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Will Anderson

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Funding & tracking land restoration projects at World Resources Institute. Musings on development finance, literature, and cycling. Obsessed with the "how."

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Instead of continually asking how Africa can become more attractive to international capital, we should ask why capital is most expensive where development and climate needs are greatest.” – the ever-brilliant Carlos Lopes. theconversation.com/africa-gets-...
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Africa gets only 23% of the climate finance it needs – and pays too much for it
Climate finance should not be separated from development funding.
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This afternoon, I saw 500+ kids, adults, and older people bike through my neighborhood in one long line. They slowly pedaled through stoplights, calmly asked drivers to wait a few minutes, tinkled their bells, and continued on their way. Peace comes in surprising places!
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just a little summer landscape now added to my site :) this aerial embroidery has dried wheat and cows grazing in meadows, as well as a group of sheep (a few of which have stuck into the cows meadow...) Now available here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/late-su...
An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view landscape. It shows golden and green crop fields and rough meadows with livestock.An angled embroidery hoop containing an aerial view landscape. It shows golden and green crop fields and rough meadows with livestock.An angled embroidery hoop containing an aerial view landscape. It shows golden and green crop fields and rough meadows with livestock.
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Cycling through parts of the river where, as a child, I used to swim filled me with an indescribable sadness," he said. "It was like looking at the scene of a terrible accident. Throughout that journey, the scale of the catastrophe was unfolding before my eyes.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social From Morocco’s leveraging trade access for battery factories to Guinea’s strong-arming China with bauxite bans for aluminum smelters, to solar manufacturing, what we call “strategic green industrial diplomacy” has become supercharged in Africa.
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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa
On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When countries cut bilteral development spending in exchange for boosting spending on war, they lose their legitimacy as actors of peace. www.ft.com/content/ef45...
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Fragile states in Africa and Middle East hit by more than 40% cut in UK direct aid
Campaigners sound alarm over cuts to development spending pushed through to fund defence investment
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reading about AIDS denialism for the show and it's wild how much these features align with the tactics of the anti-trans "reasonable concerns" brigade. web.archive.org/web/20060615...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is proof we can have nice things still. 51st.news/wmata-metro-...
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How Metro got its groove back
Ten years ago, WMATA was in dismal shape. Now, people are lining up to rep the transit system with pride.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Jacob Lawrence, "When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People," 1943 learninglab.si.edu/resources/vi...
Stylized, graphic painting of Black figures in a park, with a woman placing a baby into a carriage, another sitting on a bench, and an ice cream vendor, among others
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Enrique Anarte @enriqueanartelazo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 A “witch-hunt” is under way in Niger, where dozens of people have been arrested for homosexuality in the west African state following the introduction of a new penal code criminalizing same-sex relations earlier this year.
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‘Witch-hunt’ in Niger as military regime rounds up LGBTQ+ population
Fears of resurgence of HIV/Aids amid loss of access to PrEP drugs as at least 40 people arrested in ‘toxic’ climate
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

“This Court sees race when it wants to, and blinds itself to racism in most other cases,” Melissa Murray, a law professor at NYU, told me. “It’s hard to imagine how egregious the statement would have to be to be considered ‘overtly racial’.”
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“The call to end conscription is popular, especially among young people,” writes Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, a Thai conscientious objector who could be imprisoned for up to three years. “But when the moment comes, it is easier for politicians to retreat into nationalist rhetoric.”
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I Shall Not Live in Fear - Dissent Magazine
After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today I am moved by power of this example of how Black people hold our own history. Without museums. W/o official declarations or monuments. In community. Happy Juneteenth!
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you've seen the Juneteenth flag, but don't know its history or what it means, you can read about it in the words of Ben Haith, the man who designed it. Happy Emancipation Day! ✊🏽 #Juneteenth capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...
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The Juneteenth flag, explained
The flag’s designer shares the story and inspiration for his design.
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PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
USA! USA! USA!
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Helen Frankenthaler, A Green Thought in a Green Shade, 1981
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Greed puts out the sun.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 27/03/2026
“Although there are still instances of transphobia, I no longer let it break me down,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I feel sorry for those people.”
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How This ‘Out and Proud Trans Woman’ Navigates Missouri Men’s Prisons
“Although there are still instances of transphobia, I no longer let it break me down,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I feel sorry for those people.”
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It's always about land. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Land Question
Fighting apartheid has become a global paradigm for justice struggles. That’s not how many Black liberationists in South Africa understood their cause.
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The 51st @51st.news · 22/03/2026
In 2025, D.C.'s speed cameras issued more than 3.3 million tickets — 70% of which were for speeding — worth some $383M in fines. The GOP's latest attempt to interfere in local affairs would prohibit D.C. from using them as well as from banning right turns on red, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
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House Republicans move to kill D.C. traffic cameras—despite using them back home
The GOP's latest attempt to interfere with local affairs would also stop the city from banning right turns on red.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 20/03/2026
Sudan’s Gezira irrigation scheme, once a state-run lifeline for 890,000 hectares, is collapsing. Decades of privatization followed by civil war have left canals in ruins, many small-scale farmers can no longer afford to grow food. Story by Albashir Dahab for #Mongabay.
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War exacerbates long-standing irrigation crisis for Sudan farmers
In happier times, Mohamed Ahmed grows sorghum, lentils and beans on three feddans of land in Gezira state. But for more than a year, no irrigation water has reached the 1.2 hectares (3 acres) he…
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In my dreams, we have 5 more Mariah albums 😌
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Peace and fossil fuel dependency are inherently incompatible
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Long read on DOGE and Musk from @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com this morning. "Muskism proved not a governing philosophy but a toolkit available to those who govern," they write.
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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government
The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It's called 'oil price shock' because someone is making a shocking profit. www.ft.com/content/37d4...
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US oil groups in line for $63bn windfall from Gulf war disruption
American producers will be among biggest beneficiaries if crude prices average $100 a barrel this year
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/03/2026
42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.
A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles:
​An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license.
​An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber.
​An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers.
​An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Financial intermediation done right actually puts *more money* into the hands of local people and their institutions. Next step? Localize the intermediaries! news.mongabay.com/2026/02/cali...
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How intermediaries are reshaping mangrove restoration
Mangrove forests, located along tropical and subtropical coastlines, are increasingly recognized for their role in buffering climate disasters, storing carbon, supporting wildlife and livelihoods. Yet...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2026
The latest review from JAMA Pediatrics has uncovered that 26% of trans youth have attempted suicide. That's actual attempts, ideation was even higher. The trend was most pronounced in North America, where anti-trans laws have been common. The latest from our writer S. Baum.
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JAMA Investigation: 26% of Trans and Gender Diverse Youth Have Attempted Suicide
The highest attempt rates came out of North America amidst the United States’ war on trans kids.
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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Lovely piece about Book Bunk, an organisation restoring colonial-era libraries in Nairobi and making them free, accessible spaces for children
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‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people
Once a whites-only enclave, the grand McMillan Memorial library is one of three in the Kenyan capital that have been transformed for the community
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
My hero!
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/02/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 3 Boston Review: Julia Serano pens a killer -down on the long-running argument that Dems should "moderate" by adopting "common sense" positions that essentially throw tarns people under the bus: "Trans Rights Aren’t Tanking the Democrats."
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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.
Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Allowables by Nikki Giovanni www.divasofverse.com/2016/07/allo...
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Allowables by Nikki Giovanni
Allowables I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told...
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My pal Morgan Ome asked me to recommend my favorite books of the year: Such Times by Christopher Coe and Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang. Check it out, paired with recs from other cool people at goodbyeevergreen.substack.com/p/recommended-reading
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recommended reading
volume 1: awoe, ben, jalen, juliette, noah, persimmon, sabrina, tommy, and will
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“An economy that says it needs to stabilize first, then grow, and then distribute is a fallacy and has been a fallacy. It does not stabilize, it grows in fits and starts, and it does not distribute.” – Maria Conceição Tavares www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/lul...
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Lula’s Budget Dispute | Clara Zanon Brenck & Lucca Rodrigues
The winners and losers in Brazil’s new tax regime
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Will Anderson @wwanderson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Fresh because it isn't new: Philanthropic investors can use patient and concessional capital (grants, cheap debt, generous equity) to prove the profitability of a business or a model. Then, let the commercial investors comes in when the math maths. ssir.org/articles/ent...
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There Is No Such Thing as Impact Investing (SSIR)
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
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