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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit.

If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.
January 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
costas.gr
4 years ago, when I first read this article by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, it made quite an impression to me. These days it feels fresher and more timely than ever. www.anneapplebaum.com/2021/11/15/t...
The Bad Guys Are Winning – Anne Applebaum
www.anneapplebaum.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"American dominance" is our new foreign policy. And it will create a counter-reaction, everywhere.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.
www.theatlantic.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
There are 29m people running their own companies as solopreneurs. Most use AI to optimize their ability to run their company as they choose

open.substack.com/pub/maxsourc...
The 29 million army you're competing against
Four in five American businesses have zero employees. Not restructuring. Not downsizing. Built that way from day one.
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
Trump's bellicosity toward Venezuela is a betrayal of everything that the FIFA Peace Prize stands for.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Woah.

Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.

The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.

The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
authoritarian-stack.info
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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jburnmurdoch.ft.com
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.

Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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neildegrassetyson.com
Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden).

Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.

#ScienceMatters
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.

Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.

American capitalism is off the rails.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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insidestory.gr
Μεγάλη χαρά και τιμή για το #insidestory_gr

Η βράβευση του #insidestory_gr με την @etriantafillou.bsky.social με το βραβείο #DaphneCaruanaGalizia του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου είναι μια ουσιαστική αναγνώριση της ερευνητικής μας δουλειάς.
October 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
costas.gr
Did something happen 40 mins ago, or is this one of the usual btc swings? I don't think this is very typical?
October 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
costas.gr
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.
defenddemocracy.eu
October 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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lukaesenko.bsky.social
Two kayakers passing autumn trees in flooded Planinsko polje, Slovenia.
September 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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georgakopoulos.org
Δεν υπάρχει λόγος να τα συζητάμε αυτά ακόμα, δεν ζούμε στο 2018, αυτό το μέτρο είναι σωστό και απαραίτητο και πρέπει να υλοποιηθεί το συντομότερο.
www.kathimerini.gr/politics/563...
Κυρ. Μητσοτάκης: Στο τραπέζι η απαγόρευση των social media για ανηλίκους κάτω των 16 ετών
«Δεν μπορούμε να επικαλούμαστε τις δυσκολίες στην εφαρμογή αυτών των πολιτικών ως δικαιολογία για να μην κάνουμε κάτι για το πρόβλημα», τόνισε ο πρωθυπουργός.
www.kathimerini.gr
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
Look, I didn't expect to experience the "you're in the classroom in nothing but your underwear" dream from a third-person perspective but I feel like that's what's happening at the UN right now.
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
costas.gr
He was absolutely right. Giannis is unstoppable.
hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social HoopsHype @hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social · Aug 27
Italy's head coach jokes about how to stop Giannis Antetokounmpo at the Eurobasket: "A friend of mine is a sniper. We will put him at the top of the gym."
September 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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georgakopoulos.org
Τι ζούμε
September 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.
September 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse
September 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the
July 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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financialtimes.com
The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us
July 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM