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Dr. Ashok Karra@akarra.bsky.social |
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i'm bad at social media. i'm too earnest for this and i like saying more than takes or witticisms. do say hi, and please do take a look at my blog:
encouragement.ghost.io
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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I wrote for More Perfect Union about the Biden administrations proposal to implement new protections for workers who are agonizing under extreme heat.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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can't have that
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Timothy
@herooftim.bsky.social
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An autistic man was wrongfully convicted 20 yrs ago & put on death row for his kid’s death based on a now discredited theory
Hospital staff judged his autistic traits as signs of guilt
Read more & Sign here to help stop the Oct 17 execution of Robert Roberson an innocent autistic father
#SignalBoost
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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this looks amazing! thank you for sharing
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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an excellent read
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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White Nebraska man shoots and wounds 7 immigrant neighbors.
"Police previously received a complaint from the family that Booth had made an obscene gesture and told them to go back to where they came from and ‘speak English,’ Crete Police Chief Gary Young said Saturday.”
apnews.com/article/man-...
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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the republican former governor of mississippi is suing a reporter for defamation after she exposed the misuse of $77 million in federal welfare funds, and she could go to prison.
all of these guys have rigged the system in their favor to punish critics.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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I’m increasingly seeing this sort of thing not as an inability to imagine likely consequences, but as a refusal to do so, for which one is handsomely compensated
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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What can be done locally, by normal people, to help get out the vote and inform people of the stakes of the general election? I'll start: You can work at the polls: nyc.electiondayworker.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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NEW: You sent bolts many questions, asking how elections work in France & the UK.
Is there gerrymandering? disenfranchisement? what are these runoffs? What's the deal with proxy voting?!
We answered 10 in run-up to this week's big elections: boltsmag.org/how-voting-w...
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
@nemobluecrj.bsky.social
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The best history prof I had at UT (RIP) told us exactly this on the first day that we started covering the US Civil War. Told the whole damn lecture hall of like 400+ students that if there's one lesson that we all should take away from this unit, it's that we didn't go hard enough on the traitors.
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Hrag Vartanian
@hrag.bsky.social
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The classism is unhinged in the art community.
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rifka from Preroll Honda Lesbian
@rifka.bsky.social
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Horror movies cant scare me i have lived in like 3 places in the US
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keeks
@thetallblonde.bsky.social
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i hate doing this but i need this treatment. thank you.
gofund.me/a178305c
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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NNAF has a directory of local abortion funds if you want to target your money and/or volunteer abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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The younger generation in America has only known Trumpism—that’s normalized in a way
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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I think, in the case of the Democratic Party, there should be real anger at the status of the heritage foundation. Are they tax incentivized to literally promote fascist policies? Why are they proximate to power?
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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But yeah, it’s gotta be a syllabus with goals and milestones. What exactly do you want people to know? What message would you like them to convey? What do you want them to do and how will they do it?
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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Political education is so necessary for activism! The architects of project 2025 are out there bragging about it because they want their base mobilized. A response might emphasize the importance of, say, state or doj not being staffed by Jan 6 attendees
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Miles Grant
@milesgrant.bsky.social
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Boston Globe op-eds on Biden Old in the last week: 5 Boston Globe op-eds mentioning Trump’s “Black jobs” rant: 0
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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Your writing is great. Wish I could be as clear and impactful
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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illegal foreclosures. opening unauthorized user accounts. snitching on places that give you extra food. all my homies hate banks but wells fargo is fucking on one
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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"My Black woman’s anger is a molten pond at the core of me, my most fiercely guarded secret. I know how much of my life as a powerful feeling woman is laced through with this net of rage." -Audre Lorde
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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I wrote about this political moment instead of doomscrolling. Here's a quote: "When libraries and public schools are gone, pretty much the only thing left for the state to do will be violence. The lack of government services... has created a breach of trust, and the lack of trust runs both ways."
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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i bought "on violence" and was just stunned by the contempt for her own students. straight up panic at things that did not materialize
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caitlin m. green
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
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as a democrat i refuse to hand wins to the republicans by making a martyr of trump or bypassing traditional checks and balances that will make it easy to call us authoritarian. i prefer to hand wins to the republicans by doing all their policy goals for them
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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*four
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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If you didn't already know, Taraji P. Henson is a joy, a treasure, and a straight-up boss.
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Guillermo Esteves
@guille.lol
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social can I get some positive vibes for my boy Gus Gus? He just got diagnosed with cancer last Friday 😞
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Do the Democratic elite believe that 45 is an existential threat? If they actually do, what would you expect to see right now? Are you seeing that?
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Blue sky jerk
@rajandelman.bsky.social
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Realizing White Collar and Suits are two different shows. I'd been getting them mixed up because they're both named after clothes
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund
@psabortionfund.bsky.social
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South Carolina has been fighting for accessible abortion long before the Dobbs decision, and we’re still here fighting now. The need keeps increasing while the resources decrease, but we are scrappy and will continue to find ways to get South Carolinians (+ all Southerners) the care they deserve.
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Um, we just doubled what we've raised to flip Arizona over the past three months in two hours. Thanks, Kevin and everyone!
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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Resignees said they experienced "an Admin that has prioritized politics over just & fair policymaking; profit over national security; falsehoods over facts; directives over debate; ideology over experience, and special interest over the equal enforcement of the law" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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he's surrounded by so-called centrists and moderates. and they can't help him right now. they don't have the disposition to fight and can't actually connect with people.
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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Every baseball fan is convinced that the one player not currently on the team is the key to winning the World Series, because magical thinking is not limited to politics
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Jessica Zellers
@stellagarp.bsky.social
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Hi everyone! One *extremely meaningful* thing you can do to fight back is to join library boards. Usually this is an appointed position, not elected. The time commitment for most public library board members is 1-2 hours monthly. I'm a former library director. Ask me anything.
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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This line just sneers at everyone who isn’t Neil Gorsuch. What a disgrace.
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jon ben-menachem
@jbenmenachem.com
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did anyone catch the protest-bashing line in gorsuch's homelessness decision? "It makes no difference whether the defendant is a person experiencing homelessness, on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building"
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Perry Bacon
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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"We’re at this place where both candidates are repeatedly using a moral panic and pushing more state power and systemic repression at the border and in communities across the country." www.democracynow.org/2024/6/28/bi...
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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A prosecutor reviewed Marcellus Williams's case and found “clear and convincing evidence” of his innocence. The Missouri Supreme Court still set an execution date. Today, the circuit court will decide if it'll hold a hearing and consider that evidence
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Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
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The US is blindly carceral. Faced with the question of what justice is, it freaks out, doesn’t want to answer it, wants to make the question and people associated with it disappear. Of course justice in this case would involve asking about the First Nations.
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brooklynnygirl
@brooklynnygirl.bsky.social
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I wish Biden would stop doing Trump's work and instead of privatizing Medicare would work on getting Single Payer Medicare For All
www.levernews.com/insurers-are...
Private health insurers are systematically taking advantage of Medicare while denying care to seniors, a new report shows.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
@sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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This Trump supporter understands more about public education than Jay-Z “I’m for less government, but it’s government’s role to provide a good public education,” he said. “If you want to send your kid to private school, then you should pay for it.”
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