Ingmar von Homeyer

The growth in global greenhouse gas emissions has slowed, from 1.7%/year from 1990-2015 to 0.8%/year from 2016-2025. Nevertheless, global GHG emissions are still at record high levels. Progress? www.unep.org/en/publicati...

EU gas is above €90/MWh, its highest since Dec 2022. Brent is above $115, its highest since June 2022. The EU has already paid €100bn+ extra for oil and gas since Hormuz closed. Not one extra molecule. Best defence: electrify. janrosenow.substack.com/p/europes-be...

Warum hieß es bei allen Demos von Bauern, Querdenkern, Impfgegnern immer "die Sorgen der Bürger ernst nehmen" - aber bei den geplanten GenZ Demos für mehr Bildung, Gerechtigkeit, Klimaschutz heißt es "Pack" und "Mob" und die Union fordert Versammlungsverbot bzw Bundeswehreinsatz?

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

Naja, dann ist ja auch völlig unproblematisch, wenn Ex-Geheimdienstler vertrauliche Daten verhökern ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Russia-US Ukraine talks increasingly follow the interest of the insider court rather than the nations. This is what neo-royalism looks like. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions to elect Republicans, an unprecedentedly huge amount from one person, and it’s a lot less than the value of contracts his companies got from this government he paid to elect and worked in. Many reports say “his own money,” few note unprecedentedly corrupt.

The threat of sanctions finally attracts the attention of Israeli media and voters. Thanks to Netanyahu, who promises Israelis a blockchain based economy to circumvent future sanctions. A massive own-goal just four days before polling day; he seems to be losing his game.

As @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social says, you’ll never satisfy the far right. They’ve gone from banging on about EU migrants to attacking people who aren’t white. Whatever happens to the migration stats, the bigots will just keep moving the target. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An 11 year-old child supported a conman. As an adult, he is having doubts. About Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny also.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Sigh. Last line of this story "As a proportion of the economy, debt was ​lower than a year earlier, the ONS said."

For Poschardt and those around him it is far more fun to imagine themselves as digital Rolands who have donned meme swords and armour to slay woke Saracens in a quest to save Western civilisation than expend any time or energy on the complex details of how to fix rail, housing or healthcare systems

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

Telegraph: The White House has blocked the transfer of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, US officials have said. The transfer of interceptor missiles from countries friendly to Ukraine requires the approval of Pete Hegseth. I’ve been screaming about it for years - you use/sell/donate US tech on US terms

French protectionism and German obsession with the combustion engine. Probably the worst compromise of all the available ones.

One of the basic flaws of Trump foreign policy: the inability to understand that durable leverage depends on exercising restraint, maintaining relationships, and speaking quietly.

prosecuting Elon for treason committed against the Trump administration would give the case some bipartisan cover and also, more importantly, be extremely funny bsky.app/profile/rinc...

Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level on record as pivotal vote looms for President Lula New data shows forest clearance fell by 71.2% since 2022, the final year of Bolsonaro administration. Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Public service decline matters…

Needless to say, the link between fossil fuels and Reform’s cash is not subtle (thank you @desmog.com) www.desmog.com/2026/10/12/w...

This post has too few likes, so put this in perspective: 1) in 2025, Reform had 268k members, leading all parties on membership. It’s 5th in the ranking of membership gives you a sense of how large the size of private donations is. 2) B. Delo is a crypto exchange guy that has pledged £36M to Reform

Der EU-Mythos über die vielen Bürokrat*innen in Brüssel geht in Runde #3452.

War as an election strategy should lead to life imprisonment without hope of release.

🚨 NEW | Electric cars saved oil-importing countries $20 BILLION in crude oil imports in the six months since the US-Israel war with Iran began ⚡📉 China saved an estimated $14 billion, while EU countries avoided $3.1 billion in oil imports. ember-energy.org/lat... 🧵1/2

The differences between the EU’s radical parties are substantive, not cosmetic. Their opponents should, for once, act strategically and work to drive a deeper wedge between the two groups on existential questions such as those mentioned above.

Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

When Ukraine does not stop fighting Russia then Trump will turn around and blame Europeans and Canadians for supposedly sabotaging his party's chances of winning the mid-terms. The word of the US government is not worth a bowl of spit for the foreseeable future

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

It's pretty simple, really: Representative A makes outrageous statement. Media, naturally, give it wall-to-wall coverage. A day or so later, Representative B steps in to explain that the statement was 'misinterpreted.' Media then churns out even more coverage on how we ought to 'interpret' claims.

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"Mr. Musk has already given far more money, about $366 million.. than he did during the 2024 election.. He has given even more in undisclosed donations during both elections, according to people briefed on the giving. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"

Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education

Trump: "If we decided not to buy watches from Switzerland, they wouldn't be elite anymore and we would save about $40 billion"

The ghosts of Adam Smith and Ricardo teaming up for one last job

"Meeting logs show that the proposed change was introduced after German chemicals group Bayer and agricultural lobby Copa Cogeca had called for the “unlimited” approval of pesticides." www.ft.com/content/3c86...

Good morning #disinfo2026 conference... www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Incentives that are backward-looking, economically beneficial only in the short term at best, which reinforce dangerous dependencies and are harmful to health and the environment, have for some time now been a hallmark of German energy and climate policy. www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...