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Kaivan Shroff

@kaivanshroff.bsky.social

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Democratic commentator, attorney & non-profit advisor. Previously @ Everytown, Hillary For America, The Jed Foundation, Forbes NY Business Council. JD/MBA/MPP.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · Jun 29

Trying to be active here but still haven’t found most of my mutuals from Twitter/Threads.

Say hi so I can follow please!

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 6h

Frog guy speaks out.

Pepper sprayed by ICE, he still shows up every day to fight for his community.

Really beautiful in the simplicity and conviction of what he says and worth a listen.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 15h

I stand with Tish!

Let’s be very clear. Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Tish James is a dedicated public servant who continues to fight for justice for all New Yorkers.

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Silvered Mane @silvered-mane.bsky.social · 5d

Correct - hearing this for the first time.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 5d

He threatened her about Charlie Kirk.

Then ran her and her friend over with his Jeep.

But you probably haven’t seen this story on cable news. open.substack.com/pub/kaivansh...

He Threatened Her Over Charlie Kirk, Then Killed Them

Cable news is ignoring the latest example of rightwing political violence.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 5d

He threatened her about Charlie Kirk.

Then ran her and her friend over with his Jeep.

But you probably haven’t seen this story on cable news. open.substack.com/pub/kaivansh...

He Threatened Her Over Charlie Kirk, Then Killed Them

Cable news is ignoring the latest example of rightwing political violence.

open.substack.com

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 7d

“Mainstream media ran with and continues to run with Trump’s blatant lies, while gaslighting the American public — and lecturing people like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton when they warn abt true things.”

Trump admitting to Project 2025 proves legacy media treated Harris badly.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 8d

Needed this.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 9d

As Hegseth abuses his power…worth re-reading his mother’s 2018 letter calling him out as an abuser.

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REMINDER: Pete Hegseth's own mother warned us about his abuse

Read the full letter she wrote her son here.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 9d

So anyways, here’s the letter Pete Hegseth’s mom wrote to him:

“You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.”

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 10d

“This shutdown is really Trump’s Don Jr. moment — he doesn’t want to claim it, he doesn’t want to take responsibility for it — but everybody knows that it’s his.”

Gave them a dose of reality about the Trump shutdown on Newsmax.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 14d

“Let’s have a trial.”

A defiant Comey says he is heartbroken for the (corrupted) DOJ, but is innocent and has faith in the federal judicial system.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 14d

“I’m quoting him and you’re telling me that it’s not valid to quote him.”

Rightwing host has meltdown as I point out the simple hypocrisy of Erika Kirk being a modern working woman who got married in her 30s (all things her husband railed against).

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 16d

Trump just humiliated us all at the U.N.

Anyways, here’s Obama with his Nobel Peace Prize.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 18d

This is horrifying.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 21d

WATCH: @hillaryclinton.bsky.social on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 23d

Absolutely delusional to pretend there isn’t one person most to blame for where the country is right now.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 23d

Let’s not forget the MAGA
murder of Judge Esther Salas’s son.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 24d

“Right-wing political violence has been about six times deadlier than violence from the left.”

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Debunking JD Vance's Vicious Lie about Political Violence on The Charlie Kirk Show

The data shows right-wing political violence is far more common in the U.S.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 25d

Exactly.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25d

But no flying on Air Force One, no flags at half mast, no Medal of Freedom. No cries for war. Huh.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 25d

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 25d

Nice to find you on here!

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 25d

Cox told young people to get offline — to resist the toxic churn of the internet that turns grief into memes and half-truths into viral narratives. Then he himself fed that exact churn, providing the partisan fodder that spreads online like wildfire.

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox talked about Unity, then Poured Gasoline on the Fire

Cox spread the exact type of unofficial and unverified partisan blame that fuels the viral division he condemns.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 25d

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 25d

The call is coming from inside the house…

Went on Newsmax to remind them:

1) Trump called Harris fascist

2) Trump’s own cabinet members are the ones who compared him to Hitler

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27d

Scott Jennings's pro-Trump lurch has "pushed him to castigate the institutions that gave him his lecturer title, his cable platform, and his credibility." ICYMI @kaivanshroff.bsky.social:

Scott Jennings’s Cynical Ambitions

The conservative pundit’s career was enabled by the very liberal institutions he now derides.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 27d

Worth noting that it is now a month since Melania Trump threatened to sue Hunter Biden if he didn’t retract his comments about her potential ties to Epstein.

His immediate response was, “f*ck that — that’s not gonna happen.”

But she still hasn’t sued.
Tells you everything.

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