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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 2d

This actually happened, just outside of Chicago.

ICE agents shoot pastor in head with pepper ball

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 4d

Vote for @newlinesmag.bsky.social for the 2025 Signal Listener’s Choice Award here! Voting closes tomorrow!

The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 3d

Nicolas Sarkozy’s trial revealed much cloak-and-dagger intrigue around his connection to Libya’s Gadhafi regime. For the families of victims of a 1989 bomb attack, the stakes were personal, writes @Diane2v.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy

The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 3d

"By the time former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed, in 2023, to deprive Gaza’s 'human animals' of electricity, food and fuel, the move had become customary." Samer Badawi reflects on two years of Israel's war, in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza

Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Having led four medical missions to Gaza, @zsahloul.bsky.social describes the war’s devastating impact on the territory’s inhabitants and hospitals, and recounts a revealing conversation with President Biden, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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I Believed I Had Seen the Worst Humanity Could Inflict — Until Gaza

A doctor who has led four medical missions to the territory describes the war’s devastating impact on its inhabitants and hospitals — and his fellow medical professionals

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 5d

1. 🧵Eminent historian Rashid Khalidi joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on the @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast to discuss the two years since Oct. 7, and a century of war on Palestine.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 3d

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

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Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

As Chicago braces for possible deployment of federal troops, ICE agents conducted a high-profile raid on a residential building.

Chicagoans have not “heard any justification or rationalization for why it was that they needed this kind of overwhelming force,” says Ed Yohnka with ACLU Illinois.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 5d

"Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard." Samer Badawi reflects on two years of Israel's war, in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza

Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: We journalists are taught: Do the reporting, and the story will write itself. But how does one narrate the stories of 20,000 dead children? Samer Badawi writes in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza

Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Support and protect this man, Chicago. ICE is vindictive.

Brighton Park Gas Station Clerk Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds

Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by ...

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchicago.org.web.brid.gy · 6d

Brighton Park Gas Station Clerk Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds

Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 8d

1.🧵 Week in Review: The pigeoneers of Damascus, Britain’s summer of the right, Dutch-Indonesian families caught between two worlds, Nigeria’s nightclubs and more. Check out our stories from this week:

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A local magazine for the world

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 8d

For the women of Tigray, milling ancient spices is a way to reconnect with their heritage in the aftermath of war, reports Paddy Dowling, with photography, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Solace and Community in a Tigray Spice Mill

The ancient work is an act of resilience for this women’s collective, preserving identity in the aftermath of war

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11d

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one.

This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

NYT editorial board calls for deradicalizing the surviving Palestinians in Gaza The multinational authority should have an ambitious agenda. It would span the restoration of basic services, the feeding of the population, the reconstruction of neighborhoods and the creation of a police force. Crucially, as experts at the Wilson Center in Washington have argued, this authority should create a program in schools, the media and elsewhere "to remove Hamas's pervasive radicalizing influence over Gazan society." Another task would be disarming any Hamas fighters who keep fighting. Qatar, given its longtime relationship with Hamas, can help pressure the group, much as the United States can pressure Israel. There are historical antecedents for an international mission along these lines. Deradicalization programs succeeded in Germany and Japan after World War II, and multinational police forces have operated in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and elsewhere. Of course, these efforts come with dangers. Participating countries would risk having their personnel become targets for Hamas.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 11d

Do these people think Palestinians have grievances because an islamist group told them so? So palestinian grievances have nothing to do with the camps and the displacement and the bombardment and the no political rights thing? Huh, how interesting 🤔

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11d

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one.

This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 12d

The AI actor Lili Ziren, the first such personality to appear in a TV series alongside human castmates in China, highlights a growing fascination with the technology in the country, reports Amanda Florian for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

China’s First AI Actor Makes Her Debut

Lili Ziren and similar characters are attracting hundreds of thousands of the country’s fans online

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 11d

“Make no mistake — Altaylı is no saint. Yet solidarity against antidemocratic practices casts a wide net in Turkey today.”

Merve Pehlivan reports on Fatih Altaylı’s upcoming trial for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

A Turkish Journalist Breaks New Ground From Behind Bars

Even in a high-security prison, Fatih Altaylı keeps broadcasting scoops

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 11d

The discovery in 2021 of the bodies of 215 indigenous children at a residential school in British Columbia highlighted a brutal part of Canada's legacy. Crystal Semaganis recounts her family’s story for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

The Suffering of Canada’s Indigenous People

It began when my mother was apprehended and taken to residential school at the age of 7, where she stayed for seven years without once going home. I cannot even imagine all that my Mama lost. How…

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 11d

The rise and fall of a pioneering Lebanese record label headquartered in Berlin was bound up with the geopolitics of the 20th century. Anna-Theresa Bachmann and Hannah El-Hitami explore the history of Baidaphon for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

The Arab World’s First Indie Record Label

A Lebanese family’s global brand reflects the story of 20th-century Europe — and its relationship with the Middle East

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 11d

From his California home, a young member of the Afghan diaspora is digitizing his homeland’s sounds before they are erased by time or the Taliban. Tamana Ayazi reports for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Preserving Afghanistan’s Soul: A Race Against Time

From his house in California, a young member of the country’s diaspora is digitizing his homeland’s sounds

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