Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 13th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
| Homepage | https://www.chatterjee.net |
| Walking Tour | https://www.berkeleysouthasian.org |
| History | https://www.secretdesihistory.com/ |
| https://twitter.com/anirvan |
This feels real. I’ve started subscribing to many more news sites over the past few years. Though I’m curious how this impacts coverage priorities.
“Even the other conservatives may see less need to overrule the opinion, since they can always use the major question doctrine to ensure that important EPA climate regulations fit their idea of reasonableness. In short, we should not blindly assume that Trump’s EPA will win this round.“
I’m glad to see media starting to pick up on the downstream impacts of a Bay Area transportation system collapse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/housing-prices-bart-21350227.php
The city’s so-called ‘Family Zoning Plan’ doesn’t come close to meeting this commitment. The City’s own models show that the rezoning will produce less than half the housing the city promised. That’s not a rounding error—it’s a wholesale abandonment of the city’s legal obligations.”
https://calhdf.org/why-were-suing-san-francisco-holding-the-city-accountable-on-housing/
After repeated warnings that went unheeded, CalHDF is taking San Francisco to court. Here’s why we had no choice. Yesterday, the California Housing Defense Fund, alongside our partners Californians for Homeownership and YIMBY Law, filed a lawsuit against San Francisco. This wasn’t a decision we made lightly. For over a year, we and other housing advocates have raised concerns about the city’s housing plan through letters, public comments, and meetings with city officials. At every turn, the City has rebuffed us. Now we’re taking our fight to court because San Francisco’s failure to honor its housing commitments doesn’t just break the law—it perpetuates a crisis that’s displacing families and strangling our region’s future. San Francisco Made a Promise, Then Broke It In 2022, San Francisco adopted a housing plan that made a groundbreaking commitment. The city didn’t just promise to zone enough land to theoretically accommodate housing. It went further, pledging to create a rezoning program that would actually produce more than 36,000 new homes by 2031, using a sophisticated analytical model to ensure the plan would work in the real world. This was exactly the kind of honest, accountable planning California needs. For once, a city was acknowledging that […]
Plug: Spring dates just opened for the Bay Area's South Asian Radical History Walking Tours:
• Saturday, March 21, 2026 in Berkeley (almost sold out)
• Sunday, March 29 in San Francisco
Both tours cover 100+ years of local South Asian activist histories.
The SF tour's offered pretty infrequently, so if you've been curious, this might be a good time to join us!
Details and registration https://www.berkeleysouthasian.org/
"With the best intelligence systems in the world at their fingertips, they were checking X in the midst of the mission? Combined with the curtains separating some section of Mar‑A‑Lago from the rest of the President’s resort, the images create an almost surreal air. It felt as if a group of twelve-year-old boys in a basement had been handed control of the most lethal military in history—and were using it to boost their online brands."
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under-a-clicktatorship
"Since 2023, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals and medical clinics."
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/15/palantir-contract-new-york-city-health-hospitals/
“‘I didn’t expect this from a friend who lived, ate, travelled, laughed and joked with me. it hurts,’ he wrote. "life as an international student is tough, man.’”
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/02/14/community/body-recovered-lake-anza-tilden-park/
Anirban Mitra 
