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Senior researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Working on forced displacement, digitalization, and conflict. My book: https://bit.ly/4gjNQ09 Open access: https://bit.ly/3AXzbI2
We built the United Nations, with all its flaws, with the hope of never having World War II again and we're going to have to build a new set of multilateral institutions with the hope of never having Donald J. Trump again
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
Good to see the Harper crowd going crazy over this. The Atlantic and NYT are blowing up over this, right…. right?
This is golden advice. Totally changed the quality of my writing.
Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity
We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.
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Of course it’s worse than expected. We know what happens when a naïve population gets measles. We have literally 500 years of records of measles’ genocidal capacity on naïve populations. Measles is and remains one of the great scourges.
NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.
Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.
That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.
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Unexpectedly? This is the least unexpected thing I’ve seen in the news this week.
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This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Yesterday was an exchange of rhetoric from both sides
But now Orban seems to have escalated into outright hostage taking in order to pressure Ukraine to restore the damaged Russian oil pipeline
This is madness and the EU needs to come down on Orban like a ton of bricks
From The Telegraph Merz: Iran should not be protected by international law German chancellor positions himself as Trump's closest European ally in condemning Tehran.
Not judging Germany by its history, but its current failure. How on god’s green earth did they put this man in the top position?!
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
I see lessons have not been learned from the spectacular loss of Gorton and Denton.
If Labour insists on continuing down this route, then they do honestly deserve to lose the next GE.
Utterly infuriating.
There are currently no US Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, or Qatar. And since consular budgets have been slashed, few personnel to assist Americans trying to leave the region, even as the US issues evacuation notices instructing them to do so.
The “shield” is intolerable here as well.
“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”
That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.
At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.
Superb piece by @jdportes.bsky.social 📌
The strikes on Iran show why quitting oil is more important than ever
Electrification + renewables = energy that isn’t shipped through chokepoints.
Decarbonisation is national security.
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I have a whole file of these stories that I point to whenever someone responds to allegations of domestic abuse/violence with "If it was so serious, why didn't she call the cops?"
the baffling idea here is that these things are somehow commensurable. if the bombings were being done to stop the violence against, or even to punish it, that would be one thing, but no one in the government has adopted this as an explanation. israel is even killing opposition figures!
For the love of god, please learn to express disagreement on this app without talking like an absolute piece of shit who can’t understand that the person on the other end is a thinking, feeling human too
The economic beatings will continue until even the far right understands it is stupid, stupid, stupid to be dependent on fossil fuels
If you combine the inherent uncertainty of war with Trump, I think literally anything is possible now. We may see a revolution in Iran after weeks of bombing. Perhaps Trump declares "victory" within the hour. We might even see a Gulf monarchy collapse somehow
“.. One of the challenges is you can deplete these [munitions] really quickly,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center .. “We’re using them faster than we can replace them.”
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While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.