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Michael Roth 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱 @michaelroth.bsky.social · 1d

Danke @taz.de

„In alledem hat die große Masse der gesellschaftlichen Linken seit dem 7.10.23 versagt. Das Statement des Café-Kollektivs zeigt das nun einmal mehr. Es gibt keine gemeinsamen roten Linien, keine Leitplanken, keinen „common ground“ oder „common sense“.“

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Café schmeißt Israeli und Partnerin raus: Lehrstück über linken Antisemitismus

Zwei Personen werden aus der linken Berliner Kneipe „K-Fetisch“ geworfen. Auf ihrem T-Shirt stand das Wort „Falafel“ – unter anderem in hebräischer Schrift.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 1d

Die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung widerspricht dem "Stadtbild"-Narrativ. Das zeigt eine ZDF-Umfrage, die aber vom Sender komplett ins Gegenteil verdreht wurde. Eine gravierender Fehler für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk.
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ZDF manipuliert Umfrage: Mehrheit widerspricht Merz

Eine Umfrage zeigt, dass die Mehrheit der Menschen kein Problem mit Geflüchteten hat und sich sicher fühlt. Das ZDF berichtet das Gegenteil.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 1d

It's a cabinet straight out of the Yasukuni shrine museum. In their world view, the only thing Imperial Japan did wrong in WW2 is to lose it.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Nagy, is she not a member of Nippon Kaigi, an ultra-right, ultranationalist group that still rejects the Tokyo Tribunal that convicted the war criminals now enshrined at Yasukuni shrine? Sure, she is not the only one of that ilk in the LDP, but that makes it worse, not better.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 1d

As I wrote in November 2024:
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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · Nov 23

Over the course of the next two years, they will try to eliminate independent media as Orban did in Hungary, where all the newspapers and radio stations have been taken over by his cronies. Something similar happened in Turkey under Erdogan. WP and NYT are already surrendering.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 1d

Statt sich um Klimakrise und Abhängigkeit von China zu kümmern, versucht diese Regierung, mit Themen wie "Stadtbild" und "Veggie-Wurst" zu punkten, womit sie nur Wind in die Mühlen der AfD lenkt, die auch nur Pseudo-Lösungen für Pseudo-Probleme anbieten kann.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

More than 40% of the global fleet consists of bulk carriers to move coal or LNG and crude tankers, which will become obsolete in a green energy transition to meet agreed climate goals.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

In 2024, with about half of the still operable reactors restarted, Japan generated 8.2% of its electricity from nuclear (less than the 11.4% it got from solar). Even a full restart would only replace a fraction of the 65.1% that came from coal and gas. Many EU countries are at over 50% renewables.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

When 2/3 of your energy come from fossils, nuclear is not the core of your energy policy, it's a distraction from it! Not putting renewables at the center all but ensures continued CO2 emissions: New reactors are too expensive and won't be online for 15+ years while fusion is still a distant dream.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

Takaichi was made prime minister by a bunch of old men precisely because she won't challenge their values. Her comment that she would "throw away the phrase work-life balance" was instructive in a society that makes being a mother (but not a father) incompatible with having a career.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

Construction of the ballroom with winter garden (under which the Fuehrer bunker was hidden) in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin began in 1935. Today it is a parking lot near the monument for the victims of the Holocaust.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

The image you posted is the "Haus der Kunst" in Munich, not a ballroom in Berlin. It was built as an art gallery on Hitler's orders between 1933 and 1937.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

If the LDP wanted her to be 'immigration minister', that could have been her title. 'Minister for Promoting an Orderly and Coexistent Society with Foreign Nationals' (外国人との秩序ある共生社会推進担当大臣) suggests her main job is to ensure foreigners don't cause trouble.
How about 'xenophobia minister' for short?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

"A world without poverty" is a weird thing to hear from a guy who took a chainsaw to USAID, which according to experts will cause 14 million avoidable deaths by 2030.

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Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts

A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

He thinks he could demolish 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and not lose any voters.

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: New suit seeks TRO blocking Trump's White House ballroom project and further destruction of East Wing. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

The 10% is to be made from proportional representation seats, which will make parliamentary representation less of a reflection of the will of the people (# of votes cast). It reduces representation of smaller parties, while favouring parties with large core constituencies and tactical voting.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

There are about 122m Japanese now, about the same as in 1987 (the population peaked in 2008). There were 512 seats in the 1986 election, vs. 465 in the 2024 one. That is, there are already 10% fewer representatives per million population than there were then and far fewer than in the 1950s.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

JIP, the new coalition partner of the LDP in the Japanese government, argues for cutting the number of seats in the lower house due to a falling population.

This is not why they are doing it and the reason given doesn't make sense.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

KI ist vor allem eine Spekulationsblase, die demnächst platzen wird, weil sich die Investitionen nicht rechnen.

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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

Rule #1: Don't be an ICEhole

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 5d

You can't give coal away in the US's most productive coal region.

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Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 5d

Even in Russia's biggest and most productive coal mining region, they lose money on every ton of coal, reports Moscow Times. It costs more to dig up and ship than international customers are prepared to pay for it.

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The cost of producing and shipping one ton of thermal coal along the eastern route is estimated at 6,000 to 6,500 rubles. This means that, given the current strong ruble, the sale price of $70 per ton (some 5,500 rubles at the current exchange rate) does not cover the costs for many firms located away from the Far Eastern ports.

“At current prices, exchange rates, financing costs and rail and maritime logistics, thermal coal production in Kuzbass is unprofitable across the board,” said Roman Golovin, strategy director at the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia’s largest coal producer.

Four of SUEK's 10 coal enterprises have already scaled back operations or are weighing closures, he added.

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