Asim Ali
@asimali.bsky.social
American studies prof. Erstwhile economist. Sometime musician. Habitat builder. Pro-bunny. Earthling. Trying to make more darkness. Ⓥ He/him
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one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is
Every week or so I'm shocked and disturbed at how readily university administrations do illegal performative shit to punish their own faculty and students, and then lose a lawsuit and cost the university a whole bunch of money. It's almost like they're intentionally trying to destroy education.
January 7, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Every week or so I'm shocked and disturbed at how readily university administrations do illegal performative shit to punish their own faculty and students, and then lose a lawsuit and cost the university a whole bunch of money. It's almost like they're intentionally trying to destroy education.
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We analyzed beef recipe promotion on Instagram across 10 top U.S. food media and recipe outlets over 30-days. The recipes called for more than 57 pounds of beef. If followers made those recipes just once that month, it would contribute as much #GreenhouseGas as nearly 3 million cars for a year.
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 PM
We analyzed beef recipe promotion on Instagram across 10 top U.S. food media and recipe outlets over 30-days. The recipes called for more than 57 pounds of beef. If followers made those recipes just once that month, it would contribute as much #GreenhouseGas as nearly 3 million cars for a year.
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I just called David LaGrand, mayor of Grand Rapids, expressing HORROR at this arrest. I'm also emailing
@indivisible.org pls alert all Michigan Indivisibles to take action.
Everyone call and write: David LaGrand. Mayor of Grand Rapids · (616) 456-3168. mayor@grcity.us
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
@indivisible.org pls alert all Michigan Indivisibles to take action.
Everyone call and write: David LaGrand. Mayor of Grand Rapids · (616) 456-3168. mayor@grcity.us
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I just called David LaGrand, mayor of Grand Rapids, expressing HORROR at this arrest. I'm also emailing
@indivisible.org pls alert all Michigan Indivisibles to take action.
Everyone call and write: David LaGrand. Mayor of Grand Rapids · (616) 456-3168. mayor@grcity.us
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
@indivisible.org pls alert all Michigan Indivisibles to take action.
Everyone call and write: David LaGrand. Mayor of Grand Rapids · (616) 456-3168. mayor@grcity.us
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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Here's the link to the story
Organizer arrested in Grand Rapids following protest in response to U.S. attack in Venezuela
An officer can be heard telling the woman she's being arrested for "obstructing a roadway" and "failure to obey a lawful command from a police officer."
www.wzzm13.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Here's the link to the story
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No. No. No.
Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy.
Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.
Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy.
Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.
January 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
No. No. No.
Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy.
Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.
Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy.
Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.
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Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.
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Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.
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"As the former DEA official Dennis Dayle lamented in 1986: “In my 30 years of experience with the DEA and related agencies, the main objectives of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be CIA workers.”"
Crucial context from @prospect.org's Maureen Tkacik, but also just a fantastic read
Crucial context from @prospect.org's Maureen Tkacik, but also just a fantastic read
As a teenager, Marco Rubio worked for his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia in an import and sale business of exotic animals. It was a front for moving nearly half a million pounds of cocaine and marijuana
Maureen Tkacik
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
Maureen Tkacik
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:35 AM
"As the former DEA official Dennis Dayle lamented in 1986: “In my 30 years of experience with the DEA and related agencies, the main objectives of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be CIA workers.”"
Crucial context from @prospect.org's Maureen Tkacik, but also just a fantastic read
Crucial context from @prospect.org's Maureen Tkacik, but also just a fantastic read
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Or just strip that back to a single character & set piece & let the performance take it away. What comes out in this performance, of a tune that is not a well-known Top 40 hit, is Jim Henson’s affection for it. His affection for it transfers to the audience. It welcomes an audience in...
January 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Or just strip that back to a single character & set piece & let the performance take it away. What comes out in this performance, of a tune that is not a well-known Top 40 hit, is Jim Henson’s affection for it. His affection for it transfers to the audience. It welcomes an audience in...
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
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On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
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What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/
December 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/
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Your periodic reminder that the US is a petrostate, has been governing like one for decades, and ending the fossil fuel era can't come fast enough.
January 5, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Your periodic reminder that the US is a petrostate, has been governing like one for decades, and ending the fossil fuel era can't come fast enough.
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Republican congressman 👇🏽
January 5, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Republican congressman 👇🏽
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This guy should never be allowed back into academia.
Looking at you, Stanford University
www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...
Looking at you, Stanford University
www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...
NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026
www.statnews.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This guy should never be allowed back into academia.
Looking at you, Stanford University
www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...
Looking at you, Stanford University
www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...
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With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.
January 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Please retweet and comment on this regardless of if you can donate!
Very behind on donations, still need $8,500 for 2025/2026 specialist care (neurosurgeon, two neurologists, plastic surgeon, endocrinologist, neuroanesthesiologist plus tests and treatments including surgeries)
Very behind on donations, still need $8,500 for 2025/2026 specialist care (neurosurgeon, two neurologists, plastic surgeon, endocrinologist, neuroanesthesiologist plus tests and treatments including surgeries)
My next trip is in February, with ICT and ICP neurosurgery tests, lumbar puncture, head angiogram, endocrinology, maybe chronic infectious persistence tests www.gofundme.com/f/help-emily...
So expensive, I’ll reapply for financial aid but may be denied bc I’m not a NY resident, please donate/share
So expensive, I’ll reapply for financial aid but may be denied bc I’m not a NY resident, please donate/share
Donate to We've got your back! Get Emily spine and brain care, organized by Jess Smolinski
*PLEASE SHARE even if you can't donate*
Hello, everyone! This f… Jess Smolinski needs your support for We've got your back! Get Emily spine and brain care
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January 4, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Please retweet and comment on this regardless of if you can donate!
Very behind on donations, still need $8,500 for 2025/2026 specialist care (neurosurgeon, two neurologists, plastic surgeon, endocrinologist, neuroanesthesiologist plus tests and treatments including surgeries)
Very behind on donations, still need $8,500 for 2025/2026 specialist care (neurosurgeon, two neurologists, plastic surgeon, endocrinologist, neuroanesthesiologist plus tests and treatments including surgeries)
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I’ve been sent small gift cards by clinicians, researchers and orgs wanting to thank me without getting me kicked off benefits (and thus Palliative Care)
If you think the government isn’t that petty, they’re denying me $20/ month SNAP because of my neurosurgery GFM! We aren’t meant to survive
If you think the government isn’t that petty, they’re denying me $20/ month SNAP because of my neurosurgery GFM! We aren’t meant to survive
January 5, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I’ve been sent small gift cards by clinicians, researchers and orgs wanting to thank me without getting me kicked off benefits (and thus Palliative Care)
If you think the government isn’t that petty, they’re denying me $20/ month SNAP because of my neurosurgery GFM! We aren’t meant to survive
If you think the government isn’t that petty, they’re denying me $20/ month SNAP because of my neurosurgery GFM! We aren’t meant to survive
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Disabled people like me on SSDI/SSI are the most heavily surveilled vulnerable people in society, with frequent civil rights violations, abuse and isolationist policies from clinicians, agencies, elected officials
Lateral ableism via peers disabilty policing endangers us further
Lateral ableism via peers disabilty policing endangers us further
January 5, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Disabled people like me on SSDI/SSI are the most heavily surveilled vulnerable people in society, with frequent civil rights violations, abuse and isolationist policies from clinicians, agencies, elected officials
Lateral ableism via peers disabilty policing endangers us further
Lateral ableism via peers disabilty policing endangers us further
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When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho
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Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...
January 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago