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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 1h

The guy afraid of the NYC subway while he was Transportation Secretary now has more to be afraid of.
Are we sure NASA should be run by this loser?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 1h

"Sir, we are under attack...by naked people in transparent ponchos on bicycles! No, they don't seem to be carrying weapons... Hello? Hello?"

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 4h

Choose the person icon at the bottom, you should see a Union Jack at the top right. Click that to get to the second screen, where you can choose the country and currency.

Amazon app screenshot showing different options.

Amazon app screenshot showing different options for country and currency.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 5h

"Mr Singh, an Indian passport holder, has lived in the US on a green card since 1994...

The case involves Mr Singh using a public phone without paying. Court records show he served 10 days in prison and paid a $4,137.50 fine. The conviction has blocked his US citizenship."

Paramjit Singh: Sikh man with brain tumour detained by US immigration - BBC News

Paramjit Singh, an Indian passport holder, has lived in the US on a green card since 1994.

www.bbc.com

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 6h

Sheldon was right all along!

a man in a blue plaid shirt is holding a cell phone in his hand .

Alt: Sheldon Cooper in a blue plaid shirt is holding a cell phone in his hand and typing out a message claiming credit for Trump's new middle-east plan.

media.tenor.com

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 7h

"Don't need migrant labor because we won't have any farms" - Project 2025, probably.

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Africa qualité de l'Air @afriqair.bsky.social · 7h

Many cities in the Global South still face data gaps in understanding #AirQuality
Join us for a deep dive into how sensor networks are transforming AQ monitoring in Africa & beyond.
Together, we’ll explore how to make data trusted, actionable, and sustainable.
🗓️Oct 16, 2025
Register:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Building Blocks for LCS Data Ecosystem. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Low-cost sensors (LCS) offer a transformative opportunity to bridge the air quality data gaps in data-hungry cities. However, structural and contextual challenges such as data reliability, connectivit...

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 7h

"Article 1 explicitly gives Congress the “power of the purse”... These protections were seen as obvious and necessary for republican government by the Framers...
Trump knows little of this history and tradition, and the American civic tradition has left no visible imprint on him."
@mford.bsky.social

Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of a Failed English King

Our Founders’ designs were studiously informed by the mistakes of King Charles I. Our president seems to want to repeat them.

newrepublic.com

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 8h

Invoke the 25th, dammit.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8h

Dude really forgot he was president on January 6th, 2021. We’re so cooked.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for protesting, keep doing it your way and f*** the haters, even those on our side.

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Heidi Schuster @heidischuster.bsky.social · 15h

For those unfamiliar with the Unipiper
bsky.app/profile/oreg...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 10h

"Each dawn in the 1960s, she climbed to the rooftop of the IMD laboratory, adjusting instruments she had built herself... she captured traces of a changing world: falling ozone levels, rising pollution, and the first fingerprints of human activity on the atmosphere." #IndiaAQ #AGW

Anna Mani, the woman who measured India’s skies

When the National Book Trust released Anna Mani: The Uncut Diamond this September, few expected a modest biography of an Indian meteorologist to stir

www.downtoearth.org.in

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 20h

Idk that's an accurate description of The FP.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Also, using “thought police” to describe the *critics* of someone who literally launched her career by trying to police the thoughts of her pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia is AMAZING

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 22h

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 22h

Judge Sotomayor has been on SCOTUS over a decade longer than you, Judge Coney Barrett. I'm pretty sure she understands what goes into making decisions - and the impact of anything SCOTUS says or does, apparently better than you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 22h

*lose, ugh

R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 22h

Trump may defund NOAA and we may lost this data record, but that CO₂ will keep on climbing.

The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 23h

424.19 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 11-Oct-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

The Keeling Curve

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, I won't forget. Sadly, he's my Senator.

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 23h

This...is how you do it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 1d

Undocumented Bolivian migrant with three US citizen children, including one with brain cancer, detained by ICE on a traffic violation.

Main caretaker of the kid with cancer and sole breadwinner for the family. No criminal record in the US or in Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 1d

Always remember: the Trump administration's armed goons zip-tied children.

Children.

Armed men detaining children and tying them up. That's the US government today.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 1d

The assault on children like kidnapping them and their parents, anti-vax nonsense, protecting and promoting child predators, accelerating climate change, destroying education, lying to their faces…makes me so, so sick. Children are watching their futures burn and we’re letting it happen.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

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