Ria Chakrabarty

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Admin about the war in Iran.

I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran.

I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

Trio of people covered in dust and ash, including an elderly woman and a man carrying a woman in his arms. The street behind them is in flames.

Tehran tonight.

Twenty people were killed in a US–Israeli attack on Niloufar Square, a busy mixed residential and commercial neighborhood in Tehran.

(The photo was taken by Iran’s Student News Network and has been geolocated.)

‘I Just Stood Up’: The Stunning Arrest Of Aliya Rahman At The State Of The Union Rahman, who was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest, suspects she was targeted after testifying to Congress about her brutal ICE detention in Minneapolis.

NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up.

Really.

Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.

So tired of diaspora South Asians writing about how hard it is to live in the hyphen or whatever. You’re grown! Go fight your Hindutva uncles and annihilate caste!!

Queens

The 16th amendment was introduced bc the US government could not raise enough revenue by tariffs without making life unlivably expensive for most Americans

The embrace of violence, the misogyny, and the frustration that a U.S. citizen wasn’t murdered…

Hindu nationalists tell us exactly who they are.

Listen to them.

February 23, 2026 — On a February 20 episode of “HAF Reacts,” Hindu American Foundation’s Managing Director for Policy and Programs Samir Kalra said the following about the recent guilty plea of Nikhil Gupta and his role in a conspiracy to assassinate U.S.-based Sikhs: “Man, if you’re gonna do a job, fucking do it right, too. I mean that’s the other thing. Why did you send such a sloppy person to do the job? And again, I’m not advocating it should have been successful, but come on, I mean, that was, like, worse than the D-team. Like when you walk into a strip club in the middle of the day, you get like the worst dancers that are there, right? You gotta go to like, prime time at night to get the best dancers, not during the daytime. And that’s like, this kind of operation! You have, like, the daytime dancers that were part of this operation. If you’re going to do it, freakin’ do it right. If you’re going to have somebody indicted, at least be successful in your operation. Shame on India or whoever was ordering this hit or whoever was involved in it for doing such a horrible, sloppy job.”

as ever, the Hindu nationalist apparatus in the U.S. is a real piece of a work (h/t @hfhr.bsky.social)

I need progressive foreign policy people to continually ask Ro Khanna his views on Modi, democracy, and human rights in India before they continue fawning over him

Every day, I resent Alma Mater a little bit more

This means I literally could not teach my subject (African politics) at the institution at which I earned my PhD.

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

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A lot of people proudly posted that they didn’t know what Bad Bunny was saying but they enjoyed the vibe. Brave if you to admit that when he gave you four months to learn Spanish

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Global latina belt needs to cover Sub-Saharan Africa too 😌

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San Benito ❤️

You know, at least Bob Menendez was paid for his work to protect military assistance to Egypt

I cannot emphasize enough how long this culture of cruelty has been baked into CBP

I know a lot of people are shocked by what happened to Pretti, but this is exactly how CBP has behaved for decades in South Texas and in southern border communities.

Admittedly, I’ve never been a huge Star Wars guy, but I just finished season one of Andor and holy moly what a show. Talk about television that speaks to the moment. Those last three episodes in particular will stick with me for a long time.

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Senate Democrats’ ICE Proposals Are a Huge and Inexcusable Whiff Their opening bid should have been eight or 10 bold proposals. But as usual, the Democrats start by negotiating with themselves.

"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

They should have just shut down DHS, which shouldn’t even exist anyways 🤷🏽‍♀️

Personally, if I were the opposition I’d propose laws to guarantee clean air and water and when those laws aren’t implemented, make a massive spectacle until they are…

In Delhi, the air is unbreathable, the water is contaminated, and there’s no serious policy discussion on these issues, let alone solutions.

My only opinion on this whole Jasmine Crockett kerfuffle is that I think she’s the wrong JC to run for Senate in Texas. No, it’s not Jesus Christ either.