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He/Him/Them. IZO the Dynamic Observer. Negroid of the Void. Writer. Tarot Card reader. Black Wizard. Sci-Fi Kind of Guy. Spirit Bender in Training. #TarotByIZO 📷🌌🖤👁⚡🌑🔮

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Sandhya Dirks@audiosand.bsky.social · 2w ago

The anti-Brown racism (and the surveillance state) we are (re)encountering was in great part birthed by 9/11 - I have reported on in multiple stories how that hatred, bigotry and violence also gave a new generation of South Asian and brown Americans a push into politics: www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1...

A screen shot of the written transcript from an NPR audio story from Jan 5th, 2023: DIRKS: 9/11 fundamentally changes what it means to be South Asian American, says political scientist Sangay Mishra. SANGAY MISHRA: It's a highly underappreciated story - right? - how South Asians have been targeted, not only Muslims, not only Sikh, but just being brown. DIRKS: Just being brown made you suspicious. Mishra says 9/11 created a new kind of racial category - being Muslim-looking. And for many South Asians, this punctured the myth that they were somehow protected as a model minority. Which brings us to now. MISHRA: You take any major progressive issue and Indian Americans are largely on the left. DIRKS: There's also been this real trend of especially younger progressive Desi candidates taking on establishment Democrats. ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I'm a Democratic socialist who ran against the party. DIRKS: That's Zohran Mamdani, one of the first South Asians elected to the New York Assembly in 2020. MAMDANI: Because if you played the party's rules, the time just never seemed to come for South Asians. DIRKS: He says he thinks more Desis are running to the left because they were left out. MAMDANI: I think that we have seen the limits of institutional politics and the racism of institutional politics.
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

More Democratic mayors and governors should be doing stuff like this. Actively working to build up private sector union density is good policy AND enlarges the political coalition that will lead to more electoral and legislative success in the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

Mamdani Creates Workers’ Rights Office in Effort to Boost Union Power

The Office of Worker Power, designed to support labor organizing and strengthen worker protections, comes as the mayor works to win over the city’s business community.

nytimes.com

P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim@pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the original series, the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, came up with a philosophy held by the Vulcan people. He called it IDIC: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. It suggests that an ideal society is made up of many different types, all working together.

‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists

60 years of ‘Star Trek’: A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape NASA’s vision of the future.

theconversation.com