Zara Chowdhary

Zara Chowdhary

@awarazara.bsky.social

Writer | Creative writing professor | Author of The Lucky Ones (2024) | big fan of trees and seas.

263 Followers 229 Following 25 Posts Joined Jan 2025
3 months ago
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

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6 months ago

Well, that was a good rehearsal I guess.

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6 months ago
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

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7 months ago
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Stunning! A Timelapse of an Oxalis plant blooming.

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7 months ago

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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.

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

“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.

#Watch ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkHt...

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7 months ago
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Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer

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

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7 months ago
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“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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7 months ago
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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 ‬

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8 months ago

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

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8 months ago

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.

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8 months ago
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.

actionnetwork.org/events/palan...

@bayresistance.bsky.social
@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social
@planetoverprofit.org

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8 months ago

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

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9 months ago
Eco India: How can Kannauj's famous perfume industry survive the effects of climate change? Weather fluctuations over three years have disrupted rose and jasmine harvests in Kannauj, India's perfume capital.

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.

#Watch⤵
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9 months ago
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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.

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago

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.

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9 months ago
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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.

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago
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

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9 months ago
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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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9 months ago
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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.

theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

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