Meha Ahmad
@mehaahmad.bsky.social
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I make radio and strong coffee. Senior producer at @wbez.
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Drop Site
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💢 Israeli strike kills Lebanese radio journalist in her home, Committee to Protect Journalists reports Ghada Dayekh, a presenter w/ privately owned Sawt Al-Farah radio, was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit her apartment building in the southern coastal city of Tyre, destroying it, according...
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Is the Eid drip on Bluesky yet or
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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere
8 months ago
Marching Northbound on Michigan Ave.
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Andi Zeisler
8 months ago
"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be Al, and we are the company that's bringing those people to life” girl WHAT
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Jesse Eisinger
about 1 year ago
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks
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Drop Site
about 1 year ago
Hundreds Dying Slow Deaths Under Rubble In Gaza Sky News reports that 15 members of one man’s family — including children — were trapped beneath rubble in Gaza, alive and making phone calls pleading for rescue for three days after the attack.
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jae holzman
about 1 year ago
a good rule: do not mistake commentary for journalism
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WBEZ
about 1 year ago
Listen: The Great Lakes make up the largest freshwater ecosystem on the planet. The U.S. and Canada have a longstanding history of co-managing the bodies of water. With rising political tensions between the two nations, the future of the Great Lakes hangs in the balance.
www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...
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It’s not just tariffs: Rising tensions with Canada leave the Great Lakes in jeopardy
The U.S. and Canada have co-managed the Great Lakes for over a century. Rising political tensions between the two nations might change that.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/07/rising-tensions-with-canada-jeopardize-the-great-lakes
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daniel sieradski
over 1 year ago
these are the material consequences of the adl and other major pro-israel institutions working to tie groups like sjp and jvp to terrorism: non-violent activists get treated by law enforcement as though they’re hiding bombs and AKs at home for doing basic misdemeanors
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Matt Zoller Seitz
about 1 year ago
I certainly am glad we have determined the single most important piece of information: who is winning at the moment
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 1 year ago
Soooooo weird
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Idc what anyone says, he was my favorite Batman
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about 1 year ago
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Joshua Green
about 1 year ago
Wisconsin result really highlights how Elon Musk has emerged as the chief motivator and fundraising engine for Trump-weary Democrats. His disapproval rating among WI Dems is a staggering 97%:
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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In Wisconsin, Elon Musk Is on the Ballot
His spending has shifted focus of the Supreme Court vote. Plus: 10 companies to watch this quarter.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-04-01/elon-musk-is-focus-of-wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel-race?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0MzU2MTkzOSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ0MTY2NzM5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVTFSN01UMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMzlDREUxRTMxNzc0RTM0QjVBQ0MxNDMwQzNCNjlENyJ9.C0mVUg5RNIn-DYCQ6eB5YVybxEaOhEighsIO5W9MMd4
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Taniel
about 1 year ago
BREAKING: Voters in the second biggest city in Illinois have ousted their Trump-aligned mayor. Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who ran for governor as a Republican in 2022, has lost to challenger John Laesch. (Another one of my races to watch:
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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The Arab residents in Orland park were not playing around
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about 1 year ago
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HE'S STILL GOING
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Blair Paddock
about 1 year ago
In September, most men were transferred out of the derelict conditions at Stateville prison due to a court order. But one group wasn't included in that order: the health care unit. Now, the 21 last men at Stateville say they've been "left behind to die."
news.wttw.com/2025/02/26/l...
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‘Left Behind to Die’: Last Men Incarcerated at Stateville Prison Allege Neglect in Lawsuit
Disability rights group Equip for Equality filed a lawsuit alleging the men still incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center are living in “unduly restrictive and isolating conditions compared to ...
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/26/left-behind-die-last-men-incarcerated-stateville-prison-allege-neglect-lawsuit
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Every accusation is and always was a confession
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about 1 year ago
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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉
about 1 year ago
Dr Assal Rad— "What a convoluted way to say Israel killed 173 Palestinian children. This looks more like a haiku than a headline."
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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉
about 1 year ago
Dr Assal Rad— "What an insane (and actually accurate) headline."
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Nina Metz
about 1 year ago
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations Via ProPublica
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?utm_content=bufferd0266&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Sarah Lazare
about 1 year ago
This is how Jeffrey Goldberg responded when Deepa Fernandes asked him on NPR about the 53 people the US killed in Yemen.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1...
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Exhibit 4673 on why Jeffrey Goldberg is an evil little bitch
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about 1 year ago
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Rolling Stone [Unofficial]
about 1 year ago
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Trump Orders Crackdown on ‘Improper Ideology’ at Smithsonian
The move is the president and his administration's latest effort to eliminate DEI initiatives
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology-1235305364/
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Prem Thakker ツ
about 1 year ago
"Rumeysa has not been accused of committing any crime and DHS has not produced any evidence that she was engaged in any unlawful activities. Meanwhile, there is plenty of evidence of U.S. supplied bombs being dropped on Gaza killing over 1,000 people, including over 250 children in the last week."
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The Associated Press
about 1 year ago
Israeli authorities released a Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land." Hamdan Ballal tells the AP he was beaten by three Israeli settlers in the West Bank while another filmed the attack, and has bruises on his face and blood on his clothes.
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Israel releases Oscar-winning Palestinian director after he was attacked by West Bank settlers
An Oscar-winning Palestinian director and two others have been released by Israel, a day after he was badly beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
https://bit.ly/4c1eMQJ
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All In with Chris Hayes
about 1 year ago
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
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‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
YouTube video by MSNBC
https://youtu.be/gtTLu7CDOJA
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Violet Miller
about 1 year ago
Thank you to
@mehaahmad.bsky.social
and Sasha for having me on Reset yesterday! We talked about what federal investigations over accommodations for trans students actually means for Illinois residents, and what the legal landscape around anti-trans EOs looks like now. Find it here on
@wbez.org
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Trump Administration goes after Chicago, Deerfield schools
A look at what’s at stake.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/03/26/trump-administration-goes-after-chicago-deerfield-schools
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The co-director of “No Other Land” lynched by Israeli settlers and then his AMBULANCE raided by the Israeli military, which then ARRESTED the victim and beat him… PROVES THE POINT OF THE FILM.
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Prem Thakker ツ
about 1 year ago
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
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Tomris Laffly
about 1 year ago
One of the co-directors of NO OTHER LAND, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and seized by Israeli soldiers from the ambulance Ballal called, per co-director Yuval Abraham. No one knows where Ballal is. (Ballal is second from right in the below photo.)
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“By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist.”
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Mondoweiss
about 1 year ago
Israel killed 2 Palestinian journalists, including Al Jazeera's Hossam Shabat. Witnesses report Israeli forces targeted Shabat's vehicle in Beit Lahiya without warning. Journalist Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today was also killed, along with his wife and son.
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Meanwhile in Illinois’ 9th district…
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Kyle Cheney
about 1 year ago
JUST IN: Supreme Court has turned down a request to take up Trump ally Steve Wynn's bid to upend the landmark NYT v. Sullivan press freedom precedent.
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Prem Thakker ツ
about 1 year ago
No words. Just months ago, the Israeli government put out a hit list of six journalists. Hossam Shabat was one of them. Today, they killed him.
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Drop Site
about 1 year ago
BREAKING | The Israeli army has assassinated journalist Hossam Shabat, 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to
@dropsitenews.com
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول
about 1 year ago
From the farewell of the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat.
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Mai El-Sadany
about 1 year ago
In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.
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Al Jazeera English
about 1 year ago
Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat
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Jeremy Scahill
about 1 year ago
“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil” — Meghnad Bose and two student journalists at Columbia deeply report the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner. Read at
@dropsitenews.com
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www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
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“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil”
Those close to him tell the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-journey-refugee-syria-columbia-university
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Leor Galil
about 1 year ago
Fellas, is it a terrorism to say bad things about overpriced cars that fall apart because they’ve been recalled for not having been glued correctly
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Being rich makes you stupid
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Judd Legum
about 1 year ago
Painting a protest movement as intrinsically violent is the oldest trick in the book. It is the exact tactic that was used to try to discredit the civil rights movement.
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Jake Grumbach
about 1 year ago
Ah yes, who could forget the obvious distinction between being an antisemite and "creating the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments"
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The Onion
about 1 year ago
DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism
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DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism
WASHINGTON—Warning that the charge carried a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice declared Friday that the distribution of images featuring a balding Elon Musk constitu...
https://theonion.com/doj-designates-posting-photos-of-balding-elon-musk-as-domestic-terrorism/
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I just read the part in project 2025 where they say NPR and PBS are leftist media but the only example given of far left programming is SESAME STREET, so now my coworker and I are arguing about how Elmo is probably a communist and belongs in Gitmo 🙃
about 1 year ago
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