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Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face.
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I think the idea is to get everyone to hate us so that we can complain that we are the victims.

Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files Ranking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers

Listen to Rep. Raskin. We deserve better than Trump’s coverup.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We won our FOIA lawsuit for body cam footage of DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace The judge ruled DC Metropolitan Police must share all un-redacted footage from the March 2025 raid.

New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!

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It took almost a decade, but now they have worked it out

From 2017

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Ja. Eens!

Today I hosted a roundtable with @christophehansen.bsky.social to discuss implementation of nature legislation, bringing around the table farmers, forest-holders, national and water authorities, and civil society.

NATO’s Command Revolution — Europe Steps Forward The reassignment of major commands to European officers is a huge undertaking and demands new skills, says a former senior NATO official.

NATO’s Command Revolution — Europe Steps Forward | "NATO is changing, and that may not be a bad thing." Gordon B. "Skip" Davis, Jr.

Yes! Go European!

Here’s another website for European digital services and products:

european-alternatives.eu

Go European — Discover European products and services Go European is a community-driven directory bringing you European products and services from across the continent.

If you want Europe to be independent from US services and technology, then Go European!

www.goeuropean.org

The trouble is, in part, American and right-wing British media painting EU leaders as weak, indecisive, decadent, incompetent or stupid. For decades. Even Paul Krugman went along during the euro crisis.
No wonder some Americans (and Brexiteers before them) have come to believe the caricature.

ik vind het gewoon moeilijk. En idd ik denk ook: hoe moet het dan anders.

Zelf denk ik toch dat het vooral door stemmingmakerij en beïnvloeding tegen ‘woke’, links, e.d. komt.
En daar is rechts/neoliberaal gewoon beter in.

defensief? Of wanhopig…?

ik ben tot in het diepst v/mijn ziel overtuigd dat de oplossing vanuit links moet komen: gelijke verdeling, degrowth, klimaatrechtvaardigheid enz. ik was ook echt te spreken over de doorgerekende verkiezingsprogramma’s v/links.
Maar ik snap t gewoon niet. waarom gaat t mis?

Recommending again the huge range of blogs and resources on the Autism Central website, by and for neurodivergent people and parents (whether neurodivergent or not).
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news will take you to the blogs, and general articles & news, for example.

Mary Trump Suggests New Nickname For Uncle Donald That Will Freak Him Out It's been a while since we've heard from Trump's niece Mary but her latest tweet will have been worth the wait.  Mary hasn't been shy about talking about Don-OLD's faults including his misogyny.  I do...

Mary Trump Suggests New Nickname For Uncle Donald That Will Freak Him Out
#Trump #EpsteinFiles #Pedophile #PedophileProtector #PamBondi #KashPatel #ElonMusk #UnitedKingdom #GhislaineMaxwell #MelaniaTrump #Isreal #Trump-EpsteinFiles #SteveBannon

A red tractor drives across a freshly ploughed field, with trees and a cloudy sky in the background. Overlaid text reads: “Enough is enough to those who think that farmers should bow to large buyers and retailers.” Below the quote: “Stefano Bonaccini – Lead member on fighting unfair trading practices.” The European Parliament logo appears in the bottom right corner, and a photo credit reads: “MAS WARNACK / DPA / DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE VIA AFP.”

Europe is standing with its farmers.

New rules protect small producers from unfair practices, like late payments and last-minute cancellations, while boosting cross-border cooperation for fair pay and a stronger food chain.

Read more: link.europa.eu/mfnqkR

How Nuclear Weapons Keep the Wolf From the Door Unilateral nuclear disarmament, and its sister of Western-only disarmament, remain strangely popular with some thinkers.

How Nuclear Weapons Keep the Wolf From the Door | “It is not the nukes. It is the regimes.” Gabrielė Klimaitė-Želvienė

Dan is het idd een ander verhaal. Wel jammer. Ik vind dat je niet per se een diploma nodig hebt om iets goed te kunnen, maar erover liegen is niet slim. Ik had het wel cool gevonden om een stas te hebben met zo’n achtergrond. Opsteker voor mensen die niet binnen het onderwijs passen.

What gives me hope? There are more of us who want love and freedom, than those of us who want hate and tyranny

It’s all the little climate things, too Climate change is shaping our daily lives more and more. It’s a dull ache you’re learning to ignore

Here is my latest post over on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/climateh...

Stop calling this an “administration.” It’s a fascist regime.

Stop calling Trump “president.” He’s a dictator.

Stop calling ICE “federal agents.” They are the gestapo.

We need to collectively wake up and rise up

Don’t be afraid of ICE, don’t be afraid of Trump. They are clowns and cowards. If enough of us stand up to them together, collectively, we win and build a more beautiful world on the far side of all this

Trump, You Ignorant Fool I’m a climate scientist, you’re a halfwit insurrectionist, and cold weather still happens on an overheating planet

Trump still thinks cold weather means climate change is a "hoax." Here's my response...
substack.com/@climatehuma...

Shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s deep waters | CNN An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.

Nature keeps surprising scientists. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/18/w... #BlueSky #ScienceSky #Antarctic #DeepSeaFauna #SouthernOcean

Afgelopen zaterdag 15 februari produceerde NL net zoveel zonne-energie als op de topdag in de zomer van 2020, en 6x zoveel als op de topdag in de zomer van 2015.
#grafiekvandedag
Vooral dankzij groei zonPV vermogen in NL.

Er zijn allang ideeën bij ‘links’ dat de verdeling van rijkdom en lasten anders moet. Ik denk/hoop dat de huidige excessen van rechts een laatste sparteling zijn.
Uiteindelijk zal de wal het schip keren. Degrowth of zelfvernietiging.

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Ik vind dat ook ontbreken bij neoliberaal rechts. Wat je van hen hoort us een verhaaltje om de hebberige werkelijkheid te verbloemen. In die werkelijkheid komt de win bij de rijken, de offers bij de armen en worden verworven rechten en de natuur afgebroken. Want stilstand is achteruitgang.