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وأنت تفكر بالآخرين البعيدين، فكِّر بنفسك قُلْ: ليتني شمعةُ في الظلام As you think of others far away, think of yourself. Say: If only I were a candle in the darkness

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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I built a small site that tracks Earth's vital signs in plain words, updated automatically: air and ocean temperature, ocean heat, sea ice, sea level, CO₂, methane, and the energy imbalance. Every number links to the source data. earthindicators.org
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Earth Indicators: is the climate changing? The latest data
Earth is warming, and every major indicator shows it. Live data from NOAA, NASA, NSIDC and Copernicus, in plain words.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are not at war with Iran because Netanyahu asked us to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.state.gov/releases/off...
Screenshot of official US Department of State website: The U.S. is engaged in this conflict with Iran at the request and in defense of Israel.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Oil futures down, stock futures up in immediate response to Trump’s statement. It’s astonishing how eager the markets are to believe him. And it’s notable Trump punted for five days, which is exactly when the markets will close again.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
How to say you are out of touch without saying you are out of touch...
NY Times article: how a family of 3 lives on $500,000 on the Upper West Side.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Crazy story? Which part? The made up story about death threats? The fact this 'journalist' is a former IDF soldier who would not possibly claim a missile landed in the middle of a forest, of course not damaging anything, ever (which is why Israel censors everything)?
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is the country that we support. The 'only democracy in the middle east'. The world's 'most ethical army'. Conspicuously missing from the front page of @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com. Not a peep on @cnn.com or @nbcnews.com.
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Double Down News on X: "BREAKING: IDF drops charges of Israeli soldiers caught on video raping Palestinian Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus & lungs & broken ribs. Israelis then rioted for right to rape & government ministers defended soldiers & one rapist became a TV celebrity https://t.co/WBh3mG3myI" / X
BREAKING: IDF drops charges of Israeli soldiers caught on video raping Palestinian Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus & lungs & broken ribs. Israelis then rioted for right to rape & government ministers defended soldiers & one rapist became a TV celebrity https://t.co/WBh3mG3myI
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"... violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns with MoH reporting."
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Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey
This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When a sitting US senator does the job the 'free' media should be doing. x.com/SenSanders/s...
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Stripped of dangerously optimistic framings, the conclusion is stark: all existing climate plans fail to match the scale, speed, or seriousness defined by the science."
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The Arithmetic of Climate Failure: an interview with Alma Asfalto - Climate Uncensored
In February 2026, I was invited to respond to a series of questions from Alma Asfalto (www.almaasfalto.com), a free monthly journal distributed in and around
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Because I need to not think of the American Stasi for a bit... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAz...
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Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Acoustic, Live, Best Quality)
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Family and work: Parents would get 25 weeks of paid parental leave. Workers would get 27 days of guaranteed paid time off per year. We'd work 231 fewer hours per year—nearly six fewer weeks. Net childcare costs would fall by 60%.
Screenshot of a data visualization section titled “Family & Livelihood,” showing what would change if the United States matched the OECD average. Eight cards compare U.S. outcomes to OECD norms. They show: +25 weeks of guaranteed paid parental leave (U.S. 0 vs OECD ~25); +27 days of guaranteed paid time off (U.S. 0 vs OECD 27); 231 fewer annual hours worked per worker (U.S. 1811 vs OECD 1580); childcare costs 60% lower as a share of wages (U.S. 32% vs OECD 13%); 5 million fewer children living in poverty; 15 million fewer workers in poverty-wage jobs; 180,000 fewer unsheltered homeless people; and 500,000 fewer medical bankruptcies per year (common in the U.S., effectively zero in peer countries). Each card lists the U.S. figure alongside the OECD average.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
"Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it's too late to act" Michael Mann.
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The staggering scale of human CO2 emissions
We've emitted more CO2 than all living biomass and human-made mass combined.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#eurovision26 Nous n'irons plus jamais Tu viens de décider Nous n'irons plus jamais Ce soir c'est plus la peine Nous n'irons plus jamais Comme les autres années Eurovision, c'est fini ...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/11/2025
Republicans publicly claimed they wouldn’t cut Medicare. That’s why they did it so sneakily.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Listening to Pam Bondi 'testifying' in oversight committee...mood
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Patrice G. Poutrus🔻aka Icke @poutrusicke.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Somewhere in Portland...
A couple facing armed soldiers and military vehicles in the street: "Gosh! Whatever's in those Epstein files must be really, really bad!"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Een selectie van de brieven in de Volkskrant:
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
But Israel is not a genocidal apartheid state, we are told.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The members of @1199seiu.org are heroes—saving lives, delivering babies, caring for all us in our time of need. I will stand with them as Mayor. So grateful to earn this endorsement from the largest healthcare union in the country.
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Mamdani Wins Backing of Major Health Care Union That Had Endorsed Cuomo
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For Eric Adams, the law is simply a suggestion—especially when it comes to funding his campaigns. Thankfully Donald Trump can't bail him out of this one. From the CFB meeting earlier today:
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
While Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams trip over each other to win the approval of billionaires in backrooms, our campaign remains focused on working New Yorkers and their clear desire for a different kind of politics.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I'll quote post you back. Why this passive aggressiveness? It seems to me that you do not work in a school environment. If you did, you would know: - teachers (and staff) are aware of medical conditions of students. - If you need an exemption to a rule, you (parent, not the kid) need to justify it.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It's 'war', they say. It's genocide, I say.
Israel has helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles, drones, bombs, bulldozers,... to attack civilians.Palestinians have donkeys to move murdered children.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 08/07/2025
average person online: have you seen what the race scientist said about him average new yorker: omg its zohran mamdani
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Bearing witness: Walaa Frangi, beautiful soul. No longer with us. Her last post: من هذا المكان الرمادي أخرج كل يوم محاولةً البحث عن الألوان والحياة "ويبقى عندي يقين رح نلقي مخرج"🙏🏻🫂🫶🏻 From this gray place, I go out every day trying to find colors and life. "And I am sure that we will find a way out"
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"Despite the children's abject hunger, Filiu relates that he saw them sharing bits of food with scrawny stray cats. When he asked them why they were doing that, they explained to him that they know what it feels like to be hungry and didn't want the cats to feel like that."
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/07/2025
Doomer Post Alert! Like most public-facing doomers, I get the question all the time, followed by "where's the best place to live?" In the US, we are lucky we live in a neo-fascist kakistocracy. Because it's going to get a whole lot worse. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/when-is-th...
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When Is The Collapse Going to Start?
The definitive answer.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In this News Brief, we break down recent bad faith attacks on Zohran Mamdani, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket, and the broader "antisemitism scandal" playbook to derail moderate social democratic policies and any meaningful criticism of Israel.
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News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature
In this News Brief we break down recent bad faith attacks on the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket and the broader
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Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Yeah right.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I am humbled by the support of more than 545,000 New Yorkers in last week's primary. This is just the beginning of our expanding coalition to make New York City affordable. And we will do it together.
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Nicole cannot read or is in severe denial. Is Nicole representative of the Israelis in general or another voice we should just ignore, because Israel is always the victim, never the aggressor and I am being antisemitic?
Soldier saying :'It's a Killing Field'. IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian AidOffice saying tank fire should not be used for crowd control. But it is.Just a soldier asking "why was a shell necessary" annoys the commanders.Nicole has drunk the cool-aid.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Listen to Emily: young people can decide this election. Polls are open until 9pm. zohranfornyc.com/vote
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A message from Bernie. zohranfornyc.com/vote
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district) Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
For those who think Israel is a sane country, I present to you the following. It includes a ground invasion by Houthis in Yemen and ballistic missiles from Kuwait. The poor eternal victims of evil Muslims.🤪
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Our “dumb president” bombed Iran because the vibes felt real nuclear-weapon-y? And we’re supposed to trust that? He just misspelled his own name in a social-media post! My less-than-pleased column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Why did US bomb Iran? In Trump's vibes war, it's impossible to trust anyone. | Opinion
A day after bombing Iran, Vice President JD Vance said: 'Of course we trust our intelligence community, but we also trust our instincts.' So, vibes?
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Israel, though the occupier, is the permanent victim. The only victim. Need proof? combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/wea...
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Weaponizing Hate: How Pro-Iran Protests Are Inciting Global Antisemitism | Combat Antisemitism Movement
In the aftermath of Israel's launch of pre-emptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last week, Islamist and far-left demonstrators across the
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Jolanda 🪬 @yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Let's try that again: big picture geopolitical analysis on Israel's war on Iran, very insightful. x.com/iyad_elbaghd...
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي on X: "Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread." / X
Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.
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