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🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

"What the UK Is Doing to Pro-Palestine Novelist Sally Rooney Is an Act of Orwellian Villainy"

The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline go.nature.com/4hQid1j

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Het is een editoriale keuze van @nos om 4 keer zoveel aandacht te geven aan een naar incident met 180 geschrokken mensen en 2 gewonden, dan aan de huiveringwekkende ontmaskering van de geautomatiseerde en industriële wijze waarop Palestijnen vermoord worden in een genocide die voortduurt. 1/2

Was niet George Orwell's sterkste dag qua redenatie-vermogen.

Eerlijk is eerlijk: Waling zal ook de eerste zijn om toe te geven dat bijvoorbeeld Theo van Gogh en Pimmetje in hun tijd er wel een beetje om vroegen met hun provocerende gedrag.

Two state elections in Germany today, guess which one will be written up as representative of Germany/Europe and which one will be portrayed as unique to that specific state?

Terreurboeren die treinen willen laten ontsporen wordt niks in de weg gelegd, een onschuldige man van kleur wordt vermoord en demonstranten tegen de moord op 20.000 kinderen worden gearresteerd. De @politie.bsky.social toont ons de kernwaarden van dit land.

Leeft Geert Wilders eigenlijk nog?

Ik heb het een tijdje aangekeken met dit stelletje, maar dit is voor mij de druppel. Een kabinet van middelmanagers die geen probleem in AI zien omdat ‘iedereen het doet’ en je het ‘toch niet tegenhoudt’, verdient niets dan de totale ondergang. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

"We don't need a democracy shield — we need a democracy sword. The time for non-binding resolutions on the urgency of protecting democracy is long over, we need to work to further democracy." It's time to build our democratic future, no get dragged into their facists dystopia by captured systems.

the extraction class (and the brunchlord trust fund editors they seed at outlets like The Atlantic) are positively desperate to redirect attention away from the popularity and real-world potential of progressive reform

I have read Anne’s books and generally respect her work but it’s a little hard to take pieces like this seriously when she was one of the ones amplifying the myth of right-wing censorship.

The GOP's biggest donor is relentlessly tweeting anti-semitic race science, but Democrats have to disavow a streamer. Do I have that right?

No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

Hoofdredacteur (Telegraaf) te gast bij Talkshow (Telegraaf, VVD) om namens de VVD het woord te voeren over de vastgelopen begrotingsonderhandelingen op de NPO van ons Belastinggeld. Zulke clownerij is precies wat we Orbán in Hongarije jarenlang hebben verweten hè?

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?

Well, this surely is the real deal! #classicalmusic

It was less Southernization and more the colonization of northern Protestantism by southern White Evangelicals whose religion had always been a business. The humble, spirituality-seeking pastors of the north had no chance against industrialized carnival capitalism of Lifeway and Jimmy Swaggart.

Make a band bigger; 17 horsepower Ten inch nails Gigadeth Fleetwood Big Mac

Any Koechlin fans on Bluesky?! #classicalmusic

LOL

Jullie argumenten zijn ongeldig, want jullie demonstreren nooit voor verkrachte pinguïns.

the UK press attacked jason arday because it is deeply racist & so the idea of a black intellectual is abhorrent to them. they enjoy that they have killed him, they will be celebrating in private even as they offer tepid excuses in public. they're all nazi freaks and should be treated as such

Dutch bank ING promised to stop financing oil and gas companies focused solely on new fields. But the money is still flowing. Last year, research by SOMO and Watchtower found ING provided $908m to three companies searching for new oil in the North Sea, through loans and bonds.

Laten we onszelf blijven herinneren waarom een #landbouwtransitie broodnodig is. Bestuivende insecten verdwijnen door overmaat #stikstof, #klimaatverandering, #pesticiden en gebrek aan leefgebied. #nietalleskan

New arrival. Dont care that much about the mozart, but was curious about the beethoven. Are you familiar with this? @rolandvangaalen.bsky.social

Beste Jan Paternotte: het feit dat @d66.nl belangrijke principes heeft opgegeven om met Yeşilgöz in zee te kunnen gaan, betekent niet dat jullie van @progressiefned.bsky.social hetzelfde mogen vragen, puur om jullie hachje in het mislukte minderheidskabinet te redden. wnl.tv/2026/08/19/p...

Alles wat boeren 'maken' ís natuurlijke productie. Het graan groeit zichzelf, de koe maakt de melk. Het enige dat deze boeren produceren is hemeltergende domheid

Je verzint het niet.

Voor de mensen die overwegen door een CD te kijken naar de zonsverduistering: Go retro! Vinyl is beter!

Verschrikkelijk. Wat een verschrikkelijk hufterig gevoelloos kloteland is Nederland geworden. @robjetten.bsky.social dóe nou eindelijk eens iets, nee niet een bedacht PR kunstje! Toon karakter, toon je hart én je ballen, wees niet langer een opportunistische slappe zak.

We need to have to have a reckoning with the fact that our media class is mostly just dull as fuck driving gloves Tory 65 year olds who think behaving like an insufferable cunt is cool and funny

Muslim leftists winning elections has broken the brains of many centrists and liberals who had managed to mostly hide their Islamophobia for years

I think you're mostly wrong about this (and pretty much everything else), but it would actually a good thing if people care about people who live in places they cant find on a map.

In Europa is in 40 jaar bijna 1 op de 5 vogels verdwenen 💔 Juist nu overweegt de EU de Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijn af te zwakken. Een ver-van-je-bedshow? De gevolgen zijn groot en raken ons allemaal. ✊ Teken de #HandsOffNature petitie🙏 www.vogelbescherming.nl/handen-af-van-de-vogels

@amnestyuk.bsky.social shame on you for immediately and unconditionally folding to Rowling. Pathetic failure of leadership and of the mission you claim. Human rights only matter if they’re cis humans, I guess. Eat my shit and hair.

PART 3: Jaap | The World Turned Upside Down His kippah was torn off.
He was threatened because of his views. By people from his own community, he was called an antisemite. Jaap Hamburger (75) from Een Ander Joods Geluid, was at a silent protest on July 30 in Rotterdam. Link full interview ⬇️

Beste Jan, hoort D66 de muziek nu eindelijk? Stoooop fo-siele sub-siiiidies 🎶

How do I know the murderer wasn’t a person of colour without needing to read the story? It’s not the only news story. It’s not dominating X. There are no debates about the inherent humanity of the murderer in the press. No debates about the crisis of white male violence in the UK.