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Claire Sadar
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Boston/Turkey
Religion/Society
Science/Journalism
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#onthisday, 1 September 1909, Adolph S Lundin opened women's #TurkishBaths at 42-44 St Botolph Street, #Boston, Mass. Located just below street level, with a gym and offices on upper floors. Italian marble pool, cooling-room, hot rooms, & shampooing. Also hair-dressing, nails & chiropody. 🗃️ #C19th
September 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🐕‍🦺 Portrait of an Arab Man and His Greyhounds, Egypt, 1875 #Dogs #Greyhound
April 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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👑 "Beneath all the errors that destroy states, lies the heedlessness of much arrogance." Sultan Selim I (Reign; 1512-1520)
March 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Pro-opposition TV channel handed 10-day blackout over İmamoğlu protest coverage bianet.org/haber/pro-op...
Pro-opposition TV channel handed 10-day blackout over İmamoğlu protest coverage
RTÜK has issued a total of seven penalties against four television channels due to their broadcasts during the protests
bianet.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Here 👇 is the classic Erdogan spin in action. The gaslighting, the hypocrisy, the playing victim, the wrapping in the flag… all there.

bsky.app/profile/bbba...
Erdogan speaking now at AKP’s group meeting:

"From now on, all kinds of sabotage against the Turkish economy, the welfare, and peace of the nation will be held accountable before the courts.”
March 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#BREAKING Istanbul court orders arrest of AFP photographer after protests coverage: lawyer
March 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Turkish Fulbright scholar taken by ICE
"Ozturk doesn't appear to be a leading figure of the Pro-Palestinian protest movement at Tufts. But according to Ozturk’s attorney, the student’s photo and other identifying information were recently posted on Canary Mission"
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe
In an email Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Entry/exit to/from Istanbul restricted. Erdogan leveling up 😡
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Local Nazi group doesn't want to turn over info in lawsuit against it because its members might be harassed
www.universalhub.com/2025/local-n...
#Boston #Massachusetts
March 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Favorite film genres:

1. Nicolas Cage and John Travolta swap faces / bodies / lovers and fight a lot

2. Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery break INTO Alcatraz

3. Nicolas Cage fights an entire planeload of baddies, including John Malkovich.

4. Nicolas Cage plays twin brothers who butcher adapting...
Favorite film genres:

1. Fight between neighbors, eventually they unite against third neighbor

2. Guy who cries at really weird moments

3. Romance set in Jiffy Lube

4. Argghh everyone’s molecules are dissolving (musical)

5. Broccoli farmers rebellion!!
Favorite film genres:

1. Monster is an analogy for trauma

2. Cursed object forces moral quandary

3. Arthouse psychosexual nightmare

4. The real monster was us all along

5. Road movie!!!
March 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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AND THE COUNTRY THAT HAS INSPIRED THE MOST U.S. PLACE NAMES — and it's not particularly close — is ...

Turkey.

No, @moriartymaps.com and @andrewvandam.bsky.social argue, really

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Column | It’s not just the Gulf of Mexico. Why is so much of America named after foreign countries?
Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of inspiration. You’ll never guess which one.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Türkiye: Jinnews Reporter Öznur Değer Detained on Terrorism Charges
Find out more👉 go.coe.int/MxrVA
Alert submitted by the International Press Institute @globalfreemedia.bsky.social
#EuropeForFreeMedia
Photo: social media
February 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This story has brought our community together to support this lovely family from Turkey who owns a local restaurant. They offer food to the homeless and those w/little $. They are kind and generous. Yesterday ICE detained them…and people are PISSED.
share.inquirer.com/gKqFM7
Neighbors angry as ICE arrests owners of popular Jersey Kebab restaurant in South Jersey
Celal Emanet, 51, was released from ICE custody Tuesday night after being fitted with an ankle monitor, while his wife, Emine, 47, continues to be held at the detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Turkish journalist Nevşin Mengü sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison for interviewing PYD leader Salih Muslim.

Such a development illustrates that the control of information is one of the instruments of the recent Kurdish opening of Turkey's ruling bloc.
medyascope.tv/2025/02/27/g...
Nevşin Mengü, 1 yıl 3 ay hapis cezasına çarptırıldı - Medyascope
Gazeteci Nevşin Mengü, YPG/PYD lideri Salih Müslim ile yaptığı röportaj nedeniyle yargılandığı davada ceza aldı.
medyascope.tv
February 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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My first reaction is that despite the idolization of Ocalan for decades there are many, many people in the Kurdish movement and on the left who will reject this
‪And now in Turkish, where the top line is confirmed:‬

‪The PKK has lost relevance in the socialist struggle and must abolish itself. ‬
February 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM