The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009.

Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.I27_.RXJpxEQcJXSI&smid=nytcore-ios-share

China added a Germany-sized electricity grid last year.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/china-added-a-germany-sized-electricity-grid-last-year

#china #cleanenergy #news

The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace. A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 which is 10 times the amount added just four years prior.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/world-installing-grid-batteries

#worldnews #cleanenergy #technology #news

Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

#OpenWashing

Late Victorian Holocausts details the catastrophic effects on local populations of decisions and policies made by European imperial powers during the 19th Century.

Focussing on such areas as Bengal and Brazil shows how the functioning of international capitalism lead to the deaths of millions of people through induced famines.

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/1719-late-victorian-holocausts

#history #capitalism

Didn't hit a school or a hospital for that matter.

#iran #israel #warcrimes #us #uspol #eu #eupol #palestine

"Pour que jamais, sur ce continent, un quai ne redevienne le point de départ vers l’abîme" : la présidente de l’Assemblée nationale Yael Braun-Pivet s’est rendue à Łódź, en Pologne, pour une visite consacrée à la coopération européenne.

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Des frappes de l’armée israélienne menées sur la ville d’al-Qaouzah, au sud du Liban, ont visé une position des casques bleus de la Force intérimaire des Nations unies au Liban (Finul).

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