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Abhimat Gautam

@abhimat.net
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अभिमत कृष्ण गौतम • Astronomy postdoc at UCLA who likes starry nights, social justice, progressive policy, long runs, and good typography • he/him/his

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 20/08/2026
I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY need Angelenos to vote for Nithya Raman. We desperately need State Capacity Progressives running both of our nation’s largest cities.
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 16/08/2026
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Principal Skinner: Am I Out Of Touch? No, It's The Children
Alt: Gif of Principal Skinner from Simpsons: Am I Out Of Touch? No, It's The Children Who Are Wrong
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!
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Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 05/08/2026
foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/30/c...
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How Gen Z ‘Cockroaches’ Beat Modi at His Own Game
India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Some humans have the hubris to think we can geo-engineer other planets to suit our biological needs, when in fact we're taking the perfect planet, that we've evolved to co-exist with, and literally burning it up with fossil fuels.
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 11/07/2026
@viticci.macstories.net 🙈
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026
It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026
the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...
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Motonormativity and Speed Limits | Published in Findings
By Jeremy de Sousa, Alessia Vinet & 3 more. Cars pose a far greater threat to other road users than e-micromobility, raising a basic question for traffic safety: which modes should actually be limited...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2026
that’s right
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sorry but the way we vote in L.A. makes no sense. Every registered voter is sent a ballot, votes, drops them off, and then an army of workers methodically and with full transparency works through them to ensure there are no mistakes and you get a text and email if there's a problem? That's fucked.
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 29/05/2026
So fucking enraging
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Lol yes remember when everyone booed email at the graduation ceremonies? Me neither. The Dewey Decimalites learned about the card catalog in 1st grade and by 12th grade we were teaching our parents about search engines. All of that shit was useful. AI is for lazy incurious chumps and perverts.
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 30/04/2026
Really enjoyed watching your run, great job! 🧡
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 12/04/2026
Not a historian, but I really liked How to Hide an Empire us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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How to Hide an Empire
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of the Year | An NPR Staff Pick...
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 10/04/2026
Continue to be proud of our local graffiti artists
Graffiti on a large concrete wall reading “Abolish Ice”, “Fuck Trump”, and “Free Gaza”Graffiti on a large concrete wall reading “Fuck Trump”, “End the War”, and “Free Gaza”
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I keep saying “there are no great consumer AI products” and people keep replying to me with like model capability updates and wild OpenClaw setups and I really fear Software Brain is irreversible
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 02/04/2026
So the sequence of events is (1) hire a crony AG, (2) have crony AG first release, then (3) cover up the Epstein files, (4) start two wars to distract from the Epstein files, (5) fire the AG to distract from the garbage fire that the second war ended up being… … while (6) profiting all the way 🫤
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/03/2026
crucial security advice
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Henry Mantel @henrymantelforla.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It is absurd that the objections of a few homeowners are enough to create massive delays and cost increases for infrastructure projects. We need public transit and the studies show the K Line won't be a problem, the Metro Board should just approve the DEIR Alignment!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Fortunately, LA Metro converted their fleet to CNG & contracted for fossil fuel-free sewage and dairy farm gas. Take transit, ride a bike/ebike. Buses have front bike racks. Trains have bike sections. Download the Transit app & set it for bike+bus+train. You have options beyond the gas pump
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/02/2026
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I’m not watching that video st 3am but I don’t need to see it know this is a grave violation of US and international law. From my area of study I can tell you that it’s easy to think the UN Charter doesn’t mean much, but we want to live in a world that values its prohibition on aggressive warfare
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026
I'm just so fucking tired of this fucking nightmare hellscape of a society
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
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ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 08/02/2026
Me surprised every year that the Super Bowl is happening next week when I find out the week before… 👀
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/02/2026
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
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LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 02/02/2026
Completely painted over in black / redacted now 🙃
Billboard ad near Amazon’s studios in Culver City initially for the Melania movie, now painted completely black after it was vandalized.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2026
remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”
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Abhimat Gautam @abhimat.net · 28/01/2026
💔 this is incredibly inhumane
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/01/2026
On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
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