Athan Manuel

The Verdict of History Trump and his fascist glorification

The Verdict of History
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The lessons Democrats need to learn to win again

Opinion | The Indispensable Erdogan

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The Big Smirk The cruelty is the point, party edition

The Big Smirk
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SHOT: EV sales are on track to face-plant to slightly less than 6 percent of new car sales in October.
CHASER: China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September from a year earlier as its automakers expanded their reach into overseas markets.
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Judge Stops Shutdown-Related RIFs Indefinitely - Eos A judge has announced she would rule that the government cannot issue further reduction-in-force (RIF) notices to federal employees because of the government shutdown, nor implement RIFs that had alre...

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Jacob Young is a finalist for the Gold Glove Award among NL center fielders, along with the Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Cardinals' Victor Scott II. Winner will be announced Nov. 2.

A small, dark fishing boat drifts on the water. You can see the silhouettes of two people on board, busy pulling in a long fishing net that stretches away from the boat across the surface of the water. The water glitters in the sunlight like stars. The horizon separates the sea from the sky. The sea is blue, while the sky appears bright and slightly cloudy.

Sometimes you are given stars and don't even notice. By the time you realise, the fleeting moment has already gone...

📷 Fishermen on the Peloponnese, Greece

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This Halloween, please consider offering food in addition to sweet treats to your trick or treaters. There's a house in my neighborhood that gives out canned food and every kid talks about it. It is THE house to hit.

#halloween #snap #foodinsecurity

Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking

AthensLive Wire 324 | After 23 Days, a Father Wins for His Son For 23 days, he starved for truth. When Greece’s courts finally listened, it became a victory not just for one father, but for all who lost children at Tempi.

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Greece’s mounting climate costs, and what we’re doing about it Greece is an above average EU performer in the green transition; it is also an above average loser to climate change

Greece’s mounting climate costs, and what we’re doing about it
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Is it America’s fate to decline and fall? Here’s what history says.

AthensLive Wire 324 | After 23 Days, a Father Wins for His Son For 23 days, he starved for truth. When Greece’s courts finally listened, it became a victory not just for one father, but for all who lost children at Tempi.

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It’s happening again ‼️ The Trump administration is trying to open up 88 million acres of public lands to development—threatening America’s oldest forests, risking wildlife habitats, and endangering drinking water for millions of people.

Close National Parks if Government Shuts Down, Former Superintendents Plead

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Analysis | Why Democrats are holding firm on conditions ahead of shutdown Democrats are using their limited leverage ahead of a potential government shutdown, hoping to convince Americans that GOP spending priorities are the real danger.

Analysis: For only the second time since Donald Trump took office in January, Democrats who are out of power in Washington find themselves in a situation where they have actual leverage to block him and his party.

Charlie Kirk and America’s political collapse

YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich LAST DAY

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY of the public comment period on Trump’s attempt to remove the Roadless Rule. I urge all of you to make sure that your voices are heard. youtube.com/shorts/7Ncft...

It’s the big fat Greek farming scandal – devised by the political elite and paid for by ordinary people | Alexander Clapp A massive EU subsidy scandal has pulled back the curtain to reveal how power operates in Greece, says journalist Alexander Clapp

Such scandals are treated like inconvenient public-relations dust-ups, in which the problem isn’t a political class that cycles in and out of office with impunity, but rather Greeks who demand consequences for those who lecture about accountability.
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Trump is China’s Favorite ‘Useful Idiot’ On every front, Trump is helping China

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Grizzly Bears Anchor Our Last Wild Places - Republicans Want Them Gone MAGA Leaders Push Policies Which Would Convert The West To Texas

Grizzly Bears Anchor Our Last Wild Places - Republicans Want Them Gone
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Hard days for D.C. home rule

Athan Manuel (@athandc) Here’s hoping the inevitability of clean-energy technology will bail us out of the climate crises, despite Trump’s efforts to do otherwise. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/1...

Here’s hoping the inevitability of clean-energy technology will bail us out of the climate crises, despite Trump’s efforts to do otherwise substack.com/@athandc/not...

Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you.

Why isn’t D.C. a state? Trump’s takeover reignites calls for statehood. Washingtonians pay federal taxes, but they have no votes in Congress and their local government has no control over the D.C. National Guard.

D.C., a city with 700,000 people, isn’t a state — meaning its residents don’t have many of the rights held by other Americans. But with Republicans controlling the House, Senate and White House, the chances of a D.C. statehood bill passing are slim.

Surviving Trump 2.0 — And What We’re Losing by Not Pushing Back How Appeasement Became the Default — and Why It’s Dangerous

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We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House.

This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.

They can’t win fair, so they cheat.

Sperm Whales Spotted in Greece During Ikaria Trench Deep Dive - GreekReporter.com Sperm whales were recently spotted off the coast of Greece, according to the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation.

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