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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 1d

The journalist who worked with a white supremacist to attack Mamdani, hates criticism of TCW, appreciated Jesse Singal attacks on trans folks, etc....also thinks Bari Weiss is a center leftist.....

Glad there is a new Bari Weiss-esque figure rising up in the policy sphere

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Pls join us in following the Global Sumud Flotilla as it attempts to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza.

It will make more noise if more people are watching on YouTube.

So far over 60,000 people are following live.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 9d

Brutal

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 9d

The current JK Rowling vs Emma Watson dispute...colorized

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 18d

Just released a new episode with the brilliant @bsonblast.bsky.social about Sudan, the perils of online activism, and ultimately about the struggle between empathy and apathy for African lives, and so much more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf71...

Getting People to Care About Sudan

YouTube video by Politically Depressed

www.youtube.com

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 15d

just doing whatever Biden and his campaign folks told her to do, which was more about protecting his legacy and reputation than actually beating Trump.

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 15d

Some of it, from what we know of the internal debates, isn't surprising since Harris was somewhat more sympathetic to Palestinians compared to Biden and his circle. Yet this partially reads as her attempt to brush of what she did during the campaign, and honestly raises questions of why she kept

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16d

"I had pleaded with Joe [...] to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians"

"But he couldn't do it: While he could passionately state, 'I am a Zionist,' his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced."

Biden response to Gaza was "inadequate," Harris says in book

It's part of Harris' larger effort in the book to distance herself from Biden after not doing so during last year's campaign.

www.axios.com

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 16d

anti-India stuff sprinkled in between. Granted this is not to downplay the shitty behavior and attitudes of some Indians, but this stuff has always been there, and the general mainstreaming of xenophobia + the success of Indians that you pointed out has made them a prime target

Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 16d

That's what annoys me about it. Besides there is a history of anti-Indian hate in the US (under anti-Asian hate with its own dynamics). I tell most folks that before 9/11 my family was perceived as foreign but "black" and after 9/11 that changed to being the "Muslim/Arab" other...with some

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 16d

For Indian-Americans, I always comment how Indians need to stop writing about Indian Americans when its clear the former does little to understand, engage, or interact with the majority of them, but goddamn do we need a moratorium?

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 16d

I can't relocate the exact post, but one progressive Indian had it because so many Hindutva Indians were anti-Palestinian, which is why Indians deserve the hate.
I might have nodded.. if so many of the comments weren't from racist far-right folks, and in the US and west, lots of desis in support

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 16d

LIke FFS, there is something to be said about the behavior of Indians that can make things worse.....but somehow Steve Bannon's favorite book about "dirty reproducing, reformed, turd eating Indians invading the white world" was caused by far-right Indians....

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 16d

The number of Indians who think anti-Indian hate started because some Indians on social media or on real life acted shitty...is literally going to make me the fucking joker

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 18d

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 19d

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 19d

South Asia has seen 3 governments fall due to mass protests in as many years. But returning to the status quo or simply holding elections isn't enough, real change is needed, @pstaniland.bsky.social on the current wave of protests impacting the region.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Why South Asia’s Regimes Keep Falling | Journal of Democracy

The government of Nepal has become the third South Asian government to collapse amid mass protests in three years. It will take more than elections to restore stability. Young protesters want to see…

www.journalofdemocracy.org

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 20d

Don't worry. He both sides the issue first

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 20d

Andrew Schultz in yet another display of his wisdom, asks whether Charlie Kirk, the person who maintained a watch list to harrass and threaten academics.....would want to cancel people

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 21d

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 26d

The ppl who support genocide, supported the violent crackdown on student protesters, supported the deportation of foreign students for op-eds, and generally ignored the killings/attempted killings of centrist + LW figures...are horrified you aren't crying about Charlie Kirk

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 26d

I know most folks here might not get it, but S-tier jokes here

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 27d

Do you ever think about how many charismatic and influential speeches/statements there have been in the world...and somehow few are as legendary as Subcomandante Marcos saying: " I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet."

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/subc...

“I Shit On All the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet”

Subcomandante Marcos “I Shit On All the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet” A letter to the Basque liberation movement ETA February 2011

theanarchistlibrary.org

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 29d

The tankies are on it, the US is backing a color revolution in Nepal to overthrow the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), in favor of the opposition parties led by the.... Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre)

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · 29d

Watching the images from Nepal are amazing. I can't believe that Donald Lu managed to organize another protest even after he left the State Department

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have to wait another day to enjoy the sadhya, but Happy Onam/Onam Ashamsakal!! #Onam

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Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social · Sep 5

Admittedly it wasn't till I went abroad or talked to people visiting the US that I realized how weird and exploitative our tipping culture is

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