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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/04/2026

Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.

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Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's

Since the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah reignited on March 2, Israel has pushed deeper into southern Lebanon.

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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Playing with census data, I built this interactive map of population density for Rome (my city 🫶). Data is v granular, you can zoom down to specific blocks 🤯. Rome is the EU's largest city by area, ~ the size of London, but with less than a third of its population teretalo.github.io/rome-pop-map...

choropleth map of Rome's population density

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"We are the first to study hubris." -NBER working paper, probably

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 25/03/2026

“Israel has not prosecuted its citizens for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since the start of this decade, a Guardian analysis of legal data and public records show, creating impunity for a campaign of violence” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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No Israel prosecutions for killing Palestinian civilians in occupied West Bank since start of decade

Dozens of former Israeli military, police and spy chiefs describe situation as ‘organised Jewish terrorism’

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

a "special military operation" you might say

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

✊For International Women's Day, I built an interactive map tracking attitudes like "a man earns, a woman stays home." The east-west divide is stark. And as an Italian… yeah, Italy is not doing great 🙁 Built with Claude Code 🤯 → gender-attitudes.netlify.app #IWD2026 #GenderEquality #DataViz

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Bellingcat's Discord community is still digging through the Epstein files and making sure they're all safely backed up. You can join the thread here: discord.com/channels/709... Some really weird stuff in there. New users can use this link to join the server: discord.com/invite/belli...

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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The US will be the only country in the world not part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Rogue state that should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations

Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 02/12/2025

The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived. That fraction is 16% now. The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%. It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.

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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 25/09/2025

🇺🇸💔🇪🇺 Trump’s 2025 UN speech was the longest U.S. address on record and the most negative toward Europe. This is the focus of my first Medium article, where I track how Europe appears in U.S. UNGA speeches from 1946–2025 and visualize the results. 📖 Read on Medium: medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...

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Trump’s 2025 UN Speech Was the Most Anti-European on Record

Every September, world leaders speak at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) about the global issues they deem most important. These…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

'Following Israel’s ‘pre-emptive strike’ on Iran earlier this month, which happened just as more people started speaking up about the genocide, attention has been averted from Gaza. But Israel’s assault on Gaza (and the West Bank), is continuing apace.'

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‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi

Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

So is the rest of the planet just supposed to shut its mouth and treat these everyday massacres of civilians as normal now because Netenyahu and Trump now run the world?

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Melissa Fleming @melissafleming.un.org · 12/06/2025

Meeting in emergency session today, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. The United States & Israel were among the 12 voting against. news.un.org/en/story/202...

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UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority

Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

In 1963, Bernard Cohen wrote the press may not tell people what to think, but it does tell them what to think *about*. Similarly, in 1960s protests and media made civil rights salient. All to say, politicians may struggle to shape mass opinion, but they can influence which issues are salient.

Line graph titled "Public opinion on the 'Most Important Problem,' 1950 to 1979." The y-axis shows the percentage of respondents citing a given issue as the most important problem, ranging from 0% to over 60%. The x-axis spans years 1950 to 1980, with vertical dashed lines marking presidential elections from 1960 to 1972.

Four colored lines represent different issue categories:

Foreign Affairs (f): Dark blue line, dominant until mid-1960s, peaks around 1965, then declines steadily.
Economy (e): Yellow-green line, declines from 30% in 1950s to below 20% in 1960s, then spikes dramatically around 1974 to over 60%.
Civil Rights (c): Purple line, nearly flat at low levels until a sharp peak around 1963–1965, then falls sharply.
Social Control (s): Teal line, low and flat until a sharp rise in late 1960s, peaking around 1970–1972.
Two red arrows highlight peaks: one for "civil rights" around 1963–1965, and one for "social control" around 1970–1972. Scatterplot points with letters ("f", "e", "c", "s") show individual data points used to estimate trend lines. Source: Omar Wasow (@owasow), with URL to research: http://j.mp/agenda-seeding

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 23/05/2025

Externalising asylum is the hottest trend in EU migration policy; but just 10 years ago the European Commission opposed it on humanitarian and legal grounds. Here's what you need to know. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Perhaps we're getting closer to that day. Can't help but think of those who said it was "too complicated", who cast doubt on the death tolls, who claimed the images from Gaza couldn't be trusted.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

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Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

truly jarring watching Israel nearly winning Eurovision Song Contest, immediately followed by BBC news coverage of Israels new ground offensive in Gaza

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

To the dad wearing the “taxation is theft” shirt while playing with his kids at the *public park*: Shine on, you crazy diamond.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Alarming amount of destruction in Rafah visible in recent @planet.com imagery. The city, already heavily damaged by the IDF previously, is now almost entirely gone with previously intact neighborhoods like Al Jneineh or Khirbet Al 'Adas now being further demolished. Comparison of April 29 & May 7.

A PlanetScope image from Planet Labs showing southern Gaza's city of Rafah on April 29. A large amount of destruction is visible, with much of the city having been demolished by the IDF. Rafah's municipal stadium is visible with a UAE Field Hospital and the newly created "Moraj Corridor" road is visible.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“Illegal immigration, in particular, is poisoning our politics and trust in institutions.” Dangerous and reckless language in a deeply nativist @financialtimes.com column today. The normalization of far-right ideas in the name of fighting far-right actors is morally and strategically wrong!

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Guy Abel @guyabel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in @pnas.org We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage 🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409418122

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 02/05/2025

This is a tragedy and a historic shame. The public has a very strong interest in the intelligent, deep, and yes, highly balanced & non-partisan reporting that these institutions have given us my entire life. Endorsing InfoWars/Newsmax spittle while attacking PBS is perverse and contemptible.

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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 20/04/2025

I’ve just published a hands-on tutorial on how to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) using Python’s transformers library from within R via reticulate as part of my @firsa-eu.bsky.social project. #rstats #dataviz #python #ggplot2 #tidytuesday #nlp #ner firsa.eu/posts/ner_re...

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Named Entity Recognition in R

A tutorial for applying Named Entity Recognition in R with the reticulate package.

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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

New blog post: What does international trade actually look like? Where I made some pretty network graphs

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#21 What Does International Trade Actually Look Like?

Looking at it as a network

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,

The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning. We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher

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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

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grapper @grapper.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Rain in Brussels This graph visualizes the daily rainfall in Brussels over the course of a year. Each circle represents the amount of rain recorded on a specific day. #30DayChartChallenge #RainInBrussels #WeatherData #DataVisualization #Graphane playground.graphane.dev/editor/grnn2...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

GOLDMAN hikes its odds of US recession to 35% — from a prior 20%. The move reflects “the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The president of Columbia agreed to Trump's demands to purge all academic freedom re Palestine but then privately said she'd slow walk them, which immediately leaked to Bari Weiss's outlet, so then the board purged her too

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Hey @ec.europa.eu why is Eurostat not on bluesky and still posting on X? How can you promote high quality statistics and data about Europe on a platform that is owned and destroyed by someone who is actively undermining fact-based public discourse as well as the international order?

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 03/03/2025

This person has no idea how many people have died, or will die, as a result of shattering our entire global infrastructure for providing lifesaving assistance. He did no analysis of those impacts before the reckless and illegal obliteration of USAID. These statements are made-up assertions.

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 27/02/2025

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

Cartogram of 299 German election districts

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

According to this new analysis from Reuters, almost a quarter of those killed in Gaza were under 12. 1,200+ families were completely wiped out, the data showed, including one entire family of 14 people Great work by Sudev Kiyada, Simon Scarr and Nidal al-Mughrabi www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...

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The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far

The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Humanitarian folks, you already lost USAID funding, you truly have nothing left to lose if you start doing your goddamn job and scream from the rooftop about what's happening and who's doing what

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Well, as America implodes from within, it’d be a *great* time for the EU to finally do official Eurobonds. It’d likely be very attractive as a safe haven given the destruction of US hegemony & spillover to US T-bills. Bonus: Eurobonds can finance a desperately needed European security build up! 🇪🇺💶 ‼️

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 24/02/2025

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Basically right, except Die Linke are no-longer “populist left. More like “radical left” or even “progressive left”, like the Scandi equivalents. BSW have done Die Linke a huge favour, by detoxifying them.

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