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Yes I did a parenthetical citation, this is BlueSky
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“women’s safety is not only about what happens to women, it is also about what a society believes women are for”
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
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January 19, 2026 at 2:25 AM
“women’s safety is not only about what happens to women, it is also about what a society believes women are for”
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January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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"A republic organized around public responsibilities would reverse this logic: it would treat women not as the units being measured but as co-authors of the measures themselves—what safety means, what harm counts, and what institutions are obligated to provide."
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
moneyontheleft.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
"A republic organized around public responsibilities would reverse this logic: it would treat women not as the units being measured but as co-authors of the measures themselves—what safety means, what harm counts, and what institutions are obligated to provide."
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"Women’s safety is easier to politicize when women are not treated as people but as value—as a kind of gold standard for 'culture,' a deliberately narrow measure of womanhood that must be guarded, defended, and kept from 'contamination' or 'theft.'"
"Women’s safety is easier to politicize when women are not treated as people but as value—as a kind of gold standard for 'culture,' a deliberately narrow measure of womanhood that must be guarded, defended, and kept from 'contamination' or 'theft.'"
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Check out our latest 👇
"Women’s safety is easier to politicize when women are not treated as people but as value—as a kind of gold standard for 'culture,' a deliberately narrow measure of womanhood that must be guarded, defended, and kept from 'contamination' or 'theft.'"
"Women’s safety is easier to politicize when women are not treated as people but as value—as a kind of gold standard for 'culture,' a deliberately narrow measure of womanhood that must be guarded, defended, and kept from 'contamination' or 'theft.'"
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"When a political project succeeds in staging its own version of 'Indian tradition' as common sense, economic participation becomes a downstream promise in a world where women’s credibility has already been bargained away."
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
moneyontheleft.org
January 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"When a political project succeeds in staging its own version of 'Indian tradition' as common sense, economic participation becomes a downstream promise in a world where women’s credibility has already been bargained away."
📣 New @moneyontheleft.bsky.social essay from @shikhaislate.bsky.social provides a really smart critique of Hindutva rhetoric about women as a national resource to be protected and hoarded that is instructive here in the U.S. as well as there.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/w...
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/w...
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
moneyontheleft.org
January 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
📣 New @moneyontheleft.bsky.social essay from @shikhaislate.bsky.social provides a really smart critique of Hindutva rhetoric about women as a national resource to be protected and hoarded that is instructive here in the U.S. as well as there.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/w...
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/w...
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We just published an important new essay by @shikhaislate.bsky.social, who argues that the present Indian obsession with the public protection of women is masking a crisis of private terror, turning women into guarded property rather than genuine citizens with agency. Please read!
✨New Essay!✨
@shikhaislate.bsky.social interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency.
Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
@shikhaislate.bsky.social interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency.
Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
moneyontheleft.org
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM
We just published an important new essay by @shikhaislate.bsky.social, who argues that the present Indian obsession with the public protection of women is masking a crisis of private terror, turning women into guarded property rather than genuine citizens with agency. Please read!
New from @shikhaislate.bsky.social in @moneyontheleft.bsky.social !!!!
January 18, 2026 at 7:59 PM
New from @shikhaislate.bsky.social in @moneyontheleft.bsky.social !!!!
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✨New Essay!✨
@shikhaislate.bsky.social interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency.
Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
@shikhaislate.bsky.social interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency.
Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
moneyontheleft.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
✨New Essay!✨
@shikhaislate.bsky.social interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency.
Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
@shikhaislate.bsky.social interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency.
Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
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Once again sharing this with you, @governorwalz.mn.gov @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov 👇🏻
Would you subscribe to a national bond drive to mobilize state resources against ICE? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...
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January 17, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Once again sharing this with you, @governorwalz.mn.gov @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov 👇🏻
Mayors and governors need to be funding ICE Watch as public works. It’s ridiculous that people have to do this while working full time.
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Mayors and governors need to be funding ICE Watch as public works. It’s ridiculous that people have to do this while working full time.
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I think it’s incredibly inspiring and promising for what comes next that people who would never think of doing cop watch are throwing themselves into ICE Watch (another possibility: 2020 never ended)
January 17, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I think it’s incredibly inspiring and promising for what comes next that people who would never think of doing cop watch are throwing themselves into ICE Watch (another possibility: 2020 never ended)
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the incredibly small but motivated group of people who are worried about abolish ICE might remind people to abolish police, do they know what existing Watch inspired ICE Watch
January 17, 2026 at 3:09 AM
the incredibly small but motivated group of people who are worried about abolish ICE might remind people to abolish police, do they know what existing Watch inspired ICE Watch
Would you subscribe to a national bond drive to mobilize state resources against ICE? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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January 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Would you subscribe to a national bond drive to mobilize state resources against ICE? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...
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1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
January 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
Honestly it’s AOC 2028 and people who think she can’t win because Harris lost need to contend with the actual differences between them, as well as with this being the same country that elected Obama.
we are still years out from the Democratic primary, and I think it is genuinely deranged that there’s people out there who believe there’s no other choice and thus we must rally around the flag of, all people, Gavin Fucking Newsom to save the republic
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Honestly it’s AOC 2028 and people who think she can’t win because Harris lost need to contend with the actual differences between them, as well as with this being the same country that elected Obama.
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Exactly. The power to create money is delegated to banks but not other public authorities, not because these are inescapable facts of life but because they are aspects of the current institutional and systemic design. We could decide, democratically, to design things differently if we chose.
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Exactly. The power to create money is delegated to banks but not other public authorities, not because these are inescapable facts of life but because they are aspects of the current institutional and systemic design. We could decide, democratically, to design things differently if we chose.
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
Decouple design from technocracy and reclaim it for democracy.
It’s insane that Americans worship the “framers” of the Constitution but design is not in our political vocabulary. In fact on the left you’re accused of idealism or naïveté, as if design is downstream from strategy and not its terrain.
It’s insane that Americans worship the “framers” of the Constitution but design is not in our political vocabulary. In fact on the left you’re accused of idealism or naïveté, as if design is downstream from strategy and not its terrain.
"Once design is revealed as design—as choice rather than destiny—democracy becomes possible again."
Touch Grass, Touchscreens, and Public Design
By Will Beaman A small design story from May 2025 has been making the rounds on my newsfeed, about how car manufacturers are re-embracing physical buttons after years of migrating controls onto tou…
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January 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Decouple design from technocracy and reclaim it for democracy.
It’s insane that Americans worship the “framers” of the Constitution but design is not in our political vocabulary. In fact on the left you’re accused of idealism or naïveté, as if design is downstream from strategy and not its terrain.
It’s insane that Americans worship the “framers” of the Constitution but design is not in our political vocabulary. In fact on the left you’re accused of idealism or naïveté, as if design is downstream from strategy and not its terrain.
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"Once design is revealed as design—as choice rather than destiny—democracy becomes possible again."
Touch Grass, Touchscreens, and Public Design
By Will Beaman A small design story from May 2025 has been making the rounds on my newsfeed, about how car manufacturers are re-embracing physical buttons after years of migrating controls onto tou…
moneyontheleft.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
"Once design is revealed as design—as choice rather than destiny—democracy becomes possible again."
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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@governorwalz.mn.gov I wrote to you about this. Following up now. State needs money, this is a way we can fund things
@ltgovflanagan.mn.gov
@ltgovflanagan.mn.gov
Starting today, Blue States should start issuing Blue Bonds.
January 14, 2026 at 1:57 AM
@governorwalz.mn.gov I wrote to you about this. Following up now. State needs money, this is a way we can fund things
@ltgovflanagan.mn.gov
@ltgovflanagan.mn.gov
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I wrote to Walz about this; fascinating concept I'd not heard of before. Basically print our own money (I'm oversimplifying), since they've cut funds to us
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Starting today, Blue States should start issuing Blue Bonds.
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
I wrote to Walz about this; fascinating concept I'd not heard of before. Basically print our own money (I'm oversimplifying), since they've cut funds to us
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Practicing democratic politics should be therapeutic in the “teaching you not to split the world into good and compromised objects” sense.
January 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Practicing democratic politics should be therapeutic in the “teaching you not to split the world into good and compromised objects” sense.
The way to MATERIALLY defund ice is a public option for employment to undermine their recruitment l.
I know this might be too radical for the allegedly radical US left, but states should be looking for constitutional but unconventional ways to finance themselves.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...
I know this might be too radical for the allegedly radical US left, but states should be looking for constitutional but unconventional ways to finance themselves.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...
January 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The way to MATERIALLY defund ice is a public option for employment to undermine their recruitment l.
I know this might be too radical for the allegedly radical US left, but states should be looking for constitutional but unconventional ways to finance themselves.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...
I know this might be too radical for the allegedly radical US left, but states should be looking for constitutional but unconventional ways to finance themselves.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...