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Nina Lakhani

@ninalakhani.bsky.social
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Global climate justice reporter @DrilledMedia.bsky.com Before: Guardian, Independent Author: Who killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads & an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet Contributor: Gaza. The story of a genocide Ex-mental health nurse.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14h
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 21h
Honduras' Garifuna people are facing forced displacement from their own land in violation of international court rulings. On this week's The Spill, @ninalakhani.bsky.social talks with Karen Spring from the Honduras Solidarity Network about where the reality TV show Survivor fits in. lnk.to/TheSpill
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Drilled: The Spill
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. The Spill is our new weekly show to bring you news...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faulty carbon credit schemes may be violating not only human rights but also international law. UN Special Rapporteur on the Climate Elisa Morgera on why carbon credit markets may be in conflict with a landmark opinion from the International Court of Justice. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill - Drilled
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tune in to The Spill for my conversation with UN special rapporteur on climate change Elisa Morgera, on the winners & losers of carbon tunnel vision, & why it's not too late to turn things around. Subscribe to @drilledmedia.bsky.social to catch our new weekly show drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Talk growing that Ireland’s players will refuse to play Israel www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland’s match against Israel thrown into chaos as Bazunu tells squad he does not want to play
Some other players understood to be considering whether to join goalkeeper in withdrawing from Nations League fixtures
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Climate vocab of the day: Carbon Tunnel Vision—when climate policymakers obsess about reducing carbon emissions, while avoiding the root cause: fossil fuels. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera on that and more w/ @ninalakhani.bsky.social: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tune in to The Spill for my conversation with UN special rapporteur on climate change Elisa Morgera, on the winners & losers of carbon tunnel vision, & why it's not too late to turn things around. Subscribe to @drilledmedia.bsky.social to catch our new weekly show drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
>450,000 PEOPLE projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño in the next 6 months - on top of climate deaths already happening AND not counting deaths from droughts, wildfires & floods El Niño will bring via @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big work unpicking Trump's 'cruelty is the policy' by the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social collective www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please enjoy this antidote to the "where is the climate movement?" discourse. Reminder: have a weekly video pod! This week @alleenbrown.bsky.social with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social's Aru Shiney-Ajay. Last week it was Alleen, @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @ninalakhani.bsky.social youtu.be/LkGEDfSfObM
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The Spill: The Climate Movement Fights Back
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Brilliant 👏 www.thejournal.ie/classic-hits...
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Classic Hits Radio to remove Ed Sheeran music 'for foreseeable future' amid Macklemore row
The Irish station said it received feedback from listeners “expressing disappointment and concern regarding the events surrounding the tour”.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravo: All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore. Also, fuck Ed Sheeran www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Three openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravo: All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore. Also, fuck Ed Sheeran www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Three openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fuck Ed Sheeran
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ed Miliband is the best cabinet appointment by the new PM... he has pledged to put the climate crisis front and centre of foreign policy, which is it where it should also be for national security, the economy, and health www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements
Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and description of Israel’s actions as ethnic cleansing
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is climate breakdown, utterly horrendous www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nearly 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 165
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is climate breakdown, utterly horrendous www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nearly 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 165
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At least 35,000 people died due to high temperatures in Europe this summer - these were all preventable deaths. Fossil fuel companies should be prosecuted, and health services need to do better www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves
Figure only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Israeli politicians continue to spout genocidal speech calling for and inciting the genocide of Palestinians. Still much of the mainstream media continues to publish Israeli state lies and propaganda. Totally indefensible
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Israeli politicians continue to spout genocidal speech calling for and inciting the genocide of Palestinians. Still much of the mainstream media continues to publish Israeli state lies and propaganda. Totally indefensible
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The UK is experiencing unprecedented wildfires, drought and extreme heat... food production and water levels are in freefall yet the new prime minister Andy Burnham has barely mentioned the climate crisis
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The UK is experiencing unprecedented wildfires, drought and extreme heat... food production and water levels are in freefall yet the new prime minister Andy Burnham has barely mentioned the climate crisis
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Every beat is the climate beat... my former colleagues on Europe burning www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins
Coming days are ‘absolutely critical’ for firefighters before temperatures rise again this week, officials say
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Juliet Stevenson is one of a number of people raising money to help fund the scholarships of Palestinian students who've been given places to study at UK universities.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Every beat is the climate beat... my former colleagues on Europe burning www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins
Coming days are ‘absolutely critical’ for firefighters before temperatures rise again this week, officials say
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
France and Spain are literally burning down... literally fossil fuel arson
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
France and Spain are literally burning down... literally fossil fuel arson
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It is a year since the ICJ issued its landmark ruling on climate change... despite this, states and corporations continue to expand fossil fuel production in violation of international law causing billions of dollars of irreversible loss and damage
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It is a year since the ICJ issued its landmark ruling on climate change... despite this, states and corporations continue to expand fossil fuel production in violation of international law causing billions of dollars of irreversible loss and damage
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Fossil Free Football @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Next to the Aramco chair and PIF governor Al Rumayyan and with the Aramco logo on the trophy.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Any non Argentinians sad? Nope
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Josh Voorhees @joshvoorhees.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
ICYMI: We dropped a new investigation into Harold Hamm, aka Trump’s ‘original oil guy,’ and his plan to profit from the Iran war fieldnotes.substack.com/p/trumps-ori...
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Trump’s ‘Original Oil Guy’ Spent Years Dismissing the Risks of a War With Iran
Now, MAGA megadonor and fracking magnate Harold Hamm aims to profit from an energy crisis he assured U.S. officials would never happen.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software, suggesting security services deployed Israeli military spyware from 2017 against journalists, human rights defenders, and foreign politicians www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'History will not forget complicity. Keir Starmer witnessed 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including 21,000 children, and kept supplying arms to Israel.' Save the Children statement is if anything, kind to Starmer, who voiced support for war crimes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Save the Children clashes with Labour after accusing Starmer of ‘complicity’ in Gaza deaths
Government – which provides significant portion of charity’s funding – is understood to have demanded an explanation
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The rollout of high speed internet in Uruguay worsended early childhood development. But not because the kids spent too much time in front of screens, because the parents did. cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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High-speed internet and early childhood development: Causal evidence from a countrywide programme
The rapid expansion of high-speed internet has intensified concerns about how digital technologies affect early childhood. Using the staggered rollout of fibre optic to the home in Uruguay as a natura...
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please help save Arghavan, a 24-year-old young woman facing execution in Iran. Be her voice. Every signature on this petition helps raise awareness and increase pressure to protect her life and the lives of others on death row. Thank you. wncri.org/2026/07/10/h...
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Sign our Statement to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi
Statement Calling for Immediate Action to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi We express our profound
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'History will not forget complicity. Keir Starmer witnessed 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including 21,000 children, and kept supplying arms to Israel.' Save the Children statement is if anything, kind to Starmer, who voiced support for war crimes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Save the Children clashes with Labour after accusing Starmer of ‘complicity’ in Gaza deaths
Government – which provides significant portion of charity’s funding – is understood to have demanded an explanation
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
There's no avoiding the conclusion, however much dust the UK government throws into the air. By providing weapons, rhetorical and diplomatic support to the Israeli government as it has committed genocide in #Gaza, Keir Starmer and his ministers *are* complicit in this great crime.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software, suggesting security services deployed Israeli military spyware from 2017 against journalists, human rights defenders, and foreign politicians www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE is a racist paramilitary force
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ICE is a racist paramilitary force
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is a political prisoner arbitrarily detained for his peaceful resistance against Israel's genocide - his only crime was refusing to abandon the hospital illegally blown up by Israel
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is a political prisoner arbitrarily detained for his peaceful resistance against Israel's genocide - his only crime was refusing to abandon the hospital illegally blown up by Israel
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Urgent: Israeli soldiers are beating Dr Hussam Abu Safiya to death with a hammer. 'They brought me here to kill me,' he told his lawyer, who barely recognised the paediatrician because of the torture inflicted on him for refusing to abandon his patients.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Fifa favors for team USA is both transparent and embarrassing
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Quite a yarn this. Really worth picking up the Sunday Times to read it, I think:
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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