@docslacker

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Like I've said before, I have opinions.

🔸Unemployment at record lows
🔸Easing inflation
🔸Private consumption and investment growth picking up

Despite an adverse environment, European Commission's latest forecast shows 🇪🇺 economy is steadily recovering with GDP growth in 2024 at 0.9% accelerating to 1.5% in 2025 and 1.8% in 2026.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_5787

Another #book recommendation: Liu Cixin’s 3 Body Problem. Like all good #ScienceFiction it uses the genre to address societal problems.

Not even The Onion could have predicted this headline

Happy Thursday. ❤️

What did I say last week? Many of those Free Palestine protesters breaking the demonstration ban this week are European without double citizenship and don’t have to worry about repercussions beyond being put on a bus and driven away by the police. But the permission structure that they create harms other communities. Oh, and the conservative and far right parties are now considering pushing out the #Amsterdam mayor. https://nltimes.nl/2024/11/14/dutch-govt-promises-investigate-many-far-reaching-measures-anti-semitism
Dutch gov't promises to investigate many far-reaching measures against anti-Semitism

The Dutch government is committed to fighting anti-Semitic violence with far-reaching measures, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said in a parliamentary debate on violence in Amsterdam last week.

NL Times
Another #Book recommendation: Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. Damn, I wished I had first read that book in my teens and not discovered it in my forties.

"We will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X. We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."

https://buff.ly/4hLmYHe

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

The Guardian
A fundigelical as US ambassador to Israel, you know, the kind that believes that Israel getting back its biblical borders will back Jesus
A FoxNews host as.... Secretary of Defence.
The FO part of FA is coming so quickly.
#FAFO #USPolitics

Via Marc Elias:

If you are a Democrat who is spending time attacking Kamala Harris or her campaign rather than focusing on the fight ahead, you aren't helping anyone.

“Nothing mattered more than this: Donald Trump was returned to power by the most badly informed electorate in modern American history.”

@willbunch in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trust-mainstream-media-2024-election-20241110.html?id=bpjtJ3uwA0BYL&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral#loaded

2024’s other big loser? The mainstream media. Is there any path forward?

As an electorate besieged by disinformation turned to Trump, trust in traditional media has imploded. What comes next?

The Philadelphia Inquirer

If Nazis didn't vote for Democrats, it's Democrats' fault?
If racists didn't vote for Democrats, it's Democrats' fault?
If bigots didn't vote for Democrats, it's Democrats' fault.
If misogynists didn't vote for Democrats, it's Democrats' fault?

Maybe we should be blaming the Nazis, racists, bigots and misogynists and not the Democrats? Just a thought.