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Jetzt erst entdeckt: Was ist Postfaschismus, von Sven Reichardt, Soziopolis www.soziopolis.de/was-ist-post... (sowie EN JHIBlog www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/04/w...)

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„Die Kacke ist am dampfen“, Harald Welzer

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Dies ist ein echter tweet einer echten Bundesbehörde.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Wisst ihr wie viele Menschen an deutschen Grenzen in den letzten 4 Wochen zurückgewiesen wurden? 160. Noch mal in Worten: Hundertsechzig. Für diese lächerliche, herzlose & illegale Symbolpolitik hat die Koalition also den Rechtsstaat beschädigt. Es gibt keine Migrationskrise. Es gibt eine CDU-Krise.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

submitted 2 days ago • 231 comments

The menswear guy has responded to JD Vance, who suggested he should be deported.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

The far right mega-influencers marching in lockstep.Using the LA protests to drive one message, repeated nearly verbatim: "time to ban all third world immigration, legal or illegal." This is what a disciplined, ethnonationalist propaganda campaign looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 4 days ago • 1157 comments

Da der Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien heute in der SZ eine steinreiche Autorin und einen im ÖRR allgegenwärtigen Kabarettisten als Opfer einer "Empörungskultur" präsentiert, möchte ich als Referenz an einen Fall erinnern, an dem jemand tatsächlich durch öffentliche Vorverurteilung ihrer...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

submitted 11 days ago • 547 comments

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 465 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 13 days ago • 1123 comments

Easily the best and most important read on LLMs I've seen in a long time: "It is all the more crucial to see, then, that what is taken for intelligence is instead an unimaginably large cultural document, a record of human beliefs, actions, and communications." (h/t @bildoperationen.bsky.social)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

NYT: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans (Gift Link) “Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

The US scientific enterprise is about to collapse unless we do something about it.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

If you use Telegram now’s probably a good time to stop. Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app. xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

After being antagonistic to media outlets for the better part of the last 12 months, Musk is starting to do interviews with handpicked reporters and online personalities. It’s a strategy that he has turned to in the past (see 2018 Tesla “production hell”) when he wants to change the narrative.

submitted 16 days ago • 52 comments

🚨You should read this official State Dept post bc it foreshadows a major fight: Zuckerberg & Musk want 🇪🇺 regulators off their backs. Trump & Vance want to help AfD, Le Pen, and the global populist right. So they are reframing tech regulation as tyranny & censorship. open.substack.com/pub/statedep...

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

It‘s Sunday. Act accordingly.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

In diesem Artikel wird übrigens dokumentiert, was die ersten schweren Zusammenstöße von Merz mit der sozio-ökonomischen Realität so an Erkenntnisgewinn bei ihm auslösen & das ist deutlich interessanter als die Empörung der Accounts, die ihn ungelesen herumreichen. www.n-tv.de/politik/Merz...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

„Der Wettbewerb um Spitzenforschung und internationale Sichtbarkeit ist spannender denn je!“ Äh ja, „spannend“ für die, die weiter Zeit, Energie & Nerven investieren (müssen), um da „mitzuspielen“. Das hier ist keine Gameshow. Und es geht auch um berufliche Existenzen! #ExitExzellenz #IchBinHanna

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today. Subject: Island of Strangers? Mr Starmer, Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

So if you are a EU citizen would you do me a favor and sign this petition to ban "conversion therapy" throughout Europe? Thanks https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

submitted 29 days ago • 76 comments

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

submitted 39 days ago • 200 comments

Erinnert ihr euch noch an zu Guttenbergs „Kairos der Fertigstellung“? Jetzt also „essayistische Texturen“. Dieses quasi-bildungssprachliche Geklingel muss sein, weil zum konservativen Ideal die Zugehörigkeit zu gebildeten Kreisen gehört. Es sind Diebstahl und Schludrigkeit mit Einstecktuch.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Wolfram Weimers Manifest ist voller schlimmer Aussagen, aber diese Metapher toppt fast alles: „Der Zweite Weltkrieg wirkte für das koloniale Selbstbewusstsein wie ein Verbrennungsofen der europäischen Ansprüche – machtpolitischer, wirtschaftlicher, kultureller und moralischer Natur.”

submitted 39 days ago • 105 comments