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sgmes.bsky.social @sgmes.bsky.social · 14h

"For years, I’d smiled in pictures with these leaders, shaken their hands and stood next to them at podiums – but not one of them picked up the phone, or replied to my messages. To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op.”

"She notes, pointedly, that female politicians did. "

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with her

www.theguardian.com

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sgmes.bsky.social @sgmes.bsky.social · Aug 23

www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty

Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.

www.digitaljournal.com

sgmes.bsky.social @sgmes.bsky.social · Aug 4

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

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Lilian Gamba @liliangamba.bsky.social · Aug 1

Alvos humanos...🤬

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 28

A president and his lackeys who are unchecked by law will not be bound by any agreement or contract when they think they can get a better deal by breaking it.

There's only one way to actually make a deal with Trump. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-only-way-to-make-a-deal-with

The only way to make a deal with Trump

is to create the largest and most powerful counter-force possible

robertreich.substack.com

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · Jul 27

“Desde que comenzó la guerra hemos contado cada bocado que podíamos permitirnos de cada comida. Ahora sabemos que simplemente no hay nada que comer”. Más de dos millones de personas intentan sobrevivir sin alimento en Gaza

Gaza se muere de inanición: “¿Por qué nos están matando de hambre?”

El bloqueo israelí empuja a más de dos millones de personas a sobrevivir sin apenas alimentos. Más de 100 organizaciones denuncian una catástrofe humanitaria provocada deliberadamente

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 27

One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating.

Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 7

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

www.theguardian.com

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⚒ José Simões ⚒ @josesimoes.bsky.social · May 9

A capa do L' Espresso

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The Independent @the-independent.com · May 9

Children so malnourished they’re losing their sight: Inside Israel’s aid blockade on Gaza

Children so malnourished they’re losing their sight: Inside Israel’s Gaza blockade

www.independent.co.uk

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Mário André Macedo @marioamacedo.bsky.social · May 6

Mortalidade materna aumentou nos estados que baniram a IVG e diminuiu nos outros.
Uma mulher tem agora o dobro da probabilidade de morrer durante a gravidez ou parto nos estados anti escolha que nos outros.
O fanatismo prejudica todas as famílias

www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Abortion in US: Women in ban states are twice as likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth, report warns

Women living in US states that have abortion bans, such as Louisiana or Texas, are almost at twice the risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after giving birth than women in states wh...

www.bmj.com

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Miguel Herdade @miguelherdade.bsky.social · May 4

Dia da Mãe:

A culpa de cada momento em que não se está com os filhos. A pressão de ser uma boa mãe, uma boa profissional. Ir ao médico, reuniões de “pais”, as vacinas. Ter a casa arrumada e os filhos a condizer. Dar de mamar. Preparar o lanche e o jantar.

comunidadeculturaearte.com/a-minha-mae-...

A minha mãe é o meu futuro

Três ensaios sobre desigualdade e educação. Parte II: “As Mães”. (Parte I: “os professores”) Talvez muitos desconheçam que o famoso […]

comunidadeculturaearte.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 30

Trump news at a glance: children targeted in immigration crackdown

The moves have prompted alarm about what one critic called ‘backdoor family separation’ – key US politics stories from Monday 28 April

www.theguardian.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Apr 22

Vance’s trolling audition to be Trump’s heir | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/637b75d3-03ad-45c9-a24a-bee6b3678d72

Vance’s trolling audition to be Trump’s heir | Opinion

The many contradictions of the vice-president should not distract from his ambition

www.ft.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 16

And if they had the power to spring Tate out of Romania, they have the power to spring Abrego García out of El Salvador.

Tweet from People For the American Way contrasts Trump aiding the return of a man charged with rape and trafficking with his inaction on a working-class father of three not charged with a crime. Below the text are photos of Andrew Tate giving a thumbs-up and a Kilmar Abrego Garcia wearing a backwards cap.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Apr 15

They don’t care.

They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family.

They don’t care.

They think it’s funny.

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sgmes.bsky.social @sgmes.bsky.social · Apr 14

view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 14

Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so.

This is a constitutional crisis.

How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 14

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?

BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous

TRUMP: These are sick people

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Apr 10

"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail

The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 22

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · Feb 25

Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.

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sgmes.bsky.social @sgmes.bsky.social · Mar 1

‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump

Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – including during Friday’s planned ‘economic blackout’

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Mar 1

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Expresso @jornalexpresso.bsky.social · Feb 16

O país era, até aos anos 90, um triste país de tintos. Triste porque estávamos a desleixar as nossas grandes virtudes, que eram o bom clima, as boas castas para alegrar as mesas e os solos muito capazes para fazer brancos

A revolta dos vinhos brancos: “os grandes brancos de que o país se pode orgulhar hoje não são uma herança direta do passado”

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