chava

@chava.bsky.social

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Rootless cosmopolitan. I report on the oligarch class at and occasionally go off in 🇲🇽 🇮🇱 🇰🇷 🥯. Past contributions to @columjournreview.bsky.social @thisamericanlife.org @newyorker.com @atlasobscura.com.

screenshot of two grafs in the linked BBC article: Antifa has long been a target for Trump. In September he signed an executive order designating the loosely organised, far-left movement as a domestic terror organisation. Critics of the designation have said that Antifa is an ideology, not an actual group with an organised leadership structure or membership, and that subscribing to a specific ideology is not a crime.
Screenshot of opening graf of the market report, with the highlighted part as follows: "The global boating market wrapped up 2025 in a place most industry observers would describe as cautiously optimistic. Overall unit sales declined year over year, financing conditions remained a headwind for many buyers, and inventory took longer to move than in years past. But..."
Screenshot of Google results with three links, one of which is a WSJ article with a gray "highly cited" tag under the link.
Listing image for 17200 10th Ave NW, Shoreline, WA 98177, showing orange front door.
screenshot of the following text: Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here's how.
Image of a table covered by a tablecloth with a roll-up door and window for an instant playhouse.
screenshot of WSJ homepage with a "featured prediction market" inset, under a kicker that says: "Polymarket | a Dow Jones partner"
Screenshot of a a WSJ article headline and subhed: Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.
semi-final schedule for AFC U-23, with Japan facing Korea and Vietnam facing China
Screenshot of WSJ headline "Trump's Investigation of Powell Is Also a Warning to the Next Fed Chair"
An overhead image of Bondi Beach crowded with surfers during a paddle-out to honor the victims of the Chanuka shooting there.
chart showing wealth growth across four groups since 1990: top 1%, next 9%, next 40%, bottom 50%
Census-block level heat map showing that Bed-Stuy voted overwhelmingly for Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 NYC mayoral election.
screenshot of a quote from a Larry Summers speech: "And so I think all of you, as you reflect on central bank regulation and the structures of central banking and the political institutions surrounding central banking, need to think about kind of a new thing—tyrant risk—as an aspect of the analysis. And I suspect in some contexts, it will drive towards somewhat different conclusions."
Screenshot of WaPo article listing the names of children killed in Gaza since 10/7/23. The list is in the center in green with the named rendered in both Arabic and English, as well as the age at which they died. In the center it says, "So far, you have read 11,000 names of children killed in the war"
screenshot of a reddit comment that says "This concerns me because I'm kind of like a land baron now. We do not typically fare well in peasant uprisings."
A headline in New York Times font that says "Shock Photos Reveal 'Muslim' Mamdani Without Beard As Child."
line chart depicting cumulative measles cases in the US by year (2018-2025). The 2025 line is blue and is higher in June than any of the other years were by December.
Thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Utah State Capitol for a "No Kings" protest on June 14, 2025.
screenshot of this quote from a Daily Beast article: “When they mark someone dead on the Social Security record, it stops their life,” he said. “It stops their car payments, it stops their credit, it stops their ability to do anything. Their identification gets flagged. And most times those things have to go to the payment center.”
Screenshot of a MarketWatch headline that reads "Dow books 2,900-point gain, Nasdaq soars 12% as stock market skyrockets on Trump’s tariff pause" followed by a chart showing the vertical jump in the DJIA, SPX and COMP indexes.
drawn image of a person lying back with a craned neck and their feet up reading from a Kindle (in a position that must be awful for their neck)
Tariff update from Stellantis announcig pause for plants in Toluca, Mexico and Windsor, Canada, as well as temp layoffs in five U.S. facilities.
Tableau chart showing population trends for Miami-Dade county between 2010 and 2024. Shows that for 2024, Miami-Dade had a net migration of 64.2K people, from 7.9K births less deaths, 123.8 international and -67.4 domestic.
A screenshot of a letter from the Columbia University president with these words highlighted: Columbia is taking the government’s action very seriously. I want to assure the entire Columbia community that we are committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns.
Image of the painting Kiss (Tony), 2000 by Elizabeth Peyton.
Screenshot of this quote: When you try to define a person at the stage of a fertilized egg, and you think you’re doing them a favor by defining their personhood and sex early, what you’re actually doing is stripping them of all the potential and possibility of what their life might be.
A screenshot with a legal argument cited by Bloomberg Opinion: It is important to be clear about what ESG investing actually is. The evidence and expert testimony revealed that an investment strategy assumes an ESG label when it is aimed at, in whole or in part, bringing about certain types of societal change. ... Investing that aims to reduce material risks or increase return for the exclusive purpose of obtaining a financial benefit is not ESG investing. Consideration of material risk-and-return factors is no different than the standard investing process when both are focused on financial ends. ... ESG investing is a strategy that considers or pursues a non-pecuniary interest as an end itself rather than as a means to some financial end.
Screenshot of Han Dong-hoon, leader of South Korea's People Power Party wearing his trademark dark black glasses in a CNN interview.
real estate listing picture of a black metal-clad garage
screenshot of WaPo story titled "Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target cities" and associated graphic of a Hell's Angels rider against an Iranian flag
excerpt from NBER paper the NYT article referenced in the skeet is based on titled, "The effects of medical debt relief."
Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.4 Billion, Making Him One of World’s 500 Richest People * Ex-president set to join Bloomberg list of 500 richest people * Trump Media merger adds billions of dollars to paper fortune
Description of Abrazo Homes' Frida floor plan on 1/16/24.
screenshot of The Harriet floor plan description from Abrazo Homes