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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 21h

A view of Johannesburg's CBD before sunrise today

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy yard

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy yard

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

TBTBIBC?

(Too Big To Be Invaded By China)

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Is it 2014 again?

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

everyone 💓 EM

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Emerging markets roar back with biggest stock rally in 15 years

[FREE TO READ] ‘Stars are finally aligning’ for EM assets, as weakening US dollar sends investors in search of yield

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Jonn is lovely and so is BlueSky

(No, I will not eat my hat regarding the latter in however many months or years time)

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

also Rachel

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Same, although I got a lot of my Twitter following by going semi-viral in Nigeria for "savage" tweets about the country's politics while I was there.

I'm also not posting nearly enough here to grow so... I see you posting good stuff a lot though, so people should follow you!

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Jonn! You're a follower generating machine 🧲🤯

Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

You're on your way am sure 💪🏻 I also got a few more after inserting myself into the replies 🤣

Agreed, though, it's odd to go almost back to square one. I actually get more interactions on... LinkedIn.

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Haha thank you 👀

Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Same, although I got a lot of my Twitter following by going semi-viral in Nigeria for "savage" tweets about the country's politics while I was there.

I'm also not posting nearly enough here to grow so... I see you posting good stuff a lot though, so people should follow you!

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating long-read by @philipoltermann.bsky.social about the theft of as many as 170 rare Russian books by Pushkin and Gogol from libraries across Europe

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Eswatini confirms that 10 (not 11) more deportees have arrived there from the US.

“This group includes three Vietnamese, one Filipino, one Cambodian and four [to] six others,” said Tin Thanh Nguyen, a US lawyer for two of the Vietnamese nationals.

Eswatini confirms arrival of 10 more people as part of US deportation deal

African kingdom receives second group of third-country nationals in what NGOs and lawyers says is violation of human rights

www.theguardian.com

Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing has come closer to turning me into a full-blown Karen than navigating South African private healthcare with insurance that is not Medical Aid. Aware this deserves the world's tiniest violin & also that South Africa's immigration system, with which I had to adopt a more zen posture, is worse.

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Eswatini will receive 11 people deported by the US later this month, the government has said, the second group of third-country deportees to be sent there by the Trump administration

US to deport 11 more people to Eswatini in deal criticised by lawyers and NGOs

African kingdom says migrants will be ‘kept in a secured area’ and returned to countries of origin, despite human rights concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 5d

Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina, who first came to power in a coup in 2009 after leading mass protests, has condemned protests calling for his resignation, saying that demonstrators were trying to trigger a coup.

Madagascar president who took power in coup accuses protesters of trying to trigger another one

Young people take to streets to voice anger at water and power cuts, and corruption in political system

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 5d

I can't emphasise enough how crazy it is that Bari Weiss will be editor-in-chief of a major *news* organisation

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 5d

Bari Weiss is expected to be named editor in chief at CBS News on Monday, with parent company Paramount paying $150m in cash and stock to acquire her Substack publication, The Free Press. My story this morning: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bari Weiss to be named top editor at CBS News

Paramount Skydance will acquire the journalist’s publication, the Free Press, which she started after quitting the New York Times in 2020.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 5d

Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina said he will address the nation on Facebook live in a couple of minutes

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 5d

This is a very interesting article. I'm broadly an AI-sceptic, but it's pretty nuanced

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6d

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 6d

The Independent's Rupert Cornwell Prize is open again for applicants. Anyone under 30 who is or wants to be a foreign/international correspondent should apply. I won the first £5,000 prize in 2018 and it changed my life.

You also need to be based in the UK/US, but you don't have to be a national

Rupert Cornwell Award: £5,000 bursary for budding foreign correspondents

The award honours the memory of Rupert Cornwell, one of The Independent’s most distinguished journalists

www.the-independent.com

Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 6d

Two people were killed in the southern Moroccan city of Lqliâa on Wednesday night after security forces opened fire at protesters on the fourth night of youth-led protests calling for better education and healthcare. Local authorities said the shootings were in self-defence.

First deaths in Morocco’s youth-led anti-government protests as police open fire

Two killed in city of Lqliâa on fifth day of demonstrations calling for social justice reforms as unrest rises

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 6d

Cers is magnificent. That footstool is also - wow.

Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 6d

I keep getting shown pictures of beefy, scantily clad men on Bluesky. Every time, I select "show less like this" and they keep on coming...