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Anisa Khalifa
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audio journo & host of The Broadside @wunc.org. culture writer. coffee addict. co-creator of podcasts dramasoverflowers.bsky.social & Muslim in Plain Sight.
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nclocal.bsky.social
🛒Need food in North Carolina? Use this map to find it! 1,000+ locations 🔎 Search by map or city/county 👉 Find free food resources here: nclocal.org/2025/11/12/n...
Need food in NC? Use this map to find it
If you are looking for free food in North Carolina, especially after the SNAP cuts, use this free tool to find food pantries, food banks and other food giveaways.
nclocal.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
If you haven’t read this book yet, please do. it’s so good. much has been written about a small percentage of Hollywood’s most visible monsters - mostly the ones who did straight-up crime - but Mo digs much deeper on so many people who never faced justice for the lives and careers they ruined
moryan.bsky.social Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6d
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
cover of the 2023 book Burn It Down with flames all around the title words. also on the cover are the subtitle Power Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood and the name of the author, Maureen Ryan
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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maxtani.bsky.social
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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motherjones.com
"He's one of us": Muslim New Yorkers greet Mamdani's victory with pride
"He's one of us": Muslim New Yorkers greet Mamdani's victory with pride
Many expressed hope that Mamdani's mayoralty would challenge Islamophobic "scare tactics."
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November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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dogsuit.bsky.social
And then there’s Guillermo’s unequivocal stance. More of this please:
Guillermo Del Toro Would “Rather Die” Than Use Generative AI: “I Am Not Interested”
As the discourse around AI in Hollywood continues to intensify, Guillermo del Toro is planting his feet in opposition of the filmmaking fad.
deadline.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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thedramanotes.bsky.social
My friend @anisa.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece on the presence of serial killers in romantic K-dramas for MENT magazine a while back, and then we recorded a pod talking more about it:

I'll link the article in the post below. Here's our podcast:

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The Rise of the Murder Rom-Com in K-Dramas
Podcast Episode · Dramas Over Flowers · 10/23/2025 · 1h 37m
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October 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

Link below.
No Other Land Film - Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land
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October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
anisa.bsky.social
if you’re in DC next Friday, come see me talk about Transcultural Kdrama at the 33rd Han Moo-Sook Colloquium at George Washington University! www.eventbrite.com/e/33rd-hahn-...
33rd Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium: Transcultural K-Drama
Explore the transcultural dimensions of K-dramas, and how they present, represent, and translate various cultures, peoples, and languages.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social
Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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September 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed. DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true? GROSS: How would you respond to that? DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me. And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in. I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.
September 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
anisa.bsky.social
today on The Broadside: how a rock from western NC is key to making basically every semiconductor in the world…and why it’s important to know where all the raw materials we need for our stuff actually comes from. featuring @edconway.bsky.social

www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
The rock that runs the world
Arguably the most important mine in the world is located in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. And we don’t have a backup.
www.wunc.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
anisa.bsky.social
“What the sustained quoting of dehumanizing language makes exceedingly clear is that newsrooms are not in the habit of reflecting on past coverage, particularly when it comes to critiques of how they covered immigrants, foreigners, or foreign policy.“
prismreports.org Prism @prismreports.org · Sep 11
Elite American media never had a “war on terror” reckoning. Palestinians are paying the price, writes @nausheen.bsky.social in an op-ed. Western journalists’ coverage of the genocide confirms that agenda-setting newsrooms learned nothing from their harmful post-9/11 reporting.
Media never had a “war on terror” reckoning. Palestinians are paying the price
Western journalists’ coverage of the genocide confirms that agenda-setting newsrooms learned nothing from their harmful post-9/11 reporting
prismreports.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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jeradwalker.bsky.social
This week, The Broadside tackled… what else? The Belichick effect.

Big thanks to @scottdochterman.bsky.social and @themhartman.bsky.social for explaining the money-sucking machine behind college athletics. And why winning may not matter when you can’t lose in college football.
The Belichick effect and the money-sucking machine of college football
College football has become a money-sucking machine, with schools spending every dollar possible to keep up in an athletics arms race.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
anisa.bsky.social
say what you will about the merits or downsides of an entire publication devoted to liberalism, the dominant ideology of Western polities…but it’s just sloppy journalism to equate liberalism with “the left”. also note that the only place Semafor uses “the left” is in its headline and lede…
August 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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catturd2.bsky.social
this is literally just racism
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”
jaylyall.bsky.social Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Aug 10
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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August 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...
How much of Gaza is left standing?
Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction
www.economist.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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ncstories.bsky.social
Adopt a station allows you to donate to your local public radio station: Here's the North Carolina list.
adoptastation.org/northcarolina
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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jasonaw.bsky.social
To state the obvious, Western journalists, writers, and filmmakers need to talk more about our colleagues being murdered in Gaza and the West Bank. You can do it from pure self interest if you want: every journalist murdered with impunity is a precedent which is headed in your direction
theradr.bsky.social Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 28
Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥

The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,

was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +
Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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rebeccawilliams.info
wow a quintessential example of ID verification data weaponized, there have been other breaches but this feels exactly targeted at the women it was supposed to protect
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jul 25
New from 404 Media: viral woman's dating safety app Tea breached. 4chan taking peoples' uploaded photos, used to verify its a woman-only app. App recently hit no. 1 in App Store. “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” www.404media.co/women-dating...
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
www.404media.co
July 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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carakelly.bsky.social
a hard but essential read. I’m so glad we could run this piece from Tyler, and at the same time when so many are warning of mass starvation in Gaza. as Dr. Adil Husain told @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social “This is a man-made starvation.”
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
anisa.bsky.social
feels like a particularly meaningful week to do a collab with PBS North Carolina. today on the Broadside from @wunc.org: the lore & facts on the Devil’s Tramping Ground, a bare patch of earth in Chatham Co. that’s been associated with rumors of the occult for centuries www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
Where the Devil is in the dirt
Why has a barren patch in the woods become one of North Carolina’s most enduring legends?
www.wunc.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM