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keefe murren
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Storytelling 🎥, narrative power, and coalition building with displaced and immigrant youth in the US and East Africa. Also ⚽️

Formerly FilmAid, UNICEF, SundanceTV, HRW. Always Barça
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You stunningly beautiful man! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪! #IREHUN
Image of Troy Parrot after scoring the game winner and completing a hat trick to keep Ireland in the World Cup.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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In personal news, I nailed it with Arepa de Huevo this morning. 🇨🇴🇻🇪😋
homemade arepa de huevo, the most glorious gluten free egg sandwich possible.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The proud legacy of Clare Peller of the Finding Beef Institute.
Clara Peller examines a hamburger trying to determine "where's the beef?" in the famous Wendy's ads.
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Kenyan clean sweep at the New York Marathon today
November 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I'm also partial to a pancho
A Visual Guide to the Hot Dogs of Latin America. Image and article from Nicholas Gill - Writer & Photographer based in New York and Lima, Peru. Co-author of Central, The Latin American Cookbook, and Slippurinn. Forthcoming: Eating the Amazon (2027).
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Bavaria just gets some things exactly right (and some others very wrong). The bread is the handle. The sausage is the star. And ketchup is not an option.

Behold the Semmel Wurst!
German Semmel Wurst, which is a tiny roll and a super long sausage. There is sometimes sauerkraut in the roll. But the important part is the proportions, 80% wurst, 20% semmel.
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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No Kings in Connecticut. In Ridgefield, CT site of one of the first battles of the Revolution.

Also, at my old elementary school.
Ridgefield, CT No Kings protest Too angry to make a clever sign. Ridgefield, CT No Kings protest
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Recently developed a framework for assessing your role, mapping your challenges and determining your strategic actions to build narrative power. w/my amazing colleague @linasrivastava.bsky.social

Email info@transformationalchange.co to get the full framework

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6zqyu...
Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power: A Brief Introduction to the Framework Email info@transformationalchange.co to get the full framework to asses your role, map your challenges and determine your strategic actions to build narrative power.
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Recently developed this framework to asses your role and map your challenges in building narrative infrastructure. With my amazing colleague
@linasrivastava.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6zqyu...
Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power: A Brief Introduction to the Framework
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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$275 to go! Hoping by morning Kenya time we can reach that goal. She takes care of three of her siblings on her own. School fees. all of it. And with all the international aid cuts by the US, there are almost no options for support 🙏
From Naomi (sent at 4:20): I don’t even know what miracle will happen tonight, but I just want to get out in the morning for real. I hate hospitals I’m so drained.
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Naomi, a young refugee I work with in Nairobi, is at the hospital with her 7 yr old brother Junior who has blood poisoning. He's recovering but they won't discharge him until she pays $400 (40k KES) for 4 days care. Cost go up until he's released. Any amount helps

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Hi Keefe, Junior is feeling much better we’ll be discharged tonight. They’ve given me some food for malnourishment and strong medicine to help him recover fully. The hospital bill came to 40,000 (kenyan shillings), which feels crazy since we haven’t even been here that long 😞 but honestly, I just thank God he’s alive and getting healthier again. 🙏 Junior this year on his first day of school. Text from Junoir's sister Naomi: I just wish they could take me and allow the baby to go home
October 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Believers in the free press have begun a 24/7 vigil as Madonna-like tears start flowing miraculously down the cheeks of a statue at the Walter Cronkite Memorial in St. Joseph Missouri.
Image of a bust Walter Cronkite at the Walker Cronkite Memorial in St. Joseph, Missouri
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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if we're doing Band of Outsiders, the logo would be a pretty badass crest
Jean-Luc Godard's Band A Part logo
September 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If not for EU health regulations, the crest would include an image of Anna Karina looking you dead in the eye while smoking a cigarette.
Actress Anna Karina smokes a cigarette as she makes eye contact with the camera.
September 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.
"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Banner held by Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.
September 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Visca Barça i visca Bonmatí, Vicky, and Lamine!
Announcement of Vicky Lopez as the 2025 Kopa Trophy winner Lamine Yamal named Kopa Trophy Winner, 2025
September 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Connect 2025.
Picture of Syndrome, the evil villain in the Pixar movie The Incredibles
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Huge respect for the man.

He liked Presidente beer and would have it mailed to him if he couldn't get it.

Got to interview him several times.

A nice man, a smart man, a man who built a bunch of organizations that did cool work, and he definitely knew his eyes were his super power.

RIP Bob.
A photo of Robert Redford and the staff of Sundance Channel after its purchase by AMC Networks/Cablevision.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Sam Shaw took the famous picture in the Seven Year Itch.

Now his granddaughter, his archivist, and my very good friend are opening his archive of images, letters and reflections on Marilyn to the world.

NYC Sept 16 at Rizzoli Bookstore.

www.eventbrite.com/e/dear-maril...
Join us for a special conversation on the publication of Dear Marilyn: The Unseen Letters and Photographs, a new book that brings Marilyn Monroe to life through photographer Sam Shaw’s images of the star and his correspondence with her. Melissa Stevens, Shaw’s granddaughter and director of his archive, will be in conversation about the book with Jen Davis, photographer and Creative Director of Film & Photography at New York City Tourism. Together, they will celebrate Monroe’s upcoming 100th birthday, the 70th anniversary of her iconic Seven Year Itch subway-grate scene, and the ongoing Founded by NYC campaign marking the city’s 400th anniversary in 2025 and America’s 250th in 2026. The discussion will be followed by a book signing.
September 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Video footage of the Trump planning session for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors was just leaked.
August 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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it's already a crisis. I got a WhatsApp call yesterday from Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. A mother with three small children said, "there are two more weeks in the month, but rice, peas and oil we got is already gone. How will I feed my kids?"

Because some DOGE dipshit is on a power trip... evil.
Excerpt from Atlantic article that shows 36,000 pounds of food is sitting in Djibouti and will never reach the over 1.5 million displaced people in desperate need: "Despite the administration’s repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio’s testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of food—much of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. government—were then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she’d left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse."
July 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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From my colleague @linasrivastava.bsky.social

"transformational leadership... requires not just vision and empathy, but the strategic courage to persist through systemic sabotage while building alternative structures of accountability and support. It also requires alliance and collaboration"
Mamdani’s campaign and the community that mobilized around it demonstrated elements of transformational change leadership: ~Simple, strong narratives rooted in lived experience. ~A vision of the present and future grounded in hope and equity, and clearly articulated in language accessible to those most proximate to the political pain. ~A commitment to collaborative action. ~A joyful approach to organizing that sustains people through difficult work, energizes communities,and meets them where they live. ~And a refusal to surrender to demands for compromise that would abandon those most in need.
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Big numbers in nyc.
NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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In case you question how the struggles in other countries are related to our own.

Just ask the Irish who were first ones hit with rubber bullets.

Or ask an older generation of Irish like my grandparents who experienced the violence of the Black & Tans before they were deployed to Palestine...
You might think rubber bullets are bullets MADE of rubber. They are actually regular metal bullets COATED in rubber. Invented by the British Ministry of Defense for use against civilians in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, rubber bullets can main, blind, or kill. New York Times article about Bernadette Devlin, youngest MP ever elected to the British Parliament, receiving the Keys to New York city. She promptly presented the keys to the New York chapter of the Black Panthers, saying, I'm returning what is rightfully theirs. Additional Context/Quote My people’—the people who knew about oppression, discrimination, prejudice, poverty and the frustration and despair that they produce– were not Irish Americans. They were black, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos. And those who were supposed to be ‘my people’, the Irish Americans who knew about English misrule and the Famine and supported the civil rights movement at home, and knew that Partition and England were the cause of the problem, looked and sounded to me like Orangemen. They said exactly the same things about Blacks that the loyalists said about us at home. In New York I was given the key to the city by the mayor, an honor not to be sneezed at. I gave it to the Black Panthers.” –Bernadete Devlin. My people’—the people who knew about oppression, discrimination, prejudice, poverty and the frustration and despair that they produce– were not Irish Americans. They were black, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos. And those who were supposed to be ‘my people’, the Irish Americans who knew about English misrule and the Famine and supported the civil rights movement at home, and knew that Partition and England were the cause of the problem, looked and sounded to me like Orangemen. They said exactly the same things about Blacks that the loyalists said about us at home. In New York I was given the key to the city by the mayor, an honor not to be sneezed at. I gave it to the Black Panthers.” –Bernadete Devlin.
June 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Our next mayor 🙏
Photo by Martin Kharumwa Zohran Mamdani as Young Cardamom & HAB back when he was 24 and wrote the title track for Queen of Katwe, an excellent movie by his mom, Mira Nair.
June 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM