We Do Not Want To Flourish
U.S. Destroys Drug Boat in the Pacific as Trump Expands Anti-Narco Offensive: The Pentagon has not disclosed the location or the name of the organization linked to the destroyed vessel. Given that Venezuela only has a Caribbean coast, the four-engine fast boat most likely departed one of Colombia’s many ports along the Pacific litoral. - City Paper Bogota
Catherine Connolly: the outspoken leftwinger set to be Ireland’s next president: The presidency is a largely ceremonial post, but opponents worry Connolly could offend Ireland’s European allies and shudder at what she might say to Donald Trump. She has accused Nato of warmongering, likened Germany’s arms spending to the 1930s, voted against EU treaties and said Hamas is “part of the fabric of the Palestinian people”. - Guardian
Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”
Bolivia’s 2025 election wasn’t decided by voters — it was decided decades ago in boardrooms, embassy back channels, and IMF conference rooms. Rodrigo Paz’s victory is just the latest chapter in a story as old as colonialism itself: when the global poor control something the global rich want, “democracy” suddenly needs a helping hand. - Medium
Coal use hit a record high around the world last year despite efforts to switch to clean energy, imperilling the world’s attempts to rein in global heating.The share of coal in electricity generation dropped as renewable energy surged ahead. But the general increase in power demand meant that more coal was used overall, according to the annual State of Climate Action report, published on Wednesday. - The Guardian
Louvre Theft: The erosion of cultural stewardship under the weight of bureaucracy, spectacle, and historical amnesia has exposed a deeper illusion: that Western museums can indefinitely guard what was never truly theirs. It is an assumption they have long relied upon, one now cracking under the pressure of public scrutiny and historical reckoning. In an age when empires are being re-examined and calls for repatriation are growing louder, not every cultural object can, or should, remain behind glass. - Hyperallergic
NDP led Manitoba now leads Canada for same-day and next-day access to primary care
The impasse of the political field is what constrains it, nothing else. There is no technocratic or any other solution to the contradictions contained within it. Political leaders ignorant of this invent an object, for example immigrants, as the barrier to their perfect technocratic system. But it is a barrier they never want removed, because then it would lay bare their failure.
Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars
Rents for poorest tenants increased more than twice as much as rents for rich tenants since 2021
