Kumar Rao
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Kumar Rao
@KumarRaoNYC
Lawyer, former public defender. Progressive politics, racial justice, NYC gardening. #GoBlue



BREAKING: Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found Virginia-based government contractor CACI liable for its role in the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003-2004. They 've been ordered to pay millions in damages. Full press release here: bit.ly/abu-ghraib-win

🚨ACT NOW TO DEFEND PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS🚨 Tomorrow, Congress will vote on a bill that would grant Trump unprecedented power to shut down nonprofit organizations. Write to Congress, jvp.org/defenddissent

George Clooney taking step back from politics after being made a 'scapegoat' for Kamala Harris' loss trib.al/2xfTlBX

Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP

In which I argue that Dems lockstep support for genocide wasn’t the deciding factor in the loss, but it did foreclose on a strategy of energizing the base, thereby compelling the campaign to track right and chase Liz Cheney voters that simply didn’t exist. therealnews.com/democrats-chos…

"The Trump campaign’s research found that up-for-grabs voters were about six times as likely as other battleground-state voters to be motivated by their views of Israel’s war in Gaza." This is why Trump/Vance ramped up anti-war rhetoric in last few weeks of campaign nytimes.com/2024/10/21/us/…








