Dr. Ashok Karra
@akarra.bsky.social
Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it. Let me know how you are and how I can help. https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
if someone had said a year ago "next year a leftist muslim will beat a sitting congressperson backed by her state's sitting governor and 30 million dollars of AIPAC spending—but the race will be close" people would have thought that sounded pretty gd good. gotta keep perspective!
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 4h ago@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
It's something people don't like to look at because (imho) not all veterans with PTSD are sympathetic and many view claims of PTSD as "excusing" moral culpability. The violence worker industries have ways of rehabilitating themselves in order to present as viable paths to stability.
INBOX: NIOSH researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia (Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia) are suffering from the incurable and fatal black lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. (h/t @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social @kentuckypublicradio.org )
New Study: Black Lung Disease Rate in Appalachia Is the Worst in 50 Years as Coal Miner Protections Stall - Public Health Watch
It's now as bad as it was in the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying.
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This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d agoMaría Cornejo “tearfully decried the loss of her son. “‘I don’t have a way of healing this deep pain, this pain is too profound,’ she said while crying.” www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
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Adapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.
ICE Is Trading Warehouses for Old Prisons
Adapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.
themarshallproject.org
Okay I need to not read any more posts about the Michigan Senate race because the racism and Islamophobia are bumming me out about a progressive win
My kid watching Abdul El-Sayed clips this morning. And 10 year old inner child me is healing.
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.
Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners
A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…
truthout.org
"I love America, but loving America is not just dressing up in some colors and pretending everything is fine." Abdul El-Sayed giving a tremendous speech right now about the promise of this country, despite its many flaws.
True bewilderment is to stay up one night and discover that multiple members of a listserve you were in 15 years ago are winning competing primaries.
Any AES supporter would have been thrilled with a win of any margin as recently as a month ago. A few late polls showing a bigger lead shouldn’t change that reality. He won against the Dem establishment and $62M of PAC money. He was barely on the radar when he entered the race.
"Bruce Menin, husband of New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, appears to own a jet once used by the CIA to transport suspected terrorists to "black sites" around the world." URL of post x.com/nkulw/status...
a lot of accounts i respect are very good with slick, overthought takes. lots of "would have beens," "could have beens" that are fantastic if you're a radio talent who needs to fill the time for their audience. we need to get resources to those who need them. i support @detentionwatchnetwork.org
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a lot of people on this site doing politics reporting have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about
Madison, WI. Today, 4August Police brought a wheel loader. Protesters clung to what they called "an autonomous zone," where a cop killed Corey Ruiz. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Laura Schulte, captured the scene at 7:44 am (local time). "Police have removed protestors." URL: x.com/SchulteLaura...
what a lot of people are calling electability is straight islamophobia. there is simply no way to stop where the united states is going with this level of islamophobia. it will get worse before it gets better at this rate. we're not able to agree that "camps for kids" is wrong.
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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