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"Events, dear boy, events"
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whstancil.bsky.social
YES YES YES, FINALLY PEOPLE ARE GETTING IT. A hardcore, energized base wins over people in the middle. Read this entire article. This is why liberals have been losing: they've been listening to quants who obsess over median voter opinion and ignore social dynamics. renewal.org.uk/blog/why-lab...
August 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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denktankminerva.be
In een nieuwe studie brengen Clarisse Van Tichelen, Bruno Bauraind en Sebastian Franco de Belgische overheidssteun voor bedrijven met winstoogmerk in kaart.

Als u ooit de vraagt stelt waar uw geld naartoe gaat ... 👇

www.denktankminerva.be/studies/2025...
Overheidssteun voor privébedrijven met winstoogmerk in België — Denktank Minerva
“Verdomd veel geld …” [1] SAMENVATTING In deze nota maken we een schatting van de totale overheidssteun voor privébedrijven met winstoogmerk in België. Zoals de grafiek hieronder aantoont, bereik...
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June 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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tomfletcherun.bsky.social
Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza.

We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work.

bit.ly/3S7M0oo
May 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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denktankminerva.be
VACATURE

Denktank Minerva wil zich versterken met een collega die zowel productie, communicatie als inhoudelijke ondersteuning op zich neemt.

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www.denktankminerva.be/vacature
vacature — Denktank Minerva
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May 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
wimsmet.bsky.social
Weet je nog dat Google hielp om dingen te vinden — en “don’t be evil” slogan was? Vandaag verstoppen ze wat je zoekt onder lagen reclame en rommel. Enshittifcation in actie. Waarom? Omdat het kan. Monopolies moeten niet de beste zijn. Hun verzet tegen regulering gaat niet over liefde voor innovatie
May 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Because in politics, people aren’t really trying to decide how they feel about immigrants. They’re trying to decide which person’s team to join. So if you equivocate and hedge you actually end up sounding worse to a lot of folks, and also lending a lot of credence to the other person’s team.
March 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
wimsmet.bsky.social
Heel dit draadje 🧵
amandamarcotte.bsky.social Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 12
I don't think so, because there's strong evidence most MAGA faithful don't actually believe much of what they say. Instead, they believe they're in on the con. It's less "I believe Trump's lies" and more "we must collectively lie, because that is our weapon in the war against liberals."
normative.bsky.social Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Mar 12
So I ask this partly because totalizing belief systems are often very brittle. It’s extremely hard to make a single crack, but once that first crack is made they often shatter completely with surprising speed.
March 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Just so people do not draw the wrong conclusions. Like other social democratic parties, the SPD has lost only very few voters to the far right. Today's AfD supporters are mostly not former social democrats. We outline this in detail here, for example: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/1awhrc...
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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wvlancker.bsky.social
Iedereen middenklasser! Laten we vooral niet vergeten dat 79% van de beursgenoteerde aandelen in handen zijn van de top 10% rijkste Belgen. Meest ongelijk verdeelde deel van het totale vermogen. De sterkste schouders dragen wel degelijk een meerwaardebelasting. Als ze er ooit komt. 🥲
February 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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gabrielzucman.bsky.social
"Si on taxe les ultra-riches ils vont fuir, n'est-ce pas ?"

Et bien non. Cet argument, infiniment ressassé, est d'une immense faiblesse

Explications 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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denktankminerva.be
⤵️ Voor overzicht van alle mythes en misvattingen, lees het hele dossier hier:
www.denktankminerva.be/analyse/2025...
(Staats)schuld en boete: moderne fabels over overheidsuitgaven en begrotingstekorten — Denktank Minerva
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. — Joan Robinson Inleiding Veel, zo nie...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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anspersoons.bsky.social
Hysterie

“Fanatiek woke-isme”, “Trumpiaans”, “Vergelijkbaar met boekverbrandingen”, “Knip anders zijn kloten af, dan kan het vast blijven staan”.

De kans is reëel dat u de afgelopen dagen iets gelezen heeft over de beeldengroep ‘De Rijpheid’ van Victor Rousseau.

Lees mijn volledige opinie hier.
'Veel mannen stonden boos op de barricade, maar van een beeldenstorm is geen sprake'
“Fanatiek woke-isme”, “Trumpiaans”, “Vergelijkbaar met boekverbrandingen”, “Knip anders zijn kloten af, dan kan het vast blijven staan”. De kans is reëel
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January 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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wvlancker.bsky.social
Dit is onzin. In 2024 bedraagt het gewaarborgd minimumloon €2.070,48 bruto/maand. Het leefloon voor een alleenstaande bedraagt €1.288,46/maand. Het leefloon voor iemand met kinderen bedraagt €1.741,29/maand. De leeflonen zijn niet te hoog, wel integendeel: ze dwingen ontvangers in de armoede. 🧵
January 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Look, Professor Schwarcz is literally one of my all-time favorite professors. But this is the game the far right plays! They make endless bad-faith arguments, insist you engage with them in good faith, and that's how ideas previously once unthinkable creep into the window of possibility.
danielschwarcz.bsky.social Daniel Schwarcz @danielschwarcz.bsky.social · Jan 24
My key point here is not substantive. I find Trump's order cruel & terrible, but whether it is constitutional is a separate, crucial question. Left-leaning people like me should assume good faith by those suggesting the order is constitutional & engage with their arguments.
January 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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williamripple.bsky.social
Paying attention. . .
January 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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gabrielzucman.bsky.social
As Trump moves forward with his tariff war & "drill drill" obsession, we hear a lot that "Europe must do something". This is wonderful—but what exactly?

So far I have seen just one concrete plan. Now is the time to discuss it

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman
Unlike tariffs, a new form of protectionism could target climate-wrecking, untaxed corporations and their billionaire owners
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January 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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pkrugman.bsky.social
Don't judge officials by how they come across. Scott Bessent may sound more sensible than the other Trump yes-men, but he's just as detached from reality paulkrugman.substack.com/p/voodoo-mag...
Voodoo, MAGA Style
Republicans still believe in magic-based policy
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January 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
wimsmet.bsky.social
Pension fund managers pre-2008: "Yo, these subprime mortgages are kinda fire."
Pension fund managers in 2025: "Hold my beer."
benbraun.bsky.social Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jan 16
“first [UK] bitcoin deal, with a small undisclosed £50mn pension scheme allocating about £1.5mn directly to bitcoin rather than through an ETF, in the hope that outsize returns might help plug its funding deficit”
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January 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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chazhutton.com
A little comic about desire paths.
Ok so… There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…
January 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood
Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"
January 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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jeancomte.bsky.social
Transparency geek news: from the 1st of January, the EU Commission started to proactively publish minutes of the meetings held between lobbyists and staff with management function (from DG to head of units). It's short, and not very detailed, but still a step toward transparency
January 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM