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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 49m

“One of them, Albert “Skip” Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

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Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 16h

“Among those wrongly dismissed were the top 2 leaders of the fed measles response team, those working to contain Ebola in the Democratic Rep of Congo, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, & the team that assembles the C.D.C.’s vaunted scientific journal”

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 16h

When do we transition from “rapidly moving towards authoritarianism” to “definitely arrived”? I think it depends on who you are. The immigrant deported w/o due process? The prof terminated for speech? The workers fired by DOGE w/o regard to their contracts? They’re mired in the ick of lawlessness.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16h

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kids

Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 16h

“Accurate Energetic Systems, has been an economic bedrock for the small communities scattered across rural Hickman and Humphreys Counties. One day after the catastrophic explosion, it seemed almost everyone knew someone who worked there or had at some point,”

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Close-Knit Rural Communities Reel After Tennessee Plant Explosion

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

“That was the latest in a string of moves that suggested the Justice Department had become a tool of vengeance against those whom Mr. Trump views as his enemies..”

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

“The report, which was published Sept. 17, largely catalogs statements in which Soros grantees offered support for Palestinians in the wake of violent attacks against Israel, suggested tactics for civil disobedience”

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Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

I am disgusted that I gave birth in the Benioff Children’s Hospital. These are not the words of a benefactor but of an authoritarian accomplice.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

“Mr. Benioff said that he avidly supported Pres Trump & thought National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco — an action that city leaders would consider beyond the pale.”

No matter the giant phallus in the skyline, SF is not his city. It is ours.

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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

up is down. down is up.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling

Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely “just the tip of the iceberg.”

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling

Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

"Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg."
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

“As we think about antecedents to this administration, this episode is structurally similar to the controversy over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required the citizens..of Northern free states to act as slave catchers against their will”

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Opinion | It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.

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Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social · 2d

The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently running an event featuring about the UC’s release of 160 names of faculty, staff and students to the Trump administration’s OCR. Three lawyers - Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, and Asli Bali will speak. I’ll be live-tweeting key moments.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

I am both immensely proud and wowed and inspired by @azizaahmed.bsky.social - sister of my heart! This is a work of history, love, brilliance, and resistance. I needed this today.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3d

“The list includes Soros' Open Society Foundations; ActBlue, the funding arm of the Democratic Party; Indivisible, a grassroots coalition opposed to Trump policies and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based group.”

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Ben Gerstein @bwgerstein.bsky.social · 3d

Per the Trump playbook, Jews who do not adhere to fascist tendencies are categorized as "bad Jews" alongside the enemy "other." Investigating these Jewish orgs. also tracks the targeting of JVP featured prominently in the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther: lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3d

“When a city that has given them so much now is facing a budget deficit of $800 million in the next two fiscal years, what did Airbnb do? They filed lawsuits against us so they don’t have to pay their fair share,” San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan said,”

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SF Unions Call for Boycott of Airbnb as It Tries to Claw Back $120 Million in Taxes | KQED

The boycott campaign is the latest push to get Airbnb to drop its lawsuit against San Francisco, which organizers said was the company trying to avoid paying its fair share.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3d

My sweet brother left for his forever hike 5 years ago today. Here is a photo of him as an undergrad at Stanford, commemorating the Nakba. We will all be specs of dust in the universe one day. Sam taught me that in this life we hold each other.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3d

““The worth of a politics comes from its application to all, and I think part of why so many have lost faith in politics is the absence of that consistency,” he said.”

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How Zohran Mamdani Came to Embrace the Palestinian Cause

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