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Frida Ghitis

@fridaghitis.bsky.social

World affairs journalist. Frm CNN producer/correspondent. Sr columnist World Politics Review, on-air contrib CNN, CNNE, contrib columnist Washington Post. Worked in 70+ countries. (Threads @fridaghitis, LinkedIn, Instag) https://fridainsight.substack.com

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Live Midden-Oosten: Lichamen overgedragen door Hamas niet van gijzelaars

None of the human remains transferred by Hamas to Israel yesterday belong to Israeli hostages www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/l...

01.11.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
ATCSCC Advisory

JFK airport ground stop order due to lack of adequate "staffing" - FAA www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_other...

31.10.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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How to Topple an Elected Authoritarian All eyes on the opposition's game plan against PM Viktor Orban

How to topple an elected autocrat. Hungary is working on the answer. fridainsight.substack.com/p/how-to-top...

29.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Under Fire at Home, Spain’s Sanchez Turns to Foreign Policy Populism The Spanish prime minister is emphasizing his party’s positions on issues like NATO and Gaza to shore up his political standing.

After a rough year, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has found an unlikely strategy for countering his domestic troubles: turning the country’s attention to foreign policy.

Read more in @fridaghitis.bsky.social’s latest column:

30.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They covered their bases, knowing someone would want to pull a fast one.

30.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you had to choose one thing that makes the Trump administration resemble a tyrannical dictatorship, these actions by ICE would stand at the top of the list.

30.10.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Topple an Elected Authoritarian All eyes on the opposition's game plan against PM Viktor Orban

How to topple an elected autocrat. Hungary is working on the answer. fridainsight.substack.com/p/how-to-top...

29.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ripped faΓ§ade off anti-imperialism Reaction to the war in Ukraine has revealed that the term was little more than a cover for anti-Americanism.

I wrote about that. The hypocrisy of β€œanti-imperialism”

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

26.10.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So much love for ICE. It’s something to behold!

26.10.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why not just back up a Trump truck to the US treasury and load it up with quarter of a billion dollars worth of taxpayer money?

22.10.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe President is building an army to attack his own country.”

21.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Rand is right. This is a little too much like murder

19.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In fairness to him, if he can lower drug prices by 800%, he probably quadruple the size of the economy in a weekend.

19.10.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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$KRE rating

19.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

18.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s that time again

17.10.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, York won't have a Duke anymore?

17.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Simone Veil

16.10.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Justice Department Indicts Former Trump Adviser John Bolton The former official is the latest of the president’s critics to face prosecution by his Justice Department.

The weaponization of the Department of Justice to punish the president’s critics would have resulted in impeachment at any other time in US history.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

16.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So good!

16.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BTW, you should come back to Substack

16.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes -- I don't know what's the population cutoff for urban liberalism and progressivism. There's certainly a strong correlation with city size, among other factors.

16.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NYC is a lot like other large urban areas. Only about 15% of voters live in cities of 500,000 or more

16.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To assume that NY is the prototype for the entire country seems like a case of willful blindness

16.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Important -- and very good!

16.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gaza Ceasefire Aside, Trump Just Isn’t Peace Prize Material If Trump really wants to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he would do well to quell the fires he has set at home.

If Trump wants to join the other U.S. presidents who have received the Nobel Peace Prize, he would do well to try to quell the fires he has set at home, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.

16.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel and Gaza: After the Euphoria, Reality Strikes Is it possible to achieve genuine, lasting peace?

Hamas is refusing to disarm. Here’s what happened a next.

open.substack.com/pub/fridains...

15.10.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Young Republicans chats leaked: "the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely β€” and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among...the party’s next leaders."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

15.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel and Gaza: After the Euphoria, Reality Strikes Is it possible to achieve genuine, lasting peace?

Now that the euphoria has subsided, we have reached a sobering moment: the long-awaited β€œday after.”

fridainsight.substack.com/p/israel-and...

15.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s a theory, credible and scary

15.10.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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