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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 14m

This is attracting coverage world wide, it seems....One example...

Furloughed workers visit food bank as shutdown drags on: "I need to pay my bills"

YouTube video by CBS Evening News

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 22m

Pyrrha has developed a cult-like following around the globe thanks to its unique vintage aesthetic. Its pieces—cast from antique Victorian wax seals—have been spotted on some of the biggest celebrities in the world, including Taylor Swift, Andrew Garfield and Reese Witherspoon.

30 years of Pyrrha: How two Vancouver creatives built a global jewellery brand by accident

Marking 30 years, Vancouver’s Pyrrha has gone from a fluke side project to a global jewellery brand worn by Taylor Swift, Reese Witherspoon and more.

bcbusiness.ca

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s America: Thousands of furloughed federal workers in Hyattsville, Maryland waiting in line for food.

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 1h

Brown’s house is a “hub home,” one of seven in a Northeast Houston pilot program meant to create emergency safe havens — not at shelters or community centers, but inside neighbors’ houses.

Lacking community resilience centers, Houston neighbors opt for solar-powered 'hub homes'

Doris Brown’s home in Northeast Houston becomes a refuge for neighbors during power outages thanks to her solar panel and battery system.

apnews.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 1h

“Somehow the idea that people not using health insurance is some sort of a problem — it might be. But in principle it isn’t,” said Joseph Antos, a health policy expert and senior fellow emeritus at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.

GOP Talking Point Holds ACA Is Haunted by ‘Phantom’ Enrollees, but the Devil’s in the Data - KFF Health News

Enhanced Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies have emerged as a flash point in the congressional standoff over the federal government shutdown. Republicans point to what they characterize as incr...

kffhealthnews.org

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 1h

As the cancer volunteers gathered in a conference hotel in Washington, they focused on their shared agenda: increasing funding for cancer research, retaining insurance subsidies, and expanding access to cancer screening.

‘Cancer Doesn’t Care’: Citizen Lobbyists Unite To Push Past Washington’s Ugly Politics - KFF Health News

Despite a poisonous political climate, hundreds of volunteer advocates put partisan differences aside and pressed Congress to help people with cancer.

kffhealthnews.org

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 2h

Now comes a sharper focus with the Ovarian Health XPRIZE, a new drive to target one of the field’s most neglected levers; the aim is unapologetically translational, harnessing competition to accelerate tools, standards and solutions that actually reach women.

Cracking the code of ovarian aging

XPRIZE Health EVP Dr Jamie Justice on tackling ovarian aging through innovation, measurement and a global challenge.

longevity.technology

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 7h

"There are three big questions about engaging the Russian public: Does it work? How can it be done in an environment of heavy censorship? And should the West use Russia"s own dirty tricks against it, or can it engage in a more ethical way?"

How to Fight Putin on the Information Battlefield

The West can’t fully adopt Russia’s methods—but it should study them.

foreignpolicy.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 12h

A study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of the South Pacific has found that coral reefs severely damaged by Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016 have made a significant comeback.

Fiji's cyclone-ravaged coral reefs show "remarkable recovery" - Oceanographic

A new study finds coral reefs in Fiji have undergone a remarkable recovery just four years after Cyclone Winston's category five devastation.

oceanographicmagazine.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 12h

Instead of locating its service and technology jobs in a metro area or sending them to countries such as the Philippines, Provalus seeks out small towns, mostly in the South, looking for places where the average individual income hovers around $30,000.

These Jobs Often Go Overseas. One Company Is Bringing Them to Rural America.

Instead of offshoring, Provalus looks for small towns where incomes are low and people are eager for positions that will teach them 21st-century skills.

www.wsj.com

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 12h

In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and maternal health crisis.

The birth of the climate doula

In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and maternal health crisis.

19thnews.org

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 12h

“The majority are people I’ve never met, I’m not Facebook friends with and have no connection to,” Sullivan told The 19th. “I just read a message from a woman who said, ‘You make me feel so much less alone.’ Lots of them feel like a tiny blue speck in a red state.”

The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia

Kendra Sullivan's one-woman stand received an outpouring of support from people in other conservative areas who "feel like a tiny blue speck in a red state."

19thnews.org

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 14h

Several major Central European economies - including Austria, Hungary, Romania and Poland - have sharply boosted the share of utility electricity production from solar farms since 2022 as part of efforts to boost home-grown energy supplies.

www.reuters.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 14h

Morocco plans to abandon coal power entirely by 2040 if it secures international climate finance, says the Powering Past Coal Alliance.
Morocco joined the... group of around 60 governments seeking to phase out coal power, in 2023, in a bid to progress natural gas and renewable energy projects.

www.reuters.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 14h

Hirschhorn’s motivation for commissioning Mother Vérité was the idea that statues depict what society deems worthy of commemoration – that they shine a light on our heroes. ....she said she wanted to “raise mothers onto the pedestal they deserve”.

Why London’s New Statue Of A Postpartum Woman Is So Important

Rather than the polished birth announcements we’ve come to associate those steps with, a new statue outside the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital represents the raw and unglamorous reality of the “four...

www.vogue.co.uk

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 14h

Once a motel in the Reynoldstown neighborhood — built in the 1960s — the space was transformed into 56 modern studio apartments for individuals or families who were previously unhoused.

Atlanta motel transformed into colorful affordable housing named after civil rights icon

The new development is part of Atlanta Beltline, which aims to create 5,000 new affordable homes by 2030.

www.goodgoodgood.co

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 16h

It was a different time...

President Reagan's Address to Canadian Parliament on April 6, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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lerris.bsky.social @lerris.bsky.social · 1d

This seems to be the Youtube link.

Note it is eight years old. This is not AI.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17h

The White House released a list of the project’s funders on Thursday, which include some of the most influential American tech companies, like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as defense companies like Palantir and Lockheed Martin and telecom providers like Comcast and T-Mobile.

Big tech is paying for Trump's White House ballroom | TechCrunch

Trump's $250 million White House ballroom will be funded in part by big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

techcrunch.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17h

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reportedly decided that weapon-grade plutonium from the Cold War-era stockpile could be turned into nuclear reactor fuel.....
The step is aimed at reducing American dependence on uranium imports from Russia.

Weapons-grade plutonium could be turned into nuclear fuel in US

With a new step by the US DOE, plutonium will be converted into fuel for advanced nuclear reactors, helping the US meet its energy demands.

interestingengineering.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17h

If successful, this approach could drastically reduce the environmental impact of battery production and disposal. Using bacteria to recycle spent batteries could make the process safer, more sustainable, and less reliant on toxic chemicals or high-energy industrial methods.

New battery waste-eating bacteria offers self-sufficient recycling

Boston College researchers discover a bacterium that can eat spent batteries, offering a new path for self-sufficient recycling.

interestingengineering.com

hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17h

The constant threats of war have changed many things about life in Ukraine, including the way the night time sounds. We meet members of a youth orchestra outside Kyiv who are marking the new sounds of their country with a sonic poem.

🔊 Listen Now: Making Music from the Sounds of War

State Of The World From NPR on NPR One | 4:27

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17h

The Hudson Bay peatlands in northern Canada, a 90-million-acre area stretching from northern Manitoba to Quebec, are a haven for biodiversity, home to more than 1,000 species of plants and 175 species of birds. But the secret of this unique ecosystem lies below the surface....

The Land That Stores Nearly a Third of the World's Carbon

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

undark.org

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17h

The Ukrainian leader sees a painful reality, his country’s geo-body violently cut apart by an invading, occupying power. Trump comments indicate he sees it as a property dispute in which the strongest power has accumulated some territorial winnings and now needs to cash them in.

When it comes to Ukraine peace negotiations, it’s all over the map

Donald Trump is reportedly ‘sick’ of being presented with maps of Ukraine’s battlefronts. The problem may be he and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy are looking at different things.

theconversation.com

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