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“That historic moment reminds us: the direction of influence can shift. The act of translation can be revolutionary. The guardians of knowledge are not always those who originate ideas, but those who keep them alive.“
middleeastuncovered.substack.com/p/translatio...
Survival doesn’t celebrate, it moved on to the next crisis.
#TIL
From @blairglencorse.bsky.social of @accountlab.bsky.social and yours truly at @globalvoices.org, an essay in @insidephilanthropy.com about the importance, and advantages, of mutual aid in the face of the drastic foreign assistance cuts.
Parents are especially favorable to the government doing more to regulate social media use for young people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
Lah.. sendirinya eksperimen bawa Kluivert 😵💫
Selamat datang, Pak @barackobama.bsky.social
Holy shit! This is raw
Fun quiz! ✨
Flashback for March 15, 2025
24 points
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Play here:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Aujourd’hui s’ouvre le procès de Joël Le Scouarnec, accusé par plusieurs centaines de ses anciens patients d’agression sexuelle.
C’est le plus gros scandale de pédocriminalité de notre histoire et l'ordre des médecins l'a couvert.
Nous sommes solidaires des victimes. Stop à l'impunité !
“Move fast and break things targets systems that disruptors resent and replaces them with ones they control.” @ethanz.bsky.social
#Corruption in #Indonesia goes beyond embezzlement. Case in point, former president Joko Widodo (Jokowi), the once “reformist” turned “populist-transactional” king maker. My latest article for @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/02/11/i...
and established yet another self serving political dynasty
Ok.. so what about #1968 but on a global scale? It’s almost spring and Serbia’s doing great.
“On se lève et on se casse”. En #france, un grand X-Ode est en cours. Petite observation de mon pays adopté pour @globalvoices.org
fr.globalvoices.org/2025/02/05/2...
I drafted a piece on the great X-odus last week on GV FR. Waiting to be approved. @older.bsky.social
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, government forces and allies defending the city of Goma appear to have collapsed, with rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda claiming they have taken over the city.
CARTOON OF THE DAY
Right?! Multi crises is not enough.
Blue #martigues
Translation is activism. Writing is activism.” Featuring indigenous voices is a form of activism. We need to show all of these forms of activism are possible - Juke Bransiecq #GVSummit2024
Quand on parle de #DRR.
Parlons aussi les #inegalités.
Beijing presents itself as the defender of the Palestinians and a champion of the oppressed. But Uyghurs in China "suffer mass detention, population suppression, and cultural assimilation under a brutal authoritarian regime.
How does Beijing get away with it?
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Freaking bargain
A colleague who studies Indonesian political economy and corruption once told me that Indonesian oligarchs were astonished at how cheaply their American counterparts could buy control of the US government compared to how much it costs elsewhere to achieve similar influence.
How is that a publication like Rolling Stone gets it right when so many other news orgs are failing at real journalism & keeping it real—and so damn obvious about it?
Oh dear.. well, Claude is up.😶🌫️
