Shay O’Reilly

Türkiye’s role as host of #COP31 in 2026 is a major opportunity to test the country's climate ambition.

The Turkish Climate Network is calling on it to:

☝️Set an ambitious climate target and cut emissions now

☝️End new coal and advance a just transition away from coal

iklimagi.org/turkiye-icin...

A lot of the opposition focused on priorities and a realistic sense of organizational capacity: needing to keep Zohran groundwork for actual governing, and to run the races that will directly help Zohran deliver on his agenda (statehouse). Two congressional races is a pretty big lift.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

But for responsible use of social science research, we should cite the findings of particular papers, not their discussions of other research - that makes it easier to compare across findings and track claims to their originating research.

It’s possible; you’d have to compare the specific study parameters to others — it’s possible that e.g. youth in east Germany in the study period have different motivations than AfD support in other times and places.

Among other things, you cannot win over ideologically committed fascists by saying you are going to address their legitimate concerns (unclear whether this works for “protest votes” either, but probably with a different mechanism.)

It feels like it takes different strategies to deal with support for fascist parties driven by cynicism/disaffection vs that driven by straightforward ideological embrace.

But I bet the commonality is something like “know what you believe in and actively contest for it.”

This 👇 is not only a new, but also my first publication! 🎉 @asheinze.bsky.social and I investigate why #youngpeople support the AfD in eastern Germany. Read it here (#openaccess): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is from their review of previous scholarship; this study in fact found the opposite, which is an extremely important development for addressing the problem.

I love how “friend shaped” is a scientifically corroborated concept.

A man pounds the stolpersteine - brass squares - into the ground with a mallet. They are flush with the pavement around.

A small child’s hands hold a cement and brass cube, maybe 10cm sides. It says in German: Rosa Szykman, nee Waldhorn. Born 1898. “Polenaktion” 1938. Zbaszyn, Łodz; 1944 murdered in Chełmno.

The three stolpersteine in the ground, nestled among cement bricks to fit them in with the paving stones. Rosa, Efroim (born 1892, murdered Dec 29 1940 in Łodz), Hermann (born 1920, fled to USA 1938). There are flowers lain by the fresh stones.

Where they are, among fresh dust, on a sidewalk before a park.

Placed the stolpersteine in Hamburg for my husband’s family today. A very moving experience. His grandfather left Germany, cutting his HS education short; the parents stayed behind to wrap up their business. They were swept up in Polenaktion instead.

We named our daughter Rosa, too.

Vance was the muscle in the Zelenskyy meeting!

Stunning moment:

Mamdani is asked if he still considers Trump a fascist.

As he begins answering, Trump, while slapping Mamdani on the arm, interrupts: "Just say yes, I don't mind."

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

US says countries with DEI policies as infringing human rights US officials say the rules will stop "destructive ideologies" but others argue it is redefining human rights principles for Trump's goals.

I would like to see some sort of signal somewhere that European governments understand that they are being threatened and targeted by the Trump administration, which is in league with domestic far-right parties that wish to destroy liberal democracy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“A Coast Guard official who had seen the new wording called the policy changes chilling.

‘We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,’ the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal.”

The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"The vision could not depend on the times. The vision had to depend on itself, and the people who were willing to work and sweat and suffer and hear the doors lock behind them, as sweet liberty took flight through the barred window, a dove in full retreat." -Dan Berrigan

I suppose this is what is meant by “integrity,” before it became a generic term for goodness.

"different people saw different Charlie Kirks" is not a value-neutral statement either towards the observer or towards Kirk.

I have been rereading William Stringfellow and his statement that one mark of Christian virtue is being the same person in every situation lands quite differently in the wake of the great Charlie Kirk discourse.

ideally not only genre trash -- which I have also been known to read, but which is, as my parents termed it when I was a kid, "brain candy."

I am 3/4 of the way through a 500 page novel and folks: novels are good. you should read 'em.

A bureaucracy that can nimbly assess regulatory regimes and alter them with new information is a bureaucracy that has lots of staff. (It would also be proactive in response to e.g. newly identified pollutants.)

Don’t like your laws being written by various interest groups with occasional domain expertise but imperfect alignment with a holistic agenda? You gotta have *well-paid and expert legislative staffers*, then.

if you want to know why US government doesn’t work good and relies on an incredibly dense regulatory kludge to provide social outcomes you have to talk about state capacity!! At every level!! That needs to be the actual centerpiece to your argument! Including the hatchet men who have demolished it!

Good. Seems pretty obvious: the pipeline did not become less harmful to the environment than the previous times it was rejected!

NYPost Zohran Mamdani’s biggest hater John catsimatidis now calling for top nyc conservatives to work with incoming socialist mayor

Who’s got the hater-waiters now