Well, the images are AI-modified/generated, the women are real (verifiably six of them, at least), only one of them is slated to be executed, and Tehran claims no concessions have been made www.theverge.com/policy/91718...
This is remigration in draft legal form.
it's really strange that any foreigner wouldn't want to visit the u.s. right now, huh
Orbans methods.
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A lot of politicians fail to think through second and third order consequences. Trump is unusual in struggling with first order ones.
billionaire: we need radical solutions for Earth Day. Think bold. Biofuels. Space mirrors. Plankton fertilization.
advisor: what about a 2% wealth tax?
billionaire: …Cloud seeding. Turbine farms in the Sahara. A Dyson sphere.
In more Chekhov's Gun news
the thing is that prediction markets are explicitly supposed to allow insider trading to make them more accurate
The Hormuz situation seems so so bad, like gonna-destabilize-half-the-globe-and-tank-the-economy bad, with no obvious resolution even plausible, and it’s still getting the “distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out” treatment in American press
Deeply worrying: In Tunisia, the well known investigative outlet Inkyfada is being threatened with closure as the crackdown on independent press and civil society intensifies rsf.org/en/tunisia-i...
"...€200M+ in EU contracts just to watch people drown."
Minister Boekholt vraagt tijdens Kamerdebat zenuwachtig aan ambtenaar wat een ‘huurwoning’ precies is
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
As the EU/UK, Japan, India and other powers expand their own military investment, part of this story is not just decline of US power against adversaries but also loss of US influence over former allies and partners
This time around the EU and Gulf states will look to keep Ukraine, Syria, Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt stable. Algeria, Morocco and Turkey are probably economically plugged in enough to get through this
But economic crisis and security chaos in Sahel, West Africa, East Africa will hit anyway
If you go back go the Arab uprisings of 2011 and the instability in Ukraine and Russia that fed into Bolotnaya, Maidan and the ensuing war then you could argue that the economic disruption caused by the global financial crisis was a contributing factor
If a reconstituted US system emerges after Trump, do we call it the Second Republic or the Second Empire?
Civil war in the UK? Me in @ukandeu.bsky.social on an absurd yet dangerous far-right fantasy, promoted by some politicians/media/academics
ukandeu.ac.uk/civil-war-in...
Political outcomes from the gov crises in Romania, no particular order:
-PSD-PNL reconciliation by removing Bolojan
-PSD gov with open or tacit AUR support
-PNL-USR-UDMR gov supported by PSD-AUR deserters
-First ever early election post '89
For all the absurdity of Trump's infrastructure week bombast it is worth noting that the blockade will do further damage to Iranian economic life.
We're already in the start-stop-start dynamics that shaped quite a few American forever wars
The Prime Minister doesn't understand his job.
The Chancellor has given up.
The Home Secretary has radicalised herself.
There isn't a foreign secretary.
A government on autopilot into oblivion.
Whose HQ is in Hannover
NOT NOW, ROMANIA
Klaus McForkface, a lifting robot developed by German manufacturer Linde AG, performed a stunning 1200-kilogram (2646 lb) overhead lift in Hamburg, beating the human world record by more than 300%
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Angry, violent white supremacists went to Western Oregon University again and threatened, harassed, and stalked the students. The administrators at the school, apparent fans of the far-right, once again did zero to stop this. They have a campus public safety department and the legal right to act.
They could have just asked Stan Dobrev and Nick Trickett a year ago
