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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 9 days ago • 512 comments

“The overwhelming claim has been that dark energy is no longer consistent with a cosmological constant […] However, this conclusion — despite how widely reported it’s been — is completely premature”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Could someone just unplug the US and then plug it in again?

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Francesco the taxi driver was listening to a discussion of European security (or lack thereof) on the radio. Literally as we passed the Roman Forum, he addressed me with real sorrow: people have forgotten history. My Italian is poor but the context helped

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Trump was right! When you hire people for their race or gender, you don’t get the best and brightest

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

fulfilling my obligation to repost at least one cat video in my life

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Another line crossed in the descent into authoritarianism. Government strong-arming a law firm into compliance. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

A correct decision, too late. Irredeemably tainted by the stain of succumbing to a bigoted authoritarian regime

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It’s important to map out our universe! But dynamical dark energy remains wildly implausible. It’s a fanciful notion, requires fine tuning worse than a pencil on its tip, and yet more tuning for the sole purpose of hiding itself from observers for so long. I call it a unicorn in a duck suit here:

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Today Donald Trump called Canada the "nastiest" nation. Good grief

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Signs of life in recent days from the judiciary www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“There isn’t a mirror on the planet big enough for the Democrats and the left to look into, to see all the ways that they elected Trump. No mirror is big enough for them. But now this is what we have.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Highly authoritarian behaviour to deport lawful residents for saying & doing things that don’t violate the law. The same powers could be abused to target a wide range of politically dissenting voices with a chilling effect on free speech.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump regime is doing a trial run at disappearing people, and they are starting with those least likely to cause a pushback. If you accede merely because you despise the first victim, you are legitimizing the authoritarian. Push back now or forever hold your peace.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I doubt that Khalil would go out of his way to defend liberal democracy, if his side were calling the shots. He is the mouthpiece of a movement that selectively condemns Israel’s war crimes but not the Hamas atrocities that led to that war. I am not on his side.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is when it counts. An easy scapegoat was arrested without (so far) any criminal charge—ironically, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism. A president who embraced white nationalists is bragging about this outrageous abuse of power.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

CDU/CSU &SPD have just proposed a sea change in German fiscal policy: - defence spending above 1% of GDP exempt from debt brake - 10-year €500bn special fund for infrastructure - looser debt rules for states - further debt-brake reform in new Bundestag

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

There is a scenario (probability: 30%?) in which Merz just happens to be a counter-intuitively good fit for the moment. A peculiar combination of curmudgeonly old-West German conservatism, Atlanticist realism, and European romanticism that somehow blasts Europe's caution away.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is aggressively undermining America’s significance on the world stage, except as a pariah state and sad servant of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation. Any of us in America who believe in democracy must look to leadership in Europe.

submitted 42 days ago • 63 comments

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

submitted 42 days ago • 395 comments

White House is the new Kremlin

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Voluntary Gleichschaltung: Democracy Dies In Broad Daylight www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

New world order: 1 month in, the US is a rogue nation, keeping the company of Belarus and North Korea on Putin's lap www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

What happens when the mafia runs the Department of Justice www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

If you work for Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, Bezos, or anyone else who went out of their way to kiss the ring, think about your life choices.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments