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So ist es. Btw.: Gudrun Engel ergeht sich seit Monaten in obszönem Sanewashing.

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"That which is unsustainable will not be sustained“ - Dominik Leusder on why tariffs won't solve the economic crisis jacobin.com/2025/01/tari...

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Die extremistische Mitte macht jetzt also schon in öffentlicher Strategieberatung. Die Hindenburg-Koalition kann kommen.

"Christianity never succeeded in America. Most Americans think of themselves as Christians. But the only religion in America that ever flourished was America. And it twists everything into its own image." David Bentley Hart

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Wir haben die Kandidierenden zur Bundestagswahl gefragt, wie sie zu unseren Forderungen stehen. Wer stellt sich hinter unsere Forderung nach einem armutsfesten Mindestlohn? Wer teilt unsere Forderungen beim Thema Rente? Das könnt ihr auf unserer Website nachschauen. 👉 www.verdi.de/kandidatinne...

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Angesichts dessen, was ab Februar auf uns zukommen wird, kann man die Empfehlung, einer Gewerkschaft beizutreten, nur unterstreichen.

Wenn Merz so weiter macht, bringt es noch zum Vizekanzler in einer Hindenburg-Koalition unter Alice Weidel. Respekt!

You know how in the sequel to some horror movies they have to do the exact same thing as the original, and the whole time you are watching it you are thinking, "this is so dumb. No one would be that stupid." This is basically the whole country right now.

Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵

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youtube.com/watch?v=WIvQ... German band TILAR: Jazzfunk from another star. As if Spyro Gyra and Incognito had formed a perfect union. Incredible live performance.

Merkel-worship was liberalism at its worst Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the future, perhaps during one of her Baltic walks, Angela Merkel might reflect that calling her memoir Freedom, as Ukraine fights for…

I never understood Merkel worship even when she was chancellor. She was immensely damaging to Europe as well as to institutions of German democracy. on.ft.com/4f9mBDT

Wendy Brown and I talked about men, mania and MAGA 2.0 for @thedigradio.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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"The paradox ... has been that, where real crises abound, disaster nationalism is enthralled by entirely fictional crises. And, inasmuch as it presents itself as a solution, it is also palpably hankering for a world-shattering, cleansing crisis: bring it on." Richard Seymour Disaster Nationalism

I wrote about Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism and what it might tell us about the next four years in the US. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/11/whe-...

Wenn man die komplexe moralische Semantik unserer europäischen Sprachtraditionen systematisch ausblendet und normative Wertungen nurmehr an der neoliberalen Leitunterscheidung "erfolgreich vs. gescheitert" ausrichtet, kommt halt so etwas dabei heraus.

“Diese Unvereinbarkeit von Mitte und Rechts ist eine Fiktion. Denn beide teilen in ökonomischen Fragen das gleiche Gesellschaftsbild.” Erhellende Analyse von @skaufmann.bsky.social in @ndaktuell.bsky.social zu Rechts/Ökonomie. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1186...

My piece on Toscano, Taylor Swift, and Fascism has been translated into Turkish. terrabayt.com/dusunce/tayl...

www.woxx.lu/italien-als-... Selten präzise Analyse der aktuellen politischen Entwicklungen in Italien durch Georg Seßlen