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He/him. This/that.
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1/ Australia’s $147b green hydrogen dream is coming apart. At least 7 major projects have stalled, and BP has pulled out of its $36b Pilbara mega-plan. Global hype is deflating — and fast. My colleagues and I dug into why, and how it unraveled.🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The $147 Billion Green Hydrogen Bubble That BP Helped Burst
Australia’s long-held ambitions to tap its abundant renewable resources and vast uninhabited landmass to become a global green hydrogen leader are fast unraveling.
www.bloomberg.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"Less Prozac, more protein,' the podcast host Alex Clark told thousands of listeners at a conservative women’s conference in June. 'Less burnout, more babies, less feminism, more femininity.' (Clark is unmarried and has no children.)" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her.
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This contradicts the whole Trump Russian asset theory and speaks to him just being blind with admiration for a dictator and now the spell fades.
Or he just wakes up and throws the dice.
To my knowledge nobody has disproven that conclusively.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
Trump says US will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine
US president makes announcement amid growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
www.aljazeera.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Merkel might as well have put a vote Green sticker on her Volkswagen Passat
Quite the marmalade-dropper, this: 3 weeks before Germany's election, Angela Merkel has issued a statement criticising her own party for enabling ("with open eyes") a majority with the AfD. Effectively accuses Merz of breaking his pledge not to do so.

www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de/erklaerungen...
January 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Clean power or white power – quo vadis Tesla?
January 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Kolumne: Der Umgang mit der bedrohlichen Schwächung der Nordatlantikströmung #AMOC, ist etwa so, als wisse man, dass es eine realistische Gefahr gebe, dass der Heizkessel im eigenen Keller explodieren könnte, man sich aber entscheidet, das zu ignorieren. www.spiegel.de/wisse...
Meinung: Bedrohte Atlantikströmung: Was, wenn es plötzlich kälter wird? - Kolumne
Studien mit immer dringlicheren Warnungen zeigen: Die Nordatlantikströmung, die Nordeuropa wärmt, wird schwächer, eine Katastrophe droht. Großbritannien lobt 100 Millionen Euro für Frühwarnsysteme aus. Und was tun wir?
www.spiegel.de
November 24, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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In Städten und Gemeinden werden wegen läppischer einstelliger Millionenbeträge Nahverkehrssysteme massiv zusammengeschrumpft, während bei den fossilen Autosubventionen weiter MILLIARDEN durch den Auspuff geballert werden.
Jedes Land erkennst du an seiner Zuwendung zu den Schwächsten.
How dare you D?
November 24, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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"My generals" out. Loyalists in.

My latest for @vox.com looks at Trump's foreign policy picks and the three factions fighting the president-elect's ear

www.vox.com/world-politi...
The three foreign policy factions fighting for Trump’s ear
Generals out. Loyalists in. A look at Trump’s new foreign policy team.
www.vox.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Brazil having a more stable democracy than the United Clownship of Murica was not on my Bingo Card for the 2020s
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/jair-bolsonaro-charged-coup-plot
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Nuclear energy is politically irresponsible. 50% of enrichment happens in Russia. This is the next Northstream pipeline https://www.mining.com/web/russia-temporarily-limits-nuclear-fuel-shipments-to-us/
November 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM
There is no disinformation. We are in a constant battle of reality construction now as institutions lost their power to create a common understanding. Nothing on the horizon to change that. Keep fighting or lose the battle.
November 20, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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not my most “up” predictions but I don’t think either NATO or the UN survive four years in their current form
November 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The EU should always plan as if here is a Trump in the White House
January 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Geht gerade unter, aber: Die globalen Meeresoberflächentemperaturen für 2024 lassen schlimmes erahnen.

Falls ihr sie nicht findet: Schaut mal ganz oben links.
January 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Still working on one substantive post from today's immunity hearing.

But one main takeaway is that 3 women, one a groundbreaker for women in law, the other 2 women of color, are hearing 2 men appeal decision of woman of color RE white billionaire claiming to be King.
www.c-span.org/video/?53258...
January 9, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Pivot to video is so 2015 fortune.com/2024/01/09/e...
January 10, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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X ist eine Gefahr für die Demokratie

Helene von Bismarck

Nach @annettedittert.bsky.social hat nun auch @helenebismarck.bsky.social ihren Rückzug von X öffentlich näher erläutert.

Die beiden angesehenen, international erfahrenen Denkerinnen haben vor allem eines gemeinsam:

Sie sind Vorbilder.
January 10, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Gedächtnisstüze. Gefunden bei @katjadiehl.bsky.social
January 5, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Contrary to popular belief, the Geneva Conventions do not in fact include a punch card rule where you get one free morally correct civilian murder for each one the other side did to you.
October 7, 2023 at 8:09 PM