Keya Chatterjee

“Each other” includes everyone— from political opponents and people who are different from us to Mother Earth.

The America that exists in my head is one where we take care of each other through the storms.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

"He can either give us a license... or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”

That's not just any ICE officer saying that. His name is Matthew Elliston and he now oversees ICE field operations on the East Coast.

I follow a lot of climate/energy justice folks and it’s most of my feed…. I think there is less algorithmic content here, so it’s about who you follow. Algorithms pump sensational content, which includes genocide. Thank you, machines in other sites, for letting people know about starving families?

Frustrating that this article focuses only on broken promises rather than on how the US legislature and the media are succumbing to intimidation and bribery, esp when it's running above an op-ed on justifying acquiescence. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

lol. My version of #1 is available for preorder, and I would absolutely read others’ versions of it too! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Please consider sharing book links from bookshop and not giving more money to Bozos

While I'm on here asking people to do things-- please also read/listen to this thread and send some emails asking that the Fox News anchor who supported firing assistant US Attorneys who prosecuted the J6ers is not confirmed as US Attorney for DC tomorrow. @normeisen.bsky.social

Bozos is so nefarious. All DC PEPCO bills went up by ~18% starting in June to subsidize Amazon Web Services data centers in VA. And they have a contract with the ICE Gestapo, so we are disgusted by what they are doing w/ the data storage contracts. Sign the petition: freedcproject.org/amazon

MISSION STANDING-AROUND-FOR-NO-PARTICULAR-REASON ACCOMPLISHED!

Guilherme Lemes Cardoso E Silva, an artist known for painting murals across the Bay Area, was taken into custody by ICE agents. His wife is now pleading for his release before their baby is born.

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

DC is already flawless, first of all.

But if Trump wants to "help" he can start by making Speaker Johnson fix the hole Congress blew in our local funds, undo his own disaster of a federal budget that cut Medicaid and SNAP, and then get rid of the largest criminal operation in DC by leaving office.

NEW: Federal agents rolling into MacArthur Park in LA like they are trying to take Kabul.

Absolute madness.

As the reporter says here, it’s an unmarked, heavily armored vehicle with armed ‘soldiers’. No-one knows if it’s ICE or National Guard.

How extraordinary rainfall caught Texas by surprise There was little indication of how torrential the Texas downpours would become before dawn. At least 27 people were killed, many of them children at Camp Mystic.

Great summary here by @washingtonpost.com on the events leading up to the tragic floods in Texas -- including how NWS repeatedly attempted to warn local officials of the impending disaster, even if the final rain totals caught everyone by surprise.

Gift link:
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Why was metrorail fare free yesterday, but the buses not? Why is the 4th free and not Juneteenth? Between messing with bus numbers and criminalizing poor people for our default 'pay what you can' bus system, this feels like an attack on bus rides, who we know are poorer and have more melanin.

Why the Texas floods were so severe Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.

Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night.

Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.

apnews.com/article/texa...

Tragic. The officials should have known bad floods were coming from the fucking forecast/warnings. The electeds should not have gut climate policies and renewables that would get us unfucked. The deaths from cutting weather forecasting at NOAA should be taken up as a grievance against T**mp/Doge.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Sounds like we need to demand they step down right after the election and withhold all participation and donations and change our bios from “UVA” to “the anti-DEI UVA BoV should step down” until they do…

As an alum I am angry. What are the various ways the VA election results can change the make up and behavior of the Board of Visitors?

Wow! Did you only pause to sleep? I once did just the little stretch from DC to Harper’s Ferry, WV and decided to rest for 2 days before getting back on my bike!

DC has roughly the same population as Alaska, but no one is looking out for our interests as this budget gets negotiated. That's wrong — and we all lose out.

Sharing! I did not know seeing a political ad in Bangla could bring gleeful joy. I almost wish I lived in NYC just so I could vote for a hashi khushi New York. Imagine having someone who cares enough about the people of NYC to learn their languages and then voting for Cuomo? I can’t help but judge.

Aww! Thank you! Launch will be Oct 14 at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social on H st NE!

Feel this. I hoped my spicy & speculative climate romance novel wouldn’t manifest its premise. The prequel is unfolding BEFORE it’s out in Oct, though. Also, preorder my novel if you want to see how love, and the movement, wins anyway in my imagination! Pre-orders help! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

If these were randos who didn’t understand GRACE it’d be one thing. They’re at Goddard and I’m sure have have considered the increase in precision. They say in the article they need a longer time series to confirm, but remember another trend: scientists under- not over- estimating climate impacts

Truck carrying tank after Army's 250th birthday parade kills pedestrian in DC The accident happened on the evening of June 16 while a truck was moving the tank from the parade staging area to a Maryland railyard.

WTF. A woman in DC was killed by Trump’s military parade— run over in NE by a truck carrying a tank that had no business on a DC street. As far as I know no media have asked Trump if his birthday parade was worth this woman’s life. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Hey quick q DC fam, has anyone seen the tanks leave?

Yup. And if you realize this is authoritarianism, then get your caucus in line to stop advancing authoritarianism. Dems voted against democracy in DC yesterday. DO NOT vote to repeal sanctuary in DC TODAY. DEMAND A NO VOTE ON H.R. 2056. Call them: (202) 224-3121