Sriram (ஸ்ரீராம்)
@drkhe.bsky.social
A former electrical engineer; former urban planner; former geography professor; … what’s he now?
More at: https://substack.com/@ksriram
More at: https://substack.com/@ksriram
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Sriram (ஸ்ரீராம்)
@drkhe.bsky.social
· Apr 13
We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
www.newyorker.com
"it’s really quite another matter when there’s a final order, from the highest court of the land, and the President just says, Doesn’t bother me. I don’t have to heed you or hear you."
@aclu.org Ex. Dir. Anthony #Romero:
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
#tRump #SCOTUS #RuleOfLaw
@aclu.org Ex. Dir. Anthony #Romero:
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
#tRump #SCOTUS #RuleOfLaw
The posts from @hammancheez.bsky.social (via @kevinmkruse.bsky.social) followed by the one by @newyorker.com sum up the story quite well 😁
December 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The posts from @hammancheez.bsky.social (via @kevinmkruse.bsky.social) followed by the one by @newyorker.com sum up the story quite well 😁
I don't get it ... if Chuck Reed or other musicians are forced to perform, then the musicians can simply produce a cacophony instead of really performing, and MAGA will prefer that?
www.npr.org/2025/12/27/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/27/g...
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don't get it ... if Chuck Reed or other musicians are forced to perform, then the musicians can simply produce a cacophony instead of really performing, and MAGA will prefer that?
www.npr.org/2025/12/27/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/27/g...
"Schoonwinkel, who speaks English and Afrikaans, now shares a dormitory with dozens of immigrants, mostly Spanish speakers, arrested under Mr. Trump’s mass deportation effort. Like them, he wears the blue uniform of noncriminal detainees, sleeps on a metal bunk bed"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
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Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"Schoonwinkel, who speaks English and Afrikaans, now shares a dormitory with dozens of immigrants, mostly Spanish speakers, arrested under Mr. Trump’s mass deportation effort. Like them, he wears the blue uniform of noncriminal detainees, sleeps on a metal bunk bed"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
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"Distorting the truth to aggressively propagate a narrative of progress was Modi’s practice long before he rose to power nationally."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Hype and Fraud in India | Christopher de Bellaigue
Little known today, Fitz-James O’Brien deserves serious attention for developing some of science fiction’s most familiar tropes—among them microcosmic worlds, invisible monsters, time slips, and robot...
www.nybooks.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Distorting the truth to aggressively propagate a narrative of progress was Modi’s practice long before he rose to power nationally."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Trump suggested oil seized from Venezuela could be treated as a US asset. “Maybe we will sell it, maybe we will keep it,” he told reporters. “Maybe we’ll use it in the strategic reserves. We’re keeping the ships also.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s claims to Venezuelan oil are part of broader ‘resource imperialism’, experts say
Critics compare offensive to Iraq war, citing familiar mix of regime-change rhetoric, security pretexts and oil interests
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump suggested oil seized from Venezuela could be treated as a US asset. “Maybe we will sell it, maybe we will keep it,” he told reporters. “Maybe we’ll use it in the strategic reserves. We’re keeping the ships also.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households, while the Republican-backed "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" kills the solar industry in the US and adds people to the unemployment line!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
@repvalhoyle.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
www.opb.org/article/2025...
@repvalhoyle.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
Purelight Power lays off 84 Medford workers, citing Republican rollback of solar credits as it shuts down
An Oregon company is blaming President Donald Trump’s signature budget bill for more than 100 layoff notices it’s sending to staff Christmas week.
www.opb.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households, while the Republican-backed "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" kills the solar industry in the US and adds people to the unemployment line!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
@repvalhoyle.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
www.opb.org/article/2025...
@repvalhoyle.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
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December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"we keep living with the notion that somehow, somewhere, there will appear a document or a detail so grotesque, so damning, that the country will finally rise as one to declare this Presidency at an end."
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Trump, Epstein, and the Women
The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago.
www.newyorker.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"we keep living with the notion that somehow, somewhere, there will appear a document or a detail so grotesque, so damning, that the country will finally rise as one to declare this Presidency at an end."
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The Sikh entry into American trucking began in the 1980s, and now around 150,000 Sikhs work in the trucking industry in the United States.
A good report on a complex issue that brings together a bunch of aspects that otherwise would be behind the scenes.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
A good report on a complex issue that brings together a bunch of aspects that otherwise would be behind the scenes.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Long-Haul Trucking Was a Refuge for Sikh Immigrants. Until Now.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Sikh entry into American trucking began in the 1980s, and now around 150,000 Sikhs work in the trucking industry in the United States.
A good report on a complex issue that brings together a bunch of aspects that otherwise would be behind the scenes.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
A good report on a complex issue that brings together a bunch of aspects that otherwise would be behind the scenes.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Reposted by Sriram (ஸ்ரீராம்)
the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
“The ‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the T.S.A. is gone.”
Who's your daddy?!
Mr. Duffy has not publicly responded to her posts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
Who's your daddy?!
Mr. Duffy has not publicly responded to her posts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
After Airport Pat-Down, Sean Duffy’s Daughter Calls T.S.A. ‘Unconstitutional’
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“The ‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the T.S.A. is gone.”
Who's your daddy?!
Mr. Duffy has not publicly responded to her posts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
Who's your daddy?!
Mr. Duffy has not publicly responded to her posts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
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"Ramaswamy, who shaped his political identity with a series of books and media appearances denouncing left-wing “woke” ideology, has become perhaps the most visible target of a right-wing ideology — sometimes labeled “blood and soil” nationalism"
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
"Ramaswamy, who shaped his political identity with a series of books and media appearances denouncing left-wing “woke” ideology, has become perhaps the most visible target of a right-wing ideology — sometimes labeled “blood and soil” nationalism"
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Ramaswamy Challenges Conservatives on Surging Bigotry on the Right
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Leopard+Faces=
"Ramaswamy, who shaped his political identity with a series of books and media appearances denouncing left-wing “woke” ideology, has become perhaps the most visible target of a right-wing ideology — sometimes labeled “blood and soil” nationalism"
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
"Ramaswamy, who shaped his political identity with a series of books and media appearances denouncing left-wing “woke” ideology, has become perhaps the most visible target of a right-wing ideology — sometimes labeled “blood and soil” nationalism"
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Your comment wins the day, @wyden.senate.gov 👏
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Your comment wins the day, @wyden.senate.gov 👏
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Math is for Libs
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FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Math is for Libs
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Who said it better: The "childless cat ladies" Vance or the Russian dictator?
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
December 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Who said it better: The "childless cat ladies" Vance or the Russian dictator?
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Bearing witness at executions:
"What most worries him is how few local reporters witness executions, or cover much local news at all anymore. He and a reporter from The Associated Press were the only journalists to attend the last couple of executions in Florida."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
"What most worries him is how few local reporters witness executions, or cover much local news at all anymore. He and a reporter from The Associated Press were the only journalists to attend the last couple of executions in Florida."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Florida Had a Record Number of Executions in 2025. He Witnessed Them All.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Bearing witness at executions:
"What most worries him is how few local reporters witness executions, or cover much local news at all anymore. He and a reporter from The Associated Press were the only journalists to attend the last couple of executions in Florida."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
"What most worries him is how few local reporters witness executions, or cover much local news at all anymore. He and a reporter from The Associated Press were the only journalists to attend the last couple of executions in Florida."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“White women know they’re second in sex, but they can be first in race ... What comes from that is their protection of the maternal sphere.”
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...
Fighting for Femininity, Not Feminism
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“White women know they’re second in sex, but they can be first in race ... What comes from that is their protection of the maternal sphere.”
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...
These two consecutive re-posts by @hcrichardson.bsky.social summarize the President's address for me!
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December 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
These two consecutive re-posts by @hcrichardson.bsky.social summarize the President's address for me!
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Only 5,000%?
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
theonion.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Only 5,000%?
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Hey, girl, I can see your lips moving
And it's driving me crazy
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you lying
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You make the libs go mad
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
theconversation.com/karoline-lea...
And it's driving me crazy
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you lying
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You make the libs go mad
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
theconversation.com/karoline-lea...
Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’
A historian analyzes how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims about her boss and his administration are ‘doublespeak’ straight out of the pages of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Hey, girl, I can see your lips moving
And it's driving me crazy
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you lying
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You make the libs go mad
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
theconversation.com/karoline-lea...
And it's driving me crazy
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you lying
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You make the libs go mad
Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
theconversation.com/karoline-lea...
"What JMU paid its head coach and entire roster (just under $1.9 million) is less than Oregon paid its defensive coordinator, Tosh Lupoi ($2 million)."
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
How do College Football Playoff teams compare financially? The gap can be tens of millions
With two Group of 5 teams in the College Football Playoff, the financial gap between teams in the bracket is especially pronounced.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"What JMU paid its head coach and entire roster (just under $1.9 million) is less than Oregon paid its defensive coordinator, Tosh Lupoi ($2 million)."
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
The theoretical physicist and fusion scientist was known for his award-winning research in magnetised plasma dynamics.
Loureiro joined MIT's faculty in 2016 and was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Loureiro joined MIT's faculty in 2016 and was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
MIT professor from Portugal shot at home dies, police say
Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, 47, a nuclear science and engineering professor was shot "multiple times" on Monday.
www.bbc.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The theoretical physicist and fusion scientist was known for his award-winning research in magnetised plasma dynamics.
Loureiro joined MIT's faculty in 2016 and was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Loureiro joined MIT's faculty in 2016 and was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Why has today’s Senate, individually and collectively, surrendered its free will, backbone, and constitutional duties?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...
Don't forget that "when McConnell had the chance to make sure Trump would never be in office again, he failed.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...
Don't forget that "when McConnell had the chance to make sure Trump would never be in office again, he failed.”
Worst. Senate. Ever.
Republican senators surrendered to Trump, and now they own this catastrophe.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Why has today’s Senate, individually and collectively, surrendered its free will, backbone, and constitutional duties?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...
Don't forget that "when McConnell had the chance to make sure Trump would never be in office again, he failed.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...
Don't forget that "when McConnell had the chance to make sure Trump would never be in office again, he failed.”
If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump.
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM