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Lyla Mehta
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Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own; .. more

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jan 11
I resisted signing on another billionaire-led app so it's taken me a while to get here. I had blocked #Musk & carried on Twitter despite unease. But now seeing how he is systematically promoting more far-right leaders is just too much. Looking forward to connecting with old & new friends here.

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 3d
Now who is surprised to see New Age guru Deepak Chopra in the Epstein emails with references to 'cute girls' and trips to Israel with girls etc? These "Godmen" really revel in their power, fame, money + sex and sexism . #Epstein #DeepakChopra

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 3d
I'm sure you're all as heart broken as I am 💔

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I don't wish to upset you, but Epstein could bring down the British prime minister
It’s been a strange couple of days for me.
www.normalisland.co.uk

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 6d
OnlineFirst - "Ecological care work in bamboo value chains: Feminist political ecology insights to care in forest-human relations" by @violetagz.bsky.social and @sabaheta.bsky.social:

#EcologicalCare #FeministPoliticalEcology #Bamboo #Forests

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 7d
OnlineFirst - "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The environmental impacts of data centers in Latin America" by @ndiazbejarano.bsky.social and @anavaldi.bsky.social:

@oii.ox.ac.uk #Datacenter #datainfrastructure #Chile #Mexico #Queretaro #Quilicura

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 8d
Modi, Epstein, Israel, India, US & Ambani nexus

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"Leadership Would Like Your Help": Indian Billionaire Tapped Jeffrey Epstein Before Modi's Visits to U.S. and Israel
New Department of Justice documents reveal Epstein’s direct role in fostering ties between Indian, Israeli, and U.S. elites.
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 11d
OnlineFirst - "Eyes on the shoreline: The disciplinary power of the ecological gaze in marine waste governance" by jarviszhuo.bsky.social and Jingzhou Liu:

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 12d
OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by Giovanna Gioli and @giobettini.bsky.social:

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Frosty the Potato Man ⛄ @tankiepotato.bsky.social · 13d
‘But who ended the Holocaust?’

‘The Soviet Union, actually.’

The shocked look upon the face of the hostess says it all.

As the world remembers the liberation of Auschwitz 80 years ago, a reminder of a classic case of historical fact vs the rewriting of history.

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 13d
OnlineFirst - "Microbial shepherding: The creation of culture(s) at the more-than-artisan scale" by Aidan Demsky and Erika Szymanski:

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

#Microbes #Multispecies #Labor #Work #Value #Cheese #Fermentation #Shepherding #Vermont

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 13d
OnlineFirst - "Encountering degrowth" by @davidegilbert.bsky.social, Donatella Gasparro, Giorgos Kallis, Lucia Munoz-Sueiro, Julia Grosinger, Maroula Tsagkari, Feroz Khan, Grace Wright, and Angelos Varvarousis:

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 16d
ICE is murdering innocent people on the streets in Minneapolis. When are US law-makers (both Republicans and Democrats) going to firmly stand up to Trump, and say enough is enough? #USPol #ICE #Minnesota

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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 16d
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it.

News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.

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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
www.startribune.com

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 16d
Board of Peace - Season 1

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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 18d
Scarcity is more often shaped by the choices we make about who gets to consume, and who is asked to cut back.

At Sparks, @lylamehta.bsky.social explore what it could mean to rethink development from the perspective of abundance, equity and distribution.

Register👇
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Sparks: Igniting new ideas - Institute of Development Studies
Join the Institute of Development Studies for Sparks, a new annual event highlighting innovative, evidence-based ideas that can shape progress on global social and environmental challenges. With the world facing ever more complex challenges, fresh ideas are urgently needed to help us make progress t...
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 20d
It’s now time to exclude Israel from the UN. Articles 5 & 6 could be evoked. Even if it's vetoed by the Security Council, the General Assembly can vote to remove Israel. Such flagrant violations of international law & UN principles must stop. #UN #Israel #unrwa
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel bulldozes Unrwa headquarters in East Jerusalem
Palestinian refugee agency compound is demolished, while teargas is fired at UN vocational school in West Bank
www.theguardian.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20d
If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 21d
OnlineFirst - "The wilderness fetish: The mystification of nature conservation in the age of capital" by Clemens Greiner and Manuel Standop:

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 21d
📘Book Launch📘
*International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East* (edited by Edward Wastnidge & Francesco Belcastro) explores the evolving dynamics of the Middle East in today’s shifting global order.
🔔Fri 23 January (online)
⌚11 AM-12 PM
Register for free 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 24d
You can’t make this up. What a flawed candidate for the Nobel peace prize. The Nobel peace committee hang their heads in shame or resign.
#Machado #Trump #USPol #Venezuela

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it
www.bbc.co.uk

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 24d
Domicide, the deliberate, large-scale destruction of homes to erase a community's presence, memory, and sense of belonging, is now widespread in #Israel’s occupied territories & #India’s #BJP-ruled states, writes Harsh Mander in the last of a 6-part series

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Palestine to Prayagraj: State Domicide as Public Spectacle, As India Echoes Israel’s Architecture of Collective Reprisal
From Palestine to India, bulldozers have emerged as instruments of collective, extrajudicial punishment, demolishing homes not just to enforce law but to discipline entire communities. Drawing paralle...
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 27d
OnlineFirst - "Off the rails: A critical environmental justice analysis of the East Palestine train derailment" by Kyle Keeler and Nicholas Theis:

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · Jan 7
OnlineFirst - "When the land becomes the sea and the sea becomes the land: Disrupting processes of appropriation of Miärralándda" by Britt Kramvig and Tarja Tuulia Salmela:

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Jan 7
"The roots of sustainable development are (...) deeply shaped by the legacies of colonisation and coloniality", writes @ids.ac.uk's @lylamehta.bsky.social on our blog, suggesting pathways towards decolonising the discipline and calling out remaining challenges.
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402
The Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies
By Lyla Mehta The colonial roots of sustainability  Since the Brundtland Commission advanced the concept of sustainable development in 1987, a lively strand in Development Studies (DS) has eng…
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · Jan 5
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.

Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Editors' Note, 1/4/26: A spokesperson from The New York Times emailed Trans News Network the Sunday after publication, disputing various parts of the interview. We reject their disputes as unsubstantiated, nitpicking or willful misreads. We have added minor clarifications at two points in the interview alongside the transcript, which remains as published. We stand by our reporting of the interview with Sweeney, former editor and 11-year veteran of the Times. The Times also provided TNN a statement responding to the interview, which we have declined to publish due to its inclusion of overt transphobia (such as framing the existence of trans people as “fiercely contested medical and legal debates”). Even in their PR, it seems that the Times can't stop denigrating our lives and communities. We do not have an obligation to publish damage control on the behalf of a news outlet undergoing a legitimacy crisis because of their own actions.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jan 4
TRUMP: "I'm going to run Venezuela."

Oh, honey . . . you can't even run the Kennedy Center.

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jan 4
Mamdani : “I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act.”

Starmer: "I want to get all the material facts together. It’s a fast moving situation"

Truly pathetic Starmer

#Venezuela #Starmer #UK #USPol #Trump

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Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
The PM told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that he won't "shy away from this" but added we "haven't got the full picture at the moment".
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jan 3
I doubt they will openly regret anything. They have a history of making bad awards

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jan 3
WTF. The US is truly a rogue state now. But who is to stop Trump and his madness? And to think that the Nobel Peace Committee actually enabled this through the Peace Prize to pro-Trump Machado who openly begged him to invade her country.

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · Jan 3
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela