Diana
@wianad.bsky.social
Facts fanatic and environmental policy enthusiast
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1. Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator for a peace deal in Ukraine, has an active financial partnership with Len Blavatnik, a billionaire sanctioned by the Ukrainian government. Witkoff and Blavatnik are co-developing ultra-luxury condos in NYC, a Popular Information investigation reveals.
Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire
Steve Witkoff coached a top Putin aide on managing Trump and created a peace plan that mirrored Russian demands
popular.info
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
1. Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator for a peace deal in Ukraine, has an active financial partnership with Len Blavatnik, a billionaire sanctioned by the Ukrainian government. Witkoff and Blavatnik are co-developing ultra-luxury condos in NYC, a Popular Information investigation reveals.
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The US is fast-tracking this important HIV drug — for everyone except South Africa
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The US is fast-tracking this important HIV drug — for everyone except South Africa
Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The US is fast-tracking this important HIV drug — for everyone except South Africa
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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A “gagging” court order against Open Secrets — under which the organisation claimed it could not reveal any details of the dispute or even which judge or which court heard the application — has now been made public by the OCJ.
Read groundup.org.za/article/chie... by Tania Broughton
Read groundup.org.za/article/chie... by Tania Broughton
Chief Justice’s office publishes “gag” order
groundup.org.za
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A “gagging” court order against Open Secrets — under which the organisation claimed it could not reveal any details of the dispute or even which judge or which court heard the application — has now been made public by the OCJ.
Read groundup.org.za/article/chie... by Tania Broughton
Read groundup.org.za/article/chie... by Tania Broughton
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Open Secrets is to appear in the Western Cape High Court on 27 November before Judge Nathan Erasmus in a case brought by Integrated Convoy Protection, a South African armoured vehicle manufacturer.
Read groundup.org.za/article/open... by GroundUp Staff
Read groundup.org.za/article/open... by GroundUp Staff
Open Secrets to face off armoured vehicle company in court
The case may have important implications for freedom of expression
groundup.org.za
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Open Secrets is to appear in the Western Cape High Court on 27 November before Judge Nathan Erasmus in a case brought by Integrated Convoy Protection, a South African armoured vehicle manufacturer.
Read groundup.org.za/article/open... by GroundUp Staff
Read groundup.org.za/article/open... by GroundUp Staff
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"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"
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These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
September 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
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These are depressing times, but I am so glad that we will get to host an incredible advocate and leader @mcgillghp.bsky.social this fall!
@zackieachmat.bsky.social will receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity!
www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...
@zackieachmat.bsky.social will receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity!
www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...
September 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
These are depressing times, but I am so glad that we will get to host an incredible advocate and leader @mcgillghp.bsky.social this fall!
@zackieachmat.bsky.social will receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity!
www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...
@zackieachmat.bsky.social will receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity!
www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...
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Cleaner than you.
This Is the Cleanest Lake in the U.S.—and It Has Crystal-clear Waters and Zero Pollution
Lake Superior’s clear, mineral-light water earned it the top spot on Lake.com’s ranking of America’s cleanest lakes.
www.travelandleisure.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Cleaner than you.
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A clownfish once said, "Keep friends close, anemones closer."
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A clownfish once said, "Keep friends close, anemones closer."
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"An inexpensive hand fan can be a stylish and simple solution to help you cool off if you’ve been banned from the local Dairy Queen for sneaking into their walk-in freezer, stripping down to your underwear, and eating all the dilly bars."
Thank You for Calling the Perimenopause Hotline, Where Our Hold Times Are Completely Unpredictable
Thank you for calling the perimenopause hotline. Our phone lines are flooded with an unexpected gush of calls right now, but we assure you that our...
buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"An inexpensive hand fan can be a stylish and simple solution to help you cool off if you’ve been banned from the local Dairy Queen for sneaking into their walk-in freezer, stripping down to your underwear, and eating all the dilly bars."
Cherry Picked
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August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Cherry Picked
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"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"
I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry
When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...
buff.ly
August 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"
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Some helpful info here to help conserve fireflies!
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Are Fireflies Going Extinct? Here Are Six Ways To Make Sure They Survive
Is this the last generation to see fireflies? We don’t think so. But we need to take action now to ensure they’re here to stay.
xerces.org
July 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Some helpful info here to help conserve fireflies!
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We might have lost our court case, but the papers arising from it, analysed by the brilliant Tess Colley, are a goldmine of information about the disgraceful way in which farmers have been misled by the water companies and ministers have failed to act.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We might have lost our court case, but the papers arising from it, analysed by the brilliant Tess Colley, are a goldmine of information about the disgraceful way in which farmers have been misled by the water companies and ministers have failed to act.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Btw, since people are always going on about Muskrat being South African despite him emigrating to Canada young, I’m claiming Mamdani as a South African and a Capetonian even if he left here at seven. We deserve a little break from the shame of inflicting Musk on the world.
June 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Btw, since people are always going on about Muskrat being South African despite him emigrating to Canada young, I’m claiming Mamdani as a South African and a Capetonian even if he left here at seven. We deserve a little break from the shame of inflicting Musk on the world.
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“We are at risk of missing out on a generation of scientists — because people will leave"
Devastating impact of Trump cuts on South African scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Devastating impact of Trump cuts on South African scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @stephanienolen.bsky.social
South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“We are at risk of missing out on a generation of scientists — because people will leave"
Devastating impact of Trump cuts on South African scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Devastating impact of Trump cuts on South African scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @stephanienolen.bsky.social
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From a devastating funding cut to innovative solutions: how Hlokomela Clinic is maintaining #HIV services for 25 000 farm workers and families in hard-to-reach areas of Limpopo. bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
How this Limpopo NGO prepared itself for Trump funding cuts - Bhekisisa
Trump’s slash and burn to foreign aid has hit HIV programmes hard. Here’s what this Limpopo clinic has been doing to prepare for such cuts — and what they’ve learned about surviving over the past 20 y...
bhekisisa.org
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
From a devastating funding cut to innovative solutions: how Hlokomela Clinic is maintaining #HIV services for 25 000 farm workers and families in hard-to-reach areas of Limpopo. bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
@meidastouch.com the hypocrisy of mahaga spending hours in a library but supporting the defunding of services
April 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@meidastouch.com the hypocrisy of mahaga spending hours in a library but supporting the defunding of services
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The Progress Playbook is 16 months old and I feel it’s finally gaining some good traction despite a tiny budget.
-> Now at 25,000 unique visitors a month (and growing quickly)
-> 5,000 newsletter subscribers (and a more than 50% open rate)
Onwards and upwards.
theprogressplaybook.com
-> Now at 25,000 unique visitors a month (and growing quickly)
-> 5,000 newsletter subscribers (and a more than 50% open rate)
Onwards and upwards.
theprogressplaybook.com
Home
Discover proven solutions in renewable energy, climate action & sustainability. The Progress Playbook reports on ideas shaping a greener future.
theprogressplaybook.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Progress Playbook is 16 months old and I feel it’s finally gaining some good traction despite a tiny budget.
-> Now at 25,000 unique visitors a month (and growing quickly)
-> 5,000 newsletter subscribers (and a more than 50% open rate)
Onwards and upwards.
theprogressplaybook.com
-> Now at 25,000 unique visitors a month (and growing quickly)
-> 5,000 newsletter subscribers (and a more than 50% open rate)
Onwards and upwards.
theprogressplaybook.com
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…okay, who did this? and what’s your beverage of choice, because you should drink for free for the rest of your life
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OPM Reply
Automate response to OPM emails
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March 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
…okay, who did this? and what’s your beverage of choice, because you should drink for free for the rest of your life
www.opmreply.com
www.opmreply.com
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South Africa has one of the world's dirtiest power grids - it's dominated by old coal plants built during the Apartheid era (and some new but problematic coal plants).
But things are starting to change. December was the best month ever for solar (12% of the mix). That sent coal's share down to 77%.
But things are starting to change. December was the best month ever for solar (12% of the mix). That sent coal's share down to 77%.
February 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
South Africa has one of the world's dirtiest power grids - it's dominated by old coal plants built during the Apartheid era (and some new but problematic coal plants).
But things are starting to change. December was the best month ever for solar (12% of the mix). That sent coal's share down to 77%.
But things are starting to change. December was the best month ever for solar (12% of the mix). That sent coal's share down to 77%.
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This is behind a paywall, I'd recommend all my US followers to read it, so check out the alt-text of the image. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
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February 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is behind a paywall, I'd recommend all my US followers to read it, so check out the alt-text of the image. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
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Time, perhaps, to restrict the term "conservative media" to right-leaning outlets that produce independent reporting and opinion. For others, including some of the biggest, we should call them what we would in other countries: pro-government.
February 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Time, perhaps, to restrict the term "conservative media" to right-leaning outlets that produce independent reporting and opinion. For others, including some of the biggest, we should call them what we would in other countries: pro-government.
