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Hard core/slow cyclist. I'm also an economist/data junkie, more housing, less parking RT≠endorsement (he/him). (former Amnesty USA Board of Directors)

Sacramento area
Joined October 2009
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I'm on the threads app with the same username, @gringostani . Follow me there and I'll follow you back.
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@Santos4Congress Is there anything about your life that you didn't make up?!?
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@BenjaminGoggin @JoYurcaba @oneunderscore__ She needs to sue the shit of those awful people. Gosar is so bad that his family cut ads urging voters to support his *opponent*.
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@thelearneddog @MattWalshBlog He's obsessed with the genitalia of children. It's sick and depraved.
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@TylerDinucci He makes Donald Trump look like a super honest non-con man.
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@Cobratate @GretaThunberg Tiny Tate doing a great job showing us all that he needs to talk about his extremely fragile masculinity.
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@THETonyMorrison The great advice to not talk to cops appears to be something that the cops are now practicing with other cops.
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@EWErickson @voxdotcom You love big government going after nine year olds children?
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@DavidSacks @elonmusk I hope you're being sarcastic since Twitter's approach is statistically valid.
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@GeoffreyWlotzka @grudging1 @benshapiro If you're ok with straight couples doing the identical thing but not gay ones then you're the problem.
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@burgundy30 @CFloresNews @stacyhrae Let me guess: you probably claim to be Christian.
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@OrrellAEI @mikepolkjr @JonahDispatch That's bonkers that you have Nazi and Confederate paraphernalia framed in your house. It tells on you.
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@shadihamid You're right that MAGA is not "semi"-fascism.
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@stanleycupot @ChayaRaichik10 Hmm, I think yours are dumb/ass.
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@JoelWBerry Are all of your Google searches of teenage girls photos? I find that creepy.
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@Santos4Congress Sorry to hear about your mom dying on 9/11. Oh...
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@kerrikgray @elonmusk A rocket engineer didn't buy Twitter. The son of the owner of an apartheid era emerald mine did though.
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@markmobility @radleybalko She deserves a lot of credit for showing out. The movement needs people who were previously pro forced birth.
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@Hoosiers1986 @MeganKelleyHall @GavinNewsom @_esooMoose_ There's zero evidence that forced birthers care about women or babies.
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@UnSubtleDesi At a minimum, they provide you the ability to constantly whine.
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@AlexBerenson @UHhospitals @RyanMarino Man, you're pretty dumb to have interpreted it this way. He did no such thing. He's mocking people who spout misinformation about fentanyl and candy.
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@paper_american @polevaultpower Why should a kid have to get a DNA test so that they can enjoy a sport in school?
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@DustinGinsberg @NBCNews He "looks" Chinese so that's good enough for Tom Cotton.
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@Greg7613 @CharlieKirk420 @JesseKellyDC Why is it so triggering for you to have to mind your own business?
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This is absolutely incredible.
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@Spiro_Ghost @elonmusk Why do all these MAGA losers whine so much about not getting a participation trophy?
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The behavior of the Government of India is seriously fragile. They fear people who speak out.
@NitashaKaul
Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD
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IMPORTANT: Denied entry to #India for speaking on democratic & constitutional values. I was invited to a conference as esteemed delegate by Govt of #Karnataka (Congress-ruled state) but Centre refused me entry. All my documents were valid & current (UK passport & OCI). THREAD 1/n
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@VikingDadWisdom If this is "Viking Dad Wisdom" then spare the internet of more of this.
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@Hoosiers1986 @MeganKelleyHall @GavinNewsom @_esooMoose_ Uh, yes there are. But you don't care about people once they are born.
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@willemdeboer82 @robbysoave Wait. I live in California and it isn't in an *almost state of complete collapse". Quite the opposite in fact. Evidence for your claim?
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@elonmusk @Andst7 @paraga Here's a place to do that.
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@JeremyDBoreing You don't seem to care about millions losing their human rights, though?
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@mattdizwhitlock I don't understand. That's her most prominent public act. Shouldn't an obituary say that?!? Maybe she was proud of her vote!
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@howiszhu India is definitely extremely bigoted when it comes to race, caste, and religion. The casualness of the bigotry in public is shocking.
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@LAmag Maybe she shouldn't have murdered two young children?
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@emmersbrown @Timodc What's the point of having police here? Cosplay? I'm so sorry at the inaction. Everyone should be.
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@davidfrum Oh it's part of the process that he's been doing to otherize and dehumanize Muslims for years. It's a systematic way to justify any violence committed against Muslims as "justice" and revenge. Destroy mosques because that's what "they" did.
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@dhume Have you become a fashion critic? What clothing should she have worn that would've merited your approval? Do you think all men should be weighing in on a child's clothing?
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@navikakumar Dehumanizing fellow human beings & their livelihoods is worthy of joking only for really awful people like you.
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@Noahpinion It helps that a good chunk of the Indian American wealthy got there thanks to caste privilege not merit.
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@ayshabkhan I also think that non-Indian journalists/editors are nervous about delving into this for fear that they'd be accused of being "Hinduphobic" or labeled as racist.
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@stanleycupot @ChayaRaichik10 You're welcome, dumb/ass.
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@MattWalshBlog A pathetic man triggered by pronouns.
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@anacottsteel @whstancil You seem really bummed that you couldn't see Hunter Bidens penis.
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@asymmetricinfo @MarcBodnick @JillFilipovic @NYCdisinterest I'm still curious if you can let us know if a pregnant ten year old girl is a pregnant woman.
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@hodgetwins You clearly didn't read the article and/or you're too dumb to understand it. No wonder Elon weighed in..
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@FriseSally @Cdk24F @CarnegieMellon She's actually awesome. Sorry that you block facts that hurt your feelings.
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@DouthatNYT Your column forgot to mention that the same states most likely to force women to give birth is also the states most likely to see those mothers die because of their pregnancy. There's zero evidence of them being actually "pro life".
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@RobertMaguire_ They don't care. It's all about flooding the zone with shit. Linking it to migrants is a nice bonus for them. If they could link it to being awful towards trans kids they'd do that as well.
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@xan_desanctis Y'all got what you want-- more forced births & more deaths from childbirth-- you should be happy! But all I'm seeing is people blaming doctors for not wanting to be charged with a crime based on reasonable readings of the forced birth laws in place.
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@unitxdz @callmemahrani Afghanistan just had a bad earthquake and that's after the Taliban took over 🤔🤔
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@NoahRFeldman People not cocooned in Harvard and Yale already know that this court is at best illegitimate. It's an outrage that anyone would even consider writing op-eds supporting any of those justices.
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@RyanLiebe5 @burgundy30 @CFloresNews @stacyhrae They seem to mostly pretend that they are Christians, especially evangelicals.
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@RonnyJacksonTX It's so easy to bring out the despicable antisemitism from Republicans like you.
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@shadihamid Given how often you're wrong (as in this tweet you wrote), it's amazing how condescending you are.
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@WillyMacShow WTF, that's not doxxing. She was sharing the front facing address of a business.
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@aerosqxx @EWErickson @voxdotcom This is made up. There's a vibrant 4H and FFA in our progressive college town in California.
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@dlkay_l @WarrenKinghorn @KristinCollie20 @UMich Advocating for forced birth is definitely doing LOTS of harm.
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@AAC0519 @BobHoldenNYC Lol, nobody goes there it's too crowded.
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@mattyglesias I think it'll be helpful for you to give some examples where policy has moved left. The only thing I can think of is that gay rights have advanced but even there you see a backlash in some states.
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@gtconway3d So that's a pretty impressive get by the committee.
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@sassy_goldfish @MJRosenbergDad @megynkelly Why is keeping it secret until it's released good for democracy?
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@akafacehots @nathaliejacoby1 Sorry but "intelligent" doesn't mean "dumbass".
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@youwish30907332 Why can't a young kid just play a sport? Why the gross obsession with a child's genitalia?
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@UnSubtleDesi They seem to be doing something that you are apparently unfamiliar with. It's called "journalism".
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Another example of why the office of Governor in every state in India should be abolished. The office is useless.
@KeralaGovernor
Kerala Governor
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Hon’ble Governor Shri Arif Mohammed Khan said:“The CM and Council of Ministers have every right to advise Governor.But statements of individual ministers that lower the dignity of the office of the Governor,can invite action including withdrawal of pleasure”:PRO,KeralaRajBhavan
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@DougDunklin @natsechobbyist @GovRonDeSantis It's a pure anti-Semitic trope. Stop denying reality.
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@majortominor Wait, why shouldn't they turn in papers as PDFs?
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@per_astera Lol. This is an excellent parody of Elon's cultists.
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@DadJokeEnabler @libsoftiktok Nope. Libs of Tiktok is not only super whiny, they seem to be creepy perverts as well.
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@DPJHodges They've never had any actors playing a different gender at the Globe in the history of that theatre.
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I'm looking forward to being one of the speakers here in a rare trip to DC. DM me if you want to meet up!
@IAMCouncil
Indian American Muslim Council
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Next Tuesday, join us for a #CongressionalBriefing on the Gujarat massacre of 2002. This important event will take place on Capitol Hill and will shed light on the genocidal massacres of Muslims in Gujarat under the watch of current Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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@rdouglasp @xan_desanctis @KatMcKinley Yeah the forced birth crowd also has a contingent of baby traffickers. In fact, Amy Coney Barrett, one of those who repealed Roe cited a desire to "increase the domestic supply of infants".
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@cmclymer They don't actually care. They're just changing the subject.
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@JamesBradleyCA Why is a fictional creature buying tampons at a grocery store upsetting to you?
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@foreignbolt @leahculver Why are you opposed to free speech and into cancel culture?
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@SenatorMenendez @USMNT When I'm scheduling tweets, I always try to make sure that it's AM selected not PM. Another reason why we should use 24 hour clocks like Europe.
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@KariLake It's so pathetic that you lost and your brain is so broken that you have to weave lies. Stop it, loser.
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@praeceptoris @ChayaRaichik10 That's pathetic and dumb vice signaling on your part.
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@binarybits @bhndrcks You really need to read what you just wrote. You're saying that you can't prosecute him for a crime unless a poll says it's ok with Republicans?!?
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@RealJohnDennis @elonmusk Of course the people whining about cancel culture are exactly the ones wanting to actually cancel people. Pathetic.
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@thebradfordfile @elonmusk Remind me who was president in 2020.
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@Dharmapurinerd @MaryLawlorhrds @suchitrav India was never a colony of Ireland. Waiting to hear your next pathetic excuse to justify treating fellow Indians like the British treated Indians.
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@agw1437 @GeraldRod3 @CarnegieMellon I think it improves the reputation of Carnegie Mellon having someone as impressive as she is. But it's despicable that Carnegie decided to condemn her accurate comments.
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@jonathanchait In the county that Oakland is in (Alameda), which has far more crime and an actually progressive city instead of a fake one like SF, they are set to elect a progressive prosecutor. In Contra Costa County, home of white flight, they've re-elected a progressive prosecutor.
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@davidjacoby @SFMTA_Muni More enforcement of the rules is welcome. Glad that this happened.
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@greggmaynard @WarrenKinghorn @UMich @KristinCollie20 You say not a peep though about the women and girls facing death because they cannot access life saving abortion care.
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@emmersbrown @Timodc Ugh, not "sorry" but "fury". There should be FURY at the inaction.
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@EmmaSzewczak TERFs will be here soon saying that you're not a woman.
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@lymanstoneky What was holding back "conservative" states from humanely treating children before the Supreme Court allowed forced births?
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@ryanmwalters You're an awful person and your kids will get embarrassed to have such an awful person as a dad.
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@JoeBenoi @DustinGinsberg @NBCNews No he's literally Singaporean.
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@oneironaut63 @cityplannerdude @ob_cycler Are you an "avid cyclist"? I am one and see tons of cars running stop signs every day. It's very weird that you seem blind to the danger of cars yet you're an "avid cyclist".
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@roddreher You should lean into the excuse of "we have lots of empty seats to ensure that no one gets covid" instead of doing a Sean Spicer bit.
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@stet_dot_net @politicalmath Texas is suing to ensure that this emergency treatment isn't available. Quit lying.
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@Noahpinion Figured that the privileged Indian-Americans would reply saying no of course it is their hard work and not centuries of caste privilege.
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@grantstern @SykesCharlie @donwinslow @marceelias Is forcing people to give birth one of those "color of the curtain" things?
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