Kumar Rao
@kumar.bsky.social
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Lawyer, former public defender. Progressive politics, racial justice, urban gardening. Let’s go Knicks/GoBlue.
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tiffanycaban.bsky.social
Donald Trump is using and abusing the Justice Department as his personal minions to prosecute his political opponents. Welcome to Authoritarianism 101. We won’t fall for it. We will fight.
newyorkstateag.bsky.social
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
kumar.bsky.social
Reminder that over the last two years many people—activists, scholars, elected officials, students—were smeared as bigoted, ignorant, or worse for calling for this very outcome.

Most importantly, had we listened to their cries, literally lives of tens of thousands of people could have been saved.
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
kumar.bsky.social
I went to go print a bunch of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social posters at Staples. Once the clerk saw what it was , he gave them all to me for free 😀
kumar.bsky.social
Late to it, but Andor! Wow.

What an absolutely epic show. Equally gut wrenching and exhilarating, especially in this moment thinking about the U.S. and Palestine.
kumar.bsky.social
Amazing win. Congrats
kumar.bsky.social
My god.
alexjungle.bsky.social
Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
kumar.bsky.social
Didn’t purchase today, but will definitely check this out sometime.
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aoc.bsky.social
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.
kumar.bsky.social
Let’s gooooo! @coribush.bsky.social annouches she is running again for Congress.

Donate here:

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kumar.bsky.social
Let’s see where this heads, but @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social would be a terrific candidate and tremendous Congressmember.
petersterne.com
SCOOP: DSA-backed City Council Member @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social is exploring a primary challenge to Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10.

Avilés is meeting with @socialists.nyc's Electoral Working Group next week to discuss her potential congressional run.

Read more at @cityandstateny.bsky.social:
Alexa Avilés exploring challenge to Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10
The DSA-backed City Council member has been talking to allies about potentially challenging the incumbent representative.
www.cityandstateny.com
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leahlitman.bsky.social
Ah - the Kavanaugh stops continue.

(h/t @akalhan.bsky.social for the name!)
Kavanaugh concurrence
kumar.bsky.social
THIS. And don’t forget his common sense moral position and record against Israeli genocide and in support of Palestinian humanity. It’s clearly also propelled his candidacy.
gregsargent.bsky.social
There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...
kumar.bsky.social
Absolutely love this sentiment and observation from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

(from Vanity Fair profile available here archive.ph/KJkAv)
“I think to be a New Yorker is also to be an American,” Mamdani said. “To me the city is the best of what our country has to offer. It’s a city where these identities are not necessarily in hierarchy or in contention, but where they’re all examples of what it means to belong here.”
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radleybalko.bsky.social
In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
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pkryan.bsky.social
Deploying US troops against US citizens in American cities isn’t just unprecedented and unconstitutional – it’s UNAMERICAN.

Every freedom-loving American Patriot, regardless of their political party, must speak up NOW.
thebulwark.com
Trump to the military: "Our inner-cities, which we're going to be talking about, because it's a big part of war now."
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whstancil.bsky.social
The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
kumar.bsky.social
Been gratified to see the consistent mark-ups on these evil ads across subway stations.
nygroove.nyc
Yeah, everyone hates the AI subway ads as much as you do nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened.

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According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.”

Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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antizionistjew.bsky.social
#BREAKING | 🇰🇷🇵🇸 Pro-Palestine Protest in Seoul, South Korea
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
I’d be amazing, at this point, to see the deans of the top 15 law schools say that they will actively discourage their students from applying for SCOTUS clerkships and will provide no assistance for doing so.

SCOTUS is affirmatively subverting the Constitution, and they will not help it do so.