Reactions to Kiels paper on China Shock 2.0. It's a thoughtful contribution that rightly argues EU trade defence doesn't solve competition in third markets. But contrary to some commentary, I don't think it shows German concerns about Chinese competition are wholly overblown. In-depth thread. 1/

Our National Parks are something truly worth celebrating, along with the foresight it took to make those parks possible. Re-upping this piece about the need to protect them for future generations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...

Weidel erklärt beim AfD-Parteitag stolz, dass die AfD zu Öl, Gas und Atomkraft zurückkehren will. Dafür gibt es viel Applaus. Viele hierzulande glauben weiter die Lüge, dass so der Strom billiger wird. Union und viele Medien sind für diese Falschinformation mitverantwortlich.

Fascism on the march in Washington DC, on the US’s 250th anniversary. Shameful.

Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.

Die Ressourcen, die für die KI-Entwicklung allein in Ostasien gebraucht werden, sind unglaublich: The Korean government’s “Yongin Mega-cluster” plan, a vast complex of semiconductor fabs and AI factories that will become the world’s largest industrial complex. 1/

Originalism something something

Reminder that these this unprecedneted, illegal graft is possible because of the SCOTUS decision to declare the POTUS immune. POTUS47 is not worried about any legal jeopardy. Blame the Roberts court.

„In its strongest form this vision of the constitution essentially establishes that the president can do what he wants up until (and unless) congress impeaches him. It is striking how close this “strongest form” is to the daily reality of trying to hold the Executive branch accountable…“

Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says reut.rs/4xZUWzO

You, of course, can imagine the front page, large bold font headlines & Jake Tapper features on CNN about Joe Biden's mental fitness for office if he had said that America cannot build a 747.

It is now almost 100% of the time that when I do vox pops in rural America I get asked about Britain supposedly being taken over by Muslims and crushed under the boot of Sharia law. I was just asked suspiciously if I am a Muslim myself when I pushed back

Mathias Döpfner, Boss der Axel Springer SE (WELT, BILD) soll von Friedrich #Merz gefordert haben, mit der #AfD zu paktieren. Der Kanzler soll abgelehnt haben. Als Döpfner nicht locker ließ, soll der CDU-Chef das Gespräch beendet haben. Döpfner soll daraufhin gedroht haben: Merz werde das bereuen.

🔆"Die von der Bundesregierung mit der anstehenden EEG-Novelle geplante Überführung kleiner Anlagen von der festen Einspeisevergütung in die Direktvermarktung spart kaum Geld, birgt aber die Gefahr eines Markteinbruchs – so eine Studie von Agora Energiewende." www.pv-magazine.de/2026/06/30/k...

Der Besserwisser zweiter Ordnung, der scharf erkennt, wer der Sache, die er wohl kennt, nicht hilft, indem er sie kennt, führt mustergültig genau die konsequenzenlose moralische selbstinszenierung vor, die er anderen vorwirft.

So...when Bolsonaro was setting fire to the Amazon there was an US-led discussion on applying sanctions on a rogue state that was threatening planetary stability So...when will other countries decide to sanction US, the rogue state? How exactly will the world-destroying powers of GOP be checked?

already on this app you see a coordinated group of bad actors going all in on the lie that CA State Senator Scott Weiner “persecuted” UCSF Dr. Rupa Marya but the truth is, this doctor and professor took a truly harrowing genocide in Palestine and turned it into a campaign against every Jew anywhere

Happy 250th anniversary, USA.

Tooze's hate for oligarchic German industrial families is so pure. Chartbook on EU's China Shock 2.0 argues 1 This is 'mercantilist on mercantilist violence'. EU surpluses to rest of the world vs CN surpluses to EU 2 Germany's car industry REFUSAL to invest. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

2/2 government subsidies,” he said, adding that “the Chinese government is not that wealthy”." In my Substack essay I disagree, arguing that if it were indeed technology and not subsidies, the structure of the imbalances would be very different. michaelpettis858496.substack.com/p/is-technol...

Hey @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social why are you putting all your posts on fascist X?

100% correct - the difference between NL (where VVD jumped into bed with Wilders and is increasingly radicalising) and BE (where the centre-right now-PM explicitly ruled out working with the « undemocratic » far right before the election and mocked their leader to his face on TV for being unserious.

For a while, when he was Labour leader, Miliband threatened to smash up Murdoch's media empire, just in case you are wondering why the Murdoch's papers are worried about him.

“We are concerned by some of the talk around European satellite sovereignty,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told the FT at the time. “If Europe is going to head down that path, then you know we will be compelled to take, you know, reciprocal action.”

My new theory paper (early draft) A new reason why concentrated wealth destroys democracy: common ownership A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk (who owns X + SpaceX) will run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio tinyurl.com/mcekr7cd

Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…

We’re a week away from the Trump administration saying they applaud Iranians’ chanting “Death to America” because it’s a celebration of their free speech. “We’re not woke scolds like the left, see”

🚨🚨This is a very bad idea: Europe must prioritize #artificialintelligence over #climategoals or risk surrendering its #techsovereignty to #China according to the president of the European Data Centre Association which lobbies the EU on behalf of data center firms. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

‘The Trump administration had also tried to cut the program’s funds the last two years, but Congress restored the money both times.’ Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

hi folks, white south african elon musk here to talk to you about the dangers of foreigners invading your lands and destroying your way of life

Neatly sums up the British malaise. Labour, like the Tories and Reform, doesn’t know what the modern British economy is. They also don’t know who their voter coalition is. Instead, political leaders of many stripes cling to and venerate an extinct imperial-industrial model.

“It is time to break decisively with the perverse logic in which retirees, the poor or immigrants are expected to balance the budget, while the rich are to be allowed to live tax-free in their own parallel society.” - @gabrielzucman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Breaking news: EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas says the EU has "now verified reports that the Chinese military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine" Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers - "we are carefully assessing the implications"

How many of you think European Industry is in crisis? That EU industry is bedeviled by Chinese induutry, American tariffs and Russian energy weapon seems to be the prevailing sentiment. So....Europe's clean tech industry must be dead right? WRONG. Ember report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Very much the orthodox repeatedly tried and failed view of UK EU relations, pretend it isn't important or talk about security. Nope, doesn't work, because of the nature of the inter connected world, too many policy roads lead to Brussels. Government needs an overall approach.

Surprise, surprise... www.ft.com/content/726f...

Government subsidies. It's not only the Chinese... edition.cnn.com/2026/06/13/b...

JUST DROPPED: COP31 hosts want 35% of final energy from electricity by 2035, up from 21% today. But we're way off. Historical pace: 0.3 points/year. "35 by 35" needs 1.3 points/year. Right now, only China is moving fast enough. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/is-electri...

Kolumne: Man könnte die Energiepolitik von Merz und Reiche so zusammenfassen: »Fossile Retrotechnik erhalten, Veränderung verhindern«. In der Union scheint sich derzeit die Lesart »wenn alle etwas für falsch halten, muss es richtig sein« festzusetzen - so bizarr wie gefährlich.

If there had been a crucial by-election in, say, Bristol - I wonder if the Westminster commentariat would be quite as keen on playing endless vox pops when people might be complaining about Gaza, student loans and that Labour isn't standing up enough against the far right.

As debates rage about where to get the money for higher defence spending, it’s important we have a clear picture of how we spent the peace dividend while it was around. Thread 🧵⤵️

Good, but you’re ‘hailing’ it ‘on X’ ffs.

“debris, about 20 times the combined amount generated by conflicts worldwide since 2008. Beneath the rubble, at least 10,000 people are thought to be buried” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Digitale Abhängigkeiten werden erst wirklich ernstgenommen, wenn sowas passiert. Die Europäer träumen noch immer in dieser Sache.

Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Surreal to do an interview with BBC World Service in the middle of last night discussing how the world’s first trillionaire is also the world’s most prominent Far Right agitator.

Eine Schülerin trägt ein Plakat mit der Aufschrift „Friedrich stirb doch selber an der Ostfront!“. Unter Einsatz von Schlagstöcken bahnen sich Polizist:innen einen Weg zu der Schülerin, um ihre Personalien aufzunehmen. Wieviel Meinungsfreiheit gibt es hier noch? netzpolitik.org/2026/krise-d...

Next thing China is about to eat up is heavy duty electric truck. New goals for 2030: - 40% market penetration - 1.6 million strong fleet - 3,000 charging station for heavy duty trucking - 30,000 km of zero-carbon freight corridor