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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…
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.
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.
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?
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
Trump’s working for #BigOil & #BigPharma at our expense.
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
Your scheduled reminder that Obama built the deportation machine for Trump. Obama expanded ICE by 3400%. Obama ordered the infamous ICE night raids that dragged mothers and children from their beds and deported them back to violence in Central America.
kansascity.com/news/politics…
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
I know we're supposed to be in the shock and awe phase designed to chill us but the Secret Service claiming to be ICE so they can get to an 11 year old that posted mean about the President is...pretty shockingly awful and chilling
UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said.
Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. buff.ly/40pnfb0
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
love that democrats spent the entire election telling arab american voters in michigan that their votes don’t matter the way the rest of their democrat voter base does, and now those same arab american voters are being blamed for election results.
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
I find it horrifying that Democrats lost a winnable election because they refused to stop sending bombs to blow up children overseas.
I find it horrifying that human lives are just a talking point, not precious. “Funny”.
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
Incredible to watch the decline of the west in accelerated real time and realise they are doing it entirely to themselves
NEW - China vows to support World Health Organization after US withdrawal
insiderpaper.com/china-vows-…
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
NEW: Trump signing an order to exit the Paris Climate Accord yesterday is "reprehensible," says IPS scholar @BasavIPS. “He and his administration do not care about cooperative global action to avert climate catastrophe.”
@dharnanoor in @GuardianUS: theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
Basav Sen @basavsen.bsky.social retweeted
I am physically unable to apply for TT jobs or ask for letters of rec in this climate. I just want to teach from a chalk board, assign physical books and see students’ annotations, discuss it under a tree. I will NEVER incorporate AI into a humanities pedagogy, it is incompatible