So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Wait, *another* one?
Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.
Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
... de l'Iran ? je leur souhaite bien du plaisir...
Climate targets achieved on paper while domestic net emissions keep rising ↗️
In our latest blog post we examine how #Article6 is being implemented in 3 key countries and outline risks that could undermine climate ambition – unless safeguards are set.
Read the full piece🔗 bit.ly/408xjpd
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, says politicians must stop prioritising “socially and ecologically destructive growth” that only increases the profits of the world’s richest individuals and corporations.
L’Etat a versé 79 millions d’euros au concessionnaire de l’A69 alors que le chantier de l’autoroute contestée avait été interrompu par la justice pendant trois mois en 2025. « Totalement extravagant », dénoncent les opposants vert.eco/articles/let...
Picture of an industrian chimney emitting smoke with text:"Transformation is a reordering of capital, infrastructure and income streams. It is about who pays, who benefits and who owns." Till Kellerhoff, Director at Earth4All and Ken Webster, Visiting Professor at Cranfield University
Till Kellerhoff and Ken Webster delve into how carbon pricing needs to be embedded into a broader fiscal architecture that addresses rents, ownership and distribution, for it to be fair and successful ➡️ vist.ly/4ttak
🚮 L'actualité nous déprime ? Objectivement, il y a de quoi. Comment garder le cap et essayer de se concentrer sur ce qui compte ? Comment faire avancer les choses dans le marasme et la guerre ? Voici 5 chouettes idées portées par des invités du 2e Festival des idées Chaleur humaine (1/8)
The United States is now a predatory hegemon—a dominant great power that “views all bilateral relations as inherently zero-sum and seeks to extract the greatest possible benefits from each one,” writes Stephen Walt.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
In the Financial Times, senior trade writer Alan Beattie argues that, in light of the Iran war, a “growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US”
via @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/8dc2...
Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout
Employees at Alphabet and OpenAI are pushing for stricter limits on the military’s use of AI, through a number of letters that are circulating at tech companies.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/a...
Careful, there is a typo in your tweet that could be wrongly construed as a revealing slip of the pen ;)
Précision: ce chiffre représente le "coût total"... des dommages directs uniquement - il ne prend pas en compte les pertes indirectes liées aux impacts sur l'offre, la demande, les chaînes d'approvisionnement, ni les pertes de revenus (par ex celles des travailleurs saisonniers dans l'agriculture)
That YouGov poll yesterday:
Britain's working age population 18-65:
🟢Green 26%
🟣Reform 21%
🔴Labour 16%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🔵Tories 13%
Britain's retired population 65+:
🟣Reform 33%
🔵Tories 26%
🔴Labour 15%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🟢Green 6%
Only one EU leader has dared to directly challenge U.S. President Donald Trump over a war against Iran, calling it unjustified, dangerous and illegal:
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Spanish PM Sanchez said Spain will not support actions that harm peace or contradict its values, responding to Trump's trade threats over Spain's refusal to grant US military base access. Sanchez said world politics must not be built on bombs and conflicts. #Iran
maybe, but it would greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the risk that Reform UK gets a majority...
Democracies should not be afraid of having a Parliament that actually represents the people. (including thise elites don't like), and PR is the best way to achieve this
Also, seen from outside, fun, messy haircuts are very much associated with the UK - and this was the case even before BoJo
The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.
We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
anything that is rude has to be French, I guess ;)
Mercredi, sur le chantier de l’autoroute A69, des engins de travaux ont été aperçus sur une parcelle censée avoir été évacuée par Atosca après une décision judiciaire de janvier. Les opposant·es dénoncent un passage en force du concessionnaire.
vert.eco/articles/la-...
Trump's’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats
This does not include general corporate tax cuts that are likely to bolster those firms as well
thehill.com/policy/energ...
Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.
“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."
Anthropic rewrote its AI safety framework and the core message is blunt: no single developer can unilaterally prevent catastrophic AI risk.
Full breakdown at Risk Market News ⬇️
www.riskmarketnews.com/anthropic-sa...
"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible.
"When Gallup asked Americans during the 2008 recession how many wanted to leave the U.S., the answer was one in 10. Last year: One in five."
To bypass clogged interconnection queues, the tech industry is undertaking a rapid buildout of onsite gas power. But why not build onsite renewables? @michael-thomas.bsky.social explains how Google is doing just that in Texas in a new partnership with AES Clean Energy.
30 years.
This video should be on every network.
