Emilio Luque
@emilioluque.bsky.social
Profesor de Medio Ambiente y Sociedad en la UNED
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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We need to make being an ignorant, misinformed, bigoted sociopathic chud a social deadend and societal marker of the worst kind of person imaginable.
Elevating and establishing communities that actually value honesty, openness, and basic humanity is a necessity. Vice signaling is mind killer.
Elevating and establishing communities that actually value honesty, openness, and basic humanity is a necessity. Vice signaling is mind killer.
Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
December 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We need to make being an ignorant, misinformed, bigoted sociopathic chud a social deadend and societal marker of the worst kind of person imaginable.
Elevating and establishing communities that actually value honesty, openness, and basic humanity is a necessity. Vice signaling is mind killer.
Elevating and establishing communities that actually value honesty, openness, and basic humanity is a necessity. Vice signaling is mind killer.
I submit that the reactionary mind yearns for a past it does not know or understand, but a flattened, bowdlerized version that dispenses of struggle, resistance, life: the political. The core of that retelling is that dominant people were effortlessly in control, without contestation. It may well
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I submit that the reactionary mind yearns for a past it does not know or understand, but a flattened, bowdlerized version that dispenses of struggle, resistance, life: the political. The core of that retelling is that dominant people were effortlessly in control, without contestation. It may well
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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Abandonen esa plataforma. Utilicen con cautela el resto, en las que de cualquier forma hay más gente. Potencien e inviertan en las alternativas abiertas. Atraigan a ellas a periodistas y otros cargos electos. Apuesten por la soberanía digital europea. Muevan el culo de una vez.
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Abandonen esa plataforma. Utilicen con cautela el resto, en las que de cualquier forma hay más gente. Potencien e inviertan en las alternativas abiertas. Atraigan a ellas a periodistas y otros cargos electos. Apuesten por la soberanía digital europea. Muevan el culo de una vez.
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No somos responsables de vivir al final de la era neoliberal, o de que nuestros dirigentes hayan infravalorado la debilidad que supone que ciertas infraestructuras básicas estén fuera de nuestro control. De lo que sí somos responsables es de empezar a pensar en esto con la seriedad que merece.
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
No somos responsables de vivir al final de la era neoliberal, o de que nuestros dirigentes hayan infravalorado la debilidad que supone que ciertas infraestructuras básicas estén fuera de nuestro control. De lo que sí somos responsables es de empezar a pensar en esto con la seriedad que merece.
This. Post-politics, or antipolitics, or whatever is called, is tilted field, asymmetrical warfare.
Sometimes it sucks being the only party that is connected to reality, making actual policy, or being held accountable for promises!
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This. Post-politics, or antipolitics, or whatever is called, is tilted field, asymmetrical warfare.
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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Devastador e imprescindible: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Devastador e imprescindible: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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That's why I say that, at its core, reactionary politics is not an alternative set of values, norms, & rules -- it is permission to *jettison* values, to ignore the dreary call of conscience, to wallow in impulse & instinct. It can't triumph via persuasion (it sounds awful out loud), only violence.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
That's why I say that, at its core, reactionary politics is not an alternative set of values, norms, & rules -- it is permission to *jettison* values, to ignore the dreary call of conscience, to wallow in impulse & instinct. It can't triumph via persuasion (it sounds awful out loud), only violence.
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If I have a choice -- one one side, middle-aged academic author with grand 3-volume tome on How to Create the Perfect World (I get two or three of these *a week*); on the other side, someone who boosted heat pump uptake in midsized NYC multifamily buildings by 17% -- I choose the latter every time.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If I have a choice -- one one side, middle-aged academic author with grand 3-volume tome on How to Create the Perfect World (I get two or three of these *a week*); on the other side, someone who boosted heat pump uptake in midsized NYC multifamily buildings by 17% -- I choose the latter every time.
@raquelpelaezg.bsky.social es una voz imprescindible, que articula la rabia ante la tranquilidad, la serenidad, del privilegio. De hecho, el privilegio consiste en esa tranquilidad, es su condición de posibilidad. Hagamos política que construya serenidad para todos. elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Todo pasa, menos lo que te pasa por encima
A veces las afirmaciones más despreocupadas pueden contener la iniquidad más extrema
elpais.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
@raquelpelaezg.bsky.social es una voz imprescindible, que articula la rabia ante la tranquilidad, la serenidad, del privilegio. De hecho, el privilegio consiste en esa tranquilidad, es su condición de posibilidad. Hagamos política que construya serenidad para todos. elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Are you sure Elon Musk is rich? I mean, he can't even afford a soul...
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Are you sure Elon Musk is rich? I mean, he can't even afford a soul...
@cwarzel.bsky.social writes a moving final paragraph to a somber, indispensable article: "The loss of friction deprives people of something crucial. What happens between imagination and creation is ineffable—it entails struggle, iteration, joy, and frustration, disappointment, and pride. 1/2
October 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
@cwarzel.bsky.social writes a moving final paragraph to a somber, indispensable article: "The loss of friction deprives people of something crucial. What happens between imagination and creation is ineffable—it entails struggle, iteration, joy, and frustration, disappointment, and pride. 1/2
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
I really value the public service value in the constant, unsuccessful, painstaking reexposition of this core assessment of how political language works now by Roberts. I feel you, David.
Such a characteristic dynamic, righties saying the protests were "funded by Soros" and lefties responding with fact checks & empirical observations. Ships passing in the night.
What the righties want to say is: the left is fundamentally illegitimate. That, to them, is the core truth.
What the righties want to say is: the left is fundamentally illegitimate. That, to them, is the core truth.
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I really value the public service value in the constant, unsuccessful, painstaking reexposition of this core assessment of how political language works now by Roberts. I feel you, David.
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AI should be used to ask ourselves what learning looks like, rather than reconsidering what counts as cheating. It's learning that's supposed to be the point of all this, right?
Here's the article: apnews.com/article/ai-c... /2
The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating
High school and college educators say that student use of artificial intelligence has become so widespread that they need to rethink how to assign and assess students.
apnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI should be used to ask ourselves what learning looks like, rather than reconsidering what counts as cheating. It's learning that's supposed to be the point of all this, right?
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probably the first time in history since the 18th century where the leaders of all the major powers -- trump, xi, putin, modi, erdogan etc -- are all personalist regimes. not sure what this means but worth noting
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
probably the first time in history since the 18th century where the leaders of all the major powers -- trump, xi, putin, modi, erdogan etc -- are all personalist regimes. not sure what this means but worth noting
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I would even go so far as to say the very core of fascism is an elevation of raw male emotions -- the two-sided coin of drippy nostalgia & butthurt fury. The whole point of fascism is to say: trust those emotions, those instincts, they are pure & right, don't examine or get any distance from them.
October 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I would even go so far as to say the very core of fascism is an elevation of raw male emotions -- the two-sided coin of drippy nostalgia & butthurt fury. The whole point of fascism is to say: trust those emotions, those instincts, they are pure & right, don't examine or get any distance from them.
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S