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Naomi Gingold
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Journalist. Podcast story editor/producer. @NPR @theworld. Media/Politics Researcher. Writing a book on hip hop, tech, youth, media, and politics in #Myanmar. Signal: nomi.32 www.naomigingold.com
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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nothing says legitimate democratic election like arresting people for criticizing the election. The number of citizens charged under the “Election Protection Law“ is now 100+ #Myanmar english.dvb.no/seven-charge...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It shouldn’t be, but this is a ‘radical‘ idea in journalism. When I once told my editor at a major outlet that I wanted my work to have an impact, he was like omg. That’s not out job. and that actually wouldn’t be an uncommon reaction amongst traditional journalists
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November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia. …. Because nuclear one upmanship always ends well edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
After 29 years, Radio Free Asia is on pause www.rfa.org/english/worl...
After 29 years, RFA is on pause
From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now
www.rfa.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
From SEALDs to Takaichi Sanae in just 10 years. Sigh #Japan
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Headline: SpaceX disables Starlink satellites being used by scam centers. The only problem?
Other people in that region rely on Starlink for Internet, because the military has turned off Internet in many ethnic regions
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SpaceX disables thousands of Starlink devices being used by Myanmar scam centers | CNN
SpaceX has disabled over 2,500 Starlink devices being used by cyber scam syndicates operating in a lawless corner of Myanmar, the Elon Musk-led company said Wednesday.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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ok who did this? ☹️
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I mean in many ways it’s fitting that the person ripping apart American democracy is ripping apart a key architectural symbol of it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House East Wing will be torn down ‘within days’ even as no plans filed for Trump’s new ballroom
Demolition has drawn fierce backlash, with National Trust for Historic Preservation saying plans are ‘legally required’
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Millions of Americana are about to starve and lose healthcare access would on the surface seem to be a good talking point for Democrats, one they would continuously want to hammer
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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So Trump bulldozed a third of the White House complex. And they’re trying to keep the photos off limits.
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If patterns mean anything, extrajudicial killings of people who supposedly have narcotics … there’s another president who did that: Duterte of the Philippines, who’s now been indicted by The Hague.
🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.
October 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Did no one else think #Sabrina Carpenter‘s
karate theme performance of one of her songs on #snl was completely cringe, if not …. other stronger words I could use for dressing up in someone else’s culture as performance…(not to mention for no reason)?
October 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Regime media reported on Friday that Myanmar refugee rights activist Thuzar Maung, 48, and her family were arrested on an unspecified date after their “illegal” return to Myanmar from Malaysia english.dvb.no/myanmar-refu...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#malaysia
#EnforcedDisappearances
Myanmar refugee family missing in Malaysia for last two years now reported in regime detention - DVB
Regime media reported on Friday that Myanmar refugee rights activist Thuzar Maung, 48, and her family were arrested on an unspecified date after their “illegal” return to Myanmar from Malaysia.  This ...
english.dvb.no
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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UK media regulator sanctions the BBC for a "materially misleading" documentary on Gaza children because it failed to disclose that the teen narrator’s father was Hamas’ deputy agriculture minister. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
Ofcom investigation finds BBC Gaza documentary in breach of Broadcasting Code
An Ofcom investigation has today found that the BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone broke broadcasting rules which state that factual programmes must not materially mislead the audience.
www.ofcom.org.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Susan Stamberg, an original NPR staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died at the age of 87. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/118488...
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
www.npr.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sometimes folks at NPR still keep it fun and weird —- How big a deal are Taylor Swift's vinyl sales, really? www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
How big a deal are Taylor Swift's vinyl sales, really?
The Life of a Showgirl isn't just a streaming success — it has moved a massive number of vinyl LPs. How massive? Let's do some math.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Interesting idea. A entire news market will get a public editor.

Indianapolis will be the first local media market to get its own Public Editor, who will monitor all the newsrooms in town. tinyurl.com/2s44zxe8
Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter
Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.
tinyurl.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In a first, #Myanmar dictator acknowledges they won’t be able to carry out the sham election in the whole country bc of the resistance. they were only able to do the census/create voter lists in around half the country english.dvb.no/myanmar-reeg...
Myanmar regime admits election won't be nationwide, as war continues - DVB
Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing acknowledged on Wednesday that Naypyidaw will be unable to conduct an upcoming general election across the entire country, as a civil war triggered by a 2021 mili...
english.dvb.no
October 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
West Virginia teen who started a nonprofit bringing books to preschoolers in book deserts— now across the country #MorgantownLove www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
Here to Help: Volunteers bring books to West Virginia kids who are far from libraries
A group of volunteers in West Virginia makes sure preschoolers in areas with no libraries or bookstores get books to read.
www.npr.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Fox News will not sign the Pentagon's press policy.

The broadcaster joins ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN in condemning the Defense Department for a policy they say violates their "core journalistic protections.”
Fox News among broadcasters refusing to sign Pentagon press pledge
Fox News, along with ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, said that the Pentagon policy violates their “core journalistic protections.”
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Politico - Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
‘NPR will lose access to the Pentagon bec we wont sign an unprecedented Defense Department document, warning journalists that they may lose their press credentials for "soliciting" even unclassified information from federal employees‘

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces, Anwar Rajab: Hamas is now laying the groundwork for a civil war in Gaza…. As Hamas continues carrying out executions in Gaza and the leaders of Gaza’s clans issue a joint statement condemning Hamas
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM