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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3h

The unmitigated cruelty.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s toothless anti-DEI executive orders (toothless because they are not actually law) have given a lot of people and organizations an opportunity to be as shitty as they ever wanted to be, which is, apparently, pretty shitty.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 22h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 23h

Persuade TRUMP voters was the question. Dems are always being challenged to appeal to the right, Reps never challenged to appeal to the left (or even the center). That is a TOTALLY biased question which assumes the U.S. is naturally oriented towards Trump and his politics.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 23h

To the extent that it’s ONLY Democrats who are asked how they’re going to appeal to Trump voters, and NEVER Republicans who are asked how they will appeal to Dem voters, that question is hugely biased. Also the video WaPo put up was HUGELY edited. She may be trash but not on the basis of that clip.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 23h

“We expected it to have the integrity of the president of the United States” my dude it totally does.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Shout out to the worker who put Rump instead of Trump on the watch these people paid $650 for lol

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

What are the chances that the manosphere, which spends a lot of time handwringing about fertility rates, will now advocate for clean air laws?

Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 1d

‘for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.’

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

www.nytimes.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a way to “erase the heritage of Native Americans” so much as erase the heritage of white people by erasing their history of colonization and the genocide of Native Americans. If Columbus Day were a day when we remembered how horrible he was and mourn the violence he set off, okay fine.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

n.pr

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

This is how politicians should be talking about trans folks. Period.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

Manufacturing consent for an invasion of Venezuela. I guess now that there’s a Gaza “agreement” the paper needs to pivot.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“When it comes to Venezuela, silence is violence,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Choosing to ignore the catastrophe there only serves to perpetuate it.”

Opinion | A Worthy Nobel Peace Laureate

And a reminder of the need to depose the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

nyti.ms

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂🤪

Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

My kid is doing their MA at the University of Toronto, and their Farsi teacher is incorporating AI into her pedagogy. Needless to say, my kid hates it—says it basically undermines, rather than enhances, their education. I’m sure the prof is being given uni $$$$ to encourage AI in the classroom.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

This all makes sense and yet I always wonder why it’s THIS condition that inspires such parental anxiety as opposed to anything else—like, I don’t see parents of children with other types of neuro or physical differences get quite as caught up in the “grasping for straws” conspiracy theories.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck Stephen Colbert, who gets painted as a free speech hero while being given a pass for being an Islamophobic racist.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 2d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

I just switched to old school Microsoft Office which you have to download on your computer instead of Microsoft 365 so that I don’t have to contend with AI. Wish me luck.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

I support this.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 3d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

It really is a lesson that anarchism is the only solution because they can’t fight an army they can’t see.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

This fantasy of “founders” of antifa and an organization that has a hierarchy and structure is so funny like my dudes have you ever heard of anarchism?

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

“I’m angry that an individual would be so depraved,” Mr. Fahn said. “It doesn’t take away from my sense of frustration and anger with government.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Man Fascinated With Fire Imagery Is Arrested in Palisades Blaze, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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EditorVal @editorval.bsky.social · 4d

A lovely review of the catalog for Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky at the Denver Art Museum! It features a fantastic essay by @arunadsouza.bsky.social. chicagoreader.com/books/books-...

Where shore meets horizon - Chicago Reader

Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky, the artist's debut monograph, compiles 20 years of her painting to coincide with her Denver Art Museum show.

chicagoreader.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. I rarely pay attention to market stuff but I thought these two galleries would be relatively immune.

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 3d

Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner Gallery's UK locations reported a nearly 90% decline in pre-tax profits. The news coincides with a rumored art market downturn marked by a global decline in public auction sales and a slew of US gallery closures.

Hauser and Zwirner’s UK Galleries Report Nearly 90% Drop in Earnings

The news of the dip in profits, reported in public financial filings, comes amid a rumored global art market downturn.

hyperallergic.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

Toronto, Calgary—no second t in the first, no second a in the second

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

Houston (St)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 4d

Wow I have literally never heard of this term. I feel very out of touch!

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 4d

As far as I can tell, no Canadian has ever been shot in Washington DC.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump on DC: "When I got here, this place was a raging hellhole where people would come from Canada, other places, and end up getting shot. Nobody is being shot. The National Guard has been unbelievable. They are strong tough guys."

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