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Frida Ghitis

@fridaghitis.bsky.social

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World affairs journalist. Frm CNN producer/correspondent. Sr columnist World Politics Review, on-air contrib CNN, CNNE, contrib columnist Washington Post. Worked in 70+ countries. (Threads @fridaghitis, LinkedIn, Instag) https://fridainsight.substack.com

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 20h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 1d

Monitor the big Substack accounts

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What is the worst thing the Trump administration is doing?

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

PEGGY NOONAN: “.. You know why people say something’s wrong with this guy? Because it appears something is wrong with this guy.”

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 4d

It's horrifying

Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 4d

These are images from the worst times in the worst police states. If I saw it in a movie I would say the director went too far - not credible.

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 4d

What's the number 9 on the back of this ridiculous amulet?

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 4d

And now Hamas says it will release the hostages. Maybe the rumors are true

Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Hamas says it will release all the hostages.
In a statement posted online on Friday night, it said it would release the hostages “according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump’s proposal, and as the field conditions for the exchange are met"
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Hostages in Gaza

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 5d

Who said I'm optimistic?

Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 5d

It would require his behavior to become much more outrageous (imagine that!) to get GOP in Congress to turn against him

Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 5d

*at least not for now

Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 5d

Until not for now. But as his erratic behavior becomes harder to deny, JD Vance will see his opportunity

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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 5d

China has found in the Trump administration’s Latin America agenda a potential opening for further expanding its influence, stepping up its efforts to court regional governments, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.

Trump Is Turning Back the Clock on U.S. Policy in Latin America

Donald Trump’s personalist and ideological approach to U.S. policy in Latin America is a gift to China.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 6d

Two people were killed outside a synagogue in Manchester, in northwestern England, on Thursday morning in a vehicle ramming and stabbing attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the police said.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: 2 Killed in Car Ramming and Stabbing Outside U.K. Synagogue, Police Say

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 7d

That's what LOL was made for

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Indispensable...the Mar-a-Lago branch at the White House

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 7d

A humiliating defeat for Putin, a victory for democracy, by the woman who already beat him twice.
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The Woman Who Beat Putin -- Twice

Moldova's president is fighting back against the Kremlin and winning

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's approval rating, as calculated by the Real Clear Politics Poll Average, is in a sharp downtrend and has just reached the lowest point since he returned to the White House.