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L'amiante est un matériau très pratique ; d'une haute productivité. On a choisi d'en mettre partout. Pendant qu'on s'apercevait que c'était nocif et difficile à dépolluer.
En anglais, "amiante" se dit "asbestos". Shannon Vallor file une analogie :
https://bsky.app/profile/shannonvallor.bsky.social/post/3mxok3pisjk2v
#confiance #croyances #éducation #enseignement #enseignementSupérieur #risque #IA #IAGénérative #alienation #penséeCritique
This is a similar tree I saw on last week's hike.
Trees have an interesting way of healing after having their centers burned out. They seem to heal at the edges, and start to look like two new trees growing along the edges. I don't know if it's from lighting or a forest fire, but this is the second tree I've seen just like this in the last two hikes.
Now that days are getting cooler and work is slowing down a bit, I'm finally getting outside more consistently again. Yesterday I did a gorgeous 14-mile hike along a river valley, up to a ridge, and back down a different valley. That's the farthest I've hiked in a day in about 20 years!
laut stat gabs heute 59 #download in den letzten 12h für mein neues #wordpress #plugin #woocommerce
so wie es der #tradition entspricht - wenn ich in #deutschland war und zeit zum einkaufen habe - dann gibts zum essen #schupfnudeln mit #speck und #sauerkraut 😍
ja ihr hört mich oft über #politiker und #journalisten über #deutschland und #schweiz motzen aber nie über essen
🚨BREAKING🚨: Matt Mullenweg declares 30-day header fest for Eric Binnion, because nothing says "tribute" like cluttering billions of screens with an extra line of code! 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, the design team scrambles to add a "humane" touch, as if that’ll ease the digital mourning. 😅 Oh, and RIP to the "AI" design – you won’t be missed! 🙄
https://ma.tt/2026/10/rip-eric/ #HackerNews #Tribute #HeaderFest #DesignHumor #DigitalMourning #RIPAI #HackerNews #ngated
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Aerosmith Announce Two L.A. Comeback Concerts With All-Star Guests
Run-DMC, the Black Crowes, Heart, Billy Idol, Eric Church, Slash, Duff McKagan, Sammy Hagar, Tom Morello, and many others join band on October 29 and November 1
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/aerosmith-comeback-concerts-1235637458/
Fusillade à Aubagne : Éric Zemmour déplore une ville " largement islamisée ", le maire dénonce " une provocation insoutenable "
🗞️ Le Parisien - 🕐 13/10 23:19
Le profil de l’adolescent qui a fait irruption au collège Joseph-Lakanal d’Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône) avec un fusil de chasse, fait feu et blessé le proviseur et une enseignante, lundi, s’affine.
Problèmes de discipline, potentielle addiction à Call ... [2003 chars]
🔗 https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/fusillade-a-aubagne-eric-zemmour-deplore-une-ville-largement-islamisee-le-maire-denonce-une-provocation-insoutenable-13-10-2026-YM5UMBRDMVHTPG6B6EOKMGFR3M.php
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Netflix’s “AI Gone Wild” documentary is pretty crazy and I’m really glad they made a documentary that accessible about the Hugging Face incident but I couldn’t get over the fact the dude they have to be the contrarian point of view had no fucking clue what he was talking about and seemed just as clueless and egocentric about AI as the rest of the documentary’s subjects.
He made some analogy about AI turning everything into paperclips and insisted it’s 15 years old and I’m like oh my god you’re trying to describe Eric Drexler’s grey goo analogy badly and how the fuck have the people making AI not read the Engines of Creation
No Fake Makeovers For The Post-Trump GOP (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
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http://www.memeorandum.com/261013/p127#a261013p127
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DATE: October 12, 2026 at 10:00AM
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TITLE: Is fatness a feminist issue?
URL: https://www.psypost.org/is-fatness-a-feminist-issue/
Recent research published in Sex Roles suggests that while many fat women identify as feminists, they do not consistently view their body size as a feminist issue. The study highlights a divide in how women understand their bodies, with some pointing to gendered double standards and societal discrimination, while others view their weight as a matter of personal responsibility.
Anti-fatness refers to the systemic and interpersonal prejudice directed at people with larger bodies. Feminist scholars have often linked this anti-fat stigma to traditional gender roles and patriarchal beauty norms. This perspective argues that societal pressure to be thin falls especially hard on women, creating toxic environments that negatively impact their body image, mental health, and social standing.
“American society is often fixated on how women look,” lead author Breanne Fahs, a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University and author of Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance, told PsyPost. “Women are often told to be young, pretty, and skinny by their parents, partners, classmates, and strangers. Psychological research has often shown the problems with ‘thin idealization’ and living for a male gaze. In particular, women are criticized about having defective bodies, and they consequently fear gaining weight, try dangerous diets, and/or loathe their own bodies.”
“In the 1970s, second wave feminists warned that the fixation on slender bodies seriously hurt women and the slogan of ‘fat is a feminist issue’ was born,” Fahs added. “In the last twenty years there has been a growth of social movements that challenged the sexist assumptions of fat stigma, with the group called National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) leading the way.”
Research has shown that fat women generally face harsher social and economic consequences for their body size than fat men. In one study, fat women were 16 times more likely than fat men to report weight-related job discrimination, and other studies have found that fat women receive harsher judgments of their parenting and are more often denied loans, promotions, or apartments. Fat men, on the other hand, tend to face less stigma and fewer everyday indignities for similar body sizes.
Despite these documented disparities, it has remained an open question whether fat women themselves view their physical experiences through a political or feminist lens. Fahs and her colleague Eric Swank, a professor of social and cultural analysis at Arizona State University, sought to understand how fat women talk about this connection and whether they recognize the gendered dimensions of weight stigma that academics often discuss.
“Lots of research has looked at the causes and consequences of fat hatred among women of all body sizes,” Fahs explained. “Some studies have even looked at the reasons for being a fat activist, but the way fat women view feminism has mostly been overlooked.”
Fahs’s own work helped motivate the project. She has written about women’s dread of gaining weight, anti-fat bias in health care, and the relationships between fat therapists and fat patients. Her experience as both a professor and a practicing clinical psychologist left her curious about whether fat women see anti-fat stigma through a feminist lens.
To investigate this, the researchers interviewed 20 women living in the United States who self-identified as fat or overweight. The participants were recruited through local classified advertisements on Craigslist, allowing the research team to reach a geographically diverse group. The women ranged in age from 27 to 66, with an average age of 40. Half were women of color, 40 percent identified as bisexual or lesbian, and their body weights ranged from under 200 to over 300 pounds.
All 20 interviews were conducted by Fahs over video calls and lasted about 90 minutes each. She asked the women questions about their bodies, their social experiences, and their political perspectives. Two key questions guided the core of the analysis: whether the participants considered themselves feminists, and whether they believed fatness was a feminist issue. The researchers did not provide a definition of feminism, allowing each participant to respond according to her own understanding.
The participants’ responses pointed to a complex divide between personal identification and political frameworks. Thirteen women explicitly identified as feminists, three said they might use the label for certain issues, and four rejected it entirely. When asked if fatness was a feminist issue, the group was evenly split: eight said yes, four said maybe, and eight said no. Several self-identified feminists insisted that fatness was not a feminist issue, while one woman, identified in the study as Marge, firmly rejected the feminist label but still stated that it was.
The researchers identified six distinct themes in how the participants evaluated the issue. Three of the themes supported a connection between weight and feminism. Four women highlighted gendered double standards, observing that society readily accepts fat men as funny or relatable, while fat women face intense social disapproval for the same size. Three women described fatness as a central way women are judged, explaining that a woman’s social worth remains tied to physical appearance.
Overt discrimination, tied for the most common theme linking the two concepts, was raised by four participants. These women cited institutional obstacles in hiring, healthcare, and media representation as evidence of a broader feminist problem. When discussing these barriers, Fahs noted that participants “elaborated how workplaces, hospitals, schools, and families discriminate against women who are fat.”
The remaining three themes rejected the connection between body size and feminism. Three women stated that fatness has nothing to do with feminism, arguing that body weight is an individual matter of personal responsibility and lifestyle rather than gender politics. Two women maintained that fatness has nothing to do with gender, arguing that weight stigma affects people of all genders equally and should not be framed as a women’s issue.
In the final theme, three participants argued that fat women deserve ridicule, framing teasing as a natural consequence of body size or a motivator to lose weight.
Describing these women, Fahs said, “They thought fat women were supposed to be ‘made fun of by someone who is not fat’ and fat people ‘should lose weight’ if they do not want to be teased. This diversity of perspectives shows how fat resistance and feminist fat liberation perspectives still diverge from narratives of self-blame and ridicule.”
The findings point to an uneven alignment between feminist theory and the everyday perspectives of fat women. While some participants expressed an awareness of gender inequality, others expressed anti-fat attitudes, which the authors say could reflect internalized stigma or a form of anti-feminism, or viewed their struggles as entirely personal. The researchers noted that framing fatness through a political lens rather than individual failure could help people challenge anti-fat bias and reduce feelings of personal self-blame.
As with all research, there are some caveats to consider. The study relied on a small group of 20 women recruited through Craigslist during the COVID-19 pandemic, so the sample does not reflect the full population of fat women in the United States. In addition, the questions about feminism came after about an hour of discussion focused on fatness, which may have influenced the way participants answered.
The study also asked participants whether they identified as feminists rather than measuring specific feminist beliefs, and several women appeared to associate feminism primarily with the #MeToo movement or perceived extremes. Both researchers identify as fat feminists, and Fahs conducted all 20 interviews herself, which could have shaped how participants discussed sensitive topics. Future research using standardized surveys could help clarify how widespread these viewpoints are across the broader population.
The study, “Does Fatness Politicize Women? Fat Women’s Narratives on Whether Fatness is a Feminist Issue,” was authored by Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/is-fatness-a-feminist-issue/
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DIRECT. Roland Lescure estime que la hausse des taux d'emprunt de la dette française est "un signal d'alarme"
🗞️ BFM - 🕐 14/10 10:25
Marion Maréchal juge qu'Éric Zemmour "s'est auto-marginalisé" et "isolé politiquement"
Un candidat qui "s'est auto-marginalisé". Marion Maréchal, ex-vice-présidente exécutive de Reconquête, le parti d'Éric Zemmour, confie justement ce matin sur LCI n... [12028 chars]
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Der Nachbar über uns spielt jetzt zum 7. oder 8. Mal "Eric Burdon & The Animals- Good Times" ab. Langsam frag ich mich, was da los ist. 🤔
Conférence de POLAR: “Panel : Acquisition d'entreprise : comment amener les TI à la table des négociations ? ”
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Pour cette 4e édition de notre conférence POLAR pour CISO, gestionnaires, directeurs et leaders techniques en cybersécurité le 29 octobre, nous aurons le privilège d'entendre Samuel Bonneau, Éric Hébert, Régis Desmeules
Ne manquez pas cette occasion de vous joindre à nous pour cette journée à la Salle Le Confessionnal - Le Capitole de Québec. Plus d'informations et achats de billets ICI: https://hackfest.ca/polar/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socmed&utm_campaign=polarSpeakers
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Talk at POLAR: “Panel : Acquisition d'entreprise : comment amener les TI à la table des négociations ? ”
For this fourth POLAR edition for CISO, managers, directors and tech leads in cybersecurity on October 29th, we will have the privilege to hear Samuel Bonneau, Éric Hébert, Régis Desmeules talk on this subject.
Don't miss this opportunity to join us at our 1-day banquet conference at the Salle Le Confessional - Le Capitole in Québec City. To have more info or buy tickets: https://hackfest.ca/en/polar/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socmed&utm_campaign=polarSpeakers
"Je peux jouer comme Egan-Riley à 63 ans", Di Meco hallucine devant les carences de l'OM
🗞️ RMC Sport - 🕐 12/10 21:02
La victoire de l'OM à Troyes, dimanche lors de la 6e journée de Ligue 1 (0-2), n'a pas vraiment convaincu Eric Di Meco. Lundi dans le Super Moscato Show et Rothen s'enflamme sur RMC, l'ancien défenseur marseillais a égratigné certains joueurs olympie... [1841 chars]
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Mostly Monday Reads: Questioning Minds Want to Know
“Paging Elon! Paging ELON! PAGING ELON MUSK!!!” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
Questions of the day: Why are all Orange Caligula’s best foreign buddies Communists? If so, why does he keep calling every Democratic Office Holder a Communist as if it’s something he despises? Has anyone else noticed this? Additionally, when did it become legal to bribe voters? When did it become okay to do an Unconstitutional raid on a member of Congress’s home within 60 days of an election? WTAF is going on in our country? All he makes are bad decisions. Their results become exponentially worse by the minute.
I don’t even know where to start today. I assumed all hell would break loose once our stupid Speaker of the House sent the Congress Critters home for vacation, but I had no idea what on earth the minds of the madmen in the West Wing could come up with. The only positive finding I can see in all of this today is that “Trump’s midterm road show reveals GOP troubles — and his own priorities. Republicans need the president to mobilize voters, but his low approval ratings limit where he can help.” This is from the Washington Post. It’s reported by Natalie Allison and Isaac Arnsdorf.
“It’s the last time he’s really going to be able to do this in full force,” said Mark Mitchell, a politically independent pollster who previously supported Trump but is now critical of
Trump has at times been in high spirits while traveling and said he thinks campaigning is going well, one adviser said. But another person with knowledge of his behavior observed that Trump has been in a “foul mood.”
Trump’s advisers maintain that the rallies are the most effective thing Trump can do — short of lowering gas prices driven up by the war he started with Iran — to try to minimize Republican losses this fall. GOP officials say Trump showing up in the backyard of supporters who voted for him three times is the party’s best chance to turn out those voters this fall when he isn’t on the ballot. Republican enthusiasm is trailing that of Democrats. A recent survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that among those who say they are extremely motivated to vote, Democrats lead 59 percent to 35 percent. That’s a contrast with the 2022 midterms, when such extremely motivated voters were evenly divided between the two parties.
Be like #Susan
The article lists a number of places where Trump held his small rallies have shown exactly who shows up. They are Trump-friendly to start out with and generally accomplish nothing other thing collecting these folks’ names for GOTV activities. However, a rally in Syracuse, New York turned out to show more about the opposition than the Trump Supporters. This is from a local newspaper and I just had to share it before I dive into the list of evil I presented at the top. “Woman in yellow jacket fires middle fingers as she’s tossed from Trump’s Syracuse rally.” It was reported by Chris Baker at Syracuse.com. Susan has no become a poster Queen.
A woman in a yellow jacket and a Primus T-shirt is capturing the internet’s attention Friday after sheriff’s deputies removed her from a Donald Trump rally in Syracuse.
The woman was escorted out of the Oncenter in Syracuse as Trump spoke to a crowd of at least 2,500 supporters.
She fired middle fingers into the faces of nearby Trump supporters and shouted what seemed to be profanities at them. Many returned the gesture and shouted back. \
Video of the woman being removed immediately took off online. Hundreds of thousands of people had seen it by midnight Friday.
Susan appears to be the archetype for all the Trump resisters who showed up at the various Trump Rallies.
youtube.com/shorts/ejpbj…
Okay. Now to the gloom and doom. (sigh) First, this extremely depressing event concerning Representative Ilhan Omar. We’re clearly in Banana Republic Territory now if this is what our Justice Department is doing.
POLITICAL RETRIBUTIONFederal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning.A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-10-12T13:47:40.189Z
This is from the AP. “Agents search Rep. Omar’s Washington home in criminal probe as she vows she won’t ‘be silenced’.” Alanna Durkin Richer and Eric Tucker share the lede.
Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.
The search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home so close to next month’s midterm contests that will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by top Democrats in Congress, who raised questions about the timing given longstanding Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run-up to an election.
The Justice Department confirmed in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant in the Washington, D.C., area in connection with an ongoing federal criminal investigation but provided no other details.
The nature and scope of the investigation were unclear, though officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have repeatedly hinted at the existence of an inquiry targeting Omar, a Somali-born Democrat whose status as an immigrant to the U.S. and left-wing views have repeatedly drawn criticism from Republicans and senior Trump officials.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last month that there was an “ongoing investigation” related in part to whether Omar lied on her immigration forms and that “something’s going to happen.”
Omar responded to the search with a statement on X that called it an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”
“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she said. “I will not be silenced.”
Though the Republican focus on Omar’s background dates back years, the search of her home took place three weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is on the ballot for reelection. The Justice Department has historically sought to avoid public investigative actions involving a candidate within 60 days of a primary or general election.
“For years, Donald Trump and far-right extremists have relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Omar with vile personal attacks and baseless accusations,” top House Democratic leaders said in a statement. “Now, less than 30 days until the midterm election, his violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.”
This next article is from AXIOS’ Ben Berkowitz. “Feds search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in immigration probe.”
Driving the news: Fox News first reported that Homeland Security Investigations agents conducted the search, citing a Justice Department statement.
- A DOJ spokesperson confirmed to Axios that DHS agents “executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice” as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
- DHS referred Axios to the DOJ.
The other side: Omar’s office blasted the search.
- “This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,” Omar spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers said in a statement.
- “The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong.”
- House Democratic leaders separately issued a joint statement calling the search “deeply disturbing” and part of a “rogue abuse of power” by the administration.
Last month, border czar Tom Homan confirmed an ongoing criminal probe into Omar, though he declined to offer details.
- Fox reported Monday that the search was tied to a fraud investigation into Omar’s immigration paperwork.
- The Somali native came to the U.S. in 1995 as a 12-year-old refugee.
This is a short snip from CNBC that may show the weird reasoning for the raid. “Rep. Ilhan Omar blasts federal criminal raid on home: ‘I will not be silenced’. Dan Mangan has the lede.
In September, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told right-wing commentator Benny Johnson at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas that DHS was investigating issues around Omar and her family’s immigration to the United States.
“There may be more to this, the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United States to begin with,” said Mullin. He said the investigation could end with deportations.
The DOJ, for years, has had a policy regarding the announcement and initiation of federal investigations and prosecutions close to elections. The policy discourages beginning an investigation, taking investigative steps, bringing criminal charges, or making public statements for the purpose of affecting an election or to give a candidate an advantage or disadvantage.
A person familiar with the raid on Omar’s home told CNBC on Monday that the DOJ does not consider that action to violate the policy because the raid was not meant to be public.
Now to Elon Musk and his re-entrance into the election bribing business. This is from Theodore Schleifer of the New York Times. “Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans. The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.”
Elon Musk has quietly funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his super PAC since the start of July, building a huge turnout operation to help the party battle headwinds in the midterm elections.
The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms. Representatives for Mr. Musk supplied the previously unreported figures on his political giving to The New York Times before a federal filing deadline on Thursday.
In an effort to save Republicans’ Senate majority, he gave a total of $158 million this summer to the Senate Leadership Fund, the main super PAC backing the party’s candidates for the chamber, according to his team. In sum, that is one of the largest political donations in American history, and more than the group’s Democratic rival raised from all of its donors that quarter.
Mr. Musk has also built a major Republican turnout operation through a super PAC he founded in 2024, America PAC. He donated over $76 million this summer to the group, which in turn spent that much on building a sprawling canvassing program to try to turn out hard-to-reach Republican voters. The group is active in seven Senate battlegrounds and nearly three dozen House races.
Mr. Musk has already given far more money, about $366 million, to federal committees during the 2025-26 election cycle than he did during the 2024 election, when he laid out roughly $290 million to help return President Trump and Republicans to power. He has given even more in undisclosed donations during both elections, according to people briefed on the giving.
The latest torrent of spending has helped give the Republican Party a financial advantage in the midterms, as well-funded outside groups like Mr. Trump’s powerful super PAC flood the airwaves with advertising in the final weeks. No Democratic billionaire is spending nearly as much as Mr. Musk, and money remains a central worry for the party in an otherwise favorable political environment.
The donations also clear up the mystery of how much staying power Mr. Musk wants to have in American politics.
Here are a few good reads, and then I’ll sign off for the day. This one is actually a few weeks old, but it’s worth the read. “How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message.” The story comes from NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben.
Speaking in the Oval Office this week, President Trump once again claimed he wanted to give $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. — but only if Republicans win the House and Senate in November.
It’s an idea he first proposed at the Republican midterm convention earlier this month. And from the moment he proposed it, even some of his allies were skeptical.
Broadcasting from the convention, Michael Duncan — one host of the conservative Ruthless podcast — said while the proposal might be politically smart, the better policy might be to instead “just cut taxes by $5,000.”
“We don’t need helicopter money,” he added.
His co-host Josh Holmes agreed: “Maybe we don’t have a bureaucrat who shuffles paper from the left side of his desk to the right and then sends you a check for your time.”
The right-leaning satire site the Babylon Bee was more pointed: “Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government,” read one of its headlines.
This is the contradiction that keeps arising in Trump’s second term, as the leader of the party that has often claimed to support free markets repeatedly tries to bend the economy to his will. But it’s especially striking as Trump continues to try to label Democrats as “communists.”
“We will defeat the communists, and that’s what they are. They’re not socialists, they’re not democrats, they’re communists,” Trump said at the Republicans’ midterm convention.
And millions heard the message in a TV ad that aired last week: “Together we will defeat communism, socialism, and Marxism in America,” says Trump in the ad, which states at the end that it was funded by the federal government. An ethics group has filed a lawsuit against taxpayer money being used for the overtly political advertisement.
The Trump administration has announced equity stakes in more than 30 private companies, imposed dozens of tariffs, and taken the unusual step of trying to lower interest rates via the Treasury Department.
These big, unorthodox policy moves are certainly not communism, but they’re also not typical Republican free-market capitalism. So what could you call it?
“I would say transactional interventionism,” says Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the libertarian Cato Institute.
To him, Trump has no set economic philosophy. Rather, many of Trump’s policy moves are aimed at achieving a specific outcome — like using a tariff to boost a particular industry or punish a foreign country … or suggesting a $5,000 check to reward votes.
So, really, who is the actual one with policies that look like the Soviet Union? Who is buddies with Putin and and warms up to Xi Jinping? This is from Reuters. “What’s in the diesel deal between Putin and Trump?”
US President Donald Trump has stepped up his efforts to lower US diesel prices by lifting sanctions on Russian diesel exports and announcing a ceasefire on energy infrastructure between Russia and Ukraine.
Soaring US diesel prices are hurting US truckers and farmers, and are a concern for voters and political parties ahead of November 3 midterm elections.
There’s the bottom line right there. Trump is also pissed about Zelensky bombing those Russian Data Centers. This is a great headline from Newsweek. “How Ukraine Could Explode Trump’s ‘Deal With the Devil’,” David Averre has the story.
Donald Trump likes to think of foreign policy as a business. Allies should earn their keep and adversaries should be made to pay, unless they can make an offer that leaves America better off than it was before.
The man who brought you The Art Of The Deal and a few too many seasons of The Apprentice should really know when he’s the one being taken for a ride.
Vladimir Putin is currently waging a war on Ukraine and threatening Washington’s historical allies across the pond, while the Kremlin’s digital operatives spread fabricated news and attempt to manipulate the American political conversation via extensive disinformation campaigns.
This, according to the White House, should not discount the Russian president from consideration as Washington’s best partner to help resolve America’s fuel crisis.
Trump’s Russian diesel import deal, hashed out over the phone to Moscow last week, is likely to leave Putin better off, Ukraine worse off, and Americans with little to show for it. But Kyiv‘s recent strikes on Russian data centers suggest it might’ve found another way to make life hard for Putin, and demonstrate why Ukraine, not Russia, could be the more valuable partner for Washington.
It’s really difficult to digest this kind of overt self-dealing in the globe’s first truly democratic republic. How dumb do you have to be to be a Trumper?
I’m still having trouble making comments on the blog for some reason. I have contacted WordPress, and they’re still out to lunch on this one. I think it likely has something to do with any upgrade they made, and AI is likely involved imho. I’ve seen this total loss for something that just popped up into a supposed update before. It sucks when you don’t have actual programmers to find out who was in charge of that particular feature, when it was basically a rogue computer. Where have I heard that one before?
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Die Linke hauen, die CDU meinen
Die NZZ als Zukunft der FAZ?
Der Vormarsch faschistischer Parteien hat den demokratischen Konservatismus in eine existenzielle Krise gestürzt. Das trifft nicht nur Parteien wie die CDU. Die Krise trifft auch konservative Zeitungen wie die FAZ. Sie irrlichtert auf zunehmend rechtem Kurs.
Filterblasen sind keine Erfindung sozialer Medien. Als ich studierte, lasen alle um mich herum den taz-Vorläufer ID – Informationsdienst zur Verbreitung unterbliebener Nachrichten, die links, den Pflasterstrand und den Arbeiterkampf.
Ich mochte Filterblasen nicht. Als ich 1979 Außenreferent des AStAs der Uni Göttingen wurde, abonnierten wir die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Die FAZ galt uns als „Zentralorgan der Bourgeoisie“. Wir wollten wissen, was die „Bourgeoisie“ denkt. Dafür war die FAZ eine exzellente Quelle. Seitdem lese ich sie. Die FAZ liegt immer noch morgens in meinem Briefkasten. Die anderen Medien – außer der taz – gibt es so nicht mehr.
Die Qualität der FAZ war ihr solides journalistisches Handwerk. Das unterscheidet sie von rechten Kampagnenmedien wie Bild und Welt. Ihre klare politische Haltung stützt sie auf Fakten und Recherche. Gestärkt wurde die FAZ durch einen gepflegten Binnenpluralismus. Vereinfacht gesagt ist der Politikteil konservativ. Der Wirtschaftsteil ist überwiegend neoliberal. Im Feuilleton gab es dezidiert progressive Stimmen. Dieser Pluralismus steht unter Druck.
Der Vormarsch faschistischer Kräfte in vielen demokratischen Gesellschaften hat den Konservatismus in eine Krise gestürzt. Er ist über die Frage gespalten, ob Konservative beim Zugriff der antidemokratischen Rechten auf die Macht behilflich sein oder ihm widerstehen sollen.
Die Befürworter einer Kooperation der Konservativen mit Faschisten haben die Geschichte gegen sich. Die Zustimmung der Zentrumspartei zum Ermächtigungsgesetz war das Ende des deutschen Konservatismus und führte in die Nazidiktatur. Deshalb konzentrieren sich die Befürworter einer rechten Mehrheit unter Einschluss von Verfassungsfeinden auf ein einfaches Argument: Was links erlaubt sei, müsse auch rechts möglich sein.
Die aktuelle Kampagne gegen ein rot-grün-rotes Bündnis in Berlin dient dazu, die CDU mürbezumachen für eine Kooperation mit der AfD. Man schlägt die Linke und meint die CDU. Beim Leiter Innenpolitik der FAZ liest sich das so:
„Wenn an die Rhetorik, Taktik und Ideologie der Linkspartei dieselben Maßstäbe angelegt würden wie an den Extremismus in der AfD, dann müsste eine Verbotsdebatte geführt werden und müssten Politiker der Linkspartei so behandelt werden wie die am anderen Ende des Hufeisens. Doch weit gefehlt: Linkenpolitiker gehören zum Inventar der Morgenmagazine; Linkenpolitiker bestimmen, wer sich Demokrat nennen darf, wer nicht.“ (Jasper von Altenbockum, Paywall)
Nun ist nicht alles, was hinkt, schon ein Vergleich. Vergleiche sind dazu da, Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten festzustellen und nicht Ungleiches gleichzusetzen.
Es gibt keinen Landesverband der Linkspartei, der als verfassungsfeindlich eingestuft wird. Daran wird auch Gordon Schnieder markige Ankündigung nichts ändern. Es ist widerlegt, dass durch die Regierungsbeteiligung von Linken eine Gefahr für die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung entstand. Seit Jahren regieren sie in Bremen mit, wiederholt in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Unter Bodo Ramelow war Thüringen demokratisch mindestens so stabil wie heute unter Mario Voigt. Der 21. Deutsche Bundestag wurde vom Alterspräsidenten Gregor Gysi eröffnet, dem selbst Helmut Kohl nicht die demokratische Grundhaltung absprach.
Unzweifelhaft gehört die Linke zum pluralen Bogen demokratischer Parteien, die auf dem Boden des Grundgesetzes stehen. Sie ist darin eher das Pendant zur CDU. Beide haben lange Zeit an den politischen Rändern Kräfte demokratisch eingebunden. Die CDU zur Rechten, die Linkspartei wie die Grünen zur Linken.
Der Ratschlag der FAZ mit der Linkspartei keine Kooperationen einzugehen, ist auch nicht wirklich ernst gemeint. Würde er befolgt, wären Sachsen und Thüringen sofort unregierbar. Hier gibt es Minderheitsregierungen und Haushalte nur in Absprache mit Linken wie den Grünen. Wäre es ernst gemeint, könnte auch Manuela Schwesig nicht regieren. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hätte Magdeburger Verhältnisse.
Offensichtlich will Altenbockum kein Kooperationsverbot mit der Linken. Er will, dass die Union mit der AfD kooperiert. Da trifft er sich mit Teilen der deutschen Wirtschaft und ihren Lobbyisten in der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion. Deren wirtschaftsliberale Agenda kann nur in einer Kooperation mit den Antidemokraten der AfD, nicht aber in lagerübergreifenden Koalitionen umgesetzt werden.
Wer nun dachte, dass dieser Geschichtsvergessenheit im Feuilleton der FAZ widersprochen würde, hat die Rechnung ohne ihren Herausgeber Jürgen Kaube gemacht. Kaube hat aus seiner Verachtung für Berlin nie einen Hehl gemacht. Er spricht der Stadt ab, Hauptstadt zu sein. (Paywall)
Aber anders als Altenbockum gesteht er der Elif Eralp gewunden zu, dass sie einen Regierungsauftrag hat:
„Berlin hat Eralp in den Wahlen eine Art von Regierungsauftrag verschafft, Berlin hat verdient, dass er wahrgenommen wird. Das ist Demokratie. Soll die Stadt mit ihr leben.“
nur um nach Vorwürfen zu Antisemitismus und Clanwirtschaft genau dies wieder infrage zu stellen.
„Mit ihren Ambitionen, den Kampf der ‚Arbeiter:innenklasse‘ für den Sturz des kapitalistischen Systems durch unbegrenzten Zuzug von Migranten nach Berlin mit Wählern zu versorgen …Bloß sagen, man habe es vorher nicht gewusst, kann danach niemand.“ (Paywall)
Das hätte Gunnar Schupelius, früher Bild jetzt Nius, nicht rechter ausdrücken können. Die AfD-Erzählung, die Linke betreibe im Zusammenwirken mit Grünen und SPD die Zuwanderung von Migranten, um sich Mehrheiten zu verschaffen, bedient das Ideologem des „Bevölkerungsaustauschs“.
Kaube zeigt, wie weit die Krise der Konservativen reicht. Inzwischen machen sich Konservative zentrale Narrative von rechtsaußen zu eigen. Die Rede vom „Bevölkerungsaustausch“ teilt die AfD mit Trump und JD Vance. Sie stand am Anfang der Entwicklung, die aus einem ehemaligen Präsidenten des Verfassungsschutzes ein Beobachtungsobjekt seines alten Dienstes machte.
Wenn der Herausgeber des Feuilletons der FAZ auf dem Niveau von Hans-Georg Maaßen gelandet ist, müssen wir uns Sorgen machen. Wenn die FAZ weiterhin für die Stimmung in der „Bourgeoisie“ steht, dann sind in Teilen des rechten Bürgertums inzwischen antidemokratische Narrative fest verankert.
Wenn es aber nur die FAZ ist, wäre es schade. 1979 hatten wir im AStA-Außenreferat noch eine weitere konservative Zeitung abonniert. Wegen ihrer exzellenten internationalen Berichterstattung las ich jeden Tag die Neue Züricher Zeitung. Die NZZ hat inzwischen unter ihrem Chefredaktor Eric Gujer einen so scharfen Rechtskurs eingeschlagen, dass sie heute von vielen AfDlern als Hauspostille angesehen wird. Es wäre bitter, wenn die NZZ zur Zukunft der FAZ würde.
Dieser Beitrag ist eine Übernahme aus dem Blog des Autors, mit seiner freundlichen Genehmigung.
Mike Macdonald was taking bows after his January meetings with the #49ers.
After Sunday's game, he's taken pointed strategy questions: Why did he think Mike Evans could be covered by Josh Jobe?
I’m not sure why it makes me happy, but today I went from teaching classes and grading papers to putting a chainsaw to a fallen tree in the alley with only a change of shoes. I like where I live. 😊
Debugging a hanging build where complex steps are hidden behind cute messages with colorful emojis almost makes me want to shake my cane in the air and tell some whippersnappers that they need to get off the lawn.
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> Universities are making different choices about AI. How will they fit with their public missions?
> Credentialization asks how universities prepare graduates and professionals for an AI-mediated labor market
How on Earth is anyone to know what an "AI-mediated labour market" will look like in 5 years' time?
I took a conventional computing degree in 1980. Almost everything I learned was obsolete in two years, except foundational stuff that wasn't of direct use in the job market.
https://phys.org/news/2026-10-universities-choices-ai-missions.html
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