Dr. Ashok Karra

Quakertown community demands police chief resign after ICE protest arrests The Quakertown Police Chief faces calls to resign after the arrest of five students during an anti-ICE protest, leading to a heated public council meeting with community members demanding accountability.

The Quakertown Police Chief faces calls to resign after the arrest of five students during an anti-ICE protest, leading to a heated public council meeting with community members demanding accountability.

I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on community organizing this semester. One of the fun parts has been revisiting some old organizing 101 manuals. Here's one by SDS published in 1968.

archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/do...

It's day 93 of the ICE occupation of MN.

Minnesotans are not generally people who engage in long hugs, but the last 3 months have changed that.

The hugs now are long and meaningful, whether between old friends or people who just met responding to ICE calls.

Our love for community keeps us safe.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately - Türkiye Today Iraq's entire national power grid has collapsed in a total blackout as the country reels from the widening US-Israeli military campaign against Iran

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately
www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-...

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:

Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov

Minneapolis residents who pay immigrant neighbors’ rent ask city to delay evictions A council committee voted to temporarily extend eviction notice filings from 30 to 60 days; the full council will vote again.

Tomorrow the City Council has the opportunity to listen to this call and take a step to take care of our residents.

i can't say it enough - this is the best book i read last year. (and i read a lot, due to my inability to sleep ever at any point) it will change your life. you have to read it. i cannot recommend it enough.

hey, uh @unavaleable.bsky.social or @sodrock.bsky.social, what the hell is happening here

Okay so this is like, a war now, right? This isn’t the Soleimani killing? We’re in the shit?

How has Tim Sheehy not yet been arrested for assault and hauled away as the deranged violent thug that we all saw brutalizing a marine veteran in the senate today?

How to win in November

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Is @governor.ny.gov going to govern for the millions of working New Yorkers, or a handful of billionaires?

The only way to deliver an affordable New York is to Tax The Rich. Join the fight to demand it. dsa.nyc/ttr

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

Perhaps the guests could include former enlisted military members pointing out the bullshit. Perhaps folks trapped in countries across the world because the State Dept cannot plan could be asked to call in... Perhaps Iranians who oppose the war could be featured...

For March, Taking Alice Wong’s Advice in this Capitalist Hellscape will be our focus, with an invitation to reflect on how this can inspire our Collective Liberation, so I hope you will consider joining us then!🫂

Here is the registration link: accesslovemarch.eventbrite.ca

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RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

Congratulations to 2028 Democratic National Convention keynote speaker Ben Affleck www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/n...

Dear humans, may all the beauty find you ❤️

If the war ends up as a debacle for the US, it is clear that Israel is going to be blamed, and by extension also American Jews, and Jews in general, in a manner surpassing similar accusations regarding the Iraq war. The infrastructure for antisemitism is just far more developed and mainstreamed.

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"Alligator Alcatraz" is a major scandal on every level -- corruption, human rights abuses, blatant violations of the law.

In Ecuador, US military carries out 1st land operation against cartels: SOUTHCOM The United States and Ecuador conducted joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador,” U.S. Southern Command announced Tuesday.

I am logging the fuck off now wtf abcnews.com/Internationa...

I refuse to root for Ken Paxton to pull this out because even though I think he’s more beatable I’m old enough to remember thinking that about Trump in 2016.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive.

Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

Texas’s Biggest Right-Wing Donor Has Abandoned Ken Paxton Tim Dunn was the attorney general’s biggest supporter. The U.S. Senate run has changed things.

And of course, the Ken Paxton of it all. Will the embattled, Biblically-divorcing attorney general’s myriad scandals be too much for voters? Can Paxton defeat a John Cornyn, a Texas institution, without the backing of his longtime benefactor, far-right billionaire Tim Dunn?

Interceptors Versus Missiles: The Iran War's Wrath of The Math A theory of Iranian strategy. PLUS: Me, Chris Hayes and Ayman Mohyeldin on the war's politics

I have a theory about Iranian strategy in the war.

I won't shop at Target again unless they become a worker-owned cooperative that gives out free whistles, anti-ICE zines, binders, contraception, and K95 masks.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Oliver takes a dump on the Schumer-led Democratic demands after Alex Pretti’s shooting — “masks off, body cams on” — noting the killers had fucking body cams on, that that footage exists, that it didn’t change shit, and that we’re likely never to see it b/c they were exonerated automatically.