Saabira Mohideen

work in progress.

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@ShanakiyanR Well worth action by an MP that will set future actions for recoveries.

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@piersmorgan You would have screamed betrayal and surrender.

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@piersmorgan Lol. Nobody whitewashes Trump like this sycophant

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@RajxSimran @rimaspeaks @EktaaRKapoor @smritiirani @BTL_Balaji Rahul in K3G had a good line about how he was made an outsider in one moment by his father. This is what she's done by this.

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@jimgeraghty Lol. We'll hear more revisionist history?

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@charliespiering Whoever told her to publish this was probably brain dead themselves

[lindsay 🙈🏳️‍🌈 @virtueemoir29]

This is long, but read if you’re so inclined. The TLDR is these “anonymous sources” are anonymous because they’re scared of her. You don’t say these things if another Harris candidacy doesn’t threaten your ideal nominee.

Every single negative (and anonymous, mind you) comment about another Harris run is coming from a former campaign staffer (so, a Biden team member), a former White House aide (so, again, a Biden team member), or political pundits/donors (which, well, we know why they’re negative toward her).

Ask yourself why these folks in particular would speak negatively of Harris. Who did she say refused to uplift her record during her VP term? Who did she say delighted in the baseless, misogynistic, racist criticisms of her the media put forward? Who did she say had no interest in defending her?

The answer is Biden insiders.

They’re trying to preemptively stymie her because they’re 1) afraid of the power she still has, 2) jealous of the attention she receives despite losing in ‘24, 3) upset she created a movement across the world when she ran in a way Biden didn’t, and 4) infuriated she used her voice and spoke against them and told her truth when they tried to prevent that from occurring by silencing her.

[Yasuni Manikkage @ManikkageYasuni]

Isn’t the Attorney General’s Department supposed to stand with this child, raped by a robe‑wearing monster??
If our justice system cannot protect children from powerful predators, what is it even for?
A truly shameful day for Sri Lanka!

[Nuwan I. Senaratna @nuuuwan]

HANG HIM & HOW DARE YOU ASK

A couple of years ago, a colleague and I were discussing a lawyer who had volunteered to defend someone accused of drug trafficking.

My colleague was outraged. Why should such a person even get a trial? Why not just hang him, along with every other trafficker? I tried the "innocent until proven guilty" argument. It didn't land.

A few days ago, we discussed a more recent case: a Buddhist monk accused of sexually abusing a minor.

The same colleague, now even more righteous, took the opposite position. Monks are above the law. The allegations must be slander. The child and her parents should be the ones prosecuted.

In the first case, due process was an obstacle to justice. In the second, it wasn't even relevant, because the accused was the kind of person who couldn't be guilty. The conclusion was decided first. The reasoning came later.

The presumption of innocence is a constraint on the state, not a verdict on character. It applies to the suspected trafficker so he gets a fair trial, not so he walks free. It applies to the monk for the same reason, not because his robes make the charge impossible.

And it has a counterpart people forget: the accuser also gets her day in court. Deciding in advance that a child and her parents must be lying isn't reverence for the law. It's the same mob instinct as the gallows, just pointed the other way.

A country that doesn't teach this ends up with two kinds of verdicts: 1) hang him, & 2) how dare you ask.

#SriLanka

[Himal Kotelawala @himalkk]

Let's say for argument's sake that the conspiracy theory that members of the former regime is working behind the scenes to sabotage this government. Okay. What is the government, with its huge mandate and the entire state apparatus at its disposal, doing about it besides whining?

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@MaliniP @arivalayam @INCIndia Isn't the alliance at the centre vs local dynamics different. It seems to benefit having two options useful if the larger point is to get BJP out of the way

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

West Bengal election results are the most disappointing of all.

A state that was once regarded as the intellectual and cultural capital of the country trusted a right-wing populist party for 15 years and ultimately voted the fascists to power.

Truly a sad day for India.

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@ANI Open hatred while promising so called change

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@HinduAmerican @POTUS Hahaha 😂

[Saabira Mohideen @saabs123]

@raghav_chadha Shame on you for selling out.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

The @UN Resident Co-ordinator in India, @stefan_priesner, writes about the indispensability of multilateralism in tackling the world's problems, which are not amenable to being resolved by individual countries but require cross-border co-operation. A fine and timely appeal, at a time when the multilateral system is beleaguered as never before: https://t.co/C3kBUENzFv

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa. Here, in #Algeria, the maternal love of Lalla Meryem gathers everyone as children, within our rich diversity, in our shared aspiration for dignity, love, justice, and peace. In a world where division and wars sow pain and death, living in unity and peace is a compelling sign. #ApostolicJourney

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Killing diplomatic representative who come to negotiate was a practice morally abhorred by 5,000 years of civilization. But now--after the last month's wanton killings of leaders--it seems to have become accepted as a normal practice.
The descent into extraordinary barbarism is extraordinarily rapid.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It's astonishing that you, a world leader who many respected for standing up to an illegal attack on your country, now support an illegal attack on another country. It completely kills your credibility.

Right now. Iran is Ukraine. You may not like to hear that but that is a fact