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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 12d

President Trump's aid cuts are disproportionately hitting women and girls: forcing them to drop out of school or leading them to die in childbirth or perish from cervical cancer, or to marry as young teens. That's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl

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Bianca Jagger @biancajagger.bsky.social · 12d

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 14d

“Farage nudges the conversation without any accountability or evidence. Throws claims out there, to see what happens.”

Did Farage cross a line when he made false claims about migrants eating swans in the UK?

‘Lying about migrants eating swans is a profound mistake for Nigel Farage’ | The News Agents

Lying about migrants eating animals worked for Donald Trump in 2024, but it’s likely to backfire for Nigel Farage in 2025. Here’s why leaning harder into right-wing conspiracy theories could end…

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 14d

Dama is married to a U.S. citizen and was beginning the process of applying for a green card, and had his asylum application pending when he was detained by ICE in June

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 14d

Dama appeared in court via video, telling Judge Yul-Mi Cho that “going back to Nigeria would be like a death sentence to me.”

He had been held at a ICE facility in New Hampshire since his arrest more than three months ago.

Local restaurateur Paul Dama granted asylum after more than 3 months in ICE custody

Dama survived abduction by Boko Haram and said he feared returning to his native Nigeria.

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · Aug 12

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff says his office has documented more than 500 cases of abuse in immigrant detention centers, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.

Investigation by Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges abuse of children, pregnant women in ICE custody

An investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges more than 500 counts of human rights abuses in immigration detention, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.

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Le Nouvel Obs @nouvelobs.com · 14d

« Je n’ai pas peur » : l’ex-chef du FBI James Comey inculpé, une première concrétisation des promesses de vengeance de Trump

Bête noire de Donald Trump, James Comey avait été brutalement limogé par ce dernier en 2017, alors qu’il enquêtait sur des soupçons d’ingérences étrangères durant son premier mandat.

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Bianca Jagger @biancajagger.bsky.social · 14d

👉🏿 In this image you can see two gun rights advocates seating behind a wall of bulletproof glass, at a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

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Sr. Carolyn Morrison ra @srcarolyn.bsky.social · 19d

Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of a new day. May all that I do today be done with love and for your glory. #MorningPrayer

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Bianca Jagger @biancajagger.bsky.social · 19d

👉🏿The swelling of shame over Gaza
Netanyahu’s security cabinet has voted to escalate a war that experts increasingly agree is genocidal. Where is the action to stop it?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26d

Prices are rising, job growth is slowing, and analysts are predicting stagnant economic growth — largely due to Trump’s tariffs, his attempt to take over the Fed, and his deportations.

I fear that America is headed towards the dread trap of stagflation.

CBO Sees Lower US Growth, Higher Unemployment This Year

The Congressional Budget Office now expects higher inflation and unemployment this year and slower economic growth, afte

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Bianca Jagger @biancajagger.bsky.social · 27d

👉🏿We need to learn the lesson of enough. Please watch this important video

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Bianca Jagger @biancajagger.bsky.social · Sep 5

👉🏿 I agree with Zack Polanski that the UK government is not just complicit – they are active participants in the genocide that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinian people ⁦‪@ZackPolanski‬⁩ Source: Green Party

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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · Aug 29

As a disabled person who’ll have to be unmasked for a procedure in 2 weeks, I’d be so grateful if folks who don’t usually mask considered pitching in to help curb this surge.

N95s work best but if what you’ve got is cloth, popping it on to go into the grocery store is way better than nothing!

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CDC warns of huge COVID spike amid internal chaos

The COVID increase comes amid a surging "stratus" variant and the return-to-school season.

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com
- 1 meal a day = a single burrito
- some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete
- Some held as long as 7 days
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Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days

"The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · Jun 29

My family’s news from this spring: Elon fired my sister the day she learned she has breast cancer.

Here’s a bit of what it’s been like for her as one of the civil servants fighting to preserve our public services, at the same time that she’s fighting for her life.

A Real Cancer in Washington

The quiet heroism of my friend in government

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · Aug 9

Texas hasn't received FEMA aid yet. The callous disregard from officials is shocking. I hope Texans remember this in 2026. Ultimately, it seems the priority is enriching the wealthy using funds collected from struggling individuals.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 30

Xi to host Putin and Modi as China presents rival front to US on.ft.com/41uVY8B

Xi Jinping to host Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi as China presents rival front to US

Shanghai Cooperation Organization security meeting will mark Indian PM’s first visit in 7 years

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Aug 18

Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life.

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Israel/OPT: New testimonies provide compelling evidence that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy

Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty International said today.

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Aug 27

Your voice matters. You have the right to say what you think, share information and demand a better world. You also have the right to agree or disagree with those in power, and to express these opinions in peaceful protests.

Today, and every day, we must #ProtectTheProtest ✊

Protect the Protest. We won't imagine a world without it.

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Aug 28

🚨 Today we have launched the ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing which calls on governments to rein in the power of big technology companies in order to protect human rights.

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Amnesty launches ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing

Amnesty International has launched a new briefing calling on governments to rein in the power of Big Tech companies in order to safeguard human rights.

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Aug 28

It’s been 3 years since the UN issued a report on China’s serious human rights violations in the Uyghur region. Yet many Uyghur families remain separated, silenced, and searching for justice.

Governments must act now to end repression in the Uyghur region and ensure a process for accountability.

China: Still no accountability for crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, three years after major UN report

Families of detainees in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have told Amnesty International of their continued suffering, three years after a major UN report said China was responsible for “serious human rights violations”. On 31 August 2022, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a historic assessment concluding that serious […]

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wael Al-Dahdouh continued to report on the genocide in Gaza after his wife and children were killed by Israeli forces.

He is an award-winning Al Jazeera journalist with over 27 years of experience covering Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

700+ arrested.

70 charged with terrorism-related offenses for holding a placard.

Amnesty International calls it for what it is: absurd and unlawful.

We can't let this go unchallenged.

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