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Trump's views on Ukraine are like the weather in Scotland: if you don't like it, wait 30 minutes and it will have changed.
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump's views on Ukraine are like the weather in Scotland: if you don't like it, wait 30 minutes and it will have changed.
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the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
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Useful technology for storing renewable energy and using it to heat buildings.
We need to stop burning necrofuels yesterday, folks.
We need to stop burning necrofuels yesterday, folks.
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
newatlas.com/energy/large...
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
newatlas.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Useful technology for storing renewable energy and using it to heat buildings.
We need to stop burning necrofuels yesterday, folks.
We need to stop burning necrofuels yesterday, folks.
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Right-wing parties benefit from economic crises—currency crashes, debt crises, inflation crises, or banking crises. And if the incumbent party is right wing, further right parties benefit. Downstream effects also include conservative shifts in public opinion.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Right-wing parties benefit from economic crises—currency crashes, debt crises, inflation crises, or banking crises. And if the incumbent party is right wing, further right parties benefit. Downstream effects also include conservative shifts in public opinion.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.
July 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.
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Rechtsradikale Forderungen umsetzen, damit die Rechtsradikalen bei der nächsten Wahl nicht so viel dazugewinnen, ist wie aus Diätgründen nachts den Kühlschrank leeressen, damit man dann tagsüber nicht mehr so viel essen kann.
July 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Rechtsradikale Forderungen umsetzen, damit die Rechtsradikalen bei der nächsten Wahl nicht so viel dazugewinnen, ist wie aus Diätgründen nachts den Kühlschrank leeressen, damit man dann tagsüber nicht mehr so viel essen kann.
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F35-Debakel: Jetzt drohen 1.3–1.5 Mrd. Franken Mehrkosten für 36 F-35. Ein sofortiger Ausstieg gemäss Vertragsklausel wäre günstiger. Wir fordern: Kauf STOPPEN, Abhängigkeit von den USA beenden & europäische Alternativen prüfen.
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
Kampfjet F-35: Schweiz drohen wohl über eine Milliarde Mehrkosten
Einst sprach der Bund von einem Fixpreis von rund sechs Milliarden Franken. Recherchen zeigen: Die USA verlangen mehr.
www.srf.ch
June 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
F35-Debakel: Jetzt drohen 1.3–1.5 Mrd. Franken Mehrkosten für 36 F-35. Ein sofortiger Ausstieg gemäss Vertragsklausel wäre günstiger. Wir fordern: Kauf STOPPEN, Abhängigkeit von den USA beenden & europäische Alternativen prüfen.
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
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The crisis in Haiti continues to escalate, prompting the government to consider hiring foreign private security firms. I joined #DareenAbughaida on #AlJazeera to discuss the implications and possible outcomes. #Live
PART 1
PART 1
May 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The crisis in Haiti continues to escalate, prompting the government to consider hiring foreign private security firms. I joined #DareenAbughaida on #AlJazeera to discuss the implications and possible outcomes. #Live
PART 1
PART 1
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Was talking with a friend about the wide-eyed sense of wonder that characterizes US media coverage of Trump's power grab.
And I think a lot of the complacency comes from a self-satisfied belief in the US that its constitutional system had somehow "solved" the ineradicable challenges of government.
And I think a lot of the complacency comes from a self-satisfied belief in the US that its constitutional system had somehow "solved" the ineradicable challenges of government.
April 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Was talking with a friend about the wide-eyed sense of wonder that characterizes US media coverage of Trump's power grab.
And I think a lot of the complacency comes from a self-satisfied belief in the US that its constitutional system had somehow "solved" the ineradicable challenges of government.
And I think a lot of the complacency comes from a self-satisfied belief in the US that its constitutional system had somehow "solved" the ineradicable challenges of government.
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Too many people in the legal profession & academia obeying in advance with the would-be tyrant in the hopes their compliance will be remembered & they will be spared. Do they not know that, as François Duvalier famously said, to dictators "gratitude is cowardice?"
March 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Too many people in the legal profession & academia obeying in advance with the would-be tyrant in the hopes their compliance will be remembered & they will be spared. Do they not know that, as François Duvalier famously said, to dictators "gratitude is cowardice?"
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The richest among us are proving to be the smallest among us.
EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Washington Post Chief Marty Baron blasts Jeff Bezos amid his censorious takeover of the Opinion section.
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…”
@johnjharwood.bsky.social reports:
zeteo.com/p/jeff-bezos...
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…”
@johnjharwood.bsky.social reports:
zeteo.com/p/jeff-bezos...
'Craven. He's Fearful of Trump': Marty Baron Slams Jeff Bezos' Censorship of Post Opinion Section
EXCLUSIVE: The acclaimed ex-Washington Post editor on billionaire media barons and growing threats to the free press.
zeteo.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The richest among us are proving to be the smallest among us.
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I also wonder how much of this is connected to the decline in religiosity among Americans. Over the past 30 years or so there has been a steady decline in belief, church attendance, and church membership. People used to find meaning, purpose, belonging, ethics, and transcendence from religion.
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
February 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I also wonder how much of this is connected to the decline in religiosity among Americans. Over the past 30 years or so there has been a steady decline in belief, church attendance, and church membership. People used to find meaning, purpose, belonging, ethics, and transcendence from religion.
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I've said often, based on history, that there's no reasonable expectation most people will be courageous in the face of fascism. Bravery is rare. It's valued for a reason: Most people aren't cut out for it, for reasons good and bad.
But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.
But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.
The American Bar Association will temporarily suspend enforcement of its diversity and inclusion standard for law schools reut.rs/3CZRBJA
February 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I've said often, based on history, that there's no reasonable expectation most people will be courageous in the face of fascism. Bravery is rare. It's valued for a reason: Most people aren't cut out for it, for reasons good and bad.
But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.
But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.
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Can we talk about how #Haiti's "government" is using its meagre resources to create new "jobs" to line the pockets of those close to it while the army & other security forces are stuck without the tools they need to do their jobs? lenouvelliste.com/article/2534...
Le cri d'Ashley Laraque
Entre le nécessaire, le souhaitable, l'envisageable et l'inadmissible, les contradictions sont insurmontables
lenouvelliste.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Can we talk about how #Haiti's "government" is using its meagre resources to create new "jobs" to line the pockets of those close to it while the army & other security forces are stuck without the tools they need to do their jobs? lenouvelliste.com/article/2534...
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Um einen Satz mit einer falschen Behauptung zu entkräften, braucht man zehn Sätze. Spätestens beim siebten wird der AfDler Dich unterbrechen und den nächsten falschen Satz zu einem anderen Thema raushauen. Dann unterbricht er Dich nach dem vierten usw usw. So funktioniert flood the zone with shit
February 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Um einen Satz mit einer falschen Behauptung zu entkräften, braucht man zehn Sätze. Spätestens beim siebten wird der AfDler Dich unterbrechen und den nächsten falschen Satz zu einem anderen Thema raushauen. Dann unterbricht er Dich nach dem vierten usw usw. So funktioniert flood the zone with shit
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Very important observation.
Feels very much like this in Germany at the moment, where - interestingly, in contrast to the EU elections last year - in the media discussion all the momentum is with the AfD, and its rise is portrayed as almost inevitable.
Feels very much like this in Germany at the moment, where - interestingly, in contrast to the EU elections last year - in the media discussion all the momentum is with the AfD, and its rise is portrayed as almost inevitable.
Great point(s) from @iandunt.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Very important observation.
Feels very much like this in Germany at the moment, where - interestingly, in contrast to the EU elections last year - in the media discussion all the momentum is with the AfD, and its rise is portrayed as almost inevitable.
Feels very much like this in Germany at the moment, where - interestingly, in contrast to the EU elections last year - in the media discussion all the momentum is with the AfD, and its rise is portrayed as almost inevitable.
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Also, wenn ich mir die Debattenlage anschaue und was ich die vergangenen Tage, allein heute, an Meldungen und Zitaten gelesen habe, könnte man Nachrichten-Websites aktuell auch umbenennen in: „Schlechte Ideen von Männern“.
Hätte langsam dennoch wieder gern Medienangebote, die was anderes bedienen.
Hätte langsam dennoch wieder gern Medienangebote, die was anderes bedienen.
January 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Also, wenn ich mir die Debattenlage anschaue und was ich die vergangenen Tage, allein heute, an Meldungen und Zitaten gelesen habe, könnte man Nachrichten-Websites aktuell auch umbenennen in: „Schlechte Ideen von Männern“.
Hätte langsam dennoch wieder gern Medienangebote, die was anderes bedienen.
Hätte langsam dennoch wieder gern Medienangebote, die was anderes bedienen.
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Auf den Mauern von Troja stehen und sehen, wie sie feixend ein riesiges Holzpferd durch die Tore ziehen, und es gibt absolut nichts, was Du tun kannst.
December 31, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Auf den Mauern von Troja stehen und sehen, wie sie feixend ein riesiges Holzpferd durch die Tore ziehen, und es gibt absolut nichts, was Du tun kannst.
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My thoughts on recent events in #Haiti. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/beggars-ba...
Beggars Banquet
Amid wave of killings, Haiti's politicians scramble for power
michaeldeibert.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM
My thoughts on recent events in #Haiti. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/beggars-ba...
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This is a pretty deep point.
There’s something weird about guys with Fuck You money who *only* say “fuck you” to people lower than them on the food chain, but are constantly sucking up to people higher than they are.
There’s something weird about guys with Fuck You money who *only* say “fuck you” to people lower than them on the food chain, but are constantly sucking up to people higher than they are.
I would think that the entire fun of being a billionaire would be never having to suck up to anyone, least of all dipshits like Donald Trump, but apparently I’m wrong.
December 13, 2024 at 2:32 AM
This is a pretty deep point.
There’s something weird about guys with Fuck You money who *only* say “fuck you” to people lower than them on the food chain, but are constantly sucking up to people higher than they are.
There’s something weird about guys with Fuck You money who *only* say “fuck you” to people lower than them on the food chain, but are constantly sucking up to people higher than they are.
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Sorry I can only endorse this once. No decent writer or thinker just superimposes ideas on subjects. Writing is discovery. I don’t really know what I think until I start writing.
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
December 12, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Sorry I can only endorse this once. No decent writer or thinker just superimposes ideas on subjects. Writing is discovery. I don’t really know what I think until I start writing.
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Wir streiten hart in der Sache, aber wir verunglimpfen unsere politischen Gegner nicht. Wir müssen uns nach dem Wahlkampf noch die Hand geben können. Auch der andere könnte etwas Recht haben. - Habeck, Merz und Scholz machen deutlich, was Demokraten verbindet. youtu.be/qfYbdT9lqk8?...
December 11, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Wir streiten hart in der Sache, aber wir verunglimpfen unsere politischen Gegner nicht. Wir müssen uns nach dem Wahlkampf noch die Hand geben können. Auch der andere könnte etwas Recht haben. - Habeck, Merz und Scholz machen deutlich, was Demokraten verbindet. youtu.be/qfYbdT9lqk8?...
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Activism without pragmatism is just angry people yelling at clouds.
December 10, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Activism without pragmatism is just angry people yelling at clouds.