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Chaya Bhuvaneswar

@chayab77.bsky.social
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Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com

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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What about her story? Why isn't this on the front page of the @nytimes.com like the moment by moment story of how a plane of Israeli passengers survived a brutal attack and landed safely? Why doesn't her pain and fear matter just as much?
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The fear that Israeli passengers experienced, the joy upon surviving - that is a beautiful story. But that doesn't exonerate Israel for the genocide in Gaza. And I'd like to see coverage moment by moment of Gazan survival. Where is that story, @nytimes.com? Why doesn't their pain and fear count?
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But the brutal killing of 74,000 people (including infants and children) in Gaza by Israeli military forces is AN OUTRAGE. It's a stain on humanity. Killing and starving children. IDF snipers shooting toddlers point-blank in the head. It's genocide. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Gaza death toll exceeds 75,000 as independent data verify loss
Gaza death toll passes 75,000 as landmark peer-reviewed studies verify huge undercounts in official data.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let's be very clear. To be pro-Palestinian, to oppose genocide in Gaza is to hold 2 positions simultaneously (both are true, both are solid): - Survival is good. This plane of passengers working together to keep from crashing - is inspiring and good. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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How FlyDubai Passengers and Crew Averted Disaster After Pilot Was Stabbed During Flight
A badly wounded Indian pilot managed to unlock the cockpit door. Four Israeli men teamed up to overwhelm an attacker and avert disaster.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This was their plan, that their supporters explicitly VOTED FOR: “The Secretary should utilize authority to declare a mass migration event and implement immediate emergency measures, including the summary return of aliens... to bypass administrative backlogs.” I.e. bypass DUE PROCESS.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look at this excerpt from Project 2025 planning out EXACTLY what ICE is doing now.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the fallacy. THERE AREN'T "a lot" of "hardcore criminals." By only deporting undocumented offenders, ICE would never get to the numbers that this administration is demanding. They ALWAYS planned to get "out" every undocumented American.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She thought it was OK for these terrible things to happen to OTHER immigrants, just as long as it didn't happen to her or her family. No words.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a great website that has visuals and clear explanations of how the clinical trial process works, what is scientific evidence for the safety and effectiveness of FDA approved medications, etc. (noting that vaccines are FDA approved as well). clinicaltrials.panfoundation.org
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Learn about clinical trials with PAN's education hub
Know the basics of clinical trials and how they might help you—with real patient stories and useful guides for talking to your doctors.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This "elite" (money, not merit) are exploiting ignorance, fear and lack of science education. Period. It's so cruel. It's symbolized by RFK vaccinating his own kids but trying to get kids in Pennsylvania, Africa, all over the world, to die of measles.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These people KNOW the difference - because they've PROFITED from the difference. They are big donors highly invested in the pharma / industry sector. They KNEW to buy up 3M (mask company) stock 3 months before the March 2020 COVID-19 pandemic became public.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What hurts is that the Republicans/ MAGAs discouraging ppl from trusting medicine/ doctors/ public health (a Dem platform) know fully well that "doing your own research" comes nowhere near the scientific certainty and safety of the randomized clinical trials process, NDA, commercialization.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
good idea
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
aspiration for the piece of fiction I'm revising today: "it's giving Nabokovian"
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just Trump leaving the gates open for Russian interference with the elections (a strategy that worked so well for him in 2016) --
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Further proof of whom the president *really* works for.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The president who fosters conspiracy theories about voter fraud was out there, telling his followers...to commit voter fraud.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sarada Menon MD - psychiatrist whose experiences caring for hospitalized patients led her to pioneer community-based care in India (like at NIMHANS in Bangalore now) and research better outcomes in schizophrenia for patients not institutionalized, etc.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nawal el-Saadawi MD - served as inpatient psychiatrist at Cairo University Hospital, then a researcher and head of the Public Health Ministry in her crusade for mental health parity for women and safety for domestic violence survivors: bookshop.org/p/books/woma...
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Franz Fanon MD - served as an inpatient psychiatrist and medical director of a hospital unit in Algeria: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Psychiatrists who make me proud to be a psychiatrist and make me remember the many hours, days, nights I have spent caring for people in extreme circumstances (inpatient, homicidal, suicidal, etc.) These psychiatrists also served on inpatient units. Dr. Price Cobbs MD: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nawal el-Sadaawi MD Psychiatrist (author of WOMAN AT ZERO, which critiques oppression and cruelty in no uncertain terms) who taught psychiatry and cared for inpatients at Cairo University Hospital. I could go on with this list. I am proud of caring for people in extreme circumstances. I cared.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We do want people to know. But by "we" -- I mean the psychiatrists of color who have come before me. Whose work I want to post here: Dr. Price Cobbs MD psychiatrist (including inpatient) who wrote BLACK RAGE (1968); Franz Fanon MD (a psychiatrist who also cared for inpatients in Algeria);
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A lot of psychiatrists (not just me) have actually interacted with regulators to hold inpatient psychiatric units accountable - the cruelty (which is real) comes as much from utilization reviewers, nurses, mental health workers, vs. doctors who are few and scarce on most inpatient units.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Please get in touch (either by my website chayabhuvaneswar.com or via the chat here if this could help you. And good luck with your writing!
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of the best-written book reviews I've read in a long time. Brava @dwightgarner.bsky.social . Really exuberant. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So simple. So enduring. But seeing it in print brought tears to my eyes. This is the premise of everything. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just...an outrage.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Reduce it down: The 'outrage' about a Black woman being cast as Helen of Troy is just white supremacists being petulant about a woman of color having WHAT THEY DON'T WANT US TO HAVE. I.e. anything really great. Period. They don't want that for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...
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Opinion | The Beautiful Truth About Helen of Troy
She was a legendary beauty, but also so much more.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
now to even things out, the GOP just needs to publish a report about their bigotry plus theft of American tax dollars to serve billionaire agendas, personally enrich themselves, and imperil the country and the world with their anti-science collusions. (silence). www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
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5 Takeaways From the Democrats’ Autopsy of Kamala Harris’s 2024 Loss
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Surprise, surprise. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/r...
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Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.bookscrolling.com/the-best-fic...
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The Best Fiction Books of 2018 (A Year-End List Aggregation) - Book Scrolling
“What are the Best Fiction & Literature books of 2018?” We aggregated 20 year-end lists and ranked the 286 unique titles by how many times
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Let's call anti-science, anti-public health people for what they are. Not "skeptics" but liars and criminals. Charlatans. Like Wakefield, who falsified data to assert a spurious causality that didn't even exist. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
He has to invent "Vatican files" to move attention away from THE EPSTEIN FILES (which actually exist, and which implicate him).
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development: dearamericaletters.org
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Well at least there's an art collector in charge of the Navy and a former junior co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend in charge of the Defense Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Yee-haw!
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
An extreme closeup of a Barred Owl's face. This was shot at 800mm, but from around 15 feet away allowing for this level of detail. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin
A closeup of a Barred Owl's face as it stares directly at the camera.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
To be fair, there are corrupt Dems as well. Senator Bob Menendez of NJ. Main difference is the Dems don't rally around and try to protect the criminal. The magat party does.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Jones: These people, I think, are very flagrant in their disregard for the law. It’s as if they don’t read what is in these statutes, and they say, “Ah, we see one keyword and we’ll just run with it.” That is having a material impact on people across the country, and I think people are tired of it.
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Ginger Cat Dusty @gingercatdusty.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Mine #WhiskersWednesday good nite to you all. Hope you have sweetest dreams & peaceful sleep. Family sends hugs & extra love 💤💙💤
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“'The administration thoughtlessly terminated people with crisis experience, and now they’re left without depth in the bench in the middle of a wide scale and broadening crisis,' said a former official with more than a decade experience in evacuation operations..." www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Another hush money payment.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Unfit for the office in every aspect.
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