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Kavitha Rajagopalan

@kxraja.bsky.social
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Director, Research & Analysis @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Migration + Cities, Asian digital diaspora. Pediatric transplant mom.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1h
NYT has stolen reporting from reporters all around the world (often local news) for at least 20 years. Now that it's stealing w/o credit from US reporters with more of a platform, I hope people will finally notice.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 22h
Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.
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Truck American Workforce - Technological Innovations for a Better Life | BYD USA
BYD TRUCKS BYD MOTORS american workforce Over 750 unionized employees work together to build battery electric buses and buses at BYD's 556,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Californ...
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 20h
Jane Doe said she went there that night to meet up with her friend. She believed he was her friend. And he invited his real friends into that room.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 21h
India is racing to build data centers for the AI boom. Osama Manzar argues that the communities giving up their land, water, and space should have a say in who benefits restofworld.org/2026/india-data-cen…
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India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing
Communities are being left behind as AI companies secure tax breaks, cheap land from willing governments.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It was 91° at 11:50am in Delano CA. Farm workers were cutting grape bunches, sorting them, and packing them into cardboard boxes. "Julia" tells us, "These high temperatures are intimidating. I have serious concerns of getting sick because of the heat." #WeFeedYou
 Farm workers cutting grape bunches, sorting them, and packing them into cardboard boxes.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...
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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In an equally impressive sweep of city council races, allies of Morales, a democratic socialist, and the progressive organization Reclaim RI have won every race they contested but one, which remains too close to call." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Socialist Wave Hits Rhode Island - Dissent Magazine
The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bring back noncitizen voting in NY!!! Literally 80% of corona queens has no say in how their tax money is spent in their own neighborhoods.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
During Navajo Nation primaries there were 142,912 registered voters and only 49,274 of them actually voted.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today Refugees International and Global Strategic Litigation Council published a report based on months of research and interviews with third country nationals removed by U.S. to Costa Rica. Have a read! www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
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Left in Limbo: Emerging Challenges for Third Country Nationals Forcibly Transferred by the United States to Costa Rica - Refugees International
The Costa Rican government and IOM must undertake concrete measures to protect the rights of individuals forcibly transferred to Costa Rica.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i...
According to the internal report on Blaise's death, "A mortality review committee (MRC) determined BTC did not provide Ms. BLAISE medical care within the safe limits of practice."

The MRC found that, after Blaise collapsed, "1) BTC health staff deviated from basic life support (BLS) protocols; 2) Health staff failed to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite Ms. BLAISE's pulselessness; and 3) Health staff did not include Ms. BLAISE's vital signs with their documentation of the emergency response."

The mortality report contradicts the public report ICE published on Blaise's death, which claimed that staff called for emergency medical services (EMS) and "immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "continued providing CPR until EMS personnel arrived."
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They’ve also sent masked armed men into churches to kidnap worshippers, despite the Christian belief in sanctuary. But those Christians are not white.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What I have to say about Christa Pike is that the state doesn’t give life and has no right to take it.
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Would def watch a show starring her and Sam Reid just making everyone swoon.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow, lotta people real angry at the concept of farm workers being people in the replies on this one! This is why it's so wild when people complain that "farmers are racist." Wait till you hear what some "leftists" have to say about farm workers 💀
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Apysarapo Teloresumo: Acrobacias de Singham
ALT: Apysarapo Teloresumo: Acrobacias de Singham
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Most women are raped by people close to them, including close relatives and friends, in homes or private spaces, quietly, without being beaten.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Book of Genocides, by Dana Mashoian Walrath traces ten genocides, beginning with the genocide of the First Peoples of the Americas. I'm honored that By the Fire We Carry is included in the book's "Keep Reading" section.
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 01/10/2026
In immigration court, the judge and the prosecutor both work for the executive branch, and Trump can fire the judges. Heck of a system, as @radleybalko.bsky.social explains.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 01/10/2026
“There is no more Tibet in the official documents of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
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What’s in a Name? Tibet, Xizang, and the Politics of Erasure
Museums are guardians of historical narratives and play inherently political roles in shaping perceptions across time and space.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The suit against the federal government and a second lawsuit filed Thursday allege federal agents violated Good’s constitutional rights and DHS policies, and conspired to deny equal protection to Somali and Hispanic people.
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Lawsuit over Renee Good’s killing names ICE agent, Miller, Noem
Renee Good’s family filed two lawsuits Thursday alleging federal agents violated Good’s constitutional rights and DHS policies, and conspired to deny equal protection to Somali and Hispanic people.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fake pockets are so stupid. Why!? Just make a pocket or do something beautiful with embroidery or something!?
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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Cornell 7 we’re all talking about? That story was broken in the work of Cereese Qusba, who is a reporter at The Ithaca Voice and a news editor at The Cornell Daily Sun, two independent newspapers. She is still herself, a student at Cornell University.
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Melody Kay Young @melodykayyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“For more than two months, our mom has cried every night wondering who killed her husband, lifelong partner, and our father. When a government agent shoots someone, the least they can do is take responsibility...ICE has hidden the killer and tried to drag our father’s good name through the mud.”
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey Vivek! Nice friends you got there! Usha, do you leave your kids alone with their dad?
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...
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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthol...
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right! Warnock is literally a rev!!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026
This is amazing
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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”- Gramsci ifloz.substack.com/p/every-sing...
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EVERY SINGLE FUCKER IN THAT ROOM KNEW WHO HE MEANT
Norway's foreign minister stood up at the UN, read the rap sheet out loud, and never once had to say that POFS name.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And now DHS is out with a FAST denial, considering it’s midnight on a Saturday.
Post at 11:50 PM: Homeland Security @DHSgov
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This is false. No one is off the table. We will continue to arrest any and all illegal aliens that come into our path.
Anyone in our country illegally will be arrested and deported.
In an effort to protect American citizens, ICE has initiated a nationwide public safety surge in sanctuary cities where our brave officers will be targeting criminal illegal aliens—many released from jails by sanctuary politicians—including murderers, rapists, child predators, and gang members.

Underlying quote tweet excerpted below. 
Jennie Taer • @JennieSTaer • 2h
SCOOP: ICE officers across the country were told this weekend to stop arresting non-criminals, agency sources tell @realDailyWire
Now, ICE may only arrest illegal immigrants…
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yall don’t eat enough vegetables 🫣
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A Phoenix man deported to Equatorial Guinea was hospitalized after passing out in a police-station cell, where he's been held "incommunicado" for two weeks following his arbitrary arrest, lawyers said. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/s...
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Arizona man hospitalized in Equatorial Guinea; U.S. officials mum on abuse claims
A Phoenix man deported to Equatorial Guinea was hospitalized after passing out in a police-station cell, where he's been held "incommunicado" for two weeks following his arbitrary arrest, lawyers said...
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