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 π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@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
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 π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0JFK airport ground stop order due to lack of adequate "staffing" - FAA www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_other...
31.10.2025 19:10 β π 27 π 20 π¬ 0 π 4How to topple an elected autocrat. Hungary is working on the answer. fridainsight.substack.com/p/how-to-top...
29.10.2025 16:02 β π 33 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0After a rough year, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has found an unlikely strategy for countering his domestic troubles: turning the countryβs attention to foreign policy.
Read more in @fridaghitis.bsky.socialβs latest column:
They covered their bases, knowing someone would want to pull a fast one.
30.10.2025 18:33 β π 14 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0If 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How to topple an elected autocrat. Hungary is working on the answer. fridainsight.substack.com/p/how-to-top...
29.10.2025 16:02 β π 33 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0I wrote about that. The hypocrisy of βanti-imperialismβ
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
So much love for ICE. Itβs something to behold!
26.10.2025 17:58 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Why 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 π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0βThe President is building an army to attack his own country.β
21.10.2025 21:54 β π 13 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0Rand is right. This is a little too much like murder
19.10.2025 22:42 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0In 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 π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0$KRE rating
19.10.2025 13:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
18.10.2025 15:25 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs that time again
17.10.2025 21:22 β π 118 π 28 π¬ 0 π 0So, York won't have a Duke anymore?
17.10.2025 19:05 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Simone Veil
16.10.2025 21:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The weaponization of the Department of Justice to punish the presidentβs critics would have resulted in impeachment at any other time in US history.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
So good!
16.10.2025 21:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0BTW, you should come back to Substack
16.10.2025 20:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes -- 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NYC 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0To assume that NY is the prototype for the entire country seems like a case of willful blindness
16.10.2025 18:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Important -- and very good!
16.10.2025 16:42 β π 17 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0If 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 π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Hamas is refusing to disarm. Hereβs what happened a next.
open.substack.com/pub/fridains...
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 partyβs next leaders."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Now that the euphoria has subsided, we have reached a sobering moment: the long-awaited βday after.β
fridainsight.substack.com/p/israel-and...
Hereβs a theory, credible and scary
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