Asher Desai
@asherdesai.bsky.social
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but the harder edge of what i’m saying here is: this was not something within the control of democrats or liberals or whoever you wanna victim-blame. this was a large chunk of american society losing any interest in basic ideas of virtue. they had their reasons; but it was what it was.
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
but the harder edge of what i’m saying here is: this was not something within the control of democrats or liberals or whoever you wanna victim-blame. this was a large chunk of american society losing any interest in basic ideas of virtue. they had their reasons; but it was what it was.
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math
little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
February 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
math
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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I find it so frustrating that so much discourse amongst democrats is around language policing and like “abundance” vs “populism”.
Idgaf what exact words politicians use. I just want authenticity showing that they 1) care about our problems and 2) have real solutions. not poll tested nonsense
Idgaf what exact words politicians use. I just want authenticity showing that they 1) care about our problems and 2) have real solutions. not poll tested nonsense
Trump has deployed ICE on militarized invasions of blue cities for months. They’re only getting more violent.
Now, ten days after ICE murdered a woman on video, Democratic elites are very concerned that anyone might say, “Abolish ICE.”
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
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Now, ten days after ICE murdered a woman on video, Democratic elites are very concerned that anyone might say, “Abolish ICE.”
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
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Trump Escalates His War on America as Dems Debate What Words They Can Say
The president is launching increasingly violent invasions of blue cities. Meanwhile, Democratic elites are concerned some might say: ‘Abolish ICE.’
zeteo.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I find it so frustrating that so much discourse amongst democrats is around language policing and like “abundance” vs “populism”.
Idgaf what exact words politicians use. I just want authenticity showing that they 1) care about our problems and 2) have real solutions. not poll tested nonsense
Idgaf what exact words politicians use. I just want authenticity showing that they 1) care about our problems and 2) have real solutions. not poll tested nonsense
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For those asking why I am asking about ICE funding NOW, the government runs out of money this month and Congress has yet to pass the Homeland Security bill. ICE won’t be abolished, but Democrats can hold up the bill
January 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
For those asking why I am asking about ICE funding NOW, the government runs out of money this month and Congress has yet to pass the Homeland Security bill. ICE won’t be abolished, but Democrats can hold up the bill
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Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Abolish ICE. Really.
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Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
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if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
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These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.
Zohran actually had the binders full of women
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Zohran actually had the binders full of women
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I just want Republicans, and the right generally, to be treated as real adults with agency instead of forces of nature that must be appeased or managed. Is that too much to ask?
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I just want Republicans, and the right generally, to be treated as real adults with agency instead of forces of nature that must be appeased or managed. Is that too much to ask?
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It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
Cooking isn’t easy to start with, but this is precisely the kind of helplessness cope that makes people dependent on burrito taxi and consequently unable to distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cooking isn’t easy to start with, but this is precisely the kind of helplessness cope that makes people dependent on burrito taxi and consequently unable to distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo
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Writing about all this AI bubble stuff, I cannot help thinking about one of my favorite financial fictions, Émile Zola’s Money, and its brilliant deconstruction of the psychology and mechanics of an investment boom.
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
The dance of millions
Making sense of the big bubble.
advaitcore.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Writing about all this AI bubble stuff, I cannot help thinking about one of my favorite financial fictions, Émile Zola’s Money, and its brilliant deconstruction of the psychology and mechanics of an investment boom.
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
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you don’t solve the issue by eliminating the immigrants, you solve it by eliminating the racists
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
you don’t solve the issue by eliminating the immigrants, you solve it by eliminating the racists
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Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
Gov. Hochul Vague on Free Bus Plans As Her Open Budget Salvo Nears - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
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i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.
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This take suffers from the same thing as all discourse about Trump voters: an inability to distinguish swing voters from Trump’s base. You should welcome the swing voters, people who were worried about inflation or whatever, but the chuds? The best you can do is bullying them into staying home.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This take suffers from the same thing as all discourse about Trump voters: an inability to distinguish swing voters from Trump’s base. You should welcome the swing voters, people who were worried about inflation or whatever, but the chuds? The best you can do is bullying them into staying home.
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pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
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democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3