chava
@chava.bsky.social
Rootless cosmopolitan. I report on the oligarch class and occasionally go off in 🇲🇽 🇮🇱 🇰🇷 🥯
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chava
@chava.bsky.social
· Jan 10
I'm ready to stop saying "I told you so" now
Some of this were warning quite loudly about this back in April
The harsh crackdown on campus Gaza protests would be a template for a Trump 47 to clamp down on all sorts of dissent. Now, a nightmare scenario is on the brink of happening
My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/RT7llc
The harsh crackdown on campus Gaza protests would be a template for a Trump 47 to clamp down on all sorts of dissent. Now, a nightmare scenario is on the brink of happening
My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/RT7llc
evergreen skeet
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We hold a vigil outside Metropolitan Detention Center in BK *every* Tuesday at 6pm where 100s of immigrant neighbors are being held by ICE.
Please join us to stand in community 🕯️
Please join us to stand in community 🕯️
There’s so much going on inside the MDC & it must be so scary for our immigrant neighbors wrongly detained in there — we hear that their family members have had no contact with them. Join us every Tues at 6pm to let them know that we see them even when our govt has made them disappear 🕯️
January 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
We hold a vigil outside Metropolitan Detention Center in BK *every* Tuesday at 6pm where 100s of immigrant neighbors are being held by ICE.
Please join us to stand in community 🕯️
Please join us to stand in community 🕯️
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
it's mindblowing that chalice and callous rhyme
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
it's mindblowing that chalice and callous rhyme
I need this but I need it to be called the "Are you dead yet?" app
The app, called Sile Me in Chinese, requires users to 'check in' by pressing a button. If they fail to do so over two consecutive days, the app sends a message to an emergency contact nominated by the user. ft.trib.al/MjkOVOV
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I need this but I need it to be called the "Are you dead yet?" app
Is it too early to start obsessively checking the 2026 house map
January 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Is it too early to start obsessively checking the 2026 house map
Until this happens, here's the "got2go" map for all your emergency needs: www.got2gonyc.com/about
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Until this happens, here's the "got2go" map for all your emergency needs: www.got2gonyc.com/about
ICE is an invading army onto peaceful civilian streets
you know what they call this everywhere else? terrorism
you know what they call this everywhere else? terrorism
January 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
ICE is an invading army onto peaceful civilian streets
you know what they call this everywhere else? terrorism
you know what they call this everywhere else? terrorism
I keep seeing those stuffed animals spilling out of the glovebox
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I keep seeing those stuffed animals spilling out of the glovebox
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*whispers* The best free resource in Los Angeles? An @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social library card 📚✨
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
*whispers* The best free resource in Los Angeles? An @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social library card 📚✨
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Detroit is Wallpaper's City of the Year 2026
www.wallpaper.com/travel/detro...
(shepping nachas at the love for Detroit with absolutely no justification)
www.wallpaper.com/travel/detro...
(shepping nachas at the love for Detroit with absolutely no justification)
Wallpaper* Design Awards: Detroit is City of the Year 2026
Once a byword for urban distress, the Motor City is undergoing a fresh wave of regeneration, driven by progressive developers, design distinctions and dynamic investment
www.wallpaper.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Detroit is Wallpaper's City of the Year 2026
www.wallpaper.com/travel/detro...
(shepping nachas at the love for Detroit with absolutely no justification)
www.wallpaper.com/travel/detro...
(shepping nachas at the love for Detroit with absolutely no justification)
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NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
average bilingual (trilingual?) dad sentence:
And צוגעלאזן does not mean unkempt, the opposite: צוגעלאזן הייסט more like a person הנוח לבריות.
A צוגעלאזענער מענטש מ׳קען האנדלען מיט עם.
That's what לכאורה צוגעלאזן means.
And צוגעלאזן does not mean unkempt, the opposite: צוגעלאזן הייסט more like a person הנוח לבריות.
A צוגעלאזענער מענטש מ׳קען האנדלען מיט עם.
That's what לכאורה צוגעלאזן means.
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 AM
average bilingual (trilingual?) dad sentence:
And צוגעלאזן does not mean unkempt, the opposite: צוגעלאזן הייסט more like a person הנוח לבריות.
A צוגעלאזענער מענטש מ׳קען האנדלען מיט עם.
That's what לכאורה צוגעלאזן means.
And צוגעלאזן does not mean unkempt, the opposite: צוגעלאזן הייסט more like a person הנוח לבריות.
A צוגעלאזענער מענטש מ׳קען האנדלען מיט עם.
That's what לכאורה צוגעלאזן means.
can't wait to go bike across this now
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
can't wait to go bike across this now
cool, now I get antisemitic/fear content thrown at me from both sides too
fam: look at this violence that happened to a Jew!
bsky: look at this Nazi thing a republican said!
both: you're not concerned enough!
fam: look at this violence that happened to a Jew!
bsky: look at this Nazi thing a republican said!
both: you're not concerned enough!
January 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
cool, now I get antisemitic/fear content thrown at me from both sides too
fam: look at this violence that happened to a Jew!
bsky: look at this Nazi thing a republican said!
both: you're not concerned enough!
fam: look at this violence that happened to a Jew!
bsky: look at this Nazi thing a republican said!
both: you're not concerned enough!
wait, now I have to go back to Barcelona
The wonderful Palau de la Música Catalana. By the great modernist architect Domènech i Montaner. A true gem.❤️
December 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
wait, now I have to go back to Barcelona
In the housing market "baby boomers were a headwind for millennials, whereas they are a tailwind for Gen Z."
Given how, uh, time works.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Given how, uh, time works.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Housing Market Is Moving in Favor of Gen Z
The American dream of owning a home has never seemed further out of reach for young people. You can hardly blame Gen Z and younger millennials for adopting an economic nihilism that prioritizes the he...
www.bloomberg.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In the housing market "baby boomers were a headwind for millennials, whereas they are a tailwind for Gen Z."
Given how, uh, time works.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Given how, uh, time works.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
CVS/Walgreens putting all their stuff in cages will never not be the funniest self own ever
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
CVS/Walgreens putting all their stuff in cages will never not be the funniest self own ever
turns out cartoonishly evil is still evil
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
turns out cartoonishly evil is still evil
It's like they're trying to be the new Eichmann.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's like they're trying to be the new Eichmann.
One of the more comforting things I've read recently, sadly.
"I am deeply worried that President Trump has brought about a collapse in the governing capacity of American political institutions...But I am no longer worried that President Trump has created a durable political economy that realigns the electorate."
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/everything...
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/everything...
Everything-Bagel Authoritarianism
If you want to dismantle a liberal, pluralist democracy, you need to be able to tell parts of your far-right coalition “no.”
newsletter.mikekonczal.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
One of the more comforting things I've read recently, sadly.
Here's the Inside CECOT segment that was pulled. It was aired in Canada.
limewire.com/d/hmf4k#802S...
limewire.com/d/hmf4k#802S...
Download WATCH_ Segment CBS News Pulled From _60 Minutes_.mp4 | LimeWire
Download WATCH_ Segment CBS News Pulled From _60 Minutes_.mp4 on LimeWire
limewire.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Here's the Inside CECOT segment that was pulled. It was aired in Canada.
limewire.com/d/hmf4k#802S...
limewire.com/d/hmf4k#802S...
this is kdrama level of media manipulation (but less competently?)
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this is kdrama level of media manipulation (but less competently?)
I just used 'that would be fire' in an email and I'm much too old for this sh*t
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just used 'that would be fire' in an email and I'm much too old for this sh*t