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John Saveland

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Immigration and human rights advocate in Los Angeles. Hopelessly optimistic.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/10/2026
“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to ensure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted.
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 05/10/2026
I've been waiting for a new Chad Harbach book for 15 years. Do yourself a favor and read (or reread) The Art of Fielding now to prepare for this one:
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026
In particular, where one big reason rents are rising is a housing shortage, rent controls do nothing to address that and may worsen it. Here’s my full article on the right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis www.ft.com/content/437c...
ft.com
The right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis
Evictions and spiralling rents are the symptom, not the underlying disease
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026
What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It took 16 months to get Evan Gershkovich out of a Russian prison. It took many more months to get the Russian prison out of Evan Gershkovich. Now for the first time since the swap that freed him, he is talking about his ordeal -- and that of the Russians. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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The Russian Prison That Evan Gershkovich Carried Home
In an interview, Mr. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was imprisoned in Russia for 16 months, described his ordeal and the moment that nearly broke him.
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I appreciate this, which articulates some of what was frustrating me during the peak of DOGE activity. DOGE was never compatible with producing public good because their motivations and methods were structurally opposed to the public's
A table contrasting civic tech and DOGE across roots, points of entry, motivation, role of government, structure & leverage, view of law/change, approach to public employees, and assumptions about building change. In general civic tech is more incremental, people focused, and bottom-up, while DOGE is technology-focused, anti-government, and top-down
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In dissent, Jackson harshly criticizes the per curiam, unsigned majority's treatment of irreparable harm.
Next, in balancing the equities, the majority only looks at
one side of the scale—the judicial equivalent of expecting a
seesaw with weight applied on only one side to work
properly. In the per curiam’s view, the sole harm here is
that the District Court’s order “inhibits the Federal Govern-
ment’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper
administration of the midterm elections.” Ante, at 6. As a
threshold matter, this overvalues the harm to the Govern-
ment, since States cannot use SAVE to systematically
strike people from the voter rolls within 90 days of an elec-
tion in any event. See 52 U. S. C. §20507(c)(2)(A); see also
No. 26–5243 (CADC, Sept. 4, 2026), App. 131a. It is hard
to see how the Government is harmed pending the comple-
tion of the court proceedings below when SAVE’s applica-
tion to the upcoming elections will already be limited.
Even more concerning is the majority’s omission of any
consideration of the harms that might occur if the modified
SAVE system is allowed to continue operating. See Califor-
nia, 609 U. S., at ___ (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
10). The District Court highlighted such harms, noting the
risk that States might cancel the voter registrations of at
least some recently naturalized citizens or force such per-
sons to provide proof of citizenship before voting.
835 F. Supp. 3d, at 108–109. That court also found that
those harms have already materialized in Texas, where one
of Respondents’ members “had her voter registration re-
voked without her knowledge,” and two more “had to pro-
vide proof of citizenship to maintain registered voter sta-
tus.” Id., at 113. But the per curiam’s purported balancing
fails to address, much less account for, the demonstrated
harms of issuing a stay. See Orr, 607 U. S., at ___
(JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 3).
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Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My piece on the fraught subject of asylum housing. I pull the unusual move of asking current and recent asylum-seekers about their experiences. www.economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
By housing asylum-seekers so badly, Britain is harming itself
Most will become citizens in time
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By tradition, American presidents don’t make the 12-mile trip to the base to greet a foreign leader. Now Trump waits at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president. From @jonlemire.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Deferential President
Not long ago, President Trump could claim that he ran the world. Now he’s waiting at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president.
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Will Ripley @willripleycnn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Swiss aid worker's never-before-seen footage reveals decades of life inside North Korea. Kathi Zellweger's rare access allowed her to capture famine-era hardship, private moments and a side of the country few outsiders have witnessed. Watch now on CNN All Access: www.cnn.com/videos/title...
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CNN statement: @cnn.com
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
nytimes.com
CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The irony wasn’t lost on anybody that we were doing a thorough fact check of a movie about a company unwilling to do the same thing.” Aaron Sorkin on the making of The Social Reckoning—a film exploring Facebook’s role in the erosion of truth in society.
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Aaron Sorkin Still Believes in American Institutions, Even if No One Else Does (Gift Article)
The Oscar-winning writer returns to Facebook with “The Social Reckoning”— and remains as optimistic as ever.
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Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How should Germany defend its democracy? My latest column… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s how Germany can defend its democracy – banning the AfD isn’t the answer | Timothy Garton Ash
Instead, constrain it legally and fight it politically. The world is watching, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Within hours of a Feb. 28 missile attack that hit an Iranian school, some Pentagon personnel knew the US was responsible, according to officials involved in an internal investigation of the incident. That probe found what the officials now describe as a cascade of preventable failures."
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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 18/09/2026
“Turkish forces raided gay bars and the offices of gay rights organizations, and arrested scores of demonstrators who protested the detentions. “The govt also blocked the social media accounts of gay rights groups, reporters who wrote about the arrests & the Turkey office of Amnesty International.”
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Turkey Begins Broad Crackdown on L.G.B.T.Q. Community
The government has called the campaign an effort to protect families. Rights organizations have accused the authorities of criminalizing L.G.B.T.Q. people and of seeking to thwart political activism.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Sen. Katie Britt was publicly defending Trump's tariffs, she was privately seeking exemptions for 4 companies operating in Alabama that could be hurt by tariffs, according to emails between her staff & Trump's US Trade Representative, obtained via FOIA by @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"You must go at your life with a broadax." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
nytimes.com
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 14/09/2026
the technical market term for this is 😬 www.ft.com/content/06cb...
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Ten-year Treasury yield hits 5% for first time since 2023
Rise in US borrowing costs takes world’s most important financial gauge into perilous territory
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is tantamount to torture. Period. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ DHS watchdog says
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Supreme Court's stay grant in the Missouri redistricting case is a good example of something I wrote aboout last fall—the difference between being *cynical* about the current Court (which I very much am) and being doomers about it. Once again, "law" is doing real—if insufficient—work out there:
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Bonus 176: Law, Lawlessness, and Doomerism
Law is not—and never will be—a perfect constraint on government action. But claims that legal limits have become wholly irrelevant to the current administration are not just wrong; they're dangerous.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 08/09/2026
I am completely convinced though that we heavily heavily heavily underestimate how much of politics is built on vibes. Voters are not machines that maximise their interests. A lot of them don't really even care about positions. They care about the way they're spoken to, what haircut someone has
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The social democratic case would not stop at rhetoric * would say what a sustainable level was, have an immig plan + so defend the visas you want to issue * would have controlled routes & defend principle + practice of taking a share of asylum seekers & refugees www.arguably.uk/p/britain-ne...
arguably.uk
Britain needs an annual ‘Immigration Day’
Unlike Starmer, Andy Burnham should pick a target level for migration and stick to it
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here @stephenkb.bsky.social seeks to remind the Labour government, old & new, that the point + purpose of recognising "legitimate concerns" about immigration was to understand how to differentiate these from *illegitimate concerns* rooted in intimidation + xenophobia www.ft.com/content/2279...
ft.com
Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery
A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx
Map showing predicted heat index values over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 100F, and locally as high as 110F.Map showing predicted humidity (dew point temperatures) over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 70F, and locally as high as 80F.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thread 🧵 worth reading with DeepL or other translation if you do not speak German.
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026
Tonight: defence and intelligence officials warn that Europe is failing to stop Russia from waging hybrid war. Russian proxies and intelligence agencies have for the past two years been prosecuting a covert war of aggression on European soil. (Gift link, 300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/077657b5-6...
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Europe failing to deter Russia’s ‘hybrid’ war, warn defence officials
Foiled drone attack at German airport seen as sign of Nato’s weak response and Moscow’s impunity
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In May 1932, the NSDAP won an absolute majority of seats in the Landtag of Oldenburg, marking their first major breakthrough to political power. Today, the Neo Nazi AfD Party, aggressively supported by Putin, Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk, has won a landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt—but no majority
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AfD stark bei Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: Sieben Erkenntnisse aus der Prognose
Die AfD erreicht bei der Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt rund 44 Prozent, verpasst derzeit knapp die absolute Mehrheit. Welche Konsequenzen sich abzeichnen.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Polls have closed in Saxony-Anhalt and exit polls put result on a knife edge (AfD 41 seats, others 42). First projections based on actual results due out soon. But if exit polls are right this is a rupture in the history of the federal republic.
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
44,5% for AfD in Saxony Anhalt at 76,5% all-time turnout record. I guess this is very well to the tail of worst imaginable results for Berlin.
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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Neat little explainer of the options from the Spiegel, and currently looks like there are no current majorities, which yikes
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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The numbers for Greens, SPD and Left mean an AfD government might be avoided, if the numbers hold and IF the CDU cooperates with the left
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
I would add OpenStreetMap, which is also community edited. This administration has really underscored some strengths of the wiki model.
Map screenshot showing label "Lake Ontario"clay_c
Clay Smalley
United States moderator
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Although I don’t moderate this section of the forum, here’s a friendly reminder from last time the US government instigated a frivolous naming dispute over an international body of water:

These are the guidelines we use to determine what should be considered the name of a feature:

Names
Multilingual names
Disputes
Currently, the Gulf is tagged with name=Golfo de México, name:en=Gulf of Mexico, and official_name:en-US=Gulf of America. This is unlikely to change, unless the US government reverses its position, or (less likely) English speakers across the world all agree to start using the US government name. That last tag, official_name:en-US=*, is quite obscure and doesn’t show up on any map renderers that I’m aware of. But its inclusion allows people to, for example, search for “Gulf of America” and be redirected to the Gulf of Mexico.

Please keep comments on-topic and substantial. We all have opinions, and it’s easy to drop your two cents in an online forum. However, a discussion about OSM naming guidelines or real-world name usage statistics might be worth at least a few dollars here.

In this case, the lake is tagged with name=Lake Ontario, official_name:en-US=Lake America. For this situation to change, the government would need to reverse its position.

The guidelines on naming disputes apply to every country equally. This is far from the only naming dispute around the world. Let’s not get bogged down in American exceptionalism when we consider how the tagging guidelines should or shouldn’t change.
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Leah’s point about the SCt’s perversion of separation-of-powers principles in cutting off judicial review of concededly illegal behavior must be considered together with @jbentonheath.bsky.social’s paper on The Chokepoint State. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... This is really important stuff.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is criminal.
Screenshot of quoted poster that reads:

The youngest toddler arrested under the program was born in 2023.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a...
nytimes.com
What Is ‘Narrative Art?’ The Lucas Museum Finally Shows Us Its Vision.
After several delays, George Lucas’s legacy project is finally ready to open. There’s less “Star Wars” than you might expect.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 02/09/2026
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art arrives as one of L.A.'s boldest, most contradictory buildings
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Review: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art arrives as one of L.A.’s boldest, most contradictory buildings
Synthetic yet organic, populist yet elitist, the $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is full of contradictions. Highlights include an extraordinary park, cascading waterfall, structural feats and unique vantages. But the galleries leave much to be desired.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🇵🇱 Tusk: Poland, Baltic states, Romania, and now Germany. Russia is escalating tension across the whole region. We’ll not be intimidated and our response will be our continued support for Ukraine and full coordination of NATO states against the aggressor. Russia will not win war.
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For those who want more information on how we got to this point, please consider reading 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned', on the impact of EU policies in the Central Mediterranean: www.orwellfoundation.com/political-wr...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, this is an alarming read. Cornered, Vladimir Putin plans to escalate his war economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
Cornered, Vladimir Putin plans to escalate his war
His refusal to back down is rooted in Russia’s gangster politics
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