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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I heard from Fondo Lunaria today about the work they are doing to support community responses to the earthquake, and especially women and LGBTQI people. They need your support.

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WHO @who.int · 27/07/2026

Globally, a staggering 33% of women experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. And yet, it remains hidden behind closed doors. Safety is possible, with the right support and services. Today's daily dose.

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Beirne Roose-Snyder @beirners.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy this piece is out in the world and proud I didn’t swear on the record.

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I am thrilled !!! & looking forward to celebrating the power of AIDS activism w/ dear comrades at @treatmentactiongroup.org on Oct 15 at their 2026 soirée. Also I am grateful to be recognized as a 2026 honoree. If you've never been, you're in for great time. YOU WILL LEAVE INSPIRED ❤️‍🔥🔥🥳 🥂

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Catherine Kyobutungi @ckyobutungi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Big opportunity for SRHR researchers in sub-Saharan Africa. IDRC_CRDI's #ANeSA call for Letters of Interest is open — up to 6 grants of CAD 1.2M each for research on neglected sexual and reproductive health and rights priorities. Deadline: August 23, 2026 Apply here : bit.ly/3QDHAbS #GlobalHealth

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UNAIDS Global @unaids.org · 27/05/2026

"Behind every delay is a life pushed into fear, silence, or loss" — Powerful reminder of the urgency for action to end AIDS from Yvette Raphael of the Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA) during the Multi-Stakeholder Hearing for the #HLM2026AIDS. www.unaids.org/en/2026-high...

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sharing my latest thoughts on the UN80 Initiative assessment report on potential merger between UN Women and UNFPA. Before rushing into a merger, UN Member States should set up a meaningful process to consider a fuller range of actions we can take to address them. Check it out:

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Power dynamics and gender biases

Why a UN Women/UNFPA merger is not likely to address the issues holding back the UN’s work on gender equality

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Today we protested Vought for the third time, this time before the House Budget Committee, because he wants to destroy global health programs. But we’re not stopping until we force him to take his foot off the necks of all people with HIV stop obstructing lifesaving PEPFAR funding

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 08/04/2026

Israel launched its largest wave of strikes in Lebanon yet today, with more than 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes. Dozens of people have reportedly been killed so far today, and more than 1500 people have been killed since March 2. Civilians, who continue to pay the highest price, must be protected.

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 08/04/2026

Massive devastation following the Israeli strikes across Lebanon. Homes destroyed. Communities shattered. Many lives lost. Children reported among the victims. Civilians, in particular children, must be protected at all times, and international humanitarian law must be fully respected.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/04/2026

do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We lost an AIDS warrior today. In 2001, when global AIDS treatment activism was building, he called the West's refusal to support HIV treatment in Africa "murder." By using harsh, accurate language he helped ignite & validate calls for corrective action www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/jacc...

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Opinion: J'accuse!

The West is willfully turning its back on the greatest

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I’m no lawyer but I find it interesting that Christian conversion therapy practitioners have the right to tell kids they aren’t trans but those kids’ teachers apparently don’t have the right to say they are trans and people on the internet may not have the right to affirm them being trans either

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Peter MacPherson @petermacp.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New study led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social. Reducing men’s TB risk and improving treatment access could have big impacts on #TB incidence and deaths for men, women, and children. www.nature.com/articles/s43... @kchorton.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @lightontb.bsky.social

Bar charts showing impact of interventions on TB incidence for men, women, and children

Graphs showing impact of interventions on TB notifications in 4 countries

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Tomorrow we launch the Global South Coalition for SRHR & Development Justice. This promises to be a great conversation with leaders on human rights, economic justice, health, and trade. Join us! 📅 March 31 🕗 8:00 AM (EDT) Register here: 🔗https://bit.ly/GlobalSouthCoalitionLaunch

Tomorrow, March 31st at 8am EDT. Public launch and global dialogue: from SRHR to Development Justice: Strengthening Global South Leadership. Last chance to register!

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Lenacapavir could literally help bring about the end of new HIV infections if people who need it can easily access it. But capping supply at 2 million doses/year and refusing to sell to humanitarian organizations like @msf.org is going to limit its impact. Great thread from @mbarber.bsky.social.

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is preposterous, but this is exactly what US diplomats argued at the Commission on the Status of Women just now.

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Would have been sharing an oped this morning with y’all except the publisher ran it with a nine year old bio from the last time I published something with them. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Important piece from Isabel Choat in the Guardian on the proposed merger of UN Women and UNFPA. The risks of a merger cannot be understated. When both gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights are under attack, it threatens to set back the UN's work on these issues.

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Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’?

Many of those attending the world’s largest meeting on women’s rights in New York this week are primed to defend the two key UN agencies that protect women and girls around the world

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

US aid cuts: $45bn UK aid cuts: $8.2bn EU aid cuts: $2.5bn France aid cuts: $2bn German aid cuts: $2bn Canada aid cuts: $675m Aid has dropped by over 50% in the last two years. So it’s a good job the world is a lot safer now and there are definitely no major humanitarian crises brewing!

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#BREAKING: 13 arrested in Cannon House Rotunda demanding immediate release of $977 million in PEPFAR funding illegally impounded by Vought, read: bit.ly/PEPFARSlowDown and press release: healthgap.org/press/activi... @housingworksnyc.bsky.social @treatmentactiongroup.org

Chanting activists hang banners from Cannon House Rotunda

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Listen to Nina. And if you are in NY-12, vote for her.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/03/2026

Missiles fired by US, Israel hit two schools near Tehran: Iranian media aje.news/3kck8y

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The right was recently up in arms because UN Women released an infographic for a campaign against child marriage that pictured a white girl. The truth is, child marriage happens far too often in the United States, often due to adolescent pregnancy and the policies that they espouse.

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Tell me again why we can’t have nice things?

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is devastating and a direct consequence of the US/Israel war against Iran. I didn't know Yanar, but many of my friends and colleagues did. Her courageous leadership made it possible for others in Iraq, and the region, to advocate for women's rights. Rest in Power Yanar.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

As out turns out, the “civilization“ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I had a vague hope that the rest of the world would denounce the illegal attacks by the US Israel against Iran. To see North leaders falling over themselves to signal their approval is just something else. They are just completely lacking any moral leadership at this point.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Evil, pure and simple

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Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

After 2 years of work, our special issue in @contraceptionjl.bsky.social on "Emergency of FemTech in the SRH Landscape" is out! It includes 14 papers on fertility tracking, contraception, and abortion in the digital age, plus our summary Editorial. A 🧵on what we found; please help us share! 1/8

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Sometimes I wish I was a lawyer just so I could work for an organization as awesome as @ifwhenhow.bsky.social. If you are a lawyer, check this out.

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is devastating precisely because when we need other donors to counter the weaponization of foreign assistance by the US as a tool against gender equality, human rights and equity, they are all jumping ship...

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 15/02/2026

It doesn't matter how. It doesn't matter who. It doesn't matter where. It doesn't matter why. Torture is never acceptable and always illegal.

Torture and all other forms of cruel, inhuman, degrading, or humiliating treatment are universally prohibited everywhere and under all circumstances. This absolute ban underscores that no political, economic, security, cultural, or religious arguments can ever justify such practices. The suffering that these practices cause on their victims can last for years.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/02/2026

it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

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Lou Charbonneau @loucharb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨 New from @hrw.org: #UN member states should select a champion of #HumanRights as the next UN Secretary-General as the UN faces a crisis amid a global retreat on rights & democracy. - by Widad Franco

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Next UN Secretary-General Should Champion Rights

United Nations member countries will select a new UN secretary-general this year to succeed António Guterres in January 2027.

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Shannon Kowalski @sbkowalski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

There's so much that middle powers like Canada, could do to actually build strong alliances with other countries and hold the line against the further consolidation of power and resources by great powers. Or, they could do this....

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Abuse of women and children is the ultimate offence that horrifies everyone in theory. It's sensational and abhorrent In reality, abuse of women and children is mundane and boring. When carried out by powerful men, it's an inconvenience that detracts from serious issues like money or security

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