Scalding

Retweets are not endorsements.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I am a lifelong Democrat who served in the Clinton administration and as a United Nations Human Rights Officer in Cambodia.

As a New Yorker, let me say this loud and clear:

Zohran Mamdani is an extreme bigot who is cynically stoking hostility toward New York’s Jewish community for political gain.

His words and actions are aggressively inciting violence and will lead directly to unnecessary deaths.

[Serge Doucet 😇🐶📖⚽️🎼 @SergeDoucet3]

Le mal de «Persepolis» est aujourd’hui chez nous(Kamel Daoud,chronique Le Point)

[Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳 @Aabhas24]

“The Samarkand Syndrome: Why Babur and family never became ‘us’”!

I write for @IndiaToday arguing why Timurids (wrongly called Mughals) never saw Bharat as home. This essay dismantles the myth that they had become Indianised post Babur.

https://t.co/feAADkAkcQ

[Lawrence Yeo @moretothat]

This is so good. I love Derek's essays.

[Kishore Subramanian @Kishore1975_]

The Satyajit Ray of Indian Politics — A First-Hand Account of Bengal’s Redemption 🧵

To the armchair critics sitting hundreds of kilometers away: your "political analysis" of Bengal is noise. I was born and raised in the heart of Kolkata. I didn't read about Bengal in a textbook; I breathed its dust, felt its fear, and watched its slow decay. This is for you.

You see videos of celebrations today and call it "unrest." You don’t understand. This is the sound of a glass ceiling shattering after 50 years of suffocation. This is the primal scream of a people who have finally broken their chains. ⛓️🔥

[Scalding @langlittt]

@libsoftiktok @mrddmia Afghans in California are doing it too

[Scalding @langlittt]

@somnath1978 He was thrown out of Ashoka but parades around with his fake statistics. Just go back to wherever you came from white savior

[sushant sareen @sushantsareen]

The banality of evil that was TMC rule 👇. If these thugs are allowed to escape, it will be grave injustice to a people who had to tolerate the jihadi jungle raj in Bengal. They must suffer what they inflicted, and worse. That will be justice. Virtue signalling can be done later.

[Siddharth Nayak @sportslawyerIND]

Even these are only fragments of what truly unfolded on the ground, especially across suburban and rural Bengal during the post poll violence. What followed was not just legal work. It was the beginning of a massive road ahead, a ticking time bomb, a relentless race against time.

[🇮🇳pramil🇮🇳 @DeeepFriedLife]

@Iyervval @ShivAroor and this more of a cumulative suffering piece by @sreemoytalukdar is equally remarkable https://t.co/ehTJ3OpDgc

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Cracker of a piece on liberal hypocrisy by @ShivAroor - Every line is a quotable quote

“when Bengal is the subject. Outrage suddenly transforms into hesitation, certainty becomes nuance. And accountability dissolves into a fog of cultural defensiveness”

https://t.co/gsgHVYsgy3

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

https://t.co/pekmX9aA9j

[Opinion Bakery @IndiaSpeaksPR]

Pitch perfect summary - not a word out of place

[Kevin Vallier @kvallier]

I want to clearly state where I think @christopherrufo has been harmful for American civic life. He has certainly done some good. My concern is that his tactics are a kind of civic poison. They salt the social earth, making trust hard to rebuild and polarization hard to reduce.

I'm part of the Ohio civics project. I left an ordinary academic job to throw myself into the work of academic reform, building institutions that serve as a counterweight to left-wing overreach. The academy is in deep need of reform. I am not a beautiful loser asking conservatives to disarm.

But this work requires being charitable to people we disagree with, and Rufo's rhetoric is not uniformly welcome among those of us doing it. Consider his own words:

"We will eventually turn [critical race theory] toxic, as we put all of the 'various cultural insanities' under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something 'crazy' in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory.'"

This isn't arguing that a view is false. It isn't trying to remove it from a curriculum. It's category construction. It has always read to me as engineered so the public can't distinguish thoughtful people who draw on CRT from crazy ones. That's not necessary to win the argument, and it corrodes the civic ground any future reform has to be built upon.

I'm not tone-policing. I'm saying what Rufo gives with one hand, he takes with the other. Many of us are doing the hard daily work of academic reform, and we do not uniformly welcome his efforts, because his tactics are too bare-knuckled and, frankly, unkind.

So to be clear: the academy needs reform. I am giving my career to that project. But I will not thank Rufo for anything as long as his rhetoric salts the earth for rebuilding trust with the left.

[Scalding @langlittt]

@USCISJoe @mrddmia But you are still bringing in thousands of Afghans.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In their Little Italy apartment and Mr & Mrs Scorsese talk with their son Martin about Italians arriving in the then Irish dominated neighborhood before Catherine Scorsese goes into the kitchen to stir her sauce.

ITALIANAMERICAN (1974)

Just wonderful.

[john speranza @johnsperanza]

@zenahitz My second degree was in film, where the program was small, the instruction was direct, and instead of random electives we had additional core literature and art history classes. The second experience made me who I am today, even though I don’t work in film.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This morning, the Greek Catholic Patriarchate issued a statement that all Easter festivities are cancelled in Syria following massacres of Christians by Islamists.

Notice how the media, podcaster class, and European leaders are completely silent.

Why?

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Zohran Mamdani’s wife hates Hindus and Indians

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Iran is attempting to put a dagger to the throat of the world economy.

We in Britain must remember what the Romans taught us: if you want peace, prepare for war.

My column in @thetimes 👇
https://t.co/PBvzfZGAc7