Another sign of end times; I decided to join LinkedIn--the only social media platform I have ignored for all these years. I have no idea why I did this, and what sort of deeper spiral it suggests is happening, but here we are. :? www.linkedin.com/in/ronak-k-kapadia

Because 'Antifa' is not an organisation, this means anyone can be designated 'Antifa', just as anything in Hong Kong can be designated a threat to 'national security'. State terror works best when no-one knows where the line is.

NYC: get set for RKK (will be there in spring on sabbatical): apa.nyu.edu/2025-26-a-p-...

Asian Americanists: Does anyone want to collab on a panel for AAASS 2026 in Honolulu? I can talk about a whole range of things these days and haven't been to AAAS in person this decade! Help me change that?: sessionize.com/aaas-annual-...

"Severance" star Britt Lower wrote "Let Me Out" on her acceptance speech paper at the #Emmys, a shoutout to her Helly R character

Asian Americanists: Does anyone want to collab on a panel for AAASS 2026 in Honolulu? I can talk about a whole range of things these days and haven't been to AAAS in person this decade! Help me change that?: sessionize.com/aaas-annual-...

@capublichealth.bsky.social Uh oh, CDPH. A week ago, you told folks to avoid getting sick by wearing high quality masks like N95s, KN95s or KF94s indoors. Now, in a campaign aimed at sick folks, you show a model in a surgical. Yikes! You're also obsessed w/ airports, which makes folks think 🧵1/5

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

admittedly, when i said "gaza is the future model of everywhere", I didn't anticipate this coming to Ukraine first.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

If you have a complex chronic illness, you're probably familiar with the experience of a doctor telling you that your test results are normal, while your body feels like it's full of noodles and static electricity. As a linguist, M Corvi is looking for words to measure sickness. bit.ly/45a6lj2

“This shift comes days after Ben-Ami appeared on Pod Save the World in a debate with journalist Mehdi Hasan, during which he repeatedly refused to call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide – despite Hasan's pressing and citations of international law.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Russ Vought: “We wish to destroy government as you all know it, including medical research and universities, and we will crush Democrats to do it“ Schumer: “Please be our bipartisan partners so we can be maximally bipartisan and pretend things are normal”

The idea that neoliberal centrists/ruling class elites will relinquish control over the Dem Party is as LOL as MAGA/fascists relinquishing control over the GOP. How do we get more ppl to face facts now & stop burying their heads in the (increasingly sinking) sands?

You all keep asking why people are still on Twitter. It's because of footage like this, which most of you don't want to see, none of you want to engage with and @bsky.app actively suppresses. Twitter might be the Nazi app, but Bluesky is The Zone Of Interest app

texting "the air quality is bad again" to friends and family every couple days adds to the end times vibe

Right now this moment in the adoption of Generative AI across academia sort of feels like “the great unmasking of 2022” across North America: a “you-do-you” moment of individualized choices with mega collectivist implications that can never be undone.

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

RFK Jr. and his toady Jay Bhattacharya have just dismantled the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, an outside group of advisors who provide guidance on a range of topics. They will be likely be replaced with another layer of toadies. Toadies all the way down.

Harvard is systematically erasing even mention of anything DEI or LGBTQ related. They took down the page mentioning me being recognized by Vogue's forces for change along with years of clinical communications about serving indigent communities.

Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, issued a new rule requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her. As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests, taking 4 days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.

SCOOP www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...

NEW: Shai Davidai is leaving Columbia. Davidai posted today that an investigation into him by the school found no wrongdoing. Students Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi have said Davidai called for their deportations ahead of their arrests by ICE theintercept.com/2025/07/09/p...

for those not familiar, “presence” is a tactic of counterinsurgency warfare developed by israeli occupation forces and adapted by the US in iraq and afghanistan.

It’s wild that the entire Democratic establishment is frothing at the mouth to take down Zohran Kwame Mamdani— a man whose platform would’ve passed as moderate Republican policy in the 1950s. That’s how far gone we are.

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com

The kind of radical compartmentalization it takes to live/function/survive at this moment in the heart of empire is eviscerating (and not at all sustainable).

Huge increases in ICE spending provides the fuel for Trump to fulfill his promise to go after cities run by Democrats, to do what he has done to LA, with less need to rely on the military. The new funding allows Trump to create a Department of Domestic Military Enforcement.

The Sick Times co-founders @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and @mileswgriffis.bsky.social joined @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast this week to talk about what the Trump administration has done in its first few months to set back #LongCOVID research. bit.ly/3I6dBEP

Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."

The fact that I’m hearing more about Mamdani than the Bill to Kill America is the reason the Democratic Party deserves its death

Burnett: Do you like capitalism? Mamdani: No, I have many critiques of capitalism. Yes! For too long it has been taboo to discuss legitimate critiques of capitalism in mainstream US media. This has shut down any chance of implementing real solutions to social crises. A new day is coming.

NEW from me: In its funding request to Congress, the Justice Department laid out a plan to effectively eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the federal law enforcement agency that regulates the gun industry — by merging it into the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

"I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm"

Please do not celebrate the representational politics of Mamdani’s win without understanding that ECONOMIC JUSTICE POLITICS are the primary reason for his success. Corny Obama-era symbolic non-redistributive multicultural identity politics are done and dead. Do not revivify!

Please do not celebrate the representational politics of Mamdani’s win without understanding that ECONOMIC JUSTICE POLITICS are the primary reason for his success. Corny Obama-era symbolic non-redistributive multicultural identity politics are done and dead. Do not revivify!

ACIP meeting in about an hour. Here we go…

For more info on the members of the panel today: www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...

If they were smart (and culturally astute), the NY POST's headline today would've been "MONSOON MAMDANI!" lol

“WE DID IT, ZOH.” - Kamala voice

“Dreaming demands solidarity…” - Zohran “My President” Mamdani

25+ million dollars. A former president. Some of the richest people in the US. The entire liberal and conservative political establishment. And Zohran Mamdani — and all the people behind him — beat it all.