will stand up for the rights of weak and poor?”

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Police want us to call them "law enforcement" because it suggest neutrality. But police only enforce *some* laws against *some* people in *some* places. A better term would be "wealth protection agents" or "selective enforcement bureaucrats." Let's brainstorm new names:

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

Those who say caste doesn't matter anymore in India must compare the reactions of civil society and media in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case in 2012 and the Dalit girl's rape and murder in 2021!

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

If cops prevented harm, we'd be the safest society in world history. No one has ever spent more on cops, weapons for cops, and prisons. And yet the cops and media keep telling you how unsafe we are. (6)

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Thread. Despite the fact that police ignore most crime and have nothing to do with preventing most harm, the media relentlessly links cops to "public safety." Why? Answering this question changed my life. (1)

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

Differences between declared emergency & undeclared emergencies are many:
While declared emergency was time bound, constitutional, & non-democratic, the undeclared emergency has no time limit, unconstitutional, non-democratic, majoritarian, anti-science & it destroys the country.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Ninth, this idea of “soaring” crime after a few dozen more shootings w/o reporting how many people died from unstable housing, lack of access to healthcare, race-based pollution, or malnutrition is how elites keep us focused on solutions of control and profit and not liberation.

[Pieter Friedrich @FriedrichPieter]

No State based on religion or a religious grouping has a right to exist on this Earth.

[Pieter Friedrich @FriedrichPieter]

“We can say without any iota of doubt that the only ‘crime’ that Hany Babu committed was an unwavering commitment to the Ambedkarite cause of anti-caste struggle and social justice.”

https://t.co/nLCOx2ww9t

[Pieter Friedrich @FriedrichPieter]

Architecture as propaganda, he noted, is often used “to give a good face to a fascist regime.”

Lately, the regime needs a facelift — and it’s lashing out at anyone who points out the obvious.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

On April 28, 1967 Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam.

“I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We've been in jail for 400 years.”

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words to express it.”

                                  George Orwell, 1984.

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

Populist dictators in semi-democracies have turned the country's Election Commissions into Reelection Commissions. The Election Commission's only task becomes to hold elections to reelect the leader so he can claim to have popular support for his dictatorial actions.