Somil Trivedi
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Somil Trivedi
@somilbtrivedi.bsky.social
· Nov 14
First post here in a while, hope it gives you hope:
Yes, Trump & Vance are coming for your freedoms, your neighbors & your wallet. But this time, we're more than ready, with an army of happy warriors that have been training all year. Learn more & join up at democracy2025.org. DMs open.
Yes, Trump & Vance are coming for your freedoms, your neighbors & your wallet. But this time, we're more than ready, with an army of happy warriors that have been training all year. Learn more & join up at democracy2025.org. DMs open.
By the way, Andre referencing Jack’s song at their mutual hall of fame induction is, like, the coolest geriatric millennial shit ever
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
By the way, Andre referencing Jack’s song at their mutual hall of fame induction is, like, the coolest geriatric millennial shit ever
I know he fell asleep at his desk earlier, but his lawyers are working really, really hard for the right to starve your family.
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I know he fell asleep at his desk earlier, but his lawyers are working really, really hard for the right to starve your family.
Au justice was served?
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Au justice was served?
So it’s an emergency to put on tariffs that make your food more expensive, but not an emergency to fund SNAP that makes your food cheaper. Great, got it.
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So it’s an emergency to put on tariffs that make your food more expensive, but not an emergency to fund SNAP that makes your food cheaper. Great, got it.
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Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.
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Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
He sent a mob to destroy Congress and took a bulldozer to the White House, and that’s extremely relevant context for any Supreme Court analysis this term.
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
He sent a mob to destroy Congress and took a bulldozer to the White House, and that’s extremely relevant context for any Supreme Court analysis this term.
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CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, NO KINGS
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, NO KINGS
Guys our day is #NoKings, little league, puppy Halloween costume happy hour, Diwali party & Korean bbq and it’s just so effing America I can’t even take it.
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Guys our day is #NoKings, little league, puppy Halloween costume happy hour, Diwali party & Korean bbq and it’s just so effing America I can’t even take it.
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
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@politico.com
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October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
I’m reposting all the Russ crossbar jokes, I know it’s unbecoming of a 1-2 team averaging like 18 points and 12 penalties a game, but we need this and he played in Denver, so whatever.
September 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’m reposting all the Russ crossbar jokes, I know it’s unbecoming of a 1-2 team averaging like 18 points and 12 penalties a game, but we need this and he played in Denver, so whatever.
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John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.
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“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.”
-Justice Kavanaugh
-Justice Kavanaugh
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys.
Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman.
There is no justification for this. None.
Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman.
There is no justification for this. None.
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.”
-Justice Kavanaugh
-Justice Kavanaugh
Old enough to remember when we gutted the Voting Rights Act because it offended certain states—the same ones doing the invading right now.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
September 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Old enough to remember when we gutted the Voting Rights Act because it offended certain states—the same ones doing the invading right now.
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Don’t mean to make everything about the Supreme Court, but:
There’s an undecided petition AT THIS VERY MOMENT, sitting on the shadow docket, asking the nine to allow ICE to racially profile people who look Latino, speak Spanish, are day laborers, or else work in low-wage service jobs.
This one:
There’s an undecided petition AT THIS VERY MOMENT, sitting on the shadow docket, asking the nine to allow ICE to racially profile people who look Latino, speak Spanish, are day laborers, or else work in low-wage service jobs.
This one:
August 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Don’t mean to make everything about the Supreme Court, but:
There’s an undecided petition AT THIS VERY MOMENT, sitting on the shadow docket, asking the nine to allow ICE to racially profile people who look Latino, speak Spanish, are day laborers, or else work in low-wage service jobs.
This one:
There’s an undecided petition AT THIS VERY MOMENT, sitting on the shadow docket, asking the nine to allow ICE to racially profile people who look Latino, speak Spanish, are day laborers, or else work in low-wage service jobs.
This one:
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
If this makes you nauseous, learn more about how grossly common this stuff is, and help us end it: www.endthetrialpenalty.org
August 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If this makes you nauseous, learn more about how grossly common this stuff is, and help us end it: www.endthetrialpenalty.org
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Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
www.pbump.net
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
For those out there saying "crime is a real problem, but this isn't the answer," you're 100% right, and: we also need to emphasize the mix of solutions, many non-criminal, that have led to the historic decreases in crime that we've seen, even and *especially* in blue cities and states. Why? 1/3
August 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
For those out there saying "crime is a real problem, but this isn't the answer," you're 100% right, and: we also need to emphasize the mix of solutions, many non-criminal, that have led to the historic decreases in crime that we've seen, even and *especially* in blue cities and states. Why? 1/3
They act as if their days in this current configuration are either numbered or infinite. Up to us which one.
Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections electionlawblog.org?p=151533
Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections #ELB
We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential ...
electionlawblog.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
They act as if their days in this current configuration are either numbered or infinite. Up to us which one.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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