Jacquie McNish

Such courageous reporting from #Syria by @theglobeandmail.com Reporter @markmackinnon.bsky.social. So many #Journalist lost their lives covering this conflict.Including #JamesWrightFoley #MarieColvin #AnthonyShadid #RémiOchlik @reflextv.bsky.social

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China’s Communist Party is delighted to see the end of Voice of America.

“The so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag.”

www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/...

Only Greg Zuckerman can make you laugh out loud reading his column about China’s disruptive AI contender DeepSeek and his book about a quant investor.

Hello, Toronto?

Kudos to The Globe and Mail for nailing Canada’s strong hand against Trump’s invented trade war against Canada and Mexico. His tariff threats would burden U.S. consumers with higher inflation on key goods

It’s amazing to me that politicians don’t commit to post first on @bsky.app and to engage with constituents here

THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be.

You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion.

Which is more powerful?

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Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

Three months after Evan Gershkovich was released from a Russian prison he reveals the dark and violent secrets behind Putin's spy agency. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Horrors of #Assad 's prisons like #Sednaya are real.

Many of the images you will see from #syria are real.

But some like this are fakes.

Exercise caution because sharing them is harmful.

One day they will cited by propagandists seeking to discredit actual evidence of atrocities.

Is the collapse of the Assad regime just the beginning?

A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...

Stunning reporting by ProPublica: A Montana doctor earned millions of dollars treating patients with cancer and other illnesses. When doubters questioned his track record they discovered some patients who endured devastating chemo treatments never had cancer. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

Trump Targets Canada With Tariff Threats—and Trolling The strained relationship between the president-elect and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stands to complicate Canada’s ability to navigate a second Trump term.

Justin Trudeau’s rush to set a new more productive relationship with Trump after tensions during the president’s first term @vipalmonga www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The Russian dissident who didn’t want to leave Putin’s jail ‘I am not here by my own will,’ says Ilya Yashin, who reflects from Berlin on the prisoner swap that set him free and his resignation to a life in exile

“I am not here by my own will” - from behind bars, Ilya Yashin argued Russia’s political opposition was more effective in jail than in exile. He still believes that’s true - and is annoyed to have been freed in a Cold War-style prisoner exchange. My report www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Terrific reporting by @proPublica.org. Private consumer data is the new corporate and political weapon

Never Forget

Hands down: bsky.app/profile/popo...

Bravo

No budget, no government. It is hard to see how France’s deep political crisis can be resolved econ.st/4f1M3Lp

Trump’s transition running into a litany of early problems | Semafor From imperiled nominees to Republican division, it’s beginning to feel more like 2016 than the president-elect’s team wanted.

This time was supposed to be different for Trump, with a more orderly transition ... but things are turning chaotic
- Facing possibility of 2nd Cabinet nominee going down, DEA nom withdrawal
- Disagreement over sequencing of agenda
- Lag on FBI background checks
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

So well deserved by a fearless and tireless reporter who explores the world’s dark corners @markmackinnon.bsky.social

What Is the USMCA?
@vipalmonga.bsky.social unravels the trade headaches behind Trump’s threatened tariff hikes