Arjun Jaikumar

Yep, “the second” and the Second Amendment

the latter part is a real leopards eating faces moment for them

it is so funny that it is now apparently a bedrock principle of originalism that the unitary executive applies to everything except for the Federal Reserve which is different because we said so

There are a lot of reasons why I am running for Congress.

This scared-of-our-shadow nonsense in the face of a brutally repressive agency like ICE is one of them.

I will unapologetically fight to abolish ICE. Candidates like me cannot do it without your help. mattortega.com

Arsenal. You’ll love it, I promise.

The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.

Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.

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In case you weren't sure, no, Bari Weiss still hasn't cleared 60 Minutes (@60minutes.bsky.social) to air their piece on the Venezuelan men being tortured at CECOT.

Instead this week, it's humanoid robots, figure skater Alysa Liu, and a Dutch improv comedy troupe.

I’m going to have no choice but to wear sweatpants on tomorrow’s flight, aren’t I

it’s been 40 years waiting for the Republican health care plan, what’s a few more decades between friends

Dinosaur eat man . . . woman inherits the earth!

Obviously confused with the well known JFK aide and hanger-on, Dave Powers.

one strong statistical finding which has been commented upon somewhat less than I think it should, is that young women have extremely unfavorable views of the Republican Party

In the #CambMA municipal election, voters came out stronger for the School Committee vote than in prior years.

Typically turnout is only 90-92% of the Cambridge City Council turnout. This year it was 98%.

Did the SC vote end up influencing the CC result? A data anomaly suggests it's possible:

For the Netroots community, for everyone who knew @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social when he was a guy posting on DailyKos and SSP as "brownsox" who loved writing about elections, today is a joyous day as he's been elected to the Cambridge School Board with the strong backing of the local teachers' union.

you Winsome, you lose some

Happy Halloween!

Don’t forget to vote!!

For those voting in Cambridge's City Council elections, here's how I'd rank candidates:

#1 - Burhan Azeem
#2 - Marc McGovern
#3 - Dana Bullister
#4 - Ned Melanson
#5 - Patti Nolan
#6 - Sumbul Siddiqui
#7 - Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

Don't rank: Simmons, Bisio, Hanratty, Hsu, Sherin, Wilson, Zusy

Incredible quotes from @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social.

Been extremely impressed by him over the course of the campaign.

One of the most clear eyed candidates for school committees.

Both able to bring together a wide coalition from the ALA to teachers union and good sense of what moves the needle.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

Spanberger knocked off Dave Brat in 2018 after saying in debate

“I am not Nancy Pelosi…Abigail Spanberger is my name”

She never voted for Pelosi for Speaker

This is 4th campaign in a row GOP trying to make the connection

But doesn’t look like it will work this time either

This whole thread.

(Go vote, Cambridge! And please rank me No. 1 for school committee)

The point of this effort by Councillor Zusy is to kill all green multifamily inclusionary homes, which would increase Cambridge’s carbon emissions and send rents through the roof.

It’s true! @devonjackson.bsky.social also witnessed the Fox of Islington

I think @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social saw one of those foxes on a recent trip to London, and then we saw a seal in the Thames in the middle of London last month. Too small to get a decent picture though. It's like "I swear, that little tiny blob in the water was a seal head."

Follow along for the latest housing-related ride with the Cambridge Historical Commission here, with @jfsheehan.bsky.social

We have always had corruption in America but right know the whole country is being operated like a criminal enterprise, including kickbacks to the mob boss from universities, the media, law firms and now tech companies.

54 goals baybeeeeeee

Yep. As a lawyer, AI tools are very good at speeding up very onerous lawyering tasks. It can absolutely make a good lawyer more efficient. It will not make a law school graduate into a good lawyer - it’s no substitute for critical thinking, attention to detail, or problem solving skills.

Healey signs bill expanding reproductive, transgender care protections - The Boston Globe “No one is going to come to Massachusetts and attack our people, attack our institutions, attack our providers because we believe in freedom,” Healey said.

Massachusetts is not perfect, but on days like today this place makes me really proud.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/07/m...

Exactly. Thinking in good/bad binary about AI is so dangerous especially while we still are getting our heads around the tech. It’s complex and complicated - and we shouldn’t be rushing to implement it in classrooms, or for that matter, to ban it — until we have a better grasp of it.

Important thread from a great advocate for housing in Cambridge