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Vorher: Republik. Noch davor: NZZ. Jetzt: Beobachter. It's chaos, be kind.
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This.

Oh - die Berliner Grünen feiern in der Gay Sauna? Ah ne, sie feiern im Gay Club.

Das macht Hoffnung. Costa telefonierte die #EU-Regchefs zu 2 Fragen ab: Wie seit ihr bereit, der 🇺🇦 zusätzlich zu helfen u. zu welchen Sicherheitsgarantien wäret ihr bereit, wenn ein Friedensschluss kommt. Nur im Falle einer großen Schnittmenge wollte Costa einen Rat einberufen.

Already THE great thread in Bluesky history.

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DAS ist das Amerika, das ich zu lieben gelernt und immer wieder verteidigt habe, wenn jemand mit "die Amis sind doch alle..." um die Ecke kam. ❤️

wrote a bit about a big problem I think we all need to reckon with sooner rather than later www.idiotbox.site/p/the-master...

Hi All, I've taken another post out of paywall that I wrote a while ago--as I think it’s extremely relevant now. Its arguing that the US leaving NATO could help regenerate Europe. Its a high-risk event. But Europe has been revealed as declining and decrepit. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

It is the job of diplomats to make the best out of any given situation. It is the job of journalists, writers and historians to say very clearly and without hesitation what the situation *is*. Both jobs are important but they are not the same.

Fun fact: Europe turned woke because they immediately let the people they colonized participate in their own elections. ☝️

Mike and I have had a healthy debate about this over the past few weeks. Here are my brief thoughts: I see 3–5 brigade equivalents as theoretically feasible, with the higher number achievable through adjustments to deployment timelines and select NATO regional defense plans.

Meta has spent almost $100 billion on VR and AR since 2014.

The country that was here is gone: defector.com/the-country-...

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

Das ist entweder sehr naiv oder sehr zynisch. Und ich weiss nicht, was beunruhigender wäre.

I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are

“Pistorius is my valentine” #overheardatMSC2025

Stark!

Playbook | Sources report growing tensions between Republican senators who roll over for Trump and Republican senators who issue disapproving statements before rolling over for Trump.

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At this point it would be better for Europe if the US walked away from NATO and European states could commit fully to Ukrainian victory. Trump will try to use NATO to gaslight Europe into abandoning Ukraine and their own security.

I cannot believe, after 10 years of Trumpism, columnists are still writing pieces like, "Trump just nominated GoonerHitler69 to head up the Department of Education, but could the position help change the unruly Mr. GoonerHitler69 into a true leader?"

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

So @chrischirp.bsky.social is logging Trump's actions under data categories derived from the typical behaviour of authoritarian states as part of an ongoing project. The conclusions are naturally alarming. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Abduction, arbitrary detention, and torture: Life for Ukrainian patriots under a Russian occupation. This is why Ukraine will not simply hand its territory to an aggressor. And why the US will be unable to force it to do so.

Trump doesn’t understand the basis of American power post-1945 at all. To him all of it is just a waste of money. Therefore America is effectively resigning as a superpower

Trump implies that since Russia "fought for that land" in Ukraine "and lost alot of soldiers" doing it, that Russia should keep it. I can't remember a darker day for the democratic world.

Well there it is.

This.

this week's newsletter: the soy right maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-...

Das da ist sehr gut.

«Fünf Behörden geben also Warnungen an die Bevölkerung heraus. Und keine von ihnen kann einen konkreten Fall vorweisen. Auch die Spitäler können keine Veränderung feststellen, die auf die angebliche Challenge hindeuten würde.» — @basilschoeni.bsky.social

"40 Prozent der globalen Nothilfe sind komplett kollabiert: Erdbeben, Hungersnöte, Flüchlingscamps. (...) Das halbe Uno-System verschwindet damit. (...) Wir werden Massenbewegungen von Menschen Richtung Europa und die USA sehen." - Andrew Natsios, Ex-USAID-Chef unter Bush Jr.

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

"One early sign that feels very familiar to me in the federal government, is random people you have never seen before just start walking around your office and asking the dumbest questions possible." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The curious thing about billionaires defying the rule of law and the orders of the court, is that their wealth depends entirely on enforceable legal rights: contract, property, and so on. Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.

The drugs are kicking in just in time for Ursula von der Leyen to drop the bass at the celebration for connecting Lithuania to the Polish energy grid

Added but one line while editing the latest @lopatto.bsky.social banger but I’m proud of it www.theverge.com/elon-musk/60...

WIR SIND DOCH HIER NICHT BEI DER LUFTWAFFE ?!??1?

we finally did it boys. we got our own freedom fries 🥲

i finally got to the part in this book about the french revolution where they cut off the king's head. pretty crazy story! i wonder why there's 300 pages left

Also, not for nothing, but laws very much *do* constrain how general conduct military operations — and literally any general will be the first to tell you that!

A republic if you can keep it. defector.com/billionaire-...

I am willing to bet that in two years Elon Musk will be either dead, in prison or in exile.