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IDS webinar!

Join the authors of the IDS Bulletin #Democracy Contested to hear insights into what can be done to halt and reverse democratic backsliding, and to address feelings of discontent.

📅Wed 17 Sept | 🕐16:00 | 💻Online on Zoom

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September 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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After anti-corruption #GenZprotests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Commentary by Himal EIC @romangtm.bsky.social
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Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class
Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re
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September 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
1/3 My two cents on #CharlieKirk.

Headlines are often a distraction. Ask who benefits.

Every life taken is someone’s son, husband, father. Including Anas Al-Sharif’s.

Provoking for clout ≠ championing free speech.

Narcissists thrive on praise AND hate. Don’t fuel their reach.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
brb, analyzing Sabrina's Carpenter's new MV #ManChild like my life depends on it.
June 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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In Sri Lanka, extreme heat last year prompted headlines like “Inside an Oven” and forced schools to suspend outdoor sports activities.

Amita Arudpragasam writes that women in Sri Lanka's north are impacted by extreme heat. buff.ly/cqHN8B4.
Women in Sri Lanka’s North bear the heat
This story was produced with support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.  TEMPERATURES ARE RISING again. In the first-ever women-run cashew processin
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May 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Knew I wasn’t the only one when I slowly started to realize all that hate is starting to look a little too manufactured now.

#CMIL can get you that far.
I've found a good litmus test for if someone is an arsehole or not is if they have strong opinions about Meghan Markle.
March 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
new fear: being stuck in a spiraling state of confusion over leveraging #AI or risk being left behind vs. succumbing to a crippling over-reliance that'll eventually kill my brain cells and capacity for independent thought

fun times, indeed.
February 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM