@queerindia
Libertarian from India. Free speech champion. Gay rights advocate. Linguaphile Image credit: Edmund Burke. AZQuotes.com, Wind and Fly LTD, 2023. https://www.azquotes.com/quote/41748, accessed September 10, 2023.
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Israeli operations are pushing tens of thousands of West Bank Palestinians like Lutfi out of their homes, says B'Tselem, the independent Israeli human rights information centre for the occupied territories. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
In the student deportation case in Boston, lawyers elicited testimony that ICE officials relied on anonymous groups with links to the Israeli far-right, including the Canary Mission and Betar, to supply the names of the students they ended up investigating and feeding to the State Dept.
From minimum wage hikes to bans on cellphones in public schools, here are some of the most ridiculous ways state governments are interfering with Americans’ lives.
Latest: A DOJ inspector general report found that a federal inmate had to have one of their limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days.
Another died after being pepper sprayed and left in a restraint chair for hours reason.com/2025/07/02/a...
Instead of banning them, the U.S. should welcome immigrants and travelers who flee oppressive governments. It poses little security risk to the U.S., can massively help those who escape, and may even promote freedom in the countries they flee.
In 2018, Trump hailed a trade deal with South Korea as "fair and reciprocal" and said it was "a historic milestone in trade." So much for that.
Mr PM won’t even host a press conference so impossible to get any answers to these questions open.substack.com/pub/prempani...
Happening tonight : #India #Pakistan open.substack.com/pub/southasi...
In the three years since Ron DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s universities of woke ideology, my campus changed significantly. Professors suddenly worried about what they could say and teach. Some started avoiding terms like “racism.” One student recently told me that when someone used “intersectional” in class, the instructor told her not to use that word.
One colleague told me that he stopped assigning an article about lynching and white evangelicalism for fear that those terms could raise red flags. Another said she was censoring her language not just in class and on campus but also on personal social media. Several professors have been subjected to efforts at entrapment. Last year a man posing as a student tried to encourage Muslim faculty members to criticize Mr. DeSantis and Israel. A similar incident happened to me. In October 2024 my department chair called me into his office to tell me that someone claiming to be a student in my Religion and Science class had complained that I spent 20 minutes talking about specific candidates, including who I was voting for and why. I was stunned. That never happened in that class or any other; it is antithetical to the way I teach. Fortunately
Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
Yup, that’s just the thing. The news blackout is getting widened. Already, reporting in Indian media has an entirely different look from what’s being reported elsewhere. Now all Indian media will also look alike.
Oh wow, Indian government has just blocked The Wire (Indian liberal news portal). Still accessible via VPN though.
A month ago they were ready to wipe out all Muslims from India; for 1000s of years they've been persecuting Dalits; and today, they showed they won't care a bit about people living on borders, even on the Indian side. It's just pseudo-machismo and fanning hatred. That's Hindutva.
#Pride #Amritsar #India #intolerance #Sikhism www.babushahi.com/view-news.ph...
“Becky says America isn’t the country she thought it was. Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?””
Their deflection from the dangerous security breach on Signal was that the mission was "an enormous success"
But even that isn't true.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
I've watched this video several times and each time it's more horrifying, showing what Trump is turning this country into.
All she did was co-author an article for the college paper. A brutal assault on free speech and human rights.
🏳️🌈 We are urging star like Chappell Roan, Emeli Sandé & Alanis Morisette to boycott Hungary over its Pride ban. When a country bans love, visibility, and protest—silence is not an option. Speak up, stand out, stay proud. ✊ #BoycottHungary
Elected officials in power in India are literally saying "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to insult those in power".
Like we are already at that stage where they are questioning the very core logic of freedom of speech!
😡 “Bullied, attacked, and abused.” LGBT+ Cameroonians are facing a massive crackdown on their rights—persecuted simply for existing. The world must speak out. 🚨🏳️🌈 #StopTheHate
🏳️🌈 Trump resistance is becoming more visible! A 200-foot rainbow banner was unfurled at the Capitol in defiance of GOP bans on Pride flags. They can legislate hate, but they can’t erase us. ✊✨ #Resist
Leaders from 29 Commonwealth countries that criminalise #LGBT+ people were met with boos and jeers as they arrived at the #Commonwealth’s annual service at Westminster Abbey in #London #UK
Despite violating the human rights provisions of the Commonwealth Charter, they were welcomed!
Shame!!
😡 It’s taken Trump less than 2 months to reach this low! The US is now officially classified as a threat to human rights & democracy. The decline is rapid & deliberate. 🚨 #Resist
Thoughts please!
Can’t – as they say – make this shit up.
