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Reporter telling stories at This American Life. Used to host Reply All and once upon a time, Serial.

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Arsenal really love being what people think we are. I dunno what to do with that πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­πŸ˜­πŸ˜­

18.02.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86 Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.

Claudette Colvin, who at 15 refused to give her seat on the bus to a white woman in Alabama, has died at 86.

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LeMonde said, not on our watch

28.12.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 3344 πŸ” 1216 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 72

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes" YouTube video by Phil Lewis

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

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in the pit

in the pit

This entire weekend

15.12.2025 03:58 πŸ‘ 34414 πŸ” 7274 πŸ’¬ 218 πŸ“Œ 255
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

18.11.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 24097 πŸ” 9224 πŸ’¬ 304 πŸ“Œ 275
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β€œI Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua β€œterrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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The neighborhoods won by Sliwa sound like Stardew Valley locations.

07.11.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 631 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 25

The West has Fallen. The Mayor of New York City is an Arsenal fan.

05.11.2025 12:25 πŸ‘ 775 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 27
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The City's Police Watchdog Is Burying Allegations That Cops Lied, at the Request of Unnamed 'Stakeholders' Board officials confirmed that the practice, which had not been publicly disclosed until Hell Gate revealed it earlier this month, is meant to protect NYPD officers' reputations.

After we uncovered a pattern of altered data, CCRB officials confirmed the police watchdog is deliberately miscategorizing some NYPD misconduct allegations in public data to protect officers' reputations, at the request of unnamed "stakeholders."

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it's crazy they trying to run the 80s black welfare mother narrative on snap benefits rn with a constituency in need that has already run up on a government building once

01.11.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all

01.11.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 334 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8
White words on a black background read:

50+ 
Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130
Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

~20
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

18.10.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 17275 πŸ” 8051 πŸ’¬ 302 πŸ“Œ 242

I have a small thing on the show this week about me and my dad. Have a listen!

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But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century β€œwoke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of BartlomΓ© de las Casas.

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Why doesn’t anybody in the movies driving a getaway car ever just drive a black Toyota Corolla? They’d never find you!

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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur β€œdied in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

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Thomas Partey: Why is he playing against Spurs before rape charge court appearance? Thomas Partey is

not these commentators trying to make out like Partey is being booed rn because he's a former arsenal player. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

16.09.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

very funny that some of the same people who spent years calling anyone sympathetic to BLM a β€œracial essentialist” are now up in arms that a ugandan-born south asian man would describe himself as african and asian because, of course, you can only choose one

06.07.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 13872 πŸ” 1623 πŸ’¬ 195 πŸ“Œ 51

Awww. Thank you so much for listening! I think we could all use a bit of cry.

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I’m guest hosting the show this week! 😎

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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

β€œEither he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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The player we can’t write about and football’s β€˜systemic failure’ to deal with sexual violence A Premier League player is representing his club despite facing accusations of sexual violence. And nobody can talk or do anything about it.

At this point Arsenal can simply do nothing, let the contract expire & live with this stain on the club’s history. Or they can make it much much worse.

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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window

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Have a small thing on the radio this week, and a rather large piece of concrete on my desk.

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

β€œOne young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, β€˜I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He β€œbegan to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, β€œfolding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He β€œasked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

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