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Asian Cajun Socialist

@dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social
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Loves cats, food, ancient history, film noir, left politics, and unions. Capitalism, not so much. #ActuallyAutistic and do not suffer fools gladly. Want my color🌹and beverage ☕️ back. Denial of anyone’s humanity or being a jerk = instant block

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would pay to see that
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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: In response to the 2011 uprising, the Egyptian state has adopted an urban model primarily geared toward profit and security control. From a new capital city in the desert to a real estate market that prices out most Egyptians, @ezz-eldin.bsky.social explains more: timep.org/2026/09/24/h...
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People struggling financially have voted predominantly for the AfD in recent elections. Not in Berlin. The Left put socializing corporate landlords on the ballot, and won the election and this group.
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La Girafe @lashawndab.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Black women unemployment has surpassed that of Black men. I’m not seeing any targeted programs or policies to address this.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/09/2026
The chief beneficiaries of the "War on Terror" have been the military-industrial complex and the security industry, both of which are transforming the US into an occupied territory controlled by counterinsurgency strategy. The war has come home. In 2026, as in 2001, we continue to resist it. 🏴 🏴 🏴
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Afghanistan: The Taliban Victory in a Global Context
A veteran of the US occupation of Afghanistan discusses this defeat for US imperialism—framing the Taliban in the context of a global wave of fascism.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
organizingmythoughts.org
Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Leave no scoundrel un-indicted. MAGA is a moral cancer: “Eisenhower decided that ignoring the senator was better than elevating him through direct confrontation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Somewhere, Roy Cohn Is Smiling (Gift Article)
Trump needed only one teacher.
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Shameful
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"A tenured citizen professor, an international graduate worker, a dining-hall worker, an undocumented student, and a researcher dependent on federal funding confront this crisis from very different positions. A collective defense of higher education has to begin from these differences..."
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
it is remarkable and hilarious watching the signers of the cofnas defense letter play dumb when confronted with cofnas' blatant racism after presenting themselves as having superior ethics
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Shameful, yet for those two it’s just another day ending in “y”
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Nailed it
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The "New York Times" article on the horrible antisemitic attack at Central Synagogue last night suggests without explicitly claiming links between the attack and Mamdani's anti-Netanyahu rhetoric... before acknowledging that the attacker actually hated Mamdani.
"City Hall said both the mayor and the head of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism reached out to Rabbi Buchdahl. Mr. Mamdani has faced calls to tone down and bring more nuance to the way he criticizes Israel, particularly after he released a video that urged federal authorities to arrest the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mr. Mamdani has said he is committed to protecting New York’s Jews and believes in holding Israeli leadership to account for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Earlier this week, a group of rabbis representing a range of religious denominations and political perspectives met with the mayor privately in City Hall. Many asked that he lower the temperature. Politicians have made similar calls for sensitivity.

“You can’t divorce the dramatic increase in violence targeted at the Jewish community from the political climate and the tone and tenor of the discourse around Jews and Israel,” said Micah Lasher, who won the Democratic primary in June to represent the congressional district that includes Central Synagogue, in an interview Saturday.""Though Mr. Montes’s mental state on Saturday remained unclear, a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly said that he had a history of mental health issues documented with the Police Department. Before Friday, Mr. Montes had also been arrested at least three times in New York City on a series of robbery charges.

A social media account that shared a name with Mr. Montes showed a handful of posts criticizing Mr. Mamdani and several more that mention Judaism or used Hebrew."
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Giuliani's father did time in Sing Sing for armed robbery and was reportedly an enforcer for his brother-in-law's loan-sharking operation. www.nytimes.com/2000/08/10/n...
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 13/08/2026
The order dismissing the BS antisemitism case against Harvard is only 4 pages long but it includes one really really important passage that highlights exactly what we've all been saying about the abusive nature of these charges: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... 🧵🧵🧵
The Government, perhaps in a sense of the foreboding, repositions its
argument on the alternative ground that, ongoing or not, it has stated a viable
claim for damages associated with the less contestable 2023-2024 academic
year violations. Assuming without deciding that an action for recovery of
previously-granted funds qualifies as “any other means authorized by law”
(whether through Title VI or a breach of contract theory of liability),2 the
controlling statute unequivocally authorizes the Government to take actiononly if and after it “has advised the appropriate person or persons of the
failure to comply with the requirement and has determined that compliance
cannot be secured by voluntary means.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000d-1. The
Government provided the requisite notice underlying this action on June 30,
2025. As noted above, the Amended Complaint is devoid of any factual
allegations plausibly establishing that any events that might be construed as
evidence of noncompliance occurred after June 30, 2025.3
To the extent the Government argues that this result makes it “virtually
impossible for the United States to win a Title VI suit because a reasonable
defendant would cease its indifference as soon as the United States threatens
to withhold funding,” Opp’n [Dkt # 56] at 31 n.6, the Government
misconstrues, inadvertently or not, the purpose of an enforcement action
under § 2000d-1. Congress’s intent was not to penalize a wayward funding
recipient but instead to incentivize it to bring itself into compliance with Title
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I explain why trusted in-group messengers are effective in correcting false beliefs; why moral-emotional & out-group-hostile content thrives online; and how institutions can make constructive disagreement & intellectual humility part of their culture rather. www.eurasiareview.com/11082026-eur...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📌 ICYMI: The Professor Arday story seems a bit of a mess for Cambridge, but it doesn't seem to invoke the foreign influence, Big Tech and safeguarding issues of the Professor Orr story Print Edition #whatthepapersdontsay
bylinetimes.com
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement prospect.org/2026/06/12/n... Speaking to donors, the Yimby lobby admits it seeks to eliminate citizen participation from land use. This is undemocratic and Nithya Raman should be asked where she stands.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Now we know why Penelope wanted to go to the farthest West: to open a dessert cafe in California. There’s also a Penelope’s coffee shop down the street
Pillar in front of a cafe has “Odyssia” displayed vertically in contrasting tiles
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/07/2026
Gavin Newsom has no moral code or unshakeable political beliefs. His primary purpose in life has been serving rich people, which he learned from his dad and continues today.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 20/07/2026
UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.
statesman.com
UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...
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The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American Prospect
How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
Carl Kolchak, of course
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now I know why great-uncle Toby’s speakeasy was so popular
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wrote a piece about Moraff, who worked here in Pittsburgh, and how he tried to get me to delete published quotes to help a candidate of his. Shady character paydayreport.com/platners-gur...
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Platner’s Guru Daniel Moraff Asked Me to Lie for Him (I Didn’t)
Platner's campaign guru asked me to lie for him and the incident raises questions about what journalists may have lied!
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
this guy also needs to just not be allowed near democratic politics ever again. same with everyone who thought any of this was a good idea
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The ‘Mad Scientist’ Behind Graham Platner’s Scandal-Plagued Rise
Dan Moraff rushed the vetting of the Maine Senate candidate. He says he’s trying to blow up the way Democrats run campaigns.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/07/2026
America250 has announced Times Sq show lineup: Mary J. Blige, Brad Paisley, and NE-YO, with Jim Gaffigan as Host Giving 4th Broadcast Benefit Show Seeks to Raise Funds for Diverse Charitable Causes and Transform America’s Independence Day as a New Tradition of Generosity Livestream: America250.org
Pre-show programming begins on July 3 at 9:45 a.m. ET
with the first Ball Drop for Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Giving 4th Broadcast will stream live and free for people around the world on July 3, from 9:00 p.m. ET on July 3 to 12:15 a.m. on July
4. While the main show will conclude at approximately
12:15 a.m., the livestream will continue throughout the evening as the countdowns continue west through Central Time, Mountain Time, Pacific Time, Alaska Time, and Hawaii-Aleutian Time. The final Ball Drop will occur at 7:00 a.m. ET for American Samoa.
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Japanese internment camp survivors demand closure of Dilley, TX family detention center
DILLEY, Texas (RNS and Texas Tribune) — Completing a pilgrimage from the Texas site of a World War II internment camp, interfaith activists said history is repeating itself at the nation's only family...
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Henry Burke @henryburke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Centrists are so excited to punch left that they're missing that this is clearly a grift. It's run by a college sophomore whose only experience is seemingly driving his car a lot and sinecure at WelcomePAC, a job his dad (WelcomePAC's Director of Electoral Programs & Finance Chair) secured for him
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 26/06/2026
Top story: When Jose Luis Bautista fell 8 stories from the ceiling of the SpaceX Starfactory, he became the first worker to die on the job. But far from the first to be injured. The Observer obtained OSHA reports for hundreds of injuries at the site, from burns to broken bones.
texasobserver.org
Worker's Death at SpaceX Factory Followed Hundreds of Injuries in Recent Years
A 25-year-old died last month of “blunt force trauma due to a fall.” An Observer analysis found that the injury rate at "Starbase" was well above an industry national average.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Shin Godzilla's theme of a stuffy political old guard being both unprepared and unwilling to handle apocalyptic disaster and effectively forcing a proactive new group to take the reins is, ummm, pretty timely.
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Guess it’s time to get more
A selection of zines: The Centralia IWW, Troubling Rise of Urban Alchemy, Radical History of Seattle’s International District, Anarchism in the Ottoman Empire, and 28 Ways to Make the World Less Hostile to Neurodivergent People
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
You could have asked any landscaping expert for a comment. Respect to the reporter who went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Here in CA, the state YIMBY group is again advocating for massive tax breaks for billionaires and against affordable housing. If there’s anyone who still considers CA YIMBY remotely progressive, take a look at the new AB 736 (Wicks), a giveaway to billionaires that will defund affordable housing
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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hey look at what @buffywicks.bsky.social the Affordable Housing Slayer is doing. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCo...
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.
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2 SoCal men arrested in alleged plot targeting UFC fights at White House
Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, and Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills were arrested on Saturday, the day before the fight.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When generating bibliographies, the models not only omit female authors or misattribute women’s work to male authors; they will also produce lists of works cited in which all work by men is attributed to its authors, while work by female scholars is simply left unattributed.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”
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