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Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva reut.rs/4kfdJjE

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking life­saving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Never forget, never forgive

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“When your life’s work is thrown into doubt, you face two choices: cynicism or action. While cynicism is tempting, action feels like a duty if one still has the fight.” @tammam.bsky.social on why reforming humanitarianism isn’t enough.

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Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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On this week’s #MeetTheWriters on Monocle - we’re joined by #YuliaMykytenko - the first woman frontline commander in the Ukrainian military - along with Lara Marlowe, on their book “How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying” - which details Yulia’s journey fighting for her country t.co/FY1dIzyKhm

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Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed...The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…"

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After Asma al Assad appeared on the cover of Vogue, the great Clive James wrote this poem. Thanks to ⁦‪⁦‪@mattfrei‬⁩ for reminding me.

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