Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Revolutionary Fighter For Black Liberation Assata Shakur Dies At 78 @claycane.bsky.social newsone.com/6489574/revo...

If anyone might want to know more about environmentalism and indigenous rights in north-west Thailand then it's your lucky day! Me latest story: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-enviro...

Yes, Wales! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪 😂 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Track record? These innocent lambs of journalism have their memories wiped every night so they meet each new day like a newborn baby. Objectivity achieved!

Nepali PM Sharma Oli stepped down after a wave of anticorruption protests left 19 people dead and more than 100 injured, but protesters remained on the streets, blocking roads and setting fires to parliament and other government buildings www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

My interview about why politicians' allowances have angered so many in Indonesia, leading to nationwide protests that have turned deadly with parliament and police buildings attacked currentsnewsletter.com/p/it-is-scar...

“What the protestors demand fundamentally is asking for a reform of political parties,” says Andreas Harsono from Human Rights Watch. Listen to this week's Currents podcast episode, examining the protests that have swept across Indonesia: currentsnewsletter.com/p/it-is-scar...

There are actually two kinds of homonyms: homophones and homographs. Homonym = same name Homophone = same sound [to/too/two] Homograph = written the same [tear (rip) / tear (boohoo)]

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Elon Musk continues to be the bigoted shit-stain he always was. Just because he goes "quiet" for a while, doesn't mean he has had a change of heart, it just means his stockholders are begging him to shut up and stop undermining their retirement investments... but even then, the pus must ooze!

I love introducing people to Mekong Review and I especially love seeing people buy the magazine (or, even better, subscriptions) so drop by lyf Farrer Park today before 8pm if you’re in Singapore!

We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.

A newsletter special on the sudden closure of The Projector, a beloved independent cinema in Singapore that provided space for many arts and civil society events that wouldn't have found a venue anywhere else in the city. www.wethecitizens.net/this-city-wo...

MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN was released 46 years ago this week. The second entry in the Monty Python film series, and regarded among the great British comedies, the story of how it was made will have you asking what have the Romans ever done for us…? 1/47

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

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Going down a big incredible slide over and over again, but my dour expression remains unchanged. My mind is focused on the big issues of contemporary society.

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This morning after the run, a large Asian Forest Scorpion (genus Heterometrus) crossed my way... what a beauty and so fragile... #scorpion #Thailand #Phuket

“To come face to face with him after three years, I didn’t know what my reaction was going to be.” My interview with Cherry Pie Picache, on how she was able to meet and forgive the man who murdered her mother. currentsnewsletter.com/p/forgivenes...

True to form, Singapore’s latest ad campaign warning about the dangers of vaping have resulted in some totally bitchin’ surrealist vape designs.

Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

What does it mean to be an anti-death penalty activist in an abolitionist state? (Part 2) currentsnewsletter.com/p/what-does-...

“There’s this terrible irony that if someone’s unwell, [the state] won’t execute them while they’re unwell. So they [say] ‘okay we’ll delay it; now you’re healthy, now we’ll kill you’.” Listen to the full episode now: currentsnewsletter.com/p/we-should-...

Learning things about my friends and favourite Australians Sara and Elizabeth of @cpjpaus.bsky.social from @calumstuart.bsky.social’s Currents podcast. What does it mean to be an anti-death penalty activist in an abolitionist state? currentsnewsletter.com/p/we-should-...

A must-listen: @calumstuart.bsky.social’s interview with Sonny Swe on civil war in #Myanmar, life in exile and his thoughts on the future of his country. currentsnewsletter.com/p/who-wants-...

NEW!! Astronomers capture the Sombrero Galaxy using the JWST and the views are incredible!! We even get to see the supermassive black hole (9 billion solar masses) in the center! Credit: IWST NASA, ESA, CSA, STScl, Hubble Heritage Team (STScl/AURA), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

An exoplanet has been found in a polar orbit around binary brown dwarfs. That’s unusual for two reasons: planets normally orbit more or less in line with the star’s equator, and brown dwarfs don’t often have binary companions 🔭🧪 www.space.com/the-universe...

After Duterte’s arrest by the ICC, two human rights defenders talk about what their lives were like in the Philippines under his rule (spoilers: it was holy shit shockingly bad). Here’s a link to podcast part 1, with the second instalment coming out tomorrow: currentsnewsletter.com/p/it-was-lik...

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Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏

There’s a whole museum in Greece waiting for the reunification of the marbles. Let the BM display the replicas but repatriate the marbles. Stolen artifacts are a stain. www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/exhibit-h...

Under the Bush administration the demand was “we must have the unreviewable power to kill or secretly imprison any person on the face of the Earth based on undisclosed criteria that leads us to conclude the person is an enemy combatant.” We were invited to trust the government to make that call./1

Actor Lim Kay Siu talks about getting involved in activism and the prospect of repercussions. Listen to the full interview here: currentsnewsletter.com/p/actoractiv... youtube.com/shorts/FbiB1...

The first Currents podcast to examine cannabis laws and policy almost three years on from Thailand's decriminalisation of weed – pretty comprehensive stuff, essentially on a par with social science degrees offered by less reputable colleges: currentsnewsletter.com/p/whats-the-...

Here's a thing about a thing that's not yet a thing but soon will be. Get yourselves settled in for 'Weed Week', a three-part series looking at cannabis regulation in Asia and the roll out of weed decriminalisation in Thailand: currentsnewsletter.com/p/promo-weed...

Might save a life.

It turns out even Monk Gyatso has a battle on his hands when dealing with Hollywood studio executives – Lim Kay Siu talks about getting the red carpet treatment (sort of) in LA for the premier of Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender: www.youtube.com/shorts/EUaqF...

“It's like we are abandoning our partners, and we are destroying all the democratic progress that we have established for many, many years.” My latest piece on the USAID freeze and how it's hammering rights groups in the Indo-Pacific: currentsnewsletter.com/p/we-never-s...