The fact that…
“The shipment was discovered concealed inside pillows in the cabin of a truck entering from Iran. Authorities said the Iranian driver attempted to smuggle the goods without declaring them, in violation of Armenia’s customs regulations”
… says it all. This is not desperate Iranian women cutting off their hair to make some cash in a broken economy. This is hair removed from thousands of murdered protestors. ⬇️
764 bundles of Iranian human hair found during attempts to smuggle it across the Armenian border from Iran since January. These are just the ones that are known.
Many women’s bodies were not returned after the January Massacre.
They took their hair.
https://t.co/zwPTfmBpWs
Six famous economists — @JosephEStiglitz , @PikettyWIL , @jasonhickel among them — published a manifesto in the @guardian last week: "growth is a doomed strategy." They say they've done the maths.
I checked the maths.
The claim that growth failed the poor is contradicted by the most uncontroversial dataset in economics: extreme poverty fell from 44% of humanity in 1981 to under 10% today — during the very decades they call a failure. China alone lifted 800 million people, not with a UN roadmap, but with growth.
The "92% of excess emissions" statistic? It's one of the authors citing his own paper, without saying so — and it's not a measurement, it's a moral allocation dressed up as data.
The policy toolkit — "public control of strategic assets," "credit guidance" — has a track record: Soviet collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, Venezuela, and Sri Lanka's 2021 fertilizer ban, which starved the poor it claimed to serve within eighteen months.
What worries me most: degrowth is being marketed to young people who feel locked out — telling them their stagnation is virtue. It's a swindle. The young aren't victims of too much growth. They are the first victims of its absence.
Growth is the only anti-poverty program that has ever worked.
Não é um livro sobre “ficar em cima do muro”.
É um livro contra a preguiça moral, contra transformar tragédias humanas em acessórios de pertencimento político e contra substituir pessoas reais por causas abstratas.
7/9
A premissa central é simples: compreender não é absolver
Reconhecer o sofrimento palestino não exige apagar Hamas, corrupção da Autoridade Palestina ou escolhas desastrosas.
Compreender o trauma israelense não exige endossar assentamentos, messianismo ou excessos militares
2/9
Novidade! Acabo de publicar um curto livro: Empatia Seletiva — Israel, Palestina e a armadilha das narrativas confortáveis
Três ensaios sobre como nossas simpatias deformam a percepção e o julgamento do conflito Israel-Palestina—e podem alimentar um ativismo contraproducente 1/9
Ex colega brasileño, PHD en Neurociencia, él y su mujer. Profesor de la Universidad de Siena decidió volverse el año pasado a Brasil porque en Italia no pudo lograr convertir su residencia para que su esposa trabaje.
Es increíble cómo en Europa permitieron el ingreso indiscriminado de individuos de dudosa procedencia sin si quiera haber verificado sus antecedentes.
Ahora, para una visa calificada los estándares eran extremadamente estrictos.
Eu sou a favor de um Cadastro Nacional de Pedófilos e Estupradores com fichamento perpétuo e endereço atualizado.
"Mas e os direitos humanos do estuprador sendo violados por ficar com o nome nesse cadastro?"
Eu não me importo.
24h. O tempo entre o BTG defender pausa e o mercado precificar alta. O problema não é o nível dos juros, mas a credibilidade fiscal. Se vocês não notaram: o piloto e o copiloto sumiram. Não temos ministro da Fazenda nem secretário do Tesouro segurando dano. O Brasil tá à deriva.
Esse Corolla aqui pagou:
30 mil de IPVA
Uns 20 mil de manutenção mínimo (deve ser mais
A média do preço da gasolina no Brasil entre 2013 e 2026 ficou aproximadamente em R$ 5,00/litro (houve anos abaixo de R$ 4 e anos acima de R$ 7).
Em 160 mil km rodados você pagou em média 72 mil em combustível.
Um carro elétrico roda essa mesma quantidade com 19 mil reais.
79 mil de 2013 corrigido hoje seriam 163 mil reais. A inflação comeu metade do teu carro e você pagou em torno de 130 mil de custo prático de utilização.
Então se você vender esse corolla por 80 mil você vai recuperar 80/293 do investido.
Provavelmente a diferença pro carro elétrico será ínfima. Tem estados que tem desconto de IPVA e o gasto com combustível será 75% menor.
Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old.
He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years.
Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions.
He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds.
Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.
"Canceled" ou si vous préférez "effacé" par le gouvernement français en raison de mon combat contre l'antisémitisme, je ne pensais pas connaitre ça en 2026 !
Je devais faire une conférence ce matin devant une soixantaine de hauts dirigeants qui suivent le "cycle supérieur du développement durable" (CSDD) dirigé par Guillaume Leforestier qui dépend du Ministre de la transition écologique, Monique Barbut (aucun des deux n'a de compte X). Sujet: les résistances internes des institutions communautaires au détricotage du Green deal. Tout était calé depuis fin avril.
Vendredi, je reçois un appel de l'une des responsables de la session de formation de ce mardi: une sous-directrice (je ne sais pas qui en dépit de mes demandes) lui a demandé d'annuler ma conférence à cause de la polémique initiée par LFI qui n'a pas supporté que je publie sur ma page FB personnelle, le 29 mai, le mural de @PalomboArtist représentant Hitler portant un keffieh et un brassard "hate". La fonctionnaire, "très peinée" selon mon interlocutrice, craignait que ma seule présence provoque une polémique parmi les étudiants (qui payent). Alors même que ce n'était absolument pas le sujet de la conférence: on me fait payer mes engagements.
Autrement dit, le fait que je combatte l'antisémitisme devenu virulent depuis le 7/10 et que je déplaise à l'écosystème éléfiste est considéré par le gouvernement @SebLecornu comme un problème. Jusque-là la "canceled culture" touchait des évènements privés ou des universités qui expulsaient des juifs parce que juifs. Cette fois-ci, on franchit un seuil: c'est directement une formation gérée par un ministre de la République qui efface un supposé "complice des génocidaires", une expression chère à LFI. Autant pour la liberté d'expression garantie par la Constitution française.
J'ai évidemment demandé que la fonctionnaire ayant pris cette décision m'envoie un mail confirmant cette annulation. Elle l'a envoyé, mais pas à moi directement. Les responsables de la formation me l'ont communiqué sans signature (les pauvres chéris n'assument pas) : "les raisons" de l'annulation, lit-on, sont "techniques". C'est tellement le cas que le mail indique : "je vous remercie d'assurer l'information auprès de Mr Quatremer, de gérer les suites et en gérant également la confidentialité liées aux agents de l'Etat". Quelqu'un a oublié que l'on ne pouvait contraindre au silence un journaliste (surtout moi).
J'ai joint le cabinet de la ministre, Monique Barbut, et je n'ai eu aucun retour pour l'instant.
Cet enchainement de petites lâchetés, de peurs, de volonté de complaire à l'idéologie supposé dominante du moment me rappelle une période historique, mais laquelle?
Cadê os das meninas que eles cegaram, estupraram ou mataram porque não tavam usando o pano na cabeça?
Cadê os dos mortos nos protestos? Vão usar também?
Ou só os EUA são malvadão?
Anthropic people, you’ve got a couple days at most to mitigate the damage being done by your senior leadership and policy people, the stealth nerfing and data retention decisions are titanic fuckups that pose serious risks to both your technical pole position and your bags