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João Seixas

@joaoseixas.bsky.social

Flâneur in Brussels.

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d ago

Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...

Exclusive | Inside Gavin Newsom’s desperate bid to save billionaire pals’ dream city

Newsom has been quietly whipping support for California’s billionaire-backed megacity as it faces the loss of a key tenant.

nypost.com

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

theguardian.com

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago

once again it's basically impossible to wrap your head around the scale of mobilization and the scale of destruction the world wars involved

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Keep in mind that a war with a per capita equivalent destructiveness to WWI today would involve something like 90m dead, while a per capita equivalent to WWII would be something like 250m dead. So things are not good, but they have been much worse. 🤷‍♂️

Council on Strategic Risks@councilonstrategicrisks.org · last wk.

Nuclear weapons risks don't exist in a vacuum. A new exercise produced by @convergingriskslab.bsky.social models how the use of a tactical nuclear weapon compounds and combines existing ecological, technological, and strategic concerns. Check out the full breakdown 👇 🤝 @ploughshares.bsky.social

New Exercise Simulates Convergent Risks of Tactical Nuclear Weapons Use - The Council on Strategic Risks

Rather than narrowing participants’ focus on the military dimensions of a now-nuclear war, participants are asked instead to think broadly and consider seemingly disparate elements such as artificial ...

councilonstrategicrisks.org

Sébastien Gobert@sebagobert.bsky.social · last wk.

Tribune dans Haaretz: "Pourquoi le monde soutient l'Ukraine et non Israël?" La publication a le mérite de trahir un doute, voire un malaise. Mais la réponse n'est-elle pas évidente? L'Ukraine se défend. Sans commettre de crimes contre l'humanité. Sans annexer ses adversaires.

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Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · last wk.

‘SOS’ is NOT an acronym for “save our souls.” ‘Golf’ is NOT an acronym for “gentlemen only, ladies forbidden.” ‘Posh’ is NOT an acronym for “port out, starboard home.” ‘News’ is NOT an acronym for “north, east, west, south,’ OR “notable events, weather, sports.”

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · last wk.

Inside the Heritage Foundation, Christianist Kevin Roberts is hard at work installing people who believe that the United States was the bad guy in World War II. This is must-read reporting. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right (Gift Article)

The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

nytimes.com

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last wk.

Free newsletter: The more you buy, the more you lose. Hyperscalers are trapped in a vicious cycle where the more AI data centers they build, the more expensive GPUs - and the debt to buy them - become, and debt markets are becoming exhausted. www.wheresyoured.at/the-more-you-buy-the-more-you-lose/

The More You Buy, The More You Lose

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Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · last wk.

by trying to do [something] using long-range strike alone the u.s. has used a bunch of valuable weapons meant for much more capable adversaries and burned through stockpiles of air defense interceptors that it really didn't need to. the owniest goal that ever own goaled

Christoph Harig@charig.bsky.social · last wk.

Ignoring every single lesson from decades of drug war failures, and letting the military carry out extrajudicial killings. And all for nothing

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last wk.

If you are quote-posting a story you don’t like from an outlet that constantly provokes you…you are executing their marketing strategy.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has accused his critics of being 'consumed by hate' during the World Cup, and brushed aside complaints about the treatment of Iran’s team and the decision to lift a ban on a US player after pressure from President Trump. ft.trib.al/pTBKHt9

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Thomas Nilsen@thomasnilsen.bsky.social · last wk.

A textbook Potemkin façade: after cancelling St. Petersburg’s Main Navy Parade for the second year in a row, reportedly for fear of Ukrainian drones, Putin’s substitute was… a submarine painted on a backyard wall. When reality sinks, paint floats.

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