The Spanish government of Pedro Sanchez is the biggest threat to the European mainstream: a left-wing government that implements left-wing policies that work, including on immigration. They show that “the narrative” is false and humane immigration is possible. This is why they all jump on Cueta.

7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).

A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard

A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard

Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s female characters

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This captures something I have been struggling to articulate in a brilliantly succinct way: yes, the roots of modernity, such as slave trade and colonialism, are very painful, but they have led us to a "créolisation" on a global scale for so many people. This complexity is beautiful.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3w ago

The sources of that entanglement have often been bitter and brutal, and for me celebrating it does not mean avoiding a confrontation with that history. But the entanglement is now an irreversible and shared legacy that's embodied in almost everyone's personal history. I prefer embracing it.

Nous ne sommes pas les seuls à subir le changement climatique : les écosystèmes, dont nous sommes responsables de l'altération, sont encore plus durement touchés. En seulement sept ans, la vitesse de dépérissement des arbres a augmenté de 80 %. 4/4

Overturn this! 😎

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Tod im Bahnhofsviertel | Polizei reagiert spät: Obdachloser stirbt bei extremer Hitze in der rue de Strasbourg

Obdachloser stirbt bei Hitze in der Rue de Strasbourg – Polizei-Einsatz und Behördenreaktion stehen in der Kritik wegen unzureichender Hilfe bei extremer Hitzewelle.

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Heute vor 73 Jahren wurde der Aufstand gegen die Normerhöhungen in der DDR von sowjetischen Panzern. niedergeschlagen. Dies war vermutlich der Höhepunkt des stalinistischen Besatzungsterrors in den Anfangsjahren der DDR und hat die Gesellschaft tief traumatisiert. Dies war eine der Ursachen 1/9

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

All the worst cunts in the world - from journalism to politics, the Kermlin to the White House - are suffering tonight.

The unbearable lightness of being. 'Not commenting', om vervolgens te commenten dat hij de oranje fascist steunt. Wat een schande voor de mensheid.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

TAPPER: When Trump threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization, did that bother you as a diplomat? MARK RUTTE: I'm not commenting. What I want you to know is I support the president

Distraction, digression, inaction and dead ends are pathways to intellectual breakthrough, not obstacles to it. This is often left out of the observation, which Klein cites, that the process is an essential part of the outcome. The process includes inefficiencies that expand our concept of "work."

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

The war in Iran is giving me pre-Covid shut down vibes. It's like February 2020. Life is proceeding fairly normally, we're joking about using hand sanitizer. Everyone assumes this will just be a blip. It's really just a few pandemic-nerds that are freaking out because they know what's coming.

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Not sure this is great thinking on Zelensky’s side. It’s quite obvious that US security guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on.

François Heisbourg@fheisbourg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

US not subjecting Russia to similar obligations

All Respekt fir d'Martine Deprez, déi sech, wéi et ausgesäit, géint di geballte Muecht vun der Lëtzbuerger Bourgeoisie gestallt huet, am Interessi vun de Patienten! www.tageblatt.lu/Nachrichten/...

Affäre um Orthopäden Philippe Wilmes | „Ondeontologescht Verhalen ass net akzeptabel“

Vorwürfe gegen Orthopäden Philippe Wilmes: Suspendierung wegen fragwürdiger Knieoperationen, politische Spannungen und Debatten über medizinische Praxis in Luxemburg.

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Op wien wellen Wilmes a Prum, mat enger massiver Kampagn an de Medien RTL a Wort, wou Formfroen solle skandaliséiert ginn, Drock man? Just op d'Ministesch oder och op Patienten vum Dr Wilmes, déi emmerhin am Tageblatt zu Wuert kommen? Ech froen mech, ob dat net kontraproduktiv wärt sinn.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Personne ne regarde ailleurs - mais tout le monde comprend que les négateurs du génocide palestinien qui prétendent soutenir le soulèvement du peuple iranien sont de sordides tartufes.

Why the comic "Histoire du Luxembourg 963-2025" reveals a triple failure #histlux www.forum.lu/article/gesc...

There was a world after Auschwitz, there is now a world after Gaza and @brunomacaes.bsky.social sets out to describe its horrors.

Gaza: The Reckoning

The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.

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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

I don’t think the Rutte “daddy strategy” worked

Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Mein Interview zu Dagmar Herzogs „Der neue faschistische Körper“ – wie Sex und Eugenik in der neuen Rechten verhandelt werden und an welche historischen Kontinuitäten sie dabei anknüpfen. Jetzt online: @fr-zeitung.bsky.social www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

It becomes overly clear why #MeToo was considered such a threat by powerful men and why they have done everything to mock and discredit it.

Die intellektuelle Dürftigkeit des Kulturstaatsministers Weimer erkennt man daran, dass er den #Kolonialismus u.a. darum aus dem Gedenkstättenkonzept streicht, weil er nicht "auf deutschem Boden stattgefunden hat". Dieser Logik zufolge müsste man auch den #Holocaust herausnehmen. 1/