Ein politisches System, das die größte strukturelle Gefahr für sein Überleben - die akzelerierte Klimakatastrophe - nicht zum zentralen Fokus für seine Entscheidungen machen kann (ohne andere zu ignorieren), wird vor die Wand fahren.
Auch in Frankreich gab es allein in der heißesten Juniwoche über 2000 zusätzliche Tote. www.santepubliquefrance.fr/en/news/upda...
Update on all-cause mortality for the period from June 22 to 28, 2026 | Santé publique France
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 4w agoJuni: Schlimmste Hitzewelle in Westeuropa seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Neuer Hitzerekord in Deutschland. RKI meldet über 5000 Hitzetote in 🇩🇪. Die Bundesregierung so: lasst uns den Klimaschutz abschwächen und weiter mit Öl und Gas heizen! Haben diese Menschen noch Mitgefühl?
"As climatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte put it, the climate in which our societies were built and developed no longer exists." (€)
'The heatwave shows, beyond any doubt, that without strong mitigation measures, adaptation will be impossible'
COLUMN. Efforts to combat climate change require far more than mere technical adjustments, writes Le Monde's Stéphane Foucart in his column.
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Money = speech. Unlimited spending = free speech. A judicial perversion of the First Amendment,! undermining democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates
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Ich erinnere daran, dass wir das stabile Klima des Holozäns (der letzten 10.000 Jahre) längst hinter uns gelassen haben. Ich forsche seit den 1990er Jahren zum Paläoklima. Ich kann nur dringend empfehlen, jetzt eine Notbremsung bei der fossilen Energienutzung zu machen! Für unsere Kinder. Bitte.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2y agoDas stabile Holozän-Klima, in dem Homo Sapiens die Landwirtschaft erfunden & Städte gebaut hat, haben wir in atemberaubenden Tempo hinter uns gelassen. spiegel.de/wissenschaft... Was wir jetzt tun, bestimmt für die nächsten Jahrtausende unser Schicksal. #Europawahl ist #Klimawahl.
Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump’s deal to drop suit against IRS creates $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
The deal, laid out in a document signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, grants a commission broad authority to distribute the money, drawn from taxpayer dollars.
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Two things can be true: • RCP8.5 was never a realistic "business as usual" scenario • The world has made real progress bending the emissions curve down Glen Peters, Piers Forster, and I explain in a new article: www.theclimatebrink.... 1/11
On the death of RCP8.5
We should celebrate progress, but not overstate it
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The world got the transmission question wrong with COVID at first—and needs to get it right with hantavirus, the infectious-disease expert Joseph Allen argues.
The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth
Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.
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A mind-boggling way to run a democracy. "Since Callais dropped, Republicans have called for doing away with all Democratic districts in the South." www.economist.com/united-state...
The Supreme Court has unleashed the gerrymanderers
Louisiana v Callais is baleful for democracy
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In March, the Pentagon’s director of NATO policy was abruptly reassigned—undermining U.S. cooperation with European allies as the war in Iran was creating a new crisis in transatlantic relations, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports:
Europe Without America
The Iran war has given European leaders new impetus to plan for self-defense.
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1/ There will never be a better time than now to attack Europe, says a prominent Russian warblogger. Alexey Zhivov says that victory in Ukraine is slipping away, so Russia needs to act like Iran and attack all the facilities in the EU that are being used to help Ukraine. ⬇️
Today, the Supreme Court ruled to limit the Voting Rights Act—something that Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to achieve since the beginning of his career, David Daley wrote in December.
John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True
The Chief Justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.
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🚨BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court guts a key tool that has been used to challenge racially discriminatory voting practices for fifty years. Combined with one of the Court’s 2019 rulings, today’s decision effectively declares all gerrymandering constitutional.
SCOTUS smothers Voting Rights Act, greenlighting racial discrimination and a rash of GOP gerrymanders
Justice Elena Kagan, in dissent, accused the majority of making changes that "eviscerate the law."
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NEW: Trump has begun talking about how he “is the most powerful person to ever live.” Our look at how Trump’s view of himself as one of history’s Great Men is shaping the second term of what has now become his YOLO Presidency. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The YOLO Presidency
Trump is focused on becoming one of history’s “great men.”
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Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security.
Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job
The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊 More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science | AAAS
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I like that he's turned it into another loyalty test. Who are you gonna believe, your eyes or the fake news media bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoQ: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.
A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.
In other developments in this Realty TV Show, "Bridge" Colby insists he didn't threaten to off Pope Bob.
Claude Mythos Preview is, of course, a big deal for cybersecurity. But perhaps more importantly, the model brings into stark relief how AI companies are amassing more power and influence than nation-states. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The war in Iran has showed that “the United States is, in effect, moving toward a world in which it faces more connected opponents with a less cohesive coalition of its own,” Thomas Wright argues:
A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here
America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart.
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Trump: Lets just forget the whole thing and have Golden Age of the Middle East instead.
If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?
If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.
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White House: “Only President Trump knows what he will do, and the entire world will find out..." @dgraham.bsky.social: "This view is legally, morally, and practically disastrous." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Threatens to Destroy an Entire Nation
The president’s position is that if he wants to wipe out a “whole civilization,” then that is his decision to make.
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So trump filled his cabinet with sychophants who lifted their faces off the floor a few inches to tell him war with Iran was a dumb idea and he ignored them because he’s never faced a consequence in his entire life www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
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Sam Altman promised to be a safe steward for A.I. But some of his colleagues believed that he was not trustworthy enough to, as one put it, “have his finger on the button.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aBX6HF
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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Tucker Carlson und Alex Jones (!!) haben das Trump-Schiff verlassen. Der eine warnt vor Atombomben, der andere will, dass Trump per 25. Amendment entmachtet wird.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”
