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Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

And that's a draft

One of the most painful thing about being unemployed is the inability to relate to anybody.

Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid...

My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflation

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As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

Virginia Woolf’s work of experimental fiction, The Life of Violet, publishes for the first time on October 7. Learn more about how volume editor Urmila Seshagiri discovered the draft typescript—and how it fits into the Woolf canon—in the @washingtonpost.com:

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I like my operas a dramatic 5 hours.

OPEC Plus Agrees to Small Boost in Oil Production Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the oil cartel, sees advantages in increasing output despite market risks.

Eight members of the OPEC Plus oil producers group said on Sunday that they would raise their output of crude by a modest 137,000 barrels day in November. The group’s move, which was led by Saudi Arabia, is the latest in a series of increases beginning earlier this year.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

China Hawks Grow Queasy Over Trump’s Push for Deals With Beijing President Donald Trump rewrote Washington’s rules for dealing with China in his first presidency, embracing confrontation, launching a trade war and upending decades of policy. In his second term, China hawks in Washington fear that Trump is going soft.

As Trump pursues a trade pact with the US’s biggest economic and strategic rival, advocates of a tougher China policy fear they’re being sidelined inside the administration as the tech industry’s influence grows

For all their rhetoric, it's ironic that it's the right or at least reactionaries who are at the forefront of propelling women to the highest echelons of leadership - from Maggie to Takaichi

Democracy Can’t Survive Without the Welfare State Wherever we see rising tides of authoritarianism, we can link it to the systematic destruction of the welfare state.

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Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!

for the incompetent delays that frequent regional trains in Germany, the least they can do is to offer free and fast wifi. ODEG & EB still operate like in the 2000s by offering miserly 350MB internet, like who the heck uses less than 1GB Internet a day.

False prophecies What did you manage to read on your summer holidays? I found myself in the early phases of the 14 volume CP Snow Strangers and Brothers series – covering 20th century Britain from the first world war ...

"In the twenty-first century, the success of social democracy depends on narrowing differences between groups"

@sundersays.bsky.social responds to the anonymous essay that @patrickmaguire.bsky.social has reported is being shared around by Labour MPs

Universal basic gaming rig

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

Pretty sure it's not the first time, Harold Wilson proposed restricting immigration the 1960s.

China’s Marshall Plan Is Running on Batteries Beijing’s green energy projects are bringing jobs, growth and cheap electricity to the developing world.

"Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." @davidfickling.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"The problem of Hayekian/von Mises/Rothbard economics is you eventually run out of other people's money."

There are great scholars working in the area of “geoeconomics,” but I still have not heard a convincing explanation for how it is any different from the subject of international political economy that we political scientists have been writing about for half a century now

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Ride the wave: A big, beautiful European strategy for Trumponomics The US president is throwing the EU lots of economic curveballs. Brussels should not be distracted by these; instead, it should double down on adopting measures that will benefit the bloc long after…

Excellent memo to reflect the past months of Transatlantic international political economy @agathedemarais.bsky.social : ecfr.eu/publication/...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

The dawn of the post-literate society
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One really hard thing when you're a head of department is hiring people from outside the UK. You tell them, "congrats, you've got the job", and you wait to tell them, "by the way, the university doesn't cover the cost of your visa, or the cost of your NHS surcharge"

The weekend’s amusement award goes to the farcical implosion of the British Corbynite left. imploding faster than they can manifest into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

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