Ruqaiyah Najjar

Ruqaiyah Najjar

@ruqaiyah.bsky.social

Mother. Human. Bourbon drinker. Producing State of Union @CNN / launching Press One for journalist-influencers / Former EIC @NowThis. Idk what to write in these anymore

232 Followers 175 Following 24 Posts Joined Oct 2023
7 months ago
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

It has never been an accident that they kill reporters. This is heartbreaking www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

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7 months ago

Not only is it back, it probably has your info on it (it had mine!) The article includes a link to the opt-out form and instructions to remove yourself.

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9 months ago
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9 months ago

This movie had some scenes that made me turn away lol, but Bill Murray was absolutely hilarious

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10 months ago

Why can I still not purchase books directly in the Kindle app?? How difficult can it possible be?? Less visits to space and more coding.!

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1 year ago
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The Washington Post, Non-profits, learning to love Jeff Bezos('s money) Pictured: Jeffrey Preston Bezos, website operator.

I wrote a little thing about the Washington Post and the necessity of spending Jeff’s money. You can read it if you want. mediahappyhour.substack.com/p/the-washin...

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1 year ago

What’s crazy is this is not the first time this has happened.

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1 year ago
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a young girl wearing a shirt that says just hug is smiling ALT: a young girl wearing a shirt that says just hug is smiling

Liking my own skeets is the equivalent of laughing at my own jokes. I slay me.

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1 year ago

Excited about Bluesky and its early newness honestly. Twitter got way too loud for me. Too much everything everywhere all at once

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1 year ago

I feel your pain. I swiped a muffin from the studio team thinking it was chocolate chip and it was blueberry.

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1 year ago

Fun fact. He resigned from the 118th Congress. Not the incoming Congress. I'm not sure how that works just yet though.

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1 year ago
Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people actually watched. Reportedly high budget has brought Apple TV+ a lot of prestige, but not a lot of viewers.

Apple TV+ is playing the long game, like Netflix did. Other services flood with filler, but everything on Apple is excellent Apple. Prestige content builds trust, not subscribers overnight. They're cementing themselves as serious storytellers before scaling.
arstechnica.com/apple/2024/1...

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1 year ago

Whooping cough here we come.

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1 year ago

“Wearing cowboy hats and Make America Great Again shirts, some white spectators pack into a dusty stadium located on the site of a former slave plantation that is now Louisiana’s state penitentiary.”

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1 year ago

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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1 year ago
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Senate Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Pass a Shield Law to Protect Journalism The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the House—but it’s unclear whether the Senate will take it up.

The PRESS Act "has so much bipartisan support and barely any opposition," Trevor Timm told @wired.com.

"But the only chance it has is to pass during the lame-duck session."

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1 year ago

Ohhhhhhh I missed that AI post. Geez

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1 year ago

Looks like a blue sky wave? What did I miss that prompted the surge? 🫠🫠😬

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1 year ago

There's now an easy way to convert a starter pack into a list (which you can then pin and check like any feed) if you want to keep up with posts in a certain area but don't want everyone in your following feed!

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1 year ago

Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!)

go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

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1 year ago

Ever more ProPublicans are on here now! 🕵️🔎

If you already followed this starter pack, it's worth checking in again to see who is newly added.

go.bsky.app/RkNqWmw

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1 year ago

This is still wild today. Israel seized equipment from a trusted and reputable press agency. No notification— no letter to the AP to take the feed down— just a ‘we passed a vague law and are now confiscating equipment thousands of news outlets depend on’. That’s scary asl

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1 year ago

Sometimes I wake up and still can’t believe Joe Scarborough gets a full three hour show every.single.morning. When I fully remember him being a pain in Bill Clinton’s side the entire time and also wanted to abolish the UN. How the mighty loud fall up man.

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1 year ago

Julian! Big Brother. AlmighTEE.
He was brilliant. Spike really should get some credit for creating spaces for some dope actors to come up

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1 year ago

So the more I remember to log in the more blue sky has early Twitter vibes. People are pretty engaged. It’s more natural maybe? So much cacophony in that other space— Can I reference X/Twitter on here? Is it the platform that shall not be named?

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1 year ago

Whoa! I’m appropriating this verbiage henceforth. Mcmunch is perfect! What is it for Wendy’s? 👀👀

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1 year ago
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… what sheep say??. Everywhere a bleat bleat can’t be the best we can do. 🤣🤣 I think the skeets have it my friends

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1 year ago

“Reskeet” ?? I grasp the larger point I’ve just been looking for the Bluesky of retweet and didn’t know this was it. … I uhh… I’m not sure I can use that 🙃

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1 year ago

Because I never explained otherwise, my son spent a good stretch of time in his childhood thinking that a vice principal at a school was there in case the principal was assassinated.

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