Dr. Ashok Karra

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i'm bad at social media. i'm too earnest for this and i like saying more than takes or witticisms. do say hi, and please do take a look at my blog:

http://encouragement.ghost.io

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Leaving my whole life behind to be a little forest guy

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Robert Lax

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#haiku #poetry Bowing to the Wind

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'Mothers in Gaza are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.' Yes, but does it meet the definition of genocide that I made up? news.sky.com/story/newbor...

Newborn babies now have little chance of survival in Gaza, hospital director warnsnews.sky.com Mothers are so malnourished they cannot breastfeed, so their babies are dying - literally starving to death - because they cannot get the vital nutrition they desperately need.

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The history of the name of Astoria, Queens helps teach us that it’s never worth it to try to suck up to rich people

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"His constituency office in Halle, Saxony Anhalt, has been an arson target, and has had bullets fired through the window." www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abusewww.theguardian.com Karamba Diaby’s announcement he wants to spend time with family comes after bullet and arson attacks on his office

Wait, now I want to hear more about this show

The presidency is such a joke lol imagine a competitive reality show where all they do is talk about the beautiful song they're going to sing for us that will overcome us all with emotion if only we text 20 to 21523 enough times first

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In my global inequality class I show this video on Argentine citizens holding ex-dictators accountable for crimes. "Escraches" were a big tactic, involving protests at their homes, embarrassing them in front of their neighbors, & not letting them live normal lives. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today. Short thread with video on Twitter: x.com/LiteraryMous...

Video: Opinion | Atención! Murderer Next Doorwww.nytimes.com What to do when your neighbors have carried out crimes against humanity.

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A good summary of the 900 page playbook the fascists behind Project 2025 know people won’t read. Even shorter summary, if Trump wins the GOP is going to dismantle the federal government and reassemble it to persecute their enemies.

We published a 3,000-word digestion of the 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” yesterday, here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...

Inside Project 2025 - Boston Reviewwww.bostonreview.net Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

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Someone asked us... how does the malapportionment of districts in France and the UK compares to that in the US? The answer in both countries is quite breathtaking. boltsmag.org/how-voting-w...

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If Biden withdraws support for the war on Gaza I am prepared to believe he was born in 1965—possibly as late as 1980

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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops sayarstechnica.com Cops want more access to OnlyFans to detect more child sex abuse, report says.

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Good morning—I need to make $45 today, hopefully before noon, so I can get an important act of car maintenance done before the holiday (and not having to punt it to next week). If you can help, I’d be grateful. My Venmo is @Matt-Stefon and my PayPal is www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mat.... Thanks so much.

Pay Matthew Stefon using PayPal.Mewww.paypal.com Go to paypal.me/MatthewStefon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Warm palette.

bookmarking, reading, sharing

here it is. it was written before 2020 and updated then: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/06/06/2...

26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)disabilityvisibilityproject.com 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets. (a list) June 2020 updates Contributors Ejeris Dixon, Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, Deesha …

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Lord, there's a pit in my stomach seeing the pictures coming out of St. Vincent (where I was born and where much of my family grew up or still lives) The devastation caused Hurricane Beryl is...tremendous. And the world isn't ready for the future (present?) of climate change and climate refugees

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Loved this painting by Sahana Ramakrishnan at Fridman Gallery. This is a detail. Mesmerizing 😵‍💫

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The July 4, 1942 edition of the "Pinedale Logger," the newspaper written by inmates of the concentration camp in my hometown of Fresno, CA, describes a "Gala Fourth Festival" & features a masthead motto from Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered."

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

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Modern Cracked Lemonade be like

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July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

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the mind of Berg!!!!

I found this fellow so captivating that I just had to draw him

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There's not a goddamn thing that happens on this planet where one of people's first instincts isn't "how can we use this to fuck with trans people," apparently.

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listening to this season of slow burn and i didn’t realize that harvey milk and george moscone’s killer wasn’t convicted of murder because he was a former cop.

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Read this story and then ponder how many good apples in the police department and prosecutor's office *absolutely knew* who was the real murderer was and conspired to railroad this lady to protect him.

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

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I'm just like... not even remotely prepared to concede that Donald Trump winning in November is a foregone conclusion.

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I wrote for More Perfect Union about the Biden administrations proposal to implement new protections for workers who are agonizing under extreme heat.

Biden Proposes Protecting Workers from Extreme Heat and Their Own State Governmentssubstack.perfectunion.us “This regulation will save lives,” one union leader said.

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can't have that

Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 people

Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 peoplewww.theguardian.com Artist calls impounding of MV Louise Michel ‘vile and unacceptable’ after rescue of 17 unaccompanied children

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An autistic man was wrongfully convicted 20 yrs ago & put on death row for his kid’s death based on a now discredited theory Hospital staff judged his autistic traits as signs of guilt Read more & Sign here to help stop the Oct 17 execution of Robert Roberson an innocent autistic father #SignalBoost

Stop the Oct. 17 execution of Robert Roberson, an innocent fatherinnocenceproject.org Mr. Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Act now.

an excellent read

"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, “Trump as fascist” remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"

What's In a Wordwww.unpopularfront.news A Canned Post

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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.

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