This really cannot be emphasized enough. China is driving the global green transition (in terms of green energy tech production, exports to the rest of the world, and installation), and this is occurring because of industrial policy and *not* because of "market mechanisms".

Up there with the great fictions of the 21st century: Jesus was a white racist who hated the poor, billionaires care about the welfare of working people, and rampant capitalism is survivable.

An interesting point from Robert Arnold: rightwingers are terrified of any threat to the underpinning of the faux Xtian world they've constructed, one where Christ was blue-eyed and fair skinned and hated brown people as much as they do. www.facebook.com/share/r/17Jm...

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More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.

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"It's less Churchillian, more Churchill, the Nodding Dog"

That's the way to do it! 💪 #MarxistMonday

Wouldn't it be great if Republicans actually promoted *genuine* old-fashioned American values?

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A big slice of Scottish humour today, and a tribute to a Scottish genius: William Playfair, the inventor of the bar graph and pie chart!

When you put together how truly abysmally awful that excuse for a human being is, with how seemingly unlimited his power is when all checks and balances fail, then decency and democracy are only the first victims to fall.

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There is no obvious limit to how far Trump is prepared to go. He wants everything. He wants everyone to swear undying loyalty to him. He is prepared to do anything to get it. “Anything” might currently seem unimaginable to us. It's time we started imagining it. 4/4

Hitler continually tested the boundaries, seeing what he could get away with in terms of rhetoric, power grabs and assaults on other people. As Establishment resistance folded, he found he could get away with more and more. Trump is on the same path. 3/4

Hitler’s atrocities did not come from nowhere. They were developed and made permissible by a belief system, spread through propaganda and supported by powerful backers. Hitler’s belief system was similar to Trump’s, and spread by similar means. 2/4

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

In what world, is it not illegal and/or impeachable for the President to conspire with his Attorney General to use the levers of government to punish his political enemies? This is like the entirety of All the Presidents Men shrunk down into one Truth Social post.

I developed severe respiratory allergies after my last bout of Covid-19. Don't let anyone tell you it's 'just a flu'. Get vaccinated.

The Refugees, 1931 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka Btw, if you think these people are the problem, YOU are the problem.

This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.

A guid Scots poyum th'day 🦊

One of those rare occasions when us messy folks shine! Bees & bugs love us, anyway.

The fact that some politicians still try to tell us that tax cuts for the rich are helping the economy just shows how firmly they're tucked into their dodgy donors' pockets.

I hope your weekend was wonderful, whatever the weather! 🤗 art by Swedish artist Maja Lindberg

Today I'm definitely a 6

Leith's annual Colony of Artists weekend in Abbeyhill has drawn to a close. More beautiful art purchased, gardens admired, old friendships renewed. Wonderful! #ScottishArtists #Abbeyhill #ColonyCottages

How the mighty have fallen. 😪

Predictable, but must be resisted nonetheless

At Windsor Castle

I attended a lecture at the Italian Cultural Institute in my ward last week to learn about the life and legacy of Giacomo Matteotti, socialist politician and fighter against fascism. His martyrdom for the cause of democracy and the regime's attempt to suppress his memory are more relevant than ever.

The UN declares it's genocide. America seems to finally be shifting away from its 'mass murder is okay by us as long as it's our buddies in Israel doing it' stance. But will it be too little, too late.

I'm so proud of Humza Yousaf, the former First Minister of Scotland. A statesman and a poet!

Ovenden chose to focus on the unfairness of someone accessing his private texts, but one wonders if he adhered to those scruples in his own career. 🤔 www.thenational.scot/news/2548289...

I’ve just come across this painting on my phone and decided to show you. So good. 🇺🇦 Yevhen Hordiets, A Child and the Sea, 1982

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'The meek and the grand shall exist hand in hand' by illustrator Charles Van Sandwyk

History Lesson: The Soviet Union built Bagram Airbase back in the 1950’s. 🙄🙄🙄

“By silencing someone for expressing an opinion he has every right to voice, Disney showed just how far this administration will go to censor people...If a wealthy, white, male celebrity can be forced into silence, what does that mean for the rest of us?" www.glamour.com/story/the-ji...