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Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Past: EP @AJStream / Digital Editor @AJEnglish / @Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Big Irish head.

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Joined January 2009

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@malonebarry

Barry Malone

3 years

🔌 Sign up to my free newsletter Proximities. The West unjustifiably dominates the so-called "international" news agenda. So every day I summarize three non-Western stories. It's digestible in two mins and will break you out of your media bubble. 🔌

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About - Proximities

Proximities highlights three non-Western news stories you should know, every day and free of charge. Click to read Proximities, by Barry Malone, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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4 years

Amazon workers have said they urinate in bottles. Rates of injury and illness in its warehouses are infamously high. Employees who lobbied for better conditions have been fired. That is how someone gets this rich. You don’t amass a trillion dollars without exploiting people.

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Jeff Bezos could become world's first trillionaire by 2026

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My heart breaks. This CNN report is very difficult to watch. But we should watch. Because these are the stories that need to be told.

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6 years

This should be the biggest story in the world right now.

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"It will be the largest famine the world has seen in many decades, with millions of victims." Yemen facing massive famine, says @UN chief

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What an incredible incredible photograph. It was taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani and has just won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

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God, my heart. Bless her.

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6 months

My heart breaks. Every journalist in the world needs to stand up and show their solidarity. If this man was a Western journalist this video would be all over our screens.

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We can’t take it anymore, we’re exhausted… We’re gonna get killed, it’s just a matter of when. There’s no protection, no impunity. These PPEs don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists. We lose lives, one by one… Mohammed Abu Hatab was here, half an hour ago.

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4 years

Brilliant opening from BBC Newsnight. Watch.

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2 years

Excellent, persistent interviewing from @Stone_SkyNews . This is how it's done.

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7 years

This clip is unbearable.

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1 year

The Irish president's desk is a thing of beauty. And he tidies it for no man.

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6 months

Quite a shot by Reuters' Kevin Lamarque.

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7 years

"We were the wretched refuse on the teeming shore," Irish prime minister says with Donald Trump in the room.

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2 years

Remarkable moment caught on camera as Zelensky hears about the bombing of the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial for the first time.

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2 years

So a hologram of the queen drove through London in a golden carriage today. And people waved at it. They waved at a hologram.

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3 months

This is wonderful. A mural of Wael al-Dahdouh in Dublin, Ireland, painted by renowned street artist Emmalene Blake. She's on Insta at emmaleneblake.

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Something that strikes me about Palestinian journalists. They lay press vests on coffins, they wear them to funerals. They are proud of their profession and they honour it. And yet so many journalists are silent about what is happening to them. They deserve our solidarity.

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3 years

Super cute. Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins gives a TV interview while his Bernese Mountain Dog puppy, Misneach, vies for his attention.

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6 years

Meanwhile, Ireland has just re-elected a president who speaks like this.

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7 months

Irish PM Varadkar on Gaza: "To me, it amounts to collective punishment. Cutting off power, cutting off fuel supplies and water supplies, that's not the way a respectable democratic state should conduct itself." Puts him at odds with most Western leaders.

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Taoiseach says Israeli actions in Gaza 'not acceptable'

An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised Israel for cutting off electricity and water supplies to Gaza, describing the actions as "not acceptable," and saying they may breach international law.

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5 months

Today's NY Times front page.

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2 years

Incredible. Ireland has decided to fast-track Ukrainian teachers through the registration process to teach in Irish schools, so that the schools are prepared to meet the needs of Ukrainian children.

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Ukrainian teachers to be fast-tracked through registration system

Move aims to ensure schools can cope with expected influx of children

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9 months

Thirty years later and this remarkable moment has lost none of its power. Sinéad was protesting the covering up of sex crimes by the Catholic Church. Imagine the courage it took to do this live on US television. And she was right. All along, she was right.

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2 years

Hello, police? Yes, Iceland just murdered Mark Zuckerberg.

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6 months

Saying it again: Palestinian journalists are the best among us. We would be blind without them.

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4 months

Wael Dahdouh back on air. I'm out of words to describe this man.

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His nickname in Arabic: the mountain (Al Jabal). Calm and strong, Wael Dahdouh, live from Gaza, after burying his eldest son, Hamza, killed in an Israeli strike. Wael had lost members of his family, including wife, 2 kids and grandchild earlier. He himself got injured too. Jabal

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6 years

The incredible photo we're all sharing today was taken by Jesco Denzel, a German government photographer. He gets credited in very few of the viral tweets. Website here:

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Incoming Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Simon Harris addresses Benjamin Netanyahu directly with some remarkably strong words: "Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.”

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4 years

This image from Philadelphia by AP's @apmrourke .

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2 years

Israeli forces pulling Palestinian flags off Shireen Abu Akleh's hearse.

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10 years

This disturbing André Carrilho illustration on Ebola, and how the world sees it, is both powerful and accurate. http://t.co/5XHKQI1uhe

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5 months

The Dubliners and The Pogues play "The Irish Rover". One of the best live performances you will ever see.

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4 years

Al Jazeera's @TeresaBo has been intentionally tear-gassed in the eyes by Bolivian police while on air. She was simply trying to report what was happening. And, being a total pro, she kept right on doing it.

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1 year

TV journalists. Print journalists.

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3 months

According to Unicef, 19,000 children in Gaza are now orphaned or have ended up alone with no adult to look after them.

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Injured, hungry and alone - the Gazan children orphaned by war

Some 19,000 children have been orphaned by the war, or have no adults to look after them, says the UN.

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4 years

The *cuteness*. Irish President Michael D. Higgins’ Bermese mountain dog Bród comes to find him at an official event.

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6 months

The courage of Wael Al Dahdouh is extraordinary.

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2 years

Big move from Al Jazeera. The network has assembled a legal team made up of international experts and intends to refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court.

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Al Jazeera to refer journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing to ICC

Network will call on ICC to address killing of Shireen Abu Akleh and Israel’s bombing of its Gaza office.

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6 months

Heartbreaking. Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that the family of their Gaza correspondent Wael Dahdouh - his wife, his son, his daughter - have been killed in an Israeli strike on a house they were sheltering in.

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2 years

The UK is an absolutely insane place.

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2 years

Just two humans having a perfectly natural conversation.

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2 years

Cruz also very clearly loses his temper at the end, perhaps not used to questioning this tough. British reporters often have a much healthier disregard for power than American ones do. There is no deference. It makes for more robust journalism - which is exactly what we need.

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9 years

To those who attack 'migrants' online. Look at this man, fleeing war in Syria, cradling his children. And rethink. http://t.co/1pXEIGStvN

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6 years

Kim Jong-un heading to lunch with 12 jogging bodyguards makes for a strangely hypnotic video clip.

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7 months

If five journalists of any other nationality had been killed over six days the solidarity from our profession would be absolutely deafening.

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2 years

Print journalists / TV journalists.

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7 months

Al Jazeera's @YoumnaElSayed17 live on air from Gaza as an Israeli missile hits what appears to be a high-rise residential/office tower. Her reporting has been outstanding today.

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10 days

Reuters' Mohammed Salem has won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image of a Palestinian woman, Inas Abu Maamar, cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in Gaza.

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4 years

This, from Dan Goodspeed, is remarkable.

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3 years

This is good.

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4 years

More humiliation for the US on the global stage. The Irish Supreme Court says Subway bread is, ummm, not bread.

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Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'

A Subway franchisee tried to claim their sandwiches were a staple food for tax reasons, but the country's strict definition of "bread" won't allow it.

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2 years

I'm in Ireland on holiday and, let me tell you, people here find days like today very entertaining.

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4 years

Good evening. Here is the news. "God save the Queen and Chelsea!" "ENGLAAAAAAAND!" "God save the Queen, fuck the Pope!" "Corbyn was always a c**t!" "Oh what a niiiight! Leaving Brexit on a Friday night!"

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3 years

This is a living hell. It is incredibly difficult to watch. But this is the reality of what is happening in Gaza.

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5 months

Love this tradition. Every Christmas, the Irish parliament officially announces that Santa Claus has been given permission to enter Irish airspace from December 24th through 25th.

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6 years

Horrible horrible news. Yaser Murtaja, CLEARLY identified as a journalist and yet shot in the stomach by Israeli forces, is now reported to have died. Let’s see if we journalists make as much noise for a Palestinian journalist as we do for Western ones.

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6 years

Yaser Murtaja, the journalist shot in the stomach, appears to be wearing a flak jacket that very clearly identifies him as press.

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3 years

The photo that launched a thousand memes today was taken by AFP's Brendan Smialowski. His wonderful Instagram here:

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3 years

"Badgers" is now 18 years old and it still pops into my head regularly.

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5 months

Solidarity, always, with the remarkable Wael Al-Dahdouh.

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2 years

Powerful footage of diplomats walking out of a UN Human Rights Council session today as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks. Symbolic gestures like this matter when you're fighting an information war.

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6 months

Al Jazeera is reporting that the family of its Gaza correspondent Youmna ElSayed has been told by the Israeli army to leave their home "or die".

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2 years

Wow, this Economist cover. Zoom in.

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25 days

Shireen Abu Akleh would have been 53 today. Forever missed.

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3 years

Nothing but love for whoever rolled the wrong clip. We all have those days, friend.

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6 years

And, to state the obvious, the people of Gaza do not have the luxury of leaving.

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4 months

Wael's wife, son, daughter and grandson were killed and he kept reporting. Now, wounded himself, he reports on the funeral of his colleague and friend Samir. A giant of a journalist and a giant of a human being.

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To the left, funeral procession of journalist Samir Abu Daqqa, to the right, his grieving colleague Wael Dahdouh, vows to continue Gaza coverage till his last breath.

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7 months

As a journalist, I've been using social for news since, well, since that became a thing. And I cannot recall ever seeing disinformation spread with such lightning speed around a big story as it is right now.

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3 months

Wael Dahdouh has left Gaza to receive medical treatment in Egypt. He has seen his wife, daughter, sons, grandchild and colleague killed in three separate Israeli strikes. And yet he kept reporting. He stands head and shoulders above others in this profession. Solidarity always.

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Al Jazeera reporting, per Al-Shifa Director Muhammed Abu Salmiya, that all patients in the hospital's ICU are now dead.

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7 years

Well done to the Guardian for leading with Somalia this morning. Clear it should be the biggest story in the world.

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7 years

I can watch this again and again.

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7 months

🧵"Hi, I'm a random journalist on Twitter. I've never been to Israel or Palestine, I've never reported on the conflict, I've never studied it, and last week I didn't know my Hamas from my elbow but here's my take... 1/64"

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9 months

Remarkable. Four Nigerians spent 14 days hiding above a cargo ship's rudder, travelling 5,600 kms. They ran out of food after 10 days and had been surviving by drinking seawater. Really underlines the extreme lengths people will go to for a better life.

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4 years

BBC’s Andrew Marr confronts China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, with horrifying drone footage of shackled, blindfolded and shaved prisoners believed to be Uighur Muslims. Powerful to watch him struggle with his response as footage plays beside him.

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5 months

New figures just released by Gaza health ministry: - 14,128 Palestinians killed - 5,600 children - 3,550 women - More than 33,000 wounded

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5 months

A Reuters investigation has found that Issam Abdallah, a Reuters journalist in Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli tank crew who fired two rounds directly at a group of clearly-identified journalists just 37 seconds apart.

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Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds

An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found.

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3 years

I absolutely love live TV.

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2 years

Protesters outside the Russian embassy in Ireland try to block an embassy car from entering, draping it in Ukrainian flags and chanting "Go home!"

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3 years

The situation in Ethiopia is the most pressing disaster in the world right now. In recent days, it has finally gotten more attention and made a splash in CNN and the NY Times. But it needs more.

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7 years

1,230 journalists killed since 1992. 41% of them were killed covering war. But 66% were killed covering politics or corruption. #NotTheEnemy

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5 years

This is remarkable stuff. Al Jazeera's investigative unit created a front pro-gun group in Australia and, over the course of three years, used it to build close relationships with the NRA and the far-right One Nation party.

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6 months

I know eight minutes seems like a long time to pause when you're scrolling through Twitter or any other platform but - do pause here - and watch this insightful and revealing interview. It is worth your time.

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3 years

A disgrace. Israeli forces manhandle and arrest Al Jazeera Arabic's Givara Budeiri as she covers protests in Sheikh Jarrah. Journalism is not a crime.

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5 months

"A Rainy Night in Soho" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

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1 year

Awww. RIP to Irish President Michael D Higgins' beloved dog Bród. Always remember this precious moment captured by @RazanIRL .

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6 years

"Clear choices are opening up as to what will be the character of our Irishness. Will it be a commitment to inclusion and a shared world or a retreat to the misery of an extreme individualism?"

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6 years

This is a remarkable -- deeply symbolic -- image by Getty's @drewangerer . US ambassador Nikki Haley walks out of a UN Security Council meeting as Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour begins to speak.

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She is so missed.

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7 months

Cannot recommend Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel/Gaza enough. It's far outstripping everyone else today for its depth and insight. Streaming on YouTube here:

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Away from the headlines, the situation in Sudan is dire: - More than half the population in need of aid - Violence against civilians - Outbreaks of cholera, dengue, malaria and measles - More than 70% of health facilities in conflict areas out of service

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Over half of Sudan's population needs humanitarian aid after nearly 7 months of war, UN says

Almost seven months of war between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group have left a wave of destruction.

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7 months

Reuters say the IDF has not responded to several requests asking for assurances Reuters journalists and offices in Gaza will not be targeted.

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6 years

Prepare to have your heart thoroughly warmed. Students at a school in Ireland lead successful campaign to stop the deportation of their classmate.

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3 years

Spare us the comparisons to African and/or Middle Eastern and/or Asian nations to contextualize what is happening. This is American. Own it as such.

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2 years

Ilhan Omar plays the audio of a death threat she received. Horrific. And powerful of her to do this.

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6 years

He's also responsible for this classic.

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7 years

What bravery AP's @BurhanOzbilici showed to capture those photos. Wire staff very often unsung and very often the heroes of this trade.

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3 years

I am fiercely proud to work for Al Jazeera.

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2 years

The Onion's homepage right now. They're going hard.

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