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[Eff Why? @_cherroo_]

#Pakistan #Nostalgia

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Arigato Aleikum

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

This has been going on for 80 years, and heavily documented. The NYTimes finally scraped together enough integrity to publish something.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Pakistan may be accidentally building one of the world’s first decentralised #solar economies. The craziest part? Real scale barely shows in official stats. Imported 51.5 GW solar panels by late 2025—nearly = entire grid. Yet registered net-metered rooftop solar just 5.3–6.8 GW.

What makes this story so extraordinary is the speed.

In only a few years, Pakistan appears to have gone from a relatively minor solar market to potentially sourcing around a quarter of its electricity from solar once distributed generation is included.

👉 ~16.6–17 GW solar imports in 2024
👉 ~18 GW solar imports in 2025
👉 ~51.5 GW cumulative imports by late 2025
👉 Rooftop solar: ~1.3 GW → 4.1 GW in 2024
👉 ~5.3–6.8 GW registered rooftop solar in 2025
👉 24+ GW estimated behind-the-meter/off-grid
👉 Solar potentially ~25% of actual electricity use

The massive gap between imported panels and officially registered systems strongly suggests tens of gigawatts are now operating quietly on homes, farms, factories and businesses across the country.

This increasingly looks less like a normal energy transition and more like large-scale consumer-led grid defection.

And economics is driving nearly all of it.

Electricity tariffs surged. Diesel prices climbed. Blackouts remained common. Meanwhile ultra-cheap Chinese solar panels and falling battery prices made self-generation economically irresistible.
So millions effectively made the same calculation:

Generate your own power, or remain trapped inside an expensive and unstable system.

Once solar becomes cheaper than the grid itself, adoption can move faster than governments, utilities and even official statistics can keep up with.

This isn’t gradual transition by any stretch. It may ultimately become a blueprint for how energy-poor nations break free from legacy old-world energy systems dominated by fossil fuels and increasingly expensive centralised power.

It’s decentralisation at escape velocity.

This is #Bettrification.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[Eff Why? @_cherroo_]

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[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Ramadan Mubarak! Wishing you a month filled with blessings, health, and happiness. 🌙

رمضان مبارك!
نتمنى لكم شهر مليء بالبركة، الصحة والسعادة 🌙

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Dr Hussam Abu-Safyya, a director of a hospital detained and brutally tortured by Israel, is still in detention.

Campaigns and calls for his release have nearly vanished. Israel still holds 95 Palestinian medics in its dungeons.

A severely horrific stain on humanity.

[Eff Why? @_cherroo_]

#Bill33 ia against families in #Ontario #onpoli

[Eff Why? @_cherroo_]

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[Eff Why? @_cherroo_]

Had a fantastic time at #Louf, a #Palestinian restaurant in #Toronto. Food was to die for and the service world class. Moreover, it was just wonderful to be amongst people proudly wearing #keffiyaas, united against genocide. I went for the cause, will return for the food

[Anuki @IamAnuki]

@mldiffley This is better 😂

[𝓜𝓪𝓽𝓽 ✈️ @mldiffley]

I am the first person in my bloodline to see this video

[Mariya Rajput @mariya_raj10]

Whole Nation was waiting for this moment.... #BabarAzam

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This guy is a legend.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

According to hacked emails obtained by @ryangrim and @MazMHussain, 'journalist' @DouglasKMurray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

cc: @ComicDaveSmith
https://t.co/FhpYrEWMWP

[Jagmeet Singh @theJagmeetSingh]

I triggered some snowflake conservatives yesterday, so let me say it louder:

Billionaires are making record profits.

They’re price gouging and tax dodging.

If you're blaming minimum wage workers or immigrants instead of them,

You're pointing your anger in the wrong direction.

[Eff Why? @_cherroo_]

@MarkJCarney Thank you Prime Minister