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To get the best from Mastodon, I try to follow and boost the people who post using the hashtags I like. I wish there were more journalists here, especially from UK.
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"Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy"
Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption in the New Statesman: Israel's conduct in Gaza is a war crime.
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2025/07/a-question-of-intent
Amidst all the criticism the Times receives,
let's give credit to Linda Greenhouse.
This piece shows a level of moral clarity we should all aspire to.
"To everyone involved, from policymakers in Washington to the masked agents on the street, undocumented ppl are “the other”" 1/
Reposting this because now I know her name.
FIFA let Trump walk off with their trophy. Every Republican in office let Trump walk off with their integrity. MAGAs let him walk off with their Medicaid, just a lot of them don't know it yet.
In a world full of cowards and sycophants, be a Rebecca Torres. 👏🏼
NYC’s rents keep rising -⚡so do the odds that the city’s next mayor will be Mamdani (unless Trump denaturalizes/deports him, or...). The median rent in Manhattan in Jun: $4,625, 7.6% higher than 1year earlier.
The crisis of affordability, in which housing costs loom largest -the issue that Mamdani has addressed most directly & forcibly on the campaign trail -among the issues weighing down the dim re-election prospects of Adams (a# of billionaires: back)
#Democrats #USPol
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-14-mainstream-begins-to-come-to-mamdani/
I saw a handfull of posts by US Americans, detecting backward-ness in Germany's and/or Europe's lack of air conditioning in homes.
They explained it with an alleged fear of technology.
Well, Germany's southernmost latitude in the Alpes(!), is about on the US border to Canada. Range from 47°N to 54°N.
Extreme warm temperatures simply weren't the rule here, before 2018, except for areas in the far South-West.
I grew up on 51°N = Calgary, Canada, in a 2-storey terrace house built 1961 with double glazing, outside blinds, and cellar. We never had hot summers but long, cold winters galore. A ski lift just up the hill.
The US are more like Southern Europe, L.A. or Texas are Northern Africa...
So why do Southern European homes not have AC (yet)?
People in these old-world latitudes had thousands of years of experience with high temperatures and built their houses, villages, cities accordingly.
Thick walls for proper insulation, outside blinds, narrow alleys and backyards keep out the midday sun, awnings across streets or alleys, arch ways along city blocks for shopping streets and the like.
The comparison to US suburbia with thin-walled, low-quality houses makes it clear why some sort of cooling seemed "necessary" already in the cooler past.
And living "in Northern Africa" – without heat-adapted building codes? 🤷🏽♀️
Primo Natura
Matthew Malthouse
Paul Bassett Davies
Kenneth John Bardsley
@GottaLaff
Eric Blair
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
UFW
Kim Perales
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