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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/column/2026/...
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The Intrepid Humanitarian: The world’s most forgotten crisis
On his latest expedition to Caucasia, Patrick Gathara finds new levels of neglect and people crying out for the world to take notice of their plight.
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Alexandra Bravo, the prosecutor assigned to investigate U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats and the 36 survivors’ subsequent accounts of torture and kidnapping, was shot dead in the coastal city of Manta last month. www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador
New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Not forgetting www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Child sex trafficking: a time-honoured US presidential tradition.
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“The Silent Category”: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/poem/2025/1/... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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“The Silent Category”
At the heart of these pieces is a simple truth: The experience of displacement is not only about survival, but also about dignity, creativity, and resilience.
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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My last post showed the 2023 single year age groups death rates in Republican and mixed party voting states as a percent of Democratic voting states. This. graph shows all three groups as a percent of Canada's. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Politics
Notice that the highest dots are right at 200 percent,  Our younger adults in Republican voting states have death rates that are about twice as high as Canadians. Also notice that highest dots fall between ages 30 and 50, the middle of the middle aged. This is despite the fact that in the United States we pay very close to twice as much for health care as Canadians. 

The simple fact is that the more our health care is dominated by capitalism the less time living we  get out of the money we spend for health care. The other fact is that the more a state votes for Republicans the higher their middle age death rates.

I am re-posting the earlier graph that is a similar graph that compares mixed party and Republican voting states with Democrat voting states by single year age.  

One thing to remember is that this graph does not tell us these differences are due to the Democrats living. longer than Republicans or that the difference is due to how Democrats govern the health insurance industry.  I think it is largely due to the last but at least some of the difference created by religious fundamentalist,  especially Southern Baptist using prayer for health care. 

Here are the results from. a regression analysis predicting state deaths per 100,000  from percent Southern Baptist:

r = 0.70	
b = 9.18	
a = 491.92	
y' x=100% = 1409.77	

I have looked at the relationship between state death rates and all. the other possible causes. I could think of and find data for and find the strongest predictor is percent who smoke cigarettes and percent Southern Baptist the second. Percent uninsured is the only other one that remain significant and it was the weakest of the three. In summary percent Southern Baptist is almost certainly a major cause of our high death rate. A major tool they use to do it is they offer their own health insurance to supports prayer as a major source of health carte. 

Note that the ages 0-19 are covered in this graph but are excluded from the other because of limitations in Canadian data.
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Too many people don't realize that they voted for lower taxes, smaller government, and therefore no FEMA, food aid, regulated airport safety, public health, and other helpful government functions. So states, municipalities, and individuals are on their own.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
HELP WANTED! Calling all mycophiles in California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia! My research focuses on Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis, pictured below. I need to collect mushrooms from wild and urban areas across its range. Plz send mushrooms if you find any! I can pay shipping 💜 🍄‍🟫
A rusty-purple mushroom of the Western amethyst deceiver (Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis)
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations. By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕 lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Yes, we noticed. You're still here.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/04/2025
At least 68 people were killed in a US air attack on a migrant detention centre in Yemen, according to Houthi-affiliated media.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The real drivers of future inflation are not just tariffs, but the climate crisis and states backing off their decarbonization efforts. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli
As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network. But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
And forcing them to work for free, for the for-profit concentration camp, is called slavery. America's greatest hits, all in one place.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/03/2025
An LGBTQ asylum seeker from Venezuela was sent to prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration “solely because he has tattoos,” says @cargiolim.bsky.social, attorney with Immigrant Defenders Law Center. The asylum seeker has no criminal record.
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Take this; smartphone defenders cc @paulgp.com
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
America is *so* stupid.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Remember kids, it’s only corruption when black and brown people do it. Otherwise it’s just sparkling free market economics.
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...
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‘Mama’ of the Movement — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Carolyn Daniels stood up to a racist sheriff and bomb-hurling night riders to help Black voters in South Georgia get the rights denied them. What would she say today about laws limiting voter access? ...
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 25/02/2025
There’s been a lot of gun policy news out of the nation’s Capitol. Here’s what to know, in brief.
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Bulletin: Washington’s Latest Gun Policy Moves, in Brief
A rundown of what to know.
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I very, very much wish Patrick Gathara was over here. His #BREAKING tweets, reporting US and European news using the kind of language we use to report on the Middle East and Africa are often funny, but always brilliant.
#BREAKING Police in the gun-strewn, sub-Canadian American nation, the most populous in the Caucasian block, say attacker may not have been acting alone. US media, which is tightly controlled by handful of wealthy elites, reports he hails from separatist border region of Texas.#BREAKING Transport chaos across banana-exporting republic of US ahead of Caucasian New Year as millions of migrant workers travel home for traditional Thanksgiving festival during which indigenous bird is ritually consumed to mark genocide of Native American population.#BREAKING At least 3 dead and millions without power as powerful storm pummels US southeastern jungle state of Florida, a stronghold of aging whitewing Shite Christianist rebels who have been battling since 2021 to depose internationally recognized gerontocratic Joe Biden regime.#BREAKING Ruling centre-white worker's party in reclusive, troubled UK bans words 'genocide' and 'apartheid' during party conference as Keir Starmer regime deepens brutal crackdown on anti-genocide sentiment that has seen loyalist police arrest journalists and disrupt protests.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We are arms dealers to terrorists.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“For almost 250 years, the USA has been a beacon of democracy and freedom,” he said. “It should have a president who respects those ideas, and I will gladly relocate from Ukraine to do the job.”
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Zelenskyy Agrees to Hold Immediate Election and Run for President of United States
“I will gladly relocate from Ukraine to do the job.”
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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Whitewashing the uncomfortable parts of the past doesn't just affect Black stories. For example, you can't fully appreciate how a peanut farmer from Plains, GA became a beloved president unless you know TRUE Black History. The unwhitewashed history of Jimmy Carter: A thread.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20/12/2024
One in 10 southern right whales alive in 1893 could still be swimming today, study finds
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One in 10 southern right whales alive in 1893 could still be swimming today, study finds
Researchers say species is second-longest living mammal on Earth after bowhead whales * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In 1893, the World’s Fair was getting under way in Chicago, the world’s first number plates appeared…
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andawi.bsky.social @andawi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I hope that people will continue to publicly post their health insurance refusals, and name the insurance companies involved. I also hope that physicians can find a way to do it too; and the daily numbers of calls and forms and time they spent trying to get authorizations through.
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