The author said the election was about the cost of living and everyday economic concerns, including small businesses, rather than abstract and divisive culture-war issues. They said they made the remarks on CNN to Jim Sciutto.
The author shared a quotation attributed to Winston Churchill, saying that democracy was imperfect but preferable to other forms of government that had been tried.
The author argued that meaning would struggle to prevail while algorithms rewarded content that shocked or impressed users into giving it another second of attention. They said they cared about their work retaining its meaning after the shock faded, even if the medium fell out of fashion, while acknowledging they might be wrong.
Shadi Hamid asked whether democracies should, as a matter of principle, allow people who wanted to end democracy to be elected.
The author wrote that old, polluting jet engines were being salvaged and converted into generators to meet the growing electricity demands of AI data centres, and said environmentalists viewed the move as a step backwards.
The author said Apple’s expanded Siri AI was a significant development, citing the company’s announcement that the preview would let any app make its content and actions available through Siri AI using App Intents. They said this indicated Apple was moving away from specific domains and welcomed the shift.
The author wrote that there already existed a "media policeman" and referred to 700,000 people as "thought police." He criticized them for finding it natural to demand the closure of a television channel because they did not like its editorial line, in the name of living together. (translated)
The author reacted incredulously to the assessment that the goalkeeper had already been punished enough. He emphasized that the victim was dead and wrote that without a draconian punishment, one might as well stop the sport altogether. (translated)
The author wrote that people had returned to relying on books rather than nature, despite having been taught since the time of Bacon and Galileo to learn from the natural world. They added that today’s books were written in code.
The author of the post wrote that inflation remained consistently the most important issue for citizens. The post also included references to PASOK and Diamantopoulou. (translated)
The author wrote that it was good to extend the period for vehicles with internal combustion engines and reduce the ambitions of the green transition in the name of competitiveness, as this would allow for a spending of 127 billion euros this year. (translated)
The author wrote that Trump is still pursuing two political goals. One of them is to determine a promising successor who will protect him and his family from prosecution. Unlike other so-called "lame ducks," Trump has thus had an incentive to continue appealing to the electorate. (translated)
Aontú criticised the Return Scheme, claiming that €330 million of public money would go to a “broken” recycling system. It also said the scheme’s CEO had refused to disclose his salary.
The author claimed that those mentioned were not politicians and linked them to organized crime. He also stated that the Government approved in 2025 an order that granted exclusive access to the evolution of mail-in voting during the campaign. (translated)
The author wrote that if the threats had concerned a leftist journalist, the squares would have been full. He also referred to an article about the reasons why, in his opinion, the Islamist threats directed at Cerno were serious. (translated)
The author of the post wrote that Jessica's story, as it was told, sent chills down the spine. He shared an article in which Jessica said she could not cure her cancer and wanted to make it to her children's birthday. (translated)
The author wrote that the Pacific should link Blue Transformation to protect aquatic food systems, anticipatory action ahead of peak impacts and climate finance to expand resilience. They called for earlier prediction, action and financing, and tagged the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The author urged journalists to move from asking “what is a woman” to asking “what is a transgender identity”, arguing that the first question had gone unanswered for ten years and would continue to be.
The author argued that immediacy, clientelism, and populism led to collapse. He stated that governing with only short-term thinking, placing close individuals in key positions, and orienting politics according to propaganda directly resulted in a structural crisis of public services. (translated)
The author wrote that Jim Hansen and his colleagues were repeatedly labelled alarmists, only to be proved 100% right years later. They added that people then forgot and the cycle began again.
