Manjusha Kulkarni

Jayapal to Noem: "None of these four US citizens were charged with a crime, none had their citizenship questioned, and all were lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. Do you have anything you want to say to them?"

This is absolutely crazy.

It’s becoming rather obscene.

Absolutely horrible incident. CBP must be held accountable.

Rahman was invited as the guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar, but when the Capitol Police aggressively removed her from the event, they aggravated injuries she sustained just a few weeks ago — when ICE agents in Minnesota violently dragged her out of her car.

Jailed for “Standing Up”: DHS Assault Victim Aliya Rahman Arrested at State of the Union Address We speak with Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman, who attended Tuesday’s State of the Union address as a guest of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. Rahman was removed from the chamber Tuesday and spent…

Aliya Rahman — a disabled, Bangladeshi-American woman from Minnesota — was arrested during last night's State of the Union.

Why? She stood in silent protest of Trump's racist and anti-immigrant speech.

You cannot be Asian American without being against ICE Growing up, I didn’t really understand what it meant to be Asian American. Part of it could be that I’ve grown up in predominantly white communities, mainly in Missouri, where no established Asian…

Fear and isolation are the goals of the Trump regime's violent immigration raids and other racist policies. They want to scare us into silence and turn Americans against their immigrant neighbors.

But Asian Americans, take note: We've been here before, and our history shows us the way forward. 🧵⬇️

South Asian American communities are worried, and rightfully so. They/we are being targeted by elected leaders and others seeking to remove us from our adopted homeland.

Until our lawmakers take meaningful action to stop the flow of taxpayer dollars into ICE's deathly facilities, immigrants will continue to suffer inhumane treatment and die preventable deaths.

Absolutely horrible. And completely preventable.

Cambodian national dies in ICE custody in Indiana A detainee died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death ...

BREAKING: Lorth Sim - a 59-year-old man from Cambodia - was found dead in an ICE detention center in Indiana on Monday morning. He is the ninth Asian immigrant to die in ICE custody since Trump took office last year. 🧵⬇️

This bit about the Mellon Foundation happening at the same time as the Epstein files is a coincidence but they are connected in that they are both about how under capitalism intellectual work is dependent on the largesse of robber baron tax shells and when one does something useful, they’re policed

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Calling it "Citizens United" instead of "Corporations Unleashed" makes our cause to stop billionaires from purchasing themselves politicians and thus total say over our lives sound like we oppose "people being in solidarity."
Let's not do same with the Eliminating Voters Act.

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Chicago-area Asians were arrested in Operation Midway Blitz. They kept quiet about it, for a while Stigma and a false sense of security have kept families from speaking publicly about immigration enforcement. The daughter of a deported man says "staying silent ... hurts you more than anything."

At least 140 Asian people were arrested by ICE during "Operation Midway Blitz," including Asif Amin Cheema. ICE deported him to Pakistan on New Years Day — ripping him away from his family, ignoring his asylum application, and forcing him onto a flight after he was hospitalized for chest pains. 🧵⬇️

Commentary: Yes, Trump's video showing the Obamas as apes is racist. But it's also about the election The video posted by Trump depicting the Obamas as apes is an escalation in the assault that is likely to come on voting rights in the midterm elections.

This. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This is all John Roberts’ fault Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

"Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."

@pemalevy.bsky.social + @ariberman.bsky.social

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

They have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.

This image is a call to action for California residents to contact their representatives. It features a group photo of people sitting together, with the text "#SAVESITHY URGENT ACTION" above them. Contact information for Congressman Lou Correa, Senator Alex Padilla, and Senator Adam Schiff is provided for people to demand the release of Ms. Sithy Yi.

The government should be protecting survivors of abuse and persecution — not repeating the cycle of harm and trauma that they fought hard to escape from.

☎️ CA Residents: Contact your reps and ask them to demand ICE release Sithy Yi immediately!

#SaveSithy @aapiequityalliance.bsky.social

Cambodian genocide survivor detained by ICE Sithy Yi was detained despite a pending visa application. She’s one of potentially hundreds of crime and human trafficking victims impacted by policy changes, attorneys say

Sithy Yi was just 9 years old when her family was approached at gunpoint by the Khmer Rouge, a violent regime that murdered and abused more than a million Cambodians in the 1970s. 🧵⬇️

Hold the Line on ICE Funding - Stop AAPI Hate MENU

We cannot let Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda continue to terrorize our neighbors and communities. It’s time to take action.

🚨 Tell Congress to stand firm in opposing more funding for ICE and DHS, and hold them accountable for brutalizing our communities: stopaapihate.org/hold-the-lin...

DAILY MEMO: 'They're Going To Kill Him,' Toddler Says, As Border Patrol Arrests Her Father ~ L.A. TACO Today, even without the usual border patrol raiders, ICE, on their own, managed to pick up around 18 people, mostly targeted attacks, including a huge raid in Monterey Park across the street from…

Yesterday, ICE detained 8 Chinese people in Monterey Park, sending shockwaves across California's AAPI communities. In a video, a child is heard pleading with law enforcement, saying “Help me, we have nobody else,” and “they’re going to kill him.”

The raid was steps away from an elementary school.

150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere.

“We are now 150 days since the U.S. Supreme Court unleashed this racist enforcement tool [the #KavanaughStop], and the consequences are everywhere.” @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests