Zara Chowdhary

I 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.

Stephens wants to see a final solution situation before he’s willing to confirm genocide

Your 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.

Beto 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

Donald Trump posts AI video showing Barack Obama arrested by FBI: 'No one is above the law'

Just 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.

YouTube video by Scroll.in 'We need a civil disobedience movement against Election Commission': Mahua Moitra, MP

“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.

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One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora!

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Read every word.

ICE is an abomination and injustice. They have no place in our society, and everyone who works for them or their for-profit network ought to be held accountable for their actions. I look forward to that day. #AbolishICE

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For 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 ‬

It’s very meaningful, this coming out of india at a time like this. 🌷

I 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.

Shut Down Palantir, next Thursday, June 26th MASS ACTION NEEDED: SHUT DOWN PALANTIR From ICE abductions to the genocide in Palestine, Palantir makes BILLIONS off mass surveillance, deportation, and war. ICE runs on PALANTIR GENOCIDE runs on PALANTIR THURS JUNE 26 @ 12PM PALANTIR OFFICE | 100 HAMILTON AVE, PALO ALTO

SHUT DOWN PALANTIR
June 26th. 12pm.
100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto.

From ICE abductions to the genocide in Palestine, Palantir makes billions off surveillance, deportation, and war.

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We’re going to need a bigger demonstration I guess.

Weather 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.

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At 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.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

We 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.

Why Are They Hiding Their Faces? If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities

We’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.

For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:

Google search "do apples contain lycopene?" The AI overview says "No, apples do not contain lycopene" whereas the highlighted search result begins "Apples contain lycopene"

the modern information environment

On 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.

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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

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$160 Billion to Detain and Deport: Congress’s “Reconciliation” Bill is a Betrayal of Priorities and Will Harm the Most Vulnerable - WOLA This 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...

This 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...

NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths

Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief

No country for pacifists | What Operation Sindoor reveals about changing opinions on the right response to conflict Operation 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

Essential 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?
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None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too Much If 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…

"I'm realizing I'm being vague here. That's intentional." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)

this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."