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Aug 29, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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You know what Stone Ridge, Accord, New Paltz in upstate NY remind me of? Schitt's Creek. Everybody is nice and liberal and welcoming. Rainbow flags and #BlackLivesMatter signs and everybody knows everybody. Welcome change from the default Trump signs elsewhere in rural areas.
Well, #SchittsCreek is sort of modeled after such areas anyway. They never specify what state or even country they are in. But the they did the popup store in upstate NY.
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Local butcher shop AND a BLM sign? Two things I love the most. And wait, 24/7? Was intrigued so pulled in. @applestonemeat has premium local meats in vending machines!! 😍😍😍 And very reasonable prices. ImageImageImageImage
Alright, the universe definitely is a simulation for my benefit. Randomly ran into literally THE only person I miss from cable news - @chrislhayes. Told him as much. Covid means even asking for a selfie would've been stupid. Hope this far shot is okay. Image
Arindam C arrested. Navratilova giving direct replies. And now literally my favorite political pundit just casually hiking past. All in my birthday week. This is either a simulation or a coma or a Truman show type situation.
And ran into him once again on the way back from the hike. 😍😍
This @mohonkpreserve membership is the best $60 we've ever spent. 9000 acres of mountains, rivers, woods, monarch butterflies, bald eagles and just nonstop gorgeousness. ImageImageImageImage
Much of Ulster county NY looks like the back of @curiousgawker's car and twitter feed. Image
Sounds like the Solomon Grundy of aqueducts 🤣🤣 Image
It's fascinating to watch these remnants of the Northeast's short lived but massive river linking project. It all lasted less than a century and was only possible because of slave labor, immigrant labor. And also child labor. ImageImageImageImage
Now that @curiousgawker is here, we gotta fill up on crustaceans and molluscs before our next hike. ImageImageImageImage
Huddled under a canopy with the gang in a passing rain shower which so far is as "passing" as a gluten-only diet. Image

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Feb 21
Very interesting conversation with a gujarati bodega owner nearby.

"I support Modi but something is wrong in gujarat. There are more gujaratis taking the risky border routes in the last 2 years than the 20 years before, from my observation. And they all say, no jobs in gujarat"
"Until recent years, gujaratis wanting to move either came through family visa or arranged marriage or student visa or at the most, overstay tourist visa. But risking life and limb like this in such big numbers? Modi needs to pay attention to gujarat. It's in trouble."
"the family that froze to death on the Canadian border. They didn't have a bad life in gujarat by any means. So why risk your entire existence? Something is wrong, brother, something is very wrong."
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Dec 20, 2023
"Wherever you go in this world, you will find a t̶e̶a̶ s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶ great school founded by a Malayalee."

K.T. Behanan was a brilliant Yale educated social scientist & Indian bureaucrat who landed in NYC with his doctor wife & 5 year old son.

Ran straight into systemic racism./1
The year was 1947 & Behanan, a Syrian Christian from Kerala's influential Kovoor clan was a 45 year old superstar in the Babu circles of the brand new India.

He accepted a position for India at the brand new UN, working on education policy with the Trustee Council.

Ironic.
He landed in a New York that was very different from now. "Separate but equal" was still the law.

Schools were openly & emphatically segregated. Brown v BoE was some years away.

By putting idealistic UN in Manhattan, America's mouth had written a check its ass couldn't cash.
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Nov 29, 2023
I'm at that age where a lot of my friends are starting to send their kids to college. So getting a lot of queries on US college as an option.

So I'm going to do this reference 🧵 with the basics to avoid repetition. And send it to them before further more specific questions. Image
I'll start off by saying that if you have ₹3 crore that you can spare, it is a nice lifelong gift for your child.

An undergrad education in the US is an amazing enriching experience beyond just the academics & the jobs after. I envy my students a little they get to live it.
I start off mentioning the cost cos I want to be absolutely clear that as awesome as such a college education will be for your kid, it is not going to be cheap.

Unless you have a Sheldon Cooper type kid, there is no free ride for international students in undergrad. That's Grad.
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Nov 18, 2023
India & China are almost half of humanity, 2 of the oldest cultures, sharing one of the longest and most iconic borders on the planet.

But how little we really know each other!

Recently, a Chinese grad student shared her love story with me. I repeat it here with her permission.
She grew up the only child of two people who were only children of parents who were also only children, in the South of China.

He grew up in a similar configuration, in the northeast of China.

They both followed the well set academic excellence route to US grad school.
They met in grad school in the NYC area. In a larger Chinese grad student universe, they found each other. And fell in love. And started planning a life together.

And both realized how they had to think about parents and grandparents in China just by themselves!
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Nov 7, 2023
My hypothesis about why hindus are uniquely frequent in false flagging by pretending to be minorities in numbers not seen from other ethnofascists, is that Sanghism is unique in not being based on any reality at all. Other fascists at least exploit *some* reality.
Hitler rode to power by exploiting the very real discontent against the treaty of Versailles & economic ennui.

Trump rode to power by pointing to millions of migrants. I think they are a net positive, his view is wrong. But it is a reality, at least, that he's misdiagnosing.
Right wingers in Europe & Israel are also exploiting what is, very much, a structural struggle between two groups.

Sanghism is unique cos quite simply, Indian Muslims are not "a problem" in any realistic way. Never have been. They are one of us. For centuries. And will be too.
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Oct 18, 2023
In the state of J&K where you can barely finish singing yeh haseen vaadiyaan before running into 3 check points, a dude managed to ram an explosive filled vehicle a long distance away from the LoC.

We never heard how those logistics worked tho we know all details of 26/11.
Oct 7 raises similar questions that Netanyahu seems to be trying his hardest to distract from. Of course the attack was horrific. But how did the attackers manage to do all this, given the extremely overwhelming Israeli security apparatus? Sourcing paragliders in blockaded gaza?
Also why Western media seems to have "do you condemn Hamas" tourettes. Seen them force guests to condemn Hamas 3-4 times in 5 mins. But stepping any questions or nuance outside that narrow purview.

"How could Hamas kill 1400 civilians?" is both a moral AND logistical question!
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