Suchitra Vijayan

2 weeks ago | thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan

On April 3, 2025, a coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations—including 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media—issued an open letter to the international community. In clear, urgent language, it warned of an escalating campaign by the Israeli government to suppress dissent, dismantle civil society, and insulate itself from legal scrutiny.

1 month ago | thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan

"Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn't the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away."— Mahmoud Khalil, letter from ICE detention, March 2025"They really brutalized me."— Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, recalling his gagging and beating in a U.S. courtroom, 1969The mask is off.

1 month ago | thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan

On April 7, 2025, the United States Supreme Court quietly authorized what can only be called a state-sanctioned act of disappearance. In a four-paragraph, unsigned per curiam opinion, the Court vacated two emergency restraining orders that had temporarily halted the Trump administration’s mass deportation of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This ruling—in Trump v.

1 month ago | mediapodcast.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan

Senator Cory Booker spoke for over 24 hours straight — a historic marathon of words that many media outlets immediately heralded as a sign of political revival, resistance, and moral courage. “Finally, some fire,” said The New York Times. “A stunt that worked,” said Bloomberg. Pundits praised his energy, commitment, stamina and “moxie”. But we’re not clapping. It's Not You, It's The Media is a reader-supported publication.

1 month ago | mediapodcast.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan

No hearings. No due process. No evidence of crimes. Deported under a wartime law from 1798. Thrown into CECOT, El Salvador’s most brutal prison—where prisoners are meant to disappear. This happened despite a federal judge explicitly blocking the deportations. The Trump administration ignored the ruling and carried them out anyway. The U.S. Just Deported 200+ Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Notorious Mega-Prison—Defying a Court Order. This wasn’t just another deportation.