Ali Faruk
@alifarukrva.bsky.social
Public School Dad, Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, 3rd District #RVA school board member. www.alifarukrva.com.
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RPS Love Market serves hundreds of Richmond students and families: ‘We heard the cry’
The farmers-market-style shop was set up with help from Feed More and local vendors in direct response to the government shutdown.
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"1,200 students and their families were served at their November 7 and 14 markets, and estimated they would serve 500 to 600 people during the last distribution day on Friday." www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
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It sounds absurd because it is absurd.
Whatever tf passes as healthcare in America is absurd.
Universal care is the only system that treats people like humans, not revenue streams.
Whatever tf passes as healthcare in America is absurd.
Universal care is the only system that treats people like humans, not revenue streams.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It sounds absurd because it is absurd.
Whatever tf passes as healthcare in America is absurd.
Universal care is the only system that treats people like humans, not revenue streams.
Whatever tf passes as healthcare in America is absurd.
Universal care is the only system that treats people like humans, not revenue streams.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
⚠️ Israeli Human Rights Groups Tell UN That Israel Increased Use of Torture During Gaza War
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵
By @nirhasson.bsky.social
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By @nirhasson.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
"Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society." - Grace Lee Boggs
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society." - Grace Lee Boggs
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There is a better way to travel between major US cities. It's not that we can't build high speed rail here... It's been a deliberate choice of political will, car industry lobbying and regulatory hurdles designed to make it seem impossible... But it is indeed a choice.
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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What if the United States had high-speed rail?
High-speed rail is a proven alternative to gridlocked highways and overcrowded airports. CNN has reimagined a faster, more connected future for US commuters.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
There is a better way to travel between major US cities. It's not that we can't build high speed rail here... It's been a deliberate choice of political will, car industry lobbying and regulatory hurdles designed to make it seem impossible... But it is indeed a choice.
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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Related: I have elementary school teacher friends who’ve told me they’ve eliminated play in Kindergarten to make space for reading screeners. You know who those kids are—and we know why this is happening.
we shouldn’t (more fully) turn high schools into metric production mills
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Related: I have elementary school teacher friends who’ve told me they’ve eliminated play in Kindergarten to make space for reading screeners. You know who those kids are—and we know why this is happening.
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Kids don't always want to be on screens, they just need spaces and places to live, grow and play independently.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Kids don't always want to be on screens, they just need spaces and places to live, grow and play independently.
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The IDF didn't just strike near a hospital. They systematically targeted and destroyed the equipment at the only cancer treatment facility in all of Gaza.
Let's be perfectly clear about the depths of evil we are witnessing. This is your US tax dollars at work.
Let's be perfectly clear about the depths of evil we are witnessing. This is your US tax dollars at work.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The IDF didn't just strike near a hospital. They systematically targeted and destroyed the equipment at the only cancer treatment facility in all of Gaza.
Let's be perfectly clear about the depths of evil we are witnessing. This is your US tax dollars at work.
Let's be perfectly clear about the depths of evil we are witnessing. This is your US tax dollars at work.
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If you’re not on TikTok, here’s the #RVA tiramisu guy:
When he was giving away leftover tiramisu about a month ago, Alex Na expected three or four people to show up. What he found was friendships that have since grown into community potlucks.
How he turned leftover tiramisu into community building
When he was giving away leftover tiramisu about a month ago, Alex Na expected three or four people to show up. What he found was friendships that have since grown into community potlucks.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If you’re not on TikTok, here’s the #RVA tiramisu guy:
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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The "acceptable debate" according to Bari Weiss.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The "acceptable debate" according to Bari Weiss.
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My annual Thanksgiving take is it's fine to take a break and enjoy being with your family on an almost-mandated government holiday without trying to make that say something positive about the American settler colonial project
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My annual Thanksgiving take is it's fine to take a break and enjoy being with your family on an almost-mandated government holiday without trying to make that say something positive about the American settler colonial project
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If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Reminder that under capitalism, innovations aren't used to help humanity, their only purpose is to make money for the 1%.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reminder that under capitalism, innovations aren't used to help humanity, their only purpose is to make money for the 1%.
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Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000.
#16DaysOfActivism
#16DaysOfActivism
Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000.
#16DaysOfActivism
#16DaysOfActivism
Is behavior like this supposed to increase voter trust and participation?
"AIPAC PAC reports earmarked donations in their monthly disbursements. Through this data, it’s possible to trace the money that Jeffries has received from AIPAC PAC: it has earmarked more than $1M to Jeffries’ campaign committee since February 2022, the vast majority in the 2024 election cycle."
Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money
Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars in earmarked donations.
readsludge.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Is behavior like this supposed to increase voter trust and participation?
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"AIPAC PAC reports earmarked donations in their monthly disbursements. Through this data, it’s possible to trace the money that Jeffries has received from AIPAC PAC: it has earmarked more than $1M to Jeffries’ campaign committee since February 2022, the vast majority in the 2024 election cycle."
Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money
Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars in earmarked donations.
readsludge.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"AIPAC PAC reports earmarked donations in their monthly disbursements. Through this data, it’s possible to trace the money that Jeffries has received from AIPAC PAC: it has earmarked more than $1M to Jeffries’ campaign committee since February 2022, the vast majority in the 2024 election cycle."
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It’s amazing how many public intellectuals think that Chotiner reading what they wrote and asking follow up questions is a “gotcha interview”
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It’s amazing how many public intellectuals think that Chotiner reading what they wrote and asking follow up questions is a “gotcha interview”