The first major Ebola outbreak is unfolding without USAID, a program that has supported all the DRC’s Ebola responses in the last decade, but was dismantled last year. 👇🧵
A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...
Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
New article! On "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the plutocrat class ripping America apart: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-...
My Friend Leatherface
Remembering a creative conservationist as plutocrats take a chainsaw to Texas.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
so um... is AAAS going to happen? Should anyone from overseas even attend? Should anyone *fly* to the meeting? Will half the speakers be allowed to present?
Happy New Year #kakapo followers! Ready to launch into 2025? By the end of this year we'll probably be jumping into a big breeding season. Look out for confirmation in March/April, when we count the fruit of the rimu tree - their breeding food. #conservation #parrots #birds
Everyone should post their most viral tweet here, just for posterity's sake
We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org
We are now at the point on Bluesky where if you are looking for detailed explanations by experts on current world events, we have them. That’s huge.
@charleslister1.bsky.social · 2y agoHaving worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week. A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:
2020: giving cheer by singing sea shanties 2024: giving cheer by writing murder ballads
Mind Titan@porgus.bsky.social · 2y agoWake up y'all, we're writing murder ballads again
Ok this is a soft launch, beta, work in progress etc but breakingnewsusa.com is gonna be an aggregator and directory of as many left news and information sources as possible. Going to put them all there - news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, whatever. Something missing, tell me.
Breaking News USA
Breaking News For Real Americans
breakingnewsusa.com
Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/
1933 - ZEFYS
ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal für den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.
zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
Looking for our following from Twitter here on BlueSky Sending out follow/invitations Hope to see you all soon Retweet and repeat
Dr. Paul Farmer Symposium: What accompaniment means! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo83...
The Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity
YouTube video by Partners In Health
youtube.com
democrats just reinstalled jeffries as house leader after he responded to the election with bible verse and pretending not to see nancy mace's bigotry vs the first trans member of the house. so its going great.
Paul Farmer encouraged me He inspired me to overcome the failures of my own imagination I now get to give back, by joining the Board of Trustees of Partners in Health His last message to me was on the book he sent me 👇🏽 www.pih.org/governance
One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.
I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...