Ziyanda S.
@ziyandas.bsky.social
Politics. Public Policy. Policing.
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The time crunch many women experience in their 30s has economic reverberations throughout their lives.
Women’s Earnings Never Really Recover After They Have Children
The time crunch many women experience in their 30s has economic reverberations throughout their lives.
bloom.bg
August 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The time crunch many women experience in their 30s has economic reverberations throughout their lives.
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I feel like diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state (while perhaps welcome in itself) is displaced activity for the more proper response of recognising Israel as a rogue state, to be isolated and sanctioned like Apartheid-era South Africa
July 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I feel like diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state (while perhaps welcome in itself) is displaced activity for the more proper response of recognising Israel as a rogue state, to be isolated and sanctioned like Apartheid-era South Africa
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Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
June 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
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NYT won Pulitzers for MeToo/Weinstein reporting, documenting how women are harassed/hounded into silence by powerful men...
& then endorses Cuomo, a man credibly accused of serial sexual harassment, who sought gynecological records of a victim during lawsuits he fought w/ millions in taxpayer $
& then endorses Cuomo, a man credibly accused of serial sexual harassment, who sought gynecological records of a victim during lawsuits he fought w/ millions in taxpayer $
June 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
NYT won Pulitzers for MeToo/Weinstein reporting, documenting how women are harassed/hounded into silence by powerful men...
& then endorses Cuomo, a man credibly accused of serial sexual harassment, who sought gynecological records of a victim during lawsuits he fought w/ millions in taxpayer $
& then endorses Cuomo, a man credibly accused of serial sexual harassment, who sought gynecological records of a victim during lawsuits he fought w/ millions in taxpayer $
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My neighbor's sunflower says hello 🌻
June 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My neighbor's sunflower says hello 🌻
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You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.
“Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.
Opinion | Selfishness Is Not a Virtue
Evangelical Christianity has taken a wrong turn.
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
From @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.
“Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.
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You can’t “deport” US citizens. This is something far more sinister.
ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have in recent days deported a Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely.
apnews.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You can’t “deport” US citizens. This is something far more sinister.
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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
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Nostalgia is going to destroy the US.
April 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Nostalgia is going to destroy the US.
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it speaks badly of US institutions that they've been taken over by not just fringe zealots, but *lazy* fringe zealots
FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly been quietly removed as the acting ATF director after he stopped showing up to work.
Kash Patel Removed as Acting ATF Director After Ghosting Gig
He has been replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll after he reportedly did not show face in an ATF facility for weeks.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
it speaks badly of US institutions that they've been taken over by not just fringe zealots, but *lazy* fringe zealots
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This is right. The romanticization of manufacturing is misplaced nostalgia for worker power
April 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is right. The romanticization of manufacturing is misplaced nostalgia for worker power
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China announced that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10
China Hits Back At Trump's New Tariffs With Flurry Of Retaliatory Measures
Beijing accused the U.S. of "a typical unilateral bullying practice that endangers the stability of the global economic and trade order."
www.huffpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
China announced that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10
I was up bright and early this morning to speak to Lester Kiewit on CapeTalk radio about all things AGOA. We talked about why the imposition of high tariffs on 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇱🇸 and other SADC countries significantly dims the prospects of AGOA’s renewal by Congress in September. Link here: omny.fm/shows/capeta...
Agoa hangs by thinnest of diplomatic threads - Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit
Lester Kiewit speaks to political risk analyst Ziyanda Stuurman about the chances that Agoa can survive as US and SA relations sour. The foundations of the trade agreement are already in tatters as U....
omny.fm
April 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I was up bright and early this morning to speak to Lester Kiewit on CapeTalk radio about all things AGOA. We talked about why the imposition of high tariffs on 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇱🇸 and other SADC countries significantly dims the prospects of AGOA’s renewal by Congress in September. Link here: omny.fm/shows/capeta...
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Even the Liz Truss budget disaster was more internally coherent than what we’re seeing
April 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Even the Liz Truss budget disaster was more internally coherent than what we’re seeing
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The worst norms of the extremely online took over the halls of power.
Instead of authority figures acting as a bulwark against reprehensible behavior, they recognized that this stuff captures attention and enthusiastically adopted it as a way to galvanize the base.
Instead of authority figures acting as a bulwark against reprehensible behavior, they recognized that this stuff captures attention and enthusiastically adopted it as a way to galvanize the base.
I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account
Welcome to the 4chan administration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The worst norms of the extremely online took over the halls of power.
Instead of authority figures acting as a bulwark against reprehensible behavior, they recognized that this stuff captures attention and enthusiastically adopted it as a way to galvanize the base.
Instead of authority figures acting as a bulwark against reprehensible behavior, they recognized that this stuff captures attention and enthusiastically adopted it as a way to galvanize the base.
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How the Iraq War turbocharged police militarization:
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-ir...
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-ir...
March 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
How the Iraq War turbocharged police militarization:
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-ir...
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-ir...
AGOA may already be as good as gone.
“Trump sees any trade imbalances or deficits with the US’s partners as unacceptable and with already weak levels of reciprocal US-Africa trade, it would be almost delusional to assume that he would support renewal.”
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/c...
“Trump sees any trade imbalances or deficits with the US’s partners as unacceptable and with already weak levels of reciprocal US-Africa trade, it would be almost delusional to assume that he would support renewal.”
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/c...
ZIYANDA STUURMAN: Agoa may already be as good as gone
Deterioration in US relations makes SA’s status in any version of a renewed trade agreement tenuous at best
www.businesslive.co.za
March 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
AGOA may already be as good as gone.
“Trump sees any trade imbalances or deficits with the US’s partners as unacceptable and with already weak levels of reciprocal US-Africa trade, it would be almost delusional to assume that he would support renewal.”
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/c...
“Trump sees any trade imbalances or deficits with the US’s partners as unacceptable and with already weak levels of reciprocal US-Africa trade, it would be almost delusional to assume that he would support renewal.”
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/c...
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M23 fighters took Walikale just a day after the presidents of the DRC and Rwanda finally met in Doha to talk peace. The presidents called for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire”. M23 said it was not concerned about what was discussed or agreed upon.
Peace talks were dead on arrival (again)
Kagame and Tshisekedi finally had a meeting. M23 kept advancing.
continent.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
M23 fighters took Walikale just a day after the presidents of the DRC and Rwanda finally met in Doha to talk peace. The presidents called for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire”. M23 said it was not concerned about what was discussed or agreed upon.
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Columbia has a $14 BILLION dollar endowment. It could have held firm.
The administration held up the university at gunpoint, but I can’t help but feel that Columbia has lost something it may never regain.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Columbia has a $14 BILLION dollar endowment. It could have held firm.
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The US is reportedly stalling the distribution of $2.6 billion in multilateral climate finance to South Africa, the latest sign of fraying ties between the two nations.
US weighs further pullbacks on aid to South Africa amid escalating tensions
Washington is reportedly stalling the distribution of $2.6 billion in multilateral climate finance to Pretoria.
www.semafor.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The US is reportedly stalling the distribution of $2.6 billion in multilateral climate finance to South Africa, the latest sign of fraying ties between the two nations.
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The US invasion of Iraq began on this day 22 years ago.
In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror."
Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?
In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror."
Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?
March 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The US invasion of Iraq began on this day 22 years ago.
In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror."
Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?
In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror."
Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?