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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 19h
Chicagoans: Join us Sunday @ 4pm for this forum w/ @mattduss.bsky.social (former foreign policy adviser for Bernie Sanders) + @tobitac.bsky.social (Justice is Global founding director) + @shaghdoosti.bsky.social (MoveOn) + @jwdwerner.bsky.social (Quincy Institute) www.eventbrite.com/e/what-would...
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What Would a Progressive US Foreign Policy Look Like?
A conversation with Matt Duss and other contributors to the new book “A World For All: New Visions of U.S. Foreign Policy”
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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
2. SUNDAY Oct 18, 4–5:30 Nighthawk | 4744 N Kimball Ave w/ @shaghdoosti.bsky.social, @tobitac.bsky.social, @dannypostel.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-would...
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What Would a Progressive US Foreign Policy Look Like?
A conversation with Matt Duss and other contributors to the new book “A World For All: New Visions of U.S. Foreign Policy”
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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Chicago! I’ll be joining the illustrious @mattduss.bsky.social in the coming days for a South Side–North Side pair of events to discuss this agenda-setting book on progressive foreign policy. 1. FRIDAY Oct 16, 1–2:30 UChicago | 1155 E 60th St, Rm 289B w/ @pstaniland.bsky.social
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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 19h
In this 2025 @newlinesmag.bsky.social article I explained the difference between “America First” and Realism, which the former pretends to be but is not. Trump & Vance have never been neutral about Ukraine — they're on Russia's side, for specific ideological reasons. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The ‘America First’ Masquerade
Though packaged as a kind of foreign policy realism, the doctrine guiding the Trump administration is riddled with contradictions
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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Powerful read. Open-source investigator @chrisosieck.bsky.social has spent years documenting the devastation of Gaza from afar. In this evocative @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay, he reflects with Palestinians on what images of destruction reveal and what they obscure. newlinesmag.com/first-person...
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‘Could You Look and See if My House Is Still Standing?’
An open-source investigator who has spent years documenting Palestine from afar reflects on reporting on Gaza
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“It is absurd, as Al-Muslimi put it, that for years we’ve been watching ‘one of the richest countries of the world bombing the poorest of the world,’ and it has little to show for it.”
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Yemen’s Unchecked War Could Become the Next Sectarian Jihad
New Lines Editorial Director Rasha Elass and contributing writer Farea Al-Muslimi discuss the growing threat to international maritime and oil interests posed by the Iran-backed Houthis — and its regional ramifications.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
In one of our current top reads, Fatima Khan writes on the protests that have returned to the streets of Delhi after revisions to the country’s voter rolls.
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In India, Citizens Brace for a Democratic Unraveling
As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets of Delhi
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What happens when it becomes too expensive to print a book? In Egypt, rising costs for paper and printing are putting independent publishers under pressure.
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The Rising Cost of Keeping Egypt’s Vibrant Literary Culture Alive
As prices for paper and printing soar, the small presses that transformed the country’s publishing landscape are being forced to rethink
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
From the New Lines' archives: The number of “-cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social .
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Historicide in Gaza
Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
ICYMI: Military recruitment and a collapsing riyal have drained Yemen’s teacher training colleges, with some departments now enrolling no students at all. Saeed Al-Batati reports on a collapsing education system.
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In Yemen, No One Wants To Be a Teacher Anymore
A decade of war and a collapsing currency have emptied the colleges that train the country’s educators, leaving schools shuttered or short-staffed
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thank you to @newlinesmag.bsky.social for giving me the platform to publish this piece, which was also very important to me personally. I’m grateful to @kshaheen.bsky.social and Christine el-Kholy for editing it and for their continued support.
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A fellow open-source investigator, @annonemo.bsky.social, grappled with the same questions when Palestinians asked him if their homes were still standing. “It felt wrong that they wanted, or felt they had to, ask me, a stranger using a pseudonym on X, such a personal and important question.”
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“Could you see if my home is still standing?” For @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I write about how satellite imagery became one of the only ways Palestinians could see what remained of home. I spoke to four, two from Rafah, about what these images show and leave out.
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‘Could You Look and See if My House Is Still Standing?’
An open-source investigator who has spent years documenting Palestine from afar reflects on reporting on Gaza
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WATCH: France’s student protests began with a simple demand: better schools. @kayliwewe.bsky.social  looks at the demonstrations sweeping the country.
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France's Student Revolt Grows
France’s student protests began with a simple demand: better schools. Kwangu Liwewe Agyei looks at how the demonstrations started in poorer parts of Paris, w...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In one of our current top reads: the women making clothes for some of the world’s biggest fashion brands describe forced overtime, harassment and threats of dismissal. An investigation into the human cost behind the labels we wear: f.mtr.cool/8krd6pjray
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From the archives: The dam of Gaza genocide denial has well and truly broken. While Israel’s supporters in the West still reject the charge, many media outlets are coming off the fence. Genocide scholar @martinshaw.bsky.social reflects on the shift. 
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The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken
Several prominent media outlets are coming off the fence over Israel’s actions, but a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: As paper and printing costs soar, squeezing Egypt’s publishers, the small independent presses that transformed the country's literary culture are being forced to rethink what gets published, writes Eli Siegel-Bernstein. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
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The Rising Cost of Keeping Egypt’s Vibrant Literary Culture Alive
As prices for paper and printing soar, the small presses that transformed the country’s publishing landscape are being forced to rethink
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: As millions of Indians struggle to prove they have the right to vote, the country’s Election Commission faces street protests and Prime Minister Narendra Modi one of his toughest challenges yet, writes Fatima Khan for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/reportage/in...
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In India, Citizens Brace for a Democratic Unraveling
As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets of Delhi
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Once a skeptic about AI doomsaying, @idreesahmad.bsky.social examines the dangers of the race toward superintelligence — and argues that public oversight can’t wait.
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The AI Threat is Real. The Vulnerabilities Are Too Numerous To Ignore
The stakes in the race to build new models are high, and the fate of humanity can’t be entrusted to the caprice of tech entrepreneurs
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“The coming days will test whether any of the pressure building up against the polling body will hold. Opposition leaders, students and civil society members are all on Delhi’s streets.”
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In India, Citizens Brace for a Democratic Unraveling
As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets of Delhi
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In one of our current top reads, a Tigrayan writer reckons with the leaders who betrayed their people and the human cost of a war that never seems to end.
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The Betrayal of Tigray
Former enemies are now suddenly allies, freedom fighters have become corrupt autocrats, and the people they claim to lead do not want this war
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“For some of Egypt’s small, independent publishing houses, long considered the linchpin of the country’s literary culture, rising costs of raw materials have proven insurmountable.”
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The Rising Cost of Keeping Egypt’s Vibrant Literary Culture Alive
As prices for paper and printing soar, the small presses that transformed the country’s publishing landscape are being forced to rethink
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social  archives: “Pop culture that objectifies women’s bodies, rape jokes, rape threats on social media — all have contributed to a rape culture that gives impunity to men because little or no action is taken against it.” 
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In India, Rape Culture Continues Unabated
A month after the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, the country continues to grapple with the realities of gender-based violence
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In defense of Egyptian food: @kshaheen.bsky.social  makes the case that koshary, molokhia and tamiyya deserve more respect. 
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In Defense of Egyptian Food
Egyptian food has long had a bad reputation, but it’s time to reassess what you think you know about mahshy, molokhia in duck stock, koshary — and tamiyya versus falafel.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Editor’s Pick: In an exclusive investigation, @newlinesmag.bsky.social  reports on the Turkish textile factories where women workers face forced overtime and sexual harassment — factories that feed the supply chains for many famous U.S. brands.
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The Abuses in Turkish Textile Factories Supplying Major US Brands
An exclusive investigation finds that workers routinely face forced overtime, insults and threats of dismissal
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WATCH: @surbhigupta.bsky.social  revisits her @newlinesmag.bsky.social  essay on how misogyny in India is reinforced by pop culture, online threats, normalized harassment and impunity.
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India's Culture of Sexual Violence
Surbhi Gupta revisits her New Lines essay, “In India, Rape Culture Continues Unabated,” which looks at how a culture of misogyny continues to thrive in India...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Buryats are among the latest groups in the U.S. to be denied asylum. A member of the community recalls the Russia he fled and what he fears if deported, in this report by Andrea Prada Bianchi and Soyonbo Borjgin for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . 
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ICE Turns Its Sights on Buryat Asylum-Seekers
A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one he dreads if deported
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As cities across the U.S. dismantle homeless encampments, the people living in them do not disappear. New crackdowns are testing what happens when homelessness is treated as a problem of enforcement rather than housing. 
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Why Homelessness Remains Such a Vexing Issue in the US
Legal rulings have given cities and counties new impetus to crack down on street sleeping, but the fate of camps in Oregon shows that’s not the end of the story
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LISTEN: East Africa regional expert Jalale Getachew Birru and Alan Boswell of the International Crisis Group join @kayliwewe.bsky.social  to discuss the return of war to Ethiopia for this month's edition of Global Insights.
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Alan Boswell: The War in Ethiopia is Now a Regional War
East Africa regional expert Jalale Getachew Birru and Alan Boswell of the International Crisis Group join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to discuss the return of war to...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICYMI: At the U.N., Donald Trump threatened Iran with “ annihilation.” This rhetoric reflects a president struggling to find a way out of a war the United States cannot win, argues @joecirin.bsky.social . 
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An Increasingly Desperate Trump Threatens Iran’s Annihilation
The rhetoric comes as the president is stuck with a war he can’t win and declining domestic popularity — but what if he means what he says?
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why do politicians continue to reach for ancient stories to explain Israel and Palestine? @qunfuz.bsky.social  examines how biblical narratives and contested versions of history continue to shape modern political claims to the land. 
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History and Myth in the Holy Land
Why do politicians continue to use Sunday school stories about Israel-Palestine’s past?
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Editor’s Pick Sliman Mansour spent a lifetime using art to preserve Palestinian identity and connect people to their land. Rana Anani, who knew him from childhood as a close friend of her father, remembers the gentle, humble man behind the iconic paintings. 
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Sliman Mansour’s Art Captured the Palestinian Condition
From his iconic paintings to the institutions he helped build and the generations of artists he inspired, he has left a vital legacy
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After a near miss with ICE, a Buryat truck driver in the U.S. weighs the life he has built against the Russia he fled, where deportation could mean prison, conscription or worse.  
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ICE Turns Its Sights on Buryat Asylum-Seekers
A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one he dreads if deported
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
During Pope Leo XIV’s first visit to France, identitarian Catholics left Easter eggs along the route, from a giant cross to the choice of Mass location, writes @diane2v.bsky.social 
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How France’s Religious Nationalists Hijacked the Pope’s Visit
From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, the movement laid Easter eggs all along Leo XIV’s trail through Paris
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“I feel so overwhelmed, as if I’m stuck in this world. …Those who wear the jeans I produce will feel like royalty.” An exclusive investigation from inside the Turkish factories producing denim for major U.S. brands. 
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The Abuses in Turkish Textile Factories Supplying Major US Brands
An exclusive investigation finds that workers routinely face forced overtime, insults and threats of dismissal
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Twelve years of conflict have transformed the Houthis’ fight from a Yemeni struggle for power into a geopolitical problem centered on one of the world’s most important maritime choke points. Mohammed Al-Qadhi breaks it down for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/how...
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How Geography Has Changed the War in Yemen
The question is no longer who controls Sanaa, or which faction holds this or that city — but who can project power over one of the world’s most important maritime choke points
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
WATCH: For five decades, Yousra has remained one of the defining stars of Egyptian cinema, spanning genres and generations. Kwangu Liwewe Agyei speaks with Tom Pollitt about his look back over Yousra’s career.
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Yousra's 50 Years on Screen
For five decades, Yousra has remained one of the defining stars of Egyptian cinema.Kwangu Liwewe Agyei speaks with Tom Pollitt about his look back over Yousr...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In a large online propaganda campaign in September, Yemen's government and its Saudi backers invoked Syria's revolution to promise Sanaa’s liberation. Within days, the Houthis had taken the coast of Bab al-Mandab.
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Waiting for Yemen’s al-Sharaa
In September, the Yemeni government and its Saudi backers invoked Syria's revolution to promise the liberation of Sanaa, days before the western coast fell to the Houthis
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In one of our current top reads, Winston Ross reports from Oregon on why a real solution to the U.S. homelessness crisis remains elusive.
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Why Homelessness Remains Such a Vexing Issue in the US
Legal rulings have given cities and counties new impetus to crack down on street sleeping, but the fate of camps in Oregon shows that’s not the end of the story
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Editor’s Pick: The question is no longer who controls Sanaa, or which faction holds this or that city — but who can project power over one of the world’s most important maritime choke points.
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How Geography Has Changed the War in Yemen
The question is no longer who controls Sanaa, or which faction holds this or that city — but who can project power over one of the world’s most important maritime choke points
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Saudi coffee cup with a hidden message, jokes about seats next to Israelis, India’s dueling “cockroaches” and “mosquitoes” — how the Flydubai flight incident became a political spectacle in multiple countries.
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The Flydubai Flight Lands as a Political Spectacle in Multiple Countries
After a Flydubai flight with mostly Israeli passengers made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, the incident became a political and cultural spectacle, spawning hero narratives and viral memes in Israel, India and Saudi Arabia.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ICYMI: @diane2v.bsky.social  writes on how France’s religious nationalists hijacked Pope Leo XIV's visit.
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How France’s Religious Nationalists Hijacked the Pope’s Visit
From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, the movement laid Easter eggs all along Leo XIV’s trail through Paris
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: The new war does not feel like the last for Tigrayans — freedom fighters have become corrupt autocrats, and former enemies are now suddenly allies. The people are being asked to make more sacrifices, but no longer believe in the cause, writes Zeywegih Leyti for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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The Betrayal of Tigray
Former enemies are now suddenly allies, freedom fighters have become corrupt autocrats, and the people they claim to lead do not want this war
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: A road trip through Iran's Hormozgan province took Kaveh Rostamkhani past the graves of 157 people killed at a Minab school, a wedding hit by U.S. strikes in Kuhestak and destroyed bridges in Bandar Abbas. Read his report for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/li...
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Life in Iran's War-Torn South on the Strait of Hormuz
A writer journeys through Hormozgan province, from Bandar Abbas fish market to the graves of Minab's schoolchildren and a bombed wedding in Kuhestak, where residents say the ceasefire never arrived
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Editor’s Pick: The stakes in the race to build new AI models are high, and the fate of humanity can’t be entrusted to the caprice of tech entrepreneurs, writes @idreesahmad.bsky.social .
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The AI Threat is Real. The Vulnerabilities Are Too Numerous To Ignore
The stakes in the race to build new models are high, and the fate of humanity can’t be entrusted to the caprice of tech entrepreneurs
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Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Hind Rajab was afraid of the dark. After killing her family & wounding her, Israel prevented her rescue & left her to die alone in the dark. I write about those critical hours & the film that brings back her voice to induct the world’s silence @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/review/hind-...
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Hind Rajab and the Dying Light
Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children
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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliman Mansour spent a lifetime using his art to preserve Palestinian identity and connect people to their land, inspiring generations of artists. This is a moving, poignant, beautiful tribute by the curator Rana Anani, who knew Mansour, at @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/sli...
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Sliman Mansour’s Art Captured the Palestinian Condition
From his iconic paintings to the institutions he helped build and the generations of artists he inspired, he has left a vital legacy
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Ajam Media Collective @ajammc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Before Iranians were killed, they had to become killable. And shows like Homeland and Tehran did precisely that. While an early generation built an image of Iran as fanatical, backward, and savage, recent shows turn Iran into an active war zone.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎧 On the podcast this week, journalist and author Jason Burke joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social to discuss the wave of leftist violence that swept Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s. f.mtr.cool/635ecpvcdt
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In one of our current top reads, Yemeni journalist Mohammed Al-Qadhi explains how the Houthis seized the country’s western coastline and reached for Bab al-Mandab.
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The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War
How the Houthis seized the country’s western coastline and reached for Bab al-Mandab
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