This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06750 has been replaced.
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Canadians: Replace Ardern with Trudeau and use other Canadian touchstones in place of #nzpol and you have an accurate article for Canada.
Which should speak to what Progressives actually need to do here, and everywhere.
"Ardern’s leadership has often been described as emotionally intelligent, compassionate, and people-centred. But compassion is not liberation. Empathy alone does not redistribute wealth, dismantle police power, or decommodify housing. What Ardern perfected was a mode of governance that couched neoliberalism in progressive language. A style of leadership that appeared anti-fascist, anti-racist, and feminist, while presiding over deepening inequality, mass incarceration of Māori, ongoing colonisation, environmental destruction, and a housing system that serves landlords and property speculators.
Ardern’s “politics of kindness” masked a status quo commitment to capitalism and state power. Her government’s housing policies floundered under the weight of market logic. Despite the crisis of homelessness and unaffordability, the Labour government never seriously considered nationalising housing, implementing rent controls, or seizing vacant properties from land-bankers. Instead, they protected the interests of property investors, many of whom were MPs themselves."
#canpoli #cdnpoli #trudeau #Liberal #Ardern
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-cult-of-kindness-the-reality-of-jacinda-arderns-leadership/
The best way to interest children in classical music is to introduce them to compositions liberally punctuated by farts.
Docs and interviews: Media Matters is struggling to survive, having racked up ~$15M in legal fees to defend itself from lawsuits by Elon Musk, the FTC, and AGs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/poli
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First use of large area SiPM matrices coupled with NaI(Tl) scintillating crystal for low energy dark matter search
Edoardo Martinenghi, Valerio Toso, Fabrizio Bruno Armani, Andrea Castoldi, Giuseppe di Carlo, Luca Frontini, Niccol\`o Gallice, Chiara Guazzoni, Valentino Liberali, Alberto Stabile, Valeria Trabattoni, Andrea Zani, Davide D'Angelo
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SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol
Interviews with 45 sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's transformation into "MAGA Mark"; sources say there were talks about Zuckerberg becoming a Trump adviser (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a86f5ca3-f841-4cdc-9376-304e085c4cfd
Podem agradecer aos nazis do Kremlin e aos fascistas da Casa Branca.
https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/114728251909797664