Amanda Blaine

dignity. freedom. equality. justice. solidarity. humility. evolution.
advocate for the resistance & people's power. dOGE'd diplomat. cofounder @theWEunitedproj

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

Time is nothing but everything, not the seconds, minutes, hours, days, years. Yet this substanceless substance, this bending and shaping, this warping, this is the way we understand our world.

Louise Erdrich ✨
🖤 The Night Watchman 🖤

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A judge orders the Trump administration to halt construction of $400 million White House ballroom unless Congress approves the plan. https://t.co/XIvbeM3kT2

[DeoBrands 🏰 @amadeobrands]

@OpDeathEaters The DOJ IT department hard at work

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling: https://t.co/xha8qFkzhq

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

My thoughts are w the youth + all Nepali people during the #KathmanduProtests. This news is heartbreaking 💔 as Nepal continues it's democratic transformation, protecting people's right to voice their discontents & their efforts to shed light on corruption is essential

[Akram Hossain CF @AkramCf]

At least 14 lives lost as police open fire on Gen Z protesters fighting corruption & social media bans.

Hospitals overwhelmed, but the spirit of youth resistance burns on. Justice, freedom, and peace must prevail.

#KathmanduProtests #GenZ #EndCorruption #SocialMediaBan #NepalNews #YouthPower

[The Irrawaddy (Eng) @IrrawaddyNews]

OBITUARY: Myanmar documentary filmmaker Pe Maung Same, 51, has died after two years of imprisonment and torture by the junta. Jailed for ‘contacting PDF groups’, he was badly beaten during interrogation and denied proper care after contracting TB.
https://t.co/G3GVgA1UP2

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

❤️ @MichelleObama:
1. Be bighearted
2. Don't make yourself small
3. No Goldy Locks complex, waiting for everything to be just right
4. Be the solution you seek, anecdote to darkness
5. Stand up for decency & humanity
WE the people must overwhelm any effort to suppress us 🇺🇲

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

#BurkinaFaso

"Last year saw an uptick in violence, with more than 8,000 people reported killed, according to data from @ACLEDINFO, a 137% increase on 2022. ... More than 6 million people are in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations."

https://t.co/GgY8isXCqR

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

Insightful article to understand recent #coups across the #Sahel incl. by looking at linkages between economic and political trends, historic realities, and the shortcomings of thinking elections can be a cure-all to shore up democratic governance

[Ken Opalo @kopalo]

Making lasting peace in the Sahel: https://t.co/O82DHj5YMQ

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

“What we’re talking about here now looks like crimes against humanity.”

🔊 Listen to @astroehlein’s Daily Brief, today on mass killings of civilians by the #BurkinaFaso military: https://t.co/qoVt38nfZo

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

Checkpoints are no joke in Ouagadougou today, whole country is on alert; and yet the violence just doesn't stop.

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

About 170 people ‘executed’ in Burkina Faso village attacks, official says https://t.co/DU55Dra2OC

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

peace on earth por favor SVP 💔🙏🏽💔🙏🏽
art by @/coyotesnout (IG)

[Critical Threats @criticalthreats]

NEW | Al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen (JNIM) is increasing violence against civilians in southeastern Burkina Faso, likely to coerce and deter civilians from resisting the group to expand its support zones. 1/6

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Christiane Amanpour to Alexei Navalny: “Why do you want to go back?”

Navalny: “I have to go back…he [Putin] is killing people…”

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

Rest in peace #Navalny. No one wins when voices presenting an alternative pathway, a better future, are silenced. Thank you for being an icon of resistance.

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

some days are diamonds, some days are rocks

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

Raising red flags for #BurkinaFaso. Amongst all the awful macro conflict going on in the world, it's important not to lose sight of the thousands of human beings suffering in countries barely mentioned by our global media

[Africa Center @AfricaACSS]

Putschists usually promise socio-economic dividends to citizens. But the track record of coups is invariably increased instability and corruption and decreased economic development. A real solution is civilian oversight; coups do the opposite.

https://t.co/wkskkClGss

[Michael Shurkin @MichaelShurkin]

Burkina Faso is not doing well.

[Amanda Blaine @catsmandu]

@PowerUSAID @USWNT .@theWEunitedproj great spotlighting of womens empowerment thru sport! & in Asia too 💥