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Zara Chowdhary

@awarazara.bsky.social
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Writer | Creative writing professor | Author of The Lucky Ones (2024) | big fan of trees and seas.

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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Well, that was a good rehearsal I guess.
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Stunning! A Timelapse of an Oxalis plant blooming.
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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025
Stephens wants to see a final solution situation before he’s willing to confirm genocide
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Your wordle/games subscription doesn’t go in some magical separate pile. It goes to the New York Times, and it pays for things like Bret Stephens, Maggie Haberman, and both sides coverage of ICE and all the rest. Wake up.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025
Beto O'Rourke went on PBS and said the US has to stop being complicit in the bombing of Palestine It's really that simple, folks
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just an occasional reminder that there was no good reason for Obama, Harris, Clinton or Biden to go to Trump’s inauguration after he attacked the Capitol and they all went anyway. Cause the Democrats are chumps.
Donald Trump posts AI video showing Barack Obama arrested by FBI: 'No one is above the law'
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Scroll @scroll.in · 21/07/2025
“This is the new EC...it’s no longer an EC but a branch of the BJP.” In an interview, #MahuaMoitra speaks about the voter roll revision process, argues it is a way to disenfranchise voters “by design,” and more. #Watch ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkHt...
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'We need a civil disobedience movement against Election Commission': Mahua Moitra, MP
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Alex Kydd Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora!
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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social ‬
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Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It’s very meaningful, this coming out of india at a time like this. 🌷
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I am hearing people on our side describing Brad Lander, Mayor Baraka & Senator Padilla's arrests as "stunts" designed to boost their electoral prospects. First of all, I know that Brad Lander has been quietly accompanying migrants to their appointments for YEARS now, long before he ran for mayor.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We’re going to need a bigger demonstration I guess.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 08/06/2025
Weather fluctuations over three years have disrupted rose and jasmine harvests in Kannauj, India's perfume capital. In this week's #EcoIndia, we discuss how Kannauj's famous perfume industry can survive the effects of climate change. #Watch⤵ scroll.in/video/108329...
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Eco India: How can Kannauj's famous perfume industry survive the effects of climate change?
Weather fluctuations over three years have disrupted rose and jasmine harvests in Kannauj, India's perfume capital.
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
We should be hearing more about these but we aren’t. The sunlight has been eerie and red where I live in the upper Midwest for two days, and we’re all just walking around like it’s a normal early summer weekend.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.
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Why Are They Hiding Their Faces?
If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
the modern information environment
Google search "do apples contain lycopene?" The AI overview says "No, apples do not contain lycopene" whereas the highlighted search result begins "Apples contain lycopene"
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Scroll @scroll.in · 26/05/2025
On Monday, Maharashtra recorded the second-highest number of active cases at 210 – up by 154 since May 19 – followed by Delhi with 104 active cases, a rise of 99 since that date. scroll.in/latest/10828...
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Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This article describes it in more depth, but I want to focus on a few things. First, when you build infrastructure like this and create new jobs/pensions for right-wing unions, it's hard to ever remove them. This new gestapo could become a permanent feature of our lives. www.wola.org/analysis/160...
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$160 Billion to Detain and Deport: Congress’s “Reconciliation” Bill is a Betrayal of Priorities and Will Harm the Most Vulnerable - WOLA
This piece focuses on the incredible scale of what the U.S. Congress is proposing to spend on enforcement and border security. The reconciliation bill’s mammoth dimensions are not getting the attentio...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/05/2025
NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief
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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Essential reading from @nehadixit123: Operation Sindoor reveals how calls for peace are being drowned out by bloodlust and performative patriotism. What happens when pacifism becomes unpopular? www.thehindu.com/society/oper...
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No country for pacifists | What Operation Sindoor reveals about changing opinions on the right response to conflict
Operation Sindoor has laid bare the current shift in public opinion on what is the right response to conflict — blood lust and confrontational rhetoric drowning out common sense and calls for peace
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 24/05/2025
"I'm realizing I'm being vague here. That's intentional." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)
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None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too Much
If I tell you secrets about my personal life, will you look at my new book? My first book, a novel called After World, was a relatively comfortable book for me to market in many ways. It takes plac…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/05/2025
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
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Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination. Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France. Sheesh.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My statement on the charges filed against me:
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Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Waking up every morning with an ongoing holocaust should be its own public emergency. We should be gathering in streets n town squares holding each other in solace like people do in the wake of “terror” attacks/disasters. It is cruel to expect bodies to process this scale of horror alone. #gaza
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
If we had the ability to feel the pain of a fraction of Gaza’s oppressed, our bones would splinter inside us with the force of it. Enough is enough.
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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It's no wonder huge wildfires are surging from northern Minnesota into southern Manitoba. Temps there pushed close to the century mark this week, accompanied by "tropical nights" (getting no cooler than 68F). yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/05/summ...
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Summer-like slug of heat pushes across much of North America » Yale Climate Connections
Temperatures hit 100°F in northern Minnesota, 112°F in Texas, and 115°F in Mexico.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
He’s never visited a mosque in the country where he’s president but he’s happy to do it in a country where he can make money
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Trump visits mosque in Abu Dhabi, an apparent first for the president
It was a remarkable gesture for a man whose political career has been marked by intolerance and derision of Muslims, showcasing his willingness to accede to unfamiliar cultural norms to forge potentia...
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The abolitionist questions — “when do you actually feel safe? What, exactly, is security? What is justice?” — have to be asked all the time, esp. in this crisis. Otherwise you get the same forces which brought us here doing this all over again.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Do You Even Own Socks?"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2025
NEW: Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earl...
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem.
It's not a very long poem, folks
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NPR @npr.org · 14/05/2025
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Horace Peterson has been freed after 52 years of maintaining his innocence
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‘We did it’: Michigan man freed after 52 years of maintaining innocence
Moments after Horace Peterson learned his 52 years of incarceration were coming to an end, he looked into the courtroom’s gallery, cracked a smile and waved to his 11-year-old great grandson.
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