BREAKING: Electrification Action Plan dropped. The EU just committed to doubling electrification: 46% of final energy consumption by 2040, up from 23% today, where it has sat for a decade. My rapid response analysis of the Electrification Action Plan: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040

The Commission has launched its Electrification Action Plan. A 46% target and some serious policy measures.

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Two-thirds of global energy is wasted, mostly as combustion heat. Electrification gets rid of most of that waste rather than replacing it. From my keynote at the Eurelectric PowerSummit.

Renewables are overtaking coal as the world's largest source of electricity generation, after near parity in 2025. New @iea.org mid-year update: their share goes from 33% to 37% by 2027, solar and wind from 17% to 21%. EU well ahead of global average. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/3c66a...

Only 5.5% of German homes have a smart meter. France, Italy, Spain: >90%. Hard to reward demand shifting when nobody measures it. Germany pays €435m/yr to curtail renewables instead. euronews.com/2026/08/01/not-in-my-basement-why-has-germany-been-so-slow-to-adopt-smart-meters-and-whats-it-costing

Why is Germany so far behind on smart meters?

Only around five per cent of German households have a smart meter – compared to almost universal rollout in many other EU nations.

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"Why are the billionaires doubling down in support of a hugely unpopular president and his hugely unpopular agenda? This partly reflects a change in billionaires’ relationship with the extreme right... Today Elon Musk isn’t putting on a show of being a neo-Nazi, because that’s who he really is."

Paul Krugman | Substack [Unofficial]@paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy · yesterday

"CBS’s 60 Minutes had the scoop on Jeffrey Epstein’s sketchy financials—before the Bari Weiss–run network fired the reporter fronting the investigation." newrepublic.com/post/213927/...

60 Minutes Ended Story About Epstein’s Shady Bank Transactions

Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.

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Let's all sit with the fact that the president wants to jail some random person who is self-evidently innocent. It's not surprising, but it's amazing that much of the media is almost completely disinterested in this fact.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Seit einigen Jahren gelten rechtsalternative Portale als maßgebliche Akteure bei der Verbreitung von #Klimaskespis, hinzu kommen Verbindungen zu einschlägigen Lobbyorganisationen. Mein neuer Aufsatz zu Strategien und Methoden in der Journalistik-Fachzeitschrift: journalistik.online/wp-content/u...

If investors believe this, they deserve to have their money taken. I will shed no tears for someone who loses everything when the grift is this obvious.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Kürzlich wurden die neuen Daten zur #Lebenserwartung veröffentlicht und die Presseberichterstattung dazu war ... leider erwartbar oberflächlich. (Der Zeit-Artikel als Beispiel ist direkt von der dpa übernommen). 🧵 #Demografie #Deutschland www.zeit.de/news/2026-07...

Lebenszeit: Statistikamt: Lebenserwartung in Deutschland auf Höchststand

Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Lebenszeit“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Statistikamt: Lebenserwartung in Deutschland auf Höchststand“.

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Don't look up.

Ein #Geflüchteter aus dem #Iran‌ stirbt nur 3 Tage nach seiner Ankunft in der BRD. Seine Epilepsie war bekannt, benötigte Medikamente erhielt er offenbar nicht. Jetzt müssen Fragen zur medizinischen #Versorgung von Schutzsuchenden gestellt werden. www1.wdr.de/politik/poli... #Asyl #Gesundheit

Tod durch Behördenversagen? Der Iraner Ashkan Rahimi flieht nach Deutschland, drei Tage nach seiner Ankunft stribt er.

Ashkan Rahimi flieht nach Deutschland. Drei Tage nach seiner Ankunft ist er tot. WDR-Recherchen legen ein Behördenversagen nahe.

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His ignorance is staggering.

Infectious Diseases Expert Bluntly Factchecks RFK Jr. After He Claims Lyme Disease Was Developed In A Lab

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Is the Chinese government the only one capable of acting remotely rationally these days? Tax the rich!

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h ago

FT: Chinese authorities have stepped up scrutiny of overseas capital gains and investments, in some cases going back as far as 2000, as Beijing seeks to fill a deepening fiscal hole by targeting the ultra rich.

much like his children, just because he abandoned them doesn't mean they are not his responsibility

Sky News@news.sky.com · 17h ago

SpaceX latest: Abandoned rocket about to slam into moon at high speed

Rechts­professorin Katharina Pistor von der Columbia Law School erklärt im Interview mit @yvesgwegelin.bsky.social, wie sich Investoren mit dem Privat­recht die Ressourcen der Welt aneignen. Und warum der Staat gerade in Zeiten von Trump wenig dagegen tun wird.

«New Yorker Anwälte sagen, dass sie fast jede staatliche Regulierung unterlaufen können»

Rechts­professorin Katharina Pistor erklärt, wie sich Investoren mit dem Privatrecht die Ressourcen der Welt aneignen.

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Exklusiv: Das Weltsozialforum in Benin darf nicht wie geplant stattfinden. Die Regierung hat den Zugang zur Universität verweigert. Bereits gestern wurde der Protestmarsch verboten, der traditionell den Auftakt zum WSF bildet. Eine Delegation wurde zudem gezwungen, nach Togo zurückzureisen.

4/ 2025 starben 462 Radfahrende, Anstieg von 3,8 %. Jede 6. getötete Person, war Radfahrer*in. Dies wird banal mit „es fahren mehr Menschen Rad” und „es nutzen mehr E-Bikes” erklärt. Nicht mit fehlender Infrastruktur oder Strafrechtsystem, das die Schwachen durch Nichtstun noch einmal bestraft.

A major defeat for conservatives in Kansas, who were hoping to make inroads on the state supreme court by switching the state to regular elections. Their measure was defeated 61/39. (I'll have more to say on what this means for the court going forward soon.)

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

"Missouri Catholic Conference: "While the Church does not prescribe any particular tax model, she teaches that every system of taxation must serve the common good, be guided by justice and equity, and take into account each person’s ability to contribute (Pope John XXIII, Mater et Magistra, 132)...

The real impasta@therealimpasta.bsky.social · 17h ago

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

82% No to the income tax amendment 79% No to the supermajority provision The Republicans are totally out of sync with the voters (but voters will still vote for them?) ballotpedia.org/Missouri_202...

Wenn die Medieneliten ihre eigenen Vernichter hofieren Die #NYTimes veröffentlicht die faktenfreie Selbstbeweihräucherung eines faschistischen Oligarchen, dessen Ziel die Beseitigung der freien Presse ist #Medienversagen

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · yesterday

Genuinely a choice to give the son of a billionaire column space to argue for him to further consolidate the media, especially given the pretty abysmal track record of on journalism he has already implemented at CBS

The financial elites think this is fine 🤷

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Stories about Kushner, Witkoff and inside trading relating to the Iran War have been abounding for months now.

"Now an ugly parallel dynamic has arisen in the form of #Gaza #genocide denial. Both are signs of poisoned minds and cowardly denial." #Israel

Juan Cole@jricole.bsky.social · 2d ago

Holocaust Denial = Genocide Denial

#Israel #Warcrimes

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d ago

Israel blocks ambulances in the West Bank again. Shoots Palestinians, then seals off medical access so they bleed out and die. (BannedxMan)

Ihr könnt euch also überhaupt nicht vorstellen, dass diese "Entscheidungsträger:innen" das aus Überzeugung machen? Dass die 'Zeit' sich nach rechts aussen anbiedert, weil sie meint dort Abonnent:innen zu finden, halte ich für absurd. Die Rechten lesen nicht Zeitung, schon gar nicht so ne dicke.

"The sheer spinelessness of top university administrators in the face of an existential threat to the institutions they’re supposed to be protecting is about as surprising as the New York Jets having another bad season, but it’s still disappointing."

Lawyers, Guns and Money@lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 4d ago

Has any university other than Harvard actually opposed Trump’s attack on their institutions in any meaningful way?

Frage: was wäre wohl, wenn die @zeit.de mit Tausenden empörten Leser:innenbriefen überschwemmt würde, die gegen die Hasspropaganda, die völlige Abwesenheit jeglicher Faktenchecks und Verletzung der Sorgfaltspflicht protestieren? Wären sie stolz drauf oder könnte das was bewirken?

"Capitalism is the most efficient system of resource allocation" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.

AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...