Reposted by Rachel StrohmNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 7hTook a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough. 1649385
Reposted by Rachel StrohmHaroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 10hThis is outrageous. Benjamin Davis, who has led a dynamic Division within @fao, has not had his contract renewed because he stood up for human rights. A senior FAO official on the price he paid for speaking out on Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/20... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)thenewhumanitarian.orgA senior FAO official on the price he paid for speaking out on GazaBenjamin Davis says the FAO forced him out because of his work on Gaza. In an interview, he discusses why he’s not staying silent and what others can do. 032
Reposted by Rachel Strohmstevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 14hLucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...journalofdemocracy.orgCompetitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of DemocracyThe United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile. 5366205
Reposted by Rachel StrohmNational Foundation for American Policy @nfapresearch.bsky.social · 18hA judge struck down the $100K H-1B proclamation & its recent renewal. The Trump admin claimed companies lacked standing to sue unless DHS denied their “national interest” waiver but (1 year later) DHS still hasn’t adjudicated any. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...forbes.comJudge Strikes Down Latest Version Of $100,000 H-1B Immigration FeeA federal judge has struck down the $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa holders and invalidated the Sept. proclamation that renewed it. 035
Reposted by Rachel StrohmNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19hAll of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods. 4656168
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social · 20hVery good piece from @kopalo.bsky.social about the structural drivers of the conflict in Ethiopia, including a thought-provoking bit about the challenges of federalism in an ethnically polarised state www.africanistperspective.com/p/on-the-esc...africanistperspective.comOn the escalation of war in EthiopiaThe coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn 041
Reposted by Rachel Strohmshawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026from 2020:npr.orgGasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal InjectionFor decades, states have claimed that lethal injection is quick, peaceful and painless. An NPR investigation — and legal battles across the country — tell a different story. 113821
Reposted by Rachel StrohmLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22h"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."welcometohellworld.comWaiting for the next Mr. DeathI don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured 333580
Reposted by Rachel StrohmGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.theguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire 6373136
Reposted by Rachel StrohmJson Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 22hOne of the issues highlighted here on this piece is how Marco Rubio diverted 1 million usd to a campaign to smear and dismantle the trust in the Brazilian supreme court and interfere in our elections, with more resources from untraceable channels expected to follow suit. clear US aggression here.theguardian.comTrump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroadSupport such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights 717664
Reposted by Rachel StrohmProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five yearsAlpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution 712168
Reposted by Rachel StrohmEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is heroism. This is resistance. 027961
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Insightful from @jdportes.bsky.social 👇 While I'm very excited about Labour's post-conference policy direction overall, I've found that immigration is a hard line for me - I couldn't vote for a party which has such evident disdain for non-white immigrants 3102
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAndrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Annual homelessness deaths in England and Wales have almost doubled over past decade, ONS says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... 256
Reposted by Rachel StrohmLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Normalcy bias is all that's keeping Pete Hegseth from being universally recognized as a mass murderer. 214739
Reposted by Rachel StrohmCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11470742027
Reposted by Rachel StrohmKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 531859612
Reposted by Rachel StrohmTravis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply. 423843
Reposted by Rachel StrohmIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2026We need organized people power to win and protect the midterms. At the next No Kings on October 17, we’ll kick off the voting season with our communities and continue to build a nationwide movement ready to activate at the first inkling of election sabotage by the Trump regime.nokings.orgNo KingsFor more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo... 12373187
Reposted by Rachel StrohmSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social On the still ongoing, horrific, but little covered war in Sudan. How it illustrates the difficulties of ending wars, and whether there is any route to ending this one. (Free to read) samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...samf.substack.comThe Sudan War: is there any way out?Since April 2023 Sudan has been consumed by a vicious war that gets far too little attention in the West. 46730
Reposted by Rachel StrohmThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026Donald Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes. She reports on the babies left behind in America:bit.lyThe Babies Left Behind in AmericaThe United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. 914773
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interesting insights on the expansion of drone warfare in Africa and the key role of Türkiye as a supplier africanarguments.org/2026/09/turk... 041
Reposted by Rachel StrohmDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets. 132497831
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAdam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Installing solar panels and a battery in a UK home saves £681 a year on average, the first study of its kind has found: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...thetimes.comSolar panels and a battery cut energy bills by two thirdsPrivate installations reduce costs even during winter months and would pay for themselves in 17 years, researchers found after analysing data from bills 611146
Reposted by Rachel StrohmI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026“In Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, where the swell was strongest, they amplified their reach through partnerships with sheriffs and state highway patrol officers. In Democratic strongholds, they intensified their activities despite laws meant to restrict them.” 15236
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAfrica Confidential @africa-confidential.com · 28/09/2026Read our #Ethiopia correspondent’s account of why the peace accord broke down and how the new regional alliances will affect the course of the war. 🇪🇹 Africa Confidential is now on Substack 👇. africa-conf.com/substack-for...africa-conf.comFormer enemies unite against Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed in Addis AbabaTigrayan and Amhara commanders are fighting a common adversary but they have yet to resolve their competing claims in western Tigray 002
Reposted by Rachel StrohmDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The UK’s annual contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine fell from $18m (£13.6m) in 2024 to $9.3m (£7m) last year and just $4m (£3m) this year, The i Paper has learned" 114264
Reposted by Rachel StrohmBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration. 66321
Reposted by Rachel StrohmTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You see this with Trump as well, a weird refusal to accept that having a knowledge based economy is "winning." 1513522
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9452483247
Reposted by Rachel StrohmGönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And Turkey, which has invested significantly in Ethiopia. 054
Reposted by Rachel StrohmJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 273299770
Reposted by Rachel StrohmDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20815325
Reposted by Rachel StrohmDr Matt Winning @mattywin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looking forward to reading this 0103
Reposted by Rachel StrohmUAW @uaw.org · 26/09/2026ICYMI: "Wages for typical workers have been largely suppressed since the 1970s while wages for the top 1% skyrocketed. This was not inevitable. It was a policy choice." Economic Policy Institute 📰 www.epi.org/publication/wage-suppre…epi.orgWage suppression in 10 chartsWages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajectories, and what can be done to fix the gaping disparities. 1217
Reposted by Rachel Strohmthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think we all expected this and it's yet another reason tribunals and special investigatory bodies will be required to get justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and ever other person murdered by Trump's brownshirts. 112835
Reposted by Rachel StrohmJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comAngela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdownSpeaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers 22676183
Reposted by Rachel StrohmRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27674933149
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAfrica Confidential @africa-confidential.com · 25/09/2026After pushback on his referendum plan, #Tshisekedi now needs provincial diagnoses and the national synthesis to call for constitutional change and give him more time to pursue his mission to secure a third term. africa-conf.com/opposition-demands-talks-on-their-termsafrica-conf.comOpposition demands talks on their termsA dispute over who should be at the table has prompted opposition leaders to reject President Tshisekedi’s proposed Dialogue 011
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We haven’t even begun to see the impact of the region’s wars on political stability 39426
Reposted by Rachel StrohmRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UNCTAD: "Gaza has experienced the world’s most severe economic crisis on record" New report here: unctad.org/system/files... 01211
Reposted by Rachel Strohm🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121845178
Reposted by Rachel StrohmMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I wrote this about Palestine, Germany, Israel, genocide, Uganda, and the recent fallout from the Robert Kraft/Ed Sheeran/Macklemore affair. If of interest, please share. www.musaokwonga.com/takes/genoci... 17348
Reposted by Rachel StrohmKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul... 9733481039
Reposted by Rachel StrohmAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188103854
Reposted by Rachel StrohmClimate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · 24/09/2026Scientific expert witness work is one important way researchers can help discredit anti-science efforts and safeguard future research. Although there are potential legal risks related to this work, they can be mitigated with the help of our Climate Litigation Toolkit: www.csldf.org/resources/cl...csldf.orgClimate Litigation Toolkit - Climate Science Legal Defense FundOur Climate Litigation Toolkit explain the best practices for safely and effectively engaging in scientific consulting work. 089
Reposted by Rachel StrohmPema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.socialmotherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 14804354