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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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I thought this was the worst thing she'd ever written but she apparently got worse, has anyone ever actually read her at all?
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I thought this was the worst thing she'd ever written but she apparently got worse, has anyone ever actually read her at all?
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His criticisms still hold true today.
November 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
His criticisms still hold true today.
Hey @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social you see what your buddy Richard Hanania is saying? @nytines.com x.com/RichardHanan...
Richard Hanania on X: "To call being attracted to 17 year-olds pedophilia is basically calling all men pedophiles. It's like saying all white people are racist on account of the society they were born into. Reject all forms of bigotry. https://t.co/oq8GCsOoWG" / X
To call being attracted to 17 year-olds pedophilia is basically calling all men pedophiles. It's like saying all white people are racist on account of the society they were born into. Reject all forms of bigotry. https://t.co/oq8GCsOoWG
x.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Hey @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social you see what your buddy Richard Hanania is saying? @nytines.com x.com/RichardHanan...
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
There was a discussion on Threads about siblings growing up not knowing each other due to the actions of parents. Made wonder if things would be different in "reunion" if my BPs hadn't hidden the fact I existed from the kids they raised. Long lost family vs dirty secret guiltily admitted. 🥚
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There was a discussion on Threads about siblings growing up not knowing each other due to the actions of parents. Made wonder if things would be different in "reunion" if my BPs hadn't hidden the fact I existed from the kids they raised. Long lost family vs dirty secret guiltily admitted. 🥚
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did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
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You would think the ppl that talk about their family a lot would know the most what it would mean to not have one, but yea it never works out that way.
#adoptee #fostercare
#adoptee #fostercare
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
You would think the ppl that talk about their family a lot would know the most what it would mean to not have one, but yea it never works out that way.
#adoptee #fostercare
#adoptee #fostercare
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how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
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Can anyone name a single thing that Jayson Blair printed that was as materially damaging to society as buddying up to and covering up for a elite society sex trafficker? That the NYT was completely incurious about what else their former reporter might have done for Epstein, well, that's not great!
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Can anyone name a single thing that Jayson Blair printed that was as materially damaging to society as buddying up to and covering up for a elite society sex trafficker? That the NYT was completely incurious about what else their former reporter might have done for Epstein, well, that's not great!
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Damn, I can't believe that Noam Chomsky would willingly associate himself with an utter monster. *Checks notes* Wait, hold on
In 2023, Chomsky told WSJ about his relationship with Epstein: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”
Epstein: you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again
Epstein: you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Damn, I can't believe that Noam Chomsky would willingly associate himself with an utter monster. *Checks notes* Wait, hold on
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
Guy says a woman should be executed for her past abortion and of course the first comment is that he should adopt or foster kids. #adopteebluesky 🥚
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Guy says a woman should be executed for her past abortion and of course the first comment is that he should adopt or foster kids. #adopteebluesky 🥚
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Foster youth are entitled to benefits to help them transition to adulthood, but in 49 states, child-welfare agencies intercept those funds, diverting over $165 million in one year and leaving young people to age out unprepared. 🥚
Stolen futures: Why agencies must stop misusing foster kids' benefits | Youth Today
Child welfare agencies intercept funds meant for foster youth in a profound ethical breach, leaving thousands financially crippled starting adulthood.
youthtoday.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Foster youth are entitled to benefits to help them transition to adulthood, but in 49 states, child-welfare agencies intercept those funds, diverting over $165 million in one year and leaving young people to age out unprepared. 🥚
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
The adoption plot in #TheBoysFromBrazil is crazy. #TCMParty 🥚
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The adoption plot in #TheBoysFromBrazil is crazy. #TCMParty 🥚
My hot adoption take on this is smaller families are less likely to justify giving their kids away. My boomer bio mom was one of 7, my father one of 6. No surprise they figured they wouldn't miss me. 🥚
Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable. n.pr/47pRO3G
Could smaller families 'rewild' the planet — and make humans happier?
Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.
n.pr
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My hot adoption take on this is smaller families are less likely to justify giving their kids away. My boomer bio mom was one of 7, my father one of 6. No surprise they figured they wouldn't miss me. 🥚
People acting like women's fertility plummets at age 35 and everyone had babies as teenagers in the past when my bio and adoptive family trees beg to differ. Lots of "geriatric" moms in the 19th-early 20th centuries.
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
People acting like women's fertility plummets at age 35 and everyone had babies as teenagers in the past when my bio and adoptive family trees beg to differ. Lots of "geriatric" moms in the 19th-early 20th centuries.
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I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
Adoption Is Not a Solution for Abortion
Adoption rates in the U.S. are relatively low and steadily decreasing because of cultural changes, not Roe vs. Wade.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee