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Een sociaal contract zonder een sociaal pact is een asociaal contract.

Good thread on why GDP measures are poor benchmark if you do not factor in political choices like reduced working hours, quality health care for all and i would add decent public pensions [and occupational pensions] and higher minimun wages

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · yesterday

"Germany is not poorer than the US. It has just chosen to cash out more of its productivity in the form of free time than the US has. The other Western European countries have made similar decisions." peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w...

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.

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IPCC 3rd Assessment Report — 2001 “Adaptation is a necessary strategy at all scales to complement climate change mitigation efforts.” IPCC 4th Assessment Report — 2007 “Adaptation will be necessary to address impacts resulting from the warming which is already unavoidable due to past emissions.”

Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov says Israel’s assault on Gaza predicts “the future of genocide,” with the perpetrator not only enjoying impunity for crimes against humanity but also profiting from the death and destruction.

As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity

Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov says Israel’s assault on Gaza predicts “the future of genocide,” with the perpetrator not only enjoying impunity for crimes against humanity but also pro...

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Le plus drôle, c'est l'embarras des trumpistes en Belgique qui il y a une semaine pavoisaient au Cinquantenaire lors de la fête de Bill White. Il paraît même qu'on se serait cru au congrès d'un parti.

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President Trump called Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, on Wednesday and asked him to review the suspension of the United States’ top goal scorer, Folarin Balogun, after he was given a red card in the team’s match that night against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

KELLOGG: Putin has to realize he’s not winning this war. Even Russian people see that. Soviets left Afghanistan after losing 18,000 soldiers. Putin has lost 1.2 to 1.4 million soldiers. He has to worry about being the next tsar assassinated. He’s got to start thinking like that.