Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

Lesson from #Paris: shift #mobility from cars 🚗 to bikes 🚲 subways 🚊 and walking 🚶‍♀️ to clean up the air and increase #health, joi de vivre.

#urbanplanning #climate #greencities

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They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made.

That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country.

#StopTrumpsTerror

I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)

Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.

I think that's part of it, yes.
Also, I found the argument in this article persuasive. Some of them really do seem to believe their own hype about AI, and think they're smartly getting ahead of a massive societal change. Bonus: that fits with techno-libertarian fantasies since they own the tech.

Casey: There’s this whole mentality that MAGA has painted—like you’re either MAGA or you’re, you know, drinking soy lattes or whatever.

But there are a lot of people who are just like, “We’re just regular people—we don’t want a dictator, we don’t want to see people’s benefits ripped away..”

Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin were both voracious readers of William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidsons co-authored book The Sovereign Individual-How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State.
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Trump is an extremely dangerous man--stupid, vindictive, fixated on payback for his enemies. This country will be lucky to survive him.

If confirmed by the Senate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr would have the power to limit or even cut off contracts with the makers of vaccines for a program that protects nearly 38 million low-income and working-class children from diseases like polio, measles, whooping cough and chickenpox.

😂

Inauguration Day.

"A democracy cannot function properly under threats of violence, where any dissent comes with the risk of physical retaliation. That describes Russia, and not America as we have known it." But with another Trump presidency looming, it seems as though we are slipping closer to authoritarianism.

I seem to have upset the
Nigel_Farage
fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

If Trump succeeds in eliminating the US trade deficit, real-estate prices will crash, US Treasury yields will skyrocket and the Dow Jones will plummet. Trump should be reminded that the most vengeful of deities is one that grants him his sincerest wish www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...