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Negin Owliaei

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Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. East coaster in Ann Arbor. Internationalist. Any pronouns.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2h
"Shehadeh is one of several Palestinian rights advocates who have been detained and had their personal devices searched by CBP while returning to the U.S. from international travel since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023."
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 5h
There is truly no comparison between the blood on Yoo's hand and that of Pike's. Yoo has participated in far more brutal atrocities and it's not even close. The fact that he's on TV and she's been in a cage is not an accident of the US legal system — it's the point
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 6h
How the police defund cities: Part infinity
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 23h
Horrific news. Christa Pike failed over and over and over again.
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h
Breaking News: Tennessee may proceed with the execution of Christa Pike, after the Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s pause.
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Supreme Court Allows Execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee’s Lone Woman on Death Row
Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years, until a lower court paused the execution.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 23h
The Philadelphia Parking Authority is leasing parking spots to ICE. New for Truthout and The Appeal: truthout.org/articles/act...
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Activists Are Targeting One of ICE’s Key Staging Grounds — Parking Spots
Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are actual human beings being tortured in actual prisons right now and the fact that there are a large number of people more concerned with computers being “tortured” makes me want to go off the grid.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026
As ARWW add in the thread, AF Post has been boosted by Elon, the AZ GOP, and other X obsessives (the same foul waters as those keeping Michael Tracey afloat, though he apparently failed here). And Ali Alexander, of course, was a leading Stop the Steal organizer.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026
An agricultural borderland in the heart of the historic fertile crescent, Israel has transformed southern Lebanon from small farms of tobacco, olives, and goats to a landscape set ablaze by white phosphorus munitions, littered with unexploded ordnance, and poisoned by the pesticide glyphosate.
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Lebanon’s Environmental Defenders Say Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Them
Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 28/09/2026
mukhtar ibrahim, founder of the sahan journal, and ubah ali, a former WCCO reporter, have just launched the somali brief, an independent media outlet where somali americans can tell their own stories www.thesomalibrief.com
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The Somali Brief
The Somali Brief is a digital-first media platform covering the stories shaping Somali American life.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am so proud of what we’ve created @truthout.org — a home for independent news free of ads and paywalls. I truly believe this kind of space is necessary for democracy, but billionaires are doing their best to make life difficult. Please read about what we’re up against — it affects all of us.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I genuinely do not understand how anyone can look at the fact that one country has the power to make airlines across entirely different sovereign states cut ties with 90 million people and not see how grotesquely lopsided and destructive that power is. 🤷‍♀️
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/09/2026
Israel’s bombardment has damaged 82% of Gaza’s buildings, leaving many structures at risk of collapse. Residents of a six-story building that recently fell knew it was unsafe but stayed because they had no other shelter.
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Israel Damaged 82 Percent of Gaza’s Buildings. Collapses Are Burying Us Alive.
Residents of the recently collapsed six-story high rise knew they were in danger but could find nowhere else to sleep.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These threats aren’t making headlines as often anymore but Trump is suggesting he might annihilate Iran on a near daily basis and the fact that he is capable of following up on that threat certainly deserves more scrutiny.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026
A U.S. senator has called on foreign leaders to impose sanctions on President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as they wage a campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. It is extraordinary for such a call to come from a sitting member of congress.
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Senator Says European Nations Must Sanction Trump, Rubio Before US Wrecks ICC
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that Trump and Rubio’s attacks on the ICC seek to obstruct investigations into Netanyahu.
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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
College journalists bay-beeeeeee!
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
After Bessent’s comments it looks like some of the few airlines that flew in and out of Iran are stopping their service. Just no idea when we’ll see our families again.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The legal system that the Trump administration has been weaponizing against immigrants and the left is not something of its own creation. They inherited this legal machinery from the war on terror, and until we dismantle it, all of us are at risk. Please, please read this.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Michigan is giving an Israeli military company $1 million to build a hub in the same state where thousands of residents are watching Israel demolish their homeland. “I’m sure most Michiganders would agree that legitimizing war crimes for potentially creating 125 jobs is a moral catastrophe.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/09/2026
Another Iowa Dem releases an ad in response to anti-trans ads against her. "We need to protect kids, and we need common sense rules to keep sports fair for boys and for girls. Parents know what's best for our kids. Washington needs to stay out of it." From Lindsay James, IA-02.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a dozen data center projects to be built on public lands, a plan that would grant tech firms at least 17,600 acres of protected lands across six states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.
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There Are 0 Data Centers on Public Lands. Trump Is Considering Building 12.
The Trump administration quietly fast tracked a data center project in Nevada earlier this year.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Five alarm fire for anyone who cares about news, journalism, democracy, the internet, etc. The use of journalists’ work in their AI systems “has started a ‘doom loop,'” another memo stated, one that will ironically “hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time.”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obviously media bans are bad but I've been in the White House one time in my life and it hasn't stopped me from reporting on presidents, and it shouldn't (and won't) stop anyone else.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I learned this week that the New York Times was founded 175 years ago. There is a useful set of pieces floating around on this for journalism history buffs. But what struck me is that means the Times was founded 25 years *after* the black press which will celebrate its 200th birthday in a few months
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/09/2026
the new york city everyman: "on the vineyard, so we didn't vote"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/09/2026
A UN fact-finding mission has concluded that the U.S. committed war crimes in two attacks on Iran that killed scores of civilians, including over 120 children, on the first day of the war.
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UN Inquiry Finds US Strike on Minab, Iran, That Killed 123 Children Was War Crime
The US targeted “clearly identifiable” civilian sites in Minab and Lamerd, killing over 100 children, the UN found.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain.
A notification reads "Chipotle is partnering with Palantir to track food safety risks at its stores"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Between this and the "there was widespread unity after 9/11" narrative, I feel like it's more important than ever to remind people of the horrors committed by the Bush administration.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You can't make this shit up 💥
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is preparing to send a U.S. taxpayer-funded, $3 billion package of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the biggest transfer of such weapons in recent years despite the administration’s supposed commitment to maintaining ceasefire agreements across several of Israel’s war fronts.
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Report: Trump Transferring $3B Worth of Bombs to Israel, Funded by US Taxpayers
The administration has also notified Congress of a $5 billion sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My heart 💔
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A warning cry from those of us in journalism: the AI doomsday scenarios for our industry are already here. We can wrest back power from Big Tech and protect our right to information, but we all have to act. And that begins with valuing independent journalism, which has been undermined for so long.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI "news" isn't just a specter haunting the future. In journalism, we're already seeing AI upend our ecosystem. @neginowl.bsky.social, @ziggywest.bsky.social and I wrote about witnessing the impact of Google's AI-based search changes on media, & how folks can take action truthout.org/articles/wer...
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When I was in sixth grade, we were literally taught in school that fossil fuel scarcity was a big threat to civilization as we knew it. Not climate change, not pollution, but these companies running out of oil to drill. Just a thought about how much corporations shape our sense of what threatens us.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The anniversary of the Sept. 11, 1973 (US-supported) coup happens in Chile for the first time without any ceremonies.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/09/2026
This is... to me... a denial that trans people exist. The reference to genetic anomalies is common anti-trans language referring to intersex people.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is quite obviously myth making but I don’t think it’s coming from younger generations. A lot of people of all ages simply see no problem with Islamophobia and regard it as part of a perfectly normal response to 9/11, so the absolute hell that has been brought upon Muslims never even registered.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/09/2026
Zohran is extraordinarily gracious, but he should not have to be. Why is it acceptable to ask people to accept buckets of gutter bigotry as the inevitable price for being Muslim in public life? And then news media legitimates this bigotry by presenting it as a debate!
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"If we believe a world beyond the war on terror is possible, then we have to act as though it is by refusing its normalization, confronting the institutions & narratives that have allowed it to continue, and building towards collective liberation..." -Maha Hilal truthout.org/articles/25-...
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25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made
The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.
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