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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

UN officials warn of starvation amid ‘gender emergency’ in war-torn Sudan Hungry civilians are reportedly eating animal feed as women and girls face a “gender emergency” in war-torn Sudan, UN officials said on Thursday.

In Sudan, starvation crimes and crimes of sexual and gender-based violence are intersecting and mutually exacerbating in a humanitarian and gender emergency.
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Can confirm.

Building Humane Foreign Policy On Moral Outrage - CIP Only building popular concern for the shared humanity of others will lay the groundwork for regional peace.

Progressive FP already has experience addressing the moral hazard of U.S. security commitments: Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Yemen. There, as with Israel, sources of leverage were clear: arms sales that sustained the war effort and diplomatic cover internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”

Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.

‘The Evergreen’: Meet the Chinese American women from Oregon who made aviation history In the 1930s, aviation was taking off in the Northwest, and more and more women were learning how to fly. On this week’s show, we learn about two of these pilots: Hazel Ying Lee and Leah Hing.

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
In the 30s, more & more women were learning to fly in the NW. Among them: some of the first Chinese American women ever to earn pilot's licenses. And they grew up here, in the same tight-knit Chinese community in Portland.
We learn about Hazel Ying Lee & Leah Hing:

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

RIP Tom Lehrer. A true legend.

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Maybe they suddenly make air circulate in the changing rooms, or cause That One Guy to stop hogging the equipment.

I'm now imagining you accidentally triggering exotic effects at the gym because someone over on the rowing machine synced up with you by mistake.

Introducing the Chumash Good Fire Project The new initiative is bringing back cultural burns to indigenous lands.

“hundreds of hours of interviews with fire ecologists, botanists, members of County Fire, policymakers, and more were compiled to make a comprehensive guide of considerations and plans to bring back Chumash cultural fire.” www.independent.com/2025/07/16/i...

ICE Is Making an Example of California The repeated targeting of California workers is ​a deliberate spectacle, meant to show the rest of​ the country what to expect if we don’t fall in line.

"The point of these raids is to demonstrate that no one, no matter what they contribute to the community, will be spared arrest...
Ultimately, neither “good” immigrants nor “good” protestors can use their goodness as a shield from ICE’s violence." 

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Situation in Afghanistan: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II issues arrest warrants for Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani Today, 8 July 2025, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) has issued,  in the context of the Situation of Afghanistan, warrants of arrest for Mr Haibatullah A...

The ICC issues arrest warrants for Afghanistan's supreme leader Heibatullah Akhundzada and its top Sharia judge, Abdelhakim Haqqani, alleging, rather plausibly, that they have persecuted women and advocates of gender equality. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does.
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Opinion | ‘The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems’

A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

Happy #Juneteenth! 🤎🙏🏾✊🏾

Social media right now is an environment in which it's wildly easy to get facts wrong or make them up; one of the most crucial things about any piece of information should be the answer to the question "how do you know this?"

We are proud to join over 225 organizations in a collective statement of solidarity to oppose the racist 2025 Entry Ban announced by the Trump Administration.

This is why we have to think of peacebuilding as a generational project - as long as the kids learn war songs, they'll grow up imagining violence as their future.

I'm thinking of a South Sudanese woman, a human rights activist, who told me more than a decade ago: "We sing songs to our baby boys about how they will grow up to kill their enemies, and as long as we do that, there will never be peace."

Infuriating - just learned from Renee Tajima-Peña that #PBSLearningMedia has disappeared the Vincent Chin teaching module.

Community kitchens are ready to go, local orgs are ready to move supplies, the only reason these resources aren't keeping kids and their families alive is that the current U.S. government is choosing not to.
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No matter what anyone says, trans Americans make our military, our communities and our entire nation stronger.

On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, let’s choose love and reject hate wherever we may see it 🏳️‍⚧️

Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that serve as anchors in their most rural communities.

More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle.

Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.

Israeli strikes halt Yemen flights, hundreds stranded Yemenia Airways has halted flights from Sana’a after Israeli strikes damaged the airport’s main facilities,...

Yemenia Airways has halted flights from Sana’a after Israeli strikes damaged the airport’s main facilities,...

New Report: we just released our latest report, examining the impact of U.S. aid cuts on communities we work with in Sudan, DRC, Burma and with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. www.paema.ngo/aid-impact-r...

One last thing: we don't have outside funding for this report. We're doing this because local organizations are vital to the communities they serve and because these communities deserve better than a future of fear and uncertainty.
If you want, you can support us here: www.paema.ngo/take-action
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We know the consequences of the aid cuts will be felt differently as time passes, especially if other donors fail to provide alternative sources of funding. That's why PAEMA will be conducting our survey of local organizations and communities again in three months, and again in six. 4/5

You'll also find snapshot reports on each PAEMA's four areas of focus: Sudan, DRC, Burma, and in the Rohingya camps of Cox's Bazar. The aid cuts are devastating everywhere, but the impact is hitting in different ways. 3/5

You'll find people from affected communities speaking in their own words throughout this report. Many are the people who make international aid function in hard-to-reach, complicated places. If you're a journalist and you want to be connected to some of our contributors, please reach out. 2/5

The cover of a report titled "Please Do Not Be Part of Our Crisis: The impact of the U.S. foreign aid cuts on local organizations and communities." The title is accompanied by an image of two women in niqab using sewing machines.

For the past 3 months, I've been working with the @paema.ngo team and our local partners in #Sudan, #DRC, #Burma, and the #Rohingya camps in Bangladesh to understand how US foreign aid cuts are impacting local orgs and communities. I'm pleased to share our report: www.paema.ngo/aid-impact-r...
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