Chirag
@cmehta3.bsky.social
Interested in organizing, policy for political power building, and occasionally music and food.
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This, but with society as the unit of analysis is basically my whole thing right now. Get out your vision boards for parallel institution building. Nope. Don’t tell me what can’t be done. Tell me how we figure out how to do it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This, but with society as the unit of analysis is basically my whole thing right now. Get out your vision boards for parallel institution building. Nope. Don’t tell me what can’t be done. Tell me how we figure out how to do it.
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parliamentary systems, and governments that can get dissolved at the moment they lose popular support, are a way to improve this "lie then smash-and-grab" style of governance.
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
parliamentary systems, and governments that can get dissolved at the moment they lose popular support, are a way to improve this "lie then smash-and-grab" style of governance.
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do you have any idea how bad things must be behind the scenes - how hellish the underlying data must be - for this guy to say something like this
TAPPER: Do you agree that the US is at risk of a recession?
BESSENT: I believe we are in a transition period here. I think we're in good shape, but there are sectors of the economy that are in recession
BESSENT: I believe we are in a transition period here. I think we're in good shape, but there are sectors of the economy that are in recession
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
do you have any idea how bad things must be behind the scenes - how hellish the underlying data must be - for this guy to say something like this
I now get safety alerts from my kids’ school about ICE activity in the area that feel like active shooter emails except the threat is our own government. I’m appreciate those who are protecting the kids, even escorting them to bus stops or staying late with them at school until it’s safe to leave.
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I now get safety alerts from my kids’ school about ICE activity in the area that feel like active shooter emails except the threat is our own government. I’m appreciate those who are protecting the kids, even escorting them to bus stops or staying late with them at school until it’s safe to leave.
Jeremy Allen White really should've done a Joe Strummer biopic, instead.
September 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Jeremy Allen White really should've done a Joe Strummer biopic, instead.
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i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Chrysler dealer at the corner of Peterson and Western in Chicago making sure customers know why their prices are up as much as 30%. Drastic times (parent company Stellantis posted a $2.5 billion loss in 1st half of 2025), drastic measures.
September 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Chrysler dealer at the corner of Peterson and Western in Chicago making sure customers know why their prices are up as much as 30%. Drastic times (parent company Stellantis posted a $2.5 billion loss in 1st half of 2025), drastic measures.
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This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
In case you’re at all confused.
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
In case you’re at all confused.
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As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.
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This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Says
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.
August 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.
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So grateful to be invited into this conversation with @msmagazine.com and @carmenriosss.bsky.social alongside @lenorepalladino.bsky.social.
I found it personally helpful to take a moment to reflect and regroup in the fight for a just society, and I hope this conversation helps others as well.
I found it personally helpful to take a moment to reflect and regroup in the fight for a just society, and I hope this conversation helps others as well.
“we are the people who keep our economy going.”
i talked to economists @lenorepalladino.bsky.social + @rmabud.bsky.social in the latest ep of "looking back, moving forward" about what's broken in our economy—and how we can fix it.
read more + tune in @msmagazine.com! msmagazine.com/2025/08/12/c...
i talked to economists @lenorepalladino.bsky.social + @rmabud.bsky.social in the latest ep of "looking back, moving forward" about what's broken in our economy—and how we can fix it.
read more + tune in @msmagazine.com! msmagazine.com/2025/08/12/c...
‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice
‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice
msmagazine.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So grateful to be invited into this conversation with @msmagazine.com and @carmenriosss.bsky.social alongside @lenorepalladino.bsky.social.
I found it personally helpful to take a moment to reflect and regroup in the fight for a just society, and I hope this conversation helps others as well.
I found it personally helpful to take a moment to reflect and regroup in the fight for a just society, and I hope this conversation helps others as well.
They’re escalating the criminalization of poverty. You can see where this ends up. Private for-profit prisons everywhere full of people made poor by Trump and then crimanized for it. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Homeless Camps Are Cleared in D.C. Ahead of Expected Federal Raids
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
They’re escalating the criminalization of poverty. You can see where this ends up. Private for-profit prisons everywhere full of people made poor by Trump and then crimanized for it. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Without an organized and significant in number engaged base, he will feel the gravitational pull of the ruling class. Electoral politics in the US is for too many, the election/voting & then going home. I worry about that in this instance.
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Without an organized and significant in number engaged base, he will feel the gravitational pull of the ruling class. Electoral politics in the US is for too many, the election/voting & then going home. I worry about that in this instance.
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I was happy to join a @caseygrants.bsky.social Summer School session on why political democracy *requires* economic democracy --> like, it's not a 'nice to have'
great conversation with fascinating ppl: watch here ⬇️ 📽️
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great conversation with fascinating ppl: watch here ⬇️ 📽️
caseygrants.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worker-power...
Worker Power Is the Heart of Democracy
Power is never given freely—it must be taken. And right now, shareholders extract it, while working people pay the price. But from the picket lines to the policy fights, a rebellion is brewing.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was happy to join a @caseygrants.bsky.social Summer School session on why political democracy *requires* economic democracy --> like, it's not a 'nice to have'
great conversation with fascinating ppl: watch here ⬇️ 📽️
caseygrants.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worker-power...
great conversation with fascinating ppl: watch here ⬇️ 📽️
caseygrants.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worker-power...
Firing the BLS chief over bad job numbers is exhibit 5,378 proving Donald Trump hates working people. The jobs report shows workers are hurting and there’s likely more pain to come and what does he do? Fire the messenger. He just does not care.
August 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Firing the BLS chief over bad job numbers is exhibit 5,378 proving Donald Trump hates working people. The jobs report shows workers are hurting and there’s likely more pain to come and what does he do? Fire the messenger. He just does not care.
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In 1937, the Soviet Union conducted a census. Stalin didn't like the results (the numbers were lower than expected), so he purged the statistical agencies and ordered a new census to be conducted in 1939. Which produced numbers he liked better.
August 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In 1937, the Soviet Union conducted a census. Stalin didn't like the results (the numbers were lower than expected), so he purged the statistical agencies and ordered a new census to be conducted in 1939. Which produced numbers he liked better.
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To me, today's jobs report is what entering a recession looks like. Could we pull up? Sure. But if we look back and end up dating an official recession that starts 3-6 months from now, this is what it would look like today - rapid softening/deterioration in the labor market.
August 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
To me, today's jobs report is what entering a recession looks like. Could we pull up? Sure. But if we look back and end up dating an official recession that starts 3-6 months from now, this is what it would look like today - rapid softening/deterioration in the labor market.
Underrated skeet
all it takes is one drop
Would you pay $13,000 to rid your blood of microplastics? Yael Cohen thinks her new procedure could be revolutionary.
July 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Underrated skeet
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Russell Vought is a fanatic. But he's in charge now. But please don't call him "budget chief" going "rogue". The man is on a bizarre, quasi-religious mission to bring down the entire US government. He is a dangerous, dangerous man.
i think it is bad that the president's budget director thinks congress is an advisory body and that the constitution is a set of recommendations www.huffpost.com/entry/russ-v...
Trump's Budget Chief Is About To Go Rogue On Massive Spending Cuts
Russ Vought said to expect more massive spending cuts because Trump is "not cowing to a legislative branch’s understanding of its own authorities and powers."
www.huffpost.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Russell Vought is a fanatic. But he's in charge now. But please don't call him "budget chief" going "rogue". The man is on a bizarre, quasi-religious mission to bring down the entire US government. He is a dangerous, dangerous man.
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If you want to know how a country gets to the point where people from a targeted minority are forced to wear some sort of visual signifier of their identity on their clothing, it really seems like this is the progression.
One of the plaintiffs is a U.S. citizen working at a car wash that has been raided by Border Patrol multiple times. He gave them his ID but they demanded a passport.
Because he didn’t have one, they detained him and drove him to a different location to check his status.
Because he didn’t have one, they detained him and drove him to a different location to check his status.
July 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you want to know how a country gets to the point where people from a targeted minority are forced to wear some sort of visual signifier of their identity on their clothing, it really seems like this is the progression.
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Will anyone decry this as political violence?
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Will anyone decry this as political violence?
Set aside that employer provided insurance—no matter the quality—is hard to come by…Hassett is explaining here how their legislation is an enormous gift to low-wage employers frustrated by tight labor markets.
JIANG: What is the NEC's estimate for how many people could lose healthcare coverage?
HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
July 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Set aside that employer provided insurance—no matter the quality—is hard to come by…Hassett is explaining here how their legislation is an enormous gift to low-wage employers frustrated by tight labor markets.
I’ll confess that I didn’t see 29-year-old guy living in his mom’s basement as the new welfare queen coming.
Hinson on Medicaid benefits: "They shouldn't be going to a 29-year-old guy who's living in his mom's basement choosing not to work."
July 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I’ll confess that I didn’t see 29-year-old guy living in his mom’s basement as the new welfare queen coming.