Nationwide protests continue in Iran, today at Tehran University students chanting for “freedom” (azadi)

This is not what a conventional police force would do. It’s what drug cartels do. Look how the security forces in Mashhad violently arrest a protester, shoving him into the trunk. This is how they rule. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests2022

Markets can be harsh sometimes…..

I'm finally out of Iran and feel safe enough to talk about the situation publicly with an account bearing my name. The crackdown in Iran is way worse than you think, even if you've been following the news. Institutions like Amnesty International and news outlets try to stick/

India bars The Pulitzer Prizes-winning photographer Sanna Irshad Mattoo from flying out of the country to collect her award. Clear, chilling message from the Modi government: criticize or embarrass us at your peril!! CPJ Asia PEN America International Center for Journalists

Fuck me, he’s nailed it. Every word. 👇

One for the ages

Latest update from the lettuce, disco lights have been deployed.

God Save the King is now playing over the lettuce.

This is going to be normal politics until politicians realise that crisis not growth is the new norm and that the world’s realities are shattering the platitudes of partisan politics and career ambition at an ever more rapid pace.

The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.

At this point, surely they should sell all the shops and just make adverts.

Instead of bringing back 2Pac and Michael Jackson as holograms, can I have Jonathan Miller?

Another 23-year-old protestor, Majidreza Rahnavard, was just executed in Mashhad, Iran. No lawyer, no due process, tortured confession, sham trial. He was hanged for "waging war against God." This cruelty in the name of religion is what has secularized so many young Iranians.

Elon Musk owns this platform and yet has somehow failed to identify the key characteristics of its users: 1) Everything they say is purely performative 2) So addicted to it they will never leave

#BREAKING Iranian film director Jafar Panahi released on bail after 7 months in prison: rights group

🇮🇷 "If you want to take a glimmer of hope from anything, it's the fact that there are people like Narges Mohammadi in the world" Eric Randolph 🇰🇪 on the #NobelPeacePrize winner ending her hunger strike ☮️⤵️ #WorldThisWeek

Irris Makler 🌍 COP28: "The budget for the latest Indiana Jones movie makes the US contribution to the Loss and Damage Fund look pathetic" Eric Randolph 🇰🇪 in Friday's #WorldThisWeek ⤵️

My year in shameless celebrity-hassling And some reviews from my recent cultural consumption 😋 instagram.com/p/C1rF04tsBpj/…

I joined FRANCE 24 for a fun discussion about Biden, Kenya, Assange with Gavin Lee I've never used the term "goat rodeo" before. Listen to podcast version here: pca.st/episode/d8b642…