all diasporas are alike
Shri Thanedar's politics - broadly left of center on domestic US politics but with a huge carve-out for Hindutva - actually makes him the closest non-Jewish analogue to a certain kind of American Jewish politics.
This is the context for Thanedar and Modi. It's not just "is Thanedar pro-India," this is a simplistic phrasing of the foreign influence question for a country numbering 1.477 billion souls.
The question is perhaps more properly "which India."
The question is perhaps more properly "which India."
August 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
all diasporas are alike
Black diasporas exhibit at LACMA
March 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Black diasporas exhibit at LACMA
This is what the American World Cup should’ve been the whole time, a celebration of our diasporas, a chance for all these countries from around the world to feel at home here because there’s a bit of their home already here
cabo verdean fans celebrating their draw against spain at full time at a watch party in dorchester, mass.
massachusetts is home to the largest cabo verdean diaspora in the united states (approx. 90k.)
(video from maher mezahi on the other site.)
massachusetts is home to the largest cabo verdean diaspora in the united states (approx. 90k.)
(video from maher mezahi on the other site.)
June 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
This is what the American World Cup should’ve been the whole time, a celebration of our diasporas, a chance for all these countries from around the world to feel at home here because there’s a bit of their home already here
The diasporas taking control of their stories >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’
The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community
The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community
April 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The diasporas taking control of their stories >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sometimes my wife and I hit the museums on Sundays. Less crowded, and I can usually find free street parking.
Today, we saw an exhibit called Imagining Black Diasporas, and this piece stood out: “We are in this together.”
Feels like a message for us in the year ahead—in the resistance. 👊🏽
Today, we saw an exhibit called Imagining Black Diasporas, and this piece stood out: “We are in this together.”
Feels like a message for us in the year ahead—in the resistance. 👊🏽
January 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Sometimes my wife and I hit the museums on Sundays. Less crowded, and I can usually find free street parking.
Today, we saw an exhibit called Imagining Black Diasporas, and this piece stood out: “We are in this together.”
Feels like a message for us in the year ahead—in the resistance. 👊🏽
Today, we saw an exhibit called Imagining Black Diasporas, and this piece stood out: “We are in this together.”
Feels like a message for us in the year ahead—in the resistance. 👊🏽
Haven't the Jewish, Irish, and Italian diasporas been in NYC for over 100 years? I don't think "immigrant" describes 4th generation Americans very well.
July 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Haven't the Jewish, Irish, and Italian diasporas been in NYC for over 100 years? I don't think "immigrant" describes 4th generation Americans very well.
Bluesky diasporas >>>>>>
November 16, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Bluesky diasporas >>>>>>
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
L’adoption d’une loi instaurant une peine de mort applicable, de facto, aux seuls Palestiniens signe la dérive fascisante du gouvernement Nétanyahou, dénoncent les avocats Cécile Ostier et Cédric Uza...
www.liberation.fr
April 7, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowl
all of these are also stories about how Americans were lovely gracious welcoming hosts — including Americans from the diasporas of other competing countries!! — and gosh I hope that’s never lost when the historians write about this tournament
Not to make this all about America, but things like this, the Tartan Army, the Cape Verde story, Bosnia-Herzegovina and others are good illustrations of how you can be proud to be where you're from and confident in your identity while being kind and gracious and without being a complete dingleberry
Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup
July 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
all of these are also stories about how Americans were lovely gracious welcoming hosts — including Americans from the diasporas of other competing countries!! — and gosh I hope that’s never lost when the historians write about this tournament
Right wing narratives shape politics in digital diasporas more than the political activities and behaviors of people in those diasporas:
At a moment of rising anti-government CJP protests in Delhi, the Hindutva right is denying that the protests are organic by blaming them on George Soros. Even in a place with no particular history of the rootless cosmopolitan Jew as the Other, they’re imbibing the same online right-wing tropes.
July 22, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Right wing narratives shape politics in digital diasporas more than the political activities and behaviors of people in those diasporas:
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
L’adoption d’une loi instaurant une peine de mort applicable, de facto, aux seuls Palestiniens signe la dérive fascisante du gouvernement Nétanyahou, dénoncent les avocats Cécile Ostier et Cédric Uza...
www.liberation.fr
April 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
L’adoption d’une loi instaurant une peine de mort applicable, de facto, aux seuls Palestiniens signe la dérive fascisante du gouvernement Nétanyahou, dénoncent les avocats Cécile Ostier et Cédric Uza...
www.liberation.fr
April 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Pour une mobilisation des diasporas juives du monde entier face à l’extrême droite suprémaciste israélienne
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
One of the world’s largest Ukrainian diasporas thrives in the USA, enriching its culture and strengthening the nation.
(1/7)
(1/7)
July 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
One of the world’s largest Ukrainian diasporas thrives in the USA, enriching its culture and strengthening the nation.
(1/7)
(1/7)
Iranian diasporas since 1980
This regime feels like it will either implode in a matter of months or persist for decades.
February 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Iranian diasporas since 1980
I've talked about this before, but one of the reason dissident diasporas tend to be so contentious is because the personality traits that make you a dissident are not ones that make you easy to get on with.
Lemme tell you, annoying people are often very good at getting things done in protest
Inadvertently annoying people who miss social cues (I am often one of them) often persist past points that would make other people socially uncomfortable, and that gives us an edge
Inadvertently annoying people who miss social cues (I am often one of them) often persist past points that would make other people socially uncomfortable, and that gives us an edge
the thing about our boy Will is that he's just a regular guy, a bit more stubborn than most, out there with tens of thousands of of other Minnesotans, and if they can stand up to these fuckers so can you.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I've talked about this before, but one of the reason dissident diasporas tend to be so contentious is because the personality traits that make you a dissident are not ones that make you easy to get on with.
I think ultimately if you are unwilling to force yourself to unlearn racial biases especially antiblackness then I just find your reasoning extremely lame. even my black ocs are from different diasporas besides American only. I just find any excuse upsetting atp because-
April 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I think ultimately if you are unwilling to force yourself to unlearn racial biases especially antiblackness then I just find your reasoning extremely lame. even my black ocs are from different diasporas besides American only. I just find any excuse upsetting atp because-
The fall of a dictator in a country of origin has immediate effects on countries in which diasporas have settled.
December 7, 2024 at 2:16 PM
The fall of a dictator in a country of origin has immediate effects on countries in which diasporas have settled.
June 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Missouri has a string of state colleges that are disproportionately floated by diasporas of Bangladeshi and Nepalis kids who keep recommending them through their family, friend networks lol
midwestern college towns are *fucked*
Exclusive: New student visa interviews are on pause as Trump’s admin weighs requiring foreign students applying in the U.S. to undergo social media vetting.
May 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Missouri has a string of state colleges that are disproportionately floated by diasporas of Bangladeshi and Nepalis kids who keep recommending them through their family, friend networks lol
lol your diaspora is united by how much you hate other diasporas. That is absolutely nuts. NO ONE ELSE is moving like this.
June 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
lol your diaspora is united by how much you hate other diasporas. That is absolutely nuts. NO ONE ELSE is moving like this.
“Our oppressor is inherently and permanently monstrous and must be destroyed entirely” is entirely understandable for the people being oppressed! Ukrainians believe it about Russia and Uyghurs about China. It’s dangerous to buy into for others, *especially* for wider diasporas.
March 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
“Our oppressor is inherently and permanently monstrous and must be destroyed entirely” is entirely understandable for the people being oppressed! Ukrainians believe it about Russia and Uyghurs about China. It’s dangerous to buy into for others, *especially* for wider diasporas.