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Satirical dispatches from the frontlines of injustice.
Human rights, climate chaos, and AI-fueled irony—served weekly.
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What do you get when a billionaire rents a drowning city for a wedding? The clearest metaphor for economic collapse we’ve ever seen.

The #VeniceWedding Extravaganza:
A satirical roast of wealth hoarding, & the bottom 50% being uninvited.

Read + share:
thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/the-venice...
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New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The health toll of economic sanctions
Financing for global health is the main topic of discussion in 2025, especially since the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville earlier this month. This issue contain...
www.thelancet.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New drop from #JusticeWatch:
Activists are being jailed, killed, or erased.
Governments? "Urging restraint."
The international community? Still "monitoring."
Our new satirical roundup exposes the global crackdown on truth-tellers.
📰 Read: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
#HumanRights
July 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What do you get when a billionaire rents a drowning city for a wedding? The clearest metaphor for economic collapse we’ve ever seen.

The #VeniceWedding Extravaganza:
A satirical roast of wealth hoarding, & the bottom 50% being uninvited.

Read + share:
thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/the-venice...
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Women, girls & LGBTQ+ folks picking up the tab for economic gaps, #climatecrisis, broken health systems & endless #wars.

Polite slogans won’t fix it. But you can help smash it.
👉 Read and share: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/the-triple...

#GenderJustice #ClimateJustice #SmashThePatriarchy
The Triple Trap of Gender Injustice
How economic injustice, climate chaos and broken health systems, keep women, girls, and queer folks down — while everyone claps for “progress.”
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June 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
New life, old injustices.

Our founder just brought a tiny human into an absurd world of greed, bombs & carbon billionaires. Here’s our sharp, hopeful roast about how we can do better — if we dare.

"Congratulations, It’s a World!"👇
thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/congratula...

#Inequality
Congratulations, It’s a World!
One baby, eight Billion problems, zero excuses
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June 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Centuries of stolen wealth → pennies for drowning nations.

The Global South won’t settle for climate pity. This is an unpaid debt — not a donation.

Full piece: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/loss-damag...

#LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice #GlobalSouthRising
Loss, Damage, and Unpaid Colonial Bills
How centuries of stolen wealth turned into pennies for drowning nations
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June 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#Gaza is being erased in real time while the world watched and do nothing.

Our latest piece criticizes this #Genocide —what we’re witnessing is a state-sponsored script where dead children are defined as “complex (situation.)”

👉 thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/gaza-the-w...
June 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang died in police custody. Cops claim he “bashed his own head against a wall.”

Because posting online is a crime now.

Our latest piece on the global stage of performative justice and selective outrage:

👉 thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/justice-th...

#JusticeForOjwang
June 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🌿 New post on The Laughing Rights:

Carbon offsets: where pollution meets PR and justice gets outsourced.
80% of projects? Junk.
Frontline communities? Still breathing the cost.

Read more: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/pay-to-pol...
June 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New drop from The Laughing Rights.
“The Great Care Con” — because apparently $10.8 trillion in unpaid #carework is just women “helping out.”

We break down the gender pay gap, invisible labor, and economic inequality.

Read it here: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/domestic-g...
Domestic Goddesses and Corporate Kings: A Love Story of Gender Inequality
A great care con on how gender inequality keeps women washing dishes and men cashing checks.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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How will #Billionaires solve poverty..? By leaving Earth.
In our debut post, we explore the rise of Trickle-Up Economics and the view of inequality from orbit.

#Satire. #FACTS. Space suits.

Read it on The Laughing Rights: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/billionair...
#TheLaughingRights
Billionaires Solve Poverty.
In a bold and selfless act of cosmic philanthropy, the world’s billionaires have finally solved poverty—by leaving the planet.
thelaughingrights.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
How will #Billionaires solve poverty..? By leaving Earth.
In our debut post, we explore the rise of Trickle-Up Economics and the view of inequality from orbit.

#Satire. #FACTS. Space suits.

Read it on The Laughing Rights: thelaughingrights.substack.com/p/billionair...
#TheLaughingRights
Billionaires Solve Poverty.
In a bold and selfless act of cosmic philanthropy, the world’s billionaires have finally solved poverty—by leaving the planet.
thelaughingrights.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM