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Gyanesh Kumar would’ve never let this happen to Trump.
#JustSaying
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We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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In rest of the world, journalists ask questions to the leader in power; in India, journalists ask questions to the leader of opposition. A bunch of third rate jokers!
Street-fighter to 2029 challenger?
The 12 questions Rahul Gandhi must answer first…
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Sanyal, Dreze is worth 100 of you. A far far far better economist than you, with your supplicant mediocrity, would ever be. And an infinitely better human being who’s done more for India than you or ideological forefathers have ever done.
His work was funded by Ford Foundation and McArthur Foundation. How many million years would it take to those "100 workers" to match billionaires like Henry Ford and John McArthur? Or is this calculation meant only for the non-white billionaires? Saving Indian souls - backed by western business - is a very old game.....
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India is the only country, that demands a perfect opposition, but has no problem in having a failed government.
Lol
Demanding CEC's resignation is not a "reasonable" demand at all. It is, if anything, akin to election denialism and deeply anti-democratic, anti-constitutional, anti-republican, anti-India. How do we empirically back this alleged 'crisis of trust' except tautologically through the electoral process itself, and/or any reasonable judicial interventions?
That the government is in its third term, and the first one in which it lost its majority, makes such alleged manipulation to be rather incompetent even if such a conspiracy theory is entertained. The opposition is losing India's pulse and even more of its modernist civilisational core, which despite all centrifugal forces, is coherent for the first time at a continental scale.
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T 970 - Pained and horrified to see what unfolds in Delhi .. peaceful protest being met with tear gas and water canons !!
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Picking up protestors before a rally is a classic dictatorial playbook.
Happened in Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Soviet Russia, Colonia India, among many others.
The Indian govt following in the footsteps of some of the worst regimes imaginable.
Simon come back?
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Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson being told not to protest at the site Gandhi launched the quit India movement by Indian police who take orders from a man who belongs to the same organization as Gandhi’s assassin.
Mumbai police are calling me and my associates and telling us to call off tomorrows call. They are also telling us that the High Court has designated Azad Maidan for protests. But I am determined to go to August Kranti Maidan and protests there. The Police are welcome to prevent me from going/reaching there or arrest me for protesting without permission. That is the whole ideal of Civil Disobedience, Satyagraha!
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The whole protest is about HOW you are winning elections, dude.
राहुल गांधी और INDI अलायंस के झूठ, भ्रम व दुष्प्रचार के बावजूद प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी के नेतृत्व में भाजपा एक के बाद एक चुनाव जीत रही है। पश्चिम बंगाल, असम व पुडुचेरी के उपचुनावों और हाल ही में हुए राजस्थान व त्रिपुरा के निकाय चुनावों में NDA को मिली जीत बताती है कि जनता ने INDI अलायंस को पूरी तरह नकार दिया है।
जनाधार खो चुके ये दल हर हार के बाद संस्थाओं पर सवाल उठाते हैं, पर जनता इनका यह चरित्र पहचान चुकी है। इसीलिए एक बार फिर प्रचंड जनादेश देकर भाजपा पर अपना अटूट विश्वास व्यक्त किया है।
इस जीत के लिए पश्चिम बंगाल के मुख्यमंत्री श्री @SuvenduWB जी, असम के मुख्यमंत्री श्री @himantabiswa जी, राजस्थान के मुख्यमंत्री श्री @BhajanlalBjp जी, त्रिपुरा के मुख्यमंत्री प्रो. @DrManikSaha2 जी व पुडुचेरी के मुख्यमंत्री श्री एन. रंगासामी जी सहित सभी प्रदेश अध्यक्षों और परिश्रमी कार्यकर्ताओं को हार्दिक बधाई।
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It’s a very big problem. A certain section—not just the BJP—another party thinks “saving India, saving constitution” is only their job. They are self-declared liberals and self-declared thekedars of the constitution.
It’s a very salty ecosystem, acting worse than the BJP’s ecosystem sometimes. They must realise that they can’t divide and rule through such tactics. Their massive failures over the years has led us to this moment where the young have to show the way. So they should just zip it on us and focus on how to support the young! Total buffoons!
An entire “self-declared liberal” ecosystem has been activated to denounce @abhijeet_dipke and the fact that he has been able to capture the imagination of millions of Indians after a LONG LONG time.
The hilarious part is that this ecosystem exists only on Twitter, but somehow thinks they are the sole protectors of democracy.
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Astounding video from the Ganpati Visarjan in Mumbai:
Anant Ambani, heir to India’s richest man, singing an H-Pop song which threatens to slay “enemies” of Hindus.
I’ve been saying this for a while, music and pop culture are more potent forms of propaganda than hate speech.
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It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.
A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.
IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.
HUANG: “.. Try getting a kid to do long division right now. Multiplication tables are starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots? My goodness. ..
.. Does it matter? .. I don’t think it does.”
@ezraklein @JensenHuang
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The former British home secretary and buddhist daughter of a Kenyan descendant of Goan Catholics, and a Mauritian Hindu descendent of Tamil, born in Harrow, studied in New York, married to a Jewish South African who lived In Israel says multiculturalism has failed.
Multiculturalism has utterly failed.
Britain is sadly losing its grip of our cultural heritage, traditions, Christian values, sense of history and unity.
Too many politicians have shied away from dealing with this crisis of confidence that many millions of British people feel.
We need to fix the problems of poor integration.
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Asal mein this is a good reflection of the quality of elite discourse/opinion/thought.
Bheega aadmi jhooth bol raha hai ke baarish ho rahi hai. Agar ho rahi hoti to wo dekho falaan aadmi kaise sookha hota?
Arey bhai, dimaag nahin chalta to aankhen to chalti hongi? Khidki ke baahar dekhiye.
ThePrint #50WordEdit:
Penguin Random House India does it again. It keeps creating a false impression of an atmosphere of fear across India. Whatever its anxieties over Joe Sacco’s ‘The Once and Future Riot’ or Sonia Gandhi’s ‘Belonging’, Penguin cannot project its cowardice onto India. Another foreign publisher, HarperCollins, has exposed Penguin’s timidity.
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