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Jolanda 🪬

@yoyojolanda.bsky.social

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 · 2w ago

The IPCC’s “we can still get back to 1.5 °C” rests on one assumption: hundreds of billions of tons of CO₂ pulled back out of the air this century. Today’s new removal methods take out about 1 million tons a year. 🧵

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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.

Jolanda 🪬@yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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)?

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Jolanda 🪬@yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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.

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

x.com

Jolanda 🪬@yoyojolanda.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"... violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns with MoH reporting."

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 ...

thelancet.com

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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

theguardian.com

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · last yr.

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.