Gina Kaufmann

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What are “western values”? A worthwhile interrogation.

But in real life off stage, I have felt a quieter version of it. When you stop contorting yourself to fit a rigid, external ideal, it changes you. Watching the absolute euphoria of someone coming back and crushing it as her liberated self was so good. “That’s what I’m fucking talking about!”

Amen

Finally watched the women’s free skate and was surprised to find myself crying watching Alyssa Liu.

I grew up in ballet, which has a similar contradiction: it’s expressive, it’s restrictive. I never got a cinematic redemption moment — let’s be real, most people don’t.

‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story? The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...

This story destroys my faith in so many things at once. I might have nightmares. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...?

Just gonna pretend like I didn't see that weird video

Ted Lasso is a really fun show. I’m allll the way on the bandwagon now!

Sometimes it takes me a while. 😂

One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia. Her letter was written on a piece of notebook paper. She decorated it with rainbows and hearts. And she drew a portrait of herself and her mom wearing their detention uniforms and government-issued ID badges.

They were planning a trip to “Disneylandia” and ended up in “Dilleylandia”

This reporter put out a call for detained children willing to write letters from the inside. She followed up with one 9-year-old to tell her story.

This is great journalism.

link.propublica.net/view/5ef4f3a...

This is an informative thread from a Minneapolis lawyer

This tap dancer from Japan uses New York City landmarks as her backdrops - The World from PRX Emiko Nakagawa has a unique tap dancing style that blends old techniques with hip-hop and street music. The young Japanese dancer wants to use her art to inspire others like her back home.

What brings me joy… theworld.org/stories/2026...

We'll hear how young people in Bangladesh feel about the election results today on @theworld.org -- Carolyn seems to be everywhere at once, it's truly remarkable. If you really want to feel what it's like to be in Dhaka at this pivotal moment, listen up!

Where do youth in Bangladesh stand on election day? - The World from PRX Nationwide protests in Bangladesh managed to bring an end to years of repressive rule by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Those demonstrations were led by young people, many of them studen...

Youth protests toppled the leader of Bangladesh. Now the same people who demonstrated are out voting for the next government. Our Carolyn Beeler is in Dhaka to find out what's on their minds, and to see if the protest movement's success translates to electoral success. theworld.org/segments/202...

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How to walk out of school In January, high school students walked out of their Columbia, Missouri, classrooms to pressure their school board to reinstate a mask mandate. With COVID prevention policies expiring statewide, their...

Seeing that kids in Kansas City schools are walking out to protest ICE reminds me of what Dawson Barrett had to say about the role of student walkouts in bringing about change throughout American history when I covered a different student walkout movement: www.kcur.org/podcast/real...

“They just told me where to stand, and they said: ‘Don’t move. Stand here and be one with the grass.’”

A fun read:

Russian society grapples with the human cost of war - The World from PRX As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides could hit 2 million by the spring. The Washington Post’s Francesca Ebel recently returned from rep...

One of the last journalists still working inside Russia spoke to us recently about how Russians view the war in Ukraine. That was just over a week ago. She has since been laid off by the Washington Post.

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Students study Puerto Rico and colonialism through Bad Bunny's latest album - The World from PRX Albert Laguna, an associate professor of American studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University, taught a new class last semester called “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics.” Th...

If you want to become a Bad Bunny scholar, @biancahillier.bsky.social went to Yale to report this story about a whole class on Bad Bunny last fall. Hearing it again now is fun… and also poignant. theworld.org/segments/202...

Yes please. I am thinking fondly of when I read My Broken Language by Quiara Alegria Hudes and would love to read something that pulls me into someone else’s world that fully again.

When I lived in Ted Lasso’s city of origin (and Jason Sudeikis’s) I tried to watch that show multiple times but always fell asleep.

Living in New England years later, not only have I stayed awake through 4 episodes, but I have cackled. Cackled!

I think it means something.

“You can know how much these things have hamstrung how we vote, how we shop, how we communicate with one another, you can lament the conglomerative gerrymandering of the media sphere, and you can still find yourself numb to it at this late date.”

This late date! It’s been 9 years.

I take strange comfort from this letter by @scottwilsonkc.bsky.social on his last day as Pitch editor, 2017

“I know survival is a low bar, but look around at the media firmament and nod along with me: The value of continued existence is impossible to overstate.”

www.thepitchkc.com/pitch-editor...

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1)
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This is the essential problem in media now: the economics are absolutely brutal, and there's only room for one New York Times.

Other great publications shrink, specialize, or source their funding to a billionaire — and we're getting a brutal object lesson in the dangers of that last option today.

The great @amandabecker.bsky.social consistently killing it for @19thnews.org — an important read

Having a body cam is just the first step. You also gotta turn it on and release the footage.

DHS has footage of Alex Pretti's killing. Yet it won't even say whether it's own investigators have it.

www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Have considered the liability of extreme near sightedness, remedied only by a fragile object perched insecurely on my ears and nose.

I am nothing without my glasses. Once broke a pair while sleeping on an airplane (not sure how) and had to hold someone’s hand just to navigate the airport.