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The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

The cost of austerity A generation of children have been held back by political opportunism.

“Austerity’s effects were evident.. across 30 European countries, 44 per cent of children living in conditions of severe material deprivation lived in three nations… Romania…[plus] Italy and the UK – which had pursued aggressive programmes of cuts“
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Wannabe dictator acting like a dictator.

Dan's charisma is that of a mathematics professor with a train model diorama in his basement, Simion's charisma is that of an Eastern European used jewellery salesman, so it's all just incredible scenes.

🇷🇴 Bucharest: Supporters of Nicușor Dan are gathering and celebrating in the city center as he looks set to win Romania’s presidential election. Vote counting is still underway, but the momentum is clearly on his side.

In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same? Sunday’s election could threaten the country’s place in Europe if Russia’s dark arts and historical amnesia win the day, says Romanian-born writer Larisa Faber

In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same?

Reform voters are those they want, as opposed to the Labour voters they actually have (and despise).

This sounds like a petty point, but I think is key in understanding their strategy.

New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule.

Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule.

A comprehensive comms success.

Him and Liiceanu about the woke ideology.

It's a bit like saying is the Netherlands anti EU because they elected Geert Wilders. To an extent, yes, but the framing of the election is from a very outside perspective. I don't think any but a minority of Simion voters think or believe that he is a threat to Romania's European position.

To stop Farage, both Badenoch and Starmer need to go The looming local elections could prove a death knell for either, or at least the beginning of the end

Opinion | To stop Farage, both Badenoch and Starmer need to go

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If your best argument against doing something is polling, then you have no argument.

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.

NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.

Labour must involve whole country if it wants to achieve its goals, report warns Age of ‘command and control’ is over, says Demos, with work needed from business, charities, unions and public Labour’s missions are at risk of failing unless the government does more to involve the whole country from businesses to the wider public, as the age of “command and control” is over, a report from Demos has warned. The thinktank called on the government to embrace “mass mobilisation” for businesses, charities, unions and the wider public to drive its flagship missions, which promise growth, clean energy, cutting crime, rebuilding the NHS and reforming education. Continue reading...

Labour must involve whole country if it wants to achieve its goals, report warns

Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

"Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?" - really nice to see our motonormativity research being used to explain this. Cheers, @peterwalker99.bsky.social

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Labour's obliviousness to how Greens, LibDems, SNP and Plaid can all pull away voters that figures like McSweeney or Reeves seem to take for granted echoes Cameron's complacency towards UKIP in the late 2000s.

Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S. A German official confirmed the government’s alert to The Advocate.

Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.
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FOTO Cum era structurată Geția, ”noua Românie” pe care voiau să o înființeze suspecții reținuți de DIICOT pentru trădare, care aveau și un ”stat major” paralel - Sfat al înțelepților, Consiliu al bătrânilor, comitete de moși, 9 ministere.

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I am surprised, with how insane these people are that they didn't propose to name Burebista the king and talk with him through telepathy( after all Georgescu claimed that Romanians were able to talk through telepathy in the past).

Furthermore they wanted to abolish all parties and implement a system of Veritocracy, based on the holy truth.

The executive was supposed to be formed from 9 ministries. Some of them being
Ministry of the Future
Ministry of the Human
Ministry of Wellbeing

Legislative power was supposed to be conferred to a Council of the Wise formed from 13 members and Council of Elders ( formed from 130 elderly people) and another 1300 "old geezers" were supposed to rule through local committees.

This state was supposed to be ruled by General Staff "Vlad the Impaler" and a new National Centre Energo-Informational ?

Romania was supposed to become "Getae"(named after the people that lived in antiquity in present day Southern Romania ).

Meanwhile in cuckoo land(Romania) we have 6 people accused of treason. 1/?

we hate the FDP dont we folks

Trump’s Disgrace David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...

In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and J. D. Vance nakedly sided with Russian aggression and berated Volodymyr Zelensky “with all the finesse of a couple of small-time hoods,” David Remnick writes.