Wir leben in einer zunehmend ausgebrannten Gesellschaft, immer mehr Menschen leiden an Depressionen und Burnout. Für das @DPZ_Berlin habe ich aufgeschrieben, was wir dagegen tun können + warum mehr Zeit & Lebensqualität wichtiger sind als einfach mehr Wachstum, Jobs und Geld. ✊
Stress, Leistungsdruck, Depressionen: Der Anstieg psychischer Erkrankungen ist dramatisch, nicht erst seit Corona. Eine Ursache: Zeitarmut. Policy Fellow @robert_schuette plädiert dafür, eine neue Perspektive auf Leistung & Arbeit zu entwickeln. 🔽
https://t.co/FVtTKLqS8H
Foreign states continue to destabilise our politics & elections. But Britain still in denial. Johnson blocked both Russia report & inquiry as did Starmer. Will @andyburnham finally take action? Or continue to fight hybrid warfare with political rhetoric (& Twitter statements)?
it takes no second for the EU to restrict Ukrainian refugees, but restricting schengen visas for vacationing russian war criminals takes years and is still not done.
Interesting essay by @paulkrugman about corporate taxes and oligarchy, noting that corporate tax rates keep dropping even as the public overwhelmingly favors raising them. https://t.co/5CudaVtrZ2
Israel insists that reports of rape of imprisoned Palestinians are false. So why not allow unfettered visits by the Red Cross to show there is nothing to hide?
Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.
Die deutsche Automobilindustrie wird als Paradebeispiel dafür in die Geschichtsbücher eingehen, dass Lobbyismus keine Probleme löst, sondern sie vergrößert.
Man hätte weltweit führend sein können bei Solar, Wind & E-Mobilität.
Man *wollte* es nicht. Man hat es verhindert.
I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.
All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members.
Put that together with political hack Pulte's odious appt as DNI; election deniers in the most sensitive oversight positions; Trump's exec order on mail-in voting, and potential use of the Postal Service as a weapon of subversion; his pathological prioritization of the SAVE act, which would be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations; and his persistent, unfounded claims of election fraud, which he uses to justify extraordinary federal interventions.
On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump's unpopularity.
So he's setting up Plan B--do whatever you need to do to win. Anything.
Anyone who says "Well, he wouldn't do THAT" hasn't paid attention. He's already proven he will!
So the period AFTER the Midterms may be even more turbulent than the run up to them.
The courts are going to be very busy this fall.
STUBB: Finland and Sweden wouldn't become members of NATO were it not for Russia's attack on Ukraine. We wouldn't be ramping up our industry were it not for lessons we're learning from Ukraine. So, Europe needs to ramp up, Ukraine needs NATO, but NATO needs Ukraine just as much.
China's drone manufacturing capability
"I think today China's easily at 100 million drones a year. I mean, they're supplying most of the components to Ukraine and Russia and both sides are gonna use about 7 million FPV's this year.
America is in the hundreds of thousands and there is no company that will domestically build 100,000 drones this year. Neros is trying to get close. We'll be over 100,000 run rate by the end of the year.
We have to have production capacity in the millions, tens of millions for credible deterrence, but we also want to solve the problems smarter."
@soren_ma, CEO of @neros_tech
BREAKING:
Shooting for the Stars: secret military documents we obtained show China fully involved with supporting Russian war in Ukraine and plans against the West, even offered a contingency plan to shoot down @elonmusk's Starlink. https://t.co/uFfZtB7jde
@unusual_whales Now look at living standard, student debt, health and health care, school shootings and vacation days... A whole bunch of billionaires doesn't make the millions of US working poor well off. That's the job of statistics like this.
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Mark Rutte
"You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
The speed of the solar revolution is mindboggling!
When we met at climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009 we were all desperate. Many went home crying. We had failed to address the threat of global warming.
What noone even hinted at was that the price of solar energy would fall 90% in the years after.
This is what is driving the green transition now - the scale and speed and flexibility of solar energy.
Added price of wind energy has fallen nearly as much. Price of battery storage is sky diving. Water batteries is a great alternative.
Solar is meaningful as two panels at the roof of a hut, providing reading light for children. Or as mega plants like in China and India, bringing gigawatts of clean energy, the scale more like the ocean.
The is no doubt - solar is the energy of the 21st century.
🚨 Merz announces Tomahawk cruise missile deal with Trump:
“On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, we agreed with the U.S. government that we would purchase American Tomahawk missiles and station them in Germany.”