"The government of Spain insists that international law be respected and that the right of our citizens should be respected to sail through the Mediterranean in safe conditions." - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez

The Milei experiment was always destined to fail.

Useful term: “We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”

Abundance seems uninterested in wealth and income inequality, universal public healthcare, or the devastating environmental effects of capitalism’s drive for infinite growth. Those are major limitations for a book purporting to offer a new progressive policy platform.

Required vs. actual in-office attendance. Turns out it’s really hard to force employees to give up what amounts to a significant salary and time bonus (e.g., no commute). (www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...)

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance says nothing new—and says it at an inopportune political moment.

At this point, the only European officials who don’t think the Trump administration wants this are likely themselves on the far right.

Why does "expand the tent" always mean the left has to endorse right-wing Democrats and never that the center has to endorse socialists like Zohran Mamdani?

Latecomers to the movement against genocide are welcome, but a reckoning is also in order, as David Klion of The Nation notes: why did so many in positions of power take so long to recognize what more clear-eyes critics saw long ago?

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Harris’s campaign memoir feels oddly mistimed, its revelations destined to fuel Democratic infighting, at a time when unity against authoritarian fascism should be the top priority.

‘“It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention,” said Navi Pillay, chair of the [UN] commission.’

this exists it is called thinking

‘“We will remain in the church,” he said. “But the church is not the safe place people imagine. I say this because I saw my children killed before my eyes. There is no protection. There is no safety.”’

"The Russians are testing the doorknobs... and what they're discovering is the US President is not at home." Senior Editor at the Atlantic, David Frum, on President Trump's response to Russian jets violating NATO airspace. #Newsnight

'While the “Ghetto package” claims to promote integration, it risks alienation. For immigrant communities and critics . . . in Denmark, the program raises the question of who is considered part of a national community and identity and who is considered an inherent outsider or threat to it.'

'Denmark, in turn, has been scrambling to keep Greenlanders on its side. It is suddenly doing all sorts of things that Greenlanders had been demanding for years. One of them was changing the parental competency test . . . . Another has been to address historical misdeeds.'

'[Judge] Merryday noted that Trump’s 85-page filing only listed two defamation complaints. “A complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective [or] a protected platform to rage against an adversary,” he wrote. “A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations.”'

'If the Warner Bros. Discovery deal were to go through, [Larry] Ellison would control streaming services with a combined 200 million-plus subscribers . . . Add TikTok’s 170 million-plus users and one of the hottest properties in the social space and you get to a position of dominance in the media.'

Negative sentiment growing among U.S. Republicans and Independents. "Overall, 39% of adults approve of the way Trump is handing his job as president and 60% disapprove." (apnorc.org/projects/pes...)

The New Yorker's September 29 cover.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

These aren't "culture wars"—this is an all-out authoritarian hostile takeover of American civil society. Viewed from Europe, it's a premonition of what could happen here if right-wing populists come to power.

“The share of Americans who back Israel over the Palestinians is at a 25-year low. In 2022, 42% of American adults held an unfavourable view of Israel; now 53% do. A recent YouGov/Economist poll finds that 43% of Americans believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

New plan to save Denmark’s economy dropped. (Novo Nordisk’s meteoric rise has threatened to turn Denmark into, not a company town, but a company country, with a market cap greater than its GDP.) [No paywall.]

Larry and David Ellison’s growing media empire: CBS, Paramount, a potential 80% stake in TikTok; they are “also, reportedly, preparing a bid — of perhaps $80 billion . . . for Warner Bros. Discovery, the media conglomerate that controls such jewels as HBO Max, the Warner Bros. movie studio and CNN.”

Worst op-ed ever.

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

Better late than never: Bernie Sanders acknowledges that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. "The intent is clear.”

This is a worrying development.

Keir Starmer's government expresses its annoyance that migrants facing deportation might have the audacity to insist on their right to due process:

Hypocrites: ‘US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump has been using to try to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.’

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

“Still, that doesn't mean people can't debate ideas promoted by victims of political violence, Obama said. He criticized the Trump White House for immediately accusing the far-left of being responsible for the shooting even before details emerged about the perpetrator.”

This will have a chilling effect on academic freedom and critical inquiry.

Where will they go? With each new phase of the genocide, more Palestinians are killed and additional buildings reduced to rubble, with the survivors thrown into a state of permanent insecurity and nomadic displacement—and threatened by air strikes, attack helicopters, drones, and mortar fire.

A horrible attack on press freedom. We shouldn't be surprised: this is what authoritarian rulers do.

The mayor of London is so right. “For far too long, our politicians and pundits have refused to condemn the rising tide of hatred in this country, instead choosing to dabble in dog-whistle politics and dangerous rhetoric themselves.”

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

“In May, Mr. Witkoff’s son Zach announced the first of the deals at a conference in Dubai. One of Sheikh Tahnoon’s investment firms would deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps.” (No paywall.)

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. (Cuomo's shift in stance is transparently opportunistic, an attempt to divert support from Mamdani's campaign.)

Another case of extrajudicial killings in international waters by the Trump administration. So far, no public evidence that the victims were drug traffickers has been presented. And even if they were, murdering them clearly isn’t an acceptable state response. More: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/p...

Pope Leo: “CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times what the workers are receiving, the last figure I saw, it’s 600 times what average workers are receiving.” Musk’s extreme wealth, in particular, undermined “the value of human life, of the family” and “the value of society.”

More than 400 medical facilities in Afghanistan have been shut down after Trump dismantled USAID. These cuts are having real effects on the ground: "There's no certainty the mother and baby would've survived if they'd been treated at the clinic, but without it, they didn't stand a chance [...]."

Will the AI investment hype bubble implode as “irrational exuberance” is checked by lackluster earnings? “Torsten Slok of Apollo . . . has noted that AI stocks are more richly valued than dotcom stocks in 1999.” US households’ exposure to stocks has created real vulnerability. (No paywall.)

Elon Musk’s divisive, inflammatory rhetoric at yesterday’s far-right rally in London, where he spoke via video link: “Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.” This is destabilizing oligarchic interference.

Even winning an Oscar is no protection against an occupying army tasked with enforcing a settler-colonial social order.

Spain’s far-right Vox party is polling at around 17%, but its most significant voting intention gains are among young voters. We need to study and scrutinize the digital ecosystems driving younger voters’ support for the far right across Europe.

“Socialism is emerging as the populist alternative on the left.” (No paywall)