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Left that bird app and never going back
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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...
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
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If I get attacked for this so be it, but there are some DISTURBING parallels between the barbs and maga mainly their willingness to turn a blind eye to child predators
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Nigeria says more schoolchildren have been abducted in the country’s volatile north.
https://to.pbs.org/483MQu3
What to know about abductions of schoolchildren in Nigeria
Nigeria says more schoolchildren have been abducted in the country’s volatile north. It’s not immediately clear who’s to blame in the latest seizure in Kebbi state.
www.pbs.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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IU lecturer removed after *one* student complaint and no due process
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
School of Social Work lecturer Jessica Adams said a student submitted the complaint to the office of U.S. Senator Jim Banks over a graphic she used in her class. Adams said Banks’ office then contacte...
www.ipm.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Hey guys, if it touches your heart to do so please share and donate so we can send my sister's best friend's mom home with dignity.

gofund.me/9ebb6cbf7
Donate to Honor Linda Jones: Support Her Memorial, organized by Courtney Jones
In Loving Memory of Linda Jones On Saturday, November 15th,… Courtney Jones needs your support for Honor Linda Jones: Support Her Memorial
gofund.me
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery

apnews.com/article/ahma...
US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery
A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago. The 11th U.S.
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Either that or they genuinely, truly believe that the role of brown people is to serve their whim at all times.
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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The US is now a rogue state - look at its extrajudicial killings off Venezuela’s coast | Simon Tisdall
The US is now a rogue state - look at its extrajudicial killings off Venezuela’s coast | Simon Tisdall
These widely condemned strikes are just the latest sign of Trump’s imperialist revival – and the collapsing before our eyes of the rules-based world order, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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NYTimes was also aware a staff writer was a close friend of Epstein - who had been offered incriminating photos of a Presidential candidate - and chose instead to spend the next decade on totally unjustified, frankly delusional, propagandized coverage of trans people and their doctors as “predators”
I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The Border Patrol agent was the same one seen arresting a US citizen in Los Angeles at a Walmart
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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He tried to lie to the arresting officers about where he worked so Border Patrol supervisor wouldn't find out. We won't know if he would actually have been fired, though, because he went off and overdosed. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Meanwhile the leading lights of civic society are still lamenting the dreaded Woke Times
Yes, sadly it is real.
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I don't think she's using the metric you assume, I think she's speaking from experience as a First Lady & reacting to the sum total of how America reacts to the idea of women having agency over their own bodies, finances, and futures. The stats on sexual assault, domestic violence, & femicide.
Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 3d
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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There’s a gofundme for funeral expenses for anyone who can help.

www.gofundme.com/f/amber-czech
Donate to Amber Czech Memorial, organized by Shawn Labat
We are heartbroken to share the loss of our beloved, Amber Czech. She was taken from us far too soon … Shawn Labat needs your support for Amber Czech Memorial
www.gofundme.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM