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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪

@angiyo.bsky.social

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Founder Green String Network (@GSNAfrica.bsky.social) || Healing-centered peacebuilder || Author of "Healing is what makes peace work" 🌿 #SDGs #Peacebuilding 🫘

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · Nov 23

#HealingCentered #peacebuilding is strength-based. It recognises systems and structures supporting recovery and rebuilding are often greatly damaged by the same violence and #trauma.

Key to the approach is interventions are not just about raising awareness but behavior change.

A complex systems map titled 'Wellbeing and Resilience: A grounded theory using a trauma-informed lens for a healing-centered peacebuilding approach.' The map branches into three main approaches, represented by different colored icons: A blue 'Psychosocial Programming Approach,' a red 'Ignore It Approach,' and a green 'A Healing-Centered Peacebuilding Approach.' The map also includes a purple 'Mental Health Approach.' Each branch contains numerous illustrated elements showing various aspects like community engagement, mental health support, and conflict resolution. The left side shows challenges and interventions, while the right side shows healing and positive outcomes. Multiple small illustrations depict people in various situations, from community meetings to healing activities. The map includes both problematic approaches to avoid and constructive solutions to implement. A credit line indicates this is from research by A. Yoder-Maina, 2020, at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 2h

Hospital Staffing Slashed, Mortality Rises: The Private Equity Effect

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Staffing Slashed, Mortality Rises: The Private Equity Effect

Authors of a new study found that patient outcomes suffered in the wake of private investor purchases of hospitals.

www.medscape.com

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 1h

The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday.

🔗 www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

No one should be surprised.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 9h

We don't have to. Get everyone you know to show up for the election in 2026. Don't believe all the Russian propaganda that we won't have a legit election. Don't let them depress turn out. Get people to the polls and get Democrats elected.

Then he can be impeached and removed.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 8h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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Lee-in-Iowa 💙 @lee-in-iowa.bsky.social · 11h

“Presidency” as merch.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

it’s all just a grift

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 7h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 1d

Every federal department has a RIF plan. And back in February, they were all ordered to update them. RIFs can be legal, if they follow the plan. But based on the President’s comments yesterday, there is good reason to believe that (a) they aren’t, or (b) the plan itself is illegal. My bet is (a).

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should be clear at this point that like the US federal government has collapsed.

There are no branches. There are no rules.

There is just one man and his truth social posts.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

He went to the bathroom and never came back. Imagine what kind of a person you have to be to do that to a kid!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

ICE has a history of preying on the most vulnerable and abusing people in their custody.

Many have died preventable deaths.

Two disabled people are currently being detained and denied all reasonable accommodations.

It’s eugenics. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

Disabled People are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities

Why is no one talking about it? Where's the media? Where's the public outcry? Another example of the pervasive nature of ableism and how society views disabled people as expendable.

www.disabledginger.com

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports.

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sightings across Europe.

German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sighting...

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

Towns and parishes saw dollar signs. Private operators saw opportunity. And people became profit centers. This is the immigration detention economy in action.

Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

Case in point (2019): Louisiana. After criminal justice reforms freed up jail space, ICE moved in. Why? Money. ICE pays ~$65/day per detained immigrant. The state pays just $24/day—a rate unchanged for 10+ years.

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

The US has long relied on mass incarceration to address economic and social unrest. Private prison companies don't just exploit this tendency—they actively drive it, especially in immigration.

Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

this is all linked also to immigration...

we need to better understand how the money flows

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

500 bullets hit the CDC in August... why are we not talking about this?

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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 23h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Republicans declare themselves patriots, then turn around and block the paychecks of the men and women who defend America.

And what’s really wild, some of those same troops keep voting red while getting screwed over again and again.

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 18h

The prison industrial complex...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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