Anarchism is often called libertarian socialism.

Good point

As with tradition, chaotic good.

I wonder. The non-proportional voting system really sucks for niche parties though.

Maybe something else could be a disability pledge? Although it’s obviously far less effective.

Story of my our life

I’m guessing this is a joke but if it’s true can someone throw me a link?

(bribing).

Didn’t some guy who has a 1 billion stake in Bytedance massively finance the Trump campaign, or am I misremembering?

Yeah I’m aware of that. Axel Springer runs the paper that published the infamous Musk op-ed.

Generally though (despite an obvious current western neoliberal order bias) Politico has been decent in the past (outside of opinion pieces), as a sort of basic way to get general facts, but I fear their quality is declining. I’m personally gradually replacing them with EURACTIV and RFI in my reading habits.

It’s disappointing. As someone who’se worked as a health advocate for a particular disease, she was honestly my favourite NIH director. She genuinely listened and cared and met words with actions.

Her replacement is looking terrible.

Yes it’s a bit weird isn’t it.

Politico seems to be treading more and more into sensationalist titles. Disappointing…

Ditto.

“This far right Us oligarch is so problematic, let’s do buisness with this other far right Us oligarch instead” 🤦

Rather than move to Bluesky, a favored alternative to Musk’s X for many, the defense ministry said it will continue to stream videos and content on Instagram, YouTube and through a WhatsApp channel instead.

The majority of the NIH’s Recover Cohort (the largest studied cohort of people with Long COVID) was vaccinated.

Recent literature reviews put the risk of getting long COVID at about 10% for vaccinated people and 12% for unvaccinated. So definitely it helps, but it really isn’t a miracle. And the studies showing vaccines had a therapeutic effect on long COVID itself failed replication.

The majority of people with Long COVID were vaccinated. (Because the majority of people were vaccinated and vaccination only slightly reduces chances of long COVID).

Also, many long COVID cases happened before the vaccines even came out.

So I don’t think your attitude of victim blaming really works here.

Legislative business in Minnesota’s 2025-2026 state House session began Tuesday at noon Central Time; or perhaps it hasn’t begun at all. It depends whom you ask.

The 66 members of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL)—Minnesota’s affiliate of the national Democratic Party—elected to the lower chamber did not show up Tuesday; these Democrats argue that work can’t begin until after a January 28 special election takes place to fill an open seat in a blue district.

With that seat unfilled, the Republicans lead the chamber 67-66. It’s a temporary advantage the party has vowed to use to try unseating Democratic state representative Rep. Brad Tabke, which could help them cement the GOP’s interim edge for the remainder of the term. Perhaps more importantly, Republicans used the Democrats’ absence on Tuesday to vote in a Republican House speaker.

I applaud your otimism in thinking it will be democratised and not a luxury for wealthy classes.

The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.

If the bus is near full, you’re taking ~40 times less space than you would if you were taking a car, meaning if everyone took the bus, there would be no jam.

This is so confusing.

All I did was share a news article about Musk and Tiktok and then say your dismissal of data privacy as a non-issue is untrue.

And now you’ve strawmanned me to say data privacy issues are unique to tiktok and that I’m in favour of the ban. I never said either of those things. Go find someone else to argue with.

When you’ve got everything in life and all you want to do is live longer.

instead of helping the billions living in squalor and dying premature deaths.