“To make sure that fascists don’t win (i.e. in order for us to stay in power) we will adopt & implement fascist discourse & policies. In doing that, we will also normalize fascism for larger parts of the population because some idiots still describe us as ‘centre-left’”. Here, fixed it.

"A US–Israeli firm is developing a spraying system for future “cooling services” to offer to governments. Other nations are pushing back. Mexico banned solar geoengineering experiments in 2023, after an unauthorised trial over its territory by a US startup." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics

Kulldorff: Somehow I am both a left-wing extremist and a right-wing extremist. This is probably the closest this guy will ever come to any sort of introspection about his own role in promoting libertarian‑pilled social darwinism. Although the interview is generally critical, its focus is too...

1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!

This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵

The future: Bleak but urgent.

Sverige: "Our findings suggest that the pandemic was associated with increased type 1 diabetes incidence and possibly greater co-morbidity with thyroid autoimmunity, in children affected by COVID-19." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Enjoying this series. It's the kind of thinking that's sorely lacking in Norwegian public debate, where state broadcaster NRK's coverage of "loss of nature" has been the subject of much attention for almost two years.

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations 'It's a de facto ban disguised as higher standards."

Trans Atlantic Social Darwinism.

🧵HHS today announced that Martin Kulldorff has been hired to advise Secretary Kennedy on science policy. Kulldorff is one of many in government who share ties to the Brownstone Institute, a think-tank whose associates seek to limit the government’s role in protecting Americans from disease.

Ironien er død: "Denne typen desinformasjon er veldig utfordrende. Primært for den amerikanske befolkningen, men i vår tid med internett og rask spredning av informasjon på tvers av kloden, så er det klart at dette også kan påvirke oss."

More specifically on the wellness-far right relationship: there have long been fascist & libertarian ideas embedded in alt-health ideology. It was the growth of wellness consumerism in the decades leading up to 2020 that sparked the politicized wellness grift currently taking over health politics.

Regular reminder that this goes beyond the US and the UK. Well-connected Norwegian longtermism think tank "Langsikt" has been instrumental in promoting the lab-leak narrative in Norway. Top Scandinavian public-health officials have been sympathetic to central ideas and people from the GBD milieu..

There is a certain irony that climate protesters asking for a state of emergency are met with increasingly harsh rules of exception. Although a true "green state of emergency" would be dangerous, countries seem hell-bent on protecting the status quo, laying the groundwork for the dangers of...

"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results." From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections

Not so fun climate realism fact: Today's rate of warming is significantly faster than the end-Permian. Billionaires and tech bros cosplaying volcanoes will surely do the trick.

Gift link www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Andre Lago just mentioned that his initiative for the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap will indeed benefit from the first phase-out conference in Colombia next year. Now, THIS is historical. A clear signal that if they intend to create a roadmap, they will have to do it alongside civil society.

And as I've been saying for a few years, if we go rid of the possibility of adding ridiculous self-congratulatory clauses in these declarations, they may actually read as less cynical when they underdeliver each year.

After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low. European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths! Me in @theguardian.com

The reaction and mobilization over on the other site against the UK Covid Inquiry's rather obvious conclusion that a well-timed lockdown works better than an ill-timed lockdown shows, yet again, that in their efforts to understand contemporary authoritarianism/fascism, the Scandinavian left's...

Kamikkallalii (One with Short Boots) Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk 2025

While the Reuters report says an AMOC shutdown "could trigger a modern-day ice age", this is not what we scientists call an ice age. Rather, it is a regional cooling, plus other severe impacts on sea level, rainfall patterns, weather extremes, marine ecosystems and ocean carbon uptake.

"Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled. Because of their chemical composition, plastics are extremely difficult to recycle—and of those few recyclable plastics, they can only be recycled once, downcycled into lower-quality and disposable plastics."

The ultimate "we'll update our understanding but keep the old praxis" is when public health (like in Norway) made the pretty effing huge epistemic shift from droplet to aerosol, while simultaneously keeping recommendations of surgical masks, 2m, and FFP for AGP and highly symptomatic patients only.

Your regular reminder that a not insignificant part of Scandinavian public health and medicine, including top public health officials, have expressed support (privately) for the likes of Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and the contrarian milieu thriving under RFK jr.

When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change Oh, this is good from @davidfenton.bsky.social and @theframelab.bsky.social

In case you're wondering how cozy AI giant Nvidia, and its CEO Jensen Huang, are getting to the Trump administration, Huang's now showering praise on Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a climate denying fracking executive..... My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️ www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...

Vi mangler en nyansert debatt om opprustning, det er et problem. Hjelper ikke at rød-brun-venstre kupper kritikken. Godt gjort av Friis å ikke ta opp faren for at opprustingen i Europa kan føre til utstrakt austerity-politikk, som igjen vil gi sterk grobunn for ytre-høyre kreftene han advarer mot!

By providing spatially and temporally resolved meltwater fluxes, our dataset could enable a large set of models to explore how AMOC might respond to realistic freshwater forcing, not just idealised pulses. This is a key step toward understanding future climate dynamics under continued ice loss (5/n)

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The insidious rhetoric of Lomborg has broad appeal (J.W. Moore is a huge Fazi stan!)

Dr. Craig Spencer: "It’s not a stretch to say this administration is touting a eugenics agenda, which was perfected by the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s and later adopted by the Nazis. People don’t want to call it that because it feels unsayable. But it’s real.."

A good article on what is going on in Serbia, feat. your favourite sociology and philosophy professor explaining why there has, historically, been only one way for a true system change ;) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

Dette er svært uredelig, på grensen til konspiratorisk argumentasjon: Skyrud viser først til en ikke navngitt gruppe fagpersoner som hevder Covid vil føre til samfunnskollaps, og hevder lenger ned i tråden at: "ett av de sentrale argumentene til de som mener at samfunnet ikke vil tåle...

Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti. Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.

In some climate models abrupt cooling in the subpolar gyre region is found, corresponding to a collapse of convection. Such tipping of the subpolar gyre might already occur around 2040 and could impact the stability of the AMOC. For an analysis of abrupt shifts see: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Worried about shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC? The collapse of the subpolar gyre is a likely step on the way to that and could happen a lot sooner. Not quite as bad as full AMOC shutdown, but could bring major impacts already in 10-20 years. Important study on the mechanism ⬇️!

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though the porcupine might disagree.

Good article. Important to recognize that while some public-health professionals reject RFK Jr. (e.g. in Scandinavia) they might still endorse ideas aligned with social darwinism and necropolitics, and that these ideologies often operate together, as seen (though not exclusively) in the US.

#NowAvailable Disabling Intelligences discusses the influences of eugenics on the #AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people, encompassing the history of AI and disability from popular culture to real-life case-studies. @hss.springernature.com @fractalecho.bsky.social

Disclaimer: Uten å ha utgaven i hånd, ser tidskriftet Røyst ut til å fullføre(?) den rødbrune overgangen med framhevede tekster av folk fra the Critic Mag og Epoch Times. Care to explain @thoroivers.bsky.social ?

Crystal-clear policy implications:

For noen dager siden satt Vegard Wyller på #dax18 og hevdet at: "Covid går inn i alle cellene i kroppen og har masse effekter i akuttfasen, men det er veldig lite forskning som tyder på at dét forklarer hvorfor noen ender opp med svært lange symptombilder". academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

I think this is right and until the Democrats start talking about doing this the starting assumption should be that they're not serious about opposing this.