Chaya Bhuvaneswar
@chayab77.bsky.social
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
The world said NO to this shameful US presidency and NO to genocide and YES to people of conscience everywhere and YES to a principled woman of color. YES.
What about her story? Why isn't this on the front page of the @nytimes.com like the moment by moment story of how a plane of Israeli passengers survived a brutal attack and landed safely? Why doesn't her pain and fear matter just as much?
Let's be very clear. To be pro-Palestinian, to oppose genocide in Gaza is to hold 2 positions simultaneously (both are true, both are solid): - Survival is good. This plane of passengers working together to keep from crashing - is inspiring and good. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
How FlyDubai Passengers and Crew Averted Disaster After Pilot Was Stabbed During Flight
A badly wounded Indian pilot managed to unlock the cockpit door. Four Israeli men teamed up to overwhelm an attacker and avert disaster.
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This is the fallacy. THERE AREN'T "a lot" of "hardcore criminals." By only deporting undocumented offenders, ICE would never get to the numbers that this administration is demanding. They ALWAYS planned to get "out" every undocumented American.
She thought it was OK for these terrible things to happen to OTHER immigrants, just as long as it didn't happen to her or her family. No words.
What hurts is that the Republicans/ MAGAs discouraging ppl from trusting medicine/ doctors/ public health (a Dem platform) know fully well that "doing your own research" comes nowhere near the scientific certainty and safety of the randomized clinical trials process, NDA, commercialization.
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
aspiration for the piece of fiction I'm revising today: "it's giving Nabokovian"
Just Trump leaving the gates open for Russian interference with the elections (a strategy that worked so well for him in 2016) --
Further proof of whom the president *really* works for.
The president who fosters conspiracy theories about voter fraud was out there, telling his followers...to commit voter fraud.
Psychiatrists who make me proud to be a psychiatrist and make me remember the many hours, days, nights I have spent caring for people in extreme circumstances (inpatient, homicidal, suicidal, etc.) These psychiatrists also served on inpatient units. Dr. Price Cobbs MD: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Please get in touch (either by my website chayabhuvaneswar.com or via the chat here if this could help you. And good luck with your writing!
One of the best-written book reviews I've read in a long time. Brava @dwightgarner.bsky.social . Really exuberant. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!
So simple. So enduring. But seeing it in print brought tears to my eyes. This is the premise of everything. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Reduce it down: The 'outrage' about a Black woman being cast as Helen of Troy is just white supremacists being petulant about a woman of color having WHAT THEY DON'T WANT US TO HAVE. I.e. anything really great. Period. They don't want that for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...
Opinion | The Beautiful Truth About Helen of Troy
She was a legendary beauty, but also so much more.
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now to even things out, the GOP just needs to publish a report about their bigotry plus theft of American tax dollars to serve billionaire agendas, personally enrich themselves, and imperil the country and the world with their anti-science collusions. (silence). www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
5 Takeaways From the Democrats’ Autopsy of Kamala Harris’s 2024 Loss
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Let's call anti-science, anti-public health people for what they are. Not "skeptics" but liars and criminals. Charlatans. Like Wakefield, who falsified data to assert a spurious causality that didn't even exist. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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He has to invent "Vatican files" to move attention away from THE EPSTEIN FILES (which actually exist, and which implicate him).
Nikki Wallschlaeger@nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 6mo agodude is on one today, again, on a Sunday
"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development: dearamericaletters.org
Well at least there's an art collector in charge of the Navy and a former junior co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend in charge of the Defense Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
