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Sushil Aaron

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Opinion writer. Bylines: @thewire_in, @nytimes, @htTweets thewire.in/author/sushil-aaron, tinyurl.com/4wrvjah9 politicsandbooks.substack.com

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Art by Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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
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Dolly Parton Is Magnificent | Plough
The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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...
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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.
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My piece. politicsandbooks.substack.com/p/why-andy-b...
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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.
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“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...
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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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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 04/08/2026
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.
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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.
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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
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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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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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...
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026
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
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thread of freak outs and tears from the Right on the other site: Nate Fischer, theobro and network state investor:
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"...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...
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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.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 26/01/2026
The spying operation is alleged to have targeted close aides of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak over the course of three years
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Chinese hackers targeted top UK officials
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nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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/...
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ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/01/2026
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...
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Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/01/2026
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
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
My piece.
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India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump: Why it Needs a Nehru now
The Indian state and Indian people have had a good run in the Western world over the last 25 years.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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.
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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.
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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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...
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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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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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.
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I've been in Europe for three weeks. Mostly, they look at us with pity. Pity is hard to take.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist
YouTube video by CNN
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/06/2025
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.
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Wonderful piece on reading.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Amazing. Respect the lede.
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“It’s not dissatisfaction. It’s not disillusionment. It’s revulsion: visceral fury, anger on a level I’ve seldom seen before, even towards Tory cruelties…” George Monbiot on how Britain can get to PR.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Insane. Slight young woman traveling with mom to see U.S soldier husband. Strip-searched twice. Disappeared in the afternoon into the next day. No calls. Given no food. Finally, before being put on a plane, had 3 min. call w/husband who cried inconsolably. Husband has decided to leave the Army.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It's quite impressive how Brexit not only broke the Tory party but is now keeping them permanently trapped underneath a useless shibboleth.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Habemus Papam Crymorus I
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“If you don’t get it right, you’ll be on the news.” Geoffrey Boycott on cancer, cricket, the NHS and what he expects from politicians. youtu.be/-w8wwrchD9g?...
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Sir Geoffrey Boycott on cancer, cricket and why Britain is broken | The Daily T
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/05/2025
This is real
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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
orwell stays winning
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A front page every bit as batshit as the ‘glory days’ of Brexit. Almost makes you nostalgic.
Mail on Sunday front page castigating Keir Starmer for the rumoured opinions of a woman he went out with decades ago. And mention of a possible ‘miracle’ at the Vatican after Trump spoke briefly to Zelensky.
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Miriam Likes Pie ♡🟦 @miriamlikespie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is so good!
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
‘Rome is no longer the “point of convergence” for ecclesiastical scheming’ Interesting piece.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Briefly breaking my social media fast to acknowledge the passing of historian Robert Frykenberg. Condolences to all who are mourning. Bob’s work on Indian history & his historiographical approach have had a huge impact, & he was by all accounts a truly kind & gracious human being. Rest in peace.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025
On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Gavin Newsom is suing the Trump administration over tariffs and runs a tourism ad asking Canadians to visit California. @timmiller.bsky.social’s take @thebulwark.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=_TbD...
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BREAKING: Newsom SLAMS Trump with Lawsuit, Sends Love to Canada
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Sushil Aaron @sushilaaron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“You want to find out what Trump is really about, go to Trump Tower. It is a personality cult in retail that would make Kim Jong Un… blush” Matt Frei speaking to Iain Dale. Terrific interview on Frei’s formative years and career. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/i...
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308. Matt Frei
Podcast Episode · Iain Dale All Talk · 26/03/2025 · 1h 29m
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Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:
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PhD Position in Global History
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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