Anisa Khalifa

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows Organic search traffic to some of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped by 58% since 2024, according to a new analysis from the SEO and GEO marketing firm Growtika. The report pulled…

Organic search traffic to ten of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped 58% since 2024, according to a new report. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.

Insiders Fear Steep Civilian Toll In Iran After Trump Slashed Pentagon Personnel The U.S. has "no stupid rules of engagement," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday.

Before the war on Iran, Trump dismantled teams at the Pentagon that focused on limiting civilian casualties in conflict

Upon entering the war, the admin says: “no stupid rules of engagement”

Big fear of war crimes among sources familiar with military discussions

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NC Congresswoman Valerie Foushee holds off primary challenger Nida Allam, but recount is possible Congresswoman Valerie Foushee appeared to narrowly fend off a strong challenge from Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam in Tuesday’s primary, but the race could be eligible for a recount.

NC Congresswoman Valerie Foushee holds off primary challenger Nida Allam, but recount is possible:
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UNC-Chapel Hill nixes secret recording policy after faculty concern The policy had only been in effect for two weeks when Chancellor Lee Roberts announced he was reversing it.

The classroom recordings policy had only been in effect for two weeks when Chancellor Lee Roberts announced he was reversing it.

www.wunc.org/education/20...

they always have to do it to us in ramadan. and every year it’s some freshly terrible violence, carried out with gleeful and malicious abandon

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

But hey Claude promises to never run ads.

remember, one of the purported reasons the Ellison/Weiss CBS News kept pushing for U.S. ops in Iran, despite public opposition to any such offensive, was that someone needed to stop the regime from killing civilians: slate.com/business/202...

gives me flashbacks to march 2003

At least 50 children have been killed & <60 injured in an Israeli air strike on a girls’ school in Minab in #Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, per state media. Unlike overnight attacks last year, Israel’s strikes this morning apparently timed to inflict maximum damage, casualties & disruption.

Sure would be a good time to have not laid off your entire Middle East bureau.

once again the us has started an illegal and unnecessary war justified by lies about regime change and terrorism…I would say I didn’t expect to see this multiple times in my short-ish life but at this point that would be a lie

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead

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The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

The academic freedom fight has entered the classroom From public syllabi to surveillance, universities across the country are embracing unprecedented policies that professors say are undermining their academic freedom.

this week on The Broadside from @wunc.org, the battle for academic freedom, and what it might mean for higher ed in North Carolina—and across the country.

featuring reporting from WUNC News’ @batkinson2501.bsky.social & analysis from legal scholar Keith Whittington

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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

"America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe."

Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...

CPJ finds 129 journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 — the highest annual toll since CPJ began collecting data in 1992. It marks the second consecutive annual record for press death.

Israel was responsible for more than two-thirds of the global total in 2025.

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have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

This is what I was talking about last year in my piece on the Everglades camp for MSNBC, when it was already clear the US government was talking to several countries. Not only is the US creating a domestic network of camps, "we’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network."

Palestinians in Gaza observe Ramadan despite enormous destruction and loss The holy month of Ramadan is celebrated by over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. For Palestinians in Gaza, Ramadan is defined by hope amid destruction and loss. News Hour videographer and produce...

The holy month of Ramadan is celebrated by over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. For Palestinians in Gaza, Ramadan is defined by hope amid destruction and loss. https://to.pbs.org/4kJoQCe

Someone contacted me through my website saying I should be murdered by Hamas or kill myself with a gun for writing about Doctors Without Borders and more humanitarian groups were being kicked out of Gaza.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

wow this spanish team is really leaning into the orientalism with this dune music and….whatever the heck this costume is

What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.

Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:

and that is that there now seems to be an opportunity to build the kind of independent, nonprofit news outlets that I hope people will support, now that far more Americans have opened their eyes to how interconnected our lives and decisions and tax dollars are with humanity around the world.

and all of the real sorrow I feel seeing so many excellent journalists lose their jobs and the resources to do really excellent reporting that is very necessary right now; despite the dire consequences of our unmooring from a commonly accepted truth, I do see a sliver of light coming from all this