9) Despite what his opponents claim, Zohran is not a dogmatic extremist but a radical pragmatist. He could not have gotten this far had he not focused on bread-and-butter economic issues, spoken in a commonsense language, ran as a Democrat, dropped his support for defunding the police, and endorsed Brad Lander. Zohran refused to drop his support for democratic socialism or his opposition to Zionist apartheid, but performative ultraleftism was anathema to this campaign.

10) It took a liberal-Left alliance to defeat Cuomo. A huge amount of credit is due to Brad Lander for being a man of principle who refused to punch left. At the same time, Zohran smartly rejected a widespread leftist tendency to treat liberals and liberalism only as ideological competitors to be fought. Look at how he adopted the best parts of the “abundance agenda,” how he cross-endorsed Lander, and how he framed his criticisms of Israel in the language of liberal equal rights. Leftists can’t defeat the old establishment — let alone overcome the Right — on their own. And mutuality cuts both ways: we can’t ally with liberals only when we’re in the lead.

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-cuomo/

China’s installations of wind and solar in May are enough to generate as much electricity as Poland, as the world’s second-biggest economy breaks further records with its rapid buildup of renewable energy infrastructure.

China installed 93 GW of solar capacity last month – almost 100 solar panels every second, according to an analysis by Lauri Myllyvirta, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute. Wind power installations reached 26 GW, the equivalent of about 5,300 turbines.

While estimates for the amount of power generated by solar panels and wind turbines vary depending on their location and weather conditions, Myllyvirta calculated that May’s installations alone could generate as much electricity as Poland, Sweden or the United Arab Emirates.

Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Two days ago, Israeli media outlet Haaretz published testimonies from IDF soldiers and officers, confirming previous reports that the murder of Palestinian civilians who are seeking aid is systematic and a deliberate policy of the IDF, and even has a name, 'Operation Salted Fish'

Israeli soldiers have killed at least 570 civilians and injured over 4,000 as they were seeking aid at the GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) distribution sites.

Additionally, Israel has been lacing the flour bags at aid distribution sites with Oxycodone.

Israel has previously been confirmed to have funded, trained, and armed ISIS-affiliated gangs in Gaza to loot the aid trucks.

Furthermore, the death toll of 56,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, murdered by Israel has been found by researchers as 'significantly underreported.' In January 2025, experts found that at least 75,000 people were killed by Israeli munitions, with the toll being estimated to be close to 100,000 by now.

Similarly, 'The Lancet' medical publication found the deaths to be underreported by 40%.

A recent map published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs showed a reduction of more than 200,000 in Gaza's population.

@Middle_East_Spectator

The first two decades of the century witnessed a steady increase in technology integration (or less decoupling), but China’s dependence on the U.S. increased (decreased) during the first (second) decade. Decoupling in a technology field predicts China’s growing dependence on U.S. technology, which, in turn, predicts less decoupling further down the road. Decoupling is associated with more patent outputs in China, but lower firm productivity and valuation. China’s innovation-oriented industrial policies trade off the inherent conflict between indigenous innovation and firm competitiveness.

https://voxchina.org/show-3-261.html

1. Patents that are important for innovation in that they shift the knowledge frontier have become much less important on average, reflecting an overall decline in innovativeness and increase in crowdedness of patenting in China.
2. There is positive growth in the number of breakthrough patents in China (those with the greatest importance), but this growth has declined steadily over time.
3. Knowledge within China has become more important than knowledge outside China for driving the direction of innovation in China.
4. Knowledge produced by Chinese entities within China has become more important than knowledge produced by foreign entities within China.

https://voxchina.org/show-3-405.html

All major asset classes in China have significant higher volatilities than their counterparts in the US market, but they do not always yield larger returns. Small-company stocks, short-, medium-, and long-term treasury bonds outperform their US counterparts, while large stocks underperform and long-term enterprise bonds yield similar returns.

https://voxchina.org/show-3-282.html

Liberal commentators, like Krugman and others, tell us that MAGA wants to destroy science, that scientific facts disrupt their political prejudices, that what we are witnessing is nothing more than a celebration of ignorance. They call it a war on science. It may indeed be a war, but it is not science that is the target. The dramatic reorganization of the conventions of scientific research that we are currently witnessing instead fulfills a very different aim, namely, to continue to disenfranchise socially and economically marginalized populations and communities. So let us call this what it has always been: class war. To that end, science as such is not the object of antagonism; the people are. Science has simply become a preeminent tool for political and economic oppression. For this is all that science is: a craft to be deployed for whatever ends we assign it.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/scientific-methods-bassiri?utm_source%3Drss-feed%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dfeed

"As the global gap between rich and poor countries continues to widen, one out of every three countries in the world is spending more repaying creditors than on health or education"

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/financing-for-development-seville-conference-how-to-fix-global-debt-architecture-by-carlos-cuerpo-and-joseph-e-stiglitz-2025-07