Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Other than use of the term “hella,” strong agree with this 000
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...cooperativeoverlapping.substack.comA Fuller Statement About My Bluesky PostsLet me paint a picture of what it was like to be a woman math major at the University of Chicago circa 2004. 401830327
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I was supporting Biss until now. I don’t know Megan well at all, but we worked in the same building when we were law clerks and so we met a few times. I feel terrible for her. 291
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarVice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Never let anyone tell you politics doesn't matter. Change is unimaginable until it's inevitable. 1367
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 15/02/2026brother you have to ask if Elon knows the first thing about the people that made American “culture” globally dominant 011
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Elon is, of course, openly racist and that is the purpose of this tweet, but this is a good reminder that he’s also dumb as rocks. Of the things that the British Isles have contributed to the American project, “culture” is not one. Gotta thank Black, Jewish, and Italian Americans for most of that 041
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 21/01/2026it is so funny that it is now apparently a bedrock principle of originalism that the unitary executive applies to everything except for the Federal Reserve which is different because we said so 1467698
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarMatt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14/01/2026There are a lot of reasons why I am running for Congress. This scared-of-our-shadow nonsense in the face of a brutally repressive agency like ICE is one of them. I will unapologetically fight to abolish ICE. Candidates like me cannot do it without your help. mattortega.com 2133
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/01/2026The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting. Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness. 5968801508
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026In case you weren't sure, no, Bari Weiss still hasn't cleared 60 Minutes (@60minutes.bsky.social) to air their piece on the Venezuelan men being tortured at CECOT. Instead this week, it's humanoid robots, figure skater Alysa Liu, and a Dutch improv comedy troupe.paramountpressexpress.comParamount Press Express | “60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 4Airs 7:30-8:30 PM, ET/ 7:00-8:00 PT, After NFL Football, on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+ HERE COME THE HUMANOIDS – For decades, engineers h 1029857
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I’m going to have no choice but to wear sweatpants on tomorrow’s flight, aren’t I 120
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 25/11/2025it’s been 40 years waiting for the Republican health care plan, what’s a few more decades between friends 020
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Dinosaur eat man . . . woman inherits the earth! 010
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18/11/2025one strong statistical finding which has been commented upon somewhat less than I think it should, is that young women have extremely unfavorable views of the Republican Party 3234
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarAlex @awcamb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025In the #CambMA municipal election, voters came out stronger for the School Committee vote than in prior years. Typically turnout is only 90-92% of the Cambridge City Council turnout. This year it was 98%. Did the SC vote end up influencing the CC result? A data anomaly suggests it's possible: 131
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025For the Netroots community, for everyone who knew @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social when he was a guy posting on DailyKos and SSP as "brownsox" who loved writing about elections, today is a joyous day as he's been elected to the Cambridge School Board with the strong backing of the local teachers' union.cambridgeday.comCambridge elects school committee newcomers, bringing back only Harding and Hudson - Cambridge DayCampaigners stand outside the Graham & Parks School on Tuesday. 66223
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarJustin S. @jsaif.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Happy Halloween! Don’t forget to vote!! 0156
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/11/2025For those voting in Cambridge's City Council elections, here's how I'd rank candidates: #1 - Burhan Azeem #2 - Marc McGovern #3 - Dana Bullister #4 - Ned Melanson #5 - Patti Nolan #6 - Sumbul Siddiqui #7 - Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler Don't rank: Simmons, Bisio, Hanratty, Hsu, Sherin, Wilson, Zusy 2124
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarVice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Incredible quotes from @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social. Been extremely impressed by him over the course of the campaign. One of the most clear eyed candidates for school committees. Both able to bring together a wide coalition from the ALA to teachers union and good sense of what moves the needle. 031
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew... 794146980
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarSam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Spanberger knocked off Dave Brat in 2018 after saying in debate “I am not Nancy Pelosi…Abigail Spanberger is my name” She never voted for Pelosi for Speaker This is 4th campaign in a row GOP trying to make the connection But doesn’t look like it will work this time either 4357
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025This whole thread. (Go vote, Cambridge! And please rank me No. 1 for school committee) 040
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarJustin S. @jsaif.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The point of this effort by Councillor Zusy is to kill all green multifamily inclusionary homes, which would increase Cambridge’s carbon emissions and send rents through the roof. 092
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarLaura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I think @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social saw one of those foxes on a recent trip to London, and then we saw a seal in the Thames in the middle of London last month. Too small to get a decent picture though. It's like "I swear, that little tiny blob in the water was a seal head." 131
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Follow along for the latest housing-related ride with the Cambridge Historical Commission here, with @jfsheehan.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025We have always had corruption in America but right know the whole country is being operated like a criminal enterprise, including kickbacks to the mob boss from universities, the media, law firms and now tech companies. 341133300
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarJesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Massachusetts is not perfect, but on days like today this place makes me really proud. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/07/m...bostonglobe.comHealey signs bill expanding reproductive, transgender care protections - The Boston Globe“No one is going to come to Massachusetts and attack our people, attack our institutions, attack our providers because we believe in freedom,” Healey said. 410826
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Exactly. Thinking in good/bad binary about AI is so dangerous especially while we still are getting our heads around the tech. It’s complex and complicated - and we shouldn’t be rushing to implement it in classrooms, or for that matter, to ban it — until we have a better grasp of it. 110
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Important thread from a great advocate for housing in Cambridge 031
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarLaura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025In answer to those basic questions about the process itself, not requests for personal details or anything, this is the response from the mayor, Cambridge Day reports: “There could be no answer, Simmons said, because members of the selection panel needed to respect the integrity of the process.”cambridgeday.comSearch process for a superintendent stumbled onto a candidate who'd stumbled even harder - Cambridge DayFacing continued criticism even from within its own ranks for a superintendent search process that has seemed secretive and scattered, School Committee members moved Tuesday toward releasing more info... 121
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarLaura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025And apparently there’s more to come on this story. But in the meantime I’ll note that crap like this is why @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social is running for Cambridge School Committee. And it’s why transparency, which can maybe sound generic, is one of the things he talks about most.arjunjaikumar.comArjun for CambridgeA more transparent, accountable, and equitable Cambridge. 231
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Went down to support @local26-unitehere.bsky.social and walk their picket line amid the rain. Aramark workers deserve a living wage! If you want to support, you can still attend and enjoy the games: just don’t buy food or drink in the park. You can bring food in (or pregame)! 040
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarEugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025To my friends & followers, from what I've read UNITE-HERE Local #26 is saying boycott concessions. They consider that to be the picket line. They are not asking you to boycott the Red Sox or Fenway Park. Go to the game. Don't buy food & drinks from scabs. Walk the line with any picketers. 15730
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Looks very similar to attacks on Black scholars. *Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct *Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy *Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone! 372153594
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A reporter teaming up with and granting anonymity to a race science guy who had hacked admissions data isn’t against the rules at the NYTimes but criticizing that reporter is. Fascinating. 101285237
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The New York Times is not beating the allegations. Uncritically accepting hacked information from a white supremacist, whitewashing his academic credentials, using it to run a baseless hit piece on a Democratic politician. Must be a day ending in Y. 1234
Reposted by Arjun Jaikumarcapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/ 7363322104
Reposted by Arjun Jaikumars. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/07/2025Spreading misinformation about trans people being responsible for bad things happening is a great way to reinforce transphobic feedback loops and that's exactly why the right loves doing it.wired.comA Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She’s Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo MachineNational Guard pilot Jo Ellis is suing a right-wing influencer for falsely blaming her for a DC crash that killed 67 people. A WIRED review reveals 12 similar incidents of scapegoating trans people. 026971
Reposted by Arjun Jaikumarryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/07/2025it is unfortunate that extremely dumb people elected a government that is going to ruin their lives. we tried to stop them but they refused to listen, again. only hope is the ones that survive learn something from the experience 1873094
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Remember when they used to pretend they were only against "illegal immigration"? 516138
Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 11/05/2025People saying this should be a yellow card but I’m trying to figure why it’s not red 010
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarMatt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 23/04/2025Some fans have been clear since day one on this 06816
Reposted by Arjun Jaikumarm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 19/04/2025trump's people using ms paint to put "MS13" in typed letters on abrego garcia's knuckles is perhaps the stupidest lie they've ever attempted 401254146
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I don’t think the 250th celebrations in 2026 are going to go the way Trump wants them to go. He’s Streisand Effect-ing the basics of American history. 744281
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...wgntv.comNorthwestern University to self-fund research despite Trump administration freezeWhile university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede… 142125608
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025During the campaign, Trump said it would be so easy to end the war in Ukraine he could do it in 24 hours and in fact would do it before being inaugurated. Three months after his inauguration, his chief diplomat now says it is so hard he may stop trying. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...nytimes.comRubio Says U.S. to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress Soon“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris. 62477159
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Literally the first article of impeachment against Nixon and prohibited by law 141135387
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. 805812268225544
Reposted by Arjun JaikumarAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Wow it’s almost as if this was an entirely predictable outcome, you fools 1964222833
