the Kyiv Pride march today is led by Ukrainian queer soldiers and vets carrying pictures and names of queer Ukrainian heroes killed while fighting homophobic russian empire. Ukraine fights for a better, dignified future for all of us.
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As the famous wealth quote attributed to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warns us: ”We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
Trump's views on Ukraine are like the weather in Scotland: if you don't like it, wait 30 minutes and it will have changed.
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoHegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
Useful technology for storing renewable energy and using it to heat buildings. We need to stop burning necrofuels yesterday, folks.
Jay Garmon@jaygarmon.bsky.social · 11mo agoSand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Right-wing parties benefit from economic crises—currency crashes, debt crises, inflation crises, or banking crises. And if the incumbent party is right wing, further right parties benefit. Downstream effects also include conservative shifts in public opinion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.
Rechtsradikale Forderungen umsetzen, damit die Rechtsradikalen bei der nächsten Wahl nicht so viel dazugewinnen, ist wie aus Diätgründen nachts den Kühlschrank leeressen, damit man dann tagsüber nicht mehr so viel essen kann.
F35-Debakel: Jetzt drohen 1.3–1.5 Mrd. Franken Mehrkosten für 36 F-35. Ein sofortiger Ausstieg gemäss Vertragsklausel wäre günstiger. Wir fordern: Kauf STOPPEN, Abhängigkeit von den USA beenden & europäische Alternativen prüfen. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
Kampfjet F-35: Schweiz drohen wohl über eine Milliarde Mehrkosten
Einst sprach der Bund von einem Fixpreis von rund sechs Milliarden Franken. Recherchen zeigen: Die USA verlangen mehr.
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The crisis in Haiti continues to escalate, prompting the government to consider hiring foreign private security firms. I joined #DareenAbughaida on #AlJazeera to discuss the implications and possible outcomes. #Live PART 1
Was talking with a friend about the wide-eyed sense of wonder that characterizes US media coverage of Trump's power grab. And I think a lot of the complacency comes from a self-satisfied belief in the US that its constitutional system had somehow "solved" the ineradicable challenges of government.
Too many people in the legal profession & academia obeying in advance with the would-be tyrant in the hopes their compliance will be remembered & they will be spared. Do they not know that, as François Duvalier famously said, to dictators "gratitude is cowardice?"
The richest among us are proving to be the smallest among us.
Zeteo@zeteo.com · last yr.EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Washington Post Chief Marty Baron blasts Jeff Bezos amid his censorious takeover of the Opinion section. "It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…” @johnjharwood.bsky.social reports: zeteo.com/p/jeff-bezos...
I also wonder how much of this is connected to the decline in religiosity among Americans. Over the past 30 years or so there has been a steady decline in belief, church attendance, and church membership. People used to find meaning, purpose, belonging, ethics, and transcendence from religion.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last yr.I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
I've said often, based on history, that there's no reasonable expectation most people will be courageous in the face of fascism. Bravery is rare. It's valued for a reason: Most people aren't cut out for it, for reasons good and bad. But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · last yr.The American Bar Association will temporarily suspend enforcement of its diversity and inclusion standard for law schools reut.rs/3CZRBJA
Can we talk about how #Haiti's "government" is using its meagre resources to create new "jobs" to line the pockets of those close to it while the army & other security forces are stuck without the tools they need to do their jobs? lenouvelliste.com/article/2534...
Le cri d'Ashley Laraque
Entre le nécessaire, le souhaitable, l'envisageable et l'inadmissible, les contradictions sont insurmontables
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Um einen Satz mit einer falschen Behauptung zu entkräften, braucht man zehn Sätze. Spätestens beim siebten wird der AfDler Dich unterbrechen und den nächsten falschen Satz zu einem anderen Thema raushauen. Dann unterbricht er Dich nach dem vierten usw usw. So funktioniert flood the zone with shit
Very important observation. Feels very much like this in Germany at the moment, where - interestingly, in contrast to the EU elections last year - in the media discussion all the momentum is with the AfD, and its rise is portrayed as almost inevitable.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2y agoGreat point(s) from @iandunt.bsky.social
Also, wenn ich mir die Debattenlage anschaue und was ich die vergangenen Tage, allein heute, an Meldungen und Zitaten gelesen habe, könnte man Nachrichten-Websites aktuell auch umbenennen in: „Schlechte Ideen von Männern“. Hätte langsam dennoch wieder gern Medienangebote, die was anderes bedienen.
Auf den Mauern von Troja stehen und sehen, wie sie feixend ein riesiges Holzpferd durch die Tore ziehen, und es gibt absolut nichts, was Du tun kannst.
This is a pretty deep point. There’s something weird about guys with Fuck You money who *only* say “fuck you” to people lower than them on the food chain, but are constantly sucking up to people higher than they are.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2y agoI would think that the entire fun of being a billionaire would be never having to suck up to anyone, least of all dipshits like Donald Trump, but apparently I’m wrong.
Sorry I can only endorse this once. No decent writer or thinker just superimposes ideas on subjects. Writing is discovery. I don’t really know what I think until I start writing.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y agoWriting is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
Wir streiten hart in der Sache, aber wir verunglimpfen unsere politischen Gegner nicht. Wir müssen uns nach dem Wahlkampf noch die Hand geben können. Auch der andere könnte etwas Recht haben. - Habeck, Merz und Scholz machen deutlich, was Demokraten verbindet. youtu.be/qfYbdT9lqk8?...
Activism without pragmatism is just angry people yelling at clouds.
Krass: Die Staatsanwaltschaft fordert in diesem Korruptionsprozess über 156 Mio. Dollar an Strafen und Entschädigungen sowie eine vier Jahre Haft für den Ex-COO von Trafigura, Mike Wainwright. Auch krass: Kein Deutschschweizer Medium vermeldet dieses historische Strafmass für einen Rohstoffhändler.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y agoSwiss prosecutors demand 4-year jail sentence for former Trafigura COO https://www.ft.com/content/c55f20c4-bf6c-4e53-9333-f5cf5edbd49a
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
There's no sight more beautiful than watching a tyrant be overthrown.