I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

Area man shouting at people from roof top.

(This would have led to months of “dementia” coverage in NYT if Biden would have done this.)

De plasticindustrie tracht op allerlei manieren een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken Plastictop: In Zwitserland begint deze dinsdag het overleg tussen 175 landen dat kan leiden tot een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling. Maar de industrie tracht dit te blokkeren, onder meer me...

Over de noodzaak van actie tegen plasticvervuiling bestaat amper discussie.

Plastic is gevonden in vers gevallen sneeuw op Antarctica, in placenta’s en in de diepzee.

Toch probeert de industrie een akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken: van overdadige nadruk op recycling tot intimidatie.

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening.

CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

CBS will be ending Stephen Colbert's run as host of The Late Show, days after he criticized parent company Paramount's $16 million payment to Trump. Here's why the Left has a censorship problem.

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.

"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

De hoop op meer efficiency, tijdwinst, en billable hours die in de juridische praktijk lijkt te leven, moet niet ook aan de rechtenfaculteit gaat leven. Zie ook mijn toelichting op ons @nrc-stuk en discussie met iemand van de NLse AI-Coalitie maandag jl. op Radio 1

www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d...

Glad to see my colleagues in Dutch academia standing up against the uncritical embrace of AI from administrators. The fact that so many signatories come from AI studies shows this is not about being a luddite, it's a matter of protecting education itself. Read the letter and sign if you agree!

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

Opinie | Lever de rechtsstaat niet uit aan ChatGPT: verbied AI aan de juridische faculteit Kunstmatige intelligentie: Het toestaan van gebruik van AI op de rechtenfaculteit kan schade berokkenen aan de rechtsstaat, vinden Joris van Laarhoven en Eva van Vugt.

Eva van Vugt (Universiteit van Maastricht) en ik doen een oproep: verban ChatGPT (in beginsel) van rechtenfaculteiten www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief Teresa Ribera says effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief

- @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu says effects of #climatecrisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action

Interview by @swajones.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

This thread! It cuts right through all the allegedly sophisticated comments from some of my (very liberal) academic colleagues who breezily wave warnings of the rising rode of disinformation away 👇🏼

And of course condemn the playing down of US and Israeli violations of international law.

But skipping over how destabilising actions of the Khamenei regime that devastated 100 000s of lives from Aleppo to Taiz have also hollowed out those norms won't help build a stable order either

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe - major report

- IPIE Report comes as a UN human rights official says climate lies should be criminalised and #COP30 Brazil host urges a global crackdown

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

Double, double oil and rubble: here's "Bleak Magic," my essay for the new @criterion.bsky.social release of William Friedkin's magnificent SORCERER. www.criterion.com/current/post...

10 jaar geleden. Eerste klimaatzaak gewonnen.

ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955), SMORGASBORD (1983), THE LADIES MAN (1961) and THE KING OF COMEDY (1983)

RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

Bombing Iran is a terrible idea. It’s unlikely to work—and nothing could be more perilous to American democracy than going to war under Donald Trump, Robert Kagan writes. https://theatln.tc/CH1ulpLM

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