Natasha Kimani

🌍🐝 At our convening during #G20Summit, Tabitha Oluoch, Winnie Kiiza and @natashakimani.bsky.social offered reflections that continue to resonate. We invite you to read their words, share and join the hive.

#16DaysOfActivism #ColmenaFund #WomenInPolitics

My painting COUNTRY HOUSE

michael cooper jr and lovie simone in a still for netflix’s “forever.” they beam with the first glimmer of romance.

mara brock akil’s “forever” (netflix) is one of the best modern works of love and tenderness. in this young adult story, love, family, and the whims of youth are given dimension currently missing from television.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

You are going to see an obituary that I wrote a few months ago for Pope Francis. I really had the toughest time writing it. He was a complicated Pope. We are never going to see another Jesuit Pope in this lifetime, and maybe never again in the Catholic church.

Sinners was incredible

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JFC

‘We are all waiting for a reply.’ Countries say White House hasn’t responded on tariff talks. The lack of engagement is one signal the White House is still far from reaching substantive trade deals ahead of the midnight deadline for stepped-up global tariffs to kick in.

Foreign leaders are indeed calling to White House to figure out how to get tariffs removed, but the White House is not responding to the calls. And meanwhile they have little idea what to even offer Trump as "concessions" because he has no idea what he wants
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Spent the entire White Lotus finale screaming “Don’t do it!! Don’t do it!!!” over and over at nearly everyone.

millennials going through their fourth once in a lifetime economic recession

#WhiteLotus #TheWhiteLotus

the real moral of the story here is never speak about yourself cryptically in the third person

#TheWhiteLotus #WhiteLotus

So much political discourse right now in the US is boiling down to "I didn't believe the bleeding person who told me the wolf at the door was dangerous to me. Because I thought the wolves only hunted them." And I don't know what people think can happen as long as that is still the conversation.

Will the Trump Shock prove as momentous as the Nixon Shock? UNHERD op-ed & on BBC tv - Yanis Varoufakis “My philosophy, Mr President, is that all foreigners are out to screw us and it’s our job to screw them first.” With these words, the US Treasury Secretary convinced the President to deliver a colossa...

Will the Trump Shock prove as momentous as the Nixon Shock? BBC tv interview & UNHERD op-ed www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/03/w...

Guardian newspaper, yes most French know (but that not your audience I guess) that removing Lepen won't curb the rise of the far right. It's not actually the type of gloating you think it is.

Like… at some point you'll believe those of us who tell you that silicon valley's values are inextricably interwoven with eugenics, and that this isn't a new development, but merely a louder one. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

Drake also stepped back from his beef with Kendrick after “Not Like Us” dropped. Did that stop Kendrick? No, he took his hating all the way to the Super Bowl.

Don’t be fooled. Be like Kendrick.

To think that cities like Nairobi don’t even have enough side walks, in a county where most people walk home due to income inequality. Must be nice.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

This is also why school phone bans are a blunt and ineffective fix for whatever ills you ascribe to them.

As the parent of two high achieving 'youth', and with my medical and education background, let me tell you- it's not the phones. It's the way we construct (and control) our environments.

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

Tonight’s White Lotus in a nutshell:

Chad’s latest marshal Mahamat Déby’s rule in Chad follows a familiar script of military power, political repression, and shifting alliances in an increasingly unstable Sahel.

🇹🇩 Useful summary of contemporary politics in #Chad africasacountry.com/2025/02/chad...

My feed is increasingly looking like the pre-credit montage of headlines in a post apocalyptic action movie.

Adolescence on Netflix. Holy shit. Devastating. Brilliant.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally.

Short version: Nope.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...