Uzbekistan investing in America and not the other way around. An incredible deal, indeed

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

⚡️ NATO secretary general says Putin is "running out of money, troops and ideas"

This ends in revolution

“The academic reward system continues to incentivize quantity over quality. We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state. retractionwatch.com/2025/10/21/l...

Al Gore at the Norges Bank climate conference just now: ”The fossil fuel industry is significantly more effective at capturing politicians than capturing emissions“

Adam Tooze: Market correction of the same magnitude as the dotcom crash could wipe out over $20trn in wealth, equivalent to roughly 70% of American GDP in 2024. This is several times larger than the losses of the early 2000s. The implications for consumption would be grave.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

Wow, even higher than recent years - explains MP's focus on H2, biofuels, and CCS over solar, wind, etc. Exactly why we need the national emergency briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social and then on to weekly briefings. Pls ask your MP to attend: www.nebriefing.org www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What happened in Alaska will repeat in Budapest: The Russian president delivered a historical discussion spanning medieval princes such as Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise, along with the 17th century Cossack chieftain Bohdan Khmelnytsky, to support his claim Ukraine and Russia are one nation

It’s exciting to see how the expectations of Russia’s collapse are changing here (and elsewhere), from “this cannot ever happen” two years ago and till this summer — to “it is imminent”

The Doomsday Clock once meant nuclear war. In After Midnight, Alexander Etkind & Johanna Gautier-Morin trace catastrophic learning and how today’s « pluralistic » disasters arrive « without a bang but with a thousand whimpers ». Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/after-midnig...

Sikorski: this war will end like WWI www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/w...

The pedophile circle broadening. A detailed study of the 1980s underground cell with Kryuchkov, Borovik, Churkin, Trump, Epstein, and the Maxwells. On the photo the young Churkin, future ambassador to the UN

Alex Soros: “we do not know what will come, or what threats it may carry, but we are certain that we will not cede any ground without a fight nor be cowed into silence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The power of podcasters. This is a monological genre, and it explains a lot. There was more democracy even in the old idea of the power of the Soviets

I have heard this view many times and interestingly, I am hearing it more now than in the past. Often it is little more than a convenient excuse to sit back and do nothing. Even when it isn't, the distance from here to complacency is short. "Kyiv in 3 days" is history but Russia might as well win

Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'

On the other side of the war

Russlands Feldzug gegen die moderne Gesellschaft – eine pointierte Kritik an Putins Krieg gegen Klimabewusstsein, #Energiewende und digitale Arbeit.  https://tvl.ink/6S423 @sashaetkind.bsky.social   #politikwissenschaft #Russland #Ukraine

Excellent Ukrainian publisher, Folio, has translated my Russia against Modernity. This is the 10th language for this book, and probably the most important translation.

The collusion seems to include providing the Russian authorities with materials (from their confidential asylum applications!) used to send forcibly repatriated dissidents to prison. The depth of betrayal here is beyond words.

Latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social has interesting piece on learning from catastrophe by @sashaetkind.bsky.social and @johannagautier.bsky.social with a letter in response from me #ClimateResponsibility #Louisiana #climateimpacts

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Because humanity has failed to act preemptively on climate change, necessary responses will follow catastrophes rather than prevent them. There will be no singular apocalypse, no clean ending. We are living after the age of scientific revolutions - in the era of catastrophic learning.

our very fresh long read, please do read and share europeanreviewofbooks.com/after-midnig...

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

What value is this going to add to our lives & region on this, the 20th anniversary of Katrina, from which we have yet to fully recover? What will this contribute to society? Who will this serve?

💸❗️Foreign companies paid at least $20 billion in taxes to the Russian budget in 2024, according to the KSE Institute and B4Ukraine, — Newsweek. These funds would be enough to pay the salaries of 1 million Russian soldiers.

A very good article - rare chance to combine climate and security in one major step www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Russlands Feldzug gegen die moderne Gesellschaft – eine pointierte Kritik an Putins #Krieg gegen Klimabewusstsein, #Energiewende und digitale Arbeit. Zum Buch: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7511-5 @sashaetkind.bsky.social  #Zeitdiagnose #Politikwissenschaft #Russland

“Nemesis is different from revenge and far from justice. They both require external agency, but in nemesis the evildoer destroys itself in the very process of making evil….In attempting to deprive all other actors of their agency, the evildoer turns the whole action against himself.” So true.

It looks like the right moment to post my essay again www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/russia...

He might need to release the Epstein files to distract from the Russia summit

Wait, so Alaska is now Russia???

In a recent essay for the Ideas Letter, usually a rich collection of intellectual reflections, two Russian emigres agree on something highly unusual:

Over two decades 92 million deaths were prevented by USAID and over the next five years 14 million people are likely to die as result of the USAID cuts. Even if these Lancet estimates are a bit wrong, they give a sense of the magnitude on.ft.com/4ojiRFJ

“Seventy-five per cent of universities “do not teach any ecological economics”.” That’s equivalent to finding that 75% of university physics departments don’t teach about gravity. The very roots of the words, eco-/oikos, stems fm the same source. Oikos. Home. The Earth. The space-time we occupy.

🇦🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump was ready to “give” Putin 5 Ukrainian regions, — Austrian Foreign Minister ❗️She said that Trump offered Putin Crimea and several eastern regions of Ukraine, as well as the exclusion of Kyiv from the future NATO. However, according to her, this did not stop the Kremlin.

Nate Vance, Howard Buffett, Eric Schmidt… and millions of other people who know what’s going on. Please read this excellent interview with JD’s cousin theins.ru/en/confessio...

Unexpectedly, a great article: “The consequences of bad economics teaching spill out into the world. They shape our policies and our climate. Economics has been harmful, and yet, our world is determined to repeat it all the way to economic and environmental destruction.” www.ft.com/content/9aab...

Hope to see www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon...

What’s the difference between a comedian and a clown? — Comedian knows what he is doing. There is a great country where a comedian became the leader — and there are hapless countries where clowns got crowns

I can't wait to see what the next 10 months are going to be like for Colbert. Now he has nothing to lose. It's a shame he lost his show, but this is going to be interesting. CBS, Paramount, and Dementia Don are all now fair game. Colbert ratings will go thru the roof. I ordered a case of popcorn.

FINALLY: NATO warns Russia it will strike Kaliningrad if the GPS jamming radars there cause an aviation crash. Russia has been jamming NATO airspace since 2022. euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/14/f...

Musk, Grok and Hitler: “He might want to tilt it to the right… I presume that what happened was not deliberate, but it was the consequence of something that was deliberate, and it’s something that was not really predictable. And so the whole thing is a mess.” www.politico.eu/article/why-...

The Far Right is an international complot against climate action and human survival. First this suicidal cult came to power in Russia, next was America, and now the cabal got sinister power in Europe as well www.politico.eu/article/the-...