AADIP desai

AADIP desai

@aadip.bsky.social

❤️ 🎶 🥁🎺🎸🧋sci-fi, docs, hot sauce, 1st amendment, Oxford Comma, hats, hi-hats, 🍁, love all animals but snakes are scary. Screenwriter and MFT/PCC Trainee at scribble

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So you don’t need the actual cash, you just need international royalty to cover you? Imagine if we could all cosplay as studio moguls.

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Tonight the Senate is voting to start debate on the annual defense bill. It's essentially an Iran War authorization bill. A totally unprecedented 50% increase in spending to fund the war without any meaningful restraints. I'm voting NO.

Is there a patient portal that I can use to manage my patient portals? Also maybe my concert ticket companies? And my supermarkets? And entertainment apps?

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Today, I voted YES to release the names of Members of Congress who used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct and other misconduct cases in Congress. No more abuses of power and no more hiding behind a system that shields perpetrators. We will always fight for justice for survivors—period.

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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

How did we get here? Wage stagnation, Globalization, Decline of org labor, Lack of universal healthcare, Income inequality, Media Consolidation, Lack of campaign finance reform, PACs, Private equity, Lack of small business dev, Massive tax shelters for wealthy, CEO pay, inflation, AI, kleptocracy.

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It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.