Mara Bellaby

@SpaceBrendan Congratulations, Brendan! Well deserved.

Some professional news: I'm now WMFE's Assistant News Director. I'm really excited to take on this new challenge, helping lead the local newsroom in a time when local news is so vital. I'll still host "Are We There Yet?" each week, and cover the big space news stories.

Take 2. #Artemis

Led out of his flat for questioning, @roizmangbn says he’s being prosecuted ‘basically for one phrase - the invasion of Ukraine. I say it everywhere, I’ll say it now,’ he tells press at his door He’s facing up to 5 years in prison, joining @vkaramurza, @IlyaYashin & others

Russia is now a country where you see someone criticising the war & govt & you wonder why they're still free & when they'll be arrested Evgeny Roizman was pretty much the last prominent, vocal Kremlin-critic standing He's just been charged with 'discrediting the Russian army'

@AP 💔

Natalia Kolesnik had learned to live with the risks of life near the front line of Russia's war in eastern Ukraine. Then, on a hot Thursday, the shelling caught her. apnews.com/article/russia…

@JenkinsBrevard @VoteRandyFine @Florida_Today @EricRogersFT @baileygallion In my previous post, the word ‘explain’ gave wrong connotation. That point bothered me. To clarify: when we asked you about payments, you denied and answered questions. We have no further evidence any payments were made. We saw no story.

@MBellaby @VoteRandyFine @Florida_Today @EricRogersFT @baileygallion Ms. Bellaby, u stated 'when ur account was public', except it always was, still is, bc I have nothing to hide. So again, I ask, what did u 'see' that warranted the questions I was asked by ur reporter about Robert Burns & how did I 'explain' what you 'saw' that wasn't ever there?

@Florida_Today @MBellaby @EricRogersFT @baileygallion I look forward to your thoughts on this claim. If I gave you Venmo images of any kind on any person — on the record or off - you are authorized to share it.

@JenkinsBrevard @VoteRandyFine @Florida_Today @EricRogersFT @baileygallion Dear Ms. Jenkins: there seems to be a misunderstanding. Our reporter asked you about venmo payments we saw when your account was public. You explained and we saw no story. No documents or screenshots were provided by anyone.

@VoteRandyFine @Florida_Today @MBellaby @EricRogersFT @baileygallion Glad you at least had the guts to tag the reporter who called me.

The teenagers who survived Columbine are in their late 30s and early 40s. They have kids in elementary schools.

The United States is troubled by Russian authorities' detention today in Moscow of prominent civil society leader Vladimir Kara-Murza. We are monitoring this situation closely and urge his immediate release.

Horrific attack by Russia on an Ukrainian train station where hundreds were waiting to evacuate.

One of Ukraine’s most prominent singers Andriy Khlyvniuk sings Ukrainian song at St. Sophia square in Kyiv. #StandWithUkraine️

Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov was just attacked on a train in Russia by a man who threw paint at him, possibly damaging his eyesight.

Warsaw #Poland, where President Biden is tonight.

This is example of how evacuation from Mariupol looks like, from civilian perspective..

Powerful message from Kyiv’s mayor.

One Ukrainian woman’s story. 'How dare you?' was her response to Russia’s invasion. #Ukraine floridatoday.com/story/news/loc…

I’ve worked out of our KSC building countless times over the last 10 years. Had never seen anything of note through the left window — until today.

Putin's call for a "self-purification" of Russian society can have only one intention: To remind Russians of Stalin and his "purges." He wants them to be haunted by dark, ancestral memories, to remember their grandparents' stories and to be petrified with fear.

@JCUAlumni Thank you!

Featured in this month's Onward Newsletter, @MBellaby ’92 reflected on the war in Ukraine after living there from 2004-2006 and running the Kyiv bureau for the Associated Press. Check your email to read more about her thoughts on the conflict and more featured alumni in Onward

This is heartbreaking.