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R Subramanian (he/him)

@subu.bsky.social

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Scientist #AirQuality #AirPollution #AirSensors #methane #soot 🇺🇲 🇷🇼 🇮🇳 🇶🇦🇫🇷 Based in Bengaluru, India. See #IndiaAQ for work posts.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 5d

"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970.
(The year the US EPA was created.)

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 5d

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

Sobe it. We cannot awaken this sleper,
and God knows we have tried. We must do what we can do, and fortify and save each other—we are not drowning in an apathetic self-contempt, we do feel ourselves sufficiently worthwhile to contend even with inexorable forces in order to change our fate and the fate of our children and the condition of the world! We know that a man is not a thing and is not to be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else's profit. We know that democracy does not mean the coercion of all into a deadly-and, finally, wicked—mediocrity but the liberty for all to aspire to the best that is in him, or that has ever been.

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 18m

I worked there one year when the basketball team made the finals?? Kids went crazy.

Also the year I was waiting in line with Bruce Weber at the felafel shop and he smiled at me like I should know him. I didn't.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 26m

I don't know what these Rump voters are complaining about, they got a product reflecting the integrity of President Donnie.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 42m

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22h

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 34m

It is sad that now I have to ask if that video is AI, and look hard for third hands or other oddities.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 51m

American Mogadishu. How many cities has Donald Trump abandoned to warlordism?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 37m

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 48m

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
bsky.app/profile/howt...

How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 49m

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

www.howtoreadthisch.art

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 45m

This is how fascism comes to America.
(Did the NYT also support Lindbergh?)

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1h

In case anyone was wondering about that reverse angle and what hell was visited upon the photographer, it’s here: bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 52m

LOL

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 1h

So to be clear the idea for the next few years is that people should die of infectious diseases while the economy runs on AI. Ok

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 55m

In proposed changes to H-2A visa: "allowing farmers to pay migrant laborers less. It also shifts the burden for paying for worker housing from employer sponsors to migrant workers, with some exceptions."

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1h

Hoocoodanode

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

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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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 6h

The 25% cut "would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation”

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

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 5h

Looks like the machine I used in grad school!

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 5h

That's David Benioff...

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 6h

Vought's dream.

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 6h

Yup

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 7h

#IndiaAQ Delhi government launches an innovation challenge to tackle #AirPollution: "the challenge will focus on two key areas: reducing vehicle emissions and capturing PM2.5 and PM10 particles from ambient air."

(But smog towers and similar air capture solutions are not very useful...)

Delhi Air Pollution: Got A Solution? Win Rs 50 Lakh In Innovation Contest

Under the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) Innovation Challenge, the government is trying to tackle Delhi’s worsening air quality.

www.ndtvprofit.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

"It's bad to use terms derived from real-world slurs that cause significant harm to real marginalized people, because that use further harms those people, even if you're using it for a thing you hate" is not, by any stretch of the imagination, saying "AI is sentient". It's just not!

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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 9h

When asked why Donald Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, here’s what the Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize said.

📹PTI/AFP

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 10h

"Back in the early days of the Trump administration, White House OMB director (Project 2025 architect) Russel Vought said the quiet part out loud: He wanted federal workers to be traumatized, as part of a larger strategy to dismantle the federal government."
The shutdown is just a pretext.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

More here: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 10h

Este estudio estara iniciando con talento Mexicano y Latinoamericano para vincular animadores de varios paises y ifrecera estudios a un animador Mexicano por cda ciclo escolar durante una decada entera.

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 16h

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 10h

Countries in central Asia and the Caucasus are distancing themselves from Moscow and forging deeper ties with rivals like China, the European Union, Turkey, or the Gulf states.
e.g. Kazakhstan's largest trading partner is China and they support international security guarantees for Ukraine.

Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Breaking Russia’s Hold Over Its Former Empire

When Vladimir Putin joins summits of former Soviet states in Tajikistan this week, the leaders around the table will most likely declare their close bonds with Russia. In reality, many have been dista...

www.bloomberg.com

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