The World We Built @worldwebuilt

843 women in Beed, India had their uterus surgically removed in 2024, right before they went to cut sugarcane. 477 of them were aged 30 to 35. The Maharashtra government's own health survey, published in June 2025, said so. The surgeries are about money. In Beed, a man and his wife sign up as a working pair, locally called a koyta (the sickle they use). A middleman called a mukadam gives them an upfront payment of Rs 50,000 to 60,000 (about $520 to $625) for a six-month sugarcane season. To work that off, the couple has to cut and load two tonnes of cane every single day, for 12 to 14 hours, with no day off all week. The mukadam keeps 15 to 25 percent of the hiring amount plus another 30 percent of what the couple earns. The fine for missing a day is Rs 250 to 500. A woman who takes one day off when her period is bad can lose almost a week of take-home pay. The mill that buys the cane is legally separate from all of it. The mill just sells the sugar. Maharashtra has 210 sugar mills and is finishing the 2025-26 season near 10 million tonnes of sugar produced. The buyers include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mondelez (which owns Cadbury), and Unilever. A 2024 New York Times and Fuller Project investigation traced the chain through two big sugar companies, Dalmia Bharat Sugar and NSL Sugars. Both fed into mills carrying the industry's main ethical stamp, called Bonsucro. Its audits caught none of it. The Times found everything those audits missed, in months. Back in 2019, a government investigation surveyed 82,309 women cane cutters in Beed. 13,861 of them, 17 percent, had had their uterus removed. A 2024 study by the IIED, an international research group, looked harder at 423 households in Beed. In households where the women had migrated for cane work, 55.73 percent had had a hysterectomy. Where the women had stayed home, the figure was 17.06 percent. Across all of India, the national rate for women aged 15 to 49 is 3.2 percent. After the 2024 reporting: Mondelez quietly cut ties with Dalmia. Coca-Cola launched a worker-training program in 4 mills. PepsiCo blocked a shareholder vote in February 2025, using a US rule that lets companies skip votes on parts of their business worth less than 5 percent of revenue. The US Department of Labor added Beed sugar to its list of products made using forced labour. Maharashtra set up another committee on February 25, 2026, seven years after its first one. In those seven years, the sugar kept coming. The system that produces the hysterectomies is the same system that produces the sugar in the soda cans on the shelf. Both are still working exactly as they were built.

Cultination @Cultination1

5 months ago

🇮🇳🩸👩🏽‍🌾Les travailleuses de la canne à sucre en Inde SE FONT RETIRER l’utérus pour ne plus manquer une journée de travail. Dans le district de Beed (Maharashtra), des ouvrières de la canne à sucre subissent des hystérectomies pour ÉVITER LES ABSENCES liées aux règles, aux

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Microdosing hell by being aware and literate

As a woman I am extremely aware that the reason I have my rights is because a woman somewhere got up, got MOUTHY, organised, raged, made herself INCREDIBLY inconvenient until things changed for the better for all of us. Which is precisely why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors to all women.

​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph

9 months ago

an unpopular opinion that would put you in this situation.

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That time he blew up a packed Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 42 people and wounding dozens of other civilians. Or how about one of the other 600 drone strikes he conducted? He not only droned hospitals, but weddings and even the funerals for those killed in the weddings. He normalized the use of *double-tap* strikes where they would target civilians in one strike and then immediately strike the first responders who came to aid them— which has been frequent in Israeli and American warfare since. The cognitive dissonance is scary. Stop celebrating this man. He's a war criminal. You rightfully criticize Trump; but Obama built so much of the capabilities and apparatuses that Trump abuses today to commit his own crimes and atrocities. From caging children to stripping civil liberties.

American Values 🇺🇸 @AVGirl4Life

6 months ago

What is the #1 thing Obama will be remembered for?

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There is no annexation “by law,” it’s literally illegal. The words you’re looking for are land theft and occupation.

Financial Times @FT

6 months ago

Netanyahu’s West Bank plan: annexation by law ft.trib.al/TuMZTy2

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In the Kunduz Hospital attack (2015), Barack Obama became the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another winner (Doctors Without Borders).

American Values 🇺🇸 @AVGirl4Life

6 months ago

What is the #1 thing Obama will be remembered for?

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hating cats is rooted in misogyny. ironic how dogs are “man’s best friend” but women who love cats are “crazy cat ladies.” Cats teach consent, boundaries, autonomy and love that is earned not entitled.

American Values 🇺🇸 @AVGirl4Life

6 months ago

What is the #1 thing Obama will be remembered for?

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And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

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We’ve officially reached the part of the timeline where war crimes are pitched like product features.

We are no longer seen as human beings with free spirits and creative thought, who love, work and build. We are now data. Statistics. Graphs. Pie charts. Profit margins. Experiments. Reports. Markets. Files.

notice how "fatherless", "single mother" and "daddy issues" are used as insults towards women but they're all examples of a man's failure

Chaos @kizzriee

8 months ago

Hot take:

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"I switched my opinion as soon as my class interests changed"

The same day the EU once again fails to use its leverage to slow Israel, Von der Leyen states: “We must succeed in completing the European continent so that it is not shaped by Russian, Turkish, or Chinese influence.” Turkey is, for the first time, placed in the same category as Russia and China: a systemic threat, precisely as an imperialist war, boosted by religious fanaticism, rages on the other side of the Mediterranean. And this happens at the very moment Netanyahu is escalating his campaign against Turkey. How Turkey can be seen as a greater threat than Israel by the majority of Europeans is a mystery. This is liberal nationalism laying bare its entrenchment and its clash-of-civilizations logic.

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine.

I have never once heard Europeans complain about Turkish influence until Israelis started their campaign

Clash Report @clashreport

6 months ago

EU's von der Leyen: We must succeed in completing the European continent so that it is not influenced by Russia, Türkiye, or China.

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"I'm not political I just want to enjoy my weekend" YOUR WEEKEND WAS FOUGHT FOR BY LABOR UNIONS AND ORGANIZERS SO YOU COULD ENJOY TWO DAYS OFF. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL.

Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.

There’s no such thing as “Israel-held Lebanon.” There’s just Lebanon, and Israel is illegally occupying it.

Haaretz.com @haaretzcom

6 months ago

IDF says it killed 'terrorist' who crossed into Israel-held Lebanon haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

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