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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 5h

I support this.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 12h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 11h

“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 · 19h

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 · 12h

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

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 12h

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 · 12h

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

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

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 · 12h

Houston (St)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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

Americans can’t afford to buy cars made in Canada or anywhere else thanks to the consumer tax increase disguised as tariffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Canadians are refusing to go the US. The numbers are down like 23% this year. What do you say to Canadians?

TRUMP: I understand that. And Americans don't want to buy cars that are made in Canada.

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

That poor young man. What an utter travesty.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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

I can’t stress enough that the problem is the state and its monopoly on violence and not any individual actors.

grave_ @graveline.bsky.social · 2d

not only did obama make extrajudicial killings chic during his tenure but he also gave tom homan his first job in ice and a medal for how good he was a deporting people. both sides share the blame and part of being a grown up is accepting that and working to change it.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 3d

If you saw someone do something cool and illegal NO YOU DIDN'T.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Do not post dearrest videos, fam.

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

Ah yes because Super Bowl tickets are famously purchased by local residents and not millionaires and billionaires who fly from all over the country to see a game.

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

Don’t forget priests, vicars, and very old lady detectives.

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

Read this as many times as it takes to understand how perverse the attacks on transgender people are.

Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 4d

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

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

I was JUST (like this minute) telling a friend that we are all indentured—capitalism weighs us down with debt and we spend our lives just working it off.

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

Me too

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

Also whoa MetroNorth riders are way bigger seat hogs than Amtrak.

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

Can someone explain to me why so many cars on MetroNorth and Amtrak have their seats facing away from the direction of travel? I feel like on Amtrak, which I’ve been riding regularly for like 15 years, the increase in number of rear facing seats has jumped.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others.

I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I know! I’m just shocked at how quickly we’ve gotten to “send in the army to fight against US citizens minding their own business.”

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 5d

I hope that’s it.

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