Anisa Khalifa

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

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

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

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

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

and then came 9/11, when the mainstream news media basically became a mouthpiece for US revenge wars for years, although shoutout to Democracy Now and a few other real ones for keeping their sanity. but in this moment, despite the creeping dread caused by the breakdown of legacy media institutions…

where people only looked at the world—when they bothered to look at all—through a trick mirror. and even the the 4th estate touted as being duty bound to find out what was actually happening out there was only viewing it through the narrow aperture of American exceptionalism, with rare exceptions

reporting that takes it as a baseline fact that the lives of those our government bombs and kills are equal in value to those of the US citizens who are paid to bomb and kill displace them. when I moved to the US in ‘98, watching the news felt like stepping sideways into an alternate reality.

it’s a bad time for media. but I can’t tell you how relieving it feels to see coverage like this slowly increasing: journalism that doesn’t pretend that news stops at our border, that treats the consequences of US policy on the rest of the world as if it matters just as much as what happens here

The dirty little secret is that many podcasts are just (poorly executed) talk shows by another name The evolution of the podcast is really the de-evolution of not only radio but TV as well

The dirty little secret is that many podcasts are just (poorly executed) talk shows by another name

The evolution of the podcast is really the de-evolution of not only radio but TV as well

This week's newsletter, with a look at Pete Davidson's new so-called "podcast" for Netflix

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Southern snowboarders are changing the sport A snowboard revolution is happening in a place with… very little snow.

happy olympics! and in the spirit of the winter games, this week on @wunc.org’s The Broadside, how the icy slopes of NC are becoming one of the most vibrant scenes for snowboarding in the country:

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

The Battle of Hayes Pond On a cold night in January 1958, hundreds of Native Americans showed up to a field in southeast North Carolina with one mission: to boot the KKK out of their community.

this week on the Broadside from @wunc.org, how the Lumbee tribe in NC faced off with the KKK holding a rally on their land…and won.

68 years later, we hear the story from someone who was on the ground that night, and a Lumbee historian who grew up with that legacy. www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

‘My leg went to heaven before me’: Israeli war extinguishes Gaza childhoods After more than two years of a genocidal war, wounded and traumatised Palestinian children stare at an uncertain future.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

The FBI's raid of Hannah Natanson is giving me circa-2019 Hong Kong flashbacks

The FBI's raid of the home of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social Wednesday is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s multipronged war on press freedom.

Read our statement: freedom.press/issues/fbi-i...

John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI

That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)

yay, thank you for joining and sticking with us for so long!

Live Recording of Year End Yak 2025! (Dramas Over Flowers) YouTube video by Dramas Over Flowers

starting @dramasoverflowers.bsky.social year-end livestream shortly! join us at 11am ET at this link to talk about the highs and lows of 2025 K-dramaland

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