Muhammad Amir

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

Our government is giving $2.8 billon in bombs to Israel.

How about giving that money to the American people so they can afford food and gas?

I'm tired of this Israel first policy. It's time to put Americans first.

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

Petrol at Rs 30/litre in Pakistan sounds crazy. It is not. What is crazy is the policy failure that prevents it.

Petrol is around Rs 300/litre today, excluding government levy, here's how it can effectively be Rs 30/litre.

People do not consume petrol for its own sake; they use it to travel. The average Pakistani rides a motorbike. A fuel-efficient motorbike can travel about 60 km on one litre. An efficient electric scooter can travel about 30 km per kWh, so it needs only 2 kWh to cover the same 60 km.

What should 2 kWh cost in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the best places in the world for solar, with an all-in LCOE cost of around 5 cents per kWh. The electricity cost is 10 cents, or Rs 30/litre of distance travelled! The Rs 30/litre calculation remains the same for cars.

The 300-versus-30 gap is the cost of bad policy. It reflects billions of dollars of saving that could instead finance EV infrastructure: charging, distribution, battery swapping, and smart pricing software etc. - boosting much-needed domestic investment.

Since solar is highly modular. You do not need massive scale to get reasonable efficiency. That creates business and employment opportunities for small domestic power producers. Instead, Pakistan leaned into large fossil-fuel plants financed by dollar-denominated borrowing and guaranteed returns.

Local firms face credit constraints, but solar creates a natural collateralizable cash flow through electricity sales to the grid. With the right regulatory framework, this could have unlocked large private domestic investment, and employment.

Battery swapping is another area where small local businesses could have emerged and scaled.

Electricity enables smart pricing. When solar supply is abundant, prices can fall, and poor households and firms can shift usage to cheaper hours - automatic demand stabilization

Better air quality would mean longer, healthier lives and higher productivity. That is a growth multiplier

Green technology industries could be developed domestically with the right industrial policy, easing balance-of-payments pressure while raising employment and investment.

Instead, Pakistan chose imported-fuel power plants, protected a backward-looking domestic auto sector, and raised electricity prices by burdening them with the fixed costs of those plants and heavy taxation, slowing EV adoption. Then came the net-metering fiasco, all to keep zombie power plants alive.

Pakistan’s energy policy may be the clearest example of a broken nervous system. I hope someone fixes it, because people are paying the price, 300-versus-30

[PMS Officers Association of Punjab. @PMSPUNJAB]

ئینِ پاکستان ریاست کا ایک مقدس ڈاکومنٹ۔
پھر آئین کے آرٹیکل 240B کی مسلسل بے توقیری کیوں ؟
آئینِ پاکستان پہ عمل کریں اور صوبائی افسران کو اُن کا حق دیں۔

@MaryamNSharif
@GovtofPunjabPK

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The British people deserve the truth - and the Palestinian people deserve justice.

Join us next week for the launch of "The Gaza Tribunal: Britain's complicity in genocide".

Tickets here: https://t.co/nLEcv7kECQ

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

By the way, where did all those well-funded Western feminists, women's rights activists, and NGOs suddenly disappear to for the past three years?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Not a single person has been held accountable for their participation in genocide.

Meanwhile, opponents of genocide are sentenced as terrorists.

What kind of dystopian world are we living in? This absurdity must end. De-proscribe Palestine Action, now.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Monsters. How can you stay silent?

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

.@RepThomasMassie and I are leading the fight against military integration with Israel.

Congress was denied a vote on an amendment to stop it. Now we will fight to strip this provision in the conference between the House and Senate.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

China openly challenges Trump.

Trump: "We need two billion dollars a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."

Chinese Foreign Minister: "The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal actions against Iran; you have created a global crisis out of nothing."

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

I am deeply saddened to learn of John Esposito's passing. He was not only a towering figure in his field who has left an indelible mark on the study of Islam in the modern world. He was a great mentor. I learned much from him as I worked with him on my doctoral dissertation and then early in my career as an academic. He was compassionate and erudite and had the courage of his convictions. May he rest in peace. His legacy will live long in his many students and his remarkable scholarly production.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Tomorrow, join us on the streets of London to tell the new Prime Minister: end Britain’s complicity in genocide, now.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Three children and their parents are among at least nine Palestinians killed in Gaza today. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza in just two days.

ACLED, a US-based and funded conflict monitor, says Israel has been killing and wounding Palestinian women and children at a higher rate over the past month than at any other point in the nine months since the October 2025 “ceasefire.” ACLED says the surge in killings comes as Netanyahu faces growing domestic pressure ahead of Israel’s October elections, with polls showing the opposition in the lead.

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

Look at Sama’s little hands proudly holding her certificate.

Those hands are cold now as israel killed her. Sama was playing in front of her family's tent when the Nazi IDF killed her.

Sama was only (6).

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

In communities like Turmus’ayya, illegal settlers attack American citizens with American weapons paid for by American tax dollars.

Palestinians who live there have their homes, vehicles, and trees burned by settlers directly backed by the Israeli state. How can we support this?

[Alex Turner @Turn_Trout]

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying.

For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence.

Here's what happened. 🧵

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I’m voting yes on @RepThomasMassie’s
amendment to zero out all aid to Israel, including aid for offensive and defensive weapons like the Iron Dome.

I cannot vote for aid to a country that committed genocide and has used tax dollars to detain Americans like me.

[Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian]

Imagine the significance of what Donald Trump said about the Golan!

The President of the United States effectively reaffirmed Israel's occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights while Abu Mohammad al-Julani sat beside him without a single objection, not even a reminder that the Golan is occupied Syrian territory.

Silence at a moment like this is state policy.

When the U.S. president declares the Golan to be Israeli territory and the self-proclaimed "President of Syria" says nothing, the world is bound to interpret that silence as acceptance of the status quo.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning forests and civilian homes in South Lebanon.

Not military targets.

Houses. Entire ecosystems.

These are war crimes — carried out during a so-called “ceasefire.”

[Kevork Oskanian @DrKevorkO]

At least call it by its proper name: SUMMARY execution. - IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza https://t.co/2n1QAKyaSd

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just killed Esperanza in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, South Lebanon.

She wasn’t a combatant.
She was a school principal.

Israel dropped a bomb on her vehicle, murdering her, her husband, and her housemaid instantly.