Joao F Coelho

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

Isto. É preciso repetir isto 1000x para que se perceba porque é que nenhuma medida que implique austeridade ou cortes tem sucesso na maior parte da Europa. Neo-liberalismo my ass.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than half from the private sector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!):
-France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974).
- Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019.
-Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years.
- Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007.
- UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Dear Mr. @elonmusk, why do you never call for Putin to go? He's ruled Russia as a dictator for 26 years. Isn't that enough?

You know, Putin thinks you are a fool. He thinks he has your number. Behind closed doors, they tell jokes about you. You do his bidding here -- calling for Zelenskyy to go -- and he doesn't even have to bribe you, like Schroeder or others.

I am a huge admirer of your work when it comes to making things that improve our world. Huge!

I find your judgments of Putin naive.

But I know I might be "biased." He has killed some of my friends & colleagues. My guess is he hasn't killed any of your friends.

Please spend some time in Kyiv. Meet some mothers whose kids were deliberately killed by Putin's drones. And then go to Moscow and try to meet some mothers whose kids were deliberately targeted by Ukrainian rockets and drones. You won't find any.

Putin is slaughtering innocent civilians in Ukraine on purpose.

Zelenskyy is not.

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

Interessante

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

And while we're speaking Portuguese, let's give Portugal a glance:

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

Isto é maravilhoso

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

@footyheritage @NunoElfuser @allezportoallez @langlytweets @PortuGoal1 @LongBallFutebol @TheEuroGuys @eurofootcom @GuillemBalague @pedromsepulveda @josemorgado You missed to include Boavista FC, Porto 2nd club, historical in the national league (more than 120 years old), even won it in 2000, and ended up bankrupt due to poor management and massive debts from the renewal of the stadium for the Euro 2004.

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte @perezreverte]

"Cuanto más se acostumbraban los ciudadanos a obedecer órdenes injustas, menos recordaban que antaño habían sido libres. Y así, con la excusa de la paz y la estabilidad, aceptaban sin protestar imposiciones que en otro tiempo habrían considerado intolerables".
(Tácito. Anales)

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

@amazing_physics obviously

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

Please do not forget about us. Do not get used to it.

This is what Toretsk looks like today — a Ukrainian city destroyed by the russians. It is no longer a city, only ruins💔

Ukraine is fighting for life, for every city, every person, every home.

[dono da c🅾️🅾️perativa ™ @donocooperativa]

Fonte:

https://t.co/S9zogXfdht

[Marcela Linhares @ma__linharess]

Alcaraz solta a raquete, a bola passa para o outro lado, mas o ponto não é válido!

Espanhol imediatamente diz que não tinha a raquete na mão na hora do contato e que o ponto não era dele!

Que atitude FANTÁSTICA!

#TenisNaESPN #RolandGarrosNaESPN

[JoãoMiranda @joaomiranda]

Muito bom

[Sandra Cachide @CachideSandra]

Dia 6 a Metro do Porto quer avançar com a 2.ª fase do MetroBus, comprometendo a paisagem junto ao Parque Cidade e ignorando o impacto real que as obras da 1.ª fase já causaram. Não podemos aceitar q se avance sem ouvir a cidade nem ponderar alternativas
https://t.co/kRnmDJyhEL

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

https://t.co/uAIfclefvg

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

Não se esqueçam de agradecer ao génio que achou que o Chega era a garantia de que o PS ganharia sempre as eleições.

[Kirk. 🐙🇪🇦 @QFueso]

Lo peor en el mundo no son los malvados, son los tontos, porque son fácil presa para los primeros.
Porque si tú juntas 1000 tontos con 1 malvado al final tienes 1001 malvados.

Pérez Reverte

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

Da democracia na América, versão 2025

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.

The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."

They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.

The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.

But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.

The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.

But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.

Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

[Pietro Ventani @PietroVentani]

The most important chart in the world right now:

US rates surging while the #DXY collapses

This kind of divergence is usually seen during currency crises in emerging markets
@VitoLops @DannyDayan5

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

Sobre o Trump, leitura recomendada

[Bob Woodward @realBobWoodward]

FEAR, my first book on Trump published in 2018, showed Trump’s obsession with tariffs and how his top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs repeatedly tried to prevent Trump and Navarro from tanking the U.S. economy.

[Andrew Batson @andrewbatson]

Your periodic reminder that despite everything you read about China's subsidies to manufacturing, industrial policy etc, that massive infusion of resources has not been able to reverse the steady decline in the manufacturing sector as a share of GDP.

[Joao F Coelho @jfcoelho]

This