My maternal hometown x.com/DropSiteNews...

Al Jazeera now reporting that Strait of Hormuz has been closed bsky.app/profile/msja...

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

The conservative candidate in last nights election was known literally for one thing; she led the anti trans activity in the police. Seriously that was her background, and why Badenoch backed her. And what happened? It’s time to give up the lie that transphobia is popular

Inflation expectations are not higher than the prices people pay (out of pocket). Which is officially measured inflation, too. Gasoline and food prices seem to drive these expectations quite a bit.

Yup. And frequently *out of pocket* purchases (that´s what she´s talking about) did rise more than the general price index. Since a long time. And she´s right. Economists need more literacy about this.

When a central bank organises lectures like this one...

Oh! The joy of writing that the credit card system is rooted in the centuries-old ´petty debts local shops´ facial recognition system, which nobody ever believes, and discovering that Sean Vanatta describes this in detail, including (real life) facial recognition. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300....

F*ck

Ehmmm... yes. Quadrillions. www.mckinsey.com/industries/f...

In Ukraine, drones have become even more expendable than men... (to an extent a mirage: shells are spent, too, of course and drones are to an extent flying shells).

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

The most corrupt Eastern European oligarchs must be nodding with respect at the stuff Trump administration officials are coming up with. This is genius

Not for the first time A) this is what 'for profits' do B) it can be mitigated when committed workers have tenure and independence C) private equity has been invented to crush tenure, commitment and independance

Facts

A bit about the blatant neo-imperialist Rubio speech x.com/MerijnKnibbe...

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Anyway, on Twitter (where there´s and abundant presence of raging rightists) I did some close reading of the Rubio Speech. Help. Mass migration is good when Germans go to the US. But not when Mexicans (who nowadays are much, much better educated than they were only 40 years ago) come to the US.

The weirdest aspect of the Rubio speech: he is a Hispanic. And mentions Irish, German, Uk settlers - and Spanish horses. Not Spanish settlers (let alone Native Americans).

Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.

Gewoon een gewone man die gewoon reageert op een vrouw met een mening.

Als je mensen serieus wil nemen, moet je ook hun niet mis te verstane kwaadwilligheid serieus nemen. Dat vinden zachtaardige mensen moeilijk, waardoor zij kiezen voor paternalisme en misplaatst begrip voor misplaatst slachtofferschap. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Bad news

Good news. Much less babies in IC in the Netherlands thanks to RS injection (immunisation, not vaccination)

De-settlement. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The costs of swiping... Wanna save cute mom and pop shops? Provide them with cheap payment methods, for instance, based on central bank digital currency. Not just cheaper but also better for everyone's privacy. source: www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/news-sm...

The path ahead for the EU is clear.

Interestingly, this speech implicitly clearly indicates that according to the ECB money is not 'neutral'. Even less so for digital money and payments.

Believe the far right. They want violence, inequality and suprematism.

No time for bewilderment. US out of NATO (which will mean a pact between US and Russia). Ukraine in.

Schiet mij maar lek

We are back to, and sometimes even above, levels at the end of Trump 1. This time, however, many Europeans won’t swing back. The transatlantic alliance is dead, even if close transatlantic collaboration could survive.

In 2016 Hillary Clinton had 2.9 million votes more than Trump. Neither of them had more than 50% of the votes.

The crypto bust has been predicted for years. And the reason it is happening is the reason cited in these predictions. House of cards. Aside: deposit money is a stablecoin, too. But that one is backed by (the balance sheets of) banks, the central bank and the government. And its use value.

That´s amazing. But for comparison:

Today I talked with some alumni of Wageningen University and Research (WUR). It has outsourced its website to AI. What I understand: the 'six fingers' hallucination mess one expects.

Maybe you did not notice. But deposit money (your bank account) is a government and central bank-backed stable coin, linked to legal tender. Google ´bail-outs´ ´banks´

BREAKING from 🇵🇱: Polish government has appointed a special analytical team that will investigate this matter, Polish PM Donald Tusk announced. Tusk: “There are signs that Epstein was connected to the Russian intelligence”

Wat betreft het verhogen van dat bonusplafond voor bankiers... Lees dit.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Obsceen idee om de Gestapoachtige knokploegen van ICE van informatie te voorzien over Europese burgers

I´m reading the IMF Central Bank Digital Currency manual's chapter on fragile and conflict-affected areas. It is good. www.imf.org/-/media/file... Our present digital payment system is fragile (every layer of the pyramid can be disrupted). Card-based CBDCs can cut the three lower layers.

1) I read another chapter from the IMF Central Bank Digital Currency Manual www.imf.org/en/topics/di... 2) The chapter about CBCDs and financial inclusion www.imf.org/-/media/file... What did I learn?

Schiet mij maar lek (2)

Schiet mij maar lek (1)

Does the international left care about who funds the far right?

Don't reason with or about peopke like Trump. Crush them. 8mpeach them. C8nvuct them. L9ck them up. 10 bulluon fines.

"Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday." www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

There´s a lot to say about these skeets by @jwmason.bsky.social My 5 cents: not all prices are market prices. What do I mean? I´m investigating the Commons on the Dutch island of Ameland. As late as 1910 (when they had been officially disbanded for 14 years) one of these mustered 68 people to

De overdrachtsbelasting voor beleggers op de woningmarkt wordt opnieuw verlaagd: van 8% naar 7%. Dat volgt op een eerdere besluit tot verlaging van 10% naar 8% in 2025. woningcorporaties worden nog steeds fiscaal gestraft een draadje: