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Katharine Khamhaengwong

@katharinegk.bsky.social

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editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (oxford analytica, brill yearbook of muslims in europe 2022-present, eater, eurasianet, oc media, saveur, the moscow times, etc) based in oegstgeest also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · Jan 7

In Adjara a few weeks ago, nobody was happy with the government and the one Georgian Dream guy I know in Khulo was asking for tips to get to America. Wrote about it for @eurasianet.bsky.social:
eurasianet.org/georgia-prot...

Georgia protests: The view from Adjara

Dissatisfaction is widespread, but many are cautious about expressing displeasure publicly.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 17h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

nymag.com

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 9h

The years of scandal over US practice of renditions and torture in the war on terror now seems quaint

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 10h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social · 19h

Georgian Dream is seeking to extend its proposed party ban to individual politicians. Under the new amendments, politicians linked to parties banned by the Constitutional Court would also be barred from political activity.

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Georgian Dream seeks to extend proposed ban of political parties to individual politicians

Previous proposed amendments called for essentially banning all major opposition parties, as well as future parties with a shared ideology.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

cannot imagine selling grindr to abu dhabi will go well

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

Grindr's majority owners are scrambling to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline triggered a personal financial crisis, according to a report from Semafor.

Grindr's owners may take it private after a financial squeeze | TechCrunch

Grindr's majority owners are scrambling to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline triggered a personal financial crisis, according to a report from Semafor.

techcrunch.com

Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve been to a lot of old european city centers and often, despite their charms, find the lack of green a bit sad. not in haarlem!

a bower of orange berries and green leaves across a small alley

another alley lined with bicycles and lush greenery

a corner of a courtyard with white walls and a big tree

a narrow street with potted plants and vines up brick houses

Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

architectural delights from the homeland of jazz

a tile and wood train station platform with a sign for haarlem

a silly old brick building, with a sign reading “1670”

some brightly colored reliefs of geometric people with tools on a warehousey building

a row of seven almost identical brick houses with stepped roofs

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

apparently not! i guess i got lucky with the ones i used to go to in the bay area, which i recall being rather fussily curated

Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

three of the directors/creators of the other shorts were in the audience and i felt bad for them

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

no way that was one of the best short films made in the entire world in the last year or whatever

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

film festival organisers slipped an ai film into the international shorts showing and it was the most bland soft music 2015 instagram filtered series of images of classically beautiful white or asian women alternating with shiny sad robots piece of drivel you could imagine

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

i admit that i don't really know what's up with seattle these days but there's got to be a better way to describe a city of 800,000 people

a closely cropped screenshot of black text on a white background reading "Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm"

Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

#urkinthenews

Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 1d

Stel je eens voor dat dit in de schilderswijk was; www.omroepflevoland.nl/nieuws/44509...

Commotie door regenboogvlag bij politiebureau Urk, man aangehouden die vlag naar beneden haalde

De regenboogvlag die zaterdag op Urk bij het politiebureau aan Het Rif hing, zorgt in het dorp voor veel commotie. Op twee filmpjes is te zien dat een man het touw kapot slijpt waaraan de vlag is gehe...

www.omroepflevoland.nl

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

also i think most of the gurian cases were adjarans in guria anyway

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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 1d

Three Georgians arrested in the autonomous republic Ajara, for "joining a terrorist organization" [ISIS], and setting up a transit channel for islamist terrorists through the territory of Georgia.
batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/news/590788/

სუსის ცნობით, აჭარაში 3 პირი დააკავეს ტერორისტულ საქმიანობასთან კავშირის ბრალდებით - Batumelebi

batumelebi.netgazeti.ge

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

i’d say connections to pankisi very unlikely

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 1d

a few cases in adjara too in that era

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die”

(not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 2d

Het is dat ze geen watermeloen-button droegen, anders werd dit misschien wel antisemitisch genoemd.

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 2d

creepy faves from the biennial meeting of the dutch branch of the sonoma county mycological association

a small mushroom that looks like it’s bleeding

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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 13d

[1/2] 📢 GLAMOS @scnat.ch press release out today: Swiss glaciers lost another 3% of their volume in 2025, the 4th-largest decline ever measured. In just 10 years, they’ve lost a quarter of their ice mass. Over 1k small glaciers have already vanished.

🔗 to press release: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/9d...

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 3d

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 3d

once again looking for a spring research/writing/??? gig and/or a cat to watch somewhere in central asia or the caucasus for the month of april or so