International journalist focusing on human rights & global development, especially in LatAm. Ex-managing editor, Buenos Aires Herald. Co-founder, @pirate_wire.
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Can we at least have some pics of the animals
🐏#OxenholmeLakeDistrict Animals on the line between Penrith North Lakes and Oxenholme Lake District means that trains have to run at reduced speed on all lines. As a result, trains running between these stations may be delayed by up to 30 minutes.
Disruption is expected until 09:15.
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Preserving the soul of a historic newsroom while embracing a digital-first global strategy is the new frontier for legacy brands. 🇦🇷🗞️
In this #MediaParty 2025 Lightning Talk, @AmyBwrites discusses the digital rebirth of @BuenosHerald and how a 140-year legacy was adapted to engage a global audience.
Watch the full session here: 🔗 mediaparty.org/2026/04/08/di…
#Journalism #DigitalMedia #Innovation
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🗨️ "Nunca lo había pensado antes, pero, mirando para atrás, creo que en algún nivel siempre lo supe. Sueños que uno tiene, todo empieza a tener sentido". #50AñosDelGolpe #Abuelas #Identidad
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This was the last story I edited at the Buenos Aires Herald. An absolute privilege. Memoria, verdad y justicia ✊
Wrote about Macarena Gelman’s story. Thanks to @AmyBwrites and @UruguayFran for invaluable edits and fact-checking
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FWIW I edit a Canadian business/culture/tech newsletter with 5 million subscribers, and we pay $2+/word for 600- to 3000-word pieces. We've published David Sedaris, Karen Russell, Nico Walker, etc., but I also work with a lot of upcoming writers. hmu
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A disinformation analyst just told the BBC that we're getting a "slopification of war information" and I'll be damned if that isn't the most 2026 sentence I've heard
My friend who's moving is temporarily bringing her worm composter over and I have genuinely not been this excited since childhood friends offered to bring over the marble run
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During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.
The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’
Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Camino a Laguna Esmeralda, Ushuaia. ¿Alguien sabe si esto es efectivamente un dique de castores? Es increíble (aunque no le hace bien al paisaje!)
ALT Turquoise body of water held back by a tangle of branches
I'm stuck in Ushuaia because of today's general strike and it's a great day to remember the history of the labour movement in Patagonia. This is from In Patagonia by Chatwin, but he's summarising Bayer's La Patagonia Rebelde
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Tbh I think it's good these people are like this because it's so profoundly alienating for most of society. Ensures that someone with this person's politics remains in the fringe where they belong.
May they ever remain as openly who they really are
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🎬 “No están recibiendo el reconocimiento que merecen”
➡️ Natalie Portman criticó a la Academia por dejar fuera de las nominaciones a varias películas dirigidas por mujeres y destacó, entre otros títulos, a Belén, la película argentina dirigida por Dolores Fonzi.
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A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Videos of the encounter shows that the gun was never drawn. The weapon remains in the victim's holster until one agent removes it. After the victim is disarmed, a second agent shoots him repeatedly.
Videos of full encounter:
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Victim disarmed prior to shots being fired:
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"Fred Trump died in 1999 at age 93. He had, Trump said, a 'heart that couldn’t be stopped' with almost no health conditions to speak of throughout his long life. 'He had one problem,' Trump said. 'At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?' He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him.
'Alzheimer’s,' Leavitt said.
'Like an Alzheimer’s thing,” Trump said. 'Well, I don’t have it.' archive.ph/WR98O#selection-2…
