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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 16h

Great honour to welcome President Daniel Francisco Chapo of #Mozambique to @who.int today. During his visit, the President presented us with a beautiful gift: an artwork known as Ujamaha, which symbolises unity for common good like #HealthForAll.

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 12h

RM @meeks.house.gov: Trump claiming to fight drug trafficking by illegally blowing up boats at the same time he is cutting aid to Colombia’s counternarcotics work is the height of irony.

US says it hit Colombian rebel ship as Trump calls Petro ‘illegal drug leader’

U.S. forces attacked a vessel associated with a Colombian leftist rebel group, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, the same day President Donald Trump called Colombian President Gustavo Petro an "illegal drug leader" and said payments to the South American nation would cease.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

christ almighty what is this guy doing

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 22h

🧵 Yesterday’s AWS failure wasn’t just a massive service disruption. It exposed how dependent our economy and public institutions have become on privatized, centralized systems. 1/4
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The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem

What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail.

www.fastcompany.com

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 17h

A major finding from our recent report that explores the 15 years since the Citizens United ruling:

It has impacted our democracy.
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Line graph titled 'The US Is Now a Flawed, Not Full, Democracy' showing a decline in the US democracy index from 2006 to 2024, with a significant drop marked at the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Data sourced from the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index. The index value decreases from above 8.2 in 2006 to below 8.0 after 2016, entering the flawed democracy category.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 1d

The top 10% of Americans are driving nearly half of all spending, the highest share since the 1980s. For everyone else, wages aren’t keeping up with prices.

Important read from @bencasselman.bsky.social and @colbylsmith.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.

www.nytimes.com

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 6d

It’s hard to believe that the Congressional majority cares about federal workers when the administration delights in laying people off.

RIFs are a deliberate attempt to weaken the government’s ability to deliver and further undermine trust.
thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 6d

We've long argued that a government that builds for the many, not the few, is the key to restoring a #GoodLife for all.

We need to strengthen the state, not degrade its ability to serve people.
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Building the Government We Need: A Framework for Democratic State Capacity - Roosevelt Institute

In a new Roosevelt Institute analysis author K. Sabeel Rahman examines the role of state capacity in democratic governance and the design of bureaucratic institutions to sketch a framework for identif...

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DeAndres Javon Ellis @deandresellis.bsky.social · 8h

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Leave the Door Open by Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic on Apple Music

Song · 2021 · Duration 4:02

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 15h

By pausing congressionally approved military aid for Taiwan and refusing to allow President Lai to transit through the United States, Trump has shown he has zero credibility on Taiwan. His blind faith and appeasement toward Xi Jingping is harming American interests.

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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) @unctad.bsky.social · 1d

Just 100 firms, mainly in the US & China, account for 40% of global corporate research & development spending.

Market dominance may widen technological divides, leaving many developing nations at risk of missing out on the benefits of AI.

Find out more: ▶️ https://ow.ly/8TQf50XfqmM

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UNICEF Afghanistan @afghanistan.unicef.org · 1d

At Malik Sheer Ahmed school in Logar, girls light up with joy as they receive:

Backpacks 🎒
Notebooks 📒
Pencils ✏️
Crayons 🖍️

With support from World Bank South Asia, UNICEF Afghanistan is distributing teaching and learning materials package to 1.5M children in 15,000 schools across #Afghanistan.

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UNICEF España @unicefespana.bsky.social · 1d

Mientras el mundo calla, millones de niños y niñas en Sudán luchan por sobrevivir.
130.000 viven bajo asedio en El Fasher desde hace 500 días.
No dejemos que su sufrimiento quede en silencio www.unicef.es/noticia/debe...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

NEWS: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva have SUED the U.S. House of Representatives in federal court in Washington, D.C. over Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Grijalva.

Grijalva would be the 218th vote for the Epstein Files discharge petition.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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Democratic Party of New Mexico @nmdems.bsky.social · 12h

8 in 10 Americans, including most Republicans and MAGA, want Obamacare tax credits to be extended. Meanwhile, the GOP shut down the government because they refuse to do so, putting affordable healthcare out of reach for millions.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 11h

Latest on the blog where I talk about the impending loss of SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans and what we can do.

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Time to step up: No hungry people on our watch | Shay Stewart-Bouley

Most people who have read my writing in the last decade primarily know me for my political, cultural, and social justice writing and work. However, before I became the executive director of a grassroo...

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The Democratic Governors Association @demgovs.org · 12h

Gov. Tim Walz is speaking up for farmers hit hard by Trump’s disastrous tariffs.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is an own goal.

At a time when we have committed to onshoring the battery supply chain…

DOE cancels more than $700M in battery, manufacturing projects

The nixed grants appear to be the first the Department of Energy has confirmed from a list that outlines $20 billion in potential cuts.

www.eenews.net

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17h

This isn't complicated, he's just straight up extorting the Justice Deparment and looting taxpayers to put $230 million in his own pocket. Don't hold your breath waiting for any Republicans in the party to speak up about this either. https://nyti.ms/4oxtpQW

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

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DeAndres Javon Ellis @deandresellis.bsky.social · 11h

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Get 'Em Girls / The Mizzle (Outro) by Cam'ron on Apple Music

Song · 2003 · Duration 4:23

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DeAndres Javon Ellis @deandresellis.bsky.social · 11h

Elect people who tell the truth and make good choices. #GreenNewDeal #ReparationsNow #Vote #Win

DeAndres Javon Ellis @deandresellis.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is garbage on the economy, the environment, and policy in general.

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