The progressive bloc in Congress, led by the same senator who is currently trying to block weapon sales to Israel, was the group responsible for rallying support for the first ever War Powers Resolution passed by both chambers of Congress— and it was about Saudi Arabia. The whininess is obscene.

"No servants" is in part to make clear that in our dream economy, certain non-essential, labor-intensive services — food delivery, chaffeurs, maids — will become *less* available as we succeed, the same way post-war prosperity after WW2 ended the practice of live-in servants bsky.app/profile/anti...

Bill McKibben's weekly chuffing newsletter is an indispensable mood aid in These Our Times billmckibben.substack.com/p/uncanny-sp...

plus with everything going on in the nuclear regulatory space and the training/labor market feeders into nuclear, it feels much safer to just have batteries everywhere

happy mother's day to all those who wish the lord would take them now

Man white American boomers *really* love telling you that [random city] has changed and is so dangerous now

As soon as my roommates in Cologne told me “the university library is really ugly” I knew it was going to be good

There are no good, clean hands options when the basic fairness & reciprocity of a democratic system have been undermined by a fascist movement in power

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Neglect of the feet can cause Jungle Rot™ and make you a casualty.

Yoda and Jabba are just humans. Yoda is what star wars humans look like when they're extremely old and magical. Jabba is what star wars humans look like when they're extremely corrupt and hedonistic. This is supported in-text by character dialogue.

Oops too bad I did a masters and a PhD and therefore only joined the labor market five years into German economic decline lol

Israeli television news investigation confirms what we already knew, which is that the 3 hostages who were shot and executed by Israeli soldiers were killed because the overarching rules of engagement in Gaza were such that "a man, no matter the age, you kill him straight away".

Yes but to be clear we also have to actively lower the salaries of 23 year olds who have been working at McKinsey for 2 years. Like you should not be allowed to make that much; it poisons the society you live in

Heckuva a military partner the U.S. has here. Also, 18 U.S. Code § 2441.

Wenn Merz Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan für's «Stadtbild» fordert, wenn Weimer sich von NIUS-Kampagnen seine Kulturkampf-Agenda diktieren lässt oder wenn Rödder Curtis Yarvin zum relevanten Denker stilisiert, dann sind sie Teil von Faschisierungsdynamiken, was auch immer ihre Intentionen sind 4/

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They need to all go to jail for the rest of their lives. The magnitude of the crimes are unprecedented & we have not internalized the scope & scale of criminal authoritarianism that letting boys with toys access all the data & destroy the government by end-running around Congress represents.

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I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

I just cannot get over the fact that Black voters in Memphis, the city where MLK was assassinated and led the Poor People’s Campaign, will no longer have basic representation in Congress

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

"A small gang of state agents have put it upon themselves to terrorize the same immigrant minorities over and over again because they have legal impunity and are acting in accordance with the intent of the sitting executive government" is a perfectly accurate description of what is happening.

since I find that a lot of white libs suffer the inability to properly internalize what is happening in this country, I would like you to sit with the thought that the intent here is that people like Venegas decide that they should try leaving the country. This admin loves racist history, after all.

Good night / gumo

In fact it is apparently too difficult to get the Germans to fulfill an already existing legal obligation under EU rules to accurately *label* goods which come from illegal settlements

Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

This whole "some settlements will probably be ceded anyway so there is no problem in regarding them as part of Israel" is a complete goalpost shift anyway, btw. None of us ever consented to that. The Palestinians did not consent. People are making this up.

Eines der Anzeichen, wie gefährlich die aktuelle Regierung ist - und wie nah an Trumps Stil. Gerichtsentscheidungen werden ignoriert - ganz öffentlich. Ohne Skrupel. Voller Geringschätzung für unsere Gewaltenteilung, die einer der wichtigsten Stabilisatoren einer Demokratie sind. Wir sind in Gefahr.

448 former European leaders and diplomats, including former EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell, have urged the EU to act against a major Israeli settlement project known as E1, which aims to cut the West Bank in two. They call for visa bans and sanctions on businesses promoting settlement.

weimer: „Unser Patient Deutschland liegt da, es wird keine Wunderheilung passieren, aber wir müssen operieren. Friedrich Merz hat deswegen die Rolle eines Notarztes angenommen.“ bei gott lasst mich einf ste—

Das war vielleicht das grüne daran: man will von der person noch verständnis für die distanzierung das abcanceln. Andere Akteure rufen einfach die polizei, die Grünen möchten noch dein lächeln, wenn sie dich rausschmeissen lassen

hot take: menschen die diese position vertreten klammern sich zu sehr an ihrer aufgebauten follower*innenschaft – am ende ist es eitelkeit, die die switching cost so teuer macht.

Bin wiederum etwas verwirrt hier, dass aus "sie bleiben Demokraten" --> "sie müssen von Faschismus [faschisierung]" unterschieden werden. Warum sollte Demokratie hier ein Schlüsselbegriff sein, der hilfreich ist?

Really interesting paper detailing the “nuclear energy paradox” which shows the gap between the hype around nuclear and the reality of it. "The historic perspective helps to show that nuclear imaginaries may never materialize and remain in a hypothetical state for decades."

The figure in this paper is fascinating. It's the opposite of the famous image of how renewables growth was always under-estimated in energy projections.

France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

“You would hope that German officials would support scientists’ advice, but they have ignored it,” says one marine biologist who asked not to be identified because they feared repercussions. Must-read story by @martinenserink.bsky.social in @science.org. Feels like an encapsulation of our times 🧪

Always nice to start the day with some good news 🫠 #EGU26

Einer Mutter von 3 Kindern wurde das Bürgergeld um mtl. 170 € gekürzt, da sie dem Jobcenter nicht „glaubhaft” machen konnte, dass es sich bei Geldeingängen auf ihrem Konto nur um Rückerstattung von Geld handelte, welches sie für Lebensmittel für ihre Familie auf dem Markt ausgegeben hat. Jede 1/3

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To all this you have to add the fact that a LOT of US infrastructure is now Eisenhower years old or older, and truly on its last legs. The way the NYC subway has declined in the 19 years I’ve been here is crazy. The economic cost of infrastructure collapse is going to soar in the US next 50 years.

Saved you a click it's measured in GDP per capita

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Weitgehend unbeachtet hat das Kabinett gestern ein Überwachungspaket beschlossen, das Orwell fast blass aussehen lässt. Darin steckt unter anderem die Fotofahndung im Netz. Dazu müssten massenweise Gesichter aus dem Netz gescrapet werden – ohne Zustimmung. Mehr dazu: netzpolitik.org/2026/rechtli...

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended