Simona Perry
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The starfish delusion: why care, not strategy, is the real driver of change
Care is the ground all systems stand on: it is the refusal to be paralysed by the size of the problem, but to act in spite of it
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
The ethic of care does not ask, “How can I optimise this interaction?” It asks, “How can I be fully present with this person, this pain, this moment?” Not because it will change the world. But because it is the world. It is the only world we ever touch.
“Advent is about active expectation: staring at all that’s broken around us and reflecting on how we are called to join God in interrupting the darkness.“
Don’t Ignore the Darkness of Advent
The days before Christmas invite us to reflect on how we are called to join God in interrupting the darkness all around us.
sojo.net
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Advent is about active expectation: staring at all that’s broken around us and reflecting on how we are called to join God in interrupting the darkness.“
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Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape.
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape.
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
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The Peace Light from Bethlehem has arrived in Ukraine, a powerful symbol delivered to Kyiv and now headed by night trains to every regional center.
Ukrainian scouts brought the flame from Vienna after its journey from Bethlehem.
Ukrainian scouts brought the flame from Vienna after its journey from Bethlehem.
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Peace Light from Bethlehem has arrived in Ukraine, a powerful symbol delivered to Kyiv and now headed by night trains to every regional center.
Ukrainian scouts brought the flame from Vienna after its journey from Bethlehem.
Ukrainian scouts brought the flame from Vienna after its journey from Bethlehem.
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Given that the Supreme Court’s prior answer was that “a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves,” could not be an American citizen and thus not have standing to sue in federal court, not feeling sanguine about this. At all.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US supreme court to decide on legality of Trump birthright citizenship order
Justices to take up case amid legal fight over order to heavily restrict right to birthright citizenship in US
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Given that the Supreme Court’s prior answer was that “a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves,” could not be an American citizen and thus not have standing to sue in federal court, not feeling sanguine about this. At all.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No bueno 🚨‼️
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S.C.I.S. officials that they couldn’t proceed due to their countries of origin.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S.C.I.S. officials that they couldn’t proceed due to their countries of origin.
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
No bueno 🚨‼️
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S.C.I.S. officials that they couldn’t proceed due to their countries of origin.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S.C.I.S. officials that they couldn’t proceed due to their countries of origin.
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Rest in power, Chairman Fred!
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Rest in power, Chairman Fred!
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Not about Biden policies. It's about this being a conscious decision to ignore science and make the global climate crisis worse. It is as insane as their policy to oppose or make it harder to get vaccines.
Breaking News: President Trump threw the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline rather than electric cars, gutting one of the country’s most significant efforts to address climate change.
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage standards, which were designed to increase electric-vehicle sales, calling them a “scam.”
nyti.ms
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Not about Biden policies. It's about this being a conscious decision to ignore science and make the global climate crisis worse. It is as insane as their policy to oppose or make it harder to get vaccines.
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the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.
Colombian killed in U.S. strike was on a fishing trip, wife claims: "Why did they just take his life like that?"
Alejandro Carranza's family is questioning U.S. claims that he was carrying narcotics aboard a small vessel targeted last month.
www.cbsnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.
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Whatcom immigrants are feeling scared as the federal government introduces a slew of measures following the shooting in Washington, D.C.
Federal backlash to DC shooting sparks fear among Whatcom immigrants | Cascadia Daily News
Trump administration has introduced a slew of measures restricting immigration
www.cascadiadaily.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Whatcom immigrants are feeling scared as the federal government introduces a slew of measures following the shooting in Washington, D.C.
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Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
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Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal.
Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News
Assembly of First Nations chiefs are demanding the withdrawal of Canada and Alberta’s recently announced new pipeline deal and expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast t...
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal.
Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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"Most were loyal supporters of [Trump], who carried their home of Montour County by 20 points in the 2024 election. But they bristled at Washington’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure, which has driven data-center growth in rural areas around the US where land is cheap."
Trump’s push for more AI data centers faces backlash from his own voters
A backlash in central Pennsylvania reflects a growing coalition of farmers, environmentalists and homeowners who have united across partisan lines to resist data-center expansion. Residents fear data ...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Most were loyal supporters of [Trump], who carried their home of Montour County by 20 points in the 2024 election. But they bristled at Washington’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure, which has driven data-center growth in rural areas around the US where land is cheap."
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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Marie Lorenz has spent 20 years removing debris from New York City’s waterways. https://bit.ly/3KpDGQy
Articulations of the Anthropocene - Chicago Reader
“Undertow" through 12/6 at Watershed Art & Ecology
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Marie Lorenz has spent 20 years removing debris from New York City’s waterways. https://bit.ly/3KpDGQy
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“We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast,” Marilyn Slett, the president of the Coastal First Nations (CFN)
#Haida #CDNpoli #Carney #Pipeline
#Haida #CDNpoli #Carney #Pipeline
‘Not going to happen’: First Nations threaten to end Carney’s pipe dream
The Canadian PM’s breakthrough oil deal with Alberta cost him a cabinet minister and will still face stiff opposition
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Today is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. One can support the people of Israel while simultaneously advocating for the rights and freedoms and dreams of the people of Palestine.
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. One can support the people of Israel while simultaneously advocating for the rights and freedoms and dreams of the people of Palestine.
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"[F]irst of its kind."
"Woven Project, led by Indigenous environmental leaders, features a new global Indigenous advisory council on climate change that aims to center Indigenous solutions and knowledge."
"Land back is a regeneration of these spaces."
#Brazil #Alberta #Canada #Climate
"Woven Project, led by Indigenous environmental leaders, features a new global Indigenous advisory council on climate change that aims to center Indigenous solutions and knowledge."
"Land back is a regeneration of these spaces."
#Brazil #Alberta #Canada #Climate
Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
At the recent summit in Brazil, Indigenous leaders launch global council to centre Indigenous solutions and knowledge in addressing the crisis.
ricochet.media
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“It reflects the same thinking that once justified westward expansion. The ideology did not disappear; it simply learned to present itself in new ways.”
truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org/articles/the...
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“It reflects the same thinking that once justified westward expansion. The ideology did not disappear; it simply learned to present itself in new ways.”
truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org/articles/the...
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Our immigrant neighbors deserve safety, dignity, and a future — and we stand with them.
We keep each other safe ✊🧡
We keep each other safe ✊🧡
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our immigrant neighbors deserve safety, dignity, and a future — and we stand with them.
We keep each other safe ✊🧡
We keep each other safe ✊🧡
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#OtD 25 Nov 1960 the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) were murdered for opposing US-backed Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo. The UN later set 25 Nov as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9779...
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#OtD 25 Nov 1960 the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) were murdered for opposing US-backed Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo. The UN later set 25 Nov as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9779...