
Journalist | Work: @foreignpolicy, @Guardian, @AJEnglish | Ex- @IndianExpress, @HTtweets| MA @columbiajourn| @foreignpressUSA awardee| @CheveningFCDO fellow.
New Delhi ↔️ New York
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EXCLUSIVE:While criticizing it publicly Modi Govt has been monitoring India's falling Democracy Rankings after being downgraded to "flawed democracy".Top officials also pulled up the Home Ministry for lacking interest in the exercise, I report in @guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/j… – at Manhattan, NY
Is it mandatory to tweet excerpts from every page of Sonia Gandhi’s memoir every few seconds? Aadhi book toh Twitter pe hi chaap di, padhne toh do
What a deranged savage society we’ve become 💔
A 34-year-old man, an animal lover who took care of the community dogs in his area, was hacked to death following an altercation with a group of men who were bursting firecrackers on a public road in Thiruvottiyur on November 9, night.
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This is a rather remarkable tweet by JD Vance!
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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Abdul El-Sayed TROLLING Trump and JD Vance After Winning Michigan’s Senate Race
To JD Vance: “Habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in, in January.”
To Trump: “I know you struggle with my name, so after JD swears me in, you can just go on and call me Senator.”
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As a deleted voter, have been running from pillar to post trying to get my name included since the past few months despite having my voter ID and epic number.
Meanwhile CJP gang is again AWOL
AISA president @neha_aisa joined Congress leader @RahulGandhi and other INDIA bloc leaders on their march to the Supreme Court
Absolutely alarming details coming out!
Replying to @di_shawarma
They then profiled & selected some detainees and took them into buses used for convicts, with tiny compartments & no airflow.
@DelhiPolice then BEAT THEM UP, black & blue. It was described to us as "merciless thrashing" with only screams escaping that suffocating, jail-like bus.
While the visibility may be more but unfortunately it’s not new, been happening since CAA-NRC protests as well!
We saw a new strategy this time: the use of right-wing goons.
I spoke to one of the most violent goons: Devendra Pal from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. He was frank about using violence.
“If these bloody cockroaches want to divide India then they will be beaten in this way."
My report on what happened in Delhi yesterday:
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A masked @DelhiPolice officer without name tag dragged and kicked @Reuters journalist @saurabhsherry detaining him from INA for over an hour before dropping him off near Hauz Khas Metro Station! Absolutely shocking!
Why wait for October 10 and now right away to join hands in solidarity with those protesting at Jantar Mantar and getting charged at and detained since the past two days?
Delhi Police must stop its crackdown on protesting students and activists.
On October 10, Delhi will witness a massive mobilisation of young Indians. Every attempt to suppress peaceful protesters will only bring more people to the streets and strengthen the march to Jantar Mantar.
Dissent is a democratic right. It cannot be crushed through intimidation or force.




















