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Citizen State is reimagining society to create a world that’s citizen-centric, self-sustaining, and unique. We’re building a borderless community independent of the current system that allows each individual to meet their basic needs and thrive.

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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New Orleans is sinking. But what if adaptation doesn't mean abandonment? Wells’ argument for “Afro-solarpunk” asks us to recognise Black ecological knowledge and survival practices as blueprints for climate adaptation and to ask who gets to decide what futures are possible. buff.ly/09X93m7
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Solarpunk or Sink: Who Gets To Decide New Orleans’ Future?
Op-ed: New Orleans is sinking, but Black people have always known how to live in the places we were never meant to survive.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What if imagining the city of 2100 could help us build a better city today? Urban planners are using long-term foresight, solarpunk thinking, and community-led experimentation to rethink what cities can be: greener, more democratic, resilient, and centred on care. www.youris.com/energy/ecoci...
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From distant horizons to everyday streets: how studying the future is reshaping the cities of today
Long-term urban planning is no longer a speculative exercise for the next century, but a vital tool for the present.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In Gaza, women architects, artists, and community leaders are showing why reconstruction must be about more than bricks and infrastructure. It must restore memory, relationships, identity, and the connections between people and place. #Gaza #Reconstruction blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2026/08/...
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In 1990s London, some housing cooperatives built streets of social housing, sharing skills between them. 30 years on, how can we make this approach work effectively while meeting today's tighter building regulations? #Housing #AffordableHousing #Radical #London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'I built my own social home so I could be housed in London'
How people in London decided to build their own homes, learning new skills and finding stability.
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Paul Atherton FCL FRSA @alondonerslondon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Genuine Londoners know you have to come together to make a life that works. Tuesday's community lunch @ourmoh.bsky.social with @citizenstate.bsky.social founder @adamrhemmings.bsky.social discuss replacing broken welfare system with #UniversalBasicIncome. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In 1990s London, some housing cooperatives built streets of social housing, sharing skills between them. 30 years on, how can we make this approach work effectively while meeting today's tighter building regulations? #Housing #AffordableHousing #Radical #London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
'I built my own social home so I could be housed in London'
How people in London decided to build their own homes, learning new skills and finding stability.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reform UK says it would aim to cut about £50bn from the benefits bill and scrap #PIP if it comes in to government. Meanwhile, let's not forget that Farage is still being investigated for a £5m unregistered gift... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip
The party's proposed changes were they to come to power include a replacement for the disability payments system Pip.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reform UK says it would aim to cut about £50bn from the benefits bill and scrap #PIP if it comes in to government. Meanwhile, let's not forget that Farage is still being investigated for a £5m unregistered gift... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip
The party's proposed changes were they to come to power include a replacement for the disability payments system Pip.
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Badger State Breakdown @badgerstatebreakdown.substack.com · 07/08/2026
#Milwaukee said no to this #AffordableHousing deal, 14–1. So the developers found another financing route through a state authority that didn’t require city approval. 🤨 Nothing screams "please follow the paper trail because something seems shady” quite like this. 🕵🏽‍♀️ #Wisconsin
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After City Rejects It, State Authority Endorses Affordable Housing Conversion
California organizations pull an end-run around city opposition.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Progress is rarely secured by standing still. Every generation must ask not only what rights it can preserve, but what greater freedoms it should have the courage to pursue. A society must always strive for a better future. #CitizenState www.citizen-state.com/blog/the-cen...
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The Center Doesn't Hold - It's Taken
Citizen Voices presents unique and unedited opinion pieces from our citizens and allies. The views expressed within these articles may not necessarily be that of Citizen State as a
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How would humanity respond if we discovered we were not alone? New SETI protocols recognise that first contact would be as much a societal challenge as a scientific one. Wisdom, transparency, and global cooperation may prove our greatest technologies. @setiinstitute.bsky.social buff.ly/xdn16ah
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Humanitys Plan for First Contact
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A #civilization without memory is a civilization without direction. We cannot navigate the future by abandoning the past, nor build tomorrow by living in yesterday. Wisdom lies in understanding both. History is a compass. #CitizenState citizenstate.substack.com/p/towards-ja...
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Towards Janusian Societies
Understanding History Is Key to Civic Life
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Every great journey begins as an idea. Physicists have shown that a theoretical ring wormhole could connect distant regions of space (and even time). Today it's theory. Tomorrow? The future belongs to those who #explore. @charlesuni.cuni.cz www.thebrighterside.news/post/wormhol...
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Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A new analysis suggests a ring wormhole could, in theory, form closed timelike curves under the right gravitational conditions.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If this truce to place Hamas's heavy weapons under oversight endures it may become the first step toward ending years of suffering in Gaza. Let us welcome the possibility with caution, while knowing that true peace is measured by lives rebuilt and children who no longer wake to war.
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Rushdi Abualouf: If Hamas disarmament plan holds, it could mark first credible step to ending Gaza war
The plan - if successful - potentially removes the most significant obstacle to advancing the Trump-backed peace initiative in Gaza.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
An experiment in economics: a Baltimore Guaranteed Income Club redistributes money between members based on income, creating a safety net. It's not a replacement for UBI, but an intriguing model of mutual aid and local solidarity. #UBI #CommunityEconomics www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Cities cannot remain dependent and fragile. Sponge cities, floating cities, and ethical design show a path forward. Build resilience, protect people, and decentralize systems. We choose to evolve. #CitizenState #EcoCities #ClimateResilience #FutureCities stacker.com/stories/soci...
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Are these 'eco-cities’ the future of sustainable design?
Atmos reports on innovative eco-cities addressing climate change through sustainable designs like sponge cities and floating communities.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The idea that aesthetics, nature, and surroundings can provide healing is seemingly often forgotten in the design of spaces that need those principles the most. We're very pleased to see the opening of the UK's first rooftop intensive care ward at @kingscollegenhs.bsky.social...
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UK's first rooftop intensive care ward opens at King's College Hospital
The outdoor ward, at King's College Hospital in London, will monitor how much it boosts the recovery of seriously ill patients.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An emerging truth is that Europe lacks a counterpart to Silicon Valley, raising an open question about whether the advantages that built the modern economy will carry into the next phase. But should such centres of development be spatially bound? #Economics #History #Future
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What a thousand years of economic history reveals about modern growth
Nobel laureates James Robinson, Joel Mokyr explored origins of the modern economy with Harris and Booth colleagues at recent Stone Center panel
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An emerging truth is that Europe lacks a counterpart to Silicon Valley, raising an open question about whether the advantages that built the modern economy will carry into the next phase. But should such centres of development be spatially bound? #Economics #History #Future
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What a thousand years of economic history reveals about modern growth
Nobel laureates James Robinson, Joel Mokyr explored origins of the modern economy with Harris and Booth colleagues at recent Stone Center panel
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🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 @tempestori.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A 2025 report from Stanford University revealed that lonely individuals using AI applications showed a decreased will to engage in face-to-face social interaction, tending to withdraw from real-world relationships due to the emotional support they receive from these systems (Stanford HAI, 2025).
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The Last Human Generation
The Surrender of Decision, Imagination, and Connection to AI
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Farmer-led innovation is already transforming food systems. Across the world, communities are building resilient, place-based solutions rooted in knowledge and care. The future of food is grown from the ground up. #Agroecology www.uvm.edu/institutefor...
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Farmer-Led, Grassroots Innovation Makes Real Systems Change Possible | Institute for Agroecology | The University of Vermont
Across the globe, agroecological farmers are leading the way, preserving biodiversity, stewarding land and waterways with place-based knowledge, and nourishing their communities. Yet dominant funding…
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New research from the Centre for London suggests the #HousingCrisis isn’t just about supply, it’s about fairness and distribution. Behind it all? A system that treats property as a primary store of wealth. When homes become assets first, people come second. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Affordability, not shortage, causes London housing crisis'
A think tank argues that price inflation, not supply is at the heart of London's housing crisis.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
From #Atlantis to #seasteads, islands have long been canvases for radical dreams: #utopias, pirate republics, floating nations. Cut off from the mainland, they promise freedom… but often reveal who holds power 🌊🏝️
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Islands of the Imagination - JSTOR Daily
A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/04/2026
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.
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Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation
The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This moment carries quiet weight. Systems that concentrate power can appear immovable until citizens withdraw their consent. That matters!
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Orbán era swept away by Péter Magyar's Hungary election landslide
Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you could explore any planet in the solar system, where would you go next? #WeAreExplorers #Artemis2 #Moon #NASA @nasaspaceflight.com @nasawatch.bsky.social
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you could explore any planet in the solar system, where would you go next? #WeAreExplorers #Artemis2 #Moon #NASA @nasaspaceflight.com @nasawatch.bsky.social
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Philly Herbal Arts @phillyherbalarts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Solarpunk seeks to rewild our imaginations, captivate us with success stories from the near future, ease our psychic burden, & motivate us toward constructive action. It also crucially implies that the landscape of our collective imagination is not a monoculture; it should be an abundant ecosystem"
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"Not everyone has welcomed the changes, with the Residential Freeholders Association accusing the government on an attack on leasehold system". Sorry, thought we were in 2026, not 1066! #Fleecehold www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Service charges rise concerning residents across the West
People across the West explain how the charges on their buildings are affecting their finances.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New research shows bringing #TB testing to local clinics could diagnose millions more people, but only if costs drop. This is solvable. When we design health systems around people not profit, life saving care becomes local, accessible, and universal. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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New Analysis Identifies Feasible TB Diagnostic Instrument Prices for Healthcare Systems in Low-Resourced Countries
A new study found that offering decentralized tuberculosis testing in local clinics could be cost-effective in low- and middle-income countries if the diagnostic instruments used to run those tests…
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Claims that immigrants are taking most social housing don’t hold up, as new migrants are excluded from accessing it. Blame divides us. A citizen system builds enough homes for all, rooted in truth, fairness, and shared dignity. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?
Shabana Mahmood claimed settled migrants would "receive immediate access to social housing" if Labour didn't step in. Is it true?
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A home in Japan runs #offgrid, using solar power, composting, and local design to live in balance with its environment. This is the future. Citizens building homes that sustain life, restore ecosystems, and free us from fragile central systems. www.designboom.com/architecture...
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five interconnected timber volumes shape off-grid house on japanese island
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New-build homeowners face hidden #fleecehold fees, paying ongoing charges for roads, drains, and shared spaces. A home should mean freedom. Let’s build communities owned and governed by the people who live in them! www.ft.com/content/7aac...
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Time to shear the UK housing market of the dreaded ‘fleecehold’
Estate management charges can leave buyers of new-built homes with unforeseen costs as they pay annually for maintenance
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A study shows that a simple no-strings grant helped care leavers achieve more stable housing, better health, and improved well-being while reducing crime and hardship. When we trust people with resources instead of conditions, we unlock human potential. #FutureOfSociety
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One-off £2,000 cash grant gives care leavers head start, study finds
Participants were less likely to become homeless or spend time in hospital or prison, researchers say.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Overheating is no longer a marginal issue, it is becoming a clear housing risk, writes Doug Johnson of energy and building performance specialists Mesh #UKhousing www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/the-gov...
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The government’s warm homes policy has a major contradiction
Overheating is no longer a marginal issue, it is becoming a clear housing risk, writes Doug Johnson of energy and building performance specialists Mesh.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Zero-carbon housing projects face delays from cost pressures and legal battles even though smaller eco-homes are already proving cheaper to run and viable to build. The lesson is clear: the barrier is not possibility but system design. #CitizenState #FutureOfLiving #ClimateAction
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Low carbon homes; why do they take so long to build?
Why has it taken so long for plans for a zero carbon community to be approved in West Oxfordshire?
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We love it when the media acts surprised about something that everyone who's been living it knows all too well! #HousingCrisis #Housing
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Average age of first time buyer climbs to 34
A new report looks at how conditions have changed for first time buyers since the 1990s.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Mortgage rates have climbed past 5% as global conflict drives financial uncertainty and lenders withdraw home loan deals. Moments like this remind us how global instability shapes everyday life, and why building a more resilient and fair economic system matters. #Economy
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Average UK mortgage rate tops 5% as lenders scurry to reprice loans amid Middle East crisis
More than 500 lending products pulled in biggest single upheaval since Liz Truss’s mini-budget in 2022
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Farmers in the Northeastern United States are cultivating hyper-local “ecotype” seeds adapted to their specific landscapes to restore ecosystems. #Biodiversity #FutureOfHumanity
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Hyper-Local Seed Collecting Gains Momentum in the Northeast
A lesser-known local movement seeks to preserve biodiversity and restore landscapes
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A growing feminist debate argues that rethinking kinship, family, and care systems is essential to addressing crises. A stronger democracy begins when we recognise our shared interdependence that extend beyond bloodlines and borders. #Democracy #FutureOfHumanity
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🌈 A radical feminist kinship for democratic futures
A radical feminist politics of kinship asks us to interrogate the roots of how we live together: how we form families, share resources, and imagine belonging. At stake, says Víctor Hugo Ramírez…
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Youth climate activists around the world are organising strikes that challenge political inertia while experimenting with new forms of democratic action. Their courage shows that the future is something citizens can begin building together today. #ClimateAction #FutureOfHumanity
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🎭 Youth climate activism prefigures just futures, not distant utopias
Despite widespread political inertia in responding to the climate crisis, youth climate activists are reshaping politics. Turkan Firinci Orman argues that by embodying Hannah Arendt’s ideas of…
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Iran’s women’s football team faces an impossible choice: return home to persecution or seek safety abroad while risking retaliation against their families. No person should have to choose between their country and their freedom. #HumanRights #FutureOfHumanity www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Time is running out for the Iranian women’s football team as fears for their safety grow | Jack Snape
There are urgent calls for Australia to take action before the team return to Iran but with no word from the players themselves the situation is fraught and uncertain
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Curiosity is our greatest engine of progress. With new tools we are beginning to explore questions once thought impossible, even what came before the beginning itself. The future belongs to a civilization that keeps asking bigger questions. #Science www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer
Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what…
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Sophia's devotion to women’s rights never wavered. Shortly before her death in 1948, she was asked to create an entry for the women’s Who’s Who. Under interests, she wrote ‘The Advancement of Women’. #Rights #Herstory engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
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The rebel princess who took on the Crown
Sophia, the daughter of the deposed Maharajah Duleep Singh, used her royal status to champion women’s rights.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The nation state was never the final chapter of governance. Technology is opening the door to new forms of citizenship beyond borders. #FutureOfGovernance #HumanityFirst engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
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The strange death of the nation state
Nation states were never a natural or immutable part of our world order, and their decline and displacement through technological transformation may ultimately be a positive story.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Leadership imposed through fear cannot last forever. The future of any nation belongs to its citizens and their right to shape their own destiny. Even in difficult times, the arc of history bends toward freedom and self-determination. #Freedom #FutureOfHumanity www.dw.com/en/who-is-mo...
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Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader?
Iran's Assembly of Experts has chosen Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba as the country's new supreme leader. His selection shows that the Iranian regime, at war with the US and Israel, has opted for a…
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The future of living is not isolation behind closed doors, but communities built on trust and a shared life. Humans were never meant to thrive alone. A better society begins when neighbours become collaborators in the project of living well together. #Community www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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Why communal living can make us happier
As the cost of living rises and loneliness becomes a global concern, "intentional communites" are increasingly popular. We meet co-living members to explore the pros and cons.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Education must be more than exams and credentials. It must teach citizens how to listen, think, collaborate, and build peace together. A new social contract for education can forge wiser, kinder societies.
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Citizenship education as a peacebuilding tool in a new social contract
Citizens no longer have linear trajectories; they construct themselves and interpret their surroundings according to context-dependent, media-dominated settings and consumption choices. Tensions are
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
War measures strength in missiles and stockpiles. Humanity must measure strength in wisdom. The future will belong not to those who can destroy the most, but to citizens bold enough to build something better together. #CitizenState #Peace #FutureOfHumanity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How depleted weapons stockpiles could affect the Iran conflict
Weapons stocks will not alone decide the outcome of this conflict, but it's certainly a significant factor, writes the BBC's Jonathan Beale.
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Citizen State @citizenstate.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The future of healthcare should be collaborative, open, and built in the public interest. Technology must serve humanity, not the other way around. This is how progress should look. #HealthAI #Innovation #FutureOfHealthcare www.digitalhealth.net/2026/03/open...
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Open source platform launched to scale health AI innovation
The AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare and deepc has launched an open source platform to help scale healthcare AI.
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