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NATO's incessant focus on abstract spending targets instead of European militaries bigger structural challenges is a form of brain death.

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Si ja tenim un problema de competitivitat comparada amb Xina, imagineu com serà quan els seus costos energètics s'aproximin a zero...

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NEW: Some bonkers numbers in China's May customs data. Detailed figures came out Fri when I was off, so took a deep dive today First big picture EU stuff: China's EU exports up 12% China's EU imports down 2.37% There is a 22% increase in the EU's China deficit in May alone

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If kakistocracy is the word for "government by the worst of least qualified", what is the word for "government by assholes"?

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Rebasing society along my favourite fantasy saga seems such a sad ending to the Internet Revolution.

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A comparison to show something important: - Post blackout, headlines blamed renewables (directly, suggested or framed as debate) - Post Spanish gov't report showing 9 coal/gas/nuclear plants failed to provide voltage control: framing is about management, planning rather than the generation type

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Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown episode on Iran is very good too It looks lovely, and I hope to visit some day www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysYG...

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If an indictment of the dismantling of the welfare state was ever needed... I guess that is what the appointment of RFK is all about: trying to shift the blame away from tax cuts.

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This.

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no pasaran

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Standing with the good people in the US today.

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This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

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Digues que vols fer una manifestació d'expats totalment desconnectats del lloc on viuen sense dir que ets un expat sense ni puta idea del lloc on vius:

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There is a doctoral thesis is this thread.

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Inexcusable ignorance or criminal misinformation?

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Deserts to the South. A frozen wasteland to the North...

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Unos profesores de psicología hicieron un estudio sobre cómo entienden las identidades nacionales los estudiantes universitarios españoles. Les pusieron ante dos ejemplos: la "Reconquista" española (historia propia) y la "ocupación otomana de Grecia" (ajena). Los resultados🧵👇

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THE JOB OF JOURNALISTS IS TO TELL IS WHICH IS CORRECT MY GOD

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RESUMEN DE LAS REVUELTAS DE LOS ANGELES

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La política entesa com troleig. Una funció necessària de l'entorn comunicatiu del SXXI?

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The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape - on.ft.com/3SFUFyE via @FT

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Fascinating article. Love the strong link Hill draws between inequality, populism and insecurity, this being AT LEAST as significant as the number of tanks we have available.

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6. Juni 1944, eine Gruppe linksextremer Antifa dringt illegal in Europa ein.

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Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

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“The Big Beautiful Bill should be called the BBB Act because that’s what the US Credit Rating will be in a couple years” - Andrew Yang

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"All conspiracy theories are, at heart, a rejection of the Enlightenment." I'm so appropriating this sentence.

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Yes, and they already have / are www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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The Harriet Tubman trutherism discourse reminds me of the Anne Frank white privilege discourse, it just seems like a symptom of social media being your only source of information/never reading anything that isn’t on a screen

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If and when this happens it will be important to remember that the freedom to deny the reality of climate change carries with it the responsibility to assume the consequences when you're proven wrong.

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My new piece, on Europe’s need for new defence arrangements. I used to think enthusiasts for reviving the WEU were quaint, but with the US an unreliable ally & the EU unable to run real defence operations, for those who want to be serious about defence something like a new WEU looks more attractive.

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As European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform! Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...

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So many on the left panicking over Trump's 'rigging' the market, whilst 'the market' banks on Trump being clueless and having to correct...

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1/7 Very good FT article on how China achieved its dominance in manufacturing, along with the cost both to China and to its trading partners: "Using a unique combination of industrial policy, subsidies and other state-support coupled with private sector... www.ft.com/content/7244...

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The Dutch were the one EU country that questioned the collective spending portion of ReArm Europe. That was underpinned by the anti-collective-debt obsession of one politician: Pieter Omtzigt. He retired last week.

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