Aditi Ramaswami
@aditiramaswami.bsky.social
directing labor movement comms @moworkers.org. organize, fight, win. opinions expressed are my own (they/them)
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
Happy benito day to those who celebrate today.ucsd.edu/story/how-ba...
How Bad Bunny Became a Global Cultural Force
Fresh off a history-making Grammys win, Bad Bunny is set to take the Super Bowl halftime stage. What makes his music and performance resonate worldwide? An expert in the Department of Theatre and Danc...
today.ucsd.edu
February 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Happy benito day to those who celebrate today.ucsd.edu/story/how-ba...
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This is exactly the type of organizing we love to see! From warehouse safety to data center regulations @moworkers.org is pushing back against big tech in the name of shared prosperity for everyone in MO.
🎤 Join us at the St. Louis Planning Commission’s meeting next Wednesday at 5pm!
We’re using our strength in numbers to call for regulations to protect our city from AI data centers and make sure we’re not footing the energy bill for tech billionaires ⚡
We’re using our strength in numbers to call for regulations to protect our city from AI data centers and make sure we’re not footing the energy bill for tech billionaires ⚡
February 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is exactly the type of organizing we love to see! From warehouse safety to data center regulations @moworkers.org is pushing back against big tech in the name of shared prosperity for everyone in MO.
get his ass @clippy
February 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
get his ass @clippy
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Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
January 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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🚨🎯 BREAKING: Target calls cops on singing Minnesotans, but allows ICE agents who bully, assault, and abduct customers & employees to roam their parking lots & aisles.
📣 Minnesotans are standing up at Target stores across the state today. #ICEOutNow
🔗 Learn more at www.iceoutnowmn.com/
📣 Minnesotans are standing up at Target stores across the state today. #ICEOutNow
🔗 Learn more at www.iceoutnowmn.com/
January 31, 2026 at 7:18 PM
🚨🎯 BREAKING: Target calls cops on singing Minnesotans, but allows ICE agents who bully, assault, and abduct customers & employees to roam their parking lots & aisles.
📣 Minnesotans are standing up at Target stores across the state today. #ICEOutNow
🔗 Learn more at www.iceoutnowmn.com/
📣 Minnesotans are standing up at Target stores across the state today. #ICEOutNow
🔗 Learn more at www.iceoutnowmn.com/
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Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
January 30, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
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Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
The intense fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis
The White House has been met with broad outcry over the killing of Alex Pretti, as well as pushback from Congress.
nyti.ms
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
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This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
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Folks, I don't know whether the dems will make good use of this in 2 weeks.
But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up.
They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage
But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up.
They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage
Republicans agreed to split up the spending bill -- pass year long funding for the other five bills + a DHS two week CR to allow time for negotiations.
January 30, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Folks, I don't know whether the dems will make good use of this in 2 weeks.
But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up.
They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage
But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up.
They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage
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With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. (@missouriindependent.com)
Missouri prisoners report being forced to shovel snow in subzero temperatures
Advocates and incarcerated people say prisoners were ordered outside during the recent winter storm, and punished with segregation or discipline if they refused.
www.kcur.org
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. (@missouriindependent.com)
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ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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"French writes 'In the normative state, your life almost never depends on immediate and unconditional compliance with police commands.' The imagined audience here is telling."
@victorerikray.bsky.social's important reminder that while things are escalated to a frightening level, none of this is new
@victorerikray.bsky.social's important reminder that while things are escalated to a frightening level, none of this is new
America's "dual state" is a racial state
ICE's terrors draw on an American traditions of racial violence
groupthreat.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
"French writes 'In the normative state, your life almost never depends on immediate and unconditional compliance with police commands.' The imagined audience here is telling."
@victorerikray.bsky.social's important reminder that while things are escalated to a frightening level, none of this is new
@victorerikray.bsky.social's important reminder that while things are escalated to a frightening level, none of this is new
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New: The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials. #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
‘Let Politicians Lie Act’ struck down by Missouri Supreme Court. What that means
The law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year, marked a key tool in Republican officials’ yearslong effort to halt abortions.
www.kansascity.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:53 PM
New: The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials. #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
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A write-up of yesterday's protest + general strike that'll make you feel something
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises
At the general strike.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
A write-up of yesterday's protest + general strike that'll make you feel something
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
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No words
“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."
shorturl.at/yOXfh
“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."
shorturl.at/yOXfh
Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos
A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.
shorturl.at
January 25, 2026 at 3:41 PM
No words
“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."
shorturl.at/yOXfh
“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."
shorturl.at/yOXfh
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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to say that public opinion matters isn’t to say that everything will stop immediately. what it means is that the administration’s strategic options narrow considerably and their odds of meeting meaningful institutional resistance goes up.
January 25, 2026 at 3:34 PM
to say that public opinion matters isn’t to say that everything will stop immediately. what it means is that the administration’s strategic options narrow considerably and their odds of meeting meaningful institutional resistance goes up.
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JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The DHS defense of Pretti's killing focuses on the existence of the gun. But look at everything that happened before the agents discovered the gun.
DHS agents escalated: macing and mercilessly beat Pretti as he tried to protect two people being assaulted. None of that was remotely acceptable.
DHS agents escalated: macing and mercilessly beat Pretti as he tried to protect two people being assaulted. None of that was remotely acceptable.
January 25, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The DHS defense of Pretti's killing focuses on the existence of the gun. But look at everything that happened before the agents discovered the gun.
DHS agents escalated: macing and mercilessly beat Pretti as he tried to protect two people being assaulted. None of that was remotely acceptable.
DHS agents escalated: macing and mercilessly beat Pretti as he tried to protect two people being assaulted. None of that was remotely acceptable.
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