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How much more will #Trump’s approval ratings sink? ☺️

Quelle coïncidence. Maintenant que le gouvernement français est en train de s’effondrer, de fausses rumeurs recommencent à circuler, prétendant que l’épouse de #Macron est une femme transgenre. Je me demande qui est responsable de cela.

Started reading #murakami‘s Sputnik Sweethearts today! So far so good!

This press conference on the DC crash is an embarrassment. Just a lot of rambling.

It feels surreal how Trump manages to blame the Washington plane crash on the Democrats’ workforce diversity discourse. Somehow, someway disabled people are/could be responsible for the crash? Unprecedented.

Once again, baffled by #Musk.

🚨: #Trump plans to expedite the #TikTok ban, moving its start to 90 days later. This move is a key part of his strategy to boost his popularity among Gen Z.

Trump only inviting Meloni and not other EU-leaders to his inauguration tells me everything I need to know about his upcoming presidency.

From a European perspective, it’s interesting to see many Americans flocking to #Rednote, seemingly unaware that it is one of the largest state-monitored media platforms.

I’m also curious about how Americans will express their unique values in such a monitored environment as Rednote’s.

🚨: Great news: misogynist #Hegseth is being haunted by his disgusting comments saying ‘women do not belong in the army’.

My 2024 resolution: starting a Dutch left-wing podcast discussing current-day political/economical/social issues!

It’s both saddening and hilarious how #Yoon Suk Yeol-defenders are holding banners with ‘stop the steal’, comparing the situation with the prosecution of Trump. Arrest him already.

There are a myriad of issues with healthcare in countries like America, most of them stemming from privatizing the sector. It’s a sad reflection how a sector that should resolve around care and humanity is now primarily focused on profit maximization.

La seule chose qui m’empêche de voyager à Paris, ce printemps, c’est de devoir passer par Charleroi. Une ville laide à cause de politiques laides.

🚨: According to Tesla’s regulatory filings, Elon #Musk discreetly donated 268,000 Tesla shares to unnamed charities just before the new year (worth $108 million). I’m sure this was not an act of mere philanthropy.

Next on the #reading list: Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart.

Very accurate. To create a tolerant society, we should not tolerate the people that do not tolerate others: sometimes we need to cut out the cancer to protect the rest of the body.

Preach!

#Trudeau suivra sûrement le même chemin, un autre exemple de la chute inévitable des gouvernements centristes dans un contexte où les opinions politiques extrêmes dominent.

🚨 #Macron a exprimé mardi, lors de son discours de vœux, ses regrets d’avoir convoqué des élections législatives anticipées, reconnaissant que cette décision n’a pas servi la stabilité politique. Rien ne résume mieux le leadership que dire ‘ma faute’ après coup.

Wishing my network lots of prosperity in 2025! #newyear ❣️

Happy #holidays to my fellow Bluesky’rs! 🎁

This is precisely what Joan Tronto warned us about—healthcare should prioritize care, recovery, and safety. However, privatizing the healthcare sector, like the US, often harms patients far more than it helps.

I think, for society, an interesting problem to focus on is therapy: therapy often revolves around Western values, emphasizing an individualistic approach to healing, such as self-actualization. However, this approach does not really resonate with migrants raised in more collectivist environments.

It’s interesting how China, now fueled by industrialization and their own synthesis of capitalism, is now on the other side of the equation. 💉

Chinese chemical brokers play a crucial role in the illicit #fentanyl trade, supplying ingredients to Mexican producers (Reuters). It is almost ironic how similar the situation is to the British opium trade in the 1700s, where addiction was weaponized to create and sustain a lucrative market.

With the regional oblast of Belgorod administratively blocking the construction of a mosque, it’s ironic that, on a national level, Russia is working to normalize relations with the Taliban.

🚨: Russia’s parliament passed a law allowing the suspension of bans on groups designated as terrorist, enabling it to normalize ties with the Afghan #Taliban and potentially Syria’s new rulers (Reuters). I’m curious how the general Russian population perceives the act of decriminalizing the Taliban.

CEP signaling coordinates plant immunity with nitrogen status Nature Communications - Rzemieniewski et al. demonstrated that Arabidopsis thaliana CEPs regulate immunity via three CEP receptors with distinct expression patterns and ligand specificities. CEPs...

Congratulations to Jakub, Henriette and all collaborators! (Is the Stegmann lab on bluesky yet?)

#PlantScience

www.nature.com/articles/s41...