sneha g.
@sneha-lg.bsky.social
sociology & social policy, PhD candidate |
i study race, philanthropy, movements and orgs
my dog is my favorite thing about me.
i study race, philanthropy, movements and orgs
my dog is my favorite thing about me.
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sneha g.
@sneha-lg.bsky.social
· Feb 6
“The liberal establishment has not raised the alarms. Worse, they have often served as the right’s complicit partner, oblivious to the precedents that Trump is now inheriting: broader police power, unaccountable presidential power, generalized repression, and gross restrictions on speech.”
The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
www.bostonreview.net
This is an amazing article by Noura Erakat explaining the links between the domestic crisis of governance we're in and the historical/contemporary politics of Palestine.
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Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us
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Democrats dont wanna face the fact that until this genocide stops, you’re gonna KEEP losing. The young ones coming up don’t give a FUCK if it all burns down. They’re saddled in debt, unemployed, and hate you old motherfuckers. You have no integrity and you’re killing the planet. They DONT care.
May 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Democrats dont wanna face the fact that until this genocide stops, you’re gonna KEEP losing. The young ones coming up don’t give a FUCK if it all burns down. They’re saddled in debt, unemployed, and hate you old motherfuckers. You have no integrity and you’re killing the planet. They DONT care.
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The rise of “authoritarianism” is also a reinvigoration of a White Supremacist International that shares methods, strategy, ideology, and a commitment to what Du Bois called, “ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!”
Racism in practice by Trump.
This is where we are, we are living under a white supremacy administration. It's not debatable. The facts are clear.
This is where we are, we are living under a white supremacy administration. It's not debatable. The facts are clear.
The transfer of white Afrikaners to the US was fast-tracked after refugee resettlement officials came under pressure from top admin people to make it happen quickly, sources at NGOs who were informed of this tell me.
Trump wanted this done.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1953...
Trump wanted this done.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1953...
May 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The rise of “authoritarianism” is also a reinvigoration of a White Supremacist International that shares methods, strategy, ideology, and a commitment to what Du Bois called, “ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!”
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New at Can We Still Govern?
Greg Leiserson is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury.
He explains how the GOP tax bill will add new administrative burdens - "precertification" - to EITC recipients so to limit access. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-gop-pl...
Greg Leiserson is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury.
He explains how the GOP tax bill will add new administrative burdens - "precertification" - to EITC recipients so to limit access. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-gop-pl...
The GOP plan to cut the EITC via administrative burdens
Their tax bill will use new reporting requirements to reduce access
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
New at Can We Still Govern?
Greg Leiserson is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury.
He explains how the GOP tax bill will add new administrative burdens - "precertification" - to EITC recipients so to limit access. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-gop-pl...
Greg Leiserson is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury.
He explains how the GOP tax bill will add new administrative burdens - "precertification" - to EITC recipients so to limit access. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-gop-pl...
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This is an enormous story. Thankful that ProPublica has pursued it so well, especially considering the way other media have snoozed. (While embracing Afrikaners as genocide victims, no less.) www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is an enormous story. Thankful that ProPublica has pursued it so well, especially considering the way other media have snoozed. (While embracing Afrikaners as genocide victims, no less.) www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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If I see another institution-flagellating higher ed leader say that the current existential threats to the enterprise are own fault, I am going to go on a Bluesky rant. Oh wait, here is. ⚠️
May 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If I see another institution-flagellating higher ed leader say that the current existential threats to the enterprise are own fault, I am going to go on a Bluesky rant. Oh wait, here is. ⚠️
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The problem is a constant tug between expanded access and opportunity for new people, new voices, and those in power who find that threatening and then amplify questions about who higher ed is for and what it does precisely to justify defunding and constraining access.
May 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The problem is a constant tug between expanded access and opportunity for new people, new voices, and those in power who find that threatening and then amplify questions about who higher ed is for and what it does precisely to justify defunding and constraining access.
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"The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit
The figure is expected to intensify a national debate over spending and tax levels as President Donald Trump tries to push the legislation through Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...
May 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...
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A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine.
In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”
In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”
May 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine.
In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”
In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”
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"The foundation will close its doors, permanently, on Dec. 31, 2045, at least several decades before originally intended. In the meantime, it will be spending down its endowment, as well as almost all of Gates’s remaining personal fortune."
better than not
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
better than not
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"The foundation will close its doors, permanently, on Dec. 31, 2045, at least several decades before originally intended. In the meantime, it will be spending down its endowment, as well as almost all of Gates’s remaining personal fortune."
better than not
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
better than not
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
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Ah, but of course.
#OligarchEra 🤡
@washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
#OligarchEra 🤡
@washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
May 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ah, but of course.
#OligarchEra 🤡
@washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
#OligarchEra 🤡
@washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
www.dailycal.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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What they are taking from DOGE is a) the idea of state surveillance, b) targeting research and c) increasing red tape.
Florida’s Own DOGE Reviews Faculty Research, Grants
Multiple states have created entities named after the federal Department of Government Efficiency. The Sunshine State’s version is targeting colleges and universities:
Multiple states have created entities named after the federal Department of Government Efficiency. The Sunshine State’s version is targeting colleges and universities:
Florida’s Own DOGE Is Reviewing Faculty Research, Grants
Multiple states have created entities named after the federal Department of Government Efficiency. The Sunshine State’s version is targeting colleges and universities.
www.insidehighered.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
What they are taking from DOGE is a) the idea of state surveillance, b) targeting research and c) increasing red tape.
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I just think that Yale firing Helyeh Doutaghi for once sitting on a panel with a member of Sumud & turning around to invite fucking Ben Gvir is so telling of the rot at the core of our institutions which have so dehumanized Palestinians that they are literally platforming butches of humans.
April 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I just think that Yale firing Helyeh Doutaghi for once sitting on a panel with a member of Sumud & turning around to invite fucking Ben Gvir is so telling of the rot at the core of our institutions which have so dehumanized Palestinians that they are literally platforming butches of humans.
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New — After hundreds of Yale students protested in advance of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visiting campus, Yale has now stripped the school's Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter (Yalies4Palestine) of its status as an official student group
April 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New — After hundreds of Yale students protested in advance of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visiting campus, Yale has now stripped the school's Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter (Yalies4Palestine) of its status as an official student group
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It’s not about whether or not the Civil Rights Act is literally gone. The point is that he’s not going to enforce it. He will bring in a new wave of white authoritarianism, with a Congress that will settle for tweeting “That’s illegal!” While doing little to nothing.
April 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It’s not about whether or not the Civil Rights Act is literally gone. The point is that he’s not going to enforce it. He will bring in a new wave of white authoritarianism, with a Congress that will settle for tweeting “That’s illegal!” While doing little to nothing.
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They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
April 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
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Since Trump returned to the White House, the number of agreements for local law enforcement to work with ICE has tripled. Half of those agreements are from Florida.
Florida is leading Trump’s immigration crackdown
Across Florida, hundreds of local law enforcement agencies have stepped in to help ICE.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Since Trump returned to the White House, the number of agreements for local law enforcement to work with ICE has tripled. Half of those agreements are from Florida.
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this is basically just a big plan to impoverish the united states
US Treasury Secretary Bessent: Rebalancing of China economy towards consumption and US economy towards manufacturing in two to three years would be a huge win - JPMorgan session.
April 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
this is basically just a big plan to impoverish the united states
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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brb, I just want to share this with all those Indian aunties and uncles who voted for his man
BREAKING: Supreme Court says it will hear oral arguments on whether President Trump can implement his proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship.
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on whether Trump can implement birthright citizenship plan
The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
nbcnews.to
April 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
brb, I just want to share this with all those Indian aunties and uncles who voted for his man