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Kumar Rao

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Lawyer, former public defender. Progressive politics, racial justice, urban gardening. Let’s go Knicks/GoBlue.

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at this point the Supreme Court's emergency docket is itself an emergency

05.03.2026 15:31 👍 167 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 1

Not reported by the NYT, but in 2023 Goldman’s wife also liked a tweet asserting that rape is “rooted at every level of the Arab society.”

Constituents raised the alarm at time but were ignored and dismissed.

04.03.2026 22:48 👍 284 🔁 74 💬 4 📌 3
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

04.03.2026 21:58 👍 4225 🔁 1467 💬 36 📌 48

And they should go much harder, to keep this administration on its heels.

Right now, public support is heavily against the invasion, but the White House and their media outlets are going to be pushing the propaganda hard and a lot of their base will rally around Trump again soon.

03.03.2026 13:03 👍 863 🔁 209 💬 18 📌 6
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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 👍 23873 🔁 5954 💬 1730 📌 632

International law — here the UN Charter, the prohibition on the use of force against other states with the narrowest of exceptions — is enforced through the outrage of other states.

It is how the world responds to violations that will determine whether these rules continue to stand.

28.02.2026 17:44 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

28.02.2026 12:48 👍 8075 🔁 2834 💬 56 📌 99
February 26, 2026
Dear members of the Columbia community:
This morning at approximately
6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student.
We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support.
Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a
"missing person." We are working to gather more details.
It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including

February 26, 2026 Dear members of the Columbia community: This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person." We are working to gather more details. It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including

It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient.
If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena.
We will update our community as additional information becomes
available.
Sincerely,

It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient. If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena. We will update our community as additional information becomes available. Sincerely,

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student.

"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

26.02.2026 15:09 👍 2646 🔁 1241 💬 102 📌 192

The @workingfamilies.org is my political home because it is the party that is built for and by working people. We face a dire time in our country…and we need fighters right now in Albany, not the status quo. I am honored to receive the endorsement of the @nywfp.bsky.social .

25.02.2026 19:15 👍 47 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3
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Michael B Jordan 'disgusted by racial slur at BAFTAS as parents left in tears' Michael B Jordan was with Delroy Lindo on stage to present an award at the Baftas when John Davidson’s outburst shocked the audience.

So... does anyone care about this? That Michael B. Jordan's parents flew to London to see their son and they left the BAFTAs in tears? That he was repulsed?

Still don't think an apology was owed? Some of you people are wretched fools.

25.02.2026 01:07 👍 3052 🔁 670 💬 92 📌 10

“The Justice Department declined to answer NPR's questions on the record about these specific files, what's in them, and why they are not published.”

24.02.2026 17:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working Families Party congratulates Ana María Archila on appointment as New York City Commissioner of International Affairs.

Working Families Party congratulates Ana María Archila on appointment as New York City Commissioner of International Affairs.

Congratulations to Ana María Archila on her appointment as NYC Commissioner of International Affairs in the Mamdani administration! Ana María was building WFP for years before she became Co-Director of NYWFP, and she’ll always be part of the WFP family.

17.02.2026 19:14 👍 76 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1

New Sienna poll has @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social with 68% approval in NYC, and 66% support statewide for universal childcare.

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

03.02.2026 13:11 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

31.01.2026 15:43 👍 10538 🔁 2203 💬 102 📌 91
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

31.01.2026 00:41 👍 17253 🔁 5117 💬 131 📌 561

Both Pam Bondi and Harmeet Dhillon,
who seems to be leading this charge, should be subject to disciplinary action from their state bars.

Wildly unethical behavior that violates their duties as lawyers.

30.01.2026 18:44 👍 258 🔁 64 💬 8 📌 2

“Kazmierczak is a staunch Trump supporter, a review of his online activity shows.”

28.01.2026 19:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

28.01.2026 17:44 👍 3743 🔁 1165 💬 80 📌 39

Wow🫡

28.01.2026 18:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

28.01.2026 02:26 👍 84719 🔁 11605 💬 2471 📌 618

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

28.01.2026 01:07 👍 4700 🔁 1223 💬 46 📌 120
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

26.01.2026 22:14 👍 54667 🔁 13955 💬 817 📌 492

“Ace of spades cards, which have been used by white supremacist groups as a racist symbol and were called ‘death cards’ by some during the Vietnam War, were found in at least two vehicles after those vehicles were pulled over by ICE agents”

26.01.2026 08:50 👍 404 🔁 240 💬 4 📌 2
Breanna Stewart holds sign saying “Abolish ICE”

Breanna Stewart holds sign saying “Abolish ICE”

WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart during player intros today.

Time for the men to follow her lead.

25.01.2026 19:23 👍 74 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

25.01.2026 02:05 👍 5164 🔁 1809 💬 62 📌 0
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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

“…our new national reality. State terror has arrived.”

25.01.2026 02:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE is a death squad.

25.01.2026 01:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.

It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.

Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.

24.01.2026 20:06 👍 2141 🔁 648 💬 10 📌 0

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

24.01.2026 15:46 👍 9886 🔁 3700 💬 177 📌 142

Governors and mayors and courts that do not take immediate action to stop ICE, to expel it from our cities and towns, to hold it accountable for its crimes, to ensure it works within the law, are failing at their jobs. It will require strength and confrontation and struggle. But it must happen.

24.01.2026 16:19 👍 312 🔁 96 💬 5 📌 5