Abhimat Gautam

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.

And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

A sign in the style of Zohran for NYC saying instead of ”Treats for Cat?”

The cat whenever a snack bag is opened

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

Newspaper clipping from New York Times. Text says: “It was not long ago here in Mumbai that Harmanpreet Kaur juggled a day job as a railway clerk with the grueling training sessions as a young member of India’s national women’s cricket team. Away from her family and her hometown in Punjab, Ms. Kaur began her days at dawn — long hours of shuttling from a morning practice to work and back again to an evening training session. Lunch was a bite on the train. Her biggest anxiety: Not finishing evening practice before the rush hour and the departure of the final train, which would leave her a 90-minute walk home. When Ms. Kaur stepped onstage in the same city after Sunday’s match, way past midnight and long after the last local train had departed, it was to collect the World Cup’s winning trophy as India’s captain.”

This opening is just superbly inspirational

With ‘a Billion’ Eyes on Them, India’s Women Lift Cricket World Cup

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...

Congrats to the Indian Women’s cricket team!
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Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

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FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Man holding a protest sign, made to look like a No Parking street sign reading “No King Any Time Violators Will Be Removed” No Kings protest in Los Angeles in the background.

Man holding a protest sign, made to look like a parking rule street sign reading “2 Term Limit Except FDR, Violators will be imprisoned” No Kings protest in Los Angeles in the background.

Outstretched hand holding a protest sign, made to look like a No Parking street sign reading “No King Any Time Violators Will Be Removed” No Kings protest in Los Angeles in the background.

Outstretched hand holding a protest sign, made to look like a parking rule street sign reading “2 Term Limit Except FDR, Violators will be imprisoned” No Kings protest in Los Angeles in the background.

Protesting at No Kings in Los Angeles today!

(Signs modified from @kjhealy.co)

Expert here. The weird thing is I don't expect people to trust me (on my specialty) just because. Expertise is all about knowing the broader context of new results, what's clear & what's not, and most experts are happy to help people through this if they're interested in 'doing their own research'.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

what anil said. also, two things are true:

1. america has a horrific, brutal facist and authoritarian tradition which has prepared for this moment;
2. that is not the only american tradition, and pretending it is helps the fascists.

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

Dilute tortoise shell colored cat splayed out on its side in a white bathtub, staring off to the side with an empty stare. The cat’s tail is blurred since it is flicking around rapidly.

How about a cat in a bathtub (basically a very large sink)??

Can’t decide if PULLED DORK or TATO is my favorite

An iPad showing the ebook “How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States” by Daniel Immerwahr The iPad is resting on a dilute tortoise shell cat, who makes a very good book rest for reading.

Celebrating this 4th of July by learning more about the history of
🇺🇸🇺🇸✨American Imperialism✨🇺🇸🇺🇸

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.

The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.

The site is a textbook concentration camp.

These people are Nazis. I know that's well-understood by many people at this point, but not enough. They are Nazis and we need to keep saying it.

This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war

L.A. bus ridership plummets amid fears of immigration arrests In an incident in Pasadena witnessed and videotaped by several residents, immigration officials took away several people waiting at a bus stop, raising the fear that public transit is being targeted f...

The Los Angeles Times is really highlighting all the ways that reckless immigration enforcement, designed to also terrorize legal immigrants, is wrecking the economy of the entire city.

L.A. bus ridership plummets amid fears of immigration arrests.

www.latimes.com/california/s...