Karuna
@karuvashi.bsky.social
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We're at a place right now where roughly half of the body politic seems to fully believe that snatching people off the street and disappearing them into prison camps is somehow a commensurate payback for having suffered the indignity of having had their vocabularies critiqued.
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We're at a place right now where roughly half of the body politic seems to fully believe that snatching people off the street and disappearing them into prison camps is somehow a commensurate payback for having suffered the indignity of having had their vocabularies critiqued.
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The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist
i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.
It would appear CNN was also at the eugenics conference? Why are all these mainstream news orgs at a 200-person event where all the speakers are eugenicists and racists? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/u...
April 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist
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This image remains evergreen
March 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This image remains evergreen
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WH wants you to think these are evil ppl. They want you to think you are safer—that they have made you safer. They acknowledge these ppl have been charged with no crime. They want you to take their word. They will not show their evidence. They will not let a court hear evidence from these ppl.
2/ This does not instill confidence that the Government has accurately or properly identified individuals under the Alien Enemies Act:
Government declaration:
"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Full context:
Government declaration:
"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Full context:
March 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
WH wants you to think these are evil ppl. They want you to think you are safer—that they have made you safer. They acknowledge these ppl have been charged with no crime. They want you to take their word. They will not show their evidence. They will not let a court hear evidence from these ppl.
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a lot of people these past few months exposing their politics to be "these terrible things should happen to people i dont like" instead of "these terrible things shouldn't be able to happen, period.
March 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
a lot of people these past few months exposing their politics to be "these terrible things should happen to people i dont like" instead of "these terrible things shouldn't be able to happen, period.
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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
Why specify “physically?”
being the richest person in the world and the president of the united states can’t even stop this guy from continuing to crash out
March 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why specify “physically?”
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It was the Dunninge of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
March 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It was the Dunninge of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
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Not hearing enough noise about Mahmoud Khalil from folks who like to quote the "first they came for" poem. Y'all get that the point is that they came for controversial, easily othered groups first, right? Now, it's trans people, immigrants, and student activists. Your turn will come. Fight now.
March 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Not hearing enough noise about Mahmoud Khalil from folks who like to quote the "first they came for" poem. Y'all get that the point is that they came for controversial, easily othered groups first, right? Now, it's trans people, immigrants, and student activists. Your turn will come. Fight now.
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it's very silly that some people tried to create some guidelines to use language, a tool that we all use, in a way that is more precise and less harmful, and a bunch of people were so offended they decided to burn society to the ground and everyone is like "hmmm maybe they had a point though"
The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.
This take is worth what you paid for it, but I think the language policing stuff has outsized political significance.
February 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
it's very silly that some people tried to create some guidelines to use language, a tool that we all use, in a way that is more precise and less harmful, and a bunch of people were so offended they decided to burn society to the ground and everyone is like "hmmm maybe they had a point though"
God this is the most “middle schooler who just read 1984” comparison but they’re literally doing the thing. It’s 2+2=5 but for the government.
We highly recommend y’all crack open a copy of the U.S. Constitution before you break anymore laws…
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
God this is the most “middle schooler who just read 1984” comparison but they’re literally doing the thing. It’s 2+2=5 but for the government.
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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I realize what a long shot this is, but our kid threw their beloved teddy bear out of the shopping cart at the Target at Sunset and Western in Hollywood. Teddy is much missed if you happen to hear of a missing bear!
February 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I realize what a long shot this is, but our kid threw their beloved teddy bear out of the shopping cart at the Target at Sunset and Western in Hollywood. Teddy is much missed if you happen to hear of a missing bear!
Keep in mind that trans people who were in the process of renewing their passports when this admin took office have essentially had those documents confiscated. This is transparent disenfranchisement of multiple vulnerable groups.
The House of Representatives is considering a bill that will lead to voter purges and widespread disenfranchisement of eligible voters.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
www.americanprogress.org
February 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Keep in mind that trans people who were in the process of renewing their passports when this admin took office have essentially had those documents confiscated. This is transparent disenfranchisement of multiple vulnerable groups.
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The SAVE Act demands people provide documents that millions of eligible voters don’t have easy access to, such as passports and birth certificates, to register to vote.
This bill is unnecessary — federal and state laws already prevent ineligible people from voting. Congress must reject this bill.
This bill is unnecessary — federal and state laws already prevent ineligible people from voting. Congress must reject this bill.
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The SAVE Act demands people provide documents that millions of eligible voters don’t have easy access to, such as passports and birth certificates, to register to vote.
This bill is unnecessary — federal and state laws already prevent ineligible people from voting. Congress must reject this bill.
This bill is unnecessary — federal and state laws already prevent ineligible people from voting. Congress must reject this bill.
Just wrote an email. We’ve seen these pressure campaigns work with other companies.
If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at [email protected]. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.
Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.
www.cnbc.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just wrote an email. We’ve seen these pressure campaigns work with other companies.
Makes it all the more embarrassing that so many Indian Americans are cozying up to Trump/Musk, probably thinking they’ve made it into the club.
Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate."
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to Treasury payment systems was approved by a judge, has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism a...
www.wsj.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Makes it all the more embarrassing that so many Indian Americans are cozying up to Trump/Musk, probably thinking they’ve made it into the club.
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I can’t imagine being mediocre and then filing a lawsuit to share that information with the world. My god.
February 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I can’t imagine being mediocre and then filing a lawsuit to share that information with the world. My god.
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All of this.
Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan
No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
All of this.
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Lessons to be learned:
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lessons to be learned:
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
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When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.
January 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.
This has “the president in Don’t Look Up sending Ron Perelman to blow up the comet” vibes
Elon Musk “will soon be on his way” to retrieve two astronauts on the ISS, according to President Trump.
January 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This has “the president in Don’t Look Up sending Ron Perelman to blow up the comet” vibes