Katharine Khamhaengwong
@katharinegk.bsky.social
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editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (oxford analytica, brill yearbook of muslims in europe 2022-present, eater, eurasianet, oc media, saveur, the moscow times, etc) based in oegstgeest also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
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In Adjara a few weeks ago, nobody was happy with the government and the one Georgian Dream guy I know in Khulo was asking for tips to get to America. Wrote about it for @eurasianet.bsky.social:
eurasianet.org/georgia-prot...
Georgia protests: The view from Adjara
Dissatisfaction is widespread, but many are cautious about expressing displeasure publicly.
eurasianet.org
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jessicacalarco.com
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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"All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff
should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1
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adviser amid push to control
student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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tanvi.bsky.social
his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?
Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.
nymag.com
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nateschenkkan.bsky.social
The years of scandal over US practice of renditions and torture in the war on terror now seems quaint
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ocmedia.bsky.social
Georgian Dream is seeking to extend its proposed party ban to individual politicians. Under the new amendments, politicians linked to parties banned by the Constitutional Court would also be barred from political activity.

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Georgian Dream seeks to extend proposed ban of political parties to individual politicians
Previous proposed amendments called for essentially banning all major opposition parties, as well as future parties with a shared ideology.
oc-media.org
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npr.org
NPR @npr.org · 23h
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
n.pr
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josesepulveda.bsky.social
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.
katharinegk.bsky.social
cannot imagine selling grindr to abu dhabi will go well
katharinegk.bsky.social
i’ve been to a lot of old european city centers and often, despite their charms, find the lack of green a bit sad. not in haarlem!
a bower of orange berries and green leaves across a small alley another alley lined with bicycles and lush greenery a corner of a courtyard with white walls and a big tree a narrow street with potted plants and vines up brick houses
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architectural delights from the homeland of jazz
a tile and wood train station platform with a sign for haarlem a silly old brick building, with a sign reading “1670” some brightly colored reliefs of geometric people with tools on a warehousey building a row of seven almost identical brick houses with stepped roofs
katharinegk.bsky.social
apparently not! i guess i got lucky with the ones i used to go to in the bay area, which i recall being rather fussily curated
katharinegk.bsky.social
three of the directors/creators of the other shorts were in the audience and i felt bad for them
katharinegk.bsky.social
no way that was one of the best short films made in the entire world in the last year or whatever
katharinegk.bsky.social
film festival organisers slipped an ai film into the international shorts showing and it was the most bland soft music 2015 instagram filtered series of images of classically beautiful white or asian women alternating with shiny sad robots piece of drivel you could imagine
katharinegk.bsky.social
i admit that i don't really know what's up with seattle these days but there's got to be a better way to describe a city of 800,000 people
a closely cropped screenshot of black text on a white background reading "Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm"
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nickkristof.bsky.social
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
katharinegk.bsky.social
also i think most of the gurian cases were adjarans in guria anyway
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i’d say connections to pankisi very unlikely
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a few cases in adjara too in that era