‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

U.S. Visa Ban Adds to South Sudan’s Mounting Troubles (Gift Article) The Trump administration’s revocation of all visas held by South Sudanese nationals comes as the East African nation faces the threat of renewed war.

A visa ban for South Sudan just compounds and adds to what is already an immensely challenging time, especially for a country that helped birth an independent South Sudan: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/w...

NYTimes front page June 30, 1930: " [Treasury Secretary] Mellon declares new tariff law will aid business. Secretary asserts the act will neither retard recovery nor hinder foreign trade. Holds uncertainty ended." timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

If it weren’t so damning for everyone in the near and longterm term I’d find their collective shock psychologically fascinating.

"We owe each other everything actually" is exactly the reminder I think we all need right now.

Trump administration shutters DC foreign policy think tank Wilson Center Nearly all employees at the Wilson Center, a non-partisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, have been placed on leave, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

I feel like from now on this will happen in short bursts to help bump poll numbers during a tough news cycle: fwww.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administr...

BIG new report from @crisisgroup.org out this morning.

The fall of Rome seems so much less exciting now that I realize everyone was kinda just working their regular jobs and paying bills and stuff the whole time

Love the shirt!

a barbie doll wearing glasses and red lips is holding her hand to her ear . ALT: a barbie doll wearing glasses and red lips is holding her hand to her ear .

I accidentally ingested some shrimp (which I am very allergic to) over the weekend and I couldn’t quite put my finger on what my face reminds me of rn and….it’s a Bratz doll.

I just started weight training for bone density and loooooove it.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

A mockumentary about the people who create prescription drug ads

Based on my recent re-watch of Battlestar Galactica and recent events it feels most apt that the cylons would destroy us when humans lost the master password to control them or something similar.

It’s not a job interview process until I bring up a reference to The Expanse and / or Battlestar Galactica. This time it was both. 10/10

One thing about me is that regardless of the friend or how / where / when I met them it’s 1,000 percent assured I am going to get a social media fwd about the Library of Alexandria.

Strike, or Else As Trump tosses out the TSA union contract, everything is on the line.

It's illegal for TSA workers to strike, their union isn't ready, it's unfair to them to be in this position, but this is it. If this stands it's going in the history books as the tipping point when labor got truly broken.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

Lol

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation.

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

Hey Bluesky! I love doing solutions journalism on global issues and I'm feeling the urge to tell a good news story right now.

What do you got?

Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall The Missouri Republican faced an angry crowd during a Monday town hall in Belton.

NEW - Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall

Folks, I've been covering politics for a dozen years in Kansas and Missouri and this is probably the most intense, angry town hall I have ever seen

www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Devex has done some very impressive reporting during an extremely challenging time. Invaluable resource right now.

NRC forced to suspend essential aid for 100,000s

Major humanitarian relief org can't do its job

"We currently have millions of dollars in outstanding payment requests to the US government. Without an immediate solution we may, at the end of February, be forced to halt US-funded lifesaving humanitarian programmes."

www.nrc.no/news/2025/fe...

Feeding USAID into the wood chipper - a snapshot:
Internews, which does media training and development, had an office in Liberia with 28 staff working on three projects. Twenty of those staff have summarily had their contracts terminated and the office has been closed down.

not trying to pick on this guy. this just reminded me that the federal government does not provide coffee to workers. to drink coffee at a federal office you generally have to pay into a "coffee club" that is managed by a staffer who volunteers to collect money and purchase a monthly coffee supply.

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law. We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."

Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...