Ashwini Vasanthakumar
@ashwinivasantha.bsky.social
Legal and political theory | migration, authority, obligation, oppression and the ethics of resistance | writing a book on why immigrants should not 'integrate'
www.ashwinivasanthakumar.com
www.ashwinivasanthakumar.com
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A quick introduction to new followers: I am a political and legal philosopher working on diasporas and transnationalism, the ethics of immigration control, victims' duties, and transitional justice.
My first monograph looked at exile politics,
My first monograph looked at exile politics,
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"The MRI was not disclosed in the report of the president’s latest visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center …
Asked about this by the Daily Beast on Friday, along with a request for an update on the president’s health given this week’s events, the White House declined to answer.”
Asked about this by the Daily Beast on Friday, along with a request for an update on the president’s health given this week’s events, the White House declined to answer.”
“Over the past 48 hours alone, the Daily Beast has counted at least a dozen times when Trump has either confused names and dates, mixed up facts, or even appeared to drift off in public, prompting the obvious question: Is the president OK?” www.thedailybeast.com/12-reasons-w...
12 Reasons Why Trump, 79, May Be Losing The Plot
A series of confusing rants and apparent naps have prompted fresh questions about the president’s health.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"The MRI was not disclosed in the report of the president’s latest visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center …
Asked about this by the Daily Beast on Friday, along with a request for an update on the president’s health given this week’s events, the White House declined to answer.”
Asked about this by the Daily Beast on Friday, along with a request for an update on the president’s health given this week’s events, the White House declined to answer.”
While we spend billions on defence and infrastructure, really hope we can get the basics right.
Canada loses measles elimination status, with US on track to follow
The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
While we spend billions on defence and infrastructure, really hope we can get the basics right.
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Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
What does “freshies” mean?
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What does “freshies” mean?
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Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.
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@theobserveruk.bsky.social points the finger👇
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
@theobserveruk.bsky.social points the finger👇
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"He describes an incident at one distribution site where two young men were running in the general rush to get aid. 'You could just see two soldiers run after them. They drop on to their knees and they just take two shots, and you could just see … two heads snap backwards and just drop,' Sam says."
Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"He describes an incident at one distribution site where two young men were running in the general rush to get aid. 'You could just see two soldiers run after them. They drop on to their knees and they just take two shots, and you could just see … two heads snap backwards and just drop,' Sam says."
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but also i dont understand this. if you are a political reporter and the news is consistently bad for the govt (as it so often is because the govt is the main actor of politics!), what are you supposed to do? sit on a story for a week just so it doesnt look too bad?
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
but also i dont understand this. if you are a political reporter and the news is consistently bad for the govt (as it so often is because the govt is the main actor of politics!), what are you supposed to do? sit on a story for a week just so it doesnt look too bad?
If this had been Biden it would be front page news.
“I, (then state your name), do solemnly swear…”
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If this had been Biden it would be front page news.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"Pro-life"
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"Pro-life"
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A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside. A powerful episode of This American Life.
www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
The Hand That Rocks The Gavel - This American Life
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
www.thisamericanlife.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside. A powerful episode of This American Life.
www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
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Hurricane Melissa's destruction has the Jamaican diaspora mobilizing to send money and aid. The effects of climate change are hitting developing countries hardest, putting pressure on immigrants in Canada to increase the billions they already send home every year. thenarwhal.ca/hurricane-me...
Disasters like Hurricane Melissa put pressure on immigrants | The Narwhal
Immigrants in Canada send billions home every year. Climate disasters like Hurricane Melissa, which devastated Jamaica, add to the pressure
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Hurricane Melissa's destruction has the Jamaican diaspora mobilizing to send money and aid. The effects of climate change are hitting developing countries hardest, putting pressure on immigrants in Canada to increase the billions they already send home every year. thenarwhal.ca/hurricane-me...
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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Degenerates
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Degenerates
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Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.
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My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s,
the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new
moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
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Obama 2004: “There is no red America or blue America, there is just the United States of America.”
Mamdani 2025: “To get to any of us, you will have to go through all of us.”
Mamdani 2025: “To get to any of us, you will have to go through all of us.”
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Obama 2004: “There is no red America or blue America, there is just the United States of America.”
Mamdani 2025: “To get to any of us, you will have to go through all of us.”
Mamdani 2025: “To get to any of us, you will have to go through all of us.”
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
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"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
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