Sushil Aaron
@sushilaaron.bsky.social
Opinion writer. Bylines: @thewire_in, @nytimes, @htTweets https://thewire.in/author/sushil-aaron, https://tinyurl.com/4wrvjah9 https://politicsandbooks.substack.com/
A philosophy professor wrote about Dolly Parton in 2022. Every writer publishing about her today would have been drafting in the shadow of this great piece. plough.com/articles/dol... @plough.bsky.social
Dolly Parton Is Magnificent | Plough
The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?
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BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
nytimes.com
My piece. politicsandbooks.substack.com/p/why-andy-b...
Why Andy Burnham is important for progressive politics worldwide
The UK Prime Minister wants to change Westminster’s ways of working. The key question is whether he will get a chance to deliver on major political reform that he thinks Britain needs.
politicsandbooks.substack.com
“sad at the pantomime of it, cartoon prejudices with real-life consequences, trotted out on command, funded by people with mountains of money who wish society ill.” Zoe Williams on Rod Liddle. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so | Zoe Williams
A man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised. There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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When French and German security chiefs announced plans last month to develop a “European sovereign digital backbone,” tech and defense industry insiders on both sides of the Atlantic knew what they really meant: Adieu Palantir.
Europe wants to kick its Palantir habit
The U.S.-based data crunching firm is deeply embedded in the most sensitive European workflows, from policing to intelligence to health care. Finding alternatives won’t be easy.
politico.eu
A breathtaking essay - that makes you wonder when you last read such a great piece of political writing. Should be read by every television anchor who's ever done an interview on Palestine - or plans to. www.equator.org/articles/mor... @equatormag.bsky.social
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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26/ "We paid 7.5 dollars to fully charge the electric car! Nobody in China cares about the oil wars anymore" x.com/macastel3/st...
2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker" "There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster" Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband" x.com/implausibleb...
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
Thread of freak outs and tears from the Right on the other site: Nate Fischer, theobro and network state investor:
"...his reporting combined clarity, moral honesty, and a refusal to sensationalise, offering the country a steady lens through which to understand tragedy and its consequences." A fine obituary for Mark Tully. frontline.thehindu.com/other/obitua...
Mark Tully and the Moral Conscience of Indian Journalism (2026)
Mark Tully’s life and death reveal how public service journalism, shaped by empire and conscience, is disappearing in an age of power, speed, and silence.
frontline.thehindu.com
The spying operation is alleged to have targeted close aides of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak over the course of three years
Chinese hackers targeted top UK officials
thetimes.com
Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
A Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE. Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.” The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSO...
Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'
YouTube video by MS NOW
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The country was almost completely cut off from the internet, according to monitoring groups, following ‘a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country’. ft.trib.al/I2MqhvN
Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.
A senior French source has described tomorrow’s DC meeting to me as the “most consequential for peace and security in Europe” since the fall of the Soviet Union. Brief thread later.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.
The FT conducted extensive interviews with Metreweli and her senior female SIS colleagues for this piece three years ago on the top women spies at MI6. To protect her identity, Metreweli chose the pseudonym 'Ada' for the story (free to read) www.ft.com/content/7417...
The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies
For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times
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In one convo, a not-hostile young man asked me, "What's it like to go from history's heroes to being the Nazis?" He was genuinely curious, confused. Wanted to understand. (He also knew my opinions in general.) But ouch.
I've been in Europe for three weeks. Mostly, they look at us with pity. Pity is hard to take.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last yr."Donald Trump has wrecked America’s brand. He’s made crossing over from Canada a betrayal, bordering on treason, while turning the U.S. into a laughingstock around the globe." @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist
YouTube video by CNN
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The right is shaping public perception of these protests just like it shaped public perception of the BLM protests, because it dominates the information ecosystem. The narratives it has spent years crafting & spreading are shaping how current events are interpreted.