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Competing Conspiracy Theories Consume Trump’s Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
Competing Conspiracy Theories Consume Trump’s Washington
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July 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Competing Conspiracy Theories Consume Trump’s Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
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It's "woke" to *checks notes* support parks.
January 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It's "woke" to *checks notes* support parks.
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Another day, another colossal blowout in the cost of building nuclear power plants. So why won't the media acknowledge the absurdity of Peter Dutton's energy plan, ask @keanebernard.bsky.social and Glenn Dyer.
Dutton's new nuclear nightmare: construction costs continue to explode
The latest massive cost blowout at a planned power station in the UK demonstrates the absurdity of Peter Dutton's claims about nuclear power in Australia.
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January 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Another day, another colossal blowout in the cost of building nuclear power plants. So why won't the media acknowledge the absurdity of Peter Dutton's energy plan, ask @keanebernard.bsky.social and Glenn Dyer.
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In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Elon Musk has every right to say what he likes. And, yes, he & his fellow broligarchs are not the first billionaires driving politics. But, two things are new: A new hyperweapon they possess (cloud capital). Plus their hypocritical free speech campaign www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/m...
Musk, Trump and the Broligarchs' novel hyper-weapon - Le Monde 4-1-2025, full original English version - Yanis Varoufakis
How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? By merely posing his dazzling question in 1952, Aneurin Bevan captured liberal democracy’s greatest par...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
January 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Elon Musk has every right to say what he likes. And, yes, he & his fellow broligarchs are not the first billionaires driving politics. But, two things are new: A new hyperweapon they possess (cloud capital). Plus their hypocritical free speech campaign www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/m...
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Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity,
yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress
to date in interventions tha...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.