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The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
theguardian.com · Dec 12
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Miro Collas
(@Miro_Collas) ·
Dec 12
🔁 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social:
Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
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The facts are stark: Europe mu...
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
theguardian.com · Dec 12
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
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Desert Island games (feat. some of you!)
joelchrono.xyz · Dec 13
What is the game I'd bring to a deserted island?... what about other fellow bloggers? Well, I asked around, and here's what they said!
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netop://ウィビ
(@netopwibby) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @joel:
Well, here it is, the mystery #blogpost I've been teasing!
Featuring 17 fellow #bloggers who answered a simple (not so simple for some of them) question.
What #videogame would you bring to a desert island?
Get some snacks and a drink, because this is a long one...
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
publicnotice.co · Dec 12
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
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Kristen
(@kristen_d) ·
Dec 12
🔁 @atrupar:
New in PN: We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-national-security-strategy-russia
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give.propublica.org · Dec 13
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Timekeeping on Mars Is a Tall Order. Here’s Why
scientificamerican.com · Dec 12
Precisely calibrating clocks on Mars is harder than you’d think, because of some extremely esoteric physics
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How Bi Gan pulled off the most technically impressive movie scene of the year
theverge.com · Dec 12
The director of Resurrection talks about the purpose and power of the long, unbroken tracking shot.
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Trump's War on Christmas Is a War on Liberalism
liberalcurrents.com · Dec 12
After decades of make-believe, the Trump administration is promising an actual war on Christmas that would traumatize religious communities with armed state power.
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(@JohnSullivan) ·
Dec 12
🔁 @wdlindsy:
"There’s perhaps no better way to understand the contemporary anti-liberal project than as a return to the pre-liberal trauma of the wars of religion, in the worst of which a third of the population was killed. And there may be no better way to illuminate the liberal project conservatives wish to destroy than by recalling how it emerged out of healing from that trauma."
~ Paul Henry Rosenberg
#religion #authoritarianism #violence #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-on-christmas-is-a-war-on-liberalism/
The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction
theconversation.com · Dec 12
Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet effectiveness of collective action.
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