Meenakshi Pandeya

Khaake dare janana kya hai, ehle dil ki aankh ka surma.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Your periodic reminder that Quentin Tarantino is not a good guy.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Vladimir Putin couldn't deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly due to ICC arrest warrant, but Benjamin Netanyahu can deliver his speech at the UN even with ICC arrest warrant! How much Zionist lobby have control over the UN and US.

This world has completely lost its meaning

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.

The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.

HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.

Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
(1/10)

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Classic AOC:

She proudly tells TMZ on cue that she won't listen to Ed Sheeran's music anymore because of his cowardice on Israel.

But her candidate for House Speaker is Hakeem Jeffries, AIPAC's most loyal soldier who funded, armed and defends Israel's genocide.

Few are better at feeding gullible fans vapid, cheap and meaningless culture war slop, while doing the exact opposite when it actually matters.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Vinay Kumar Dokania @VinayDokania]

Reality of the GDP numbers

[Paul Koshy @Paul_Koshy]

THIS is the MOOD OF THE NATION.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I call on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to cancel the Madison Square Garden event featuring Mohan Bhagwat, one of the most prominent and dangerous leaders of far-right Hindu fundamentalism in India.

Bhagwat is the so-called supreme leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which was founded in 1925, and is the hardline, ideological backbone of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party. From its early days, the RSS modeled itself after Nazi Germany and continues to base itself on fascist ideas, violence against Muslims and other minorities, and oppression of working people.

Since Modi came to power in 2014, India has seen horrific escalation of mass repression and violence in regions such as Kashmir, and increasing attacks on Muslims, oppressed-caste communities, and working and poor people as a whole. The BJP-RSS leaders and the billionaire class in India have built close links with the genocidal and apartheid state of Israel. Israeli Pegasus spyware has been used to carry out shocking levels of surveillance of Indian activists, public officials and independent journalists.

By refusing to use his Mayoral position to cancel the event and condemn Bhagwat and the RSS, Mamdani is failing to stand with Muslims and other oppressed communities in India and with the Palestinian people. Modi's right wing regime has gone even further down the road of authoritarianism than Trump, and it is the responsibility of socialists to take a stand against it.

During my decade as the lone socialist on the Seattle City Council, I used my office to build movements to win the nation’s first resolution condemning anti-Muslim, anti-poor citizenship laws by Modi and BJP-RSS. I also won the first and only ban on caste-based discrimination outside South Asia. The Modi regime is retaliating against me by refusing to grant me a visa to visit my mother and family in India.

I thank Hindus for Human Rights @Hindus4HR, the Indian American Muslim Council @IAMCouncil, and other organizations who are demanding that Mamdani shut down Bhagwat’s event.

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

Sign petition — Zohran Mamdani: Stop Nazi-Inspired RSS From Occupying Madison Square Garden: https://t.co/d1lHzseF0t

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇮🇳 🇺🇸 More Than 1,000 Americans Call on U.S. to Deny Visa to Hindu Nationalist Leader

More than 1,000 people across the United States have urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to deny or revoke a visa for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat ahead of his scheduled August 29 appearance at Madison Square Garden, according to the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC).

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended visa restrictions and asset freezes targeting RSS leaders in March, citing the Hindu nationalist organization’s involvement in “acts of extreme violence and intolerance” against religious minorities. Bhagwat was also the RSS general secretary during the 2002 Gujarat massacres. Human Rights Watch named the RSS among the groups “most directly responsible” for the anti-Muslim violence, which killed some 2,000 people.

“Mohan Bhagwat does not represent Indian Americans, and Madison Square Garden should not present him as though he does,” IAMC President Mohammed Jawad said. The group is also asking the venue to cancel the event and New York officials to condemn it.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

This will break your heart and shake you out of your privileged space! 💔 😿

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Make this go viral.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

2 weeks before migrants from Morocco invaded Ceuta, the GOP passed a bill with $40 million for Morocco and a committee report advising:

Spanish-administered cities of Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory and remain the subject of Morocco's longstanding claim.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Gen Alpha in Badmer Rajasthan.
Demanding basic school facilities.
✊️

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Men and women of law, you will never hear a better exposition of the Constitution than this.

[Ajit Anjum @ajitanjum]

चीफ जस्टिस के एक बयान से पैदा हुई कॉकरोच जनता पार्टी ने मोदी सरकार की चूलें हिला दी . 12 सालों में पहली बार एक आंदोलन ने एक मंत्री का इस्तीफा लेने के लिए मोदी को मजबूर कर दिया .
देश भर में युवाओं के समर्थन ने इस आंदोलन को इतना विराट रुप दे दिया कि मोदी की सत्ता हिल गई . अगर आज इस्तीफा नहीं होता तो अगले दो तीन दिन इस सरकार पर भारी पड़ने वाले थे . पता नहीं कितनी बड़ी तादाद में भागीदारी हो जाती .
यक़ीनन ऐसे आंदोलन की पहल और शुरुआत करने के लिए @abhijeet_dipke बधाई के पात्र हैं . उनके सहयोगी @SauravDassss और @AshutoshRanka जैसे लड़कों ने लीड लेकर इतिहास बना दिया है .
सोनम वांगचुक का अनशन पर बैठना , सरकार का उन्हें जबरन उठा ले जाना फिर जंतर मंतर पर लाठी चार्ज . इन सबने मिलकर देश के लाखों युवाओं को जगा दिया .
देश की युवा शक्ति को नमन है .

[urmilesh @UrmileshJ]

सचमुच! साहस, समझ और धैर्य, तीनों इसके पास हैं!

[Vijender Chauhan @masijeevi]

जब लोग पूछते हैं कि आप क्यों शिक्षक होने पर ऐसा गुमान करते हैं ? तो नेहा @neha_aisa की इस तक़रीर को सुनिए. हमें शिक्षक होने पर गुमान होता है क्यों ये प्रोफेशन हमने मौका देता है कि हम इस देश समाज को नेहा जैसे युवा तैयार कर दे सकें. हफ़्तों के अनशन और सरकारी दमन के बावजूद इस बहादुर लड़की को पता है कि इतिहास किसे कैसे दर्ज करेगा.
मोर पॉवर टू यू कॉमरेड ✊

[Ranvijay Singh @ranvijaylive]

प्र‍ियंका गांधी ने मीड‍िया वालों को तगड़ा हड़काया है

[Surya Samajwadi @surya_samajwadi]

नेम प्लेट हटा दो अपने क्यूँकि सरकार तुम्हारे नाम भी मिटा देती है मरने के बाद

हमने देखा ऑपरेशन सिंदूर में जो सैनिक मरे थे उनका नाम ही मिटा दिया सरकार ने

हम वो लोग है जो आपकी प्रशंसा करते है और आप लोग हमे पीटते है।