Maya Chhabra
@mayachhabra.bsky.social
Author of FIREBIRD CAGED, CHIARA IN THE DARK, and more. Translator. Not willing to let democracy die quietly. 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇳
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https://mayachhabra.com/
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https://mayachhabra.com/
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September 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
page 10 with corrected alt text, so the thread doesn't break in case of deletion
page 4, with a creepy photo of scantily clad woman with smiley face painted over
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
page 4, with a creepy photo of scantily clad woman with smiley face painted over
(There was a picture of a parachute on page 1, cropped it by mistake)
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September 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
(There was a picture of a parachute on page 1, cropped it by mistake)
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Yes, Peter Mandelson did write in the Epstein book, a multi-page letter with photos. Screenshots in thread.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Yes, Peter Mandelson did write in the Epstein book, a multi-page letter with photos. Screenshots in thread.
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Charles Sumner going off about whether freedom of religion includes the right to segregated churches.
"Such, SIr, is the argument of the Senator, and he makes it in the name of religious liberty! Good God, Sir! Religious liberty! The liberty to insult a fellow-man on account of his skin."
"Such, SIr, is the argument of the Senator, and he makes it in the name of religious liberty! Good God, Sir! Religious liberty! The liberty to insult a fellow-man on account of his skin."
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Charles Sumner going off about whether freedom of religion includes the right to segregated churches.
"Such, SIr, is the argument of the Senator, and he makes it in the name of religious liberty! Good God, Sir! Religious liberty! The liberty to insult a fellow-man on account of his skin."
"Such, SIr, is the argument of the Senator, and he makes it in the name of religious liberty! Good God, Sir! Religious liberty! The liberty to insult a fellow-man on account of his skin."
The National Review was upset.
June 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The National Review was upset.
Stephen Vincent Benét, whose prose and poetry I have been enjoying greatly of late.
If I had a nickel for every great 1930's American poet with the middle name Vincent, I'd have two, but it's weird that it happened twice.
If I had a nickel for every great 1930's American poet with the middle name Vincent, I'd have two, but it's weird that it happened twice.
May 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Stephen Vincent Benét, whose prose and poetry I have been enjoying greatly of late.
If I had a nickel for every great 1930's American poet with the middle name Vincent, I'd have two, but it's weird that it happened twice.
If I had a nickel for every great 1930's American poet with the middle name Vincent, I'd have two, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Luigi Venanzio Vaggi, "Gigi," on the right, during or shortly after the liberation in Valenza, Italy. He was my great-grandmother's brother and is pictured alongside Scalcabrozzi, Marchese, Guidi, and Corones, who each represented different parties on the local CLN.
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Luigi Venanzio Vaggi, "Gigi," on the right, during or shortly after the liberation in Valenza, Italy. He was my great-grandmother's brother and is pictured alongside Scalcabrozzi, Marchese, Guidi, and Corones, who each represented different parties on the local CLN.
Pirated editions of three of my works used to train Meta's for-profit AI.
March 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Pirated editions of three of my works used to train Meta's for-profit AI.
Sorry, link doesn't link what I thought, here's the screenshot.
March 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Sorry, link doesn't link what I thought, here's the screenshot.
In 1937, in an edition of their magazine, The Technocrat, in the article "What Is Technocracy?" they laid out their vision for the Technate, the superstate that would encompass all of North America as well as Greenland.
February 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
In 1937, in an edition of their magazine, The Technocrat, in the article "What Is Technocracy?" they laid out their vision for the Technate, the superstate that would encompass all of North America as well as Greenland.
My wife found a map from The Technocracy, the 1930's group Elon Musk's Nazi-sympathizing grandfather was involved in, that explains Trump's desire to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Behold the Technate of America.
Thread.
Thread.
February 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My wife found a map from The Technocracy, the 1930's group Elon Musk's Nazi-sympathizing grandfather was involved in, that explains Trump's desire to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Behold the Technate of America.
Thread.
Thread.
This is one of the oddest obituaries I've read. "Nervous white majority" in Namibia, where whites were a minority?
February 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is one of the oddest obituaries I've read. "Nervous white majority" in Namibia, where whites were a minority?
I wonder if it's some kind of reference to the DOGE coin? The US Digital Service logo I get when googling is this:
February 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I wonder if it's some kind of reference to the DOGE coin? The US Digital Service logo I get when googling is this:
Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret was white and from France. They met when he was quartered with her family in Villers-Cotterêts, the regiment moved on but he married her a few years later. Below is a letter she wrote shortly after meeting him:
January 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret was white and from France. They met when he was quartered with her family in Villers-Cotterêts, the regiment moved on but he married her a few years later. Below is a letter she wrote shortly after meeting him: