R Subramanian (he/him)
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Based in Bengaluru, India. See #IndiaAQ for work posts.
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Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970.
(The year the US EPA was created.)
(The year the US EPA was created.)
Probably a good chance those two districts would have been toss-ups in 2026...
In the map judge selected, Harris carried the district centered on Salt Lake by 24 (per @stephenwolf.bsky.social).
Trump carried of all Utah's current districts by 19-26%. Facing a ruling against that gerrymander, GOP tried a map with 2 districts that went Trump by single-digits. Judge opposed.
Trump carried of all Utah's current districts by 19-26%. Facing a ruling against that gerrymander, GOP tried a map with 2 districts that went Trump by single-digits. Judge opposed.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Probably a good chance those two districts would have been toss-ups in 2026...
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Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
Anyone could have told you that before you sold out your base.
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Anyone could have told you that before you sold out your base.
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I should really have fit into this post that this county voted for Trump.
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I should really have fit into this post that this county voted for Trump.
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"Hemp"-derived products that contain only CBD will continue to be legal, and any state that's legalized cannabis will still have legalized (and regulated) cannabis. This is just to close the loophole that resulted in some dangerous products being technically legal.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Hemp"-derived products that contain only CBD will continue to be legal, and any state that's legalized cannabis will still have legalized (and regulated) cannabis. This is just to close the loophole that resulted in some dangerous products being technically legal.
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Earlier today, Judge Talwani stayed the USDA memo that told states that they needed to "undo" the SNAP payments they had paid out in full.
It looks like the USDA is trying to force states to comply with it anyway.
It looks like the USDA is trying to force states to comply with it anyway.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Earlier today, Judge Talwani stayed the USDA memo that told states that they needed to "undo" the SNAP payments they had paid out in full.
It looks like the USDA is trying to force states to comply with it anyway.
It looks like the USDA is trying to force states to comply with it anyway.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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Another. Once upon a time there would have been consequences for a company that knowingly enabled this, including a consumer revolt.
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Another. Once upon a time there would have been consequences for a company that knowingly enabled this, including a consumer revolt.
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In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
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I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
PACE had to be rescued from Trump's destruction of science: bsky.app/profile/rsub...
1/ More than 600km above 🌏, NASA's PACE (standing for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ecosystem) satellite is in a polar orbit. Covering the globe in about two days, it gathers data on ocean colour, aerosols, and clouds enabling the study of climate change and ocean ecosystems.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
PACE had to be rescued from Trump's destruction of science: bsky.app/profile/rsub...
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A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
By @sominisengupta.bsky.social & @bradplumer.bsky.social
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
By @sominisengupta.bsky.social & @bradplumer.bsky.social
A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
By @sominisengupta.bsky.social & @bradplumer.bsky.social
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
By @sominisengupta.bsky.social & @bradplumer.bsky.social
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
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Since Trump is taking SNAP away from hungry families, they will have no choice but to scavenge roadkill and worms.
RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture in this country."
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Since Trump is taking SNAP away from hungry families, they will have no choice but to scavenge roadkill and worms.
Make Roadkill Edible Again
RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture in this country."
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Make Roadkill Edible Again
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A flexible spending account that replaces enhanced ACA premium tax credits would help people with their out-of-pocket health care costs. But, that help would be limited if they couldn't afford to buy insurance to begin with without the enhanced tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A flexible spending account that replaces enhanced ACA premium tax credits would help people with their out-of-pocket health care costs. But, that help would be limited if they couldn't afford to buy insurance to begin with without the enhanced tax credits.
Damn.
Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Damn.
Inexperience and dismissals of top officials is also true of Pete Hegseth.
Where is that article?
Where is that article?
NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Inexperience and dismissals of top officials is also true of Pete Hegseth.
Where is that article?
Where is that article?
Sure does.
Senate Majority Leader Elizabeth Warren has a nice ring to it, right???
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sure does.
Rewatching Up in the Air and... Yeah, Ryan Bingham is kinda what I wanted to be (not the job.)
Traveling all the time, traveling light.
Traveling all the time, traveling light.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Rewatching Up in the Air and... Yeah, Ryan Bingham is kinda what I wanted to be (not the job.)
Traveling all the time, traveling light.
Traveling all the time, traveling light.
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I don’t doubt that @americalabs.org knows far more about this than most of us and may very well be right, but this is all so cynical and depressing. Not even the Dems are on our side.
This is the kind of thing that takes the wind out of everyone’s sails.
This is the kind of thing that takes the wind out of everyone’s sails.
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I don’t doubt that @americalabs.org knows far more about this than most of us and may very well be right, but this is all so cynical and depressing. Not even the Dems are on our side.
This is the kind of thing that takes the wind out of everyone’s sails.
This is the kind of thing that takes the wind out of everyone’s sails.
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13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.
Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.
Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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12) With the way the CR/minibus fight ended, real doubts about whether the Dems are smart... at least their leadership. Republicans negotiated good cop, bad cop, crazy cop.
What was the Dem ldrship negotiating strategy? Pretend to be one way to the public and another in private. Not good.
What was the Dem ldrship negotiating strategy? Pretend to be one way to the public and another in private. Not good.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
12) With the way the CR/minibus fight ended, real doubts about whether the Dems are smart... at least their leadership. Republicans negotiated good cop, bad cop, crazy cop.
What was the Dem ldrship negotiating strategy? Pretend to be one way to the public and another in private. Not good.
What was the Dem ldrship negotiating strategy? Pretend to be one way to the public and another in private. Not good.
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11) The discussion about health care was useful PR, but covered up discussion over the power of the purse, which is fundamental. If the WH doesn't have to follow the law, it doesn't matter what you pass.
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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