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19 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Republican Party
Was thinking of heading to the national mall to hang out as always. But the ex president continues to whip up terrorism. Yet again, the capitol is under lockdown.
Republicans have made more terrorist attacks in 2021 for the sake of Trump than Al Qaeda did in total. And they say they're just getting started. And they have way more guns and money than Al Qaeda.
I shudder to think what would have happened if DC were surrounded by red states. #MAGATerrorists
What exactly does a trillion dollars in national defense spending get us, fellow Americans? Can't keep our capitol safe from dudes with guns & pickup trucks. Can't establish a safe passage to Kabul airport for our helpers against guys with guns & pickup trucks. @potus
Driving on the Beltway and looking warily at all pickup trucks with red state license plates.

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2 Sep
I really don't understand how people who live on coasts can still be climate change denialists in 2021.
A decade ago, tornado warnings in Manhattan would have sounded like what Hollywood would write in a script where all bad things happen in Manhattan. Now we barely bat an eyelid at one. #ClimateCrisis
Yesterday, everyone in NYC got tornado warnings on their phones. But there were no tornado sirens like elsewhere. You know why? Cos we haven't gotten tornados ever! We don't have sirens for them! Preparing for a tornado in NYC used to be like preparing for a volcano! Unlikely!
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2 Sep
A student from a refugee family told me how much she hated Halloween growing up. Her parents, barely putting food on the table, balked at the extra expense of buying candy to hand it out. They'd been assured by other adults, it's okay to opt out...

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But kids don't understand these practicalities. She was often taunted for how "stingy" her parents are. As a kid born here, she had a tough time reconciling home life and school life because of many such purely financial constraints. Trick or treat is a very bourgeois thing, huh.
The first time she moved out of university acco to an apartment, she used some leftover internship pay to buy a ridiculous amount of candy. Like $400 worth. Not to "enjoy" Halloween but more like a "here's your fucking free candy! Here, take it. Take it all."
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2 Sep
In other news, ya boy just got RTPCR tested for a Canada visit and came back negative, so at least this Moderna vaccinated dude seems to have resisted the delta variant. Cos I take the subway and path almost everyday. No way I haven't been exposed.
In terms of hospitalizations and deaths, NYC has been relatively okay through the delta variant. In fact after that first huge wave at the start, NYC has staved off any further waves. Despite being semi open for a year now. Cos universal masking, SDing, high vaccination rate.
My Pune school and childhood friends group is divided almost equally between US and India. In the US, literally not a single positive case. In India, almost all got covid. 😳
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2 Sep
You can now add tornado warnings to the list of things I've lived through in Manhattan! Thank you, fossil fuels!
Seriously, just writing down my experiences of major news events I've lived through in Manhattan in the last decade plus would make for a great book. There has been in so. Much. Happening. Here.
Thank you, folks, for asking about us. We were safe at home. Just closed blinds as told and rode it out watching streaming shows. The rain has let up, so the worst seems to be behind us. But no idea about the extent of flooding citywide. Our power and internet stayed on.
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1 Sep
This latest disgusting attack on Muslims barely making a living by the sanghis is yet another example of them explicitly following the 1930s Nazi playbook. The Nazis went after Jewish businesses exactly like this.

If US RW said this about motels in the US, they'd lose it.
It's like sanghis WANT to provoke Indian Muslims to such an extent that there is a widespread armed resistance from them, and then sanghis could use that perpetual civil war as an excuse to rule forever. Like seriously, every week, a new attack on Indian Muslims!
The idea that Muslims in India have any kind of special status or perk or advantage or monopoly or that they have been "appeased" is so ridiculously and extremely the opposite of reality, that only a fascist sanghi bigot could take it seriously. Ignoring facts for hate.
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1 Sep
200 times a second 😳😳😳
And this is a biological creature, not some tech marvel.
It can beat its wings once every 0.005 seconds! Even the fastest humans competing for speed can only be separated by 0.01 seconds!
200 times a second 😳😳😳
Once you're hooked on the science of the hummingbird, you'll never get out. They are just insane creatures. A lot of what they do, we've only learnt in recent years cos it took us this long to develop high speed cameras that could actually capture what these birds do!
I hope I soon get to return to the jungles of Minca, Colombia, where hummingbirds abound like pigeons! Everywhere you look, a spectacularly colorful hummingbird. Ah Colombia! My last foreign trip before the pandemic.
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