CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

She was 15 — Anastasiia Hrytsiv. Killed by a Russian missile in Lviv overnight, along with her entire family. They died together, in their own home — torn apart in seconds. Just another Ukrainian family wiped out by Putin’s war. Source: Kyiv Post

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

🚨BREAKING: A group of Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday, activating their emergency plan to block a hastily-drawn Republican congressional map that’s poised to set off a national redistricting battle between red states and blue states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese are still yet to confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO (0) deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.

ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change:

Proud to be a signatory on this letter. And, as if to prove the point, here’s the DOJ official responsible for ousting Jim Ryan and leading the “negotiations” with our Board of Visitors. It has nothing to do with protecting Jews; 100% with advancing a far-right partisan agenda.

BBC News - Misogyny is an epidemic fuelled by social media, Amy Hunt tells BBC in first interview www.bbc.com/news/article...

Who will be next to join the MPIA? In my blog post I suggested Argentina, Indonesia, Panama, South Africa, and South Korea as candidates, but I really don't know.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

personal favorite that i saw today

🚨🚨"It is hard to predict how this will end, other than badly. It will take years to rebuild America’s constitutional checks and balances, institutions, and international standing, but possibly decades to restore political trust." Excellent by @alexhh.bsky.social on the #LA military deployment:

Frightening

Just stunning at how quickly Greece has transformed it's energy mix. In a decade, coal has been pretty much driven out from 50% to 6% More to come as solar expands 👍 #energysky

Water privatisation was always stupid, wrong-headed, anti-public and destined to fail. I knew it, you knew it, everybody knew it. But the Tories cared more about allowing shareholders to gorge on our assets than any public good, economic, health or environmental. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Different country, but she speaks for me.

Nothing happened to him (recently). It's just that you simply do not know what you are doing...

Russia initiates WTO dispute regarding EU’s CBAM and ETS. (Russia has not joined the MPIA) www.wto.org/english/news...

For the last year, I’ve been working on an investigation that’s left me staggered. It’s a damning indictment of the UK’s care sector, & the migration system which has allowed millions of ££s to be plundered from communities in developing countries. Free link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Fantastic thread. Nuanced - but still devastating - critique of Starmer’s position on migration

Great write-up by @guardianheather.bsky.social of a fascinating @suttontrust.bsky.social report. Striking graphics (to follow) too 1/n

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

UK sand eel fishing ban remains in place despite EU legal challenge www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS Trump executive order targeting my former law firm, Perkins Coie. Executive Order 14230, entitled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore null and void

Arbitral tribunal finds that UK prohibition of fishing for sandeel in English waters (but not in Scottish waters) is inconsistent with UK-EU TCA on the grounds that there was a failure to have regard to the principle of applying a proportionate measure. pca-cpa.org/en/news/publ...

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I live in Seattle and there aren’t any cargo ships on our port which is far from normal. There’s one scheduled to come in Tuesday, I think, and then that’s it. This is gonna hurt!

Just got the email from Google. Fuck this. The thermostat works fine, and your $150 "deal" on getting a new one is just a shakedown. I hope you get busted up, you greedy shitheads.

Excellent analysis (including the metaphor below)!

My obituary of Pope Francis, a real one, looks back at his 2015 visit to the White House — and the three miracles I witnessed that day. migrantinsider.com/p/the-day-po...

He also must have known delivering the Urbi et Orbi in person yesterday was a huge risk to his health. He called for a ceasefire in Gaza, against the madness of rearmament, and for the world to 'come to the aid of a starving people that aspires to a future of peace.' www.vatican.va/content/fran...

@sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social I am so grateful to today’s @quietriotpod.bsky.social for dealing with the latest car crash attempt at controlling trans people’s lives in this week’s Supreme Court ruling. So glad you pointed to the sad fact that GCs are doing the Patriarch’s bidding.

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

"What this is, is a signal that the United States is no longer going to [pressure] other countries to uphold those rights that guarantee civic and political freedoms — the ability to speak, to express yourself, to gather, to protest, to organize," said Paul O'Brien, Amnesty International, USA.

Read together: www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p... @himself.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social "Law Firms, Trade Wars an the Weakness of Monarchs" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

This is indeed incredible. “Conservative judge” doesn’t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it’s signs-and-wonders level.

Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Eating: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025gqs via @bbciplayer

The complete lawlessness of these actions is staggering. Read @harvard.edu President Alan M. Garber's statement in full and tell me this is not straight out of an authoritarian playbook. The UK should refuse to deal with an Administration that supresses universities. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

“After a two-year investigation, Argentinian federal prosecutors have taken on their case, accusing senior leaders of Opus Dei in South America of overseeing the exploitation and trafficking of girls, adolescents and women between 1972 and 2015.”

"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The end of an era.