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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 21 days ago • 1691 comments

bAcK oN tRacK

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Latest with @jimmyrushton.bsky.social: Ukraine didn’t just humiliate Vladimir Putin with its stunning FPV drone assault on Russia’s strategic bombers—it also embarrassed Donald Trump, who repeatedly dismissed Kyiv’s ability to fight without U.S. help t.co/9SqbwxSa35

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Dear Russians, this is not a terrorist attack. This is war. Ukraine targeted your strategic bombers, not your homes. Your own armed forces are, on the other hand, constantly terrorising Ukrainian civilians.

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

More predictable claims from Lux-in today... Apparently tight Govt spending has tamed inflation and enabled RBNZ to reduce interest rates and put money back in kiwis' pockets. Praise be! Let's unpack that BS... All data in 🧵 is from today's RBNZ MPS May 25 [1/n]

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

believing equilibrium describes the real world is monumentally stupid and yet here we are, trapped in this broken paradigm

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I'll have more to say on today's absolute horror show of a budget at the weekend. This is all I've got for now... another week of terrible jobs data.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

The Govt have crashed the economy and kicked thousands of young people out of work. Now they're coming for their meagre benefits - to force them into selling their labour cheap to slave masters in the gig economy (or piling into debt for tertiary education). It is disgusting.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Oh, it must be Christmas - an article on money creation including quotes some from of my favourite reckonomists. What a treat! And, I kid you not, some of it is even correct! Let's get into the glorious detail... [🧵 1/n]

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Handy guide for progressives on the 'Govt books are a mess' nonsense. The facts are readily available. Sunday 🧵 Here's NZ Central Govt net financial position. Govt financial liabilities (grey) have gone up, but the increase is easily offset by Govt having more cash in the bank & share values [1/n]

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

submitted 46 days ago • 17 comments

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... bAcK oN tRacK

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

submitted 49 days ago • 571 comments

Agree with Frank: at least German MPs still have the guts to let Merz know that they don’t like him and some of his politics and style and therefore won’t necessarily give him an easy time. If only some GOP members ever stood up to Trump.

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

submitted 51 days ago • 200 comments

Ich halte diese Recherche auch deshalb für so wichtig, weil es heißt, dass die Ukraine Gebiete an 🇷🇺 abtreten muss. Das Schicksal und die Leiden, die Wiktoria Roschina erlitten hat, zeigen, was es bedeutet, unter russischer Besatzung zu leben. Denn sie ist kein Einzelfall. Die Folter hat System.

submitted 58 days ago • 11 comments

I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.

submitted 58 days ago • 251 comments

it will never not be incredible and infuriating that this is never, ever mentioned in our public discourse

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Right, rant incoming on that Treasury fiscal policy paper. I'll start with the first paragraph of the cutesy summary version. Apparently, we have a 'public purse' that pays for services. Let's unpack that a bit - where is this public purse and how much is in it? [🧵 1/n]

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Josef Janning wrote in a recent issue of Internationale Politik that the EU is closer to failing than ever before. I disagreed and got to write for why I think the opposite. Precisely because Europe has never had so few alternatives as it does right now, it is not going to fail.

submitted 76 days ago • 14 comments

People were excited after Finnish President Stubb’s golf visit to Mar a Lago as Trump rambled for a bit about hitting Russia with more sanctions. Today he put tariffs on penguins and a US military base but not on Russia. It’s pretty clear that European leaders have no meaningful influence on Trump

submitted 84 days ago • 25 comments

"A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 84 days ago • 14 comments

Featuring comment from me. Said comment being, basically, it's bad for Parliament to throw out submissions you've solicited from the public unread, whether it's the TPB w/ 300k subs, or a boring technical tax tweak with 15. Corrosive to democracy and the Committee should reconsider.

submitted 86 days ago • 18 comments

🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today. This is what hope looks like. The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations for democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls... The authoritarian wave can be stopped.

submitted 89 days ago • 18 comments

Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."” www.france24.com/en/live-news...

submitted 92 days ago • 43 comments

It’s sad and embarrassing how Trump and his idiots just keep laying their cards on the table. Like are they even trying. How can one be so bad at this

submitted 93 days ago • 18 comments

So this turned out to be useful even sooner than I was expecting when I posted it on twitter this morning.

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments

🇺🇸🇵🇱🇭🇺 crosses "government uses private chat to coordinate something, gets exposed" off the "US rule of law and democracy crisis is just like the one in Hungary/Poland" bingo

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

And what language are you speaking, you imbecile

submitted 96 days ago • 24 comments

The Art of the Deal

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

submitted 99 days ago • 28 comments

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

submitted 99 days ago • 108 comments

We bombed a hospital last night.

submitted 99 days ago • 20 comments

ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.

submitted 100 days ago • 21 comments

Probably not relevant to anything, but most of Germany's concentration camps were not in Germany

submitted 101 days ago • 43 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 101 days ago • 556 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 101 days ago • 625 comments

the lab leak hypothesis is an evidence-free occam's razor conclusion drawn by people who should not be allowed to handle sharp objects

submitted 102 days ago • 35 comments

As I’ve pointed out many times, lab leak theory also depends on the idea that a market spill isn’t embarrassing to China. Whereas it’s deeply embarrassing because they claimed to have controlled wet markets after SARS and this wet market was owned by a local tycoon family with strong Xi ties

submitted 102 days ago • 14 comments

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

submitted 101 days ago • 2276 comments

Oh look Elon musk cutting pediatric cancer research

submitted 102 days ago • 204 comments

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

submitted 103 days ago • 41 comments

Three years ago Russians hit the Mariupol drama theatre with hundreds of civilians hiding inside and the word “CHILDREN” written in front of it. In Russian.

submitted 102 days ago • 27 comments

About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.

submitted 102 days ago • 393 comments

A gentle reminder: we have failed to enact the single most ambitious, best-case scenario for emissions. All of the rest remain up for grabs: and we will absolutely 'fail to stop' these as well, if we widely adopt the fatalist framing

submitted 103 days ago • 14 comments