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This week: what experts advise on next steps for peacekeepers affected by U.N. budget cuts; featured new job leads, and more.
Devex Career Hub: The best pivot options for UN peacekeepers
Devex Career Hub: The best pivot options for UN peacekeepers
www.devex.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This week: what experts advise on next steps for peacekeepers affected by U.N. budget cuts; featured new job leads, and more.
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NEW: You've read a lot about immigrants kidnapped, forcibly detained, and held in ICE facilities -- what about the immigrants *trying* to leave the country? Turns out its wildly difficult for them too.
don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:
don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:
The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit Show
The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money. But some immigrants say it’s been nearly impossible.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NEW: You've read a lot about immigrants kidnapped, forcibly detained, and held in ICE facilities -- what about the immigrants *trying* to leave the country? Turns out its wildly difficult for them too.
don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:
don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:
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“This film gave me hope.” If The Last Class has inspired you —or you’re ready to see what the buzz is all about — join our live watchalong on 12/8 with Robert Reich.
Free to attend. RSVP now. https://bit.ly/4474NGZ
Free to attend. RSVP now. https://bit.ly/4474NGZ
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“This film gave me hope.” If The Last Class has inspired you —or you’re ready to see what the buzz is all about — join our live watchalong on 12/8 with Robert Reich.
Free to attend. RSVP now. https://bit.ly/4474NGZ
Free to attend. RSVP now. https://bit.ly/4474NGZ
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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Write better, think sharper, save hours each week.
Join our next PCDN Career Campus workshop:
Write Better, Work Smarter – Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals.
Join our next PCDN Career Campus workshop:
Write Better, Work Smarter – Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals.
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Write better, think sharper, save hours each week.
Join our next PCDN Career Campus workshop:
Write Better, Work Smarter – Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals.
Join our next PCDN Career Campus workshop:
Write Better, Work Smarter – Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals.
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
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Join our next PCDN Career Campus Workshop:
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Write Better, Work Smarter: Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals
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Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals
Write Better, Work Smarter: Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals
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December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Join our next PCDN Career Campus Workshop:
Write Better, Work Smarter: Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals
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Sign up just for the workshop → Get these skills, apply them tomorrow
Career Campus membership → Get all this plus:
Register: pcdn.global/write-better...
Write Better, Work Smarter: Practical AI Skills for Impact Professionals
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“There’s a future where manual driving becomes uncommon, perhaps even quaint, like riding horses is today,” Jonathan Slotkin writes. “It’s a future where we no longer accept thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of broken spines as the price of mobility.”
“There’s a future where manual driving becomes uncommon, perhaps even quaint, like riding horses is today,” Jonathan Slotkin writes. “It’s a future where we no longer accept thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of broken spines as the price of mobility.”
Opinion | The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars
Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“There’s a future where manual driving becomes uncommon, perhaps even quaint, like riding horses is today,” Jonathan Slotkin writes. “It’s a future where we no longer accept thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of broken spines as the price of mobility.”
“There’s a future where manual driving becomes uncommon, perhaps even quaint, like riding horses is today,” Jonathan Slotkin writes. “It’s a future where we no longer accept thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of broken spines as the price of mobility.”
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Join theSocial Change Career Podcast
Stories That Shape Change: Freelancing in Global Development Media
Emma Smith shares her path from journalism to development communications & freelance reporting.
• Shifting to freelance work
• Real insights on storytelling for impact
pcdn.global
Stories That Shape Change: Freelancing in Global Development Media
Emma Smith shares her path from journalism to development communications & freelance reporting.
• Shifting to freelance work
• Real insights on storytelling for impact
pcdn.global
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Join theSocial Change Career Podcast
Stories That Shape Change: Freelancing in Global Development Media
Emma Smith shares her path from journalism to development communications & freelance reporting.
• Shifting to freelance work
• Real insights on storytelling for impact
pcdn.global
Stories That Shape Change: Freelancing in Global Development Media
Emma Smith shares her path from journalism to development communications & freelance reporting.
• Shifting to freelance work
• Real insights on storytelling for impact
pcdn.global
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Impact Tools, PCDN AI for Impact Newsletter, November 26, 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
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Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead level...
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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NEW: A growing number of children have been left in the care of relatives, neighbors & babysitters after parents have been deported by ICE.
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Deported and Desperate to Be Reunited With Their Children
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NEW: A growing number of children have been left in the care of relatives, neighbors & babysitters after parents have been deported by ICE.
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
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“Research doesn't have to be exploitative.”
If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you.
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“Research doesn't have to be exploitative.”
Today’s PCDN AI for Impact newsletter is out.
When to use AI.
When to skip it.
Real talk for people doing impact work.
Nearly 20 jobs and learning opportunities worth checking out.
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When to use AI.
When to skip it.
Real talk for people doing impact work.
Nearly 20 jobs and learning opportunities worth checking out.
Free to subscribe:
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November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Today’s PCDN AI for Impact newsletter is out.
When to use AI.
When to skip it.
Real talk for people doing impact work.
Nearly 20 jobs and learning opportunities worth checking out.
Free to subscribe:
impactai.beehiiv.com/p/to-ai-or-n...
When to use AI.
When to skip it.
Real talk for people doing impact work.
Nearly 20 jobs and learning opportunities worth checking out.
Free to subscribe:
impactai.beehiiv.com/p/to-ai-or-n...
Still believe in dialogue and collaboration, but another COP ends without real solutions.
The clock is ticking. Yet greed and fossil fuel power keep winning over people and the planet. COP risks becoming a “Conference on Procrastination” — and vulnerable communities pay the price.
The clock is ticking. Yet greed and fossil fuel power keep winning over people and the planet. COP risks becoming a “Conference on Procrastination” — and vulnerable communities pay the price.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Still believe in dialogue and collaboration, but another COP ends without real solutions.
The clock is ticking. Yet greed and fossil fuel power keep winning over people and the planet. COP risks becoming a “Conference on Procrastination” — and vulnerable communities pay the price.
The clock is ticking. Yet greed and fossil fuel power keep winning over people and the planet. COP risks becoming a “Conference on Procrastination” — and vulnerable communities pay the price.
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Photographer Lou Bopp showed 60 Minutes some of the 10,000 photos he has taken of bedrooms left behind by children murdered in American school shootings. Bopp has photographed the rooms belonging to eight children who were killed in five different school shootings. cbsn.ws/49UiEEj
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Photographer Lou Bopp showed 60 Minutes some of the 10,000 photos he has taken of bedrooms left behind by children murdered in American school shootings. Bopp has photographed the rooms belonging to eight children who were killed in five different school shootings. cbsn.ws/49UiEEj
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Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler reflects on 25 years of impact-driven journalism — from a hand-coded site in 1999 to a global newsroom today.
Butler says the next 25 years of Mongabay will focus on strengthening impact and empowering the next generations of leaders in environmental journalism.
Butler says the next 25 years of Mongabay will focus on strengthening impact and empowering the next generations of leaders in environmental journalism.
The secret to building a global newsroom? Lead with impact, says Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler
“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it.” That sense of urgency has driven Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler since his teens, when he visited a…
news.mongabay.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler reflects on 25 years of impact-driven journalism — from a hand-coded site in 1999 to a global newsroom today.
Butler says the next 25 years of Mongabay will focus on strengthening impact and empowering the next generations of leaders in environmental journalism.
Butler says the next 25 years of Mongabay will focus on strengthening impact and empowering the next generations of leaders in environmental journalism.
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Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler has been announced a winner of this year’s Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. The annual prize is awarded to “outstanding leaders whose work is courageous, innovative, impactful, rooted in universal values, and global in perspective."
Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Prize
Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler has been announced a winner of this year’s Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. The annual prize is awarded to “outstanding leaders whose work is…
news.mongabay.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler has been announced a winner of this year’s Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. The annual prize is awarded to “outstanding leaders whose work is courageous, innovative, impactful, rooted in universal values, and global in perspective."
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Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler launched Mongabay in 1999 with the idea to “to make knowledge accessible and free, and to show that credible reporting could be a form of conservation in itself.”
“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it," says Butler.
“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it," says Butler.
The secret to building a global newsroom? Lead with impact, says Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler
“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it.” That sense of urgency has driven Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler since his teens, when he visited a…
news.mongabay.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler launched Mongabay in 1999 with the idea to “to make knowledge accessible and free, and to show that credible reporting could be a form of conservation in itself.”
“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it," says Butler.
“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it," says Butler.
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Key tips for navigating a brutal impact job market
The latest AI for Impact newsletter is out!
- Explore global roles at Gamma, WEF, Bending Spoons, and more
- AI breakthroughs in knowledge, reasoning, and climate tech innovation
impactai.beehiiv.com/p/global-opp...
The latest AI for Impact newsletter is out!
- Explore global roles at Gamma, WEF, Bending Spoons, and more
- AI breakthroughs in knowledge, reasoning, and climate tech innovation
impactai.beehiiv.com/p/global-opp...
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Key tips for navigating a brutal impact job market
The latest AI for Impact newsletter is out!
- Explore global roles at Gamma, WEF, Bending Spoons, and more
- AI breakthroughs in knowledge, reasoning, and climate tech innovation
impactai.beehiiv.com/p/global-opp...
The latest AI for Impact newsletter is out!
- Explore global roles at Gamma, WEF, Bending Spoons, and more
- AI breakthroughs in knowledge, reasoning, and climate tech innovation
impactai.beehiiv.com/p/global-opp...
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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In March, the American government deported more than 200 Venezuelan men from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The New York Times interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned. They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
In March, the American government deported more than 200 Venezuelan men from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The New York Times interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned. They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.