Naomi Gingold
@naomigingold.bsky.social
Journalist. Podcast story editor/producer. @NPR @theworld. Media/Politics Researcher. Writing a book on hip hop, tech, youth, media, and politics in #Myanmar. Signal: nomi.32 www.naomigingold.com
In what’s officially being called a holy shit move, the Trump admin moves to deny visas to “fact checkers.” In other news, what even is censorship when the people doing the censoring are calling the other people censors? Do words have meaning? #DemocracydiesinDaylight
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State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In what’s officially being called a holy shit move, the Trump admin moves to deny visas to “fact checkers.” In other news, what even is censorship when the people doing the censoring are calling the other people censors? Do words have meaning? #DemocracydiesinDaylight
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
Eurovision winner Dana International, the competition’s first trans victor has a message for the boycotters: x.com/nicolelamper...
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Eurovision winner Dana International, the competition’s first trans victor has a message for the boycotters: x.com/nicolelamper...
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Tayzar San along with activists Nan Lin and Khant Wai Phyo, staged an anti-regime election protest at Zay Cho Market in Mandalay’s Chanmyathazi Township on December 3 english.dvb.no/pro-democrac...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#Mandalay
#election
#protest
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#Mandalay
#election
#protest
Pro-democracy leader Tayzar San leads protest against regime’s 2025-26 elections in Mandalay - DVB
Myanmar pro-democracy leader, librarian, and physician, Tayzar San along with well-known democracy activists Nan Lin and Khant Wai Phyo, staged an anti-regime election protest at Zay Cho Market in Man...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Tayzar San along with activists Nan Lin and Khant Wai Phyo, staged an anti-regime election protest at Zay Cho Market in Mandalay’s Chanmyathazi Township on December 3 english.dvb.no/pro-democrac...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#Mandalay
#election
#protest
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#Mandalay
#election
#protest
As terrible as this administration is, I did not have willingly echoing Rwandan genocide on my bingo card. #kristinoem
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As terrible as this administration is, I did not have willingly echoing Rwandan genocide on my bingo card. #kristinoem
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A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips | NewsLab
The White House has added a Media Bias Offender Tipline to its new ‘Media Bias Portal’ website. It’s reportedly being inundated with links to articles that submitters contend have a right-wing bias. ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
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I’ve decided that this is my favorite person on social media. He gives them 10,000 yen to confess to their crush and ask them out on a date. And it’s basically pure joy. www.facebook.com/reel/2441133...
664K views · 30K reactions | I asked strangers in Japan to confess to their crush for 10,000yen!!
Full video is up on YouTube: JESSEOGN
#japan #japaneseculture #confessions | Jesse Ogundiran
I asked strangers in Japan to confess to their crush for 10,000yen!!
Full video is up on YouTube: JESSEOGN
#japan #japaneseculture #confessions
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December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I’ve decided that this is my favorite person on social media. He gives them 10,000 yen to confess to their crush and ask them out on a date. And it’s basically pure joy. www.facebook.com/reel/2441133...
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An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
Trump says US will reexamine all green cards issued to people from 19 countries and review all asylum cases approved under Biden. Happy. Thanksgiving. www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
US will reexamine all green cards issued to people from 19 countries as Trump administration ramps up immigration crackdown | CNN Politics
The US will reexamine all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern” at President Donald Trump’s direction, as the Trump administration intensifies its immigration crackdown following...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Trump says US will reexamine all green cards issued to people from 19 countries and review all asylum cases approved under Biden. Happy. Thanksgiving. www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
After blocking #Myanmar citizens from entering, perhaps this isn’t surprising: Trump ends temp protected status, claiming military junta’s sham election is progress & giving them everything they want. If they start deporting ppl to Burma, I hope there‘s hell raised www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
After blocking #Myanmar citizens from entering, perhaps this isn’t surprising: Trump ends temp protected status, claiming military junta’s sham election is progress & giving them everything they want. If they start deporting ppl to Burma, I hope there‘s hell raised www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
I was today years old when I realized we exported Black Friday to the world
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I was today years old when I realized we exported Black Friday to the world
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This is fun! Are you a geopolitics researcher and/or forecaster? Now you can be hired to train an AI to replace you. Hooray! $105 an hour is definitely a worthwhile amount to be compensated for making your field obsolete. (LinkedIn sent me the job)
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is fun! Are you a geopolitics researcher and/or forecaster? Now you can be hired to train an AI to replace you. Hooray! $105 an hour is definitely a worthwhile amount to be compensated for making your field obsolete. (LinkedIn sent me the job)
“Things happen” …. Should become the go-to winning strategy in murder trials from now on.
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“Things happen” …. Should become the go-to winning strategy in murder trials from now on.
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🚀 New on @isoc-pulse.bsky.social — I analyzed 3.5 years of Starlink IP geolocation data. From Gaza to Mars, the results reveal how this network has expanded (and surprised me) around the world.
Following a platform-wide outage in November 2022, #Starlink published a significantly different IP geolocation file, which included for the planet Mars:
98.97.73.224/27,XX,XX-XY,Mars
Learn more in @eldomador.bsky.social's latest post pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...
98.97.73.224/27,XX,XX-XY,Mars
Learn more in @eldomador.bsky.social's latest post pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...
Blast-Off: 3.5 Years of Starlink’s Growth (Part 2)
Starlink’s IP geolocation data shows the use of the satellite Internet service in isolated and disputed territories, an…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🚀 New on @isoc-pulse.bsky.social — I analyzed 3.5 years of Starlink IP geolocation data. From Gaza to Mars, the results reveal how this network has expanded (and surprised me) around the world.
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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
Nothing says legitimate democratic election like arresting people for criticizing the election. The number of citizens charged under the “Election Protection Law“ is now 100+ #Myanmar english.dvb.no/seven-charge...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Nothing says legitimate democratic election like arresting people for criticizing the election. The number of citizens charged under the “Election Protection Law“ is now 100+ #Myanmar english.dvb.no/seven-charge...
It shouldn’t be, but this is a ‘radical‘ idea in journalism. When I once told my editor at a major outlet that I wanted my work to have an impact, he was like omg. That’s not out job. and that actually wouldn’t be an uncommon reaction amongst traditional journalists
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November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It shouldn’t be, but this is a ‘radical‘ idea in journalism. When I once told my editor at a major outlet that I wanted my work to have an impact, he was like omg. That’s not out job. and that actually wouldn’t be an uncommon reaction amongst traditional journalists
Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia. …. Because nuclear one upmanship always ends well edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia. …. Because nuclear one upmanship always ends well edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
After 29 years, Radio Free Asia is on pause www.rfa.org/english/worl...
After 29 years, RFA is on pause
From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now
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October 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
After 29 years, Radio Free Asia is on pause www.rfa.org/english/worl...
Headline: SpaceX disables Starlink satellites being used by scam centers. The only problem?
Other people in that region rely on Starlink for Internet, because the military has turned off Internet in many ethnic regions
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Other people in that region rely on Starlink for Internet, because the military has turned off Internet in many ethnic regions
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SpaceX disables thousands of Starlink devices being used by Myanmar scam centers | CNN
SpaceX has disabled over 2,500 Starlink devices being used by cyber scam syndicates operating in a lawless corner of Myanmar, the Elon Musk-led company said Wednesday.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Headline: SpaceX disables Starlink satellites being used by scam centers. The only problem?
Other people in that region rely on Starlink for Internet, because the military has turned off Internet in many ethnic regions
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/23/a...
Other people in that region rely on Starlink for Internet, because the military has turned off Internet in many ethnic regions
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ok who did this? ☹️
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
ok who did this? ☹️