3.5 hours in the queue for immigration at Heathrow Airport and still a long long line ahead of me. Even for someone who has travelled the world extensively my whole life adult life this is the worst I’ve ever seen.

The New Humanitarian | US signals greater willingness to engage with the #Taliban . Important deep dive into the issue by ⁦Ali M Latifi 🇦🇫⁩ thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

Great piece in the @NYTimes by ⁦Rachel Donadio⁩ on stolen rare books in the midst of the Ukrainian war. Reminds me of the antiquities and artifacts stolen by real professionals during the revolution in Egypt. nytimes.com/2024/05/01/boo…

I’m a little late to this one but it’s a fantastic explainer deep dive on a really important story that at times got lost in other conversations around #Ukraine . Military history being made with this. ig.ft.com/black-sea/

Rishi Sunak on rack as Tory election losses mount via Financial Times on.ft.com/3Wpc2qE

'Those are zebras. What is going on?'

Four zebras escaped from a trailer in Washington State on Sunday. Residents, police officers and one rodeo clown joined the effort to corral them. 'Nobody trains you for wrangling zebras,' the rodeo clown said. nyti.ms/3UnLJyi

“I will never forget any of it.”

Less than two years ago, Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a Russian penal colony, sewing clothes for the military and eating spoiled food. She spoke to us about her experience and her path to recovery.nyti.ms/3QsKU6n

My face when I hear NYC’s upcoming budget proposes $58.3 million in cuts to public libraries.

Dana Bash uses video of police cracking down on Gaza protesters, and pro-Israel counter demonstrators attacking a Gaza solidarity encampment, to subtly suggest the Gaza protesters are somehow comparable to Nazis.

Chef Jose: “We expect the IDF to cooperate with an independent investigation into airstrikes on our own team. Details continue to leak about the airstrikes, and the IDF has yet to hand over its own evidence to us for review.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Next week, Columbia University, which has banned reporters from its campus, is scheduled to announce this year’s winners of one of the most prestigious prizes in journalism.

Frightening scenes from UCLA - reporters on the ground posting videos showing pro-Israel counter protesters attacking pro-Palestine sit in.

Grotesque that Shafik claims she had “no choice” when she chose to call in police.

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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Congrats again to @janeferguson5, Sara Just, Morgan Till, Jorgen Samso and @dansagalyn with PBS NewsHour for winning the Citation in the David Kaplan category for reporting on the deadly earthquake in Syria and Turkey
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WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. Atlanta News First

After six months of war, Hamas's reputation in Gaza continues to sink and Palestinians are increasingly willing to criticize it: 'Support for Hamas is declining because more and more people feel it has some responsibility for the pain they are enduring.' ft.com/content/c529a3…