Rachel Strohm
@RachelStrohm
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📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi 🌐 https://t.co/s7nAaCokOM
Joined February 2009
the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place
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They’re mercilessly, randomly bombing a concentration camp from which no one can escape. Try for a moment to imagine the terror Gazans must be experiencing right now.
I know nobody cares about us Except a few, I know we're just a post and it's going to end but I'm really afraid, I'm saying we're afraid. If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot. https://t.co/2joFUxlyh3
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High Court suspends mandate of Ruto’s panel for compensation of victims of public protests after lawyer Levi Munyeri alleges legal breaches; judge to give directions on October 6
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Created by a #German #cartographer, the 16th century #Mercator #map paints #Africa and #Europe as the same size when #Africa is actually three times #bigger. The @_AfricanUnion has advocated for the more accurate #EqualEarth #projection. Read more here:
nytimes.com
A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size.
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Very well worth a read for a concise summary of what a transformative global economic justice agenda would look like. (Even if I think it overplays the tension between aid and that broader agenda)
As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel Kaboub (@Independent Sep. 9, 2025). https://t.co/4QJpZfqmcf
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📅 30 Sept, 12:30h (online) | Join the launch of our 2025–26 GLAC Seminar series! Michel Thill presents "The Police, the State & the Congo Cop" Register 👉 https://t.co/KdgIs5PNJ9
#GLACSeminar #DRC
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It is not hyperbole to say that thanks to today's decision, every Latino citizen in Los Angeles should consider carrying their passport or birth certificate with them at all time. The Supreme Court has now essentially greenlit Trump's DHS demanding their papers at any point.
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
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Israel is herding 2 million people into al-Mawasi, where they will either be killed or allowed to die of untreated wounds, disease and malnutrition. Israel isn't using cattle trucks, and it isn't building gas chambers. But make no mistake. This is a death camp.
Israel tells over 1 million people in #Gaza City to move to Al-Mawasi, calling it a “safe zone”. But Al-Mawasi is overcrowded, bombed daily, and dozens are killed there There is no safety as long as the #genocide continues ..
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In a recent meeting, a worker who provides health care to people living in encampments told us, "I'm afraid to emphasize the mortality crisis (the number of people who are dying on the streets) because of how that actually excites some people."
A big reality problem for the Jenkins/Houston "Abatement" concept is that it starts from a false premise: the city has been evicting encampments without offering shelter for over a year since Grants Pass. That makes it look like performative cruelty to please haters of the poor
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808 Xamar: Exiled Digital Somali Sounds from 1990s Saudi Arabia. A rare digital relic from the 90s. Among the first recordings created when Somalia’s rich music scene was forced underground and scattered across a vast diaspora. Available only on Bandcamp.
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Great new blog post by @notanastronomer about @malengo's Uganda–Germany university program!
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Most of this blog is about international migration, and particularly, the economics of international migration.
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This is a pretty consistent finding in the literature on European politics and something that Americans who want Democrats to tack right on immigration need to grapple with
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NEW at WORKS IN PROGRESS ☢️⚡️🔋 France built forty nuclear reactors in ten years across the 1970s and 1980s, for a fraction of today's prices. For the first time in English, we tell the story of how they did it — and what the rest of the world needs to learn to do the same.
new from me for @worksinprogmag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵
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The "unthinkable" is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns, calling on the international community to do everything possible to prevent catastrophe as Israel ramps up military operations ahead of a planned full takeover. https://t.co/UUBDIphkSw
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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on Thursday for the international community to do everything possible to prevent catastrophe in Gaza City as Israel ramps up military operations ahead of a...
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What if we could forecast refugee movements the way we forecast the weather? A new model does this. Here’s how it works:
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Look at No Other Land which won an Oscar, but what did that change for Palestinians? One co-director was beaten & detained after the win, another contributor was shot dead. Hollywood applauded, then moved on. Storytelling didn’t stop the violence. We need action, not applause.
Hollywood making movies about a genocide that’s still happening is their way of absolving themselves. They profit, pat themselves on the back, and package it as history, while 100+ Palestinians are starved and bombed daily. Their responsibility is to stop it now.
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NEW YORK: We’ll be in NYC Tomorrow, 9/4, at Noon in Foley Square joining dozens of organizations and attorneys to rally and march in support of the International Legal Complaint against the U.S. Government who is fully complicit and responsible for the genocide in Gaza. JOIN US!
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Policymakers significantly over-estimate foundational learning levels in their country (they underestimate the scale of the problem). They guess that on average 47 percent of 10 year olds in their country can read, compared with World Bank Learning Poverty data ( based on actual
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JD Pritzker is one of like five Democrats who knows what time it is and no Newsom is not one of those five. Newsom is attempting to become the Trump of the center-right. Pritzker is ready to go to war
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
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🚨 EVENT ALERT Tomorrow @ 6:30PM, we welcome writer and academic @Tatiana_Thieme to launch her book Hustle Urbanism : Making Life Work in Nairobi. To steer this conversation, she is joined by Wangũi Kĩmari + Felix Mũtunga in a conversation moderated by @MwangiMwauraL FREE ENTRY
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