Drug use has always been integral to artistic production. While creating the theatrical propaganda work "Special Military Operation in Ukraine", for example, Russian troops have ingested vast quantities of synthetic opioids, cathinones and amphetamines
Imagine a boot stomping on a human face for quite some time, until the human grabs the boot, flips the guy wearing it to the ground, and starts whaling on him
Just thinking this out: does it mean the new parliament has repeal of the anti-LGBT law as a top priority in order to get EU funds flowing again? That would force the Fidesz president to either sign a repeal of the law, or be the sole person standing in the way of EU funds.
The EU Court of Justice: the Hungarian LGBTI law violates the right to non-discrimination, freedom of expression and private life/information.
For the very first time, the Court uses the values in Article 2 TEU as a stand alone basis.
Ready to go new government!
curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
Odd timing to make Peter Magyar deal with this in the immediate aftermath of his win, but clearly it was coming given how blatantly the Orban law clashed with EU principles www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
AP: Japanese government scraps ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy – ‘China criticized the change in policy, but it has been largely welcomed by Japanese defense partners like Australia and attracted interest from Southeast Asia and Europe.’
I should mention that phrasing the death of Florida oranges as “our nightmarish eco-future” (as OP does) seems wrong. Orange production is steadyish in Brazil, China and India (the global leaders) as well as Spain, and rising in Egypt. All have ecochallenges but only the US collapsed.
Amazing long read about the death of the Florida orange, which also feels obliquely like a commentary on the extinction of long reads, like John McPhee’s magnificent “Oranges”, which it mentions.
I found this a surprisingly risqué title for an event scheduled on that date
What even is the Republican Party now? Is it anything describable? Do you have to ingest psychedelic drugs to grasp it? www.ft.com/content/1deb...
Just thought of one job AI is definitely not going to be able to do and whose value will probably therefore rise in coming years, perhaps leading to a reversal of current trends
The capabilities of these Ukrainian drones are really getting out of hand
Twee van mijn favoriete publicaties:
Stupid. Supply shocks end when higher prices destroy enough demand to restore balance. Keeping prices artificially low leads inevitably to the only other way to balance supply with demand: rationing.
I just liked going out into the dunes near Haarlem and not hearing a single airplane. Nothing but birds
Kenyan asparagus obviously
Everyone focuses on how Europe is dependent on the US for software and on the Mideast for oil but nobody points to Europe’s critical dependency on Morocco for bathroom and kitchen tiles
Huh. I thought in a lot of constituencies notably in Pest Orban had shifted boundaries to push villages in around medium-sized towns, and skew the size of the constituency so Fidesz-leaning ones were smaller?
Unclear to me why anyone should be relieved if the Tories manage to stay ahead of Reform, when the party is now happy to be represented in Parliament by raving Europhobic nut jobs.
An Iran expert on Al-Arabiya TV that because Trump was so positive and open about the ongoing negotiations and said that the Iranians had conceded to everything, the hardliners in Iran backtracked and closed the Strait of Hormuz again.
(Makes sense!)
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
People talk about the risk of crack and pack gerrymandering: if you take voters from districts you win by 20% to create districts you win by 10%, but the popular vote swings 11%, you get wiped out. But this is the only case I know where it seems to have happened. Other examples?
This is the only case I’m aware of where a party that heavily gerrymandered the system to increase their own margin faced what happens when the vote shifts too far and their system hugely advantages the opposition. People talk about the risk but I don’t know of another case. Is there one?
If you ask me, Sen. Jon Ossoff is sounding more and more like a potential 2028 presidential candidate.
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
I think so. I often get the details wrong though
Well done.
Idd.
Hoe met narcisten om te gaan. Zijn gedrag leek heel erg op dat van Trump in veel opzichten
Herkennen en omgang. (Omgang: vriendelijk blijven, afstand houden, nooit erop rekenen of afspraak maken)
