Protests Rage Across India as Government Purges 130 Million Names from Voter Rolls www.democracynow.org/2026/10/7/he...

Protests Rage Across India as Government Purges 130 Million Names from Voter Rolls

In India, police have detained several opposition leaders, breaking up a protest by Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party, and other MPs who are demonstrating against a controversial move tha...

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Kashmiri politicians are right to say that Modi and Shah first killed Indian democracy in Kashmir and are now killing it nationwide. "Kashmir model has been exported to Delhi. Welcome to the New Delhi, modelled on New Jammu & Kashmir." - Omar Abdullah x.com/OmarAbdullah...

Progressive theater groups have been at the heart of Indian protest movements since the founding of IPTA (Indian Progressive Theatre Association) in 1943. It’s no wonder that Neha Bora, one of the most effective and charismatic protesters in the current movement, is a part of that tradition.

@theinswe206.bsky.social · yesterday

Neha Bora is a theatre artist and activist who has been with the All India Students' Association (Aisa), a Left-wing organisation known for campus politics, for the past decade and been its president for the past two years. share.google/PcEA5wtOwg3k...

Top headline in the 'mother of democracy' - thousands, including CJP's Dipke, CPI(M) leaders, student activists, and journalists covering their protests, detained in New Delhi Live updates here: www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...

Anti-CEC protest LIVE updates: 'We still don't know where they are', CJP members allege they have no information on detained CJP leaders' whereabouts

Follow live updates from The Hindu as the Cockroach Janta Party has called for a mass protest at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar on October 10, 2026, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner...

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People memory-hole that many many folks wanted to broadcast the execution of McVeigh. McVeigh himself wanted that. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...

Executions, After Christa Pike, Are on the Minds of a Divided Public (Gift Article)

A botched execution and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and divisions over the most severe form of punishment.

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Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · yesterday

I GOT TO VOTE FOR TRAINS! Fuck yeah Front Range Passenger Rail!

Obviously isn't going to happen before unified Dem government, but the time to push for it is now and soon - Dems should be making DC statehood (and PR if they want it) a key plank in the democracy agenda and a litmus test for presidential candidates.

geoffrey 💀 (scary now)@parsnip.bsky.social · yesterday

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

This kinda framing is how you get a whole bunch of people believing Taiwan is a restive rebel territory trying to separate rather than already de facto independent under threat of invasion

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Giant Taiwan flag flies from helicopter for national day, defying Beijing reut.rs/4yfLrLZ

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

While DOGE “did not have statistically significant effects for any other race, gender, education, or age group,” it reduced Black women’s federal employment by 25%. #MsReads via @capitalb.bsky.social

The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE Layoffs

Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by…

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As a practical matter, though my hopes here are dim, no network should carry this, no online streaming service should host it, and everyone should discourage their friends, coworkers, and acquaintances from watching, if it should come up.

Martin was on his way to buy diapers for his children when he was apprehended by ICE. Since that day, his wife Gaby has fought tirelessly to bring him home. And we’ve stood by her every step of the way. Tonight, Martin is finally coming home to his wife and children — right where he belongs.

Related to this- I would love learn more about how your international student receive financial support (if at all) when they are working abroad.

Mark Chin@mememedianmode.bsky.social · 4d ago

Colleagues: what are your institutions doing to support international students given the threat to F-1 Duration of Status (D/S) and new CPT restrictions? I’m especially concerned about impacts on PhD timelines and optional summer internships. Would value hearing how others are responding.

Funny that we were supposed to believe that the Nazi tattoo pervert guy was some kind of Maine progressive Lisan al-Gaib, and now the random guy picked to replace him is handing Susan Collins her ass on the debate stage.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

If you have the time, there are lots of ways to help flip AZ, MI, PA, and WI.

The Blue Wave Needs to Reach State Legislatures, Too (10/6/26, 28 Days to Midterms)

Plus rallies against sexual violence, text with the Working Families Party, last chance to comment against attacks on Head Start and national forests, and more

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🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 5d ago

My election night reach goal is trifectas in MI, PA and WI. This would do so much good for the people of these states and help secure 2028 as much as we can. What a miracle to even conceive of this possibility! Want to help? @jordanz.bsky.social has made it super easy to donate to targeted races.

Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last wk.

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.

Magpie Is Learning@magpielaughs.bsky.social · 7d ago

A huge thanks for the reminder. My registration was good but my 19 year old’s wasn’t. Trying to fix it by Monday!

you asked for ten thousand. i give you one.

My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.

🌬Breeze@cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Reason n+1 not to post things about children

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · last wk.

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

I hate doing this, and I don't want to spam people, but I do genuinely write a lot, about many different topics; I like to think it's generally interesting and informative, and it's all free to read, and I DO pay for a WordPress account, so if you want that to continue, maybe consider supporting me?

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

We've been doubling down on our climate coverage and tripling our newsletter frequency here at @thexylom.com. If legacy media won't do it, we will! (and responding specifically to the Yale survey, The Xylom's two largest audience groups are aged 25-34 and 18-24) newsletter.thexylom.com

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Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · last wk.

From the latest @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social survey: "The percentage of registered voters who say they hear about global warming in the media dropped 11 percentage points from 2024 (30%) to 2025 (19%), which is the lowest it has been since the question was first asked in 2015." This is on you media!

and a lot of people will be gleeful at your suffering while simultaneously saying that you are lying because they deeply believe society should be structured in a way that makes you a tool, an object, a machine, to be used and abused, maybe sometimes maintained like someone maintains their property.

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.

I find it strange and unsettling how the default position is that men are entitled to public-facing, high profile careers regardless of the literal crimes they have committed. Always strange how “they’ve repented,” turns into “they are owed a high public profile.”

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc