Profile avatar
chayab77.bsky.social
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
13,760 posts 1,415 followers 1,903 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

This part

This wasn't the way to create any sort of transition to less US aid all over the world for public health crises. There was no coherence, fidelity or decency in any of what the administration did. Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

It's NONSENSICAL for him to make a claim like this. Just even by making such a claim, RFK is showing himself unfit.

After massive public backlash, the Social Security Administration is rolling back its disastrous cuts to phone services. This is a huge victory for the public against DOGE's rampage. Keep up the fight.

Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing. Emergency powers? He’s abusing them. And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve. The math ain’t mathing.

More and more I think it was just a ploy to destroy Dems' base of wealth and influence, while doing background insider trading with his billionaire MAGAs.

Literally

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

It would really mean the world to me if people would share details of my event for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, Tuesday 29th April in Glasgow! If you have queer friends, tell them! Or if you think you'd enjoy a book which kills Mr Collins off, come along! www.waterstones.com/events/lindz...

Thinking about that medical student (white, male) who lectured me (the resident, so his supervisor) about "how we do things in this country." In NEW ENGLAND. Not even in a red state. Just thinking about this.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue I could not have said it any better than my friend, Rich. @eldredgeatl.bsky.social

Disabled people are not obligated to: • divulge our medical information • educate non-disabled people • justify why they receive benefits • tolerate ableism & hate • be polite to ableists & trolls • make ourselves invisible • justify our existence #DisabilityRebellion

“Like other systems of its kind, it will code in bias towards racialised and low-income communities. Building an automated tool to profile people as violent criminals is deeply wrong, and using such sensitive data on mental health, addiction and disability is highly intrusive and alarming.”

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

There’s some truth here.

IRS Chief just quit in the middle of tax season and a week before tax day bc they’re forcing IRS to share info with ICE to deport immigrants who pay their taxes bc none of this has nothing to do with who is paying taxes but about control and racism. Fascism.

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

Incredibly pathetic that Gal Gadot could wax philosophical about the value of human life, etc. during the pandemic (as prelude to that comically bad Youtube video of her singing "Imagine") -- yet she doesn't care in the least that the IDF has WREAKED POLIO on Gazans (and kills medics who go there).

Nixon deported anti-war protestors. Cheered by how, in the end, things turned out for him.

BANNERFISH Elegant bannerfish show their striped bodies in sunlight. They form protective schools to confuse predators and increase their chance of survival. 📹 thecoraldefender

Morning pep talk: 1) #Resist 2) don’t violate the Hatch Act 3) #Resist 4) take care of yourself. Practice resilience. 5) #Resist 6) practice conservation 7) #Resist 8) take care of coworkers 9) Start again at #1

A week after my remarks on the Senate floor I am more energized then ever to continue to fight for Americans on Medicaid, Americans worried about Social Security, Americans looking for opportunity in their local economy.

Worth remembering.

Prisons Must Fall 🌱 Happy Publication Day to this beautiful, hopeful book by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball, illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social! 💐

Notice to all corporations: if you try to pass the cost of tariffs on to me I will "pass" on buying your product. As far as I'm concerned this is a "you problem"

Thinking about JD Vance's own origin story I cannot help laughing uproariously about this.

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Speaking up matters.

so; low res MFAs = sort of like WHITE LOTUS? No?

Damn those Humanities... Narrative identity: How stories help navigate professional and personal role transitions

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

COVID didn't "turn out fine." Over 1 million people died in just the US. People are still dying. 100s of thousands of people are still dealing with the effects of Long COVID. And the entire country lost its shit and is still unwell. Tariffs will not "turn out fine." Effects will be experienced.

Maybe it’s just me, but there’s no reason any decent honest human being should be visiting the orange felon for any reason at this point seeing as he’s a convicted felon who is actively destroying the country. LA Dodgers and The Eagles are a disgrace.

NEW: @elfaroenglish.bsky.social identified a SECOND man sent to El Salvador and imprisoned who is married to a US citizen. Jesús Ríos entered the US at a port of entry in 2023 seeking asylum. His wife started the green card process in January. Like most sent to CECOT, he has no criminal record.