Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. FRSA. Lecturer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Novel The Pomegranate Peace, Hachette Sign up: This Week, Those Books https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com https://medium.com/this-week-those-bookshttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjxmqdflqc2xIs Chicago-born #Pope Leo now the most prominent American voice of moral authority? #thisweekthosebooks offers context on how some popes throughout history have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-speaks-american-world-listens20 Apr 2026 23:29 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxmqdflqc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjxmofrzvc2xIs Chicago-born #Pope Leo now the most prominent American voice of moral authority? #thisweekthosebooks offers context on how some popes throughout history have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role. Free to read https://open.substack.com/pub/thisweekthosebooks/p/pope-leo-speaks-american-world-listens?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web20 Apr 2026 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxmofrzvc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjv25cbuws23Troubling story by @nicdawes.bsky.social in @codastory.com on Peter Thiel's new 'AI tribunal', which will be "a team of intelligence and law enforcement veterans" who will make "it much, much cheaper to indulge in the quasi legal harassment of journalists".19 Apr 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjv25cbuws23https://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mju3pjyn722rVia @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of @millmedia.bsky.social & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of @zetland.dk #ijf26 https://open.substack.com/pub/nikatalbot/p/love-journalism19 Apr 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mju3pjyn722rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mju3mxt3os2rVia @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of Zetland. #ijf26 https://open.substack.com/pub/nikatalbot/p/love-journalism19 Apr 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mju3mxt3os2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mju3kcw4dc2rVia @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of Zetland https://open.substack.com/pub/nikatalbot/p/love-journalism https://open.substack.com/pub/nikatalbot/p/love-journalism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email19 Apr 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mju3kcw4dc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjsgrumrrk2vvia @timesofindianews.bsky.social : The spectacular defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is a sign of European publics’ disenchantment with the #Trump gospel of militant Christian nationalism. The EU establishment still won't abandon its mad, uncrowned king https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/international/still-supreme-misleader/articleshow/130336109.cms18 Apr 2026 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsgrumrrk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjpdmfwnl227Courtesy @sarayasin.bsky.social 's The Key, Huda Fakhreddine's moving reflection on her family home in south #Lebanon, along with fragments of her father's evocative poetry. "This is us, again and again./ We resist. We take refuge in the storm that is to come." https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhreddine-southern-lebanon-israel-war-memoir17 Apr 2026 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpdmfwnl227https://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjl3kdcsv22x@muckrack.com quotes @semafor.com: “Media newsletter recapping media newsletters acknowledges errors recapping media newsletters.” It's about One Sheet, launched by @mediaite.com, which had “[a] series of mishaps...including misattributed information & made-up quotes", perhaps because of #AI use15 Apr 2026 23:50 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjl3kdcsv22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjkzpljtes2s“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” —Neurologist Steve Polyak, quoted by @mikereilley.bsky.social https://open.substack.com/pub/journaliststoolbox/p/april-14-summarization-tools-for https://open.substack.com/pub/journaliststoolbox/p/april-14-summarization-tools-for?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email15 Apr 2026 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkzpljtes2shttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjipb44hcs2f@edwardluce.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com : Even were #Vance to regain his place in the Trumpian firmament, there is no such thing as a Vance base. His standing relies solely on #Trump. https://www.ft.com/content/63546c41-806f-45fe-a5e0-95a6a746a8ae15 Apr 2026 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjipb44hcs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjhskkdopc2j@tbij.bsky.social Family Courts Reporter Hannah Summers has a moving and urgent story about Florence (not her real name), who was 10 when she was caught in the middle of a protracted family court dispute between her parents while the professionals did not listen to her at all. 1/214 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhskkdopc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjgzbytpss2r@tansyhoskins.org's investigation into textile waste – where our clothes end up; who profits from fashion – had her spending 16 months sorting through donations at a #London charity shop to explore the things dropped off! Sounds like an interesting book https://tansyhoskins.org/my-new-book-charity-shop-world/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter14 Apr 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgzbytpss2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjfsbniyjk2fIn the past 24 hours, President Trump has accused Pope Leo of being “WEAK on Crime,” announced a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, got McDonald’s delivered to the White House for a photo op...& shared — & deleted! — a Truth Social post that portrayed him as a Christ-like figure.13 Apr 2026 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfsbniyjk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjehrshdgs2dFascinating history lesson on #Hungary from Viktor Orbán's old professor. #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/hungary-orban-proto-trump-election-defeat13 Apr 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjehrshdgs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjehqxgyb22dHungary votes out its proto-Trump. #thisweekthosebooks https://open.substack.com/pub/thisweekthosebooks/p/hungary-orban-proto-trump-election-defeat?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web13 Apr 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjehqxgyb22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjdn43a2rc27As #Hungary votes out its proto-#Trump, #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com offers context from two relevant books: * A right-wing British view of Hungary’s history. * And an extraordinary meditation on the human propensity to war. https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/hungary-votes-out-its-proto-trump-8f23b2788c09?source=social.bluesky13 Apr 2026 00:43 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjdn43a2rc27https://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mjdlwdiox22nA history lesson from Viktor #Orbán's old professor. A Nobel laureate on the culture of #war. #thisweekthosebooks offers context from two books + the back story on #Hungary. Free to read https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/hungary-orban-proto-trump-election-defeat13 Apr 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjdlwdiox22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj6gg7rr5s2jAll eyes on #Islamabad . @arabnews.bsky.social editor Faisal J Abbas offers his take www.arabnews.com/node/2639372 https://www.arabnews.com/node/263937210 Apr 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6gg7rr5s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj62wk26vk2d@moveon.org has a public petition to stop #Trump from building a giant arch in Washington, D.C. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/block-trump-from-building-a-giant-arch-in-our-nation-s-capital?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=6161e567-57e1-4f48-b3c7-f676975fdc4810 Apr 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj62wk26vk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj62ugp5xk2eMoveOn has a public petition to stop #Trump from building a giant arch in Washington, D.C. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/block-trump-from-building-a-giant-arch-in-our-nation-s-capital?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=6161e567-57e1-4f48-b3c7-f676975fdc4810 Apr 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj62ugp5xk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj5z4ybvxk2nThe first humans to fly around the Moon in more than 50 years are headed back to Earth. #thisweekthosebooks has two great books on our fascination with that orb in the nighttime sky. Free to read. https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/moon-artemis-jules-verne-nasa-space10 Apr 2026 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5z4ybvxk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj5vfpuwws2b@vittles.bsky.social has an important story: A tsunami of shutdown attempts has hit small food markets in# London. Shepherd’s Bush Market, Brixton Village, Plaza and Seven Sisters indoor market are also engaged in fights to continue operating. https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/at-dalstons-ridley-road-indoor-market?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email10 Apr 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5vfpuwws2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj5twd2gjc2qShalomcAuslander makes a very good point in @persuasionuk.bsky.social : “…some things such as politics, policy, and peace should be conducted in a manner that reflects their import” https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/swearing-belongs-to-the-people-not?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email10 Apr 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5twd2gjc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj57vcujxc2nWriting in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Joseph Maina noted the complete ignorance displayed by #Trump about, say, #Somalia. Very different from the #British who at least "studied the places they intended to dominate”. https://www.rashmee.com/trump-african-journo-misses-british-empire/10 Apr 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj57vcujxc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj57raryrs2n#Trump is enough to make one #African journo miss the #British empire! https://www.rashmee.com/trump-african-journo-misses-british-empire/10 Apr 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj57raryrs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj4zao7p2s2g@thenewworldmag.bsky.social : “…on the rare occasions when he talks about African affairs, Donald #Trump will often refer to #Somalia, and when he does he tends to use a restricted vocabulary: terrorists, migrants, failed state, threat."10 Apr 2026 09:31 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj4zao7p2s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rashmee.bsky.social/post/3mj35kpc7oc2kPer @financialtimes.com : Having been a source of global stability for so long, the dollar system has evolved to be a source of instability as it has become more weaponised.09 Apr 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:u2xz26src2bdf5tw2rb4zv6b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj35kpc7oc2k