26/ "We paid 7.5 dollars to fully charge the electric car!

Nobody in China cares about the oil wars anymore"
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2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker"

"There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson"

"We need homegrown clean power that we can control"

"We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

Thank you for the clear explanation
@Ed_Miliband"
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Thread of freak outs and tears from the Right on the other site:

Nate Fischer, theobro and network state investor:

Mark Tully and the Moral Conscience of Indian Journalism (2026) Mark Tully’s life and death reveal how public service journalism, shaped by empire and conscience, is disappearing in an age of power, speed, and silence.

"...his reporting combined clarity, moral honesty, and a refusal to sensationalise, offering the country a steady lens through which to understand tragedy and its consequences."

A fine obituary for Mark Tully.

frontline.thehindu.com/other/obitua...

Chinese hackers targeted top UK officials

The spying operation is alleged to have targeted close aides of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak over the course of three years

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV' YouTube video by MS NOW

A Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE.

Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.”

The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?”
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The country was almost completely cut off from the internet, according to monitoring groups, following ‘a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country’. ft.trib.al/I2MqhvN

India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump: Why it Needs a Nehru now The Indian state and Indian people have had a good run in the Western world over the last 25 years.

My piece.

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

A senior French source has described tomorrow’s DC meeting to me as the “most consequential for peace and security in Europe” since the fall of the Soviet Union. Brief thread later.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times

The FT conducted extensive interviews with Metreweli and her senior female SIS colleagues for this piece three years ago on the top women spies at MI6. To protect her identity, Metreweli chose the pseudonym 'Ada' for the story (free to read)

www.ft.com/content/7417...

In one convo, a not-hostile young man asked me, "What's it like to go from history's heroes to being the Nazis?"

He was genuinely curious, confused. Wanted to understand. (He also knew my opinions in general.)

But ouch.

I've been in Europe for three weeks. Mostly, they look at us with pity.

Pity is hard to take.

'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist YouTube video by CNN

This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.

Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.

This is how you want a leader to talk.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...

The right is shaping public perception of these protests just like it shaped public perception of the BLM protests, because it dominates the information ecosystem. The narratives it has spent years crafting & spreading are shaping how current events are interpreted.

Wonderful piece on reading.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Amazing. Respect the lede.

“It’s not dissatisfaction. It’s not disillusionment. It’s revulsion: visceral fury, anger on a level I’ve seldom seen before, even towards Tory cruelties…”

George Monbiot on how Britain can get to PR.

Insane. Slight young woman traveling with mom to see U.S soldier husband.

Strip-searched twice. Disappeared in the afternoon into the next day.

No calls. Given no food.

Finally, before being put on a plane, had 3 min. call w/husband who cried inconsolably.

Husband has decided to leave the Army.

It's quite impressive how Brexit not only broke the Tory party but is now keeping them permanently trapped underneath a useless shibboleth.

Habemus Papam Crymorus I