Craig Ling
@craigling.bsky.social
Financial inclusion remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where around 42% of adults remain unbanked, but the growth in mobile money platforms is widening access to banking services.
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🟡 Semafor Africa: The power of collaboration | Semafor
In this edition: US ambassadors leave Africa, a UAE-Africa blockchain deal, and a gripping new Nigerian thriller.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Financial inclusion remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where around 42% of adults remain unbanked, but the growth in mobile money platforms is widening access to banking services.
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CECOT
On Monday, some Canadian viewers noticed that the pre-planned “60 Minutes” episode was published on a streaming platform owned by Global TV, the network that has the rights to “60 Minutes” in Canada.
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On Monday, some Canadian viewers noticed that the pre-planned “60 Minutes” episode was published on a streaming platform owned by Global TV, the network that has the rights to “60 Minutes” in Canada.
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The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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December 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
CECOT
On Monday, some Canadian viewers noticed that the pre-planned “60 Minutes” episode was published on a streaming platform owned by Global TV, the network that has the rights to “60 Minutes” in Canada.
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
On Monday, some Canadian viewers noticed that the pre-planned “60 Minutes” episode was published on a streaming platform owned by Global TV, the network that has the rights to “60 Minutes” in Canada.
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
In March, Lee Zeldin E.P.A., reframed the mission of the agency to focus on promoting economic activity rather than regulating pollution. Since then, the E.P.A. has unleashed changes that have curtailed the government’s ability to limit dangerous pollutants.
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Looking Back at a Historic Year of Dismantling Climate Policies
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December 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In March, Lee Zeldin E.P.A., reframed the mission of the agency to focus on promoting economic activity rather than regulating pollution. Since then, the E.P.A. has unleashed changes that have curtailed the government’s ability to limit dangerous pollutants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
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"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"
The letter was signed by Matthew Giacona, the acting director of BOEM, a young political appointee and former oil and gas lobbyist for the National Ocean Industries Association.
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‘Bonkers': DOI letter halts all five in-progress offshore wind farms
Construction will be paused for 90 days as Trump's "Department of War" and Interior Department coordinate to evaluate supposed "national security" risks.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The letter was signed by Matthew Giacona, the acting director of BOEM, a young political appointee and former oil and gas lobbyist for the National Ocean Industries Association.
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The SPLC works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities.
📲 Check out our overview of hard-right activity in December 2025 here: https://bit.ly/3KZEw74
📲 Check out our overview of hard-right activity in December 2025 here: https://bit.ly/3KZEw74
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The SPLC works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities.
📲 Check out our overview of hard-right activity in December 2025 here: https://bit.ly/3KZEw74
📲 Check out our overview of hard-right activity in December 2025 here: https://bit.ly/3KZEw74
“What has happened is that solar has become the lowest levelized cost of energy of any new-build energy source out there,” Cohen said. “Solar has reached the tipping point where it’s the most economical and achievable energy solution in places like Kansas.”
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Why Kansas could be at a turning point on solar
The sun-drenched state is a solar laggard, but that’s changing thanks to a slew of big projects — including a 270-MW installation that just landed a…
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December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“What has happened is that solar has become the lowest levelized cost of energy of any new-build energy source out there,” Cohen said. “Solar has reached the tipping point where it’s the most economical and achievable energy solution in places like Kansas.”
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Iran’s Water Crisis: A National Security Imperative
Without coordinated adaptation strategies—climate change acts as a multiplier for existing vulnerabilities, intensifying rural depopulation, urban water stress, and social unrest.
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Without coordinated adaptation strategies—climate change acts as a multiplier for existing vulnerabilities, intensifying rural depopulation, urban water stress, and social unrest.
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Iran’s Water Crisis: A National Security Imperative
Iran’s national security is no longer defined solely by armies, weapons, or borders—it now hinges on something far more fundamental: water.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Iran’s Water Crisis: A National Security Imperative
Without coordinated adaptation strategies—climate change acts as a multiplier for existing vulnerabilities, intensifying rural depopulation, urban water stress, and social unrest.
www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/irans-water-...
Without coordinated adaptation strategies—climate change acts as a multiplier for existing vulnerabilities, intensifying rural depopulation, urban water stress, and social unrest.
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Affordability !!!!
From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
December 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Affordability !!!!
What happened to Ford, GM and Tesla ?
Just think the FBI could be Green !
Just think the FBI could be Green !
“He needs a field jacket that fits just right, a ‘Punisher’-inspired challenge coin and a new fleet of foreign cars to drive around in...”
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Kash Patel’s new ride of choice: an armored luxury BMW
The FBI director, who is under fire for use of government resources, also asked for an upgraded jet.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What happened to Ford, GM and Tesla ?
Just think the FBI could be Green !
Just think the FBI could be Green !
“We can make progress today with the technologies we have,” said Leah Stokes, an associate professor of environmental politics at UC Santa Barbara and one of the principal researchers for the report.
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Electrifying these factories could cut a gigaton of CO2 pollution
The U.S. industrial sector relies on gas-fired boilers to make heat. A new report shows how manufacturers can electrify and decarbonize, starting now.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“We can make progress today with the technologies we have,” said Leah Stokes, an associate professor of environmental politics at UC Santa Barbara and one of the principal researchers for the report.
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What’s the relationship between winter weather & climate change? It starts with the polar vortex. UCS's @marc-alessi.bsky.social breaks it down for you.
This holiday season, show some love to your local meteorologists and support science and scientific funding.
This holiday season, show some love to your local meteorologists and support science and scientific funding.
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
What’s the relationship between winter weather & climate change? It starts with the polar vortex. UCS's @marc-alessi.bsky.social breaks it down for you.
This holiday season, show some love to your local meteorologists and support science and scientific funding.
This holiday season, show some love to your local meteorologists and support science and scientific funding.
Meter socket adapters can generate serious — if highly varied — savings.
Colby Hastings: where utilities have cleared their use, “the Backup Switch can save thousands of dollars on a typical installation in both material and labor,” she said.
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Colby Hastings: where utilities have cleared their use, “the Backup Switch can save thousands of dollars on a typical installation in both material and labor,” she said.
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A path to fast, cheap home solar and batteries: go through the meter
New digital meter socket adapters from Tesla and others make home solar, battery, and EV charging installs a snap. But only if utilities let homes use…
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December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Meter socket adapters can generate serious — if highly varied — savings.
Colby Hastings: where utilities have cleared their use, “the Backup Switch can save thousands of dollars on a typical installation in both material and labor,” she said.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
Colby Hastings: where utilities have cleared their use, “the Backup Switch can save thousands of dollars on a typical installation in both material and labor,” she said.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
Indian solar energy company KP Group signed a $4 billion partnership with Botswana’s government to develop large-scale renewable energy projects.
Tanzania inaugurated a $47 million water supply project and is considering a national water supply grid.
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Tanzania inaugurated a $47 million water supply project and is considering a national water supply grid.
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🟡 Semafor Africa: The path to prosperity | Semafor
In this edition: Botswana’s economy forecast to shrink, One Good Text with David Miliband, and Africa’s energy challenge.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Indian solar energy company KP Group signed a $4 billion partnership with Botswana’s government to develop large-scale renewable energy projects.
Tanzania inaugurated a $47 million water supply project and is considering a national water supply grid.
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Tanzania inaugurated a $47 million water supply project and is considering a national water supply grid.
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
Sea level rise has doubled along the U.S. coast: www.earth.com/news/sea-lev...
Sea level rise has doubled along the U.S. coast
Sea levels along the United States coast are rising faster than they did in the past, and the change is not subtle.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sea level rise has doubled along the U.S. coast: www.earth.com/news/sea-lev...
A New Yorker Cartoon
“Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?”
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December 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Indigenous artist Sara Riches this year embarked on the biggest project of her career, in a figurative and literal sense.
"This region is my home, so it's an amazing opportunity to be back on country and be a part of this project," she said.
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"This region is my home, so it's an amazing opportunity to be back on country and be a part of this project," she said.
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Unique art project gets big canvas on wind turbines
A renewable energy project being built at one of Western Australia's biggest gold mines has been transformed into a unique canvas for an Indigenous artist and about 200 schoolchildren.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Indigenous artist Sara Riches this year embarked on the biggest project of her career, in a figurative and literal sense.
"This region is my home, so it's an amazing opportunity to be back on country and be a part of this project," she said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
"This region is my home, so it's an amazing opportunity to be back on country and be a part of this project," she said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Environmental experts, detection dogs team up to protect native freshwater turtles.
Ngarrindjeri woman Lucy Sumner is a junior ranger says she loves sharing her knowledge about the Thukabi (turtle).
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Ngarrindjeri woman Lucy Sumner is a junior ranger says she loves sharing her knowledge about the Thukabi (turtle).
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Detection dogs part of fight to protect native freshwater turtles
A team of environmental experts, Indigenous rangers and conservation detection dogs is working on recovering the population of native freshwater turtles.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Environmental experts, detection dogs team up to protect native freshwater turtles.
Ngarrindjeri woman Lucy Sumner is a junior ranger says she loves sharing her knowledge about the Thukabi (turtle).
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Ngarrindjeri woman Lucy Sumner is a junior ranger says she loves sharing her knowledge about the Thukabi (turtle).
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Unstoppable renewable energy revolution powers on By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fuelled road.
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Unstoppable renewable energy revolution powers on
By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fuelled road.
davidsuzuki.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Unstoppable renewable energy revolution powers on By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fuelled road.
davidsuzuki.org/story/unstop...
davidsuzuki.org/story/unstop...
Don't regress!
A February 2026 deadline requires the EPA to address air pollution from soot, but the agency appears to have taken few steps, if any, to do so. Learn more and read the letter that 106 groups, including UCS, signed opposing this move.
Breathing the Consequences: EPA's Refusal to Implement Strengthened Soot Standard Endangers Public Health
A February 2026 deadline calls for EPA to address air pollution from soot, but it appears the agency has taken few steps, if any, to do so
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December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Don't regress!
All of the above, right Mr. President. Support the Inflation Reduction Act. That will be a great decision for the United States Economy. CL 💻
Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage.
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Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage.
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Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump
Trump spent much of 2025 boosting fossil fuels and blocking renewables, but 92% of new power additions through November were solar, wind, or batteries.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
All of the above, right Mr. President. Support the Inflation Reduction Act. That will be a great decision for the United States Economy. CL 💻
Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage.
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Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
The Inflation Reduction Act.
The grid operator has so far failed to unclog a backlog of more than 100 gigawatts’ worth of power capacity, the vast majority of it solar, wind, and batteries.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
The grid operator has so far failed to unclog a backlog of more than 100 gigawatts’ worth of power capacity, the vast majority of it solar, wind, and batteries.
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PJM’s capacity costs hit record as grid falls short on supply
Data center construction and clogged-up generation queues are driving costs — and political backlash — in the country’s biggest power market.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The Inflation Reduction Act.
The grid operator has so far failed to unclog a backlog of more than 100 gigawatts’ worth of power capacity, the vast majority of it solar, wind, and batteries.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
The grid operator has so far failed to unclog a backlog of more than 100 gigawatts’ worth of power capacity, the vast majority of it solar, wind, and batteries.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
The Trump administration said it would be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.
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Europe Begins to Tiptoe Away From Key Climate Policies
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December 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Trump administration said it would be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/c...
This latest delivery of military equipment to Ukraine came as the Australian government announced $95 million of additional funding for the country's defence.
Canberra has now contributed $1.7 billion to Ukraine's defences.
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Canberra has now contributed $1.7 billion to Ukraine's defences.
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Inside the classified mission to deliver Australian tanks to Ukraine
The ABC is granted exclusive access to the ADF operation to transport M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, via Poland, which included an ocean voyage of more than 50 days.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This latest delivery of military equipment to Ukraine came as the Australian government announced $95 million of additional funding for the country's defence.
Canberra has now contributed $1.7 billion to Ukraine's defences.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Canberra has now contributed $1.7 billion to Ukraine's defences.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Sen. Mike Lee has introduced an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that would remove language preventing the sale of national parks and other protected lands.
It could pave the way for the Trump administration to sell off #NationalParks to the highest bidder.
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It could pave the way for the Trump administration to sell off #NationalParks to the highest bidder.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sen. Mike Lee has introduced an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that would remove language preventing the sale of national parks and other protected lands.
It could pave the way for the Trump administration to sell off #NationalParks to the highest bidder.
bit.ly/4smB6w7
It could pave the way for the Trump administration to sell off #NationalParks to the highest bidder.
bit.ly/4smB6w7