Myra
@myraalbu.bsky.social
Consultant, recovering lawyer, mother of chaos cats (the human kind)
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Trump and Elon’s funding freeze isn’t just hurting efforts to feed hungry kids and cure deadly diseases.
It’s also devastating programs that fight child sexual abuse and exploitation — literally helping criminals get away with these crimes. www.wired.com/story/doge-u...
It’s also devastating programs that fight child sexual abuse and exploitation — literally helping criminals get away with these crimes. www.wired.com/story/doge-u...
US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Trump and Elon’s funding freeze isn’t just hurting efforts to feed hungry kids and cure deadly diseases.
It’s also devastating programs that fight child sexual abuse and exploitation — literally helping criminals get away with these crimes. www.wired.com/story/doge-u...
It’s also devastating programs that fight child sexual abuse and exploitation — literally helping criminals get away with these crimes. www.wired.com/story/doge-u...
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How much of our federal budget do you think goes to USAID? 10%? 25%? 40%?
Don’t let Trump and Elon lie to you — it’s 0.71%.
Foreign aid is a tiny portion of our spending that does good in the world, saves lives, and advances American interests. It must be protected.
Don’t let Trump and Elon lie to you — it’s 0.71%.
Foreign aid is a tiny portion of our spending that does good in the world, saves lives, and advances American interests. It must be protected.
February 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How much of our federal budget do you think goes to USAID? 10%? 25%? 40%?
Don’t let Trump and Elon lie to you — it’s 0.71%.
Foreign aid is a tiny portion of our spending that does good in the world, saves lives, and advances American interests. It must be protected.
Don’t let Trump and Elon lie to you — it’s 0.71%.
Foreign aid is a tiny portion of our spending that does good in the world, saves lives, and advances American interests. It must be protected.
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"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify. To combat any security threat posed by disordered information we need to teach young people these skills"
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills
“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify. To combat any security threat posed by disordered information we need to teach young people these skills"
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…
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Until last year, Vienna depended on Russian gas to stay warm in winter.
Having cut itself off, the city is now investing billions into heat pumps, energy efficiency and geothermal energy
Having cut itself off, the city is now investing billions into heat pumps, energy efficiency and geothermal energy
Vienna Embraces Heat Pumps to Ditch Russian Gas
The Austrian capital has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported natural gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency.
www.bloomberg.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Until last year, Vienna depended on Russian gas to stay warm in winter.
Having cut itself off, the city is now investing billions into heat pumps, energy efficiency and geothermal energy
Having cut itself off, the city is now investing billions into heat pumps, energy efficiency and geothermal energy