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  1. Mar 2025
  2. Feb 2025
    1. “The big joke on democracy,” he observed, “is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.”

      for - Project 2025 - Trump - Hitler - Atlantic article - quote - Joseph Goebbels - quote - The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction" - Not actually from Joseph Goebbels. He said something similiar though: - We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.

      to - misquote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2Fwiki%2FJoseph_Goebbels&group=world

  3. Nov 2024
    1. One of her colleagues—­­a star professor at Harvard Business School named Francesca Gino—­had just been accused of academic fraud. The authors of the blog post, a small team of business-school researchers, had found discrepancies in four of Gino’s published papers, and they suggested that the scandal was much larger. “We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data,” the blog post said. “Perhaps dozens.”

      Special Preview: January 2025 Issue

      Illustration by Pablo Delcan Science The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger By Daniel Engber

      Juliana Schroeder. a teacher at the UC Berkley business school had a colleague accused of academic fraud.

      (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/business-school-fraud-research/680669/)

  4. Aug 2024
  5. Nov 2023
    1. Die englische Regierung hat in der letzten Oktoberwoche 27 Lizenzen zur Öl- und Gasförderung in der Nordsee vergeben. George Monbiot konfrontiert diese Entscheidung mit aktuellen Erkenntnissen zum sechsten Massenaussterben und dem drohenden Zusammenbruch lebensunterstützender Systeme des Planeten https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/flickering-earth-systems-warning-act-now-rishi-sunak-north-sea

  6. Mar 2021
  7. Oct 2020
    1.  recording it all in a Twitter thread that went viral and garnered the hashtag  #PlaneBae.

      I find it interesting that The Atlantic files this story with a URL that includes "/entertainment/" in it's path. Culture, certainly, but how are three seemingly random people's lives meant to be classified by such a journalistic source as "entertainment?"

  8. May 2020
    1. Margaret Sullivan on Twitter: “.@TheAtlantic to cut staff by 68 positions, or 17 percent, in response to current economy, per chairman David Bradley statement” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://twitter.com/sulliview/status/1263461467262779393

    2. Margaret Sullivan on Twitter: “.@TheAtlantic to cut staff by 68 positions, or 17 percent, in response to current economy, per chairman David Bradley statement” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1263461467262779393

  9. Aug 2019