Kathryn Porter

anthropologist, photographer, writer, human rights activist

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Hey @60Minutes, Trump just said he’s the only president who hasn’t taken his salary. JFK gave every penny of his salary to groups such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the United Negro College Fund. He did the same thing with his House and Senate salaries.

[Nadine Maenza @nadinemaenza]

No one should face death or 25 years in prison for converting to Christianity.

The U.S. and international community must press Egypt to end the prosecution of Said Mansour Rezk Abdelrazek.

Pray and speak up for Said!
https://t.co/aZ7H11qvPR

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Home boy is in big trouble .

[Barham Salih @BarhamSalih]

Yesterday, I had the honour of briefing the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee in New York for the first time as High Commissioner.
The Committee remains a critical global forum for discussion of human rights and humanitarian issues, bringing together all UN Member States.
My remarks👇
https://t.co/3dCDXsgTss

[Nacho Montes de Oca @nachomdeo]

Hay un par de historias de revancha escondidas en los pliegues del resultado. Una es la de la demócrata Nancy Lacore, una veterana de 35 años en la Marina que ascendió en las filas desde piloto de helicópteros hasta convertirse en jefa de la Reserva Naval. Fue despedida en agosto de 2025 en medio de la purga del secretario de defensa Pete Hegseth. Acaba de derrotar a la republicana Jenny Costa Honeycutt y se quedó con un escaño en Carolina del Sur que ocupaba la integrante de MAGA, Nancy Mace.
La segunda es la de la congresista demócrata Ilhan Omar, la primera refugiada somalí elegida para el Congreso de EE. UU., quien acaba de lograr su reelección para un quinto mandato en el 5.º Distrito de Minnesota. Apenas semanas antes de la jornada electoral, agentes del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional allanaron su residencia en Washington DC, incautando dispositivos electrónicos bajo una investigación federal sobre su historial de inmigración y trámites de ciudadanía de los años noventa. Obtuvo una aplastante victoria con más del 75% de los votos frente a su rival republicano John Nagel.
Eugene Vindman y su hermano gemelo Alexander (ambos oficiales del Ejército) fueron retirados de sus cargos en el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional tras denunciar las llamadas irregulares de Donald Trump sobre Ucrania en 2019, desencadenando el primer juicio político e impeachment fallido. Eugene Vindman la reelección para su escaño en la Cámara Baja representando a Virginia, consolidando su perfil parlamentario en áreas clave de defensa y ética gubernamental tras años de hostigamiento del Ejecutivo.
Amy Acton fue la directora de Salud de Ohio que enfrentó duras presiones, amenazas y ataques del sector alineado con el trumpismo por aplicar restricciones estrictas de salud pública durante la pandemia, lo que la obligó a dimitir bajo acoso político. Acton ganó la gubernatura de Ohio como candidata demócrata, derrotando al oficialismo republicano en un estado profundamente conservador donde años atrás había sido blanco de protestas frente a su residencia alentadas por los grupos de MAGA.

[Musadiq Baluch @BaluchMusadiq]

#EndEnforcedDisappearances
#UNInterveneInBalochistan
@UN

[Izengabe @Izengabe_]

This is insane. One of the 12 people indicated for terrorizing Jewish Michiganders worked for Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign. El-Sayed was literally hiring antisemites who were terrorizing Jews in Michigan.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

Afghan women still bravely protest for their rights in front of Taliban literally at gunpoint. Afghan women are taking enormous risks to tell Taliban they won't give up. How about the international community?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump is actively participating in Russian propaganda campaigns while trying to make energy deals for his family and cronies. Nobody is buying it, just like nobody should be buying Putin’s blood diesel.

[PUKMEDIA English @pukmedia]

Speaking to PUKMEDIA at the Social Democratic Alliance in the Arab World Conference in Amman, Dara Khailany, Member of the PUK Leadership Council & Head of Foreign Relations, emphasised the importance of empowering social democratic values, solidarity, peace, and social justice across the region.

[Baba Banaras™ @RealBababanaras]

Dear World

Save Najmeh Amini

She deserves to live, yet Iran’s regime is seeking to take her life.

At just 23, Iranian accounting student Najmeh Amini has been sentenced to death over a social media post. Arrested during anti-government protests, she also faces 12+ years in prison on separate charges.

Executing civilians for protesting or expressing their beliefs is not justice, it is state-sponsored brutality. The world must speak up before it is too late. Silence is complicity.

[Ziauddin Yousafzai @ZiauddinY]

Day 1867: 🏫 Girls barred from secondary schools.

Day 1407: 🎓 Women barred from universities.
🇦🇫

Although Mullah Haibatullah and Dr @drzakiranaik differ significantly in their roles and methods, both have advanced religious interpretations that reinforce male authority over women.

Haibatullah presides over a regime that systematically denies women access to education, employment, and public life, institutionalising gender apartheid.

Naik, meanwhile, has publicly defended unequal gender roles and rationalised the Taliban’s restrictions on girls’ education.

The distinction between enforcing gender apartheid and providing religious justifications that risk legitimising it is crucial, but both deserve unequivocal condemnation.

Religious authority must never be used to legitimise gender apartheid. No interpretation of faith can justify denying women and girls their dignity, freedom, education, and fundamental human rights.

#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#ACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. https://t.co/9WjxVO0Bep

[Am Yisrael Chai 🐙 @AmYisraelChai_X]

While celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife, on the Italian luxury cruise ship Achille Lauro, the vessel was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).

Because he was Jewish and American, Leon Klinghoffer—who was 69 years old and used a wheelchair after suffering a debilitating stroke—was singled out, shot in the head, and thrown overboard along with his wheelchair.

Remember his name.

Never forget the evils perpetrated by the Palestinians.

Read more about Leon Klinghoffer and the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in the post below.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: JD Vance's staffers are reportedly planning for the possibility that Donald Trump uses his failing health to resign after the midterms, and then starts blaming President Vance in the spring for ruining the "perfect economy" he left Vance, and also losing the Iran War.

[danimac67 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 @danimac67]

Dan Rather
Here is my message to every eligible voter, whatever your political affiliation: If this worn and battered old journalist at age 94 can get to the polls, then surely so can you.

[Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc]

US condemns violence against Kurdish IDPs in Syria, demands accountability: State Department
https://t.co/xIqVW5eZsg

[Judy Berxwedan @Judy20255]

The brutality and barbarity of the Damascus authorities, their ISIS terrorists, and their supporters…

Look at the number of cars belonging to displaced Kurds that were burned by these terrorists! More than 69 cars, loaded with whatever belongings and possessions the displaced families had left, were looted and then burned, destroying what remained of their property.

And they did not stop there. Even children are now wandering among the wreckage, searching for scrap metal and whatever intact parts remain so they can steal them…

And the most appalling part is that they are sharing these videos as if what happened were some kind of heroic achievement to be proud of!

#DamascusTerroristGovernment

#DefendKurds

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

A new ad by a leftwing group for Abdul El-Sayed blames grocery prices on U.S. support for Israel.
https://t.co/aOnEHTcB3G

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JUST IN: Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary election, losing to a student-led opposition movement after two years of protests against his government.

The stunning result ends 14 years of dominance by Vucic and his right-wing party. Backed by Vladimir Putin, Vucic had accused the student movement of being a foreign-backed attempt to oust him.

The opposition is projected to win 135–140 of Parliament’s 250 seats, compared with about 105 for Vucic’s party.