"For years, I’d smiled in pictures with these leaders, shaken their hands and stood next to them at podiums – but not one of them picked up the phone, or replied to my messages. To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op.” "She notes, pointedly, that female politicians did. "

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Alvos humanos...🤬

A president and his lackeys who are unchecked by law will not be bound by any agreement or contract when they think they can get a better deal by breaking it. There's only one way to actually make a deal with Trump. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-only-way-to-make-a-deal-with

“Desde que comenzó la guerra hemos contado cada bocado que podíamos permitirnos de cada comida. Ahora sabemos que simplemente no hay nada que comer”. Más de dos millones de personas intentan sobrevivir sin alimento en Gaza

One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

A capa do L' Espresso

Children so malnourished they’re losing their sight: Inside Israel’s aid blockade on Gaza

Mortalidade materna aumentou nos estados que baniram a IVG e diminuiu nos outros. Uma mulher tem agora o dobro da probabilidade de morrer durante a gravidez ou parto nos estados anti escolha que nos outros. O fanatismo prejudica todas as famílias www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Dia da Mãe: A culpa de cada momento em que não se está com os filhos. A pressão de ser uma boa mãe, uma boa profissional. Ir ao médico, reuniões de “pais”, as vacinas. Ter a casa arrumada e os filhos a condizer. Dar de mamar. Preparar o lanche e o jantar. comunidadeculturaearte.com/a-minha-mae-...

Trump news at a glance: children targeted in immigration crackdown

Vance’s trolling audition to be Trump’s heir | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/637b75d3-03ad-45c9-a24a-bee6b3678d72

And if they had the power to spring Tate out of Romania, they have the power to spring Abrego García out of El Salvador.

They don’t care. They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family. They don’t care. They think it’s funny.

Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so. This is a constitutional crisis. How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?

"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

O país era, até aos anos 90, um triste país de tintos. Triste porque estávamos a desleixar as nossas grandes virtudes, que eram o bom clima, as boas castas para alegrar as mesas e os solos muito capazes para fazer brancos

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Agora que já passou o natal, vou repesar a crónica de terça da @fcancio.bsky.social porque falar da "revolução do consentimento" é fundamental -

Gisèle Pelicot stood with her head held high in a courtroom in Avignon, France, on Thursday as the verdicts in the four-month rape trial of her ex-husband and 50 other men were read. Her image has become a symbol of female strength around the world, our critic writes. Read more: nyti.ms/41Ju7lP

Um tesouro com mil anos encontrado no lixo www.publico.pt/2024/12/08/c...

Vale mto a pena ler esta crónica da @fcancio.bsky.social

O trabalho do @liberation.fr tem como base o estudo divulgado ontem do Conselho de Análise Económica (em França)

Obstetricians flee Texas www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

já abro spr o blue sky primeiro. Praticamente, já n vou ao Twitter. Isto nunca me tinha acontecido, pq tinha sempre receio de estar a perder alguma coisa. Das vezes q lá tenho ido, percebo q afinal n tenho perdido grande coisa. Isto é o início da irrelevância p mim: se não me dá conteúdo, desapareço