Keya Chatterjee

S/O to Croix Bethune in this clip from @nbcwashington.com

"We don't want to play a 3 hours soccer game. That was insane."

"We're just trying to be the light of the city. I know y'all hear the chants "Free DC" that are going on and the signs that are there."
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Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.

We should make the tech billionaires mad by killing driverless cars in DC, right? Waymo Killed a Cat. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

I think you mean "in Congress," or "In the Federal District". In DC, we are getting in the face of federal agents, and giving peoples' pardons to the guy throwing sandwiches at them. #FreeDC

I was the Banksy version of the sandwich guy for Halloween, so I now feel especially connected to this folk hero and appreciative of his lawyer's puns. Also, this entire thread is hilarious. #FreeDC

I went to LA to run a training this summer and almost got hit twice in crosswalks when I had the right of way by Waymo’s turning right. Between the federally-deputized thugs and the techbro-fantasy self driving killing machines, it felt dystopian.

Our entire national democracy will always be at risk until we actually protect the capital of this country.

Everyone across this country needs a free DC. - Kaya Chatterjee

DC SAYS #NOKINGS, #FREEDC

Great turnout tonight for @keyachatterjee.bsky.social’s book launch: The Revolution will not be rated G.

At @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social

Our world needs more activist romance novels like this (+inspired by Beverly Jenkins!!!) please!

It’s pub day for my romance novel about tearing down fascism! Thank you to everyone who helped it get out into the world! Launch event tonight at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, Wed @peoplesbooktakoma.com, Thurs NYC & then Boston/Philly @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I mean, I care about healthcare too, but maybe the wild grift and declaration that they are all-powerful deserve a few moments of attention too?

Very few people are on BlueSky to see Stephen Miller, who runs the DC Task Force, admitting that this regime thinks they have total power. If you want a say in your future, or a say in anything at all, start pulling the rug out from under this regime today if you haven't already. #FreeDC

we’ve experienced so much solidarity from our fellow SGs, this community is everything ❤️

Washington Spirit games have become a massive bastion of protest against Trump's military takeover of DC. Thousands of people chant "free DC" at the 51st minute of every game now.

The boycotts work, kids, & represent our most direct weapon against fascism in this moment. Time to *expand* them & leverage their impact against this increasingly dangerous regime.

Signs of the Times cont. - PoPville Thanks to B. for sending from 16th Street, NW in Brightwood Park last night (Sunday): "Not sure who pulled this off but I hope the messages are still there for rush hour!" Anyone see it this morning?

Signs of the Times cont. www.popville.com/2025/09/sign...

Nice! Also maybe bodes well for my spicy romance novel about taking down fascism that comes out Oct 14? bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Watch these videos and explain to me why Congress should vote for a budget that INCREASES hiring for gangs of masked armed agents, snipers pointed at the protestors, and the gassing of a TV news van. What is the argument for not defunding this?

Relieved the (Progressive) Dems are fighting! And glad we now (finally) have all the Dems in this committee voting to protect DC rights. The 29 Dems who most recently voted to take away DC rights can be found here: freedcproject.org/news/29-dems... #FreeDC #EndTheOccupation

Man of European descent wearing camouflage and carrying a long rifle in a donut shop

We were planning to get a donut from #KrispyKreme but the guys with the long rifles at Dupont circle reminding us we are under military occupation turned us around. #FreeDC #EndTheOccupation

Thank you Rep. Robert Garcia for your solidarity with DC communities. We are calling on every Democrat in both the House and Senate to reject ALL attacks against DC's local power and policy that are moving through Congress right now.

Outstanding.

“These people should not get a second of peace wherever they are. If they’re in public, we will find them and we will make sure that they hear what we have to say,” says DiNucci[.]"

The Power of Community: Keya Chatterjee and the Vision for a Free DC Free DC Executive Director Keya Chatterjee joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush for an in-depth look at the federal takeover of Washington, DC, and the implications for the nation's capital,…

This week on "The State of Belief," @keyachatterjee.bsky.social shares how the Trump administration’s federal takeover of the nation’s capital is having a profound impact on DC’s 700,000 residents – and on our very democracy. Listen now!
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People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

We Are All DC: A National March · Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO DC communities are powerful, connected, and under attack. Federal troops, out-of-state National Guard, and Trump controlled police are harassing, surveilling, and detaining Black and Brown residents...

This is the moment. On September 6, we march from DC’s neighborhoods to the White House. DC is not a warzone — it’s home. #FREEDC www.mobilize.us/dclabor/even...

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

Register for the #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call this Saturday, August 30, at 1 pm: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... .

Speakers include CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, @freedcproject.bsky.social's @keyachatterjee.bsky.social, journalist Michael Harriot & UTLA Pres. Cecily Myart-Cruz.

“We started thinking about the need to have a clear anti-dictator plan, probably starting in October,” said Keya Chatterjee, one of four co-founders, along with Kelsye Adams, Nee Nee Taylor and Alex Dodds. Nearly “every single time Trump made a speech, he said he was going to take over D.C., and it was not being covered very much … so we decided we were going to take that seriously,” she added.

Free DC's Keya Chatterjee with a bit of a lesson for the political media

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FEDERAL FORCES OUT OF DC NOW!

For allies across the country, we have two ways you can support us in standing down the federal escalation:

➡️ freedcproject.org/allies
➡️ freedcproject.org/occupation

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Six GOP States Send National Guard to Washington as Outcry Grows over Trump Power Grab

"This is a moment for people who believe in equal rights to stand with DC, because right now you’re either with DC or you are with tyranny." — @keyachatterjee.bsky.social

People in DC "understand the assignment," #FreeDC co-founder @keyachatterjee.bsky.social told me this week.

In this case, Columbia Heights.

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