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Amelia P.
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Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. And I speak for myself (views are my own). She/her.
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My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...
Reaction to the FDA Announcement on MHT
Removing the Black Box Warning was Served with a Side of Serious Misinformation
vajenda.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
CPJ renewed its call for an independent and transparent investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after a former senior U.S. security official said in a news report that the U.S. government downplayed evidence in her killing.
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CPJ calls for transparent US investigation into killing of Shireen Abu Akleh - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, October 28, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists renewed its call for an independent and transparent investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu...
cpj.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a Program Coordinator for the Levant to play a central operational role in advancing CPJ’s mission in the sub-region. This is a remote position and fluency in Arabic and English is required.

🗓️ Deadline is Oct. 31

Apply: cpjorg.bamboohr.com/careers/91
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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thelastmileusaid.bsky.social
The arithmetic is brutal. America spends a sliver of its wealth abroad yet saves 3 million lives a year. Then the vandals dismantled USAID. A republic that cannot be bothered to keep children alive abroad will not long keep faith with its own at home.
Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
ourworldindata.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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sana.msf.ca
Now more than ever, we must all stand up for humanity. Join @msf.ca in demanding #Canada takes decisive action on #Gaza.

👉 lnkd.in/g9Jp4MjJ
September 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar

All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.

Insane.

Rogue state.
September 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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lisaocarroll.bsky.social
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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cblackst.bsky.social
Have a good school year everyone! Here are some free learning resources to bring the TRC Calls to Action into your classroom.
caringsociety.bsky.social First Nations Child & Family Caring Society @caringsociety.bsky.social · Aug 19
The new school season is almost here!🍎📚As you prep your lessons & classrooms, consider incorporating Spirit Bear's Guide to the TRC Calls to Action. It's a great way to teach children of all ages about reconciliation & our responsibilities to one another 🧡
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September 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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fao.org
Gaza Strip: 98.5% of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms

Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods

www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Gaza Strip: 98.5 percent of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods
www.fao.org
August 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
In light of this week's Hockey Canada trial verdict, it's worth listening to the young woman who was raped by Jacob Hoggard and is still in therapy from the trauma of that trial.
Opinion: When aggressive tactics are praised as legal strategy, it’s survivors like me who pay the price
Whatever the outcome of the Hockey Canada trial, complainants continue to be retraumatized by the justice system
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July 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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transjournalists.org
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July 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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volts.wtf
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
permanentnomad.bsky.social
How can I help trans youth feel emotionally safe if they are worried about access to medical care that supports their gender? 👇❤️🌈

thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...
How can I help trans youth feel emotionally safe if they are worried about access to medical care that supports their gender?
Every one of us wants our children and our neighbors’ children to be safe, healthy, and happy. Here’s what we can do *today* to help our trans kiddos feel emotionally safe right now.
thosenerdygirls.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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thepixelproject.bsky.social
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself with AI ushering in a new age of violence against women.

#VAW #ArtificialIintelligence #AI #StopRapeCulture #CyberVAW #OnlineVAW #misogyny #sexism
Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women | Laura Bates
When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself, says Laura Bates of Everyday Sexism
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.
From my new book: "When only half the divide is being tasked with making the peace, there is no peace to be made, but there is a unilateral surrender on offer..... Nevertheless, we get this hopelessly naïve version of centrism, of the idea that if we’re nicer to the other side there will be no other side, just one big happy family. This inanity is also applied to the questions of belief and fact and principle, with some muddled cocktail of moral relativism and therapists’ “everyone’s feelings are valid” applied to everything. But the truth is not some compromise halfway between the truth and the lie, the fact and the delusion, the scientists and the propagandists. And the ethical is not halfway between white supremacists and human rights activists, rapists and feminists, synagogue massacrists and Jews, xenophobes and immigrants, delusional transphobes and trans people. Who the hell wants unity with Nazis until and unless they stop being Nazis? "Appeasement didn’t work in the 1930s and it won’t work now. That doesn’t mean that people have to be angry or hate back or hostile, but it does mean they have to stand on principle and defend what’s under attack. There are situations in which there is no common ground worth standing on, let alone hiking over to. If Nazis wanted to reach out and find common ground and understand us, they probably would not have had that tiki-torch parade full of white men bellowing “Jews will not replace us” and, also, they would not be Nazis. Being Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists, transphobes is all part of a project of refusing to understand as part of refusing to respect. It is a minority position but by granting it deference we give it, over and over, the power of a majority position."
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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UPDATE The organisers of a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship carrying activists including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg say Israeli forces have boarded the vessel.

"Connection has been lost on the 'Madleen'. Israeli army have boarded the vessel," the Freedom Flotilla Coalition posted on Telegram
Palestinians sit on rocks on the coast of Gaza City on June 8, 2025
June 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
permanentnomad.bsky.social
"The aid worker reported to the PRCS that some of the paramedics were still alive and injured but yelling for help. 'Al-Nasasra said the soldiers came to the scene very close – and then he heard them shooting everyone who was still alive,' Farsakh said."
adhaque.bsky.social Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jun 4
Absolutely horrifying.

Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 4
Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
June 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Displaced 12 times, musician Ahmed Abu Amsha teaches children to play and sing in a tent—transforming trauma into fleeting joy.

“We sing for peace, we sing for life, we sing for Gaza.”

Full story: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins
In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The square, transformed into a sprawling displacement camp, shelters hundreds of families drive...
news.un.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
permanentnomad.bsky.social
Starvation as a weapon and murdering children desperately seeking aid.
June 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM