Akarsh | آکرش | आकर्ष| 🍉

Cogito ergo sum.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Liverpool FC is top of the table, but not of a league to be proud of.

A 4-2 pasting at the hands of Aston Villa on Friday night affirmed the Reds’ mediocre season on the pitch. But, according to campaigners, Liverpool is number one in complicity in the Gaza genocide.

War on Want have published a league table of Premier League clubs’ ties to Israeli actions in Palestine.

Liverpool are ahead of north London rivals Arsenal and Spurs in joint second place.

Man United and Man City are tied in third place while the fourth spot is shared by Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton and Fulham.

The league table is part of a report entitled Red Card: English Premier League Complicity in Israel’s Atrocities Against the Palestinians. The report says at least 15 Premier League sponsors have connections to the military assault on Gaza, the construction of illegal settlements and the wider system of apartheid.

Liverpool’s shirt sponsor, Standard Chartered, provided $15.4bn (£11.5bn) to 24 complicit businesses between January and August 2025.

The Premier League itself is sponsored by Barclays bank, which the report says has provided billions to 49 complicit companies.

Neil Sammonds, senior campaigner on Palestine at War on Want, said: “These clubs speak proudly about equality, inclusion and community. Yet behind the branding, some are using ‘sportswashing’ to sanitise corporations connected to some of the gravest crimes and humanitarian catastrophes of our time.

“Palestinian footballers are being killed. Stadiums are turned into detention camps. Child players are buried beneath rubble.

“The Premier League has shown before that it can act when sponsorship becomes morally toxic. The question is why Palestinian lives appear to count for less.”

[Akarsh | آکرش | आकर्ष| 🍉 @sinha_akarsh]

@sagalesbus Thank you. 🙌🏽Got the bus. Running late 5-7 mins.

[Akarsh | آکرش | आकर्ष| 🍉 @sinha_akarsh]

@sagalesbus hello, is e12 service Barcelona-Vic running today?

[Dr Ankita @AnkitaGiggles]

Bhagat Singh understood these people very well.

[Dushyant Arora @atti_cus]

1. What has happened is, that these people, mostly young muslims, participated in, and led the anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protests. Millions of Indians did, across identity markers. The Muslims currently in prison were some of the fiercest, most eloquent, educated ones.

Their participation gave the impression that Muslims have civil and political rights. That they can lead socio-political movements, participate in the noise and the democracy. This is dangerous, and their actual crime.

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imaam denied bail again.

[Repost from 4/9/25]

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I do use Zomato and Swiggy services occasionally. But I find this really dark.

"When delivery partners' children, supported by stable incomes and education, enter the workforce and help transform our country at scale."

1. Feels like a Zamindari system where the children are also dragged into becoming exploited employees.

2. If they have stable incomes and education, why should they choose to work 12 hours a day to earn 400-600 rupees, delivering food for other people where there is no room for professional/career growth? Has any gig worker in Zomato ever become an executive or manager in due course? (educate me if I am ignorant here).

3. How does serving more chicken biriyanis and paneer butter masala help transform our country at scale?

IMHO, whatever this man says is excruciatingly nauseating.

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

#NepalProtests

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

This week’s comic for @thenewsminute

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Thank you @nytimes for doing what execrable GodiMedia do not have the courage to do.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

A democracy where dissenters are jailed indefinitely without trial. What a shameful place has India been brought to.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Bail is the rule. Jail is the exception.

Except when it comes to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam.

[The Polis Project @project_polis]

Demolition notices in India are backdated. Court orders are ignored. People are left homeless overnight. How is this legal?

https://t.co/gKyBbI5k9i

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

Back in the day.

[Hussain Haidry @hussainhaidry]

Hindustan mein bahut saare pradesh hain. Kisi na kisi pradesh ke election har saal honge hi. Har election mein humaara qatl-e-aam karenge kya? Humaari jaan ka collateral damage normalise ho gaya hai ab? Aap apne jaati/ekta ke maslon ka khud reform kariye, humein kyon maarte hain?

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Don’t let Gaza become background noise. Don’t normalise this genocide.

[Dr Prital Patel 🍉 Prital.Bsky.social @prital_]

The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

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'Dusting Off the Male Gaze' #WomensArt
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