Georg von Graevenitz

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

a message; a word.

Dieser Aspekt von staatspolitischer Bedeutung wird leichtfertig oder sogar bewusst ignoriert, weil ein paar Lebensschützer Amok laufen. Tragisches Versagen...

Schade, weil sie sicherlich eine kluge und besonnene, aber auch zupackende Richterin gewesen wäre. Aber niemand ist unersetzbar. Der eigentliche Schaden: Dass Teile der demokratischen Parteien nicht verstehen, dass hier der erste große rechtsautoritäre Angriff auf die Justiz läuft. 1/2

Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored? 'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'

Excellent piece by @sundersays.bsky.social on the need to address the "legitimate concerns" of many British people - about the growth of open racism and ethnonationalism in the British political class and media.

www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...

U.S. Constitution - Article I | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress The original text of Article I of the Constitution of the United States.

According to @archive.org, they were there on 29 July. Gone today. web.archive.org/web/20250729...

eg

bsky.app/profile/drmc...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Spanish translation Units 4-7 are now online

🇪🇸 The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics Units 4-7 now available in Spanish 🇪🇸 Following the release of Units 1-3 in July, Units 4-7 of La economía 2.0: microeconomía are now available on the CORE website books.core-econ.org/the-economy/...

We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.

My father, George Timmer, with a young Dutch Jewish girl, among the survivors of Buchenwald. Dad was a military policeman in the 6th Armored Division. He stayed at the camp for several weeks, because he spoke Dutch, helping with all the displaced persons. He befriended this little orphan girl whose parents perished at the camp.

"and liberated Nazi concentration camps, seeing first-hand the worst humans can do to one another"

My father knew. Here he is with a Dutch Jewish girl among those he helped liberate at Buchenwald in'45. He stayed at the camp because he spoke Dutch. He befriended her; her parents perished.

🇺🇸 Trump Gave Putin Leverage by Suspending Sanctions,— WP

A new report prepared by Democrats in the US Senate and published on Tuesday claims that the administration of President Donald Trump has eased pressure on Russia by not updating the Biden-era sanctions regime.

An AI expert on the future of our workforce Are policymakers profoundly underestimating the impacts of AI on the workforce? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Erik Brynjolfsson of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.

"We are investing so much in driving the capabilities for hundreds of billions of dollars, and we're investing very little in ensuring that leads to widely shared prosperity."

Director @erikbryn.bsky.social discussed AI and future of work with @npr.org's Steve Inskeep.

www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg "Russian industry sinks into pessimism” - headline in a Russian paper.

Two different Russias in today’s Russian papers.
One view: “Today most [Russians] feel better off than three years ago.”
Another headline: “Russian industry sinks into pessimism.”
#ReadingRussia

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

Don't show Trump/Miran/Hassett this picture from Cavallo et al. #econsky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...

UK Growth, Productivity and Investment. . Jagjit Chadha (ex head of NIESR and now a Professor at Cambridge) and Issam Samiri have an article in the Journal of Economic Su...

New post: UK Growth, Productivity and Investment
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/uk-g...

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

If Russia Wins – Atlantic Books **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin’s long-mooted encroach...

Serious recommendation to all gentlebeings with an interest in European #security and #defence: read Carlo Masala's (‬ @carlomasala1.bsky.social ) "If Russia Wins: A Scenario."

READ IT NOW.

ACTION TODAY.

The scenario is frighteningly possible and very dangerous. I'll do a longer thread later.

This is awful. Reliable economic data is a key strength of the US economy.

When Argentina and Greece faked economic data it contributed to major crises.

I don't think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures. But there is now a risk plus an awful appearance.

Söder fordert im Sommerinterview, die Förderung beim Heizungstausch zu kürzen: Wir brauchen aber Unabhängigkeit von fossilem Gas aus autoritären Staaten und Trumps Fracking-Gas. Söder hat aus seiner fatalen Russland-Gas-Politik nichts gelernt. Die Wärmewende macht uns sicherer und nachhaltiger!

Whoa, Alabama. 💥

Birmingham-area activists put up a Trump–Epstein billboard on a busy highway: “What’s the big secret, fellas?”

Bureaucracy

17 years ago, Russia launched its war against Georgia, with aggression starting days earlier. Shelling of Georgian 🇬🇪 villages and illegal troop deployments preceded August 7, 2008. The world must not forget how appeasing Russia in Georgia led to war in Ukraine. #WeRemember2008

"Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy"

This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.

DIW Berlin: Frauen sterben, weil wir wegsehen Deutschland tut immer noch viel zu wenig, um Frauen vor Gewalt zu schützen. Das ist auch ein wirtschaftliches Problem. Dabei ist längst klar, was sich ändern müsste. Es ist eine traurige Realität, die...

Für 2023 erfasste das BKA 360 Frauen und Mädchen, die aufgrund von Tötungsdelikten starben. @mfratzscher.bsky.social merkt an, dass viele andere sicherheitspolitische Themen breite Resonanz erfahren. Zusammen mit @annabindler.bsky.social schreibt er, was passieren müsste:
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

If you're wondering who Reform's latest defector is, this 2011 profile by @chriscook.news is the one you need: www.ft.com/content/34bf...

This image depicts a line graph showing cardiovascular mortality rates in the United States from 1933 to 2023, alongside key advancements in medicine, surgery, and public health. The y-axis represents age-standardized death rates from cardiovascular disease, ranging from 0 to 600. The x-axis represents years from 1933 to 2023. The graph starts at around 600 deaths per 100,000 people in 1933 and trends downward sharply over the decades, indicating a significant decline in mortality rates. Key advancements are marked along the timeline, including the introduction of the first heart-lung machine in 1953, the first cardiac CT scan in 1977, and the first 3D-printed heart models in 2012. Footnote information states that data begins in 1933 when all U.S. states started reporting cardiovascular mortality rates, sourced from the National Center for Heart Statistics in 2020 and the CDC Wonder in 2025. The chart is published by Saloni Dattani at Our World in Data.

New article by me!

Cardiovascular disease mortality rates have declined by around three-quarters since 1950, but we rarely hear about it.

I explore some of the reasons behind the decline.
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...

If nothing is done.....

"Current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal cause disease, disability, and death at every stage of the plastic lifecycle." @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...