harpers.org/archive/2025... the discourse of human rights that was righteously invoked ...and wielded to justify economic sanctions. That discourse now seems to have always been highly selective, defining human rights as civic and political rather than economic and social.

guess this means going forward she'll have to try and rip his face off every time he gets frisky, just to make sure.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...

I think lying to the liar is fair "I'm with the Boise Bugle, I'm with WKRP Cincinnati I'm with the NewPork Times"

This admiral refused to carry out illegal orders. A professional soldier will never execute an illegal order.

Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal. I would mention libraries, but…

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

The hepatitis B vaccine — and the current recommendation to give it at birth — is likely why years later, as a doctor, I cannot recall caring for a patient with liver cancer caused by this virus. It was the world’s first anticancer vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i... When it came to identifying who had released the deepfake video on WhatsApp, she learned it was an encrypted platform whose users had the right to privacy. “I’d like to think I have a right for my life not to be ruined,”

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

In a pilot study, A.I.was able to accurately predict the type of coda, the whale’s vocal clan and the individual whale with over 90% accuracy. ... it might be possible to use A.I. to find patterns within the vocal data and eventually translate what whales were saying to one another. #incroyable

For accurate science, follow the advice of your healthcare provider, &/or @cidrap.bsky.social &/or @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social &/or @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

Londoners ‘take back’ bridge following white nationalist rally in same spot #London #Ontario Roughly 30 men stood on the Wortley Road overpass holding a “remigration now” sign on Nov. 23 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ayup, sigh, barf. open.substack.com/pub/lizbucar...

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ho hum, nothing to see here, carry on human-ing. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras. Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking? He gets a full presidential pardon. Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.

If you wear makeup, avoid American brands. Anything made in that country is now suspect because the idiot “government” there has done away with safety standards. Add to this the fact that all right wing criminals know they’ll be pardoned by Taco the Clown and it’s clear that nothing US made is safe.

Jamaican bobsleigh team captures historic gold medal at Whistler competition Victory comes just weeks after country was devastated by Hurricane Melissa /1 thread www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

open.substack.com/pub/angrypic... The last colony and exploding imperial myths.

It's funny to see people saying the economy is fine, when you have tech dudes asking for a trillion dollars to invest in a product where their answer to "what's your business model" is "we'll ask our product how to make money".

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Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...

The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey. The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.

If you need another example of the difference between legacy media and independent pro-democracy media, compare The Washington Post and Democracy Docket's coverage of the same story. ("controversial video"--WTF.) Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

Quiet part, meet out loud.

oooohkay. icky but powerful people. www.facebook.com/reel/3269376...

Policymakers must begin by asking why China’s exports are a problem in the first place - By Dani Rodrik tomorrowsaffairs.com/chinas-expor... @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #ChinaEconomy #ChinaEV #Export

Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.

Never forget who MTG really is. courtesy of @mindcite.bsky.social

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Quite the quote on #COP30, by Professor Michael Jacobs of the think tank ODI Global and the University of Sheffield. Source: ‚Backchannel‘

Hopefully, if this does come to pass, any new construction will take seismic risk into consideration. Tehran is an earthquake disaster waiting to happen. Retrofitting old buildings is much harder than building new ones that are more resilient.

BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline. Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries. Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social

I also have a scar that says Trump Whore but mine is from a freak trampoline accident

A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say

nietzsche - without god everything is possible. millenial christians - with god everything is possible. either way, people who are convinced everything is possible are scary.

www.city-journal.org/article/minn... walz needs to fix it fast. this fraud is a gift to trumpers.

Somali-Led Cartels Are Fueling Kenya’s Real Estate Boom With Minnesota Fraud Money from American 🇺🇸 social welfare programs - Kenya Insights - kenyainsights.com/a-pattern-em...

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control. by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

Priestley member, Prof Simon Lewis, features in The Guardian, discussing the Congo Basin and how it is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but it is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding www.theguardian.com/environment/... #COP30 #tropicalrainforests #CongoBasin

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

People who just wanted to 'Drain the Swamp' only now realizing they voted for an Alligator.