For what is worth it, I think Greta Thunberg is a remarkable human being.

It would be very interesting to hear if anyone who really understands the United States and - say - the 1990s Yugoslav wars has written anything about the current situation.

Apart from the technological failure to stop these attacks, it also shows a failure of intelligence. The attacks are initiated inside Denmark, Germany, etc., by agents within those countries. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Again, why are there no general strikes in the USA as their democracy is being dismantled in real time?

As stated about influenza in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition (2011): “Most pathogens exit via the same route by which they entered: respiratory pathogens by aerosols from sneezing or coughing”.

First, Covid was here to stay, now Long Covid is here to stay. Predictable, but sad, nevertheless, because as we don't live in the Bronze Age and we know how to stop the spread of diseases. Yet, we hire public health officials who act like Bronze Age priests and shamans.

“Death in Hamburg” by Sir Richard J Evans. A book written in 1987 for our COVID age. The title is a reference to Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", also set in a cholera epidemic. This is a review of one of the best books I've ever read. 5/5 stars. 🧵 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294784...

We are seeing the victory of Hamburg-styled free market laissez-faire overcoming a scientific consensus around the contagionist principle that #COVIDisAirborne, necessitating another Koch-styled state-led engineering intervention to clean our air like the 19th century cleaned our drinking water.

Today’s horror is that the reverse of what happened in the Hamburg 1892 epidemic is underway. Instead of undertaking centralised intervention based on a scientific consensus favouring Koch's contagionist model, the laissez-faire camp of JFK Jr etc is winning. bsky.app/profile/tosh...

Since 1987, libertarians have become more extreme in their anarcho-capitalist radicalism than Thatcher or Hayek could ever have imagined, thus making this book even more relevant today than ever before. Hayek accepted centralised intervention for infectious diseases. His heirs do not.

It is really hard to overstate how deeply divided #Finland was after the brutal 1918 Civil War and White terror that followed. I’m certain that largely liberal “social justice warriors” who afterwards pressed through legislation to reduce inequalities and improve social services saved Finland.

💯 Yeah, and tax cuts for the wealthy are paid for by cutting the things holding countries social cohesion together. Win Win for Putin.

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja vähän myöhässä oleva @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesi datan analyysi. Oli vähän hässäkkä päivä. - Nyt tapahtuu taas, reipasta nousua kaikkialla, eli tulokset vipattavat edestakaisin - Joko menetelmähämminki tai uusi variantti 1/2 🧵

Vuosivertailussa virusmäärät edelleen alhaisia. Saa nähdä, onko mitta-asteikko muuttunut menetelmäpäivityksen myötä, vai onko tämä vasta talviepidemian alkua. 2/2

🎯🧵 by Dr. @jamesthrot.bsky.social: "🧵 Attribution Bias: The Hidden Fuel of COVID Denial One of the main reasons society refuses to face the ongoing damage of SARS-CoV-2 is attribution bias It’s not that the harms aren’t there, they’re everywhere.." Full 🧵: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19740...

At the point when the money becomes the end istead of the means, being rich becomes a nihilistic vicious circle.

No, looks like it's a rollback to an image file from 1930s Germany...

Involve the military in domestic politics at your own peril. You may control how this folly starts, but you have no control on how it ends or who will end it.

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

These days *not shooting* is even more important. There are many situations where mistaken application of violence by a relatively low-ranking soldier can have strategically disastrous consequences. In short: as I once learned, there are situations where the duty is not to kill, but to die.

Any undisciplined brute can apply violence. We see this every day from the very non-woke Russian army. As many have noted, it is very much a medieval rampaging warrior horde. But to achieve meaningful strategic ends, especially today, it is just as or even more important to be able to *not* kill.

This *discipline* *not to kill* in fact separates a soldier from a warrior. Militaries emphasize discipline because to be effective, violence must be *controlled.* This has been true since before the Roman legions demonstrated what regularly happens when boring soldiers meet cool warriors.

Much has been said re: “this could’ve been an email” speech from the U.S. secretary of defence. But after reading it, I thought to add one thing. He really doesn’t understand why successful societies prefer boring soldiers to cool warriors. The key difference: soldiers apply *controlled* violence.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

Part of what this reveals is what US labor has been arguing since the late 19th C. At will employment impedes political democracy. If u can lose ur livelihood for ur (non violent & non harassing) beliefs, then being an engaged citizen is all but impossible. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Start the week with Part Two of of my chat with Leah Downey on her book, Our Money: Monetary Policy As If Democracy Matters, and all the stuff that has gone on since the summer... player.captivate.fm/episode/7654...

Just sent out a piece that reveals another drastic weakness in how the analytical community and the US government understands war. For years now, we have been force fed the narrative that Ukraine must draft its young male population and send them to the front. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

And now Palestinians are paying for these horrible crimes they had no part in, by being genocided by the descendants of survivors of one genocide.

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OK. The #Klein + #Remnick lovefest in @newyorker.com is a bridge too far. If I could ask Klein a few questions. Dear Ezra, you suggest that you are still "community" with the far-right, even as many see that as impossible at the moment. 1/

In Britain, a former far-right Reform party politician has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian viewpoints. Another scandal that should be the end of Reform but will be ignored unless we make a lot of noise about it.

today is the three-year anniversary of the covid infection that turned into long covid. it has completely rewritten the course of my life. it has brought me untold levels of physical suffering. it has devastated my mental health.

what i do know is that the friendships and collaborations i've formed with other ill and disabled people have brought meaning, community, and a deep caring into my life. these relationships have brought me back from the brink. they've changed me.

i am forever radicalized by the history i've learned, by the stories that others have shared with me, and by the deep injustice that has been happening toward sick people for generations.

No Chris @chrislhayes.bsky.social, they are going so fast because there's barely any resistance. Compliance is the common reaction. Ask Bob Iger! bsky.app/profile/alli...

Practicing medicine without a license. Remember that HCQ grift started when he said the drug works. And he wanted to give people bleach.

You better watch out, you better not cry You better not pout, I'm telling you why Nazi Don is coming to town He's making a list and checking it twice He's gonna find out who's naughty and nice Nazi Don is coming to town bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Tärkeä juttu ja ennakkotapaus salaisten pakkokeinojen rajoista. ”poliisi on kokenut tarvetta antaa käräjäoikeudelle tietoja, jotka poikkeavat poliisin omiin rekistereihin kirjatuista tiedoista. Poliisi on ymmärtänyt, että oikeat tiedot eivät oikeuttaisi televalvontaan.” www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-...

Vuosivertailussa virusmäärät ovat hyvin alhaisia edelleen, mikä on poikkeuksellista. Hyvä juttu. 2/3

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-Cov2 #jätevesi datat. Päivitetyt kaaviot, olkaa hyvät! - odottamaton lasku jatkuu - näyttää siltä, että elo-syyskuun epidemia jäi lyhyeksi 1/3

I think a lot of people jumped on the MAHA train early because "healthier" sounds good, without really knowing what it means, only to find out pretty quickly that this guy wants children to die

All policies are redistributive. Some policies redistribute from the poor and middle class to the rich. I'd say we've had enough of those. bsky.app/profile/rbre...

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.

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Esimerkiksi naisten sairaudet. Lääketieteessä miehen keho on ollut normi, jonka pohjalta sairaudet ja oireet on mallinnettu. Seurauksena naisten erityiset oirekuvat jäävät tunnistamatta, hormonien vaikutusta ei tutkimuksessa huomioida ja gynekologiset sairaudet alitutkitaan.

Another update from the “learn from the errors of others” department. Under the most right wing government in #Finland ‘s history, the #unemployment trend breaches 10% for the first time since the horrible depression of the early 1990s. AT A TIME THE REST OF THE EU IS RECOVERING.