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Go Green Without the Mafia! Dissolution of Infiltrated City Councils and Environmental Policy
Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Marco Quatrosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18410 https://

Go Green Without the Mafia! Dissolution of Infiltrated City Councils and Environmental Policy
In this article, we study the effects of organized crime infiltration in city councils on environmental policies implemented in Italy at the municipal level. To this purpose, we exploit the exogenous shock of the removal of a city council infiltrated by the mafia and its substitution with an external Commission, allowed in Italy by the law 164/1991. Our results suggest that after dissolution, environmental policies improve in several dimensions: the capital expenditure for sustainable developme…

Ostmulle. Man lernt nie aus!
#Extremismus #noafd
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Social-Media-Trend: Im Reich der Ostmulle
Sie nennen sich Ostmullen und stellen auf TikTok ihre Tattoos, ihre Dekolletés und ihre Weltanschauung aus. Damit machen junge Frauen rechtsextreme Ideologie zu Pop.

Ducks Ltd. ft. Illuminati Hotties - "Head On" (2022)
This is a really nice, jangly cover 🤩
#music #IndieRock #Pixies

Lizzy Schubert, die neuste Nachrückerin von den MdBs von Die Linke, hat der vorherig jüngsten MdB (Luke Hoß, auch von Die Linke) diesen Platz gestohlen.
Witzig mit wem man damals alles vor wenigen Monaten noch auf Kuba war und wer davon dann heute im Bundestag sitzt.
Bravo 👏 https://…

Linke Düsseldorf: Lizzy Schubert zieht in den Bundestag ein
Ab August ist die 22-Jährige das jüngste Mitglied des Parlaments. Die Nachrückerin steht für den klaren Bruch zur Wahlkreis-Vorgängerin Sahra Wagenknecht.

Cognitive Castes: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Stratification, and the Dissolution of Democratic Discourse
Craig S Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14218

Cognitive Castes: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Stratification, and the Dissolution of Democratic Discourse
Artificial intelligence functions not as an epistemic leveller, but as an accelerant of cognitive stratification, entrenching and formalising informational castes within liberal-democratic societies. Synthesising formal epistemology, political theory, algorithmic architecture, and economic incentive structures, the argument traces how contemporary AI systems selectively amplify the reasoning capacity of individuals equipped with recursive abstraction, symbolic logic, and adversarial interrogati…

Okay I'm going to make one of these aluminum shims to try out this desoldering technique. Seems pretty rad!
#solder

Okay I'm going to make one of these aluminum shims to try out this desoldering technique. Seems pretty rad!
#solder

Notably this time they didn’t hit US forces in Iraq. It would be hard to forgive another batch of soldiers with TBIs. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3lsc5eeme3k2z

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
Iran is VERY clearly signaling a desire to deescalate. Whether or not the Trump administration will take the offramp being offered remains to be seen.

From Press Progress
Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests
by Luke LeBrun, Editor
May 16, 2025

Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ+ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests

Ich finde gut, dass die Veranstalter jetzt schon sagen, dass sie die Tradition des Feuerwerks in Frage stellen.
Vier Schwerverletzte bei Feuerwerk auf Düsseldorfer Rheinkirmes - Nachrichten - WDR
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/verletzte-be…

Verletzte bei Feuerwerk auf Düsseldorfer Rheinkirmes
Bei dem Feuerwerk auf der Düsseldorfer Rheinkirmes hat es am Abend mehrere Verletzte gegeben. Das bestätigte die Feuerwehr dem WDR. Mehrere Augenzeugen berichteten, dass Feuerwerkskörper zu tief am Boden explodiert seien.