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Journos on Journos: Mel Buer

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By Marianne Dhenin

/ 27 May 2026

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Usrof wears a black suit jacket, a white button-down, and a black-and-white keffiyeh. Background is an aerial image of a city, with dozens of brightly colored dots and lines drawn on.

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Dameron Hospital photographed from across the street. The building is four stories in grey and brown with red at its entrance. An American flag flies in front.

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Trump seated at a long table, gesturing, and speaking. Pete Hegseth sits to his left and Marco Rubio to his right.

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A photo shot from across a street with protestors on the opposite side holding large signs that spell "Abolish ICE."

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A groups of people hole a large white banner that with an MLK Jr. quote "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Wheelchairs can be seen in front and behind the sign.

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A photo shot from across a street with protestors on the opposite side holding large signs that spell "Abolish ICE."

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Usrof wears a black suit jacket, a white button-down, and a black-and-white keffiyeh. Background is an aerial image of a city, with dozens of brightly colored dots and lines drawn on.

Palestine

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A crowd waving Palestine flags marches along the sidewalk in front of glass-faced buildings. A couple of bicycle cops stand in the street in the photo's foreground.

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A crowd gathered with pro-Palestine banners on a college quad. One banner reads "End US Funds to Israel. Free Palestine."

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Dozens of small Palestinian flags, larger flags, tens, and signs reading "GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT" and "Join us" scattered around a grass plot with campus buildings in the background.

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A crowd gathered with pro-Palestine banners on a college quad. One banner reads "End US Funds to Israel. Free Palestine."

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