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Aastha पास्ता

@aasthauprety.bsky.social

✍🏽 writer, editor, proud socialist 🌹 “let your naysayers be your wayfarers on the journey to success” 🛸 editorial @rooseveltinstitute.org @rooseveltforward.org and member @nyguild.bsky.social‬ aasthauprety.substack.com 👩🏽‍💻 queens, nyc

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I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

01.03.2026 08:39 — 👍 25856    🔁 4695    💬 574    📌 483

Not that I expect any better but it is so poisonous that the value of Iranian lives never warrants a mention in posts like these

01.03.2026 01:34 — 👍 56    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0

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01.03.2026 05:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To the extent that Trump has a goal, as he articulated in his barbaric prerecorded video last night, it is not to do regime change but regime collapse. This is also the obvious goal of Israel. The Shah's son won't benefit because the goal is to turn it into rubble and let Iranians fight over rubble.

01.03.2026 02:50 — 👍 367    🔁 77    💬 5    📌 0
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 — 👍 13917    🔁 4418    💬 470    📌 354

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

28.02.2026 15:42 — 👍 1994    🔁 455    💬 10    📌 3
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🎉 ENDORSEMENT ALERT! 🎉

We are proud to endorse Paige Beauchemin for Congress in #NH02!

24.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 53    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 0

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

28.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 3357    🔁 1104    💬 18    📌 0
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There's No "Progressive Foreign Policy" Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide Before Democrats can articulate a more humane foreign policy, they need to reckon with the mortal sin of the genocide in Gaza.

"Before [Democrats] can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

26.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

28.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 1313    🔁 906    💬 110    📌 264

I am horrified and appalled at the attacks on Iran by the murderous regimes of the United States and Israel. There's no future for humanity without dismantling the capacity for violence of states like these. I don't know what else there is to say here.

28.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 124    🔁 29    💬 6    📌 1
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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

🎯 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...

28.02.2026 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

US empire is a nightmare that can't end fast enough

28.02.2026 07:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02... - what a disaster.

28.02.2026 07:16 — 👍 199    🔁 42    💬 8    📌 0

This push for AI at the NSF grant-making level is less discussed than other AI drives but is highly consequential because it creates incentives that change entire fields. People will pivot away from other research that isn’t being funded to this and many won’t come back.

27.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 66    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1

Proud to work at an organization that fought family detention through multiple presidential terms, Democratic and Republican. Family detention was very much a bipartisan project and I'm grateful people are once again waking up to how awful it is.

26.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 188    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1

shame is back on the menu boys

25.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 4151    🔁 577    💬 109    📌 13

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26.02.2026 03:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...

CPJ finds 129 journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 — the highest annual toll since CPJ began collecting data in 1992. It marks the second consecutive annual record for press death.

Israel was responsible for more than two-thirds of the global total in 2025.

cpj.org/special-repo...

25.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 54    🔁 39    💬 0    📌 4
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Two years ago today, 25-year old US Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell self-immolated in protest of the Gaza genocide.

His last words were "Free Palestine."

25.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 160    🔁 65    💬 4    📌 4

people have been protesting against this anti-free speech bill for hours today council.nyc.gov/livestream/

25.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"If those attempting to articulate a progressive foreign policy cannot do this, if they can’t name names and commit to—at the very least—purging Biden officials from the party and liberal spaces, then how can any progressive vision for foreign policy be seen as remotely credible?" @theintercept.com

25.02.2026 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There's No "Progressive Foreign Policy" Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide Before Democrats can articulate a more humane foreign policy, they need to reckon with the mortal sin of the genocide in Gaza.

"Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration—those who aided, armed, and funded genocide—should look like." theintercept.com/2026/02/25/d...

25.02.2026 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

25.02.2026 04:59 — 👍 16544    🔁 3298    💬 425    📌 198
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I’m a Consumer Advocate. The Rulemaking Process Is Rigged in Favor of Corporations, Not People From PFAS to consumer finance, corporate power distorts the rulemaking process. Here’s how to rebuild agencies that serve the public.

The “waste, fraud, and abuse” narrative misses what really breaks government: the political power of monopolies and concentrated wealth.

Consumer Advocate @bmorons.bsky.social argues for a new North Star: co-governance—meaningful public participation and fewer tools for corporate obstruction. ⬇️

24.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 60    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 0

"we must begin with the presumption that the US does not have a valid legal claim for bombing and destroying others." lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...

25.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

24.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 1867    🔁 824    💬 93    📌 58

democrats get up for the standing ovation as trump blatantly lies about iran's lack of interest in a denuclearization deal. insane that this is the opposition party that wont oppose a foreign policy issue that has only 25% support. (75% of dems disagree on striking iran)

25.02.2026 03:40 — 👍 276    🔁 46    💬 0    📌 0

are the dems standing up for this iran bullshit?????

25.02.2026 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1