Maya Chhabra
@mayachhabra.bsky.social
Author of FIREBIRD CAGED, CHIARA IN THE DARK, and more. Translator. Not willing to let democracy die quietly. 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇳 she/her https://mayachhabra.com/
Review by a journalist in Gaza--and a call to go beyond believing what is happening and to bring actual safety to the people living and dying under this dystopian killing machine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Watching NAZA was like peering through a window – and seeing the machinery of killing in Gaza | Mahmoud Mushtaha
I now know that the only difference between life and death may have been an AI algorithm, says Mahmoud Mushtaha, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza
theguardian.com
Really not a good look for the Auschwitz Museum to have denied a survivor the ability to take back her own work. And despite stating they were pictures of Roma victims, it doesn't sound from the article like they actually reached out to any surviving relatives? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/a...
Heirs Sue Auschwitz Museum Over Art Their Mother Made Under the Nazis
Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” doctor, ordered Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an Auschwitz prisoner, to create watercolor paintings. Her daughters want them back.
nytimes.com
53 years ago. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46562/...
Ballad of Birmingham
“Mother dear, may I go downtown Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?” “No, baby, no, you may not go, For…
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@AuthorMsBev@authormsbev.bsky.social · 4d agoMay we always remember these little girls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_St...
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Happy book birthday! This also features the opera singer Jenny Lind, and a very alt 19th century London. And cake.
Marissa Lingen@marissalingen.bsky.social · 5d agoIT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...
More reporting on the Kings County Democratic County Committee, this time on corruption and judicial nominations. nysfocus.com/2026/09/14/b...
In Brooklyn, a Judge-Maker’s Steady Wins Raise Eyebrows
A court battle over a dramatic rewriting of party rules will shape the selection of future judges.
nysfocus.com
ICE and Oklahoma state police are illegally arresting and detaining Ukrainian truck drivers who are here legally via TPS. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Truck drivers who fled Ukraine war are being jailed by ICE in Oklahoma
Many believed they had proper paperwork but have been ensnared by inconsistent immigration policy and a federal push for deportations. Most remain in custody at Oklahoma prisons.
tulsaworld.com
My very basic AI opinion: more of this kind of thing, less slop and token-maxxing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...
‘I Have a Lot to Say’: Brain Implant Helps a Disabled Patient Speak
In the latest advance in brain-computer interfaces, a company said its wireless device enabled speech even when a patient just imagined saying words.
nytimes.com
Richard Allen Pearlman was an 18 year old ambulance volunteer, still working toward his EMT certification, when he joined the response to the attack on the WTC. He died attempting to save a life. www.ems1.com/9-11/he-was-...
He was 18 when he ran toward the Twin Towers — 25 years later, we still ride for him
Richard Allen Pearlman was the youngest first responder killed on 9/11. For a small volunteer ambulance corps, keeping his memory alive has become part of the job.
ems1.com
This MetaFilter forum _from September 11, 2001_ is a primary document that makes it very difficult to make the "unity" argument www.metafilter.com/10034/Plane-...
Plane crashes in to the word trade center.
Plane crashes in to the word trade center. Apologies for not linking to anything besides the main CNN page but there are no full stories on this yet. The plane crashed into the building about six...
metafilter.com
Must-read reporting about the more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians who have disappeared into the Russian prison system. For the @newyorker.com, Joshua Yaffa tells the story of the women held in one cell in Russia's “new Gulag.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Russia’s New Gulag
Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell in the new Gulag.
newyorker.com
Rereading ALL THE KING'S MEN and...this is Hamlet. Jack=Hamlet Anne=Ophelia Adam=Laertes Jack's mom=Gertrude The Scholarly Attorney=the Ghost Willie Stark=Claudius
👀✈️‼️ Noting that there were over 2,000 ICE Air flights in each of June and July. These flights represent an enormous number of human rights violations and malicious cruelty and pain.
ICE Flight Monitor@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · last wk.August 2026 overview: IFM warns that these trends represent an unprecedented escalation of immigration enforcement with serious human rights implications.
Been reading a lot of books about apartheid in South Africa and denial of contact visits is frequently mentioned by political prisoners and their family members as a memorably cruel policy. The company we keep.
Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 2w agoFor a year, California's largest ICE facility has barred all detained residents from hugging loved ones. The policy has sparked so much fury that residents have launched campaigns across dorms demanding contact visits In my latest, see video from one detained organizer + how CoreCivic has responded
I'd been doing bits and pieces of this (amazingly, or amazing to me, this epic Hugo masterpiece of satire and invective has never been translated into English) for a while. Then two years ago I decided to finish the whole thing, and now have. medium.com/adams-notebo...
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I have literally just finished a complete translation of Victor Hugo's epic anti-Napoleon III polemic "Les Châtiments" (1853). This could be MY TIME!
Sam Wilson@samwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoDamning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy
Reading Paul Norwood (J.P. Nettl)'s The Prize-Giving and there is a very funny depiction of an absolutely excruciating canvassing shift.
On Raksha Bandhan, a single thread symbolizes a powerful promise: to protect, support, and stand by one another. Today I shared in the joy of this ceremony with elders at India Home, where South Asian seniors find community, care, and chosen family.
@bsky.app Could you make a non-infinite scroll option? Would love more control over my feed that way.
What I love about this story is that it was probably some researcher studying cactus cell structure or the biochemistry of some totally obscure succulent and then it turns out that it might just save millions of lives. This is the cool thing about pure research—you just never know.
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
gavi.org
Once again, we receive word that another Russian missile has destroyed, not a military target, but Ukrainian books. Our friends Ababahalamaha reported that their warehouse was hit. Other reports mention at least 60,000 books burned and destroyed in the attack. Why?
Madison Square Garden really wants another fascist rally, huh? Absolutely disgraceful to host the head of the RSS, an organization that has spent an entire century undermining religious pluralism in India. www.hindusforhumanrights.org/en/blog/new-...
New Yorkers Unite Against RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Madison Square Garden Appearance — Hindus for Human Rights
Hindu, Muslim and interfaith groups will gather at City Hall on August 25 to oppose the spread of Hindu nationalism and RSS influence in the United States. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW ...
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Passengers on Delta 5483 (operated by Endeavor Air), your flight is being used to deport someone.
ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · 3w agoAir to Ground Message: DEPORTEE WILL BE LAST TO DEPLANE PLEASE INFORM LAW ENFORCEMENT WAITING AT GATE THX Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Bombardier CRJ900 A: #a5c6a0d75a5 F: #fc9b78c3631
restricting wars to those declared by the legislature is a costly signal of certain levels of political mobilization and deliberation not unrelated to winning them.
The ankle monitor stuff here--we all know what that is. "Wear this identifying badge to make it easier for us to round you up later." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
Haitians in Springfield Hunker Down as ICE Begins Detentions
Federal agents have begun detaining Haitians in the Ohio city, signaling an increase in ICE activity that has panicked the community and kept many from leaving home.
nytimes.com
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
