Anirvan Chatterjee
@chatterjee.net
Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California.
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 12th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
https://www.chatterjee.net/
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 12th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
https://www.chatterjee.net/
"Understand what it is to be a family in Chicago…federal agents tear-gassed children in Old Irving Park…agents arrested a 70-year-old man and threw a 67-year old woman to the ground…That same day, federal agents deployed tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade in Old Irving Park."
I Want You to Understand Chicago
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.
aphyr.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"Understand what it is to be a family in Chicago…federal agents tear-gassed children in Old Irving Park…agents arrested a 70-year-old man and threw a 67-year old woman to the ground…That same day, federal agents deployed tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade in Old Irving Park."
"Veraza said his one-year-old daughter, Arianna, who was in the back seat, also inhaled the pepper spray. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment…'My daughter was trying to open her eyes,' Veraza said. 'She was struggling to breathe.'"
‘She was struggling to breathe’: Little Village family says one-year-old caught in Chicago immigration raid
Federal immigration raids in Chicago’s Little Village turned violent, as residents and officials condemned the force by Border Patrol agents.
americanbazaaronline.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Veraza said his one-year-old daughter, Arianna, who was in the back seat, also inhaled the pepper spray. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment…'My daughter was trying to open her eyes,' Veraza said. 'She was struggling to breathe.'"
"In other words, because boat strike murder victims are not firing back at US troops or engaged in any attacks on US military personnel/bases, they are not engaged in 'hostilities.' If these strikes aren’t a response to 'hostilities,' there should be no time limit on them."
Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them
This administration isn’t content to be normal awful. It insists on being ghastly awful as often as possible. Not content to eject hundreds of migrants into foreign torture prisons, the admin…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"In other words, because boat strike murder victims are not firing back at US troops or engaged in any attacks on US military personnel/bases, they are not engaged in 'hostilities.' If these strikes aren’t a response to 'hostilities,' there should be no time limit on them."
These are so nice. I just wore my new @bart.gov sweater in downtown Oakland last week, and I was stopped on the street by people exclaiming at how cool it was, and if you can buy them
LOVE my new @bart.gov holiday sweater.
Appreciate that instead of thinking “how do we make it weirder/uglier?” they pivoted to “let’s make a holiday sweater people can wear to a first date or job interview!”
❄️🚇💯❄️
Appreciate that instead of thinking “how do we make it weirder/uglier?” they pivoted to “let’s make a holiday sweater people can wear to a first date or job interview!”
❄️🚇💯❄️
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
These are so nice. I just wore my new @bart.gov sweater in downtown Oakland last week, and I was stopped on the street by people exclaiming at how cool it was, and if you can buy them
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Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
Reposted by Anirvan Chatterjee
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
Hey Berkeley people, come join me at the Fleetwood Mac edition of Choir! Choir! Choir! in March
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SW...
www.theuctheatre.org/shows/choir-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SW...
www.theuctheatre.org/shows/choir-...
The UC Theatre
“Why see a show when you can BE the show!”
www.theuctheatre.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hey Berkeley people, come join me at the Fleetwood Mac edition of Choir! Choir! Choir! in March
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SW...
www.theuctheatre.org/shows/choir-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SW...
www.theuctheatre.org/shows/choir-...
I love this new report on how a state commission picked the brand new flag for the State of Minnesota
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November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I love this new report on how a state commission picked the brand new flag for the State of Minnesota
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I just watched Brìghde Chaimbeul for the first time last night, and it was a transcendent experience, rooted in drone/ambient. It was absolutely not what I expected. Totally recommended if you get a chance to catch a show.
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde
Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.
www.newyorker.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I just watched Brìghde Chaimbeul for the first time last night, and it was a transcendent experience, rooted in drone/ambient. It was absolutely not what I expected. Totally recommended if you get a chance to catch a show.
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
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"'If greenhouse gases aren’t covered by the Clean Air Act,' Carlson told CalMatters, 'then California could presumably regulate them — and so could every other state.'"
calmatters.org/environment/...
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If Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases?
California, the state that helped define U.S. clean-air policy, is once again considering how far it can go without Washington’s permission.
calmatters.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"'If greenhouse gases aren’t covered by the Clean Air Act,' Carlson told CalMatters, 'then California could presumably regulate them — and so could every other state.'"
calmatters.org/environment/...
calmatters.org/environment/...
"Carr is also derailing FCC plans to impose some baseline cybersecurity standards on 'smart' home devices based on some completely fabricated, xenophobic claims about one of the planned vendors (again, because telecoms simply don’t want any oversight whatsoever)."
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/t...
Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Ty…
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Carr is also derailing FCC plans to impose some baseline cybersecurity standards on 'smart' home devices based on some completely fabricated, xenophobic claims about one of the planned vendors (again, because telecoms simply don’t want any oversight whatsoever)."
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/t...
"Last night, as everyone in my house went to sleep, I took a deep breath and edited the Wikipedia page for TIFF, the Tag Image File Format…"
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create…
inventingthefuture.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"Last night, as everyone in my house went to sleep, I took a deep breath and edited the Wikipedia page for TIFF, the Tag Image File Format…"
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
"The Trump administration’s State Department has issued new guidance empowering U.S. visa officers to deny applications from foreign nationals based on a wide range of chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers."
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indiawest.com/under-trump-...
Under Trump, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Become Grounds For Visa Denial - IndiaWest News
Under Trump, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Become Grounds For Visa Denial.
indiawest.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"The Trump administration’s State Department has issued new guidance empowering U.S. visa officers to deny applications from foreign nationals based on a wide range of chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers."
indiawest.com/under-trump-...
indiawest.com/under-trump-...
"One of Dunn’s defense attorneys, Sabrina Shroff, said the legal team was thankful that the jury 'sent back an affirmation that dissent is what is not just tolerated, it is legal. It is welcome.'"
apnews.com/article/sand...
apnews.com/article/sand...
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"One of Dunn’s defense attorneys, Sabrina Shroff, said the legal team was thankful that the jury 'sent back an affirmation that dissent is what is not just tolerated, it is legal. It is welcome.'"
apnews.com/article/sand...
apnews.com/article/sand...
“The [Trump] compact ‘is the greatest single incursion into the freedom and autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country,’ said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors”
‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk
The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“The [Trump] compact ‘is the greatest single incursion into the freedom and autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country,’ said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors”
"Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy. Why Trump thinks this would somehow assuage fears that the pardon is improper is anyone’s guess."
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Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
www.citationneeded.news
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy. Why Trump thinks this would somehow assuage fears that the pardon is improper is anyone’s guess."
www.citationneeded.news/trump-binanc...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-binanc...
"A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.…YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos…by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with…archives."
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.…YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos…by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with…archives."
"the Australian government announced that, beginning next year in much of the country and spreading to the rest by 2027, all residents will get three free hours of electricity every afternoon…This 'Solar Sharer' plan…is possible precisely because Australia has built so much solar power."
Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now.
Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things
billmckibben.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
"the Australian government announced that, beginning next year in much of the country and spreading to the rest by 2027, all residents will get three free hours of electricity every afternoon…This 'Solar Sharer' plan…is possible precisely because Australia has built so much solar power."
With quotes from @aldebaran14.bsky.social and others
‘The chilling effect’: how fear of ‘nudify’ apps and AI deepfakes is keeping Indian women off the internet
Widespread adoption of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by new ways to harass women online
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
With quotes from @aldebaran14.bsky.social and others
“the secretary-general of the United Nations…acknowledged that it was now inevitable that the world will miss the target of limiting global heating to 1.5C…He urged delegates to ‘change course’ to prevent the Amazon rainforest from becoming a savannah.”
‘A meeting of voices’: flotillas head into Belém ahead of Cop30 climate summit
Indigenous leaders, environmental activists and forest defenders are determined to make this a summit like no other
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“the secretary-general of the United Nations…acknowledged that it was now inevitable that the world will miss the target of limiting global heating to 1.5C…He urged delegates to ‘change course’ to prevent the Amazon rainforest from becoming a savannah.”