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🧵 Today’s Exchequer numbers reflect the fundamental strength of our economy and a labour market that has been running at full capacity for the last 4½ years, the longest stretch of ‘full employment’ in the history of the State. https://t.co/43QH9pB6QG #Exchequer #Economy #FullEmployment #IE

🚨🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea agree deal in principle to sign Lamine Camara from AS Monaco, here we go! 💣 Fee worth €55m and authorization to travel for medical. Initial agreement done now running in order to complete medical and formal steps in time. https://t.co/DuCBSuZBiN #ChelseaFC #LamineCamara #TransferNews #FR #GB

Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) and related gender ideological-belief measures were strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) was not simply standing in for being politically left-wing” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Support for coercion, punishment, and violence appears to be tied less to liberalism generally than to an authoritarian disposition organized around left-wing ideological content” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Gender ideology may supply authoritarian psychology with a structured map of perceived outgroups, threat sources, and oppressor classes” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Dissent becomes not a legitimate position but a failure of professional duty or an act of harm” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “The same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left”- Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Violence can come to seem permissible or necessary” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Three findings pull in the same direction. People who strongly endorse gender ideology positions score dramatically higher on left-wing authoritarianism than their political identity alone would predict. Furthermore, both LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) and CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) predicted support for political violence” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Together, these findings support the paper's core claim: gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and—in those already disposed toward force—that violence is legitimate” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “One mechanism by which clinical content may translate into violence permission deserves note. Trans-Genocide Belief—the perceived likelihood that a genocide of individuals that identify as transgender is currently underway in the United States—is predicted to more strongly relate to CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) and LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) than to political identity and to be associated with elevated justification for political violence” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “This prediction is consistent with broader research showing that perceived threat, existential threat, and collective victimhood can increase support for hardline, punitive, or exclusionary action against outgroups, particularly when paired with authoritarian dispositions or strong moral conviction (Armaly & Enders, 2022; Carriere et al., 2022; Hirschberger et al., 2016; Kljajić et al., 2025; Schori-Eyal et al., 2014; Skitka, 2010)” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Related work on moralization and violent intergroup conflict further suggests that when a political conflict is framed as a moral emergency involving dangerous or demonized outgroups, violence can come to seem permissible or necessary (Mooijman et al., 2018; Saguy & Reifen-Tagar, 2022)” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “The practical stakes are straightforward. Research frameworks for understanding authoritarianism have historically focused overwhelmingly on the political right, while analogous left-wing pathways have received far less attention. Yet federal agencies and public safety officials are concerned not only with ideology in the abstract, but with radicalization pathways: the content that tells people who to fear, why the situation is urgent, and when force becomes acceptable” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology “This study suggests that the same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left, and that it may be running through institutional channels—clinical guidelines, professional standards, credentialed expertise—that current threat-detection frameworks are not well designed to recognize” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature. This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Both LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) and CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) were significantly positively correlated with justification for political violence across all six targets” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Our main findings for youth starting treatment with blockers include: At baseline, about one-quarter of these youth had clinically concerning scores for depression and anxiety. About one-quarter reported having thought about suicide, and 8% reported having attempted suicide in the past. These numbers are on par with the population of middle school youth at large” - The Trans Youth Care - United States “Our main findings for youth starting treatment with GAH include: At baseline, about half of these youth had clinically concerning scores for depression and anxiety. About two-thirds reported having thought about suicide, and one-quarter reported having attempted. By two years after starting GAH, these youth showed increased scores for life satisfaction, appearance congruence (having the physical appearance of one's body match one's gender identity), positive emotions, and psychological well-being and decreased scores for depression and anxiety” - The Trans Youth Care - United States

🇪🇺 EUROPE NEEDS A LABOUR MARKET REVOLUTION Europe is running out of workers, companies cannot find staff, families struggle to combine children and careers, and governments still punish work with some of the highest taxes in the world. The answer is not more bureaucracy. The https://t.co/VuVgLMSL1o #LabourMarket #Europe #WorkRevolution #EU

🇪🇺 EUROPE NEEDS A LABOUR MARKET REVOLUTION Europe is running out of workers, companies cannot find staff, families struggle to combine children and careers, and governments still punish work with some of the highest taxes in the world. The answer is not more bureaucracy. The https://t.co/4ddnUOTL2t #LabourMarket #Europe #WorkRevolution #EU

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35 years of independence for Ukraine 🇺🇦 We stand firmly by Ukraine's side with concrete actions: 🇪🇺 Over €220 billion in overall support. 🇪🇺 Protection granted to over 4 million people. 🇪🇺 Emergency equipment delivered to keep power grids, schools, and hospitals running. https://t.co/h4lFfbmxzz #StandWithUkraine #SupportUkraine #IndependenceDay #UA #EU

🇰🇷 South Korea's exports adjusted for working-day differences were still up 61.5% year over year in the first 20 days of August, after already running at roughly +63% in July. Behind that headline, the sheer strength of the current AI cycle is what really stands out. 📈 The https://t.co/4DZFTugKJ4 #SouthKorea #Exports #AI #KR

Korean 30Y bond yield are at 4.79%, its highest level in history as KOSPI is down 27% from its peak. Meanwhile, the Envy of the World Economy is running 30-year 'safe haven' dollar hegemony bonds at 5.31% yield. I mean, yeah, things are going so swimmingly... #KoreanBonds #FinancialMarkets #EconomyInsights #KR #US

The Kremlin is clearly alarmed by the popularity of Russia’s Yabloko party, which is running on an anti-war platform. The decision to bar the party from running on party lists, as well as the severe sentence imposed on Yabloko’s deputy chairman Lev Shlosberg, show that Russia’s #Yabloko #Russia #AntiWar #RU

“In internen Nachrichten prahlte sie damit, eine „Schattenregierung“ im FBI zu führen: „I am basically running a shadow government inside the FBI right now.“ Die Round-River-Operation lief bis in den Wahlkampf 2020 hinein und diente erkennbar dem Zweck, das negative Ukraine-Narrativ gegen die Bidens zu neutralisieren, während Joe Biden als Präsidentschaftskandidat antrat. Die freigegebenen Dokumente zeigen kein aktives Ermitteln der Vorwürfe, sondern deren systematische Entwertung. Sie belegen, wie Behörden Informationen, die ihnen vorlagen, so behandelten, dass sie vor der Öffentlichkeit und dem Kongress als unglaubwürdig erschienen – obwohl der Laptop bereits authentifiziert war und mehrere Informanten über Jahre hinweg dieselben Kernvorwürfe geliefert hatten.” https://t.co/nEtReztkG5 #FBI #ShadowGovernment #UkraineNarrative

Sky News' investigation reveals how GPS data shared by over 1,300 U.S. military personnel on Strava, a running app, has allowed Iran to reconstruct the routines and movements of American forces in the Middle East, with direct implications for security and military strategy. (translated)

What does it actually mean to live from music in Estonia? For an independent musician, the answer is more complicated than it sounds. I have recently been fortunate enough to experience something that many musicians dream of: I can live from my music. I compose, produce, perform, write, run a music label and organise concerts. After years of combining music with other jobs, I finally have the freedom to make my living from the thing I have always wanted to do. It sounds wonderful. Well, it is wonderful. But it is also a struggle that is rarely visible from the outside. As an independent artist and entrepreneur, I do not simply receive money for making music. I have to create that income through my company, pay the costs of running the business, pay taxes, and then pay myself a salary. There is no employer absorbing the administrative and financial burden behind my work. I am simultaneously the artist, producer, promoter, employer and employee. At the moment, my income is modest. I pay myself roughly €900 because that is what my business can realistically sustain. Yet for my company to pay me that amount, the actual cost is around €1,370. Approximately €470 goes towards social tax and other mandatory employment related payments. And this comes after VAT has already taken its share of my business activity. That is the part of the discussion that is often missing when we talk about taxation. #estonia #estonianculture #music #tax #eutax #musictax #concert https://tunitemusic.com/post/an-independent-artists-view-of-estonias-24-vat/