EU impotence extends to decarbonisation
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EU impotence extends to decarbonisation
If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
I think I read this argument in Bruno Latour somewhere, but I can't remember for the life of me exactly where...
Trump acaba de sentenciar al petróleo.
Entramos en una nueva era energética, y tenemos máquinas que producen SOBERANÍA y LIBERTAD.
Spain is a sovereign country — not a colony or a protectorate.
• US bases in Spain are not US sovereign territory. Their use must reflect the bilateral interests of both countries.
• Spain remains a loyal NATO ally, with troops deployed in Latvia, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Que haya gente de izquierdas manifestándose contra proyectos de parques de baterías diminutos e inocuos y no contra esto, que está plenamente normalizado, es como un diapasón del tono político de nuestra época.
A tax economist put his entire life savings into a prediction market bet that DOGE wouldn’t cut spending.
His wife read the Kalshi comments from the people on the other side and grew *more* confident because “they didn’t seem to understand what they were buying.”
He made a 37% return
Dime por favor que querías decir "locamente".
Oh, nO, yOu ARe wRoNg, GENdeR iS deFiNiteLy, eMpHaTIcaLly NoT PoLiTiCs
Toda la política, como toda la vida social, es una serie de escenificaciones interconectadas, organizadas en roles. Los roles básicos son pocos, y se anclan en las metáforas fundacionales que describía Lakoff. So, yeah, mamá que sabe y está obligada a pensar en los otros, y papá que no.
Pity. I learn a lot from your posts. Do I agree with them? I don't know if that is the point, but judging needs to be downstream from understanding, and by then usually you realize things are too complex and nuanced for scolding or hectoring: epistemic humility.
Esta columna de Martín Caparrós es descomunal, con hallazgo lingüístico incluido: elpais.com/eps/2026-02-...
Proud too.
This is even better than a masterpiece: it is useful.
Read "danger of a pod" and it actually worked for me too.
There is no Trump "doctrine," domestic or foreign. To imagine that Trump does -- or ever could -- have a doctrine is to misunderstand him at the deepest level.
Cómo echo de menos a Javier Izquierdo. Qué punta no le sacaría a cosas como ésta... VAR is making football fans more and more miserable - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Beyond that, these guys don't seem to realize that, living in the contemporary world, they are 100% dependent on a whole range of overlapping systems that are almost entirely sustained by the thankless work of the very women they disdain.
All these Tough Guys would be *helpless* on their own.
Here's my drawing of what the GOP symbol should be.
#iceout #protest #gop #Authoritarianism #resist #notrump #nokings
P.S- I deleted my TikTok account. I was averaging 1000+ views a post.
I feel fucking invisible on bluesky.
Like/ share my posts. Let me know you're seeing them.
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Right now billionaires are heading to Davos conference with Trump to talk about solutions to problems THEY created.
8 men own 50% of all wealth, yet they point the finger at immigrants and trans people.
Billionaires: YOU’RE the problem. Just SHUT UP AND PAY YOUR TAX
It's so hard--I think they are trying to adapt, as we all are. I just don't think that automating the classroom solves the problem of students automating their thinking.
The Greenland thing is emblematic of the unique way the American Empire is failing: we perfected empire! We don't even have to occupy what we want, we enter into nice agreements because we're so strong, but this is too complex for the people now running us.
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
We need to make being an ignorant, misinformed, bigoted sociopathic chud a social deadend and societal marker of the worst kind of person imaginable.
Elevating and establishing communities that actually value honesty, openness, and basic humanity is a necessity. Vice signaling is mind killer.
be the case that the people being subjugated were the forbears of the reactionaries, but to point that out is to miss the point: it's the form of power they miss and envy, it's the imagined naturalness of that centrality, it's the tranquility due to those hateful voices being silent, absent, void.
I submit that the reactionary mind yearns for a past it does not know or understand, but a flattened, bowdlerized version that dispenses of struggle, resistance, life: the political. The core of that retelling is that dominant people were effortlessly in control, without contestation. It may well
long winded joke about kids in a santa movie thinking they were sent back in time to hang out with a jolly bearded gift giver but instead going to the council of nycea and listening to hours of debate with St Nicholas of Myra
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
Abandonen esa plataforma. Utilicen con cautela el resto, en las que de cualquier forma hay más gente. Potencien e inviertan en las alternativas abiertas. Atraigan a ellas a periodistas y otros cargos electos. Apuesten por la soberanía digital europea. Muevan el culo de una vez.
No somos responsables de vivir al final de la era neoliberal, o de que nuestros dirigentes hayan infravalorado la debilidad que supone que ciertas infraestructuras básicas estén fuera de nuestro control. De lo que sí somos responsables es de empezar a pensar en esto con la seriedad que merece.
