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Fascinating

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Doesn't it depend on the environment? For example, cycling yes in the Netherlands, but not so much in San Francisco. Human beats Salmon in Nevada, comes a poor second in Atlantic Ocean

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This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

submitted 13 days ago • 1359 comments

Almost worth signing up to Twitter again. Not really.

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In the US, federal prosecutors sent threatening letters to scientific journals, including NEJM, accusing them of bias. RFK jr accuses NEJM of 'lying ...and retracting the real science' threatening to prosecute scientific journals under federal anti-corruption laws. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/h...

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Jeffrey Sachs on a roll …. vm.tiktok.com/ZNd2NWRFy/

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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 25 days ago • 656 comments

It appears that the main consequence of laissez fair globalisation is a desparate need to find a scapegoat. Won’t solve anything though - after tariffs, what then? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYNsSfe/

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Right-wingers having second thoughts. One looks back and sees there were no solid ideas for a post-liberal society — it was all just aesthetics, resentments and vibes. ”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/dissident-right-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1._04.WfHM.I2zlUIhhV-Z_&smid=bs-share

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Well worth a listen. Fascinating

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Just started reading Vassal State - How America runs Britain - by Angus Hanton (publ. 2024). From the introduction:

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The Telegraph book of the year #VassalState by Angus Hanton is out now in paperback 🦅 'Provocative and detailed ... Excellent' @telegraphnews.bsky.social Read now: bit.ly/VassalState

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating listen. Provides some amazing background detail to something that Jeffrey Sachs has been talking a lot about.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

More Than 1,800 Academics Say They Will Boycott Columbia-and the Number Is Growing ->In These Times | More info from EcoSearch

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The paragraph starting "By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise" should show up in subtitles rolling across the TV screen whenever anyone from the administration is wheeled out to defend the tarrifs.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is worth a watch as well... good Brooks and Marcus commentary. Reminds of why I cancelled my WaPo subscription. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGZX...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Well worth a read

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All you need to know about Twitter

submitted 51 days ago • 3173 comments

Greetings and Salutations BlueSky. This quote reads fit to your moment: “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — John Adams

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Reagan’s ‘Peace Through Strength’ Never Looked So Weak. Good article from Bloomberg’s Andes’s Kluth

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Great speech. Really need to listen to it in its entirety.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Economics is the study of the effect of the field of economics on a composite of measurements, representations, and intuitions developed by the discipline of economics that we—with no sense of irony—call "the economy."

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

A/Political (X/ @apoliticalorg): "They don't care!" Jeffrey Sachs on US approach to Civilian Deaths in Gaza and Ukraine. Host Matt Kennard (X/ @kennardmatt) Video ~47:12min youtu.be/irpFD-uBfs4?...

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

America’s foreign policy hands talk tough on China. But are they free to say what they really think? @eliotchen.bsky.social reports on a new paper about the China debate. https://buff.ly/405NuD1

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

I might be prepared to sacrifice the fact checkers if they replaced them with value checkers.

submitted 126 days ago • 5 comments

We are no longer an reliable ally, which is a solid first step to not being a superpower any more. Absolutely amazing what we threw away because the American public was just bored.

submitted 126 days ago • 5 comments