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Kumar Rao

@kumar.bsky.social

Lawyer, former public defender. Progressive politics, racial justice, urban gardening. Let’s go Knicks/GoBlue.

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New Sienna poll has @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social with 68% approval in NYC, and 66% support statewide for universal childcare.

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

03.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

31.01.2026 15:43 — 👍 10551    🔁 2208    💬 103    📌 91
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

31.01.2026 00:41 — 👍 17239    🔁 5131    💬 131    📌 559

Both Pam Bondi and Harmeet Dhillon,
who seems to be leading this charge, should be subject to disciplinary action from their state bars.

Wildly unethical behavior that violates their duties as lawyers.

30.01.2026 18:44 — 👍 258    🔁 64    💬 8    📌 2

“Kazmierczak is a staunch Trump supporter, a review of his online activity shows.”

28.01.2026 19:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

28.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 3749    🔁 1169    💬 82    📌 39

Wow🫡

28.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

28.01.2026 02:26 — 👍 84842    🔁 11628    💬 2479    📌 621

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

28.01.2026 01:07 — 👍 4710    🔁 1233    💬 46    📌 120
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

26.01.2026 22:14 — 👍 54739    🔁 13978    💬 820    📌 493

“Ace of spades cards, which have been used by white supremacist groups as a racist symbol and were called ‘death cards’ by some during the Vietnam War, were found in at least two vehicles after those vehicles were pulled over by ICE agents”

26.01.2026 08:50 — 👍 404    🔁 241    💬 4    📌 2
Breanna Stewart holds sign saying “Abolish ICE”

Breanna Stewart holds sign saying “Abolish ICE”

WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart during player intros today.

Time for the men to follow her lead.

25.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 74    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

25.01.2026 02:05 — 👍 5169    🔁 1810    💬 62    📌 0
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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

“…our new national reality. State terror has arrived.”

25.01.2026 02:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE is a death squad.

25.01.2026 01:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.

It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.

Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.

24.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 2145    🔁 648    💬 10    📌 0

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

24.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 9901    🔁 3712    💬 177    📌 143

Governors and mayors and courts that do not take immediate action to stop ICE, to expel it from our cities and towns, to hold it accountable for its crimes, to ensure it works within the law, are failing at their jobs. It will require strength and confrontation and struggle. But it must happen.

24.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 313    🔁 97    💬 5    📌 5

ICE just tackled a man, beat the shit out of him, and shot him in the chest while he was subdued and on the ground.

They call themselves law enforcement, but it’s really a gang of murderous psychopaths.

24.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 1034    🔁 357    💬 39    📌 9

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

24.01.2026 01:37 — 👍 31602    🔁 7309    💬 362    📌 346
Thousands rally in Union Square, NYC, standing in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Thousands rally in Union Square, NYC, standing in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

NYC standing in solidarity with MN.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social

23.01.2026 22:11 — 👍 16587    🔁 3585    💬 205    📌 120
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

23.01.2026 22:04 — 👍 13144    🔁 3511    💬 114    📌 218

state-sponsored child trafficking

21.01.2026 23:25 — 👍 18288    🔁 5733    💬 346    📌 171
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

20.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 52863    🔁 13826    💬 977    📌 1396

Also, ummm per this CNN article, he *literally* “worked in public affairs for the Israeli embassy in Washington.”

20.01.2026 19:48 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

16.01.2026 02:36 — 👍 21205    🔁 8527    💬 1011    📌 863

For all his talk about cracking down on fraud, Trump is perfectly happy to let his allies and supporters get away with it.

The hypocrisy isn’t surprising, but it’s no less staggering.

15.01.2026 18:04 — 👍 1882    🔁 796    💬 82    📌 20
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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

Trump regime just canceled $2 billion in
funding for homelessness, mental health, and substance use support across country.

“We are witnessing the dismantling of our recovery infrastructure in real-time, and the administration will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows."

14.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.

13.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 1784    🔁 350    💬 14    📌 0

Fascism pounding on our doorsteps, literally.

14.01.2026 14:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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