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Author and presenter of Beyond the Near Horizon podcast
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"Ozturk’s joyful discussion of her Tufts studies and work and engagement with the community there contrasted starkly with the picture on the Zoom screen: She in orange prison garb with a lawyer by her side, speaking from a bare white room..."

Enough delay – enough incompetence. #Justice #dueprocess #kilmarabregogarcia

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✍️Bill Bramhall, The New York Daily News @BillBramhall #tariffs #Cartoons #Trump

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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza. The United Nations and other humanitarian aid providers are calling the decision a violation of international law.

Independent Russian film critic Ekaterina Barabash was placed under house arrest by a Moscow court for posting “fake news” on her Facebook account about the war in Ukraine, her son Yurii Barabash reported on Facebook on Feb. 26.

Down with tyrants and their sycophants - Slava Ukraini #ukraine

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

⚡️ Polish PM Tusk says Ukraine 'not alone' after Trump-Zelensky clash. "Dear Volodymyr Zelensky, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump's clash on Feb. 28.

To the Kremlin and its supporters, fortune has finally turned Russia’s way following three years of humiliating setbacks, Alexey Kovalev writes.

⚡️'If half the people go home tomorrow, Putin will kill us all' — Zelensky defends mobilization. "If tomorrow, for example, half of the army just goes home, then we should have surrendered on the first day. That's the way it is. Because if half the people go home tomorrow, Putin will kill us all."

Breaking News: Workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia voted to become the first unionized store in the grocery chain, which is owned by Amazon.

Feels like one of those weeks where it's worth reminding people that Carl Sagan's Cosmos is on archive.org If you need some comfy viewing start here: archive.org/details/carl...

Photographer: Toby Heward

Best of luck to the people of South Korea. I hope you are able to achieve what we could not.

Re: #EUTok- grateful for anyone experiencing this perspective. They may better protect their own communities. We collectively enter in the US what the world’s marginalized know well. Our sentence is to remain connected to the great, flailing beast we have created in the hopes of dismantling it.

President Biden signed legislation in his last weeks in office allowing a monument dedicated to American women to be built on the National Mall. The Women’s Suffrage National Monument will be the Mall's first honoring women's history.

Similar proposals are in multiple states after a court ruling in 2022, though opponents say the move would impose one religious view on people with different religious traditions

Four years ago, Officer Daniel Hodges was called upon on Jan. 6 to defend the Capitol against a pro-Trump mob and wound up being pinned by the throng in a doorway of the building. This year, he is on duty to protect Donald Trump. We spoke with Hodges about it.

Nonprofit groups filed three lawsuits against the Trump administration on Monday, arguing that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency was violating laws that require federal advisory committees to be open to the public and to include a diversity of viewpoints.

I do not agree with Pardon power nor the abuse of power. I was against the pardon of Hunter Biden and others. This is only more of the same poisonous nest. End pardon power. #Pardon #Biden #Trump

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

The CBP One app has provided nearly 900,000 people with asylum appointments since January 2023, contributing to a drop in illegal border crossings.

Ending the use of the CBP One app with no transition plan is a cruel act that impacts many trying to apply legitimately for asylum. These are human beings. #HumanityFirst #Trump #Immigration

I just watched the press conference about the LA fires & it’s just amazing what these people are accomplishing in this type of climate and unprecedented weather conditions. Each county official was literally in tears as they were speaking. Some of their crew have not been home since Tuesday. Bravo!👏

To the five men who didn’t survive and the 180 men and women injured. We won’t forget and we will never honor those that cheered your attackers, January 6th, 2021. 🇺🇸

Until abortion is legal in every state, lets require men to get a mandatory vasectomy until they are proven emotionally mature, financially responsible and ready to be a father. Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

The sharpness and colours! Absolutely amazing photography by @milest2.bsky.social