Haroon Akram-Lodhi
@ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, whose research is on the feminist political ecology of agrarian change, livelihoods and food systems.
Football really is a parable for life. Given the option of an easy life or a difficult life, Scotland always takes the difficult path ... and now it comes down to Tuesday in a home match
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Football really is a parable for life. Given the option of an easy life or a difficult life, Scotland always takes the difficult path ... and now it comes down to Tuesday in a home match
Andrews Tetteh comes on and gets a huge round of cheers and applause. Given elements in contemporary Europe, and especially in football, it genuinely warms the heart
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup qualifying: Greece v Scotland LIVE - updates, report, reaction & analysis from Athens
Watch, listen & follow coverage of Scotland's crucial penultimate World Cup qualifier in Greece across the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Andrews Tetteh comes on and gets a huge round of cheers and applause. Given elements in contemporary Europe, and especially in football, it genuinely warms the heart
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
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One of the five major projects the Prime Minister announced earlier this week for the nation was a hydro-electric facility northwest of Iqaluit.
Nunavut has been working towards this project for 17 years.
Nunavut has been working towards this project for 17 years.
Hydro-electric facility in Nunavut is moving forward with production | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
One of the five major projects the Prime Minister announced earlier this week for the nation was a hydro-electric facility northwest of Iqaluit.
Nunavut has been working towards this project for 17 years.
Nunavut has been working towards this project for 17 years.
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Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
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Looks like the STM drivers got a tentative agreement hours before they were about to hit the picket lines and shut down Montreal transit for the weekend. This is how strike threats are supposed to work, providing the leverage necessary to get the employer to reach a negotiated settlement. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Looks like the STM drivers got a tentative agreement hours before they were about to hit the picket lines and shut down Montreal transit for the weekend. This is how strike threats are supposed to work, providing the leverage necessary to get the employer to reach a negotiated settlement. 1/
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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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I'm in good company on this letter signed by 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality (like the IPCC on climate change). G20 leaders should support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm in good company on this letter signed by 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality (like the IPCC on climate change). G20 leaders should support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Why Russia moving closer to Morocco is a win-win: Morocco’s diplomatic shift towards Russia strengthens Rabat’s global leverage and gives Moscow a foothold in North Africa . . .
@martinrjay.bsky.social
READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...
@martinrjay.bsky.social
READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why Russia moving closer to Morocco is a win-win: Morocco’s diplomatic shift towards Russia strengthens Rabat’s global leverage and gives Moscow a foothold in North Africa . . .
@martinrjay.bsky.social
READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...
@martinrjay.bsky.social
READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...
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Participei ontem de um podcast do Brasil de Fato, de uma hora, dialogando com a professora Nicole, sobre os limites e ilusões da COP30.
www.brasildefato.com.br/podcast/tres...
www.brasildefato.com.br/podcast/tres...
COP30 ocorre sob ‘incoerências’ e ‘cooptação’, dizem lideranças socioambientais
A 30ª Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas (COP30), realizada em Belém (PA), tem sido marcada por discursos otimistas
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November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Participei ontem de um podcast do Brasil de Fato, de uma hora, dialogando com a professora Nicole, sobre os limites e ilusões da COP30.
www.brasildefato.com.br/podcast/tres...
www.brasildefato.com.br/podcast/tres...
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Priests being arrested
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Priests being arrested
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Chicago ICE detention center:
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Chicago ICE detention center:
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Nice little burn 🔥 of Bill Gates by Al Gore at 7m54s
Excellent video - watch!
Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.
Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.
Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events | AC1N
YouTube video by DRM News
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November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Nice little burn 🔥 of Bill Gates by Al Gore at 7m54s
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Members of the Munduruku Indigenous group led the demonstration that blocked the main entrance.
Protesters block the main entrance to COP30 climate talks in Brazil
Members of the Munduruku Indigenous group led the demonstration that blocked the main entrance to the UN COP30 climate talks.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Members of the Munduruku Indigenous group led the demonstration that blocked the main entrance.
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53% say billionaires are a threat to Democracy
53% support limits on wealth accumulation
71% support a billionaires tax
Your reminder that Republicans are currently gutting healthcare and food assistance to give more tax breaks to the billionaires buying elections for them.
53% support limits on wealth accumulation
71% support a billionaires tax
Your reminder that Republicans are currently gutting healthcare and food assistance to give more tax breaks to the billionaires buying elections for them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
53% say billionaires are a threat to Democracy
53% support limits on wealth accumulation
71% support a billionaires tax
Your reminder that Republicans are currently gutting healthcare and food assistance to give more tax breaks to the billionaires buying elections for them.
53% support limits on wealth accumulation
71% support a billionaires tax
Your reminder that Republicans are currently gutting healthcare and food assistance to give more tax breaks to the billionaires buying elections for them.
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jawdropping
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
jawdropping
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"That is not to say aid can’t make a difference: it does and can, on the scale of preventing millions of deaths and improving hundreds of millions of lives. But supersized expectations get in the way of delivering those outcomes." www.cgdev.org/publication/... @charlesjkenny.bsky.social on aid
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"That is not to say aid can’t make a difference: it does and can, on the scale of preventing millions of deaths and improving hundreds of millions of lives. But supersized expectations get in the way of delivering those outcomes." www.cgdev.org/publication/... @charlesjkenny.bsky.social on aid
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Since President Trump took office, the ultra-wealthy and well-connected have made out like bandits, while the working class has faced relentless attacks.
@rebeccariddell.bsky.social on exploding inequality in Trump's gilded age—and the change that's needed.
www.newsweek.com/a-golden-age...
@rebeccariddell.bsky.social on exploding inequality in Trump's gilded age—and the change that's needed.
www.newsweek.com/a-golden-age...
A ‘Golden Age of America’? More Like Trump’s Gilded Age | Opinion
The rights of some 900 U.S. billionaires do not take precedence over 340 million non-billionaires.
www.newsweek.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Since President Trump took office, the ultra-wealthy and well-connected have made out like bandits, while the working class has faced relentless attacks.
@rebeccariddell.bsky.social on exploding inequality in Trump's gilded age—and the change that's needed.
www.newsweek.com/a-golden-age...
@rebeccariddell.bsky.social on exploding inequality in Trump's gilded age—and the change that's needed.
www.newsweek.com/a-golden-age...
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Will Canada get a good trade deal from Trump? No. Should we try for one anyway? I'm not so sure anymore.
Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
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Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
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Deal Or No Deal: No Deal Edition
Canada isn't going to get a fair and lasting deal from Donald Trump. As Lao Tzu said: You gotta know when to fold 'em.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Will Canada get a good trade deal from Trump? No. Should we try for one anyway? I'm not so sure anymore.
Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/deal-or-no...
Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/deal-or-no...
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"Predicting the outcome of bargaining with Donald Trump is like trying to guess the output of a random number generator, if the random number generator were also demented."
Will Canada get a good trade deal from Trump? No. Should we try for one anyway? I'm not so sure anymore.
Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/deal-or-no...
Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/deal-or-no...
Deal Or No Deal: No Deal Edition
Canada isn't going to get a fair and lasting deal from Donald Trump. As Lao Tzu said: You gotta know when to fold 'em.
www.davidmoscrop.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Predicting the outcome of bargaining with Donald Trump is like trying to guess the output of a random number generator, if the random number generator were also demented."
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Congratulations to Drs. Fallon and Collin-Vézina on their Royal Society of Canada recognition for their extraordinary research contributions to children and families.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Congratulations to Drs. Fallon and Collin-Vézina on their Royal Society of Canada recognition for their extraordinary research contributions to children and families.