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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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Après son intervention artistique à l’Art Basel Miami Beach, le performer franco-luxembourgeois Thomas Iser est rentré au Grand-Duché avec sa femme et leur fille.
L’artiste Thomas Iser, arrêté puis incarcéré, de retour au Luxembourg
www.virgule.lu
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Après son intervention artistique à l’Art Basel Miami Beach, le performer franco-luxembourgeois Thomas Iser est rentré au Grand-Duché avec sa femme et leur fille.
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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"Si je meurs, je mourrai en tant qu'homme gay. Et si je survis, je ne le cacherai plus !" : un article sur le militantisme LGBT+ en Ukraine en temps de guerre.
‘I’ll die as a gay man’: LGBTQ rights in a time of war
Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ soldiers are coming out and demanding change for their community, but progress remains slow
www.opendemocracy.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Si je meurs, je mourrai en tant qu'homme gay. Et si je survis, je ne le cacherai plus !" : un article sur le militantisme LGBT+ en Ukraine en temps de guerre.
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20 novembre 1945 : Début du procès de Nuremberg.
Ce procès, intenté contre 24 des principaux responsables du Troisième Reich, constitue la première étape de la mise en œuvre d'une juridiction pénale internationale.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proc%C3...
#CeJourLà
Ce procès, intenté contre 24 des principaux responsables du Troisième Reich, constitue la première étape de la mise en œuvre d'une juridiction pénale internationale.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proc%C3...
#CeJourLà
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
20 novembre 1945 : Début du procès de Nuremberg.
Ce procès, intenté contre 24 des principaux responsables du Troisième Reich, constitue la première étape de la mise en œuvre d'une juridiction pénale internationale.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proc%C3...
#CeJourLà
Ce procès, intenté contre 24 des principaux responsables du Troisième Reich, constitue la première étape de la mise en œuvre d'une juridiction pénale internationale.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proc%C3...
#CeJourLà
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Un choc pour Marseille et au-delà, et pour Xavier Monnier, journaliste à Blast, qui livre ici un texte personnel sur sa relation avec Amine Kessaci.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social.
Marseille : Don Quichotte contre les moulins des narcos
Militant des quartiers populaires de Marseille, candidat EELV lors des européennes de 2024 puis aux législatives la même année (sous l’étiquette NFP), Amine Kessaci avait déjà perdu un frère, tué dans...
www.blast-info.fr
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Un choc pour Marseille et au-delà, et pour Xavier Monnier, journaliste à Blast, qui livre ici un texte personnel sur sa relation avec Amine Kessaci.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social.
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
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Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level | Arwa Mahdawi
How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, asks Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level | Arwa Mahdawi
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Don’t believe everything you see: why Buddhist scepticism is vital in the age of generative AI | Bertin Huynh
Don’t believe everything you see: why Buddhist scepticism is vital in the age of generative AI | Bertin Huynh
Because our senses are so limited and the nature of all things so transient, what we know to be objective reality is a momentary snapshot of the whole picture
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Don’t believe everything you see: why Buddhist scepticism is vital in the age of generative AI | Bertin Huynh
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« Que Jordan Bardella ose citer Marc Bloch est un outrage à toutes les victimes de la France collaboratrice des nazis »
« Que Jordan Bardella ose citer Marc Bloch est un outrage à toutes les victimes de la France collaboratrice des nazis »
Dans une tribune au « Monde », les historiennes Joëlle Alazard et Annette Becker reviennent sur l’héritage du médiéviste et résistant Marc Bloch. Elles s’insurgent de « l’instrumentalisation des grandes figures humanistes par l’extrême droite ».
www.lemonde.fr
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
« Que Jordan Bardella ose citer Marc Bloch est un outrage à toutes les victimes de la France collaboratrice des nazis »
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Elle fait partie des familles des victimes de l'attentat du DC10 d'UTA de 1989, imputable au pouvoir libyen du colonel Kadhafi.
Elle a des choses à nous dire sur Sarkozy et sa victimisation.
A écouter jusqu'à la fin.
Elle a des choses à nous dire sur Sarkozy et sa victimisation.
A écouter jusqu'à la fin.
October 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Elle fait partie des familles des victimes de l'attentat du DC10 d'UTA de 1989, imputable au pouvoir libyen du colonel Kadhafi.
Elle a des choses à nous dire sur Sarkozy et sa victimisation.
A écouter jusqu'à la fin.
Elle a des choses à nous dire sur Sarkozy et sa victimisation.
A écouter jusqu'à la fin.
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Warum kommen manche Leute mit Hilfe von AI auf haarsträubend dumme Ideen, während andere damit höchst sinnvolle Dinge hinkriegen? Ein Blick auf den merkwürdigen Effekt der AI-Selbstbestätigungsspirale:
Computer, sag mir, dass ich genial bin!
Künstliche Intelligenz revolutioniert die Wissenschaft. Allerdings kann man dabei in eine gefährliche Falle tappen: die Selbstbestätigungsspirale.
futurezone.at
October 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Warum kommen manche Leute mit Hilfe von AI auf haarsträubend dumme Ideen, während andere damit höchst sinnvolle Dinge hinkriegen? Ein Blick auf den merkwürdigen Effekt der AI-Selbstbestätigungsspirale:
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⚠️ Message de service à tous ceux qui hurlaient contre la reconnaissance de la Palestine à l'ONU il y a 15 jours:
1) Cette reconnaissance accompagnait le plan franco-saoudien voté par 142 pays à l'ONU. …
1) Cette reconnaissance accompagnait le plan franco-saoudien voté par 142 pays à l'ONU. …
October 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
⚠️ Message de service à tous ceux qui hurlaient contre la reconnaissance de la Palestine à l'ONU il y a 15 jours:
1) Cette reconnaissance accompagnait le plan franco-saoudien voté par 142 pays à l'ONU. …
1) Cette reconnaissance accompagnait le plan franco-saoudien voté par 142 pays à l'ONU. …
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“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses."
And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses."
And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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There's an unhealthy silence in the EU on the role that Greek ship owners played in helping Putin build his shadow fleet and the flood of transshipments going to Russia from all across the EU. I'm deeply grateful to @marcbrost.bsky.social at Germany's FOCUS Magazin for letting me write about this...
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
There's an unhealthy silence in the EU on the role that Greek ship owners played in helping Putin build his shadow fleet and the flood of transshipments going to Russia from all across the EU. I'm deeply grateful to @marcbrost.bsky.social at Germany's FOCUS Magazin for letting me write about this...
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🔴 NEW 🔴
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...
www.desmog.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🔴 NEW 🔴
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...
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Do I wish that Charlie Kirk had been murdered? No, absolutely not. I'm posting this because I simply believe that we need to have a clear understanding of who this man was.
Quite frankly, I sincerely doubt there's a single item on this list the man wouldn't proudly stand by if he were still alive.
Quite frankly, I sincerely doubt there's a single item on this list the man wouldn't proudly stand by if he were still alive.
September 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Do I wish that Charlie Kirk had been murdered? No, absolutely not. I'm posting this because I simply believe that we need to have a clear understanding of who this man was.
Quite frankly, I sincerely doubt there's a single item on this list the man wouldn't proudly stand by if he were still alive.
Quite frankly, I sincerely doubt there's a single item on this list the man wouldn't proudly stand by if he were still alive.
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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"Non, la police n’est pas l’alliée des personnes LGBT et, non, la Justice ne peut rien lorsqu’un flic a décidé de casser du p*dé" : le militant LGBT+ éborgné par un policier à Marseille retire sa plainte.
blogs.mediapart.fr/mouais-le-jo...
blogs.mediapart.fr/mouais-le-jo...
August 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Non, la police n’est pas l’alliée des personnes LGBT et, non, la Justice ne peut rien lorsqu’un flic a décidé de casser du p*dé" : le militant LGBT+ éborgné par un policier à Marseille retire sa plainte.
blogs.mediapart.fr/mouais-le-jo...
blogs.mediapart.fr/mouais-le-jo...
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I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
The FBI As We Knew It is Gone
It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.
asharangappa.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
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🇬🇪Georgia is undergoing a political transformation - but not towards the future we all want.
The extremist ruling party, Georgian Dream, has evolved into a demagogic, anti-Western machine, deploying propaganda and laws that echo the darkest chapters of the 20th century.
1/17
The extremist ruling party, Georgian Dream, has evolved into a demagogic, anti-Western machine, deploying propaganda and laws that echo the darkest chapters of the 20th century.
1/17
August 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🇬🇪Georgia is undergoing a political transformation - but not towards the future we all want.
The extremist ruling party, Georgian Dream, has evolved into a demagogic, anti-Western machine, deploying propaganda and laws that echo the darkest chapters of the 20th century.
1/17
The extremist ruling party, Georgian Dream, has evolved into a demagogic, anti-Western machine, deploying propaganda and laws that echo the darkest chapters of the 20th century.
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