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Scout Tufankjian 🧿

@stufankjian.bsky.social
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Photojournalist. Journalist safety fanatic. Lover of mountains, հոնի չիր, ռեժան, կոթեմ, and karalyok. 🇦🇲

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Scout Tufankjian 🧿 @stufankjian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone* Watches Women's Sports *except Republicans
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You don't need to kill a single person to commit genocide. In fact for most of history genocides have involved way more expulsion then they have extermination.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2026
Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
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Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
Rights groups express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists • ‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence Threats by the Israeli military, government ministers and far-right activists have intensified against the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, as 43 local human rights organisations expressed their support for the pair. NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym used euphemistically by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. The film builds on revelations first published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and the Guardian between 2023 and 2025. Continue reading...
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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am not seeing enough posts about seth moulton eating shit today
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/07/2026
Deporting asylum seekers to dangerous places without giving them a chance to make their cases is cruel and immoral.
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Asylum seekers could be sent directly to deportation court under new rule
The Trump administration rule, which took effect immediately, could transfer nearly 450,000 cases to immigration judges, who could dismiss the asylum petitions.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/07/2026
The reckless abuses we analyzed from these eight states are just a fraction of the examples of ICE and CBP undermining our constitutional rights. We won't let them get away with it.
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Scout Tufankjian 🧿 @stufankjian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hey all- I’m raising money to help support my reporting partner and friend in Gaza. He and his family are amazing and, as you can imagine, are really struggling right now. Link to support is here (along with some more info about Mahdi and his fam): chuffed.org/project/1825...
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Urgent help for Mahdi's Family in Gaza
I'm not even sure how many times Mahdi Shala has saved my life over the many years we worked together in Gaza: more than I can count (and I certainly have more stories than I feel comfortable writing ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/07/2026
Three men have died following ICE street operations in the span of a week. Enough is enough. Send a message to Congress and tell them to hold ICE accountable and put an end to the bloodshed.
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Stop ICE's Killings
ICE has shot and killed two more people – Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero. This devastating violence is the predictable outcome when ICE is given a near-unlimited budget while surging new agents into our streets. Congress must stop ICE's deadly spree.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The security guard at the door:
Michael B. Jordan asking “Y’all Klan?” in SINNERS
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
a big flag that says “SHAME” on it but just to fly when the Supreme Court issues rulings
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Finally got to see the Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers (NJ) and 3–4 works stood out. Most notably this major Hagop Hagopian painting from 1977, “No to the Neutron Bomb!” A classic of late Soviet protest art.
Painting of headless suits engaging in protest in a museum gallery
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ACLU of New Jersey @aclu-nj.org · 30/05/2026
NJSP’s use of force at Delaney Hall was an unnecessary response to peaceful protest. New Jersey must prioritize the dignity and humanity of all people, including those detained by the mass deportation agenda – not mimic the dangerous and overly militarized tactics of the federal government.
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ACLU-NJ Responds to Use of Force by New Jersey State Police Against Delaney Hall Protesters - ACLU of New Jersey
New Jersey's response must prioritize the safety and well-being of people – not mimic the dangerous and overly militarized tactics of the federal government.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/05/2026
We saw significant victories for voting rights out of Alabama and South Carolina today. Let this be a sign to politicians who are rushing to pass racist maps ahead of the midterms: We will not back down until every voter has the representation we deserve.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2026
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of a functioning democracy. We’re fighting back in the courts, in state legislatures, and in the streets against attempts by elected officials to undermine the strength of Black voters.
Graphic with text "Politicians in several states are trying to redraw their state maps to hold on to power they don't deserve, at the expense of Black voters. We won't allow it."
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Caucasus Heritage Watch @caucasushw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/04/2026
oh look, the New York Times normalized anti-democratic autocratic racism again whoops a daisy funny how this happens constantly
NYT headline: "In Narrowing Voting Rights Act, Conservative Justices See Progress On Racism"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.
There’s no clean way to hive off terms like “fascism” or “authoritarianism” from Trump’s policies.  Even if you disagree that the words apply, their use is backed up by a genuine attempt at intellectual justification for it. The use of these terms just is deeply linked to assessments of Trump’s actual policies, from the lawless renditions to foreign gulags to the unleashing of heavily-armed militias in American cities to the naked intimidation of large swaths of civil society.

By contrast, when Trump and MAGA media figures call Democrats “communists” or “antifa,” all of that is entirely disconnected from any policy realities. Many press figures would like it if there were an Archimedean midpoint between the two parties on all these matters. But there isn’t. At the most basic level, one party continues to function as an actor in a liberal democracy, whereas Trump and much of his movement, with the eager participation of many Republicans, simply do not. Dispensing with harsh but accurate descriptions of his real goals would whitewash them.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/04/2026
The investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another example of the Trump administration’s extreme attempts to silence its critics. Weaponizing institutions to target organizations speaking out against the administration’s agenda harkens back to the McCarthy era.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Also, there literally already is a "Palestinian Mandela", and Western liberals aren't pining for him.
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Will Israel release Marwan Barghouti, the ‘Palestinian Mandela’?
Amid growing calls for Barghouti to be released after 22 years in jail, Israel has placed him in solitary confinement.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026
this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
THE RUSSIAN IS CUT AND ITS A BAAD CUT
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
13 yo girl was walking in Beirut with her dad after basketball practice, filming her snapshot videos, and then Israel bombed nearby multiple times. Yalla Israel go tell me she’s also Hezbollah you mass murdering bastards Posted by her mum on IG www.instagram.com/reel/DW3z_dh...
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is what happens when a person is never punished
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BombadilsBoot @bombadilsboot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Just the villains in Star Wars talking about committing genocide in order to steal a bunch of raw material Thankfully Star Wars is fictional youtube.com/watch?v=lAx0...
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Star Wars Andor 2025 Orson Krennic Reveals his Plan for Ghorman Scene 1080p
YouTube video by StarWars Clips
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It would not hurt if you called your GOP MoCs to tell them they are legally complicit with the war crimes Trump is committing. Might not prevent armageddon, but couldn't hurt. (202) 224-3121
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Imagine spending the first few weeks of your child’s life suing the Social Security Administration so your baby won’t be deported.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump's birthright citizenship order seeks to literally end the American dream. Will people be able to work hard and make a life for themselves, judged by their own abilities? Or will they inherit a permanent second-class status from their parents? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Will the Supreme Court let Trump target babies for the “sins of the parents”?
The birthright citizenship case could bring back the country's dark history of inherited status.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
you wouldnt believe this big wooden horse, oh it’s so beautiful you wouldnt believe and theyre saying “mr trump youll never get that horse in.” look at em back there. the fake news. but we’re gonna bring in that horse folks and we’ll say “thank you, bye bye” but they don’t think we can get it in
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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Mayor Mamdani, come up to the house and watch The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) as tradition dictates.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is really extraordinary. I've never seen anything like this from a government official.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Michael B. Jordan as Wallace: “so how do you get to be the king?”
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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Anyone who has ever owned a boat could have told him this. A boat is a hole in the universe you shovel money into as fast as possible so that it doesn't sink with you on it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2026
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New on Knock: Two years after the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, the Armenian diaspora in Los Angeles continues to feel the impact. knock-la.com/armenians-of...
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Armenians of Los Angeles Reflect on the Ethnic Cleansing of Artsakh - Knock LA
Two years after the fall of Artsakh, Armenians of Los Angeles reflect on exile, preservation, and continuing the fight for the return of their homeland.
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