My office in Cairo for the day

An essential read by the brilliant @thrasherxy.bsky.social about a survivor of Israel’s genocide: Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

Love Cairo so much I don’t think I want to come back

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

Don’t forget that *wildfire smoke itself* is dangerous — especially for immunocompromised folks, pregnant people, and newborns Please stay safe

Many of us originally from LA grew up with wildfires — but have *never* seen anything like this. Friends of mine are telling me the scenes are apocalyptic— ash everywhere, Santa Monica evacuated, people can’t breathe Climate change is *here*

Another reminder that LA cut the fire dept budget by more than $17 million this year

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

Not all of my journalist friends who are Egyptian fact-checking my IG stories I swear I’m not a parachute journalist!

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

Made it to Egypt ❤️

“Prison is a place for lions,” she wrote on the wall of her cell using the charred stick. “Cowards and jackals, they only keep lions in such places. They keep them there because of their own fears.” newlinesmag.com/reportage/ku...

Twitter has gotten so scary — legit thinking of deleting my account

NEW: Armed conflict in Colombia has persisted for over six decades. The country’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, has pledged to achieve “total peace,” but this promise seems ever more elusive. newlinesmag.com/reportage/co...

“We received 35 bodies today because they didn’t have refrigerators to store them there.” Inside a Damascus morgue where families search for remains of those killed by the Assad regime. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/fa...

NEW: At Damascus’ Palestine Branch prison, abhorrent conditions and limited access to facilities mean there is still much to uncover about the horrors that took place there. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

Perfection.

Going to note that nutritional stunting — which is irreversible in some children experiencing malnutrition — can also permanently alter gene expression. That means that future generations descended from Palestinians starving now may experience chronic disease

Pictures in support of Gisele have popped up across the world — in the streets of Krakow, New York, Milan and elsewhere. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/gi...

NEW: French and Maghrebi society view rape in similar terms: Secrecy prevails, and women are discredited and discouraged from speaking out. @krounawaad details her story for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

Garcia Marquez was concerned an adaptation of his famous novel would strip it of its connection to Latin America. newlinesmag.com/review/one-h...

Guess we can call off the manhunt for the CEO assassin, vigilante killing is legal in NYC

Counterpoint: Do

Well it’s definitely been a week for populism

You really should read this piece by @kshaheen.bsky.social if you haven’t

Cannot believe this is happening rn

A thread by @tulikabose.bsky.social with several more recent examples (not all from the NYT) threadreaderapp.com/thread/18335...

Not me reading about the French Revolution and healthcare executive compensation at the same time

The best way to understand the NYT is as a chronicle of power, which may explain why there are ** checks notes ** seven reporters on this single story about beefing up executive security

Thank you @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for the recent ep on the anti-device moral panic sweeping everywhere. Your guest said so many of the things I’ve been thinking: banning SM and devices for kids is adults’ projection. We lack boundaries and knowledge podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

On the surface, @mmolteni.bsky.social's latest story about Victor Ambros & Rosalind Lee sounds like a profile of a husband & wife team where the wife didn't share his Nobel. Simple. But it's so much more than that. If you read one @statnews.bsky.social story this year, make it this one (🧵): 🩺🧪🧬🧫👩‍🔬

Yeah, there’s something a little inhuman about the response to the United CEO’s murder. People get a little inhuman when they’re profoundly, systematically dehumanized. Anyway, thinking again and always about what our healthcare system stole from my family.

My reference / underdrawing for an oil painting of the CEO assassin suspect.

Welp seems my threads have made it to Bsky

Incredibly important

“Foreign journalist friends often tell us how envious they are that we always have something to write about in this endlessly tragic country.” A powerful reflection on freedom, repression and journalism in Syria by Kamal Shahin in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

“Today, after 13 years, I cannot blame the Christians of Aleppo if they are terrified.” Aleppo's Christians are afraid not only for their safety but also for their future as equal citizens. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/al...

I always like to remind , that the study of Alpha Males comes from captivity . Wolves in the wild just form useful caring clans www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...

Families in Gaza are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In a land once full of life, only ashes remain.

Nah, Black Americans are very much accustomed to witnessing mediocre or even flat-out unqualified white people succeed and even surpass us professionally. Literally every Black child is taught they have to work twice as hard to achieve half as much as white people—and that’s IF cops don’t kill us.

lol apparently both Amy Goodman and Jill Stein frequent my secret cafe speakeasy with the live music that I refuse to tell everyone about All the journos are keeping it a secret so NYT doesn’t cover it lol and it doesn’t get overrun with tourists

2. 🧵“Rebel sources have told New Lines that there were several factors behind the regime’s implosion in Aleppo.” An exclusive on the dramatic backstory behind Aleppos’ capture by Syrian rebels. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

4. 🧵 Two war crimes researchers used a Facebook catfish account to trick Syrian intelligence officers into confessing the killing of nearly 300 civilians — an award-winning undercover investigation. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

1. 🧵If you’re just starting to read our Syria coverage, here’s a thread of some of our best work on the region: newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

Right now, third spaces are *everything.* This is my fav place in NYC — where I can meet people from Morocco, Egypt, India, Chile — all playing music + dancing together at midnight A woman in her 60’s told me it felt like the radical counterculture cafes of the 60’s

You can donate to help civilians in Gaza instead of buying more stuff you don’t need chuffed.org/project/help...