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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 7h

"There’s just so much that has been lost. Beyond just the basic immediate subsistence, can Gaza survive? I don’t know"

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7h

What remains of the GHF “aid” distribution site in the Netzarim corridor, after it was dismantled by the IDF as part of their withdrawal from the area

More than 2,500 Palestinians were killed in these sites while desperately seeking food

www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 7h

Resilient Societies supports exiled democracy activists, and has a call for proposals for $8,000 for frontline rights groups rsocieties.org/call-for-app...

Call for Applications: Advancing Research from the Frontlines of Repression: Supporting Localized Knowledge on Civic Space – Resilient Societies

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 8h

You know when I think of countries that take advantage of the US and need to be punished with tariffs and aid cuts, I think Haiti. Those lucky chancers. Always living it large. Rolling in it at the US’s expense www.cgdev.org/blog/who-bea...

Who Bears the Burden? Tracking the Global Impact of Recent US Foreign Policy Shifts

Since January, the United States has adopted a range of foreign economic policies with negative impacts on the rest of the world, including higher tariffs on exports, taxes on remittances, and reducti...

www.cgdev.org

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 8h

96% of countries most affected by US tariffs, remittance tax and aid cuts are low and middle income. The hardest hit was Haiti www.cgdev.org/blog/who-bea...

Who Bears the Burden? Tracking the Global Impact of Recent US Foreign Policy Shifts

Since January, the United States has adopted a range of foreign economic policies with negative impacts on the rest of the world, including higher tariffs on exports, taxes on remittances, and reducti...

www.cgdev.org

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 9h

A major UK philanthropy is ending funding to US NGOs because it’s too risky. This has happened before in authoritarian counties like Hungary and India. It’s a new low for the US though www.devex.com/news/major-f...

Major foundation pauses grants to US, citing unclear policy changes

In a move likely to rattle global NGOs, one of the world’s largest foundations halts U.S. funding over policy uncertainty.

www.devex.com

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10h

My snow removal company has acquired a miniature cow farm, and has informed customers that this winter, every snow and tractor alert will be accompanied by a picture of a mini cow

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10h

“Greed will always destroy art, and Swift’s desire for profit—her need to sell product when she already has far more money than any one person could possibly require—has destroyed her ability to create anything of value” defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 1d

A genuinely chilling thread with detailed plans by the party further to the right of Reform, to systematically strip the status and deport 1.8 million people from the UK

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Restore Britain (Rupert Lowe, backed by Conservatives Susan Hall and Gavin Williamson) propose to strip 56,600 people who have been granted refugee status in Britain over the last eight years of that status and deport them.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 1d

The UN is trying to transfer 18 babies from NICUs in north Gaza, to be with their parents in south Gaza. They had to abandon attempts to save two babies due to gunfire and quadcopters, and one baby has already died www.reuters.com/world/middle...

www.reuters.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 1d

New UK rules mean a 150% increase in refugee women and children living rough in northern France. While French police are paid by the UK government to stop refugees receiving free tents and blankets. So they sleep in the woods with their babies. Just grim www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

The babies at the border in northern France

As the United Kingdom suspends its refugee family reunion scheme, growing numbers of women and children in Calais and Dunkirk face inhumane conditions...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Female genital cutting is increasing in South East Asia, with over half of procedures performed by doctors or midwives In Malaysia, 85% of doctors said they agreed with the procedure. The most common reason is 'regulating sexual desire' healthpolicy-watch.news/more-health-...

Growing Number Of Health Workers Are Performing Female Genital Mutilation In South East Asia - Health Policy Watch

CAPE TOWN - More and more health workers are performing female genital mutilation (FGM) in South and South East Asia – although the process is internationally

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 1d

The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right

Headline: "Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes.

The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 2d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2d

We should also be wary when Israeli govt is still talking about ethnic cleansing, Netanyahu & the far right are still in charge and Trump still has visions of a Gaza Riviera dancing in his head. That said, we should all be grateful for anything that saves a life, heals a family, reduces suffering,

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2d

There are many contentious issues remaining to be resolved. Neither side trusts the other. Furthermore, let's be careful about calling people who enabled the mass slaughter of Palestinians "peacemakers." Even if some them invoke scripture with their blessed are the peacemakers self-congratulation.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Another lobbying triumph to protect incumbents. Politics across Europe, talking about small companies and competition, acting to support existing large players.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 2d

The European Parliament voted today to ban plant-based and lab-grown products from having meat-related names such as “burger,” “sausage” or “steak” on their labels.

EU lawmakers back ‘veggie burger’ ban

The European Parliament slips prohibition of plant-based “burgers” into wider farm reform, sparking NGO outrage and political splits.

www.politico.eu

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

The demolition of USAID is still the most unforgivable thing the Trump administration has done. If the entire rest of the presidency were benign it would still damn it all

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2d

When Musk killed USAID, he axed over $40bn in aid spending. For every father like Mohammed who held the weak body of his two year old son while he died in his arms, there are millions more parents whose same stories are untold apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2d

"We'll stop at nothing to diversify UK trade markets! We are limitless in our drive for a deal with India!"

How about attracting highly-skilled but non-white workers?"

"God no"

www.ft.com/content/5ab6...

More UK visas for highly skilled Indian workers ‘not part of plan’, says Keir Starmer

British premier embarks on two-day trade trip with 125 chief executives, cultural leaders and university vice-chancellors

www.ft.com

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2d

A new generic self-injectable contraceptive will give millions of women the freedom to discretely and cheaply prevent pregnancies ciff.org/news/who-gra...

WHO grants prequalification to first generic self-injectable contraceptive - CIFF

A major step forward for women’s reproductive health: WHO grants prequalification to first generic self-injectable contraceptive, increasing access to high-quality contraceptive choices.

ciff.org

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2d

*Offer does not apply if said woman needs reproductive health care. In that case, offer includes significant risk of haemorrhage after being denied a D&C, arrest due to a miscarriage, or other miscellaneous violations of reproductive rights

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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