Reposted by Zara ChowdharyMiami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 8145570214728
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Well, that was a good rehearsal I guess. 121254
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyJapanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We 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. 5969862923
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyInsta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Stunning! A Timelapse of an Oxalis plant blooming. 785527751
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyLostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Washington 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” 169263656771
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyJason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I 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. 69120242808
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025Stephens wants to see a final solution situation before he’s willing to confirm genocide 1318134
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Your 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. 682225501
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025Beto 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 573033497
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Just 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. 28970174
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyScroll @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...youtube.com'We need a civil disobedience movement against Election Commission': Mahua Moitra, MPYouTube video by Scroll.in 132
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Alex Kydd Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer 322110831585
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyVincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 17/07/2025One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora! 1268450792
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyJacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025For 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 042
Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 28/06/2025It’s very meaningful, this coming out of india at a time like this. 🌷 350
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyAndrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I 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. 331461273
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/06/2025We’re going to need a bigger demonstration I guess. 1529942
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyScroll @scroll.in · 08/06/2025Weather 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...scroll.inEco 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. 033
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyJeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025At 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. 10864443811814
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data. 15916660114557
Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 31/05/2025We 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. 010
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/05/2025We’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.thinkbigpicture.substack.comWhy Are They Hiding Their Faces?If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities 49872722634
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are: 22945941399
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025the modern information environment 1144025880
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyScroll @scroll.in · 26/05/2025On 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... 098
Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 27/05/2025theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...theintercept.comU.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal DataThe government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people. 010
Reposted by Zara Chowdharyalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 24/05/2025This 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...wola.org$160 Billion to Detain and Deport: Congress’s “Reconciliation” Bill is a Betrayal of Priorities and Will Harm the Most Vulnerable - WOLAThis 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... 5500230
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/05/2025NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief 11356150
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyHindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Essential 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...thehindu.comNo country for pacifists | What Operation Sindoor reveals about changing opinions on the right response to conflictOperation 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 011
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 24/05/2025"I'm realizing I'm being vague here. That's intentional." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)buff.lyNone of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too MuchIf 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… 02110
Reposted by Zara Chowdharyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/05/2025this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct." 435103742061
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.theguardian.comLawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrestedRuth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago 438147518726
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Just 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. 2582215404604
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyRep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 20/05/2025My statement on the charges filed against me: 1124326588806
Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Waking 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 000
Reposted by Zara Chowdharyaunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025If 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. 082
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyBob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 15/05/2025It'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...yaleclimateconnections.orgSummer-like slug of heat pushes across much of North America » Yale Climate ConnectionsTemperatures hit 100°F in northern Minnesota, 112°F in Texas, and 115°F in Mexico. 19142
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025He’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 moneywashingtonpost.comTrump visits mosque in Abu Dhabi, an apparent first for the presidentIt 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... 1041802353
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyDr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The 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. 1459
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this 907123292383
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyMaksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 15/05/2025"Do You Even Own Socks?" 4335
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2025NEW: 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.socialpropublica.orgAfter Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight PlansFacing 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... 388103973152
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyNPR @npr.org · 14/05/2025NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.npr.orgMultiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremistsNPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier. 38854182321
Reposted by Zara ChowdharyPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Horace Peterson has been freed after 52 years of maintaining his innocencemlive.com‘We did it’: Michigan man freed after 52 years of maintaining innocenceMoments 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. 13460571232