Emily Thompson

Nonprofit Communications Manager

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

"Give yourself a break from the draft then return with fresh eyes!"

Fresh eyes:

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

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https://t.co/41PYyv0ijB

[Pavel Butorin @PashaButorin]

After over a year of separation and more than nine months of brutal detention, Alsu is finally free. Thanks to the unwavering efforts of the U.S. government and our tireless advocacy work, she will soon reunite with her family. Today, my daughters and I witnessed a historic act of resolve and compassion by the U.S. government and its allies, demonstrating that the free world values human life and family above all else, even when it means exchanging real criminals to save wrongfully detained Americans.

For more than nine months, Alsu was denied basic human dignity. She was locked up in horrific prison conditions, denied phone calls with her children or U.S. consular visits, and deprived of proper medical care. She was convicted in a secret trial for a crime she did not commit, held in jail solely because she is an American and an American journalist. The world knows that Alsu is not a criminal.

It has been an incredibly difficult year for our family. Through it all, Alsu's daughters have shown incredible courage and have become the best advocates for the Free Alsu cause. Not only will Alsu find that they have grown taller, but she will also find two young women who are more mature and more resolute about their own rights to free speech and expression as Americans and as free human beings. We can’t wait to embrace Alsu and begin helping her reintegrate into the free world after many months of unjust imprisonment.

I’m also overjoyed to see Evan, Paul, and Vladimir free. They shouldn’t have been imprisoned to begin with, and I’m happy they will soon reunite with their loved ones. 

Alsu will have so many supporters to meet and thank: members of Congress and U.S. government officials, the advocacy team and leadership at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the National Press Club, our friends at the Wall Street Journal, as well as the many press freedom groups and human rights organizations that have stood by us. We are grateful for the outpouring of support we have received as a family. At the same time, I am taking note of all those complicit in the wrongful detention and prosecution of my wife and the mother of my children. I hope that one day they will be brought to account. #FreeAlsu

[Pavel Butorin @PashaButorin]

My daughters and I know Alsu has done nothing wrong. And the world knows it too. We need her home. #FreeAlsu

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

Book cart, Budapest. In vignette for the book perverts.

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

It's the only way to live.

[Matt Kennedy @lambeth981]

I have four daughters. That means I have spent approximately 1/3 of my fatherly life watching the six hour version of Pride and Prejudice.

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

Hungarian civic groups launch "Civil EU Presidency" in parallel w/ 2024 #Hungarian EU Presidency to amplify issues like:
🌍Green transition
♀️ Women in public life
✊Minority rights
💡Civic space
https://t.co/nc5D4zJRSD

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Behind every clearly written article is a copyeditor changing “the ways in which” to “how”.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Adding a new article that you “can’t wait to read” to the pile

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

Mukachevo!

[Alexander Stoyanov @Al_Stoyanov]

St. Peter asks a newcomer:
- Born?
- Austro-Hungary.
- Went to school?
- Czechoslovakia
- Married in?
- Hungary
- Kids born in?
- The Third Reich
- And your grandchildren?
- USSR.
- Where did you die?
- Ukraine.
- Man, you traveled a lot!
- Nonsense, I never left Mukachevo.

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

“If some guys you don’t like hide in a school full of kids, should you bomb the school?” is like a question they put on job applications to screen out the real glaring psychos

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

@Lucy_Worsley Bad take. Your eyebrows look great!

[Emily Thompson @Emstina]

Reason #1,061 I love living here in a small(er, ish) country: Today was the third time I had the chance to cast a ballot for someone I know personally. Don't forget to vote! #volby #Evropa

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“The panel is currently all men, so if you could chair that would be really helpful”

[corinne_perkins @corinne_perkins]

Law enforcement carry a pro-Palestinian protester at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Photo by Nuri Vallbona

[Katie Shoshiashvili @KShoshiashvili]

Footage by @RTavisupleba from today’s massive march against Russian style law in Georgia currently under hearings at the parliament. This law targets civil society organizations and critical media and requires them to register as entities advocating interest of foreign countries.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

I don't know how to raise my daughter in a country where the Supreme Court is debating how many organs are ok for women to lose before providing healthcare