Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In der #Schweiz wehrt sich eine Allianz aus Bürgerlichen und Wirtschaftsverbänden gegen höhere Steuern für Reiche – mit dem Vorwand, #Familienunternehmen zu schützen. Recherchen von CORRECTIV.Schweiz und der WOZ zeigen: Sie zahlen ohnehin kaum #Steuern.

Just a reminder that Starmer's accommodation of the radical right has not paid any electoral dividends to date. It's difficult to imagine circumstances in which it would...

All my life Watching America All my life There's panic in America Oh Oh Oh, Oh youtu.be/V9NhncU5_CE?... -> how scrolling through Bluesky feels for me as an European.

Social media undercuts public health and institutional trust A new study finds causal evidence that morally charged attacks generate anger and social media engagement which exacerbates the political polarization of public health www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Call on Big Tech to run its data centers on around the clock renewable energy:

Critizing the radical right actually works to create a distance between voters and these parties. If all other parties do it together.

A comprehensive review of research on the topic shows that “educating students in responsible phone use is a more sustainable and wholistic attempt to address problematic usage rather than enacting whole-of-school banning policies.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything

This economist ran the numbers and concluded that dating men ... doesn't really pencil out.

Look at how parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers! "[Parenthood] creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% ([in] Austria) and 64.8% ([in] Denmark)."

AI PROPONENTS: “Ugh, stop complaining! This is a fun tool that’s great for organizing ideas. Heck, it’ll make you more efficient if you’d just get over yourself! Stop acting like it’s so bad!” AI COMPANIES: “We paid a celebrity so we could put their face on a chatbot that teaches kids to fuck”

Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing. This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“I don’t know how to find the words to describe what we seem to have seen hundreds of times, but every time it hurts like never before. Thirty-one killed: five children, the youngest just two.” ❤️🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

Many other tech journalists are busy pushing moral panic bullshit in order to manufacture consent for this type of mass surveillance and the complete dismantling of free expression (LGBTQ content, repro justice content etc) online. And the left more broadly has also dropped the ball. It’s bad!

Fascinating observations on EVs from @davidfickling.bsky.social: - High adoption rates in developing countries - EVs pencil out unsubsidized - Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to India & Pakistan - EVs could eliminate India's current account deficit www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 🎁 🔗

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

The Economist says that Israel is practising ethnic cleansing in Gaza www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Irish residential electricity prices also rose 46%, from 23.8 to 34.8 euro-cents per kWh, over the last five years as annual data center electricity demand grew from ~0 to ~4.5 TWh. www.seai.ie/data-and-ins...

since the start of the Israel-Gaza war on October 7, 2023, 186 journalists have been killed—the Committee to Protect Journalists

We have plastic in our brains. And our livers, kidneys, heart, bloodstream and more. In just 8 years, scientists have observed an increase in the amount of bodily plastic. The outcomes of becoming part-plastic are not good. 🎁 via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Among those arrested was Sir Jonathon Porritt, 75, a former government adviser who said he had long been concerned about the erosion of civil liberties under successive governments. He was arrested under Section 13and bailed until 23 October www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience – including pensioners – have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.”

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...

If you've sold your Xbox, canceled Game Pass, or boycotted other parts of Microsoft following the BDS announcement earlier this year or reports like this one please email me at [email protected] or reach out on Discord at ethangach www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences. They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler. They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*

Lange Wartezeiten, Bürokratie, zu wenig Therapieplätze: Für Samstag ruft ein breites Bündnis zur Demonstration gegen die psychotherapeutische Versorgungskrise auf. Was ist da los? Zwei Kindertherapeutinnen berichten aus ihrem Praxisalltag. Interview: @dwild.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2532/psyc...

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Left wing voices have completely abdicated the issue of civil liberties/free speech online and now the extreme far right is taking the issue up and recruiting people off the backlash to age verification. Especially young gamers

Datenschutz bei Meta? Bitte NICHT auf Instagram darüber reden! Wenn selbst sachliche Aufklärung gelöscht wird, stehen wir vor einem ernsthaften Problem. Ein persönlicher Kommentar von Tom, Gründer von Mimikama. www.mimikama.org/meta-loescht...

The report says that the rise of ultra-fast fashion (cough Shein cough) and even MORE overproduction with polyester and other oil-based materials is throwing the sector off course. #FastFashion Find out more here:

Advisory opinion from ICJ is big (in more then 1 sense), but this summaries a lot:"The Court is of the view that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a precondition for the enjoyment of many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health ..." www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

A must-read article on the insidious tactics of Eni to silence its critics. Antonio is a brilliant campaigner and the legal case against him and other NGOs is a disgrace. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Die Schweiz muss für die neuen F-35-Kampfjets mehr bezahlen als angenommen. Sie habe sich von den USA über den Tisch ziehen lassen, sagt der britische Militär­experte Francis Tusa im Interview.

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Powerful.

In deutschen Städten werden CSDs wegen Bedrohungslagen abgesagt. Wären es Weihnachtsmärkte, dann gäbe es Sondersendungen und Sondersitzungen. So ist man etwas bestürzt, aber was soll man machen. Die volle Härte des Rechtsstaats konzentriert sich darauf, dass ein paar Leute nicht ins Land kommen.

I got 99 reasons to plant trees, but carbon offsetting ain't one.