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Rajani

@rajani.bsky.social
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Loving partner. Gentle parent. Neurodivergent musician. Empathetic economist. YIMBY conservationist. Human rights supporter. Psychedelic enjoyer.

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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 3h
Ossoff is just (accurately) calling them Nazis to their faces and we're all fucking swooning
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 9h
To be clear I think the writers did this intentionally to make the audience assess their own racism and bigotry in the expectations of his character.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 9h
I loved the how the role for Joey Bada$$ in Mr. Robot made literary references and complained no one reads anymore. This stereotype is terrible yet so common it was able to be used as a punchline essentially.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17h
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026
i guess this is just kind of how judges are trained to think but man after two years i am sick of this song
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
foxnews.com
Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ntm people like Musk have committed plenty of crimes to imprison them for already. No need to criminalize the free movement of people.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Actually no, the first thing they should do is amnesty for all immigrants, free them from the fucking concentration camps, and either burn them down or turn them into museums of a horrifying time. Immigrants are welcome here. Immigration makes our country great. Fuck this petty shit.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another Rubicon crossed apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
cnn.com
Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026
The Woke are coming off a down season but the core remains intact and they've called up some young talent. Advanced metrics suggest their stars were underperforming their peripherals for much of the summer. Expect contention as early as next season if they sign some high heat relief over the winter
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dawg I WISH
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
GOOD
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Right after I see @marisakabas.bsky.social share a video about vanity fair 🤦‍♀️
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The whole event was live streamed! www.youtube.com/live/T4io7T6...
youtube.com
ROCK THE VOTE @ POWER TO THE PEOPLE
YouTube video by rockthevote
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you so much just got one
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hello sorry to intrude on this conversation but my ticket fell through and I'm at the venue. May I buy your ticket from you?
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do you still have a ticket 🙂
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My work here is finished
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Mouse - it may be a lil bit of disassociation @lilmouserpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, if you don't know any woman who has been sexually assaulted it's because the women in your life do not trust you, not because they haven't been assaulted.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of great suggestions here! Steamable bags of frozen rice and veggies are one of the fastest, easiest, healthy options I enjoy. Plus tater tots, fries, frozen waffles, frozen plant based meat alternative products... We also make muffins and save them in freezer.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lmfao never heard it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Robert, please write your own analysis of these failures, and, ideally, how we could make corrections in the coming reconstruction and demagafication (or please share if you have already written this). We need your knowledge now more than ever.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Rajani @rajani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Live from Maryland
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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