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Researcher at The Bridge Initiative, Georgetown University. My work lies at the intersection of old-school journalism and online sleuthing. Previously at Zan Times, Alt News.

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PSA for humanities friends: the Dan David Prize exists to whitewash Israel's occupation of Palestine. The fund is actively complicit in ongoing military violence, apartheid & ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Israeli state & far-right settlers. It's blood money. 🚫 Pass it on. 🗃️ HistIR

Palestinians Urge Recipients To Reject Dan David Prize Over Itsbdsmovement.net The Dan David Foundation partners with government organizations actively involved in Israel’s gradual ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and fully enlisted in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

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@anadoluagency: #BREAKING Israeli army announces killing 90 Palestinians in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and arresting 160 others who were transferred into Israel for interrogation https://t.co/M4th44NGlS

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BREAKING: Israeli occupation soldiers arrest Al Jazeera correspondent Ismael Al Ghoul after beating him up inside the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City. t.me/QudsNen

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i'll scream it until i'm hoarse and blue in the face: this is good. this is politics. this is an extremely healthy and normal use of popular political power

Uncommitted at 20.1% in Minnesota with 73% of the vote reporting

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Actual Glazer quote: "Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people."

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Remember the elderly Palestinian man the Israelis executed and laughed at on video in his own bedroom? He was deaf. He was likely confused and waived his arms in the air to make sure they knew he was no threat.

Good to know graphic design is your passion @brennasmith.bsky.social! Newsroom needs more of it. Your lighting talk at NICAR was great!

Hello @dwillis.bsky.social! I had a super time learning strings functions for Google Sheets today! Thank you so much.

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social Dear Meredith, I hope you are doing well. I am studying the impact of the internet on society and working on E2EE policy paper. I was wondering if I could interview you for my paper for Prof DeNardis' class.

Are you going to use the Gemini AI feature on your Android? At this point, not using it would be like paying for a buffet and eating it. Surveillance capitalists have already harvested our data. So the question is do we keep heading in this direction or take a step back.

The signifiers used to describe the ongoing genocide is Gaza speaks more people's positioning on the humanitarian crisis. Absolutely shocking.

This, by Barry Posen, is very good. The problem is warfare, and more precisely urban warfare, more than any specificity of how Israel is conducting its operations.

The Devastation of Gaza Was Inevitableforeignpolicy.com Urban warfare has always been brutal for civilians—and the war against Hamas was destined to be an extreme case.

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I must say, the story of the six-year-old Palestinian girl and her rescue team being killed is so shattering, one tragedy among countless others. My God, please make it stop.

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Awful news from the University of Kent: 58 jobs are at risk, whole subject areas threatened, including Health & Social Care, Journalism, Anthropology, Music & Audio Technology, Art History, and all Cultures & Languages. Please read and sign this petition if you can: www.change.org/p/save-arts-...

Poems by children on #MartinLutherKingJrDay in the African American Museum. Beautiful. Powerful. Inspiring.

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things going great on x, the alex jones website

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The NYT really could use a public editor right about now

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This is such a good piece by Alvin Tillery, especially in putting Gay's academic record in context. Two points. Black students at Harvard, including Gay, were told that hate speech was protected. No problem with white students flying confederate flags on campus. medium.com/@atillery2/p...

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Important new resource on the HSS, the overseas branding of India’s RSS. Includes information on their US leadership, youth indoctrination, presence on college campuses, and, of course, tons of evidence of the RSS-HSS relationship.

Factsheet: Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (HSS) - Bridge Initiativebridge.georgetown.edu Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (HSS) is a right-wing Hindu non-profit organization registered in New Jersey. On its website, the group states its mission is “to organize a diverse and vibrant Hindu America...

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Israeli forces shot at United Nations vehicles in central Gaza on Thursday as they were returning from delivering aid, UN officials said. The episode highlighted the severe challenges facing humanitarian efforts to help Palestinians struggling to survive.

The U.N. says Israeli forces fired on an aid convoy in central Gaza.www.nytimes.com

What does PBS and Yahoo know?

Just in case you had any doubts about Google being an advertising first advertising platform.

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The 2023 Lifetime Fundraiser brings you rare usernames and 11 chances to win Proton’s most exclusive account! We’ve received hundreds of community-nominations for orgs that advance privacy, freedom, and human rights around the world. Check who we’re supporting this year. ⬇️ (1/3)

This year, we support the work of: - @bellingcat.com - Freedom of the Press Foundation - The Tor Project - @publicknowledge.bsky.social - La Quadrature du Net - Civil Liberties Union of Europe - @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social - Forbidden Stories - @msf.bsky.social - Tactical Tech (2/3)

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Elmo is truly the absolute white sepulcher of ALL plaster saints 🙄

Met a 25 year old who thinks journalism will not exist in the next twenty years.

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34 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget #WomenInSTEM 🧪🌹

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genuinely thought this was a joke when I saw it but this is Elon’s pinned tweet right now? the man is down unbelievable. got so depressed he flipped around from an edgelord to a wine mom. he’s experiencing every variant of human misery

Oxford's word of the year is Rizz. Not Nakba.

@amitav.bsky.social Dear Professor Amitav, My friend is going through a rough time. She reads your book regularly. She is also a great artist. I'm pretty sure you'd love to have her work as illustrations in your next book. It would mean the world to her. If it's possible send a message for her