Curating the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour. Trying to read a book a week. @anirvan@mastodon.social and bsky.app/profile/chat
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I cross-post to X, but it's not where I'm most active.
Find me on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@anirvan
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(Mastodon is my favorite of these, because of the community. Reach out if you have q's.)
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A flight from US to India. People boarded the flight. Found out about the H1B news. Immediately disembarked fearing they won’t be allowed re-entry. Crazy
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12 Jun 2025
If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.
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12 Jun 2025
.@SenAlexPadilla is one of the most decent people I know.
This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful.
Trump and his shock troops are out of control.
This must end now.
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26 Mar 2025
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26 Mar 2025
I have known Rümeysa for ten years, my student, my TA & RA, my colleague. I can vouch for her ethics, her respect for human rights and her care in human relations, her kindness and honesty. Never carries hatred towards anyone in her heart! #freerumeysa
26 Mar 2025
Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by masked U.S. ICE agents yesterday while heading to an Iftar dinner in Massachusetts.
Ozturk, who held a valid F-1 visa and studied at Tufts University, was reportedly being watched for two days before her arrest.
She was on the phone with her mother when she was arrested.
Her visa had been suddenly terminated—reasons still unclear.
Ozturk had co-authored an op-ed urging Tufts to recognize the Palestinian genocide and divest from firms linked to Israel.
She was also listed on Canary Mission, a site that blacklists pro-Palestine activists.
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26 Mar 2025
🚨URGENT: MPAC demands the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student and F-1 visa holder abducted by DHS agents with no charges—on her way to an Iftar.
This is a chilling violation of civil liberties during Ramadan.
📢 Speak out. Call your Reps. #freerumeysa
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26 Mar 2025
The horrific moment that Tufts grad student and anti-war activist Rumeysa Ozturk was detained (kidnapped) by Trump’s ICE thugs.
Somerville, MA #FreePalestine #FreeRemeysa
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19 Mar 2025
Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil.
politico.com/news/2025/03/19…
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7 Jan 2025
Q: Are there any photo walk groups or meetups in Bangalore / Bengaluru, India? Asking for a friend.
#Bangalore #Bengaluru #MastIndia
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27 Nov 2024
As you can see, I've been writing about @DrJBhattacharya being a deplorable member of the #DesiHallofShame since 2021. His being in charge of NIH is scary.
Elon has ruined Twitter search, so I can't even find all the times I've pointed out, in detail, Dr. Bhattacharya's issues.
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19 Nov 2024
These are the stories of nine health care workers at UCSF who dealt with censorship and punishment after speaking out about human rights for Palestinians. interc.pt/4fQehJZ
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24 Nov 2024
digital archiving accomplishment of the week:
- confirmed legal issues
- researched yt-dlp and related tools, used LLM to understand some of the options
- retrieved 85 videos associated with South Asian American civil rights
- prepped thumbnails, SRT subtitle data
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24 Nov 2024
- wrote a script to prep the metadata (date, length, URL, desc, title, format), and put it into the right format
- looked at Library of Congress digital preservation guidelines, and realized I picked the wrong video format
- redownloaded everything
- uploaded, handed off!
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23 Nov 2024
We’re all looking for a silver bullet. But what we did in the 2010s didn’t sustain in the way we hoped.
theguardian.com/world/2024/n…
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23 Nov 2024
“Safeguarding Californians’ access to abortion is personal for Bonta. In 2022, she revealed she had an abortion at the age of 21. ‘I chose to own my body,’ she said at the time. It’s a decision that helped her break the ‘cycle of poverty in my family’”
theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
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19 Nov 2024
Ever dealt with a nitpicky boss? Check out this design review from a senior graphic designer for ISIS
404media.co/graphic-design-f…
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19 Nov 2024
TLDR: 21 red states sued the Biden administration to avoid disclosing their transportation emissions stats. Here are some of the numbers they were trying to avoid reporting.
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/…
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17 Nov 2024
This is so real, and why it’s so important that we pay electeds a living wage. Only a small proportion of Bay Area mayors and city council members are renters.
eedition.sfchronicle.com/inf…
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17 Nov 2024
This deep dive into the “MomBoard” is the best tech story you’ll read this week
jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024…
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