Marc Madou

Please shop selectively tomorrow!

Please so something already!

When I am too upset to even watch TV, I doodle like this.

The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra: 9798217058891 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” —Naomi Klein “This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute...

This is an amazing book. Profound, smart, brave and very well written by Pankaj Mishra. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780437...

From an Aztec god to Minecraft star. Why does Mexico love the axolotl so much? - The Independent . My favorite salamander.

Bill Gates warns of millions of deaths if Trump and Musk don't reinstate axed foreign aid funding - FORTUNE

I will be talking here about the Dynamics at the Interface of Academia and Start-Ups. www.incmty.com/festival

A photo shows Palestinians leaving their homes for safety during a raid Tuesday by the Israeli army in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A headline reads: Palestinian Displacement in the West Bank Is Highest Since 1967, Experts Say. Photo by Zain Jaafar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

A weekslong Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what historians and researchers say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. nyti.ms/3QkUV4P

My weekend harvest!

You mean the Trump-Vance White House?

DEI hires are being replaced now by corrupt, political, nepostic, and anti-science hires. How is it possible that buyers' regret is not setting in? This complete lack of empathy, cruelty from the wealthy and those in power for the working class they fooled is astonishing!

Here is my new TV station. If like me, you feel you had enough of people, you can watch birds instead

As watching television has become too depressing I have installed a solar powered birdwatching station. I used an old outdoor umbrella stand as the base. See installation and a first visitor an OaK Titmouse .

How this weekend’s 'Tesla Takeover' protests against Elon Musk came together on Bluesky - TechCrunch

Sheryl Crow Gets Rid Of Her Tesla Over Elon Musk Distaste - TMZ

"Never again fascism, never again racism, never again aggressive war. That is why an overwhelming majority in our country opposes anyone who glorifies or justifies criminal National Socialism," Scholz said, referring to the ideology of Adolf Hitler's 1933-45 Nazi regime.”

Money, Lies, and God: Katherine Stewart Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy This week, author and journalist Katherine Stewart joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discuss the rise of Christian Nationalism,

“Here’s Trump promising to work for you,” journalist Katherine Stewart said, “when he’s got these billionaires that he’s really serving and who are basically paying him bribes by any other name to get policies that they want.”

The dire consequences of science without DEI "We are very much at risk of losing an entire generation of researchers."

Scientists fear that Trump’s DEI crackdown will reshape who can participate in science for years to come, drain creativity, limit the scope of projects, and lead to worse research.

“It is common sense that to have the best science, we need the broadest, most inclusive environment."

One of the many dumb things I have done in my life is to donate money to Ukraine in the beginning of the invasion to Ukrainians living in the US that were 'collecting' for the cause, then find out they are Trump voters!?

The only good new coming out of WDC these days. My son in law and my granddaughters in the news.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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What does a Trump second term mean for climate action? Expected Trump's measures include leaving the Paris Agreement, slash climate finance and more - but clean energy may get an easier rider

Under the current administration we are so lucky that suddenly there is no global warming, no inequity, no corruption, …. is there anyone who truly believes any of this ? If money is the only measure of morality this is what you end-up with! www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/15/w...

Pope issues three-word warning to Trump over deportation plan

Pope issues three-word warning to Trump over deportation plan

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron." -H. L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

Heaven on Earth: Browsing in Bell's Books downtown Palo Alto (lnkd.in/gDffmEir) . Even better: reading your new book harvest from Bell's at Thaiphoon, across the street (lnkd.in/g6DCgH4w).

Andreas

Belgium is a bit South of the Netherlands! But absurdity appreaciated anyways!

Gaza, Palestine