Carl Heath

Fields covered with fiber optics, view from the cockpit of a Ukrainian Mi-24.

YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv Putin Regime in Crisis as Russia's Oil Industry Crumbles

Kremlin attempts to hide economic data as Russian oil industry enters freefall.

youtu.be/vBufqd-cczg

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Oscar Jonsson: Nästa försvarsbeslut måste göra Sverige redo för det moderna kriget Sverige kommer att ta ett nytt försvarsbeslut efter sommaren. Då krävs ett nytänk för att möta verkligheten på det moderna slagfältet.

Läs @oajonsson.bsky.social krönika idag. Många viktiga slutsatser! www.dn.se/ledare/oscar...

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August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

All the windows on one side of my daughter’s school (and many on other sides) blown in by blast wave from missile strike that hit nearby apartment block, partially destroying it and killing 28 people on July 31. Many surrounding apartment blocks also suffered broken windows.

Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now? hemselves, that there is a problem, just as Biden’s supporters did for him.    Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family frien…

That The Hill of all places is publishing this is quite remarkable.

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“So ensuring [privacy] in a world where the authority to know us has been ceded to private actors who may or may not cooperate with one or another regime, who may choose to use that data to manipulate or to harm us or to exclude us from access to resources, is existentially important.”

Economy Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said without evidence that Erika McEntarfer “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a bad jobs report undermines government integrity and sends a chilling message to federal employees: tell POTUS what he wants to hear or else.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Smithsonian's American History museum does a White House "content review" then rewrites history, removing Trump's impeachments. A spokesperson says "it became clear that the ‘Limits of Presidential Power’ section ... needed to be addressed" wapo.st/3HhfyxU @janaykingsberry.bsky.social

#Kyiv residents spend yet another night sheltering in the metro- mourning the dead,calling loved ones in the morning to make sure they're still alive

This year,there have been almost no nights without air raid alerts& attacks.
This war is not being waged by Putin alone.It’s being waged by Russians⤵️

🔴 Overnight on July 31, Russia launched a drone and missile attack on Kyiv, killing at least eight people, including a child, and injuring over 100.

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❗️ Klitschko near the houses destroyed by Russian missiles:

"Among the injured are 9 children. This is the largest number of wounded children in one night in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale war."

if people using substack to host their newsletters have a problem with people cancelling because they’re using substack — knowing well the company’s politics and its enabling of nazis — then they can move to a different platform

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The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America

YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv Russia's economy descends into crisis

More catastrophic economic data out of Russia today.

youtu.be/GeB7dLC1fIU?...

On resilience - my speech at Helsingborgs Monday Movement on July 25, 2025 Below is the speech I delivered today, 28 July, at Stortorget in Helsingborg, invited by the Monday Movement. It was an honour to speak at a Monday gathering in the square, and moving to see all the…

Today I spoke at Stortorget in Helsingborg on why Ukraine’s resilience and our support are crucial. Three years into the war, commitment remains strong i Sweden. I’m sharing my speech here - about resistance, freedom, and responsibility. Please share!

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#ukraine #war

Om motståndskraft - tal i Helsingborg för Måndagsrörelsen Nedanstående tal höll jag idag den 28 juli på Stortorget i Helsingborg, inbjuden av Måndagsrörelsen. Det känns hedrande att få delta som talare vid ett måndagsmöte på torget och det var så fint att se...

Idag talade jag på Stortorget i Helsingborg om varför Ukrainas motståndskraft och vårt stöd är avgörande. Tre år in i kriget är engagemanget starkt runt om i Sverige! Glädjande! Jag delar mitt tal här - om motstånd, frihet och ansvar. Dela gärna vidare!

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Hackers hit Aeroflot so hard hard, its internal IT infrastructure has crippled. Around 50 flights are delayed or canceled across airports. Pro Ukrainian hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans BY say they spent a year inside the network and wiped 7,000 physical and virtual servers.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

DN:s förstasida idag. Läs reportaget här:

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Stopping the supply chains is cheaper and less dangerous for civilians than trying to knock hundreds of weapons out of the sky every night.

The General Theory of Enshittification It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more

Good stuff: Paul Krugman's general theory of enshittification even includes a little dynamic programming model.

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Europa måste vakna – public service står på spel - Reportrar utan gränser Politiker styr redaktioner, journalister tystas och finansieringen kapas. Europas public service-medier pressas från alla håll – samtidigt som EU:s reaktion är sen och svag. En ny rapport från Reportr...

Politiker styr, journalister tystas och finansieringen kapas. Europas public service-medier pressas från alla håll – samtidigt som EU:s reaktion är sen och svag. En ny rapport från RSF varnar för att demokratins nervsystem håller på att kollapsa. www.reportrarutangranser.se/europa-maste...

South Park, which is co-owned by Paramount Global, ended tonight’s season debut with a hyper-realistic, AI-generated scene of Trump walking through a desert, naked, with a tiny penis.

YouTube video by Andy Stapleton Inside Academia’s Broken System: The Lawsuit That Changes Everything

This is a good, all be it quite engaged, overview of what is so broken about academic paper publikation, and an ongoing class action lawsuit aiming to change this, that looks like a cartel.

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Norway and Germany have agreed on a joint project to supply air defense systems to #Ukraine.

As soon as there is confirmation from the United States that they will let Germany replace the Patriot system, then it can be sent to Ukraine, with Norway participating in the funding of the Patriot System⤵️