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If I ever had a son, I'd call him Karl Max. Just to confuse people. PhD, political sociologist @TU Dresden Party programs, social&political theory, the concept of solidarity she/her 🇵🇱 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 Слава Україні! Find me elsewhere:linktr.ee/martakozlowska
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Aus der endlosen Serie „Rechte kopieren heißt an Rechte verlieren“; Exempel 3487.

CDU unter 30% AfD unter 20% BSW raus FDP raus Das wär schon prima 🙏

I pulled an all-nighter to complete the text (it was a late commission, and I should have said no, but well...) but I made it. Sent at 6 a.m. My profile of Alice Weidel, the gently smiling and smooth talking extremist, and her role in normalizing the far-right German AfD. oko.press/alice-weidel...

I like this game. So, that's my version of the German voter as distracted boyfriend meme.

"When it came to personal harassment, there was a clear gender dimension." The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.

We don't even have half of the songs yet but I think I already have my winner this year. #esc www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2f2...

Liebe Sender und TV-Produzenten: Wenn die AfD morgen vielleicht ihr Wahlergebnis von 2021 verdoppelt hat, dann ist das auch eine Folge der jahrelangen Normalisierung durch eure TV-Talkshows, die Rechtsradikalismus unter dem Banner der "Ausgewogenheit" salonfähig gemacht haben.

If you need help coming up with a 'hypotheses' you shouldn't be a scientist. Every scientist I know has 100 project ideas and lack time to get to them. No on is sitting around twiddling thumbs without an interesting question to ask. We are in the dumbest timeline.

🙏On behalf of Hungarian civil society & independent journalism, a huge thanks to all EU countries joining the EU Commission lawsuit against Orbán’s foreign agents law. Here’s who’s in or may join, per @reclaim-eu.bsky.social's Esther Martinez, from our latest newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-ukra...

Wegen Krankheit der Ärztin war ich gestern zu einer anderen Arztpraxis weitergeleitet, um Fäden nach einer OP zu ziehen. Die Arzthelferin dort, sobald sie meinen Akzent gehört hat, hat angefangen, SEHR LAUT UND S E H R L A N G S A M zu mir zu sprechen. Sie war sonst ganz nett und professionell. 1/2

Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

In case you wondered how the Polish PiS reacts to Trump's confabulations... well, they made it softer, but they still embraced it. Oh, and Fort Trump is still on their offering plate for the US. So, basically, the lackeys are lackeying. 1/

The most extreme bias was on TikTok, where 78% of the political content that was algorithmically recommended was supportive of the AfD. Level of support for AfD in current polling is around 20% of German voters. techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

We either step up now, or we are cooked (feel free to replace cooked with an f-word). If Europe does not step up big time now, Ukraine is lost. And we after it. THIS IS THE TIME TO PANIC.

Women will disappear from the next Bundestag. Learn about the mechanisms through which the new German electoral law will reduce women’s presence in Sunday’s election on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social shorturl.at/v0uyi - joint work with the great @lenastephan.bsky.social

Marian Turski (1926-2025) - Polish historian and journalist, Holocaust survivor, co-founder of Polin museum. He will be missed.

Wir erinnern an die Opfer des rassistischen Anschlags am 19. Februar 2020 in #Hanau: Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov #SayTheirNames

Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States of America siding with war criminal Vladimir Putin and lying about Ukraine starting the war. My god.

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

Marian Turski (1926-2025) - Polish historian and journalist, Holocaust survivor, co-founder of Polin museum. He will be missed.

These men aren't planning for peace. They are planning a heist. As bombs continue to fall on Kyiv, US collaborates with the invader, behind the backs of the invaded, to cut a deal to split the spoils of Ukraine's natural wealth. As distasteful a picture as you'll see on the international stage.

Hört 👏 auf 👏 nur 👏 über 👏 Migration 👏 ständig 👏 zu 👏 sprechen! 👏

"If we don't allow politicians to converse in a way that isn't reduced to simplicities, that leaves a vacuum of complexity filled by populists who sound like they are talking with substance" A big win of the modern right has been to close the space in which nuance can even sit. My culture piece 👇

Ich habe das Gefühl, dass zu viele Politiker:innen auf zu vielen Sendeplätzen zu sehen sind, und es viel zu wenig Zeit gibt, Themen ernsthaft zu besprechen. Ich kann langsam nicht mehr zuhören. Ich weiß nicht, ob das nicht eher verdrießt anstatt demokratisch anregt.

Dazu SPD leicht steigend, Union und AfD leicht fallend. What's happening.

Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

"The student movement has revealed how democracy and the rule of law have eroded since Vučić came to power in 2014. The protests have also exposed the international community’s complicity in supporting Vučić under the premise that he is a constructive partner for regional cooperation and stability"

Die Tatsache, dass konservative Steuersenkungspläne nicht gegenfinanziert sind ist nicht aus Versehen: Den Staat explizit unterzufinanzieren um dann aus scheinbarer "Notwendigkeit" heraus Sozialleistungen und Investitionen ins Gemeinwohl zu kßrzen, ist der Kern neoliberaler Strategie.

Out of the blue, my sister, who doesn't speak any German: 'Do you know that I have a favourite German word?' 'No, what's that?' 'Kunst!'

Alaaeddin Alhalabi aus Syrien lebt seit neun Jahren in Villach und hat den Messerangreifer heldenhaft gestoppt. Die Polizei bestätigt, dass er wohl "Schlimmeres" verhindert hat. Wenn es nach den Rechten ginge, wßrden sie auch ihn abschieben. Lasst euch nicht gegen eure Mitmenschen aufhetzen.

Making sense of Trump's policy reminds me of trying to interpret Russia in the 90s: each ministry running its own individual foreign policy with freelancing oligarchs in the mix, but then an ailing Yeltsin could intervene, unpredictably, dramatically, and sometimes decisively.

Indeed, that's not how it works. Annoy, stall, complicate. Prevent what you can, delay what you cannot. Fight back. Be vocal. Document everything they do (to reverse the damage and to persecute). Educate the masses. Take to the streets. Be a manace. Democracy dies in silence.

I do not have any hot takes about the Munich Security Conference. Is it bad? Yes. Is this a possible collapse of the thus-far world order? Could be. Did we hear anything we didn't expect? No. Am I surprised? No. Am I surprised that Europe sleepwalked into this disaster willingly? Also, sadly, no.

Weil gerade die Linke so gehyped wird: Lest bitte einmal das Wahlprogramm hinsichtlich der Verteidigung. Angesichts dessen, dass kĂźrzlich die transatlantische Allianz & gemeinsamen Demokratie-Werte beerdigt wurden, stehen wir komplett wehrlos gegenĂźber Russland, China & Co da. Hier das Programm:

#LinkedIn fail 🤦‍♀️ I have three Master's and a PhD, I think I might be a tad overqualified for a kitchen aid job. Also, Nestle is a terrible company that I have been actively boycotting for well over a decade now. I would never work for them.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt