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Ruotsi ja norja on ihan yhtä "pitkien välimatkojen" maita kuin suomi. Silti niissä pärjätään pienemmällä per capita automäärällä kuin suomessa. Suomessa autofiksaatio ei ole mistään käytännön syystä, vaan poliittisten valintojen seurausta.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

submitted 19 hours ago • 208 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

1/🧵 When Republicans get full control of a state, they don’t govern, they experiment. And when the experiment fails, it’s not them who suffer. It’s the schools.The hospitals. The working families. The truth. Let’s talk about what happened in Kansas. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Why has US GDP growth outpaced other rich nations? One reason: healthcare. The disconnect between high spending & poor outcomes matters — the US generates more GDP because of its inefficiencies: high prices, overtreatment & weak prevention. FT’s conclusion? “GDP is a deceptive measure of welfare.”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments

New @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of the draft GOP tax plan released yesterday: Unsurprisingly, it provides enormous tax cuts for the wealthy—including an average annual $65k cut for the top 1%—while doing little for low- and moderate-income families in 2027 (and even less by 2029).

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 760 comments

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 1528 comments

Alla omia kokemuksiani siitä, mitä kulissien takana tapahtui ennen puoliväliriihtä. Perkasin tammikuussa Aki Kangasharjun muistion, jossa väitettiin, että yhteisöveroa koskeva tutkimus olisi yksimielinen veroalen merkittävistä kasvuvaikutuksista ja että itserahoitusaste voisi olla jopa 100 %. 1/4

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is one of the worst negotiators in foreign policy history (as his deal with the Houthis shows). When it comes to Putin, he has already given away the farm, so that Putin’s negotiating floor now is higher than the ceiling would have been with Biden. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

I think the word I am looking for is holy frick. GDP contributions from 2019 to 2024. Germany's GDP would have been 6% lower, had it not been for foreign workers. (HT @maxkrahe.bsky.social)

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

An actual ad from Sen John Cornyn’s campaign.

submitted 12 days ago • 296 comments

Sananvapaus on koetuksella. Muutama tuttu toimittaja on havainnut että on entistä vaikeampi saada ketään haastatteluun. Nyt huomaan saman ilmiön. Pari projektia on kuivunut kokoon kun kukaan ei ole halunnut puhua vaikka jokainen sanoo että aihe on tärkeä. "Toivottavasti löydät jonkun muun."

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely has anyone ever been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

submitted 13 days ago • 258 comments

US Embassy in Sweden has sent a “contract” to Stockholm's urban planning office demanding the elimination of equality, diversity and inclusion policies and demanded they sign. “It's completely bizarre” said Stockholm urban planning councilor, Jan Valeskog. Unbelievable.

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

All this talk about Trump changing the Republican Party and they're just running down a wishlist of every single thing conservatives have complained about for the last 50 years, no matter how small, and killing them all.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

submitted 15 days ago • 172 comments

Valtiovarainministeriön 2022 virkamiespuheenvuorossa korostettiin, että pitäisi välttää kasvutoimia, jotka heikentävät julkista taloutta. Siltä osin kun niitä tehdään, ne pitäisi rahoittaa muilla sopeutustoimilla. Nyt VM perustelee veronkevennyksiä pitkän aikavälin dynamiikalla.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The administration just hasn’t been able to find those thousands of criminal aliens they claimed were rampaging throughout the nation. Like so many other themes Trump campaigned on, the plague of immigrant crime was a fiction.

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I suppose the upside of having our economy collapse is crude oil now tanking to $58 and taking down Russia’s economy as well. Putin got what he wanted but he may find the aftertaste bitter.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Lucan Way is a top expert on democratic backsliding. He thinks Trump is aiming to cement authoritarianism in America. Yet Way told me Trump is likely to fail. “We should thank [our] lucky stars that Trump chose to do this in the most stupid way possible,” he said. www.vox.com/politics/410...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is real. I just looked.

submitted 22 days ago • 2180 comments

The list of words banned by Trump's government is growing and includes: autism aviation fuel Black Covid-19 diesel elderly electric vehicle female females green H5N1/bird flu mental health opioids peanut allergies political trauma vaccines woman women pen.org/banned-words...

submitted 22 days ago • 39 comments

Hei Orpo ja kumppanit! En kaipaa 3000 € lisää vuodessa. Sen sijaan olisin kaivannut: - yhteiskuntarauhaa - toimivia sote-palveluita - ilmaista laadukasta koulutusta - toimivia päivähoitopalveluita - riittävää sosiaaliturvaa köyhille - jälkipolville elinkelpoista planeettaa - puhdasta luontoa

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

💥 A whole slew of Americans are finally waking up. Via - Pew Research

submitted 28 days ago • 180 comments

Petteri Orpo nousi valtaan valehtelemalla

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 28 days ago • 282 comments

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

submitted 32 days ago • 406 comments

If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong. They also surrendered their streets to cars for many decades. But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake. There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam. They just saw their mistake, and changed it.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

If they’re arguing that Harvard hasn’t done enough “in the public interest” to deserve tax exempt status, wait until they get a look at evangelical megachurches!

submitted 35 days ago • 172 comments

Billy cannot grasp that his beloved GOP is gone. And it’s a wrap for the Republic. He is slipping into idle fantasies.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

submitted 37 days ago • 236 comments

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

submitted 37 days ago • 73 comments

Toimittajat! Tulkaa kiitos kertomaan tähän alle miksi käytätte hallituksen leikkauspolitiikasta nimitystä säästöt? Ja sitten kertokaa mitä niillä leikkauksilla säästetään? Kuinka vaikeaa on a. kirjoittaa sana leikkaus b. miettiä leikkausten vaikutusta yhteiskuntaan vaalikautta pidemmälle?

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Kirjoitin muutaman rivin tuotantoketjuista.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Kokoomusnuoret. Trumpin ensimmäisen väkivaltaisen vallankaappausyrityksen jälkeen.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

POLITICO: State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’ “It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

Aivan, kaikki prosessit on varmaan viimeisen päälle optimoitu joka paikassa. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration announced it is cutting nearly $4 million in federal funding for climate change research at Princeton University, saying that the work promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats” and increased “climate anxiety” among young Americans.

submitted 42 days ago • 110 comments

Ok what’s going on here? Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down. Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset. Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it. Means the world may be abandoning America. We are flirting with a true crisis.

submitted 43 days ago • 429 comments

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 45 days ago • 714 comments

I don't think I've ever seen someone destroy their own career with such elegant simplicity.

submitted 46 days ago • 151 comments

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

submitted 48 days ago • 186 comments