Ria Chakrabarty
By day: directing policy at Hindus for Human Rights (@hfhr.bsky.social) and setting up Hindus for Human Rights Action (@hfhraction.bsky.social)
By night: writing about pop culture and politics at substack.com/@popculturegeopolitcs
- San Benito ❤️
- You know, at least Bob Menendez was paid for his work to protect military assistance to Egypt
- I know a lot of people are shocked by what happened to Pretti, but this is exactly how CBP has behaved for decades in South Texas and in southern border communities.
- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyAdmittedly, I’ve never been a huge Star Wars guy, but I just finished season one of Andor and holy moly what a show. Talk about television that speaks to the moment. Those last three episodes in particular will stick with me for a long time.
- Reposted by Ria Chakrabarty👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyI get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
- Reposted by Ria Chakrabarty"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
- They should have just shut down DHS, which shouldn’t even exist anyways 🤷🏽♀️
- In Delhi, the air is unbreathable, the water is contaminated, and there’s no serious policy discussion on these issues, let alone solutions.
- My only opinion on this whole Jasmine Crockett kerfuffle is that I think she’s the wrong JC to run for Senate in Texas. No, it’s not Jesus Christ either.
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- In 2018, @jayapal.house.gov and @pocan.house.gov introduced a bill to abolish ICE. They should reintroduce that bill
- Reposted by Ria Chakrabartyhead of chiquita banana wanting to ask the forbidden question now that trump is overthrowing governments for oil companies
- Reposted by Ria Chakrabartyamazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyRIP Dick Cheney, you would have finally found something to like about the Trump presidency (illegally overthrowing a government for oil)
- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyUmar Khalid has spent 5+ years jailed without trial—a stain on any democracy. We welcome this Congressional push urging bail and a fair, timely trial in line with international law. Due process isn’t optional. Free Umar Khalid. #FreeUmarKhalid #ReleasePoliticalPrisoners
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- Umar and his co-accused are some of the most important, courageous thinkers in India today. So grateful to see Rep McGovern, Rep Raskin, and their colleagues call for Umar’s release
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- Sorry to offend, but most religious scholars interrogate sacred texts more than self-avowed Marxists interrogate Marx
- If it’s a story about James A Garfield, I will cry.
- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyJust want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)
- Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyThe CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
- Remembering adults telling kids to not take God’s name in vain when saying “Oh my God” at the evangelical daycare I went to (it was attached to a mega church in TX)
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- I mean…
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- The FBI (under Biden!) were raiding Cuellar’s house on Super Tuesday! The charges were not thin, and if you think Cuellar is staying a Democrat just because you play along with this joke, idk what to say.
- In a way, he’s the ultimate Hindutva guy bc he drools over Modi while using anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to hit out at Indian Americans
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- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyMark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
- NO.
- Lmfao fascists truly have exactly one playbook
- I know I should be used to it, but I’m always stunned by how unifying anti-Afghan hatred is across the world. On one hand, you have a bipartisan resurrection of 9/11 tropes in the US and on the other, the Pakistan government is using this incident to justify its operations in Afghanistan and KP.
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- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyThis is the result of the CIA using children to kill people and yet a whole lot of people don’t want to recognize *American* culture, and in particular the culture of the War on Terror, at work here.
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- A good time to remember that the surge of anti-South Asian racism is compounded for those who are Muslim, who this country automatically labels as terrorists just bc they are brown and Muslim.
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- We will need to talk about the anti-South Asian and anti-African racism that we’re seeing re this Twitter location reveal meme
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- The most anti democratic governor in the country
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- CBP are genuinely the most evil group of people in American government.
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- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyHey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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- Okay what about weapons sales to India 👀👀👀
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- Some of the Al Sharaa discourse from progressives is getting Islamophobic.
- Indians don’t need to imagine what INC would look like under a certain alternative scenario - they can look to the inept opposition party that is the Democratic Party
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- Making everyone “the next Zohran” is unfair to all the politicians involved and it’s also bad for democracy! No one should be treated like a savior and no one should be expected to save the rest of us.
- I need progressive foreign policy people to continually ask Ro Khanna his views on Modi, democracy, and human rights in India before they continue fawning over him
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- India proposes to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad
- Quick, who’s the junior Senator of Texas and what did he do on the 16th anniversary of 9/11
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- Reposted by Ria ChakrabartyNuremburg trials is the moderate position
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- This is so bad for international religious freedom and makes people (like me!) reluctant to do any advocacy with a government that will bomb people for not being Christian.
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- Dard-e-Disco but it’s cities with progressive South Asian American mayors
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- Reposted by Ria Chakrabarty😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
- Also when you start blatantly stealing elections after losing, you lose legitimacy!
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- Are we not supposed to get excited about a possible Zohranistan?
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- Doing this while people are about to lose access to food…
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- For all his amazing comments about democracy, sovereignty and dignity, it’s very disappointing to watch Gustavo Petro share multiple posts about his meetings with MbS (and thank King Felipe for connecting the two!)
