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Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’
Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stability
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/trump-trade-war-dollar-value?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 15 hours ago
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“ ... Oh, Trump and the Republicans can’t stand how the big, bad insurance companies are ripping-off Americans. Really? Are you serious? Then I welcome your support for Medicare for All. Let’s end the greed of the insurance industry & make healthcare a human right, not a privilege... ”
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Senate Republicans embrace Trump’s call – from his Florida golf course – to replace Obamacare
Amid a historic government shutdown, some senators on Capitol Hill are working this weekend on an unpopular bill
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trump-obamacare?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 19 hours ago
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Are we surprised that billionaires have no core beliefs? They apply the sucking-up-for-favors program to whoever is in charge. I just hope Mamdani makes sure it works to New Yorkers' advantage and not billionaires.
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‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals
A pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/if-theres-a-free-alternative-ill-eat-healthily-how-sweden-devised-brilliant-school-meals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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These pictures are quite illuminating on the ridiculous and pathetic fixation of the walled border confronted with reality.
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View from the border: the wall dividing the US and Mexico – in pictures
The structure, variously known as the border fence or border wall, is not continuous and only covers sections of the almost 2,000-mile boundary between the two countries. It consists of a series of ob...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/nov/06/view-border-wall-us-mexico-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 days ago
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Contra a “passificação” da esquerda
A “passificação” do PS tem portanto uma história, que começou com Seguro, e agora prossegue. Contudo, é um processo profundo, pois corresponde à “passificação” da política.
https://www.esquerda.net/opiniao/contra-passificacao-da-esquerda/96515
4 days ago
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We've got to find a way to make this permanent. No more billionaires influencing politics. Eventually no more billionaires.
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The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani
Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
https://time.com/7331119/zohran-mamdani-billionaires-ackman-bloomberg/
4 days ago
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" .. Mamdani ... now faces the true test: having to govern. This ... might scare the Democratic establishment: not because Mamdani could fail, but because he could succeed. Perhaps the only thing they would hate more than bad socialist government, one suspects, is good socialist government ..."
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Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-democratic-party?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
5 days ago
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This is unbelievable and horrible. When will this attitude towards women finally disappear from this planet?
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Man gropes Mexico president as she speaks with citizens on the streets
Video shows man trying to kiss and embrace Claudia Sheinbaum, highlighting both security risk and harassment faced by Mexican women
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/man-gropes-mexico-president-claudia-sheinbaum?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
5 days ago
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👇tal como os portugas
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".. to run for president as a second-generation Maga mini-me. Both these ever-malleable Trump chumps look set to do precisely that in 2028. Like their boss, they know nothing of statesmanship or a higher calling. Followers not leaders, they are united in unbridled ambition – and unfitness to rule.."
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President JD Vance or Marco Rubio? We’re seeing the first signs of the battle over Trump's succession | Simon Tisdall
It’s currently a two-horse race – and the next US leader is guaranteed to be a careerist who knows nothing of statesmanship, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/02/president-jd-vance-marco-rubio-leader-us?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 days ago
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Mentally unstable is the right definition for her.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-real-time-bill-maher?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 days ago
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"..Para resistir à concorrência sino-americana, a UE teria de mudar profundamente o seu modelo económico ... O problema é, acima de tudo, o modelo económico europeu, baseado no apoio às exportações industriais tradicionais ..."
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Nexperia, um caso exemplar da impotência europeia
A decisão neerlandesa, no início de outubro, de nacionalizar a Nexperia, fabricante de semicondutores com capital chinês, ameaça provocar paralisações na produção da indústria automóvel europeia. A me...
https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/nexperia-um-caso-exemplar-da-impotencia-europeia/96490
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C'mon, let's enshittificate everything. Even what was already decently working
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Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?
The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/01/ducking-annoying-why-has-iphones-autocorrect-function-gone-haywire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
9 days ago
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Bullies can always bullies back. What is needed is courage, will and planning in advance. The EU is lacking all 3.
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Xi-Trump meeting: America has discovered that bullies can be bullied back
Outcome appears closer to truce than durable peace but outline of broader diplomatic relationship is visible
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/trump-xi-jinping-meeting-us-china-price-confrontation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
11 days ago
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" ... Even if “sycophancy” is toned down, the reinforcing effect remains, by virtue of how these chatbots work. Even if guardrails are constructed around “mental health issues”, the illusion of presence with a “human-like friend” belies the reality of the underlying feedback loop ..."
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AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction | Amandeep Jutla
OpenAI’s CEO has announced loosening the platform’s safety restrictions. He seems not to understand how humans are wired
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/ai-psychosis-chatgpt-openai-sam-altman?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
12 days ago
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Just Jack
15 days ago
It’s easy to gloss over the details in his daily madness. He basically admits he is using tariffs to be petty and vindictive. Nothing to do with the economy. Not a care for those it hurts on both sides of the border. Let’s see who in Congress calls him out.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for anti-tariff TV ad
Move is response to ad sponsored by Ontario that referenced Ronald Reagan’s support for free trade
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/trump-tariffs-canada-ronald-reagan?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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As long as this mantra is on "...That was an acceptable situation for western countries for a long time, as they were happy to buy cheap products they weren’t prepared to mine and make themselves..." there is no option to think using the "head" and not the "purse". As usual: money money money.
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The world dropped the ball on critical minerals and China pounced. Is it too late for Australia and the US to close the gap?
In the wake of Covid, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertion in global markets, western countries have realised they can’t afford such concentrated supply chains
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/26/rare-earths-critical-minerals-industry-australia-us-china?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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" ... We are often told that Europe is forged in crisis. But how acute must a crisis become for our leaders to put their minds together and find the political will to act? ..."
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Mario Draghi: The Pragmatic Federalism Doctrine - Groupe d'études géopolitiques
My public service in Italy started with the negotiations for the Maastricht Treaty. Since then, building Europe has been a central mission of my career—both as a national policymaker, as Head of the I...
https://geopolitique.eu/en/2025/10/24/mario-draghi-the-pragmatic-federalism-doctrine/
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Why do people still DO want to believe the 47th? Or Putin? These two cannot be believed and trusted.
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East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump’s ballroom construction
Despite president’s promise to preserve it, the eastern section of the building is now completely destroyed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/white-house-demolition-east-wing-trump-ballroom?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
16 days ago
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" ... So when someone insists on their right to demonize immigrants, that is not free speech – it is fear speech. Again, we neither can nor should make fear speech illegal, but we can create cultural norms that promote genuine free speech ..."
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What we misunderstand in the debate over free speech | Avram Alpert
Freedom of speech requires freedom of thought – and the American political climate poses a serious threat to it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/free-speech-free-thought?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
17 days ago
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As usual, for right-wing personalities, blaming the others for their own bad actions (past, present or future).
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham joins business venture with Donald Trump Jr
Host often criticized Hunter Biden’s business on her show and said he capitalized on his father’s presidency for deals
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/21/laura-ingraham-donald-trump-jr-business-fox-news?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
18 days ago
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" ..En laissant à la droite populiste et aux libertariens le monopole du discours sur l’efficacité, la gauche se prive d’un levier décisif pour regagner les classes populaires.."
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Manifeste pour un DOGE progressiste
L’efficacité ne peut pas être le privilège d’Elon Musk. Pour Alexandre Pointier, la gauche doit partir d'une nouvelle utopie : une réforme radicale de l’État. Une pièce de doctrine à lire — à discut...
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/10/15/manifeste-pour-un-doge-progressiste/
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Earth IS a cosmic zoo that aliens had agreed to leave alone!
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‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?
Astrophysicist proposes a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/15/bored-aliens-has-intelligent-life-stopped-bothering-trying-to-contact-earth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
25 days ago
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This is the tragedy of our species: never learn from previous/others mistakes and from history. We like to think that this time is different, that we changed. But in reality the old demons are always there waiting to be awakened again and again. Never really tamed.
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Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones
History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/14/horrors-gaza-west-history-empire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
27 days ago
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That's exactly the point: governments should stop invading privacy using every possible excuse.
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Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/chat-control-child-abuse-internet-privacy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
27 days ago
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The age of extinction has started. It will probably follow a logarithmic scale. Let's buckle up. The worst has yet to come.
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/coral-reefs-ice-sheets-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-global-heating-scientists-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
28 days ago
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Very well done Von Der Leyen.
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One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs
Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/13/one-europe-biggest-farm-machinery-firms-halts-us-exports-hidden-tariffs-krone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
28 days ago
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"During much of the 20th century, the town’s residents were forced to fan out across Europe in search of work “Some of them had papers, but some had no papers, no job offers, nothing,”, “We can’t say: ‘Well we did it, but now we’re against it.’ We’re all human beings, we need to have some empathy.”
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‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance
Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/11/small-spanish-town-headlines-immigration-villamalea?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
29 days ago
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" ...Ben-Ami added: “I don’t think that this is somehow in any way antisemitic or anti-Israel. It’s a rejection of this government and the policies of the Israeli government over not just the last couple of years but going back a few decades at this point... ”
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Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/11/israel-global-boycott?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
29 days ago
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This kind of messianic "possessed" people are the ones that historically ruin/end civilizations and will "gift" our species only suffering and death.
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Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine
In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/10/stephen-miller-trump-administration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
30 days ago
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What's intrinsically wrong with tech bros? This one looks like a crazy lunatic but he owns companies with huge databases of people (facial recognition, AI) across the world. How can non authoritarians government allow this is still puzzling me.
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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" ..If a Democratic majority is elected in 2026, will the outgoing Republican speaker duly swear in its members? Or will he use his procedural powers to delay one, several or many of them from taking their oaths of office – either under the pretext of election fraud or personal ineligibility, ...
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Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan
Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/why-is-the-us-house-speaker-refusing-to-seat-an-elected-democrat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician | Arwa Mahdawi
When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt. Just ask NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, writes Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/08/if-a-four-year-old-can-pronounce-a-name-correctly-so-can-a-politician?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Maluwa
about 1 month ago
I disagree with the interviewer's statement that the right and far right are better at reaching citizens. The far right spreads lies and misinformation and always manages to find a scapegoat for people's problems. The media has become so commercial that journalists no longer correct this!
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Anton Gerashchenko
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The momentum for a Ukrainian settlement after the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska has been exhausted. - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov There never was any momentum from Russian side. Russia has no plans to stop the war.
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Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 1 month ago
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Brazen Lies? Really? Another example of 'fascist alternative reality" (acronym: FAR). Hitlanyahu and his tugs gone fascists at full speed.
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Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention
Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/06/gaza-flotilla-members-allege-beatings-and-insults-in-israeli-detention?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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" .. With this technology in the hands of an administration that has little regard for constitutional safeguards, we should all beware. What is piloted on minorities soon drifts into the mainstream ..."
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I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list | Amandla Thomas-Johnson
I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/palestinian-foreigners-protests-campus-ai-ice-trump-us-migrant?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Typical attitude of authoritarian and retributive regimes. Extremely shameful and pathetic.
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Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Another wake up call for European leaders ... but they are helpless, can't decide ...
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American democracy might not survive another year – is Europe ready for that? | Alexander Hurst
Trapped between Putin and Trump, EU citizens understand the grave dangers facing the continent. Their leaders urgently need to face reality, too, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/american-democracy-trump-putin-europe-dangers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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"... Shooting down intruding Russian aircraft is not a step towards war. It is a prophylactic measure necessary for maintaining credibility in the face of the adversary’s provocations ... If one side crosses implicit red lines in doing so, it must be taught a lesson ..."
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Russia’s provocations are menacing Nato. The cold war shows how it needs to respond | Sergey Radchenko
Despite the cost of shooting down fighter jets and drones, small skirmishes remind both sides of the dangers of escalation, says academic Sergey Radchenko
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/russia-putin-usa-cold-war-nato-drones-fighters?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall
Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/28/trump-putin-europe-1939-us-russia-ukraine-liberal-democracy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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This kind of populism is totally ridiculous. Politicians on the right are billing to sacrifice everything to be re-elected or to stay in power. No proposal at all to combat the cost of living or containing the power of big corporations. Shameful!
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Doug Ford to ban speed cameras in Ontario in populist appeal to suburban voters
Canada premier’s move prompts criticism from road safety activists and is likely to cue new showdown with Toronto
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/ontario-speed-camera-ban-doug-ford?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Let's get ready (or brace) for the big "sboom".
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AI investors are in for a rude awakening | Roger McNamee
There is a huge gap between investment and revenue from LLMs. Investors wrongly assume everyone will be a winner
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/ai-investors-llms?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Brent Toderian
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“ Whatever political capital you might have, you’re gonna need to spend it. The best we can hope for is that politicians spend it doing the right thing, even if it’s something that’s hard, that you know might not be popular. Just doing the right thing.”-Past New Zealand PM
@jacindaardern.bsky.social
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Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xJg1McSvgo8
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This is really very scary. Up to now this system has been used for immigration but what will happen if it would be expanded and used against internal "oppositors or enemies" of the US autocratic regime?
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Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/22/ice-palantir-data?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Guillotines are needed to stop this madness ...
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How the billionaire class and wealthy landlords are conspiring against Zohran Mamdani
The wealthiest New Yorkers are desperate to rally support – and millions of dollars – for Andrew Cuomo to defeat the democratic socialist
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/22/billionaires-wealthy-landlords-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Jennifer C
about 2 months ago
Every major outlet bent the knee today, giving wall-to-wall coverage to Kirk's funeral like it was state decree. This is how propaganda works: normalize the fascist, erase the truth. Don't let them gaslight you. Find independent journalism and fight back.
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