Lianne Milton
@liannemilton.bsky.social
www.liannemiltonphotography.com
敏妮 ✨🌊
Photographer • Educator • Artist • Journalist
Based in Philadelphia. Prev. Rio de Janeiro
敏妮 ✨🌊
Photographer • Educator • Artist • Journalist
Based in Philadelphia. Prev. Rio de Janeiro
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New data out this week shows a sharp decline in Tesla sales in Europe. The company is facing multiple headwinds — including consumer pushback to CEO Elon Musk's political pivot to the right.
Data show Tesla sales declined sharply in Europe
New data out this week shows a sharp decline in Tesla sales in Europe. The company is facing multiple headwinds — including consumer pushback to CEO Elon Musk's political pivot to the right.
www.npr.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New data out this week shows a sharp decline in Tesla sales in Europe. The company is facing multiple headwinds — including consumer pushback to CEO Elon Musk's political pivot to the right.
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"In the 80s, the American public had a much more rudimentary understanding of colonialism’s dependence on racism than it does today. But even kids in high school knew that apartheid was wrong, and famine was wrong."
Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
www.motherjones.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"In the 80s, the American public had a much more rudimentary understanding of colonialism’s dependence on racism than it does today. But even kids in high school knew that apartheid was wrong, and famine was wrong."
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What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”
We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
nyer.cm
February 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”
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“When Elon Musk went on stage and took the chainsaw…I think that was the moment Elon Musk actually became president. Honestly, I just want to say this season of America sucks.” @jasonselvig.bsky.social reacts to Musk at CPAC.
February 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“When Elon Musk went on stage and took the chainsaw…I think that was the moment Elon Musk actually became president. Honestly, I just want to say this season of America sucks.” @jasonselvig.bsky.social reacts to Musk at CPAC.
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COME WORK WITH ME!
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
COME WORK WITH ME!
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
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As the U.S. abandons foreign aid, an urgent conversation is starting among governments, philanthropists, and global health and development organizations.
It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/h...
It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/h...
As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap? (Gift Article)
China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies say they cannot replace the United States.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As the U.S. abandons foreign aid, an urgent conversation is starting among governments, philanthropists, and global health and development organizations.
It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/h...
It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/h...
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The idea of covering, or even uncovering, differences is at the heart of Serena Chang’s exhibition at Island Gallery, exploring her father’s memories of working in a pantyhose factory in Taiwan.
Covering Up the Present in a Ghost Forest
Artist Serena Chang helps us see that in the act of remembering we’re often uncovering more than our own past.
hyperallergic.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The idea of covering, or even uncovering, differences is at the heart of Serena Chang’s exhibition at Island Gallery, exploring her father’s memories of working in a pantyhose factory in Taiwan.
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Another example of Trump/Musk policy killing people around the world.
In the Thai-Myanmar border migrant camp Umpiem Mai, home to more than 10,000 displaced people, staff departure triggered by USAID cuts, forced sick patients to return home and multiple patients, relying on oxygen support, died.
In the Thai-Myanmar border migrant camp Umpiem Mai, home to more than 10,000 displaced people, staff departure triggered by USAID cuts, forced sick patients to return home and multiple patients, relying on oxygen support, died.
World's richest man wants poorest people cut off from crucial US aid
The US used to spend more on international development than any other nation, but with Donald Trump and Elon Musk freezing USAID funding, people on the other side of the world are already dealing with...
www.abc.net.au
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Another example of Trump/Musk policy killing people around the world.
In the Thai-Myanmar border migrant camp Umpiem Mai, home to more than 10,000 displaced people, staff departure triggered by USAID cuts, forced sick patients to return home and multiple patients, relying on oxygen support, died.
In the Thai-Myanmar border migrant camp Umpiem Mai, home to more than 10,000 displaced people, staff departure triggered by USAID cuts, forced sick patients to return home and multiple patients, relying on oxygen support, died.
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I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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#GlobalHealth Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid. Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for #tuberculosis, #malaria, #HIV and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h... via @nytimes.com
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
#GlobalHealth Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid. Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for #tuberculosis, #malaria, #HIV and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h... via @nytimes.com
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"A second Trump term is working to turn America back into pre-civil rights America during the Jim Crow era. That’s what we’re seeing with a lot of these policies," says Chris Scott, a Democratic strategist.
Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’
President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"A second Trump term is working to turn America back into pre-civil rights America during the Jim Crow era. That’s what we’re seeing with a lot of these policies," says Chris Scott, a Democratic strategist.
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/gtdyMxm
January 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/gtdyMxm
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A cartoon by Edward Steed. #NewYorkerCartoons
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December 21, 2024 at 8:34 AM
A cartoon by Edward Steed. #NewYorkerCartoons
See all the cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9A8yio
See all the cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9A8yio