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Journalist in Ohio | Read me @natgeotravel @BBCWorld @us.theguardian.com etc Lived in Turkey til 2017; Syria til 2012 Wrote a book about the Syrian uprising Gmail: kilruanesstar

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How Buffalo, New York has adapted to and embraced an influx of climate migrants | Great Lakes Now For the first time in 70 years, Buffalo’s population is rising, partly due to Puerto Ricans relocating after the devastation of hurricanes Irma and Maria.

The last in a three-story series for @greatlakesnow.bsky.social on climate change and the Great Lakes:

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08.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘I don’t feel safe any more’: Dearborn’s Arab Americans on rising Islamophobia Residents in Michigan city on edge as threats against their community rise, and some are reassessing their support for Trump

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When Amirah moved it away, she saw a long, deep cut across her daughter’s neck. A man had approached her on the playground, grabbed her head and slit her throat with a knife.

08.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Boom or burden? Climate migration’s impact on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula | Great Lakes Now Could climate migration bring new life to shrinking towns in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, or will rising costs and lagging infrastructure get in the way of population growth?

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01.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Great Lakes cities are preparing for climate migration | Great Lakes Now Cleveland hopes to thrive as a climate refuge, but some fear gentrification and extractive development will leave longtime residents behind.

Latest for @greatlakesnow.bsky.social

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01.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ohio requires buses for private school kids. Public school students have to find their own ride School districts are responsible for transporting private and charter school kids, leaving thousands of public school students behind

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25.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects

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25.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘I was reborn’: Cincinnati imam reflects on 10 weeks in Ice custody after release Ayman Soliman recalls isolation, abuse and fear of deportation and the community that fought for his release

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25.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Indiana town suffering under the shadow of a BP refinery: ‘They’ve had way too many accidents’ Whiting residents worried after facility, which has had multiple problems, shut down temporarily after rain

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How Great Lakes cities are preparing for climate migration | Great Lakes Now Cleveland hopes to thrive as a climate refuge, but some fear gentrification and extractive development will leave longtime residents behind.

www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/09/how-...

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25.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown An imam’s detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town

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02.08.2025 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ohio mosque worshippers reel after imam is detained by Ice: ‘No one is ever truly safe’ Egyptian-born Ayman Soliman was detained while attending a regular check-in with immigration officers

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18.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance’s home town The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold

“It’s very upsetting because I’m more worried about everybody’s health around here. It’s already bad. We were hoping for something that was going to make it better.”

by @stephenstarr.bsky.social via @theguardian.com

15.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance’s home town The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold

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15.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy xAI’s generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It’s also scooping up a ton of data that people post on X. Here’s how to keep your posts out of Grok—and why you should.

speaking of grok spreading baseless rumors... a reminder that the chatbot is unhinged compared to its competitors. it's also scooping up a ton of data that people post on X. Here’s how to keep your posts out of grok—and why you should.

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Cleveland Browns owner drops $25M on oceanfront Lost Tree Village home Cleveland Browns owner Susan “Dee” Bagwell Haslam bought an oceanfront home in North Palm Beach’s gated Lost Tree Village community for $25 million.

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The desperate drive to secure passports for thousands of US-born Haitian kids – before it’s too late Advocates in Springfield, Ohio – a city thousands of Haitians now call home – fear the fallout of Trump’s DHS revoking temporary protected status for Haitian nationals

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‘Our sense of safety was violated’: a Black suburb in Ohio confronts repeated threats from white supremacists Residents formed a safety watch after a neo-Nazi march in Lincoln Heights, but racist incidents still cause turmoil

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07.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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How refugees have helped save these midwestern cities: ‘That’s really something we celebrate’ In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformed At a time in life when many are winding down, Gunash Akhmedova, aged 65, fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening her first business. A member of the Ahiska, or Meskhetian, Turk community who came to the US as a refugee from western Russia in 2005, Akhmedova opened Gunash’s Mediterranean Cusine two years ago on the site of a converted freight house alongside other international food vendors in a formerly industrial corner of Dayton, Ohio. Continue reading...

How refugees have helped save these midwestern cities: ‘That’s really something we celebrate’ #Guardian #Afghanistan

27.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hot asphalt, ‘corn sweat’ and floods: midwest swelters as heatwave grips the US Millions seek relief from a severe heat dome that’s led to lake drownings, leaking methane gas and affected farmers

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02.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cleveland Browns clash with city over plan to move stadium to the suburbs Browns’ owners want to build a new $2.4bn stadium – and want Ohio taxpayers to foot a portion of the bill

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02.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Proposed Republican cuts could undo opioid epidemic progress in Appalachia Few other places in the US will see the effects of funding cuts felt more than in Appalachian communities

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02.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bhutanese Nepalis fled ethnic cleansing for the US. Trump is returning them to the refugee camps They lost their Nepalese citizenship years ago and are now living in a ‘stateless limbo’ amid Trump’s deportations

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Are data centers a threat to the Great Lakes? | Great Lakes Now One of the poorest cities in Michigan has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists and locals warn of high costs to water, climate and community.

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22.05.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The US island with no cars and one horse for every person In the midst of "the car capital of the world", there's a serene vehicle-free island home to 600 people, 600 horses and a once-upon-a-time way of life.

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14.05.2025 17:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The mysterious firing of a Chinese professor has Asian students on edge: ‘Brings chills to our spines’ Xiaofeng Wang was fired by Indiana University on the same day as an FBI raid – but he hasn’t been charged with a crime

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14.05.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why effects of Michigan’s ice storm will linger for months, perhaps years Climate experts say warming atmosphere from climate change could fuel severe freezing rain and ice storms like the one that hit the upper midwest last month

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14.05.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This hockey town in Michigan has deep ties to Canada. Then came Trump’s tariffs From the local sports team to local businesses, Saginaw is intimately intertwined with its northern neighbor

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14.05.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How driving lessons are helping Ohio’s Haitians: ‘Things are getting better’ Landmark driving simulators are improving road safety and helping Springfield immigrants targeted by Trump officials

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14.05.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Ohio became a hotbed of white supremacism, spreading its tentacles globally | Stephen Starr Rise of a resurgent American white supremacism is reaching around the globe, often with deadly consequences

How Ohio became a hotbed of white supremacism, spreading its tentacles globally

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06.05.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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