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Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
🎙️ EVENT: Responding to the planetary polycrisis will require intentional thinking on the balance between humans and nature.
TOMORROW, join IPS scholar @BasavIPS and Dr. Madhulika Banerjee for a unique discussion on this pluriversal knowledge.
Register: ips-dc.org/event/politics-of…
It's imperative that @SenBillFerg act now to pass the MD Values Act (HB1222) to protect all Maryland residents from our increasingly lawless and reckless federal immigration enforcement system.
🚨 With one day left in MD’s session, President @SenBillFerg is holding the MD Values Act (#HB1222)—a bill that would END 287g, allowing cops to become ICE agents.
The House has done its part. We believe in your leadership and values @SenBillFerg. Now is the time to act.
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
Britain has plundered & pillaged the four corners of the earth for centuries, London the fulcrum of both the Atlantic slave & eastern Opium triangles; now in a world of cascading crises with ordinary people facing destitution, famine, climate catastrophe they want to build a wall
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
A large anti-ICE protest in San Diego escalated into clashes with police after streets were taken over and an unlawful assembly was declared. Perhaps the first major protest escalation under this new regime. Love to everyone who turned out.
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Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
Another big stick we have: Canadian airspace.
Airlines in the United States use it all the time while en route to destinations all over the world.
Perhaps we should hit them with a big fee that makes travel unaffordable for millions of Americans.
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
"On the one hand, we're a minority in this country, and we remember the racism, the white supremacy, the xenophobia, the bigotry that we experienced during Trump's first term in office in 2016 onwards, and we've already gotten a taste of that in these last few weeks with this really vile wave of anti-Indian racism, both online and offline, that we've seen from the MAGA movement amid this controversy over H1B visas for tech workers..."
"At the same time, though, we've also seen a growing segment of our communities, in the Hindu American community in particular, that is increasingly right wing, or even far right, and that is aligning itself at embracing the Trump administration and its MAGA agenda in ways that we at Hindus for Human Rights find deeply concerning and very short sighted."
Savera and @Hindus4HR organizer @p_somayajula was recently featured on the BBC! Read and listen further here: hindusforhumanrights.org/en/…
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
don’t make me tap the sign again!
ALT an old tweet of mine that reads: “saying this makes ppl mad, but the passage of the IRA has empowered soft climate denialism among the liberal wonk set. outsized focus on clean energy infra crowds out any talk of drawing down FFs, adaptation, etc. ‘bridge fuels’/‘the market will fix it’ are all the way back.”
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
This tweet represents exactly why the US is failing on climate. The Democratic elite thinks the IRA did "what the climate movement asked."
It displays no understanding of the science. No clear view of the political dynamics. Rather low-key climate denial and outright complacency
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
#Cuba rejects the decision of the United States to use the Naval Base in Guantánamo to imprison migrants.
The space proposed for the detentions is a portion of Cuba's territory, which remains militarily and illegally occupied against the will of the Cuban nation.
This is Exhibit A in how we don't have a real opposition party in the US. Here's a so-called opposition legislator saying his party was better at fascism than the fascists.
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
This Democratic Senator is saying that Trump isn’t deporting enough people. This isn’t opposing fascism, it’s encouraging it.
ALT Chris Murphy: In the first week, Trump removed 7,300 people. On average, Biden was removing 15,000 a week. Under Biden 72% of ICE arrests were criminals. Under Trump it's dropped to around 50%. Trump is removing less people and less criminals. These guys are terrible at everything.
Good. Hopefully his confessions in the book can be used as evidence against him in the Hague.
Antony Blinken signs book deal on his years as Joe Biden's secretary of state
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Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
Not to reissue deference politics in a different guise but for anyone saying organizing working class people supposedly entails adopting the Right's position in the culture wars, I want to know. What was the last campaign you organized? Meeting you went to? Comrade you recruited?
Let them eat religious rituals, said Prime Minister Narendra "Marie Antoinette" Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invoked the Hindu goddess of wealth to elevate India’s poor and the middle-class trib.al/jIt9VfJ
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
We are disgusted by Trump's reported plans to continue his violent crusade aimed at gutting freedom and democracy with an Executive Order today calling for the deportation of non-citizen anti-war activists, with a particular focus on students. 🧵
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
Days like this happen and Dems tell us they can’t pass a minimum wage increase and can’t cancel student loans and can’t declare a climate emergency
THIS is what our joke of a federal legislative branch wastes its time on?
Senators negotiated into the night over a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, ahead of a critical vote to advance the legislation today.
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This clueless hack can't tell the difference between a "technology of the future" (as he calls it) and a technology that will destroy any possibility of a future by using too much energy & water in the midst of climate catastrophe (what it really is).
The DeepSeek announcement from China has been called by some AI’s “Sputnik moment” for America.
It’s precisely why I made AI a top priority in the last Congress and will keep at it.
Our competitors are going to use every single opportunity they get to overtake the US’s lead on the technologies of the future.
We have to lead the way.