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Janine Zacharia

@janinezac.bsky.social
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Teach journalism at Stanford. Former Mideast reporter for Washington Post et al.

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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Images from packed Palo Alto #NoKings march and rallies earlier today.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/06/2025
A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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‘Uncharted Waters’: Stanford Doctor Fired From US Vaccine Panel by RFK Jr. Speaks Out | KQED
After Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices this week, one Bay Area doctor who was on the panel warned that the move will be disruptive.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/06/2025
It is amazing to see one party openly calling for the arrest of their political opposition while multiple mainstream outlets run stories on the dangers of the extremism of protesters and social media users.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Democratic Senators and Reps should hold a sit-in in the Capitol. This is an outrageous abuse of power and an assault on elected officials.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🚨 Updatd on Padilla ejection from Noem conference “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he said. He tried to speak further as he was forcibly removed into an adjoining room, where he yelled “Hands off!” He was forced to the ground, detained, & handcuffed
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California Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed at Noem presser
The senator was stopped and shoved back by multiple men.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is outrageous, and we need answers. If this is how the Trump administration treated a United States senator while the cameras are on, ask yourself: what will they do to ordinary people?
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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 12/06/2025
For those paying attention, press conferences are the generally accepted forum where people like the DHS Secretary answer questions. Sen. Padilla, for what it's worth, is the ranking member of the Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/06/2025
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We published my Stanford Foreign Correspondence Class group project-Coping with Cuts: Portraits of Loss after the U.S. Ceases Aid Operations Around the Globe. A sad but necessary sampling of endless stories of hardship, loss, and U.S. betrayal. Kudos, students. peninsulapress.com/2025/06/06/c...
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Coping with Cuts: Portraits of Loss after the U.S. Ceases Aid Operations Around the Globe - Peninsula Press
A reporting project of Stanford Journalism’s Spring 2025 Foreign Correspondence Class
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“The N.I.H.’s multiyear investment in advanced vaccine technologies shouldn’t be abandoned on a whim like this,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Schools should help students navigate AI and fake news, Stanford experts say
At a GSE Cubberley Lecture and School’s In crossover event, panelists emphasized the urgency of digital literacy. “Our students are living digital lives. It’s our responsibility to help them navigate ...
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“It’s an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars to interrupt research,” said Rice...“For my trial, more than $2 million has been spent on this incredibly complex study. It’s so incredibly wasteful.” www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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We are Harvard researchers. Trump’s cuts are endangering lives
The president’s funding cuts at the university will harm cancer patients, ALS sufferers and 800 babies and toddlers, academics warn
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse...
I've learned that in the lead-up to Hegseth's upcoming trip to Singapore, the Pentagon quietly attempted to block CNN producer Haley Britzky from serving as the designated television pooler. Because space on such trips is limited, the press corps designates a small group of reporters to travel with the secretary and share information with the broader press. Britzky had been slated for the role. But Pentagon officials- apparently irked by some of her tweets, despite their innocuous nature
- relayed to CNN brass that she was not welcome.The move was a plain act of retribution, a targeted attempt by the Pentagon to sideline a journalist for doing her job in a way that it did not like. It triggered immediate backlash. Reporters from other news organizations expressed outrage, with other outlets indicating that if Britzky was excluded, they too would pull out of the trip—effectively denying Hegseth the press coverage he relies on for visibility. “They don’t get to decide who covers them,” one correspondent told me.
After a brief standoff, I'm told the Pentagon relented. Britzky will travel with Hegseth as originally planned. A CNN spokesperson declined to comment and a Pentagon spokesperson did not respond to a request for one Monday evening.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Pope Leo, in his brief tenure, has advocated for a free press more than any member of Congress. "The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations...calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Audience of the Holy Father Leo XIV to representatives of the media (12 May 2025) | LEO XIV
Pope Leo XIV meets in the Paul VI Hall all the media workers accredited to the Holy See Press Office who have covered the events of the last few weeks, 12 May 2025
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...
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Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Many important points in this Steven Pinker piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
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Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"The public must have broad and undistorted access to reliable information about the government’s decisions and policies. The press must be free to report independently and critically without fear of official reprisal." knightcolumbia.org/documents/dm...
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An Open Letter to Leaders of American Institutions (5/19/2025)
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Alarm bells: Trump's first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy - Committee to Protect Journalists
Executive summary The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been marked by a flurry of executive actions that have created a chilling effect and have the potential to curtail media freedoms....
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Useful exploration of how A.I. tools helped with deep, accountability reporting and visualizations. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-...
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How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting
For a second year, the Pulitzer Prizes required applicants to divulge AI usage — one winner and three finalists disclosed.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Taking part in this discussion at Stanford shortly. To be honest, from what I'm seeking as I give talks to different age groups, I'm less worried about the young people than the older folks. events.stanford.edu/event/stanfo...
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Digital media literacy in the AI era
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Do This: Spotting and Stopping Disinformation redwine.blue/do-this-spot...
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Do This: Spotting and Stopping Disinformation - Red Wine and Blue
Do This: Spotting and Stopping Disinformation. Learn how to find trusted news sources with Janine Zacharia and Red Wine and Blue.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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EPA Reverses Course, Drops Limits on Three Dangerous PFAS Chemicals
In a win for chemical companies like Chemours and 3M, the EPA has scrapped Biden administration rules targeting three toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, despite their links to cancer and immune s...
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I love @willbunch.bsky.social. He always brings it. Although until now I had missed the story about the ball-tanning guy... 😱 www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, how the Trump-Leo divide was born in the ‘80s.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Speaking to @redwineblueusa.bsky.social May 22 about being a smart news consumer in our era of noise. "Red Wine and Blue is a national community of over half a million diverse suburban women working together to defeat extremism, one friend at a time." secure.everyaction.com/DInYU2SSR0mw... i
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Hw do we determine what is reliable and what to avoid with news sources? Join us to learn how to spot trustworthy news and why facts matter more than ever.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Looking forward to moderating this discussion with @kyla.bsky.social @mattkiser.bsky.social and @peterhamby.bsky.social at Stanford today. https:events.stanford.edu/event/2025-rebele-symposium-the-newsinfluencers-what-legacy-media-andonline-news-content-creators-can-learn-from-each-other
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2025 Rebele Symposium: The New(s) Influencers -- What Legacy Media and Online News Content Creators Can Learn from Each Other
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Correct. -- Pull the Plug on the White House Correspondents Dinner open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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Pull the Plug on the White House Correspondents Dinner
At least for now... while the press is under attack in America
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Quite an investigation by @elissamio.bsky.social of @devex.com. “José is not the expert on feeding people in disasters...But if he says do it this way, even if general wisdom says do it the other, people are going to do it. And that creates dangerous situations.” www.devex.com/news/what-la...
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What lay behind the deaths of 7 World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza
Devex spoke with 14 former and current staff, all of whom detailed a culture of letting safety slide to the periphery and a tendency to “build the plane while flying it.”
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"Home-growns are next."
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Dear White House Reporters: WTF? open.substack.com/pub/convulsi...
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Dear White House Reporters: WTF?
A letter from a former AP White House Correspondent
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“Today is a celebration for my colleagues at RT, Sputnik...This is an awesome decision,” said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s chief editor. The Global Times...a Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, published an editorial cheering on the decision." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/trump-s...
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As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem
Experts warn that the President’s decision to shut down the US international broadcaster is leaving a void that authoritarian regimes are trying to fill.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Spotted on Tesla in heart of Silicon Valley.
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business. These are going to be huge losses to the research and public health community.
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Read the Letter to the Chairman of Paul Weiss www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the Letter to the Chairman of Paul Weiss
The granddaughters of the man who formulated the firm’s principles wrote to the chairman decrying his deal with President Trump.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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The need for straight talk right now
Enough with soft-pedaling from the media. Clarity! Courage! The truth!
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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/ journalist @gilduran.com about what these tech elites – a group he calls “The Nerd Reich” – are reading, thinking and saying. ❓ How has the tech industry’s embrace of Trump changed your relationship with technology and social media? 📻 Listen:
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Is ‘The Nerd Reich’ Taking Over the Government? | KQED
We talk to Gil Duran about what these tech elites – a group he calls “The Nerd Reich” – are reading, thinking and saying.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Please read and share this incredible piece by our @stanfordjournalism.bsky.social alumna Erin Edwards, who flew combat helicopter missions in the Middle East as a Navy pilot. Anytime anyone tries to defend Signalchat just send them this. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I flew combat missions against Houthi rebels. Damage from Gmail, Signal scandals is incalculable
The details of tactical aviation missions — even simulated missions — are classified. Waltz, Hegseth and other top security officials need to resign immediately
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"Since the outset of Trump’s entrance into politics, Republicans have become more and more comfortable with embracing authoritarian theatrics and cruelty as political branding." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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One Photo From Abu Ghraib Lost the Iraq War. Kristi Noem Continues the Tradition
The Trump administration has traded decency and democracy for cruelty and spectacle. Our immigration enforcers will pay for it.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/03/2025
"None of these men is speaking. Or moving. Or making any facial expressions. They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture propaganda for her regime."
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This Is the Land of Wolves Now
Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Ken Fireman writes incredibly thoughtful pieces about our current moment. -- Of malice and MAGA open.substack.com/pub/liticism...
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Of malice and MAGA
Trump aims to make America mean again
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This hasn't gotten enough attention. Very effective questioning by Rep. @crow.house.gov in span of 3 mins 1. exposes how Hegseth endangered servicemembers' lives 2. shows that a scandal upon the scandal is the failure to take responsibility Crow is a U.S. Army veteran (Bronze Star Medal)
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Janine Zacharia @janinezac.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Co-bylined by our @stanfordjournalism.bsky.social alumna Sarah Raza. apnews.com/article/noem...  Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
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Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
An Associated Press analysis of recently released travel records found more than $150,000 in expenses tied to Noem’s political and personal activity.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Are we great again yet?
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Charlotte Clymer (@cmcl
...) 13 hours ago. The post reads: "Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:" followed by a list of countries: Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom. The username includes a Ukrainian flag emoji.
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