Anisa Khalifa

omg! end of an era :(

Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NBC: “FDA claims COVID shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules”

When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

Vaccines.gov CDC The functionality of this website may be impacted while it is being updated. Find a pharmacy near you. Enter 5-digit ZIP code 10001 Search Please enter a valid 5-digit ZIP Code

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.

The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.

They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Here's how to donate food to immigrant families sheltering in place Organizations throughout the Triangle are accepting donations for immigrant families that are sheltering in place for fear of immigration agents.

Organizations throughout the Triangle are accepting donations for immigrant families that are sheltering in place for fear of immigration agents.

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The curious case of George Masa The immigrant from Japan who became the eyes of the American conservation movement and the dark secrets that motivated his life’s work

This week on The Broadside, how an immigrant from Japan became the eyes of the American conservation movement in 1920s Asheville, and the dark secrets that motivated his life’s work.

Featuring documentary filmmaker Paul Bonesteel & researcher Mami Kikuchi.

www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

Need food in NC? Use this map to find it If you are looking for free food in North Carolina, especially after the SNAP cuts, use this free tool to find food pantries, food banks and other food giveaways.

🛒Need food in North Carolina? Use this map to find it! 1,000+ locations 🔎 Search by map or city/county 👉 Find free food resources here: nclocal.org/2025/11/12/n...

If you haven’t read this book yet, please do. it’s so good. much has been written about a small percentage of Hollywood’s most visible monsters - mostly the ones who did straight-up crime - but Mo digs much deeper on so many people who never faced justice for the lives and careers they ruined

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

"He's one of us": Muslim New Yorkers greet Mamdani's victory with pride Many expressed hope that Mamdani's mayoralty would challenge Islamophobic "scare tactics."

"He's one of us": Muslim New Yorkers greet Mamdani's victory with pride

Guillermo Del Toro Would “Rather Die” Than Use Generative AI: “I Am Not Interested” As the discourse around AI in Hollywood continues to intensify, Guillermo del Toro is planting his feet in opposition of the filmmaking fad.

And then there’s Guillermo’s unequivocal stance. More of this please:

The Rise of the Murder Rom-Com in K-Dramas Podcast Episode · Dramas Over Flowers · 10/23/2025 · 1h 37m

My friend @anisa.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece on the presence of serial killers in romantic K-dramas for MENT magazine a while back, and then we recorded a pod talking more about it:

I'll link the article in the post below. Here's our podcast:

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No Other Land Film - Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

Link below.

if you’re in DC next Friday, come see me talk about Transcultural Kdrama at the 33rd Han Moo-Sook Colloquium at George Washington University! www.eventbrite.com/e/33rd-hahn-...

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed. DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true? GROSS: How would you respond to that? DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me.

And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in. I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

The rock that runs the world Arguably the most important mine in the world is located in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. And we don’t have a backup.

today on The Broadside: how a rock from western NC is key to making basically every semiconductor in the world…and why it’s important to know where all the raw materials we need for our stuff actually comes from. featuring @edconway.bsky.social

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Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

“What the sustained quoting of dehumanizing language makes exceedingly clear is that newsrooms are not in the habit of reflecting on past coverage, particularly when it comes to critiques of how they covered immigrants, foreigners, or foreign policy.“

The Belichick effect and the money-sucking machine of college football College football has become a money-sucking machine, with schools spending every dollar possible to keep up in an athletics arms race.

This week, The Broadside tackled… what else? The Belichick effect.

Big thanks to @scottdochterman.bsky.social and @themhartman.bsky.social for explaining the money-sucking machine behind college athletics. And why winning may not matter when you can’t lose in college football.

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com

say what you will about the merits or downsides of an entire publication devoted to liberalism, the dominant ideology of Western polities…but it’s just sloppy journalism to equate liberalism with “the left”. also note that the only place Semafor uses “the left” is in its headline and lede…

this is literally just racism

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”

a black kitten in a pile of autumn leaves

here’s my baby

How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

Adopt a station allows you to donate to your local public radio station: Here's the North Carolina list.
adoptastation.org/northcarolina

To state the obvious, Western journalists, writers, and filmmakers need to talk more about our colleagues being murdered in Gaza and the West Bank. You can do it from pure self interest if you want: every journalist murdered with impunity is a precedent which is headed in your direction