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ranjitdighe.bsky.social
Music, house concerts, baseball, economic history, cats. Anti-MAGA, anti-illiberalism.
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She recently announced she’s not running for re-election. I think the Minnesota Nice gloves are off.

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 200 comments

This is an important point I think. Opposition to Musk isn't based on philosophical or political views. It's between people who know when they're being conned and people who don't. Whether we still have a functioning country after this depends on how many of us fall for the wallet inspector gag

submitted 12 days ago • 132 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Just had the honor of editing and publishing @katejewell.bsky.social ‘s review of Rob Drew’s Unspooled: How The Cassette Made Music Shareable, for EH.Net. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Love is a mix tape. eh.net/book_reviews...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

submitted 11 days ago • 316 comments

This provided a much-needed laugh this week:

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 25 days ago • 994 comments

Read, share, act.

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 25 days ago • 1031 comments

If the price of coffee goes up the guy from blues traveler will be fine because he also likes tea

submitted 27 days ago • 92 comments

The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.

submitted 28 days ago • 454 comments

analysis by TIME found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued so far mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025 time.com/7209901/dona...

submitted 29 days ago • 203 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 30 days ago • 170 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (not necessarily consecutive), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (not necessarily consecutive), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I had to google "Death Note" to get this one, but it was well worth it.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Economic historians, etc.: Can any of you recommend an undergrad-accessible article or chapter on the economic and historical forces that gave rise to right-wing populism in the US (Trump) and/or elsewhere in the world? Thanks.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (not necessarily consecutive), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Never forget.

submitted 47 days ago • 401 comments

While everyone’s talking about Rep. Thomas Massie, I hereby re-up his all time greatest quote. From 2017. www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011...

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments