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The Supreme Court Republicans Make America Safe for White Republicans Their decision today is dishonest and shameful .............. Until today’s decision, an assessment of whether a state violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act would begin with a simple question: Is a minority group sufficiently large and compact to form a single member district where they would have a fair chance of electing their candidate of choice? ............... Today Alito says that the Court must reject that 1982 law to avoid a clash with the 14th and 15th amendments. Rubbish. The ratifiers of those amendments engaged in race conscious legislation to protect former slaves. Everyone understood that those amendments permitted race consciousness in order to reverse America’s horrible history of slavery — which still has repercussions today. ................

It will make all our legislative bodies whiter. It will significantly diminish protection for minority voters.

............... Alito’s mission has long been to favor the white Republicans he seems to think he represents, rather than all Americans. His five Republican-appointed colleagues on the Court appear to believe the same thing.

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I used to be slightly bummed that Jessica didn't care all that much about watches, but I've realized that not caring much means they all look the same to her, and that in turn means she doesn't always realize when I've bought a new one.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 20, 2026

Hey. Let's talk. pic.twitter.com/Qx0KbPDMOX

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 20, 2026

🌀 Barackface: Elon Musk Is Shahrukh Khan: How? https://t.co/hNXRPew6tN @SrBachchan @akshaykumar @iamsrk @iHrithik @priyankachopra @deepikapadukone @elonmusk @kimbal @mayemusk @Shivon_Zilis @Gwynne_Shotwell @jason @WalterIsaacson @ToscaMusk @errol_lyndon_KL

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 16, 2026

This will be interesting to watch, because it will be a conversation between two of the most fearsomely effective people I know. I'm honestly curious to see what a conversation between these two looks like. https://t.co/6UmNthRxjs

— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 20, 2026

Modi's Vast Rallies

देहरादून के कार्यक्रम में जनता-जनार्दन के उत्साह और उमंग से अभिभूत हूं। pic.twitter.com/M1IKh5iEOC

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 14, 2026

देहरादून में उत्तराखंड के मेरे भाई-बहनों का अभूतपूर्व जोश और उत्साह बता रहा है कि वे डबल इंजन सरकार में हो रहे तेज विकास से कितने खुश हैं। pic.twitter.com/AlbvXiQYt4

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 14, 2026

सहारनपुर में भारी संख्या में आए अपने परिवारजनों के अपार समर्थन और आशीर्वाद ने एक नई ऊर्जा से भर दिया। pic.twitter.com/3INhIpxbQv

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 14, 2026

Received a call from my friend President Donald Trump. We reviewed the substantial progress achieved in our bilateral cooperation in various sectors. We are committed to further strengthening our Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership in all areas. We also discussed the…

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 14, 2026

The Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor, being inaugurated today, is a world-class infrastructure project that will deepen connectivity, boost the economy and tourism. https://t.co/5TayGK4QLZ

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 14, 2026

The Spiritual Undercurrents of a Volatile World
The Middle East has for decades been the most volatile part of the world geopolitically. Tensions have been building for a long time. And now things have gone kinetic.
But this is not just geopolitics. A Chinese analyst tried to explain things in infrastructure terms. Israel is a "node," he said. That perspective is so lacking. If you only know the material, you know nothing. You cannot untangle the Middle East, if you skip the spiritual dimension.
You can achieve moral clarity. You can have the courage to act. You can have a mighty military. But that still does not change the fact that wars are messy. Wars are always messy. There is death and destruction. There are civilian casualties. There are unintended consequences, no matter how much gaming, planning, and thinking goes into it.
And it is not like the rest of the world stops just because there is a war. There are more ongoing conflicts today than at any time since the end of World War II. I think it is because the world has become multipolar since 2008, but the institutions to go with that multipolarity have not been built yet.
And then there is the political churn of a large democracy like the United States. Recently we saw the largest protests recorded in US history. And Hungary just happened. Mid-terms in the US are a foregone conclusion. The party in the White House loses. That always happens.
In the sea of war, politics, and tech news, one thing stands out. Modi's vast political rallies in India. I guess I am a people person. Politics is about people. Tech is about people.

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Unicorns and solaras are not birthed out of such multiple choice questions.

Marketing Escape Velocity: The Path To Unicorn Status And Beyond https://t.co/hUmu5bv6z0
Unicorn to Solara https://t.co/aW3k05R3bM

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

"Feelings are going to get hurt." -- Larry Ellison.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

Grok will never go to therapy. Never. pic.twitter.com/brJIgWeyRP

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2026

बंगाल में कानून का असली राज 4 मई के बाद शुरू होगा। राज्य के मौजूदा शासन में गुंडागर्दी करने वालों से पूरी सख्ती से निपटा जाएगा। pic.twitter.com/panWlp7DQu

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 9, 2026

Asked someone from the industry whether foreign investors are still interested in allocating to India. The TLDR:

Interest has pretty much died out. India is seen as geopolitically exposed, especially to an oil shock. There are no real AI plays. Valuations are rich. And the rupee…

— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 9, 2026

২০২৬ চনৰ অসম বিধানসভা নিৰ্বাচনৰ ভোটদান প্ৰক্ৰিয়া আৰম্ভ হোৱাৰ পৰিপ্ৰেক্ষিতত, মই অসমৰ জনসাধাৰণক বিপুল সংখ্যাত নিজৰ ভোটাধিকাৰ সাব্যস্ত কৰিবলৈ আহ্বান জনাইছো। মই আশা কৰো যে ৰাজ্যখনৰ যুৱক-যুৱতী আৰু মহিলা ভোটাৰসকলে উৎসাহেৰে অংশগ্ৰহণ কৰি এই নিৰ্বাচনক গণতন্ত্ৰ আৰু নাগৰিক কৰ্তব্যৰ এক উৎসৱ…

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 9, 2026

It’s a weird feeling seeing your parents turn old.

My parents are 74 and 72 years old.
And when your parents get old, something weird begins to happen.

You hold their hands while they walk.
You ask them to be careful while crossing the street.
You scold them because they use… pic.twitter.com/mMFXSE3SGX

— Ankur Warikoo (@warikoo) April 9, 2026

I agree with Jim, wait to see what the deal becomes. https://t.co/1ZOP60G6hT

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) April 9, 2026

Good for him! https://t.co/3iQPSvLbnH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2026

T 5705(i) - याद रखिए !! pic.twitter.com/AaLam9GRRu

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) April 9, 2026

On a different subject: as precious metals short up in value amid global turbulence, I ask: India is sitting on 500 tonnes of gold. Why isn’t it being mined ? https://t.co/98OiwuL6KK

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 9, 2026

The uncomfortable truth is that AI agents are smarter than humans.

The ramifications are wildly under-appreciated so far.

— Anthony Pompliano 🌪 (@APompliano) April 9, 2026

A Chinese firm, Unipath, has unveiled a home robot that’s already being used in real households. It can wake you up, run appliances, tidy up, organise your home… and even cook your meals. Useful or frightening- not sure! pic.twitter.com/cgIJ6JhX5v

— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) April 9, 2026

Reuters reports $TSLA is in early development for a new entry-level vehicle, roughly 5% smaller than the Cybercab. It reportedly has NOT received a green light yet, and no timing was given. My first reaction was click bait.

My take: We’ve seen two hints about new models this…

— Gene Munster (@munster_gene) April 9, 2026

तो X ने ऑटोमैटिक ट्रांसलेशन लॉन्च कर दिया है।

क्या इसका मतलब है कि मैं हिंदी में लिख सकता हूँ और आपको फिर भी यह इंग्लिश में दिखेगा? मैं आमतौर पर हिंदी में नहीं लिखता, बस जिज्ञासा है।

आपको यह पोस्ट किस भाषा में दिख रही है?

— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success) April 9, 2026

"Houston, we have a problem!"https://t.co/R6nq9PHPNZ

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

About to address a rally in Birbhum. The ground is overflowing with people who have come to shower their blessings.

It’s BJP all the way in West Bengal! pic.twitter.com/hza3DSaOm7

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 9, 2026

A few points: Japan did not court FDI or FII during their economic take off. They instead licensed foreign tech and worked on mastering it and improving on it, and eventually surpassing it.

Second, FII is by nature fickle. Mostly it promotes the "casino" mindset. We also start… https://t.co/RbG1CCPNHW

— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) April 9, 2026

Not someone you want in charge of superpowerful AI pic.twitter.com/17sxmN3Rhc

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2026

Voted today in the Kerala Assembly elections in the Thiruvananthapuram Central Constituency. The turnout when I voted this morning was already impressive; as of 5pm it is well into the mid-70s percent. This suggests that large numbers of ordinary people have come out to take… pic.twitter.com/MhU82WE5RL

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 9, 2026

Personal news: tonight, my daughter was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship! I am so incredibly proud of her! Please forgive the brag. pic.twitter.com/UduT9AskjV

— Jim Walden (@jimfornyc) April 8, 2026

Peter Thiel: “If you are in favor of innovation, founders have to stay in control”

“I think the founding period is the period when you have innovation. And once that’s over, it becomes a normal business that runs in a bureaucratic, mechanistic sort of way. And it’s a very… pic.twitter.com/x1pV1J0T7R

— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) April 9, 2026

Yep! https://t.co/UIoYFNmVXZ

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) April 9, 2026

How Bullet Trains Solve California Housing https://t.co/kXxfcbwFbP @elonmusk

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

আসানসোলে মানুষের এই প্রবল উৎসাহ থেকে বার্তা পরিষ্কার—বাংলায় তৃণমূলের পাততাড়ি গোটানো নিশ্চিত! pic.twitter.com/nQBbEN3Yyj

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 9, 2026

Allegedly!!? I took the photo. Do you think Israel dug it? pic.twitter.com/DL16y5GAe9

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) April 9, 2026

People who spend a lot of time in these .... are going to end up with psychological problems.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

The U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other rich countries. $15,000 per person (almost double), 18% of GDP (nearly twice as high), and healthcare inflation is 7% (roughly double others).

Yet outcomes are worse. Life expectancy is lower, infant & maternal mortality higher,…

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) April 9, 2026

Soviet Health Care And The Pentagon Black Hole https://t.co/317xSt9Ssy

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

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As they say in Nepali, तपाइँको मुखमा दुध भात जाओस। Literal meaning: May milk and rice end up in your mouth. True meaning: May what you say become true.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 5, 2026

You and @elonmusk have figured out the correct way to use Twitter. @x It is a Founder's ultimate tool.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 5, 2026

My 12 year old mentee (started mentoring him at 10 and gave him a grant about 6 months ago to dig in on robotics) just started signing off on his emails with "Stay curious". He's going places!

— Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 (@DStrachman) April 6, 2026

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Operation Sindoor Beats Operation Epic Fury https://t.co/iTRY3MQ9Sm

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

Fiction.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

Community scales and compounds over time.

10 years in is an institutional knowledge unlock between makers, founders, and our LPs (like OG Thiel Fellows).

They’ve been there, done that, and are paying it forward. https://t.co/dzcdX0CQ01

— Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 (@DStrachman) April 3, 2026

playing piano is einstein level

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

Nepal’s new government is moving quickly to pursue governance and anti corruption reforms. But by going on the offensive so quickly, it risks confrontation with an old guard of elites that could imperil its policy agenda.
This week ⁦@ForeignPolicy⁩: https://t.co/f8LSYkFhOi

— Michael Kugelman (@MichaelKugelman) April 4, 2026

Imagine a piano with 30,000 keys. Each key represents a gene.

Nearly all of your somatic cells have the exact same piano—the same keys, the same genes. So why does a nerve cell look different from a cheek cell?

Because they’re playing different pieces on the identical pianos. pic.twitter.com/bk8tp4eNS4

— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) November 25, 2024

wow, never expected to encounter the inverse - an old piano instructor of mine taught me music as a 12 turn helixhttps://t.co/xcG3V9X58S

— Peter Ciaccia (@PeterCiaccia) November 26, 2024

India can only become a $30 trillion economy when growth is easy, simple, and frictionless. The Jan Vishwas Bill 2.0 advances this vision by making compliance smarter and trust-based. By decriminalising ~ 1,000 minor offences, the bill reflects PM @narendramodi’s clear focus on…

— Amitabh Kant (@amitabhk87) April 4, 2026

YC rejecting Delve means they probably got 500k for free btw

I'm no expert on these matters, but from what I understand YC occasionally says:

'hey, we no longer want to be associated with you. you can have the money and the equity, it's fine. but you're no longer part of yc'… https://t.co/GcjyPMNeUb

— Michael (@michael_chomsky) April 4, 2026

Una mañana de caminata con Jesús disfrutando la naturaleza.
Mis mejores deseos a todas las mexicanas y mexicanos. pic.twitter.com/P0eaNQ1hn7

— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) April 4, 2026

Elon's announcement of the TeraFab is massive.
The goal is building 1 TW of AI compute per year...
Current global output: 20 GW
That's 50X the entire planet's current production...

— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 4, 2026

Bret Taylor's LinkedIn is a different kind of document. 🤯
▫️ Chairman of the Board, OpenAI
▫️ Co-Founder, Sierra (now $150M+ ARR)
▫️ Co-CEO, Salesforce
▫️ President & COO, Salesforce
▫️ Chairman of the Board, Twitter

Started Sierra in March 2023. $150M ARR in under 2 years.… pic.twitter.com/GaLCapOrIC

— Ruben (@rdominguezibar) April 4, 2026

Keytruda is, to me, much more mindblowing as an example. It’s absolutely dominated markets for years. As one product, it’s expected to make $32B in 2026.

technically Ozempic and Wegovy would count as separate drugs, as would the oral pill. The franchise (all of them) should… https://t.co/g6XQhQYXx8

— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) April 4, 2026

Venture capital is hard. https://t.co/gbPqsh4GIc

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) April 3, 2026

Steve Jobs on How to Develop Taste:

“I don't think my taste in aesthetics is that much different than a lot of other people's.

The difference is that I just get to be really stubborn about making things as good as we all know they can be.

That's the only difference. “

The… pic.twitter.com/SDPzMBBTAe

— Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) April 3, 2026

This would be my idea of a great room. Sparse. Everything at the floor level. A bed that you can roll away.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

In Iran, there are two key lines for the U.S. to pursue simultaneously: We must eliminate Iran’s ability to seize control of the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait — and we must continue to destroy the IRGC.https://t.co/q6A9OlKngJ

— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) April 4, 2026

David Friedberg today on @Tesla:

"I think we're going to look back one day and have this laughing observation that Tesla started out as an electric car company, ended up becoming an autonomous car company, and the autonomous competency lead to the robotics revolution. Even if… pic.twitter.com/mmCxGSstBY

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) April 4, 2026

The better the models the more people will join our community.

I am hearing the change in everyday people that is underway.

Less hate of AI. More discovery. https://t.co/VxYjWkb3mK

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 4, 2026

Lifelong curiosity often is rooted in mild paranoia.

Expertise often repels paranoia and makes people less interested in learning new things.

Those who don’t wish to be learning machines will find it difficult in times to come.

— Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) April 4, 2026

"Nothing could stop us. Not ourselves, not IBM. Not even gravity, it seemed. Steve would rouse me from sleep at 2:00 a.m. with a phone call to chat about an idea that suddenly crossed his mind." — John Sculley, 1983

— Steve Jobs Stories (@SJobs_Stories) April 3, 2026

Thank you @NYSE 🎉 pic.twitter.com/WSznsIh1gY

— Dylan Abruscato (@DylanAbruscato) April 3, 2026

Congratulations.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

Happens to the best of us 😅
@astro_reid comments on Earth's beauty after noting that the days are blurring together for the Artemis II astronauts. pic.twitter.com/TFg2Dc27Rr

— NASA (@NASA) April 4, 2026

Nikola Tesla on Thomas Edison:

"When I saw this wonderful man, who had no training at all, no advantages, and did it all himself, and saw the great results by virtue of his industry and application,

I felt mortified that I had squandered my life." pic.twitter.com/XyfpHIWiPf

— Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) April 4, 2026

The war the U.S. and Israel are fighting has much higher stakes than ever before. The entire geopolitical shape of the Middle East is now at issue, whether or not that was originally intended by Donald Trump.https://t.co/q6A9OlJPrb

— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) April 4, 2026

Quote of the day. #qotd pic.twitter.com/u2ZOiakYJm

— Forbes (@Forbes) April 4, 2026

Nobody tells you this: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you know failure is never final. https://t.co/hZfhPwsfJ9

— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) April 4, 2026

How does a major news organization push out such an egregious headline error? 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/UJIPJWCdFD

— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) April 4, 2026

In a potential ground war, the U.S. will need to either accept limited impact or invite uncontrollable escalation. https://t.co/5Rrmt4EsmI

— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) April 4, 2026

On this day in 1975: Microsoft founded. pic.twitter.com/FTjtIcD4td

— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 4, 2026

Five Scenarios for a U.S. Ground War on Iran A vexing geography offers no clean entry point. ........... For decades, a U.S. ground invasion of Iran was treated as the outer limit of escalation, too costly to launch and too destabilizing to sustain. That assumption is now eroding. As the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran intensifies, what once seemed unthinkable has become increasingly plausible. The question is no longer simply whether a ground invasion is possible, but where it could begin and whether it could achieve strategic results. ................. At first glance, Iran’s periphery seems to offer multiple entry points, from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman to the western borderlands. But this is the central illusion. The same geography that makes invasion conceivable also makes it strategically self-defeating. Iran’s military geography channels outside forces into a narrow set of coastal choke points, energy hubs, and border corridors that are less pathways to success than triggers of wider escalation. What appears to be a menu of options is, in reality, a map of consequences. ....................

Please recommend by book to those CEOs.

Becoming an AI-First Organization https://t.co/oW8GUB4vdm

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

https://t.co/QRHJxFYVfK

— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) April 4, 2026

Invest in my newstech startup. A trillion dollar play.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

My Uber driver in SF said he’s working on a startup, then asked me to sign an NDA before telling me the idea 😂 pic.twitter.com/qCIeUBvZyL

— Hubert Thieblot (@hthieblot) April 3, 2026

Some of this is going over my head. :)

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2026

It is stunningly beautiful today.

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 4, 2026

My perfect Saturday night:

- 5pm: Dinner date with wife
- 7pm: Home
- 7:15pm: Movie with wife and son
- 9pm: Asleep

My 20-year-old self would never believe I'd choose that "boring" Saturday night over just about anything in the world.

— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) April 4, 2026

I was at a steakhouse in Dallas, eating alone at the bar. Next to me was a young guy in a military uniform. He was eating a baked potato and a side salad.

Nothing else. He kept eyeing the steaks coming out of the kitchen, then looking at his wallet. I flagged the bartender.…

— Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 (@MikeBales) April 4, 2026