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Posts by Ashwini Vasanthakumar

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Hungary’s PM-elect Peter Magyar says he would enact an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and detain him on arrival.

The election winner said Hungary would stay a member of the International Criminal Court which his predecessor Viktor Orban began withdrawing from last year.

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'Terrified of rent increase': How housing benefit cuts hit renters The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters

NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts

Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit

By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

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Tory MPs talking about Erasmus as if it’s a sleeper cell recruitment programme.

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As an Asian, cabbage is very good. As an American, I know when the media starts talking about how cabbage is very good it means we’re about to get real poor

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personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

If the so-called free speech purists and “diversity of thought” crusaders cared about anything but promoting conservative nonsense, this reporting, which shows the most powerful university in the world suppressing research on their ties to slavery, would be a massive scandal.

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Yet another ICE inmate death is ruled a homicide by medical examiners.

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this is #desiballroomofshame level of badness.

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In a fun fact, the Meta PR person who ignored many emails about this party and how Meta interprets the phrase "save the West" is Francis Brennan, previously a director of strategic response for Donald Trump's 2020 campaign.

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Meta threw a party for a right-wing influencer who wants to “save the West” The celebration offers a cocktail-fueled look at the tech behemoth's rightward pivot.

"The decorations included an archway that read 'Seeking Truth to Save The West,' underneath the words 'Presented by Meta' and the company’s logo." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Because Mr Lewis was acting on CFAs at this stage, it appears that he and Patron Law were not charging their clients who dabbled in anti-semitism. And the only way Mr Lewis could get paid was if the Jewish person they had bullied either: gave in by settling their claims; or lost at trial. Unless their fascist-curious clients won, Mr Lewis and Patron Law were effectively acting for them for free.

This position changed, though, on 9 March 2023 when a further notice of funding form was filed at court which showed that Ms Power’s CFA had been terminated. Although Ms Power’s CFA with Patron Law ended, Mr Miller’s continued. There is a bit to unravel here, and the starting point is that Mr Ben Delo, the billionaire who co-founded BitMEX, a crypto-currency exchange and trading platform applied to register a charge on Ms Power’s house and then around £350k was paid to Patron Law in March 2023 towards Ms Power’s costs in the litigation.

Because Mr Lewis was acting on CFAs at this stage, it appears that he and Patron Law were not charging their clients who dabbled in anti-semitism. And the only way Mr Lewis could get paid was if the Jewish person they had bullied either: gave in by settling their claims; or lost at trial. Unless their fascist-curious clients won, Mr Lewis and Patron Law were effectively acting for them for free. This position changed, though, on 9 March 2023 when a further notice of funding form was filed at court which showed that Ms Power’s CFA had been terminated. Although Ms Power’s CFA with Patron Law ended, Mr Miller’s continued. There is a bit to unravel here, and the starting point is that Mr Ben Delo, the billionaire who co-founded BitMEX, a crypto-currency exchange and trading platform applied to register a charge on Ms Power’s house and then around £350k was paid to Patron Law in March 2023 towards Ms Power’s costs in the litigation.

Ben Delo

Ben Delo

Timely analysis by James Wilson on the legal ramifications of crypto billionaire & Reform donor Ben Delo's £350,000 funding of antisemitic "bullies" Nina Power & Daniel Miller in the High Court, and a pattern of unlawful conduct by Patron Law's Mark Lewis:

perincuriam2.substack.com/p/episode-16...

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The idea that a student op-ed was deemed a threat to national security … a nation run by incompetent and fearful snowflakes

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Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This is so gloriously fantastic and sharp.

“Should an afterlife exist, his best hedge against eternal damnation is being so radioactively unpleasant that Satan would balk at spending five minutes with him, let alone an eternity.”

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Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

BBC doing the lord's work, I see.

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The U.S. Has Murdered 178 People in 52 Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.

@theintercept.com is keeping count of all U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

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Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

It’s honestly shocking that any scholarship still gets conducted at universities, given the circumstances

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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We can replace all of them.

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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

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The most frustrating thing about all of this is it was absolutely predictable. I felt like such an idiot luddite trying to explain this to eager AI friends last year. "The cheating machine is addictive?" The cheating machine is addictive.

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Should we still be referring to a blockade when ships are just sailing through? Maybe it’s an aspirational blockade?

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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How did the Canadian citizen die in southern Lebanon? Shouldn’t Canada know and communicate this fact, to ascertain whether it was tragic or criminal - a potential war crime - and therefore something to investigate?

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Three brand new smelling uncracked hardback books, 
1. The Edge of Space-Time
Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Prescod-Weinstein
2. DURBA MITRA
THE FUTURE THAT WAS
A HISTORY OF
THIRD WORLD FEMINISM
AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM
3. YOUR
DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST
YOU
POLICING
IN THE AGE OF SELF SURVEILLANCE
ANDREW
GUTHRIE
FERGUSON

Three brand new smelling uncracked hardback books, 1. The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Prescod-Weinstein 2. DURBA MITRA THE FUTURE THAT WAS A HISTORY OF THIRD WORLD FEMINISM AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM 3. YOUR DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU POLICING IN THE AGE OF SELF SURVEILLANCE ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON

My latest book haul looking beautiful
@chanda.blacksky.app
@durba.bsky.social
@profferguson.bsky.social

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What Fr Martin says.

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Viktor Orbán discusses “demography” with a group of far-right influencers

Viktor Orbán discusses “demography” with a group of far-right influencers

Groups funded by Orbán’s government also helped put on the “CPAC Hungary” spin-off conference

Plus there was this weird video where Orbán held court with a group of far-right influencers, like Dave Rubin, ex-Rebel personality Jack Posobiec and Dutch far-right influencer Eva Vlaardingerbroek

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Yes, why aren't Christians up in arms about this? I'm Hindu, famously lax on representations of the divine, but this is extremely weird. Why are these guys such weirdo losers? Can you imagine what would happen if Biden posted this?

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Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

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The case for the state banning adults over the age of 55 from using social media

Exhibit A:

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tbf some of this is what bad bunny is saying

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