Rings true from a British perspective too...

The Heartbreaking Reason Americans Won’t Work Anymore by Mona Lazar medium.com/p/the-heartb...

#Epstein was co-owner of a Silicon Valley venture fund controlled by Peter Thiel, billionaire founder of defence analytics giant Palantir Technologies, which holds more than £670 million in UK Government contracts.

Palantir has tentacles that reach deep into the British state and institutions.

This map by @neilrkaye shows day length change in minutes per week at 51 degrees north latitude (that's roughly Brighton, Cambridge, London). Source: buff.ly/U6mUZzA

Interrupted my writing schedule to knock out my thoughts on Mandelson and how none of us are surprised any more.
medium.com/p/we-knew-3c...
#mandelson #politics #ukpolitics #labour #corruption #epstein #epsteinwasmossad #trumpiscorrupt

Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

Been working on some new writing on things I previously didn't understand. First is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) - here's my stab at summarising Richard Murphy's excellent videos.
medium.com/p/what-is-mo...

A piece I've had in draft for months has come together in the last few weeks. On wilful ignorance and how dangerous it is.
#politics #wilfulignorance #thegreenparty #zackpolanski #zohranmamdani #hope #left

I'd forgotten about @bsky.app. Only come back today to show my love for @robinince.bsky.social , who has singlehandedly driven my love for books, science, poetry and curiosity more than anyone else in the last two decades. Thank you Robin.

Took my eye off the music world momentarily while bring a new baby into the world. Talk about delighted to find out Doves have a new album on the way.
Best band of this century, still.
#doves

@ilfordphoto.com
HP5+, 120mm, shot on a Holga 120 Pan.

#fridayfavourites

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

They will go after Wikipedia.

They will go after libraries.

They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports.

They will go after archives.

Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy.

Thinking is the enemy.

The so-called "centre-right" has collapsed.

The cordon sanitaire which existed to separate the "centre-right" and radical or far right has collapsed.

My column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

The soil carbon market is going to collapse - and that's a good thing.
One of the issues I explore in this week's column, about the dreamworld of climate fakery our legislators have created.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...