A new analysis says that heat pumps avoided a staggering €9.7 billion in import costs alone last year.

🧵 Body language Exhibit One Qatari FM/PM enters the room

They're trying to kill women for having abortions and even using some types of birth control.   I know, it sounds crazy—but that is exactly what this Republican bill coming out of North Carolina would legalize. WATCH ⬇️

Thanks Martin Wolf for including “We need to tax billionaires” in the FT’s best books of 2026 ✊ www.ft.com/content/96e2...

Sovereignty with Marc Placzek who works for Sam Altman and is friend of Peter Thiel? There is non-profit organization Eurosky that runs their network, where you can move and they want to keep social networks to be open unlike WSocial. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

What you have to understand is that for Starmer's team, the right is not the enemy. The left is. Its driving mission, from the moment Starmer took over, was to stamp out first the Labour left, then the wider left. It hates us, deeply and viscerally, with a passion never directed at the right.

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

Amazing the 'just morals' these people actually believe are to be defended, even to this extent. Completely lost the plot.

Another day, another read, another reason to support @globalvoices.org

Governments claim risk profiling systems help identify potential criminals or fraudsters but in practice they reinforce discrimination & inequality. A new @amnesty.org report shows how their use in law enforcement, social security & migration violates human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

there are people i know my age - mid 50s - who are a bigger danger because of social media than teenagers ever have been if you can get them off the sites they tend to return to their old selves i have read of people in the states going to their parents and disconnecting fox from their cable box

the current focus is very much "won't you think of the kids?!?" with social media in my opinion we should be looking at much older people. its not teenagers getting radicalised in the UK by racist AI slop shared by Musk but yes - X should be blocked until they can police their site

If you want to know how dumb maga really it, consider they paid $500 for a $40 phone.

Stories like this about acts of heroism by people who are not white never go viral www.thesun.co.uk/news/3937252...

A thriving hospital-garden collaboration at Duke 🌱

The Albanian government has suspended Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s luxury resort project after mass Flamingo Revolution protests, Politico reports. The protesters aren’t backing down. They want the development cancelled and a caretaker government installed.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

1/10 Here’s the full open letter President Zelensky published to Putin on June 4, 2026. It was posted on the Ukrainian president’s website and shared via diplomatic channels.

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

Pleased to post my draft article, “Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution.” I study the history of birthright citizenship from the 1100s to the 1700s. The English common-law rule of natural-born subjects was always tied to territory and jurisdiction. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The majority of the traffic was bots scraping the internet for data for AI. But a large number of 'users' on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook... Are now bots, added to pad falling user numbers.

I sincerely hope some of these folks are reading the work of Heather Boushey, who I'm pretty sure is related to a RI economist, about the care economy. Because when you discount the burden of unpaid care work while women's paid labor also goes up, you're goingto miss something.

A very powerful piece and a very powerful performance. “This piece is "Fire" from the Elements cycle composed by Katerina Gimon and performed by the Hamburg Girls Choir at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (January 2025).” HT: CrystalDawnAlchamy4 #Pinks

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

SocArXiv accepts law papers, as we always have. Some of the bells and whistles he wants we don't have- like ranking and email subscriptions, but those can be built using SocArXiv. We don't have funds or staff to help build that, but law schools do.

Simply put: Work til you die, and if you can’t work, die quickly.

#Australia is building the biggest virtual power plant on Earth — connecting hundreds of thousands of home #batteries and rooftop #solar systems into a single coordinated grid asset worth gigawatts of clean dispatchable power. #ActOnClimate #Renewables

With SGF this week, I wanted to explore the impact of no remote events, especially as a disabled reporter. This industry thrives on in person events for making connections, but what does that look like for me? Read my first byline for @mothership.blog here: www.mothership.blog/as-a-disable...

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 154 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 76 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 73 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 28 www.democracydocket.com

Please... And do it in all cities with a Trump Tower.

We subpoenaed Pam Bondi to testify under oath before the American people. Instead? Republicans let her interview behind closed doors. It’s ridiculous and it’s a cover up. @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social are not backing down.

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

Chart of the day. The energy transition is happening in real time! 😍

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

They just published rules requiring 80 hours of monthly work to keep Medicaid. And this will somehow stop medical offices from filing fraudulent claims?? They're confusing healthcare with cash assistance. Again. Meanwhile ppl are losing healthcare. Again.

That's probably why it hasn't actually happened. "since he convened his Board of Peace to implement and pay for it, the plan is stalled and expected donations to the fund it created are nonexistent"

Why are the 13 million lower-income families across the country – a group we call ‘Unsung Britain’ – so frustrated? Because they are working more than ever, and yet their living standards have stagnated over the past two decades. @ruthcurtice.bsky.social on The Policy Fix podcast ➡️ buff.ly/Wl3riSt

Whoop whoop! My first book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects is out again in a new reprint! 🤩 It explores the *astonishing* things we can learn about the natural world from incredible specimens in natural history #museums. Go get your hands on it! #OneHundredAnimals

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

New York City, we have no excuse to be bored this summer. The map at Nyc.gov/summer is full of free and affordable stuff to do -- sports, music, arts, movies, video games and more -- in every borough.   The city is your backyard. Get out there and enjoy it.

Har några år på nacken, men skrattade högt.

“Here's a stat for you — If somebody abused women & girls with Jeffrey Epstein, they are literally more likely to be hired by Trump's administration than prosecuted by it”

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

7/ "Both sides will be technically right. And that's precisely why this race is almost incapable of stopping itself. The battlefield is gradually turning into a machine ecosystem, where humans are increasingly becoming objects of recognition rather than participants." /end

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...