Arif عارِف (zauq.bsky.social)

From the river to the sea

[Arif عارِف (zauq.bsky.social) @medullaoblon]

A turning point for the comet. A turning point in Earth's history.

[Arif عارِف (zauq.bsky.social) @medullaoblon]

Keep an eye out for end of 2023/ start of 2024. Halley's comet will reach its aphelion.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

It has taken 16 days to even ask for this information. But why is the Supreme Court not asking for these details to be made public? Why don't we know so far how many rounds of tear gas and pellet guns were fired on students on July 20?

[Arvind Kejriwal @ArvindKejriwal]

Prime Minister of India is now fighting his own citizens. Making laws to protect himself from citizens of India. His own erstwhile cheerleaders are fast turning against him after becoming victims of paper leaks, E20 etc.

[Arif عارِف (zauq.bsky.social) @medullaoblon]

This is the crux of the matter. I couldn't have put it better.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"A revolt against the politics of accommodation is the most intimate form of revolt, against the moral world of one’s (Gen-Z's) parents. By understandably directing their anger at the Modi government, the protestors are, in a sense, giving their parents a dignified way out. The parents identify with their children. But deep down they know they also have to answer for the politics of accommodation that created this crisis in the first place".

[Colin Best @ColinBest1978]

@Jayrjiozz For those wondering what's going on here-summit 'day' on Everest starts the night before,8pm-10pm,from your high camp at around https://t.co/hih24nBddb climb through the night, hopefully summit in morning daylight and get back again to camp by early afternoon.

[ZayK | @Bombaycircuitt]

??? 😭

[MrsG @Marvellous_MrsG]

Duggal Sahab aaj salesman bane hain 🙄

[Aditi Agrawal @Aditi_muses]

This is NOT breaking news. This was done way back in February 2026. Keep up, people! Read!

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"2019 marked a new chapter for J&K" (claim) vs. "Analysis of data show that the Union government has not delivered on its promise of wide-ranging transformation in Jammu and Kashmir" (reality).

[Pradeep E @epradeep98]

A colleague spotted someone wearing this T-shirt yesterday, in a cafe.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

Trump is now filing an emergency motion to stop his own lawsuit against the BBC because the BBC is looking into his finances during discovery.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

ABHIJEET ASKS WHY BJP OPENED HEADQUARTERS BUT CLOSED SCHOOLS 🚨

BJP opened headquarters in every district after demonetisation. Meanwhile, 94,000 government schools were shut instead of repaired.

Families earning ₹40,000–₹50,000 face primary-school fees reaching ₹1–₹1.5 lakh. College seats disappear behind donations and ₹25–₹30 lakh management quotas.

Cap private-school fees. Rebuild public schools. Education is a fundamental right, not a business. 🔥

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Enough is enough. This time an 82-year-old American man has been left bloodied & injured by the IDF. And another attempt to hide evidence. This has to end.

If @USAmbIsrael can’t protect American citizens from this kind of violence, he needs to resign.

[Aditi Agrawal @Aditi_muses]

Again. THIS IS NOT NEW. THIS AMENDMENT WAS MADE AND ENACTED IN FEBRUARY 2026.

WHY ARE NEWS ORGS NOT DOING BASIC VERIFICATION OR ASKING THEIR BEAT REPORTERS?

Wait, I know the answer to that one. Because online teams of most news orgs are sovereign territories unto themselves.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

NEW: New Yorkers have started a trend of tagging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to report problems around the city and the fixes are happening so quickly that the videos are going viral.

A dangerous playground hazard was repaired after a resident wrote a letter. A pothole was filled the same day it was posted online. And ahead of this week’s heat wave, the city installed temporary water fountains in Prospect Park.

The message from City Hall: no problem is too small to fix.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

please don’t hate on this, it’s necessary for Jewish safety that we continue to dehumanize Muslims and Arabs in a country overseeing & funding the extermination of their bloodlines and mass displacement and land theft✋🏼😔

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Trump lost his temper and clashed with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at Camp David on Friday over extreme US munitions shortages that have limited US military options with Iran, with Trump demanding answers from Hegseth as he thought the munitions issue "had been fixed," per WaPo.

Hegseth defended himself by blaming his deputy Stephen Feinberg for the shortages, prompting Trump to make a "very angry" phone call to Feinberg on Friday evening, with Feinberg then hastily convening a "crisis" meeting of senior military and defense acquisition officials that night to address ways to quickly replenish weaponry.

Hegseth was one of the biggest early advocates for taking military action against Iran, convincing Trump it would be a "quick and relatively easy win," but the ATACMS stockpile is now "drained to the extent that there's basically none left" with the US having used more than 1,300 Army tactical ballistic missiles in the initial weeks alone, and it could be "years" before US inventories are rebuilt.

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

Revolutionary salute to this student 🫡
He forced the RSS-backed VC to sit on the ground 🔥

In Ranchi, the RSS-backed Vice Chancellor sat high in arrogance during a dialogue with the agitating students.

He called the striking students for talks — and made them sit on the floor.
One Adivasi student, stood his ground firmly and unapologetically and refused to accept this humiliation.

He instead raised his voice in rage for a fair and dignified treatment and forced the VC himself to sit on the ground.
Only then did the dialogue begin.

This is what student resistance looks like. This is what one STUDENT PROTEST AT JANTAR MANTAR did to Students across the nation. It gave them the most needed booster shot of resistance and the right to dissent.

No more one-sided “talks” where the powerful stay elevated and the students are made to crawl.

Salute to this student.
The days of high-handed, RSS-nurtured administrators are numbered. Back Off RSS.
The Beginning of your End is here.

#StudentProtestRanchi
#studentsdemandjustice

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Read more for what are their demands 👇

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

For the last 2-3 years, me, @AnaKasparian , and yes @TuckerCarlson, have been saying it's really important not to conflate Israel with Jewish-Americans. For that effort, we were branded antisemites. Now that @jonstewart and @davidaxelrod are saying the same thing, which I'm grateful for, this obvious point is being taken more seriously.

Did anyone come to our defense as we were trying to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters from getting tarred by all the hideous actions of the Israeli government? Yes, millions of Americans and we love them for it, including tons of Jewish activists for peace.

But did anyone in national media defend us for holding the line on that really important distinction? No, they largely helped our attackers and helped to smear us.

I think I have said this stat more than everyone else in media combined - 63% of Jewish-Americans are against the current Israeli government. So, blaming them for actions of a foreign government that they oppose is nuts. But defending the Israeli government by hiding behind those Jewish-Americans is also unacceptable.

Are we ever going to have an honest national conversation about America's relationship with Israel or is the national press forever going to smear critics of Israel as antisemites and smear Jewish-Americans as enthusiastic supporters of genocide?

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Fred Guttenberg in an effort to destroy my career just called me a "terrorist sympathizer." As he 100% knows that is a LIE. Apparently his goal is now to silence all in the media who express concern for Palestinian Christians and Muslims. Hoping people stand up to this hate:

[Aditi Agrawal @Aditi_muses]

AGAIN. NOT NEW. THIS AMENDMENT WAS MADE, ENACTED IN FEBRUARY 2026.

WHY DON’T NEWS ORGS DO BASIC VERIFICATION OR ASK THEIR BEAT REPORTERS?

Wait. I know the answer to that one. Because in most mainstream news orgs, online teams are unruly sovereign territories unto themselves.