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Bhav

@bhavik.bsky.social
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Pissed off Democratic strategist who is pushing our party to be bolder, more strategic, and more effective in face of fascists who are literally shooting us in the face. In the past, I’ve proudly worked for VP Harris, Sen. Sanders, and Chair Ben Wikler.

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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Abdul is really good at this
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Still finishing the interview, but @abdulelsayed.bsky.social just showed what happens when talented, confident (progressive) communicators in the big tent match up against Fox News primetime hosts. They're not close to the same level. Our side has the clear edge.
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The Quiet Norm(an) @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is the America I want to fight for
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Panopticorn @dauntus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This hits hard.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This campaign ad getting a lot of attention. Austin has been a reporter for years, including working for a time in the Senate press gallery chasing down lawmakers.
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⚔️ Michael Whitney @michaelwhitney.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
holy fuck this is something else
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
many such takes
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dang, that’s an ad
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Tina Foster @fosterandflourish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow. what a candidate-his story and his great storytelling. powerful and inspiring.
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Saul Youssef @saulyoussef.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wow 🔥🗽🇺🇸
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Austin Ahlman @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people. Let’s take Nebraska back. Takenebraskaback.com
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Chrissy @mr-fremont.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is a fucking amazing political ad.
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
many such takes
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My friend Austin just launched an insurgent campaign to defeat one of the most corrupt Republicans in the country (Mike Flood) in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional district. It's a Trump +13 district, and he's going to flip it this cycle. If you’re as moved by his story as I am, please consider sharing.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A…stunning campaign launch. "My dad got cancer & my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid & the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house…when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket." @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Stuff like this is why Dems on Twitter make fun of Bluesky. Platner is none of those things, and you are untethered from reality. Those of us who actually care about defeating fascism (the massive super majority of Dems), are going to defeat Collins this year and flip the Senate.
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Bluesky: cease and desist anti-Platner bullshit. He's going to be the Democratic nominee and is our best shot to finally defeat Collins.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/03/2026
We are rebuilding news media from the ground up. Let's show Scott MacFarlane the power of independent media. Follow his YouTube channel now:
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My take is that the long overly familiar emails when she was his student were more problematic than actually asking her out. But it also clear that there was a lot of other sexist stuff going on in the department (the hiring women students for secretarial roles, particularly) to magnify anything.
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Full statement from Megan Wachspress re Biss: "I know it’s going to get ugly - it always does in these cases - but if there is one woman...who feels a little bit more empowered to recognize grooming for what it is...it will have been worth it. " cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...
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A Fuller Statement About My Bluesky Posts
Let me paint a picture of what it was like to be a woman math major at the University of Chicago circa 2004.
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is bravery, personified.
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The largely male effort to minimize this, including those who consider themselves otherwise radical, is, unfortunately, predictable.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
we got a committed “But he was just 6 years older than his student” guy in the replies
Art Martin @gartmartin9.bsky.social • 25m
Biss is only six years older than Wachspress.
meanwhile..Ben Collins started dating Kat when he was 38, she was 24--he had a very good media gig. she was just starting out.
why is Wachspress making these allegations tonight?

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Art Martin @gartmartin9.bsky.social • 30m
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You're six years younger than Biss. meanwhile..Ben Collins..the bf of Kat Abughazaleh...is 14 years older than her. started dating when he was 38, she was 24, he was much more prominent in media than her. and he got his best friend to write a story claiming a dark money campaign was against her@gartmartin9.bsky.social
FYI--Ben Collins is going to be the next Lee Atwater. K.A. puff piece in Wired by a
"chicago based reporter" and now, a former
"student" of Biss--Megan Wachspress--making allegations (she is 6 years younger than Biss). when MW was on Jeopardy, who tweeted about her? BC
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Arjun Jaikumar @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I 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.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Deeply honored and grateful to have the support of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a leader who has never been afraid to put justice, humanity, and the truth ahead of political convenience. Her courage has helped blaze the path for so many of us.
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am baglereau @ambaglereau.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Vote Kat. Sincerely, a proud former resident of IL-9
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Students have more power than politicians want to admit. Your rent is here. Your tuition is here. Your vote should be here too. TOMORROW is election day, don’t sit this one out!
An explainer graphic with a photo of a cat holding on to a stack of books. Copy reads: 

STUDENTS!
YOU PAY RENT HERE.
YOU LIVE HERE 9 MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR.
YOU CAN VOTE HERE.
If you're a college student with a permanent address in one place and go to school in another, you can choose which place to register and vote in.

HERE'S HOW:YOU CAN REGISTER TO VOTE AND VOTE ON THE SAME VISIT!
Online voter registration is closed, and the only way to register is via Same Day Voter Registration.
* Only available in-person at YOUR polling place!
* Registration requires 2 forms of ID, being 18 by general election day, 30 days of residence at an in-district residence, and U.S. citizenship.
Illinois driver's license • Utility bill
• Illinois state ID
• Postmarked mail
• Employee or student ID 
• Valid U.S. passport
• Credit card
• Public aid ID card
• Social security card
• Lease or rental contract
• Birth certificate
EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS

NORTHWESTERN
Evanston
Robert Crown Community Center
1801 Main St #2, Evanston, IL 60202

LOYOLA
40th Ward
Budlong Woods Library
5630 N. Lincoln Ave.
48th Ward
Broadway Armory
5917 N. Broadway St.
49th Ward
Willye B White Park
1610 W. Howard St.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Iowa's deadline passed. Both parties have candidates in all congressional races, & all statewide races. —For state House: Dems have candidates in 84 of 100 races GOP has candidates in 76 of 100 races —For state Senate: Dems have candidates in 20 of 25 races GOP has candidates in 19 of 25 races
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Hey @wbez.org @wbezpolitics.bsky.social feels like there’s a story here to cover.
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Believe women. Because I have a story like this. I know many other women who have lived this. I know far too many men who have treated their university’s students like their own personal dating app. And the Epstein files demonstrate how pervasive this is in academia
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's all happening here on Bluesky, the everything app
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
LOL
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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️ @cassiopeiacrow.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
As someone who now teaches undergrads, I can tell you that it’s real fucking easy to not prey on undergrads! In fact, you’d have to be a real creep to go out of your way to do so!
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It took becoming a professor myself to realize the implications - what it means to be attracted to someone who categorically has less power than you. I don't know if it's disqualifying, but there are too many women not getting a platform as a result of behavior like this for me not to say something
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/03/2026
BIG NEWS: The MeidasTouch Network is honored to have won the Advertiser’s Choice Award at the Independent Podcast & Creator Awards during South by Southwest (SXSW). 1/
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Shutterlander @shutterlander.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I’m not in the 9th district, sharing for contacts here who may be. (If it was my district, would probably vote for Kat.)
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Jefffrane @jefffrane.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wow! Read that last sentence.
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Hey @danielbiss.bsky.social what is your response?
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.
spinclass.substack.com
I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/02/2026
Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We have to meet voters where they are, and earn the trust of enough voters in order to win. Everything else is bullshit.
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
fuck
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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
update: ice gone, fled in a bunch of vehicles, no plates. on our street - OUR STREET. buncha cowards, trying to abduct someone from their vehicle is what I heard.
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