Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦
@arunadsouza.bsky.social
Writer and critic, mostly contemporary art, sometimes food, always politics. New York Times and 4Columns, among other places. I’m surprisingly sweet. 🇨🇦
He’s being smart and strategic, which is half the battle.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced two top-level members to his upcoming administration, tapping former First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan to return to that role at City Hall.
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Mamdani Taps De Blasio Vet for First Deputy Mayor
The mayor-elect also named his top advisor Elle Bisgaard-Church as Chief of Staff.
www.thecity.nyc
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
He’s being smart and strategic, which is half the battle.
Open enrollment for my NYS Obamacare plan is this month—how am I supposed to know what I can afford given the lack of plan on federal subsidies or possibility that subsidies will be replaced by HSA deposits? These ridiculous political parties have fucked us all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ Message
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Open enrollment for my NYS Obamacare plan is this month—how am I supposed to know what I can afford given the lack of plan on federal subsidies or possibility that subsidies will be replaced by HSA deposits? These ridiculous political parties have fucked us all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
I was picking and choosing what groceries I could buy and what I could do without today—prices have gotten so high. This is the first time in a decade that I’ve felt like that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ Message
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I was picking and choosing what groceries I could buy and what I could do without today—prices have gotten so high. This is the first time in a decade that I’ve felt like that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving plaintiff.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving plaintiff.
Was the Dem backdown because they didn’t understand that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ruling on SNAP wasn’t a capitulation to Trump? If they’d waited a few days SNAP would be paid out.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Was the Dem backdown because they didn’t understand that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ruling on SNAP wasn’t a capitulation to Trump? If they’d waited a few days SNAP would be paid out.
Never forget.
If you believe that Dem leadership is fighting for you, ask them what they did when the Supreme Court took away the human rights of 50% of the nation, when two thirds of Americans disagreed with the Court’s decision, and we had the presidency. More than 3 years later. Ask how they’ve fought.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Never forget.
A lot of theories about the Dem senate sell-out being motivated by the Dem’s concern for their own or constituents’ unhappiness about flight cancellations. But it’s far more likely it’s being motivated by airlines’ lobbying. This party doesn’t even care about middle class comfort, only corporate $$$
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A lot of theories about the Dem senate sell-out being motivated by the Dem’s concern for their own or constituents’ unhappiness about flight cancellations. But it’s far more likely it’s being motivated by airlines’ lobbying. This party doesn’t even care about middle class comfort, only corporate $$$
What is this new (lack of) airplane etiquette involving people (men and women of all ages) farting with abandon? My poor poor nose!
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What is this new (lack of) airplane etiquette involving people (men and women of all ages) farting with abandon? My poor poor nose!
This piece goes hard.
Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”
The Irony of a Fascism Exhibition in Germany
Once a custodian of critical culture, Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has become a model of capitulation to state control.
hyperallergic.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This piece goes hard.
Assuming this ban also applies to abortion clinics now as well?
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Assuming this ban also applies to abortion clinics now as well?
lol clearly they want to go to NC, TN and FL because of their high standards of police conduct too.
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
lol clearly they want to go to NC, TN and FL because of their high standards of police conduct too.
The dude literally ran on the price of eggs, but I wouldn’t expect him to remember that.
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The dude literally ran on the price of eggs, but I wouldn’t expect him to remember that.
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Watch her conversation with Aruna D’Souza on censorship and resistance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkoM...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Watch her conversation with Aruna D’Souza on censorship and resistance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkoM...
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And the person who shut down USAID was just given a trillion dollar raise.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
And the person who shut down USAID was just given a trillion dollar raise.
*chef’s kiss*
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
*chef’s kiss*
Someone make a graphic of Karl Marx in full medieval robes.
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Someone make a graphic of Karl Marx in full medieval robes.
But who’s going to stand up to Trump by theatrically tearing up paper now?!?
Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection to the US House, bringing to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker’s office but arguably the most powerful in American politics.
Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House - The Boston Globe
Pelosi said she would finish out her final year in office.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
But who’s going to stand up to Trump by theatrically tearing up paper now?!?
Working up the pitch now
A cool Interesting Times topic would be "We Put Ross Douthat Into One of Those Drive-Thru Tubes at the Bank, and this is the Sound it Made When We Pushed the Button"
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Working up the pitch now
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For the sake of my friends in New York, I really hope Mayor Mamdani is everything Candidate Mamdani was. But even if he isn't because, well, politics, it is truly lovely to watch a racist sex pest piece of shit like Andrew Cuomo lose TWICE in the same year.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
For the sake of my friends in New York, I really hope Mayor Mamdani is everything Candidate Mamdani was. But even if he isn't because, well, politics, it is truly lovely to watch a racist sex pest piece of shit like Andrew Cuomo lose TWICE in the same year.
She is a rabid racist. The idea that she still has a platform to say the shit she does is amazing to me.
Debra Messing promoted a genocide and was viciously anti-Palestinian. I’m not surprised she hates brown ppl
I expect nothing else from her
I expect nothing else from her
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
She is a rabid racist. The idea that she still has a platform to say the shit she does is amazing to me.
Leader of the Sen Democrats refuses to say whether he voted for the Dem candidate. I will be showing this as Exhibit A the next time someone tries to tell me people should “vote blue no matter who.”
Chuck Schumer's office declines to say who he voted for
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Leader of the Sen Democrats refuses to say whether he voted for the Dem candidate. I will be showing this as Exhibit A the next time someone tries to tell me people should “vote blue no matter who.”
Dick Cheney died, and with any luck the Dems will sweep in today’s election. I feel something moderately like hope today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Dick Cheney died, and with any luck the Dems will sweep in today’s election. I feel something moderately like hope today.
This is a genuinely terrible thing. Teen Vogue has been doing great work for years.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is a genuinely terrible thing. Teen Vogue has been doing great work for years.
Sounds like utopia to me!
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sounds like utopia to me!
At this point, people unwilling to name Israel’s actions as genocidal are themselves outliers relative to Jewish American opinion, or at least less representative than they were even two years ago. Like with MAGA, there’s no use looking for reason here. They are radicalized.
I just am having a hard time understanding why we are doing this about Mamdani while the ‘Jews Will Not Replace Us’ Guys currently run every branch of government and have all the nukes
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
At this point, people unwilling to name Israel’s actions as genocidal are themselves outliers relative to Jewish American opinion, or at least less representative than they were even two years ago. Like with MAGA, there’s no use looking for reason here. They are radicalized.