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Bapu Vaitla

@bapuvaitla.bsky.social
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City Council member in Davis, CA, currently serving as Mayor; digital data/gender equity researcher at Data2X; lecturer at UC Davis

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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is murder.
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Video: Federal Agent Fatally Shoots Woman in Minneapolis
Federal officials claimed that the 37-year-old woman was trying to kill agents with a car in Minneapolis, while city and state officials disputed their account.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"“What Netanyahu is doing now in Gaza is outrageously brutal,” [former Prime Minister] Mr. Olmert said. “How can ministers at the highest level say all Gazans are Hamas and then herd them into camps? We are in a fight for the soul of Israel.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...
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Netanyahu and an Israel Without Restraint
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Reflections on political violence: bapuvaitla.com/on-political...
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On political violence - bapu vaitla
Conservative political organizer Charlie Kirk was killed last week. The internet is afire with fury and blame, and there’s a real risk that tensions could spiral out of control into more bloodshed. Re...
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Wednesday morning yoga! Come join.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
What is the point of all this? Who becomes safer?
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Famine confirmed in Gaza City region, global hunger monitor says
More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...
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The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
300k dead, of whom 200k are children. This is not only or primarily on Musk. This is on the thoughtlessness and cruelty of the Trump administration.
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The new right's core philosophical belief is the same as it ever was: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. What's different is their skill in shaping culture by exploiting the intersection of human cognitive biases, loopholes in democracy, and digital information networks.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Israel’s Total Blockade of Gaza Has Created ‘Catastrophic’ Conditions, Doctors Say
The effect of Israel’s total siege has become “catastrophic,” doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Republicans in Congress, is letting children die what you signed up for?
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As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is a personal message. The views expressed are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of City Council or the City of Davis. Above all, the job of an elected official is to protect the community. They don’t always succeed, as the tragic shooting on Picnic Day made clear. 1/10
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Gender-environment data can help shift power & advance #ClimateJustice. Join @aaptiinstitute & @Data2X for a deep dive into feminist data practices & climate resilience! 📅 March 17 |📍 Ford Foundation, NYC 🔗 RSVP by March 13: bit.ly/41x9JT7
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Please join us in Sacramento on Friday, March 7 from 12-4 PM to Stand Up For Science!
A flyer for stand up for science Sacramento on March 7 from 12-4.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“Sell all you have and give to the poor” is in the Bible (Matthew 19:21). “Cut Medicaid so the rich can become richer,” as far as I know, is not.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Go @tobykiers.bsky.social go! Amazing work.
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How Fungi Move Among Us
Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“Competent white men,” Beattie wrote last October, “must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
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Opinion | Trump Is on the Wrong Side of History by Design (Gift Article)
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Give credit where credit is due. UC Davis under Chancellor May's leadership has done a stellar job of building housing over the last seven years.
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UCD: Davis apartment vacancy rate continues to improve
Average rent increases modestly
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Infuriating. Not only is this completely unjust, but I can't think of a more asinine foreign policy move to make as an incoming president.
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Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ but to Leave Gaza: Live Updates
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Absolutely love this. We're going to get there, step by step.
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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
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Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a very useful catch-up primer on how the Trump administration is running NIH/NSF/CDC so far. Empathy for @dereklowe.bsky.social writing and rewriting repeatedly - the situation seems to change every half hour. www.science.org/content/blog...
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2025
Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Health care for all. Housing for all. Education for all. Transit for all. Clean air, water, and energy for all. Is that not coherent enough?
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‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump
More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.
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Bapu Vaitla @bapuvaitla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is beyond inhumane. "One study estimated that if PEPFAR were to end, as many as 600,000 lives would be lost over the next decade in South Africa alone." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
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Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
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