Shyam Akash
@feelsbadshyam.bsky.social
SWE
Urbanist, Anti-e/acc Aktion
Urbanist, Anti-e/acc Aktion
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Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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God forbid the party learn from its mistakes.
“Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal. He believes that looking back so publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for the party as it tries next year to take back power in Congress…”
“Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal. He believes that looking back so publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for the party as it tries next year to take back power in Congress…”
The D.N.C. Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
God forbid the party learn from its mistakes.
“Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal. He believes that looking back so publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for the party as it tries next year to take back power in Congress…”
“Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal. He believes that looking back so publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for the party as it tries next year to take back power in Congress…”
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist
December 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist
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Too many people think the issue is "ai look bad" not the stolen data sets not the workers rights not the climate change and the fact that people CANNOT AFFORD TO TURN ON THEIR HEAT because they're subsidizing data centers, let alone the misinformation and fascism
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Too many people think the issue is "ai look bad" not the stolen data sets not the workers rights not the climate change and the fact that people CANNOT AFFORD TO TURN ON THEIR HEAT because they're subsidizing data centers, let alone the misinformation and fascism
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It is really funny that most democracy indexes claim Saudi Arabia is more democratic than Iran
December 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It is really funny that most democracy indexes claim Saudi Arabia is more democratic than Iran
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This is the core for understanding the spread of AI. All technology you use from big companies is fundamentally about trying to show you shit you don't like because when you avoid it that renders extremely useful preference data about you as a user that enhances targeting algorithms.
Part 2: It's hard to overstate just how much of the top of the tech economy rides on using UI to control people against their will. The entire search engine market, worth tens of billions, rides almost only on that. Same browsers. Same anything privacy-invasive. Same app stores. It's a long list.
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is the core for understanding the spread of AI. All technology you use from big companies is fundamentally about trying to show you shit you don't like because when you avoid it that renders extremely useful preference data about you as a user that enhances targeting algorithms.
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You do not get to stand on California soil, praise a man who called for the killing of protesters here during Vietnam, and then ever, ever, ask for my vote. Not ever.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
You do not get to stand on California soil, praise a man who called for the killing of protesters here during Vietnam, and then ever, ever, ask for my vote. Not ever.
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He's secretly (less so lately) platformed by billionaires.
The billionaire media won't point out that the so-called "groypers" are hired hands and that if Fuentes tried to throw an event in person, the turnout would be very small. (He learned from mistakes by fellow Nazi Richard Spencer.)
The billionaire media won't point out that the so-called "groypers" are hired hands and that if Fuentes tried to throw an event in person, the turnout would be very small. (He learned from mistakes by fellow Nazi Richard Spencer.)
December 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
He's secretly (less so lately) platformed by billionaires.
The billionaire media won't point out that the so-called "groypers" are hired hands and that if Fuentes tried to throw an event in person, the turnout would be very small. (He learned from mistakes by fellow Nazi Richard Spencer.)
The billionaire media won't point out that the so-called "groypers" are hired hands and that if Fuentes tried to throw an event in person, the turnout would be very small. (He learned from mistakes by fellow Nazi Richard Spencer.)
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I think of all the establishment pundits and corporate columnists who engaged in civility politics for 10 years and told me and other people of color in a paternalistic tone that we were hysterical and reactionary about Trump's racism and we should be nicer to MAGA and...I see Nazi slogans in 2025.
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I think of all the establishment pundits and corporate columnists who engaged in civility politics for 10 years and told me and other people of color in a paternalistic tone that we were hysterical and reactionary about Trump's racism and we should be nicer to MAGA and...I see Nazi slogans in 2025.
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And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.
Wait…omg…this entire anecdote I mean argument is premised on the experience of someone who DIDN’T EVEN ATTEMPT THE MARKET????
I literally applied to hundreds of jobs over seven or eight years before getting a TT job offer.
I literally applied to hundreds of jobs over seven or eight years before getting a TT job offer.
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.
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I also applied for at least several hundreds jobs for more than a decade before I found this one, which is a good fit, in both directions. Im brown, and a woman, and an immigrant, and disabled, and do work with critical theories but I guess we're only accepting anecdotes from white men like James
Wait…omg…this entire anecdote I mean argument is premised on the experience of someone who DIDN’T EVEN ATTEMPT THE MARKET????
I literally applied to hundreds of jobs over seven or eight years before getting a TT job offer.
I literally applied to hundreds of jobs over seven or eight years before getting a TT job offer.
December 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I also applied for at least several hundreds jobs for more than a decade before I found this one, which is a good fit, in both directions. Im brown, and a woman, and an immigrant, and disabled, and do work with critical theories but I guess we're only accepting anecdotes from white men like James
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SO WEIRD HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING
NEWS: Coast Guard enacts policy downgrading swastikas, nooses to ‘potentially divisive’
New, from Tara Copp and me
and me
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New, from Tara Copp and me
and me
wapo.st/4540Xi5
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
wapo.st
December 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
SO WEIRD HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING
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We're told over and over again that we need things like facial recognition and license plate scanners and encryption backdoors and cities blanketed in surveillance cameras to "catch the bad guys" in these exact scenarios and yet...
Security theater kills exponentially more people than it protects.
Security theater kills exponentially more people than it protects.
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We're told over and over again that we need things like facial recognition and license plate scanners and encryption backdoors and cities blanketed in surveillance cameras to "catch the bad guys" in these exact scenarios and yet...
Security theater kills exponentially more people than it protects.
Security theater kills exponentially more people than it protects.
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Bari Weiss talking to a rich guy
December 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Bari Weiss talking to a rich guy
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every so often I think about the outrage and handwringing at the prospect of a western state enforcing the law against Israeli heads of state, then I read about things like this again
Six members of the Canadian Parliament were denied entry into the occupied West Bank by the Israeli army today at the Allenby Bridge / King Hussein Crossing.
One of the MPs, Iqra Khalid of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, was assaulted by an IDF soldier by being pushed multiple times.
One of the MPs, Iqra Khalid of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, was assaulted by an IDF soldier by being pushed multiple times.
Israel denies entry to Canadian MPs trying to reach occupied West Bank
Advocacy group urges sanctions on Israel after Canadian delegation, including six lawmakers, turned back to Jordan.
www.aljazeera.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
every so often I think about the outrage and handwringing at the prospect of a western state enforcing the law against Israeli heads of state, then I read about things like this again
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i hate arsen ostrovsky's politics but it's totally insidiously fucked up that people are faking a.i. images to make it look like he was part of a false flag operation
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
i hate arsen ostrovsky's politics but it's totally insidiously fucked up that people are faking a.i. images to make it look like he was part of a false flag operation
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"But for rural and small town voters, the perception that Roosevelt’s New Deal Democrats have been traded for corporatists in the state and national party leadership remains strong."
Two Paths Forward for Democrats in 2026 | The 2025 off-year elections were a windfall for Democrats. But the experiences of rural candidates show the challenges ahead in 2026, writes Sara June Jo-Sæbo for @barnraiser.bsky.social.
Two Paths Forward for Democrats in 2026 - Bucks County Beacon
The 2025 off-year elections were a windfall for Democrats. But the experiences of rural candidates show the challenges ahead in 2026.
buckscountybeacon.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"But for rural and small town voters, the perception that Roosevelt’s New Deal Democrats have been traded for corporatists in the state and national party leadership remains strong."
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this article is wild and important because it shows how Weiss has become a media mogul not because he work has ever been popular, but because a small group of rich and well connected guys liked her work as it made them feel good about not using pronouns and stuff.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Bari Weiss in Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
nymag.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
this article is wild and important because it shows how Weiss has become a media mogul not because he work has ever been popular, but because a small group of rich and well connected guys liked her work as it made them feel good about not using pronouns and stuff.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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"[G]enocide denial."
"Wales and Sanger are using their roles as Wikipedia founders to bypass the normal editing and review process."
"Their efforts deny the documented reality of Israel's genocide in Gaza and contradict the broad consensus."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Censorship #Media #Genocide
"Wales and Sanger are using their roles as Wikipedia founders to bypass the normal editing and review process."
"Their efforts deny the documented reality of Israel's genocide in Gaza and contradict the broad consensus."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Censorship #Media #Genocide
40+ Groups Urge Wikipedia to Oppose Co-Founders' 'Censorship on Gaza Genocide'
"Wales and Sanger must be stopped from trying to censor the Wikipedia 'Gaza genocide' entry that clearly documents Israel's horrifying crime against humanity."
www.commondreams.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"[G]enocide denial."
"Wales and Sanger are using their roles as Wikipedia founders to bypass the normal editing and review process."
"Their efforts deny the documented reality of Israel's genocide in Gaza and contradict the broad consensus."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Censorship #Media #Genocide
"Wales and Sanger are using their roles as Wikipedia founders to bypass the normal editing and review process."
"Their efforts deny the documented reality of Israel's genocide in Gaza and contradict the broad consensus."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Censorship #Media #Genocide
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Idk when Texas is having its senator primaries, but vote for Tallarico over Crockett, Crockett is saying some incredibly racist shit towards immigrants rn.
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Idk when Texas is having its senator primaries, but vote for Tallarico over Crockett, Crockett is saying some incredibly racist shit towards immigrants rn.