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Deborah Kalte

@kalte.ch
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Political scientist with experience in political consumerism and conducting surveys

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners
Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Es droht die Wahl eines rechtsextremen Ministerpräsidenten. Im DLF Interview geht es stattdessen um Enteignungen, Neukölln und Wahlpartys. Der ÖRR versagt seit Jahren in seiner Verantwortung für die Demokratie. Kritik perlt ab. Kein Diskurs, keine Reflexion. Einfach weiter so. Bis zur Abschaffung.
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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is one of those headlines where, though they are becoming more and more common, it requires such a leap of imagination for normal people, that the scale of it is is hard to communicate. It’s like our world is screaming at us, but it’s in a frequency most of us can’t hear.
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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Es gab diese Geschichte von dem Typen, der mehrere Katzen adoptiert hat, weil sie immer wieder ausgebüchst sind und von Kojoten gefressen wurden. Sein Nachbar bemerkte: "An dieser Stelle füttern Sie einfach Kojoten mit Katzen." Jedenfalls, das ist was die Regierung mit Steuergeld an Ölkonzerne tut.
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, as nice as this might sound, this is only partly true. More importantly, it mixes up many myths surrounding Swiss direct democracy. 👇
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Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck
Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US has successfully negotiated away a requirement that humans review any decisions that AI makes about who to kill in military strikes as part of a UN treaty. The real existential risk from AI is putting a fundamentally unreliable technology at the heart of critical decisions or infrastructure.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Microplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through the soil, a five-year multinational research project has found. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins
Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
From someone who knows @casmudde.bsky.social
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
«Eine Studie von US-Ökonom Daron Acemoğlu rechnet vor, wie Regierungen auf drohende Unruhen durch KI-bedingte Ungleichheit reagieren würden. Das Ergebnis: Ab einem bestimmten Automatisierungsgrad wird Unterdrückung für Staaten kostengünstiger als Umverteilung.» www.fr.de/wirtschaft/k...
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Ökonom warnt vor KI-Folgen: Staaten setzen eher auf Repression als auf Umverteilung
Eine Studie von US-Ökonom Daron Acemoğlu rechnet vor, wie Regierungen auf drohende Unruhen durch KI-bedingte Ungleichheit reagieren würden. Das Ergebnis: Ab einem bestimmten Automatisierungsgrad wird ...
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Erschütterndes Interview mit Gletscherforscher Matthias Huss: Die Rekordschmelze der Alpengletscher verschleiert derzeit die Wasserlage der Flüsse. Wenn die alpinen Wasserreservoire in einigen Jahren weggeschmolzen sind, werden im Sommer die Pegel von Flüssen und Seen noch stärker sinken als jetzt.
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Wegen Hitzewelle: „In diesem Sommer werden wir viele weitere Gletscher verlieren“
Die Gletscher in den Alpen schmelzen so schnell wie nie, trotzdem fehlt im Rhein das Wasser. In den kommenden Jahren wird sich die Lage verschärfen, sagt der Gletscherforscher Matthias Huss.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 03/08/2026
I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 01/08/2026
“Zusammenfassung: Die Europäer haben auf eine Bedrohung von außen nicht gemeinsam reagiert, sondern sind übereinander hergefallen. Der gestrige Tag war ein schwarzer Tag für Europa und ein Fest für seine Feinde.” www.zeit.de/politik/2026...
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Ceuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde Europas
Die Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf.
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Fossil Free Culture NL @fossilfreeculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Rahmstorf: “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Insane satellite imagery. This is the change from May to July. Europe has cooked. (🎥 Colin McCarthy)
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Ingmar Rentzhog @ingmar.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2026
What’s happening in our oceans right now will affect every one of us. I wrote a long-read article in Forbes explaining why. If you want to understand what the graph below really means for your future, I recommend reading it. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/07/2026
Some notable exceptions but my impression:
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/07/2026
Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.
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Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto
A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One of the biggest misunderstandings of politics in our time is that the Left has become all about identity politics. The opposite is the case. The Left has (nearly everywhere) completely given up on shaping, representing, and mobilizing identities. Instead, the far right has successfully done it.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We absolutely cannot normalize wildfires everywhere and excess deaths from heatwaves. It’s going to get way worse as long as we keep burning fossil fuels.
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At least 12,000 excess deaths in Europe's June heatwave: AFP analysis
At least 12,000 excess deaths were recorded across nine European countries during June's heatwave, national statistics indicated, a toll that could yet rise as more data is released, according to an…
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The silence of most European governments about these heatwaves is confusing. As if this was only ‘weather’ that just so happens. Denial comes in so many flavours.
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World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
💧 No doubt you've noticed the humidity: a remarkable 45% of 854 cities across 30 European countries have broken, or are expected to break, their all-time Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) record. WBGT is a measure of heat stress and the body’s ability to cool itself through sweat evaporation. (2/6)
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Maybe this should have been the cover for Anti-fascist Economics!?
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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Man muss kein träumerischer Klassenkämpfer sein, um die gleichzeitige Existenz eines Billionärs und 673 Millionen hungerleidender Menschen als pervers zu empfinden. Erst recht, wenn dieser für Kürzungen von Hilfen für die Ärmsten mitverantwortlich ist. Dafür reicht ein Mindestmaß an Anstand.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The @republik.ch wins on 22 of 23 counts. Was that one item really worth the Streisand effect of this court case?
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Trump administration wants to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Trump administration is trying to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests | Charles F Sams III
The bipartisan Roadless Rule is under fire. It’s just one way Trump could make our public lands unrecognizable
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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Going through a box of old slides I found this view of the Mer de Glace taken from the terrace at Montenvers on a family holiday in August 1976. I'm the teenager by the railing carrying a small backpack. I had no idea of the amount of change that would take place here in my lifetime.
Scene showing people on a terrace with striped tables in the foreground and a wide glacier curving away into the distance behind.
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Grave Robber-tson 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026
are you just going to do this for every generation
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Felix Neff @felixneff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📄Out now 📄: 90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲
A combined figure with figure panels from the publication. One panel (panel a) showing the trends in Switzerland-wide relative richness of butterflies and saproxylic beetles, with clear declines of butterflies until the 1980s and declines followed by increases for the saproxylic beetles. The other panel (panel b) shows trends of relative species richness for the two insect groups divided by different traits. In the upper part of the figure, groups are built based on the habitat specialisation of the species and it is evident in both groups, that habitat specialists declined strongest. In the lower part of the figure, groups are built based on temperature niche of the species and it is evident that while warm-adapted species have declined strongest until the 1980s, they have clearly reversed their trends and are now increasing strongly.A photo of Lycaena virgaureae, a species with specialised food resources that has mostly disappeared from the Swiss lowlands in the last 90 yearsA photo of Aromia moschata, a longhorn beetle that has become rare in the mid 20th century, but which has increased in recent decades
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So erkennst du KI-Texte auf Social Media 🧵 
Es gibt kein einzelnes Merkmal, an dem sich KI-Texte auf Social Media zuverlässig erkennen lassen. Aber es gibt Marker, die in Kombination auffällig sind. Sieben davon, die mir auf Bluesky regelmäßig begegnen.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead. Chart via @patrickkaczmarczyk.bsky.social
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Habe zuletzt viel darüber nachgedacht, wie wir den Fokus auf Vermüllungskrise und Biodiversitätskrise lenken können, wenn uns doch der Blick auf die Klimakrise schon abhanden kommt www.br.de/nachrichten/...
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Forscher warnen: Das größte Erbe der Menschheit wird Müll sein
Textilienberge in der Wüste, kilometergroße Plastikstrudel in den Meeren, Abfalldeponien an Land, Atommüll-Lager unter Tage: Müll ist allgegenwärtig. So sehr, dass er aus Sicht von Forschenden buchstä...
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
“To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me” - Dr. Levke Caesar, co-lead of Planetary Boundaries Science Lab
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World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Went to an exhibit of pollinators art in @cmu.edu's botanical library and was utterly undone by the linework in this illustration of a fly's head, by an unknown 17th century engraver (seriously, LOOK AT THOSE COMPOUND EYES) #sciart
A book in a display case, open to a two-page illustration showing a ridiculously detailed engraving of a fly's head.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Wow. “NASA's EPIC camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. This view shows the fully illuminated ‘dark side’ of the moon never visible from Earth.” www.planetary.org/space-images...
Moon in between the camera and the Earth, dark side visible.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby: * albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny) * mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins * terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness
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