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drudin.bsky.social
Bad musician (but passionate). Not a bad historian (self-assessment, mind you). Good sense for fascistoid attitudes (from Moscow to Mar-A-Lago). Excellent cluelessness in many respects (without exaggeration).
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Diese Szenen sind unerträglich. Aber ich muss immer daran denken, dass 2024 keine Wählergruppe so sehr auf Trump umgeschwenkt ist wie die Latinos. Was haben diese Leute - nach neun Jahren „criminals and rapists“-Rhetorik - nur erwartet? www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sur...

Das nun ist der offene Verfassungsbruch und purer Faschismus: Die US-Regierung plant, den Grundsatz des Habeas Corpus auszusetzen, also das fundamentale Recht einer inhaftierten Person, die Gründe oder Umstände ihrer Inhaftierung von einem Gericht überprüfen zu lassen.

Why is ICE wearing masks? What are they hiding? The Mayor of Newark was arrested at an ICE facility—when elected officials showed up, masked agents roughed them up, including an 80-year-old congresswoman. Why?!

great job Gavin

On today's date in 1945, the last hours of negotiations were held on the military surrender of the Nazi German air, sea and naval forces, which was ultimately complete and unconditional. The surrender was then signed in the early morning of May 7. Interesting visit to Reims, France, by The Guardien:

“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.” (h/t FreightWaves)

Tausende Frauen erscheinen unfreiwillig in täuschend echt aussehenden KI-P0rn*s. Die Täter bleiben straffrei. Wie kann das sein? Auf der #rp25 spricht die Journalistin Marie Bröckling über ihre Deepfake-Recherche. ➡️ re-publica.com/de/news/rp25... #GenXYZ #berlin #festival

Ich lass das mal so stehen

“the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.” ‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison I’m out of words.

«Zusammenfassend dürfte das bedeuten: Der frühere liberale Leucht­turm, gegründet 1780, arbeitet heute gegen seine eigene, festgeschriebene Blatt­linie.» www.republik.ch/2025/04/30/a... @republik.ch #nzz

Wo wir schon bei größten Problemen sind, liebe NZZ: Das größte Problem sind Medien, die Trumps Angriff auf Universitäten und Wissenschaft rechtfertigen und relativieren. Die Aggression wird zum legitimen Korrektiv umgedeutet: Nicht der Brandstifter ist das Problem, sondern die brennbaren Bücher.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

Here’s a solid peace plan: US declares Crimea and all four regions Ukrainian, calls Putin war criminal, labels Russia aggressor—Russia pulls out and pays for the damage it caused

Harvard says no to Trump.

Europa muss raus aus den amerikanischen #Clouds. Dieses Interview mit @berthubert.bsky.social soll aufrütteln. Elon & die US-Regierung möchten alle Daten für ihre #KI-Modelle und die Politiker- Emails aus Europa auf Microsofts Servern wären der logische nächste Schritt... republik.ch/2025/03/31/d...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Want to catch up on all—yes, *all*—the #HandsOff protests this weekend? @donnermaps.bsky.social has collected Bluesky posts of photos from more than 1,100 cities great and small on this interactive map -->

Dieter Schnaas wie immer to the point.

Keep an eye on this story from Texas, with national implications. There’s an open house seat and Governor Abbot is denying its citizens an election.

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

Wofür man in Deutschland einen Aufenthalt bekommt: Profifußball *** Wofür man in Deutschland nicht bleiben darf: Mutig einen bewaffneten Täter verfolgen #Aschaffenburg #Söder

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound ) #MomSky DAY 5 APRIL 2025 TODAY #HandsOff All over our Country & the World THANK YOU SO MUCH PROTESTERS SO VERY PROUD OF YOU SO MANY AMAZING VIDEOS I am choosing to share this Touched my Heart Detroit🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 together just over the river Powerful

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Dear American friends—so encouraging to see crowds turning out &taking a stand for democracy! #HandsOff #April5 And to those of us watching from Europe: let’s finally correct that fact-free narrative that “there’s no resistance” in the US. Street protests are *far more frequent* than during Trump I

Salt Lake City showed up

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I had been reluctant to amplify the theory that Trump's "reciprocal tariff rate" for a given country was based on the dumb calculation: (bilateral trade deficit) divided by (imports from that country) But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Totalitarismus-Experten verlassen die Vereinigten Staaten: "Es ist nicht nur Donald Trump. Es ist die Maschine hinter Donald Trump." https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-03/yale-usa-kanada-timothy-snyder-marci-shore-jason-stanley

Jason Stanley spoke to The Guardian about relocating to Canada: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brynn Tannehill is a senior defense analyst and the author of "American Fascism" is leaving for Canada. www.amazon.com/American-Fas...

Der Exodus beginnt. Timothy Snyder, Autor von Bloodlands und "Über Tyrannei: 20 Lektionen für den Widerstand", einer der bekanntesten Historiker, verlässt die USA. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Mein Dijaspora-Akzent verrät mich, also fragen mich die Leute in Serbien ständig, was die EU und Deutschland zu ihren Protesten für Demokratie und Rechtsstaat sagen. Und jedes Mal schäme ich mich in Grund und Boden, wenn ich antworten muss: Es interessiert sie einfach nicht.

«Die Geschichtswissenschaft ist darauf angewiesen, dass Institutionen wie die Armee ihre Bildprodukte möglichst umfassend in die öffentlichen Archive geben. Davon hängt ab, welche Fragestellungen wir in der Zukunft bearbeiten können.» Darum: Wir brauchen Gegenarchive!

Hallo Bluesky-Community! Wir sind die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft und forschen für die beste der möglichen Welten – interdisziplinär, innovativ und gesellschaftlich relevant. Freut euch auf spannende Einblicke in die Wissenschaft, aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse und die klugen Köpfe dahinter.🧠✨

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”

The Climate team and all @cerege.bsky.social support our numerous American colleagues today. If you feel threatened or hindered in your Climate research in the US and is interested in joining our team, contact @alexislicht.bsky.social to know more about our opportunities.