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[shreyabong @shreyabong]

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#PalestineGenocide
#Palestine_Genocide

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[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

Jewish supremacists stormed a book event in Morningside Heights featuring Mahmoud Khalil and assaulted staff!

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Mind you, they want us to believe they’re walking around in fear and in need of protection as if they aren’t running rampant and harassing people nonstop.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Any headline that begins "Netanyahu says" is propaganda, not journalism.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the people who did this walk among us. we are rehabilitating those in the biden admin who facilitated this already. the trump admin is continuing it. the triggermen get to roam our streets and those who demand accountability for this heinous crime are treated like criminals.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

These are the means of livelihood for families, so if they're destroyed, the families will find it difficult or impossible to survive. But it's not a genocidal act. Apparently. Ahem.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Newslaundry's analysis has revealed a shocking pattern.

In the Uttarakhand voter list, all 5 individuals who filed the highest number of objections for removing voters' names from 5 assembly seats in the state are associated with the BJP.
Only Muslim voters are being targeted.
Their number of objections ranges from 230 to 4,855. In three constituencies, a single individual filed 49 to 99 percent of the total objections to removal.
Read the detailed report by @Basantrajsonu & @AshwineSingh.

https://t.co/T45qC7bHSm

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

SIR: Form-7 applications already printed with Muslim voters’ details have now been reported in Belagavi, with BLOs saying they were pressured to sign forms seeking deletion of names of people they knew well, including the Booth Level Agent himself

Read: https://t.co/RUvxQ9br6e

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Expose by @varthabharati: In a call recording, a Vartha Bharathi reporter speaks with a couple who filed Form 7 objections seeking bulk Muslim voter deletions. The husband and wife, both BJP workers from Madikeri Assembly constituency says, they received printed Form 7s from the party office and that 50 objections were filed from their booth alone.

Kannada to English Translation:

Reporter : Hello, this is Manoj from Varta Bharti head office.

BJP worker 1 : Yes.

Journalist: How many form 7s have you applied madam.

BJP worker 1: What is it about Sir?

Journalist: You had submitted Form 7 to delete other person's vote. Against how many people have you applied in your booth.

BJP worker 1: I have submitted against 10 people

Journalist: Was it because they were not staying in the village?

BJP worker 1: Yes. Hmm.. No.

BJP worker 2: We had a doubt, That's why we applied. We thought, They might have two voter ids.

Journalist: But, in the form, you mentioned 'absent', and after mentioning that in the form 7, Now you say we had doubt that they might have been registered elsewhere?

BJP worker 2: We actually had doubt if they had two votes, That's why we went to BLO and applied form 7 for our clarification.

Journalist: Ok. But the form 7 you submitted, The names were not handwritten, But it was printed right. Where did you get that printed form 7?

BJP worker 2: This was given to us by our party. From Somwarpete office.

Journalist: So in total for how many people have you both applied for deletion?

BJP worker 2: She applied against 10 people and I applied against 10 people.

Journalist: Okay. In total, how many people have applied in that particular booth?

BJP worker 2: In this booth, Against 50 people.

BJP worker 2: Is there any problem Sir?

Journalist: No no...

BJP worker 2: Is there is any problem? if so, we will take it back Sir.

Journalist: No no. Thank you.

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

The widest-reaching impact of @IndianExpress' Election Commission investigation yet.

10 days after our investigation into the rupture inside the Election Commission, the poll watchdog has told all 20 states where SIR is over to run a “special drive” to bring back voters “left out” of the rolls.

State CEOs have been told to identify voters deleted as unmapped or for “logical discrepancy” and that BLOs should go house to house to help bring them back. They will use Form 6 to apply for inclusion of such “left out” voters.

And the question added to Form 6 in July, asking whether your parents were on the last SIR roll, which one Commissioner called “unauthorised/illegal,” now applies only during the “SIR phase.”

What does that mean? In the 20 states where SIR is over, “left out” voters and first-time voters will use the plain statutory Form 6, without the question seeking details of their family’s link to the last SIR.

Reporting with @vallabhozarkarr.
https://t.co/iZJTYJCwUZ via @IndianExpress

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

She’s immediately entitled to my grandmothers home in Jerusalem because clearly she’s indigenous to Palestine and my family, which has inhabited the land since humans inhabited the region, are now foreigners because we live in an upside down world of Zionism make believe

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Yesterday, @IndianExpress reported an unprecedented rupture inside the Election Commission: TWO of its three members objecting on record, 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken without their knowledge.

Today, the second part of our investigation looks at the concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged most often: Who really controls our electoral rolls?

We followed that question to Goa, where we found something deeply concerning.

Stay with me....
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[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨Very concerning information coming in.

Both the CBI and ED are being pressured by the regime to raid close associates of the two Election Commissioners. Both of them are resisting pressure to hold a joint press conference with Gyanesh Kumar and unequivocally refute and trash the Indian Express report.

The same had happened to Ashok Lavasa. His family members were sent IT notices before he was pressured to resign.

This is completely unacceptable. The government has totally forgotten that this is post-Jantar Mantar India and the public cannot be fooled through such illegal and fraudulent tactics.

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

#ExpressInvestigation | SIR, which began in Bihar in June 2025, an otherwise routine clean-up of the rolls, has struck more than 13 crore names off the draft voter rolls in 30 States and Union Territories. This has put the Election Commission at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.

An investigation by The Indian Express reveals that questions were raised on these very issues within the three-member Election Commission itself, time and again through much of this same period. By two of the three Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, no less.

Reported by: @RitikaChopra__

Read: https://t.co/5wxH2BOWkG

[Kannan Gopinathan @naukarshah]

What I was told was that a top official’s wife’s name was there in two rolls simultaneously. One in Kerala and the other in Delhi.

When they realised it, they deleted the name in Kerala roll through backend from the database without going the legal route, through the ERO, and a ground level verification.

What was a locally verified roll is being turned into a centralised database with uncontrolled power of deletion and addition completely against the established law.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Sen. Chris Van Hollen is calling on European nations and ICC member states to impose sanctions on President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for obstructing investigations into Israeli war crimes.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

🇵🇸 🇦🇴 “We condemn the genocide against defenceless populations, the elderly, women, children, bedridden patients, health professionals, journalists, and workers of international humanitarian organisations who are often deprived of access to most basic human rights and to essential goods for life such as water, food, and medicines.

The expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands through the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank must elicit the strongest international outrage and condemnation.”

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Investigation of the year by @RitikaChopra__. We now know that the disquiet over SIR wasn’t just an Opposition concern. Election Commissioners themselves objected to some of its most alarming decisions, at one point calling it “harassment of young voters”

Gyanesh Kumar chose to sideline those objections — one of the reports in the series looks at new addition to Form 6 that required new voters to provide details of whether their parents appeared on electoral rolls from the previous SIR. This single change wreaked havoc on the ground. So many people forced to queue up and produce documents to prove their link to decades-old voter lists. It now turns out there were objections to this requirement from within the EC itself calling it illegal.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

If The Atlantic magazine is doing guilt by association, here's a pic of its owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, with Ghislaine Maxwell.

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Bengal.

The Supreme Court handed the state's SIR to judicial officers. They heard 60 lakh voters flagged for "logical discrepancies" and retained 33 lakh on the roll. Then lakh appeals were filed to get those voters (retained on the voters' list) deleted.

When the court asked the Commission to explain, Sandhu asked his OWN officers:

Has EC filed appeals against inclusion of voters?
Who authorised these?
Who filed them?

He didn't know. Joshi didn't know. Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer didn't know.

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[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

We spent months investigating the inner working of the EC.

What we found: the majority of the Commission, kept in the dark for almost a year.

Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected on record at least 14 times in 10 months, FOUR times on a single day, to decisions taken in the Commission's name without their knowledge.

Here is what they flagged:
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https://t.co/LuOZBDxKt8