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I keep coming back to the insanity of this statement from an ICE official, which would sound like something out of 1984 except lacks Orwell's sense of irony and self-awareness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Ich muss eine Rede zum Jahrestag der Befreiung von Buchenwald schreiben. Nachdem ich den ganzen Tag vor dem leeren Blatt saß, habe ich jetzt erstmal eine Rede geschrieben, die ich NICHT halten werde. Die zu-erwartende Rede. Mit Mahnungen und Kämpfen und allem. Damit ich sie wegwerfen kann.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Never forget that their plan is to destroy America. Every move is to destroy our economy, health, education, and labor rights. That's how they install the billionaires as de facto dictators and take away all of our real rights and bargaining power. They want us poor and starving, or dead.

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It brings me great joy when every conservative ever shows they are too goddamn stupid to understand what they're watching. Every season of this show is about watching a zoo of damaged rich people and being thankful that ain't you

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Stop calling them layoffs, and start calling them what they are: purges.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

@timothysnyder.bsky.social: "Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching (...) the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Wer von Wissenschaft „Neutralität“ verlangt, verfolgt damit oft selbst 1 politische Agenda. Als Wissenschaftler_in unsere Demokratie zur Disposition stellen, um falschem Neutralitätsideal zu entsprechen, IST politisch — & gefährlich. #LauteWissenschaft Danke @annetteless.bsky.social fürs Gespräch!

submitted 123 days ago • 6 comments

Erinnerung - eine Grafik von @timothysnyder.bsky.social (gilt übrigens auch hierzulande): "#17: Be alert to the use of the words 'extremism' and 'terrorism'. Be alive to the fatal notions of 'emergency' and 'exception'. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary."

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

@timothysnyder.bsky.social und Jason Stanley verlassen die USA. Beide haben in deutschen Zeitungen große Interviews gegeben, in denen sie die Zustände in den USA schonungslos beschreiben - und die Mängel der deutschen Erinnerungskultur kritisieren. Tim Snyder im Spiegel:

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Everyone who studies Trump closely—this author included—said to take his many prior intimations about seeking a permanent presidency seriously. More often than not we were scoffed at by the normopaths in journalism who still don't understand that this man is a sociopath and fascist. We were right.

submitted 5 days ago • 344 comments

Also important to note we’re also witnessing the long shadow of Reagan’s efforts to crush higher education to stop student movements from gaining power in the US. theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

Nope, they just decided to cancel her performance altogether rather than have to suffer through hearing someone speak truth to power — the media elite and Trump alike. Pathetic cowards. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 6 days ago • 100 comments

New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 7 days ago • 238 comments

Searches of phones and other electronics are on the rise for those entering the U.S. Take these steps to help secure your devices.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Da gerade viele erschrocken in Richtung USA blicken: Was glaubt ihr denn was eine AfD-Regierung mit all den Stolpersteinen & Gedenkstätten machen würde? Meint ihr ernsthaft, Schulklassen fahren dann noch nach Auschwitz? Ich sage nur „Fliegenschiss“ & „Mahnmal der Schande“. Was erwartet ihr denn?

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I spoke with the Washington Post about why the Trump administration is so focused on US history: because authoritarian regimes rewrite history to legitimize their projects and normalize their chaotic, violent governance. Gift link: wapo.st/4cdjRFQ

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

remember all the conspiracy theories that billionaire George Soros was using his vast wealth to influence our elections?

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

Die Union will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen. Das darf nicht passieren! Wir haben ein Recht auf staatl. Informationen. Dass CDU/CSU in Koalitionsverhandlungen fordern, das IFG abzuschaffen, ist ein Angriff auf die Demokratie & öffnet Türen für Intransparenz, Korruption &Machtmissbrauch.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 9 days ago • 699 comments

Wer auch immer es hören muss: das ist nicht das normale Vorgehen eines Staats am Höhepunkt seiner Demokratie. Geheimpolizei, die Leute von der Straße schnappt, in Autos packt und dann unbekannterweise verschleppt, so dass nichtmal die Anwält_innen Kontakt herstellen können.

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

This is a concentration camp. There is a concentration camp in my county. The administration is in the process of deputizing & converting state & local “correctional” facilities into concentration camps as well. The presence of concentration camps speaks largely about a society’s barbarity.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

Hearing that firms are caving left and right after Paul Weiss. Many are eliminating all litigation and representation that is adverse to the Trump administration, including amicus briefs. Nonprofits and law clinics are next. We are watching the end of the rule of law in real time.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

some of us begged the space science community to stop normalizing Musk to stop saying “but the SpaceX engineers do really good work and it’s not all about him” I hope the people who said we were histrionic do some introspection

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For people who are concerned about crossing the US border, The Verge and Wired both have useful discussion and advice: www.theverge.com/policy/63426... www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

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submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Ich kann es nur wiederholen, wir müssen die imperialen Absichten Trumps bezüglich Grönland, Kanada und Panama bitterernst nehmen. Das ist kein “Ablenkungsmanöver” oder “Verhandlungstrick”. Wann wird endlich ernst genommen, was diese Männer von sich geben?

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

1/ Der große und mutige ukrainische Schriftsteller Serhij Zhadan, gerade mit einem neuen Buch am Start, sagt in einem grandiosen Interview in der FAZ heute, warum er nicht mehr in den Westen fährt:"Es ist schwierig, einer Öffentlichkeit, die auf ein brennendes Haus schaut, zu erklären, warum

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To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

Ich glaub wir müssen uns irgendwann darüber unterhalten wie diese 2000er und 2010er Medien-Formate unsere Gesellschaft kaputt gemacht haben. Diese Formate, die nur auf Erniedrigung der gezeigten Normalos aus waren. Von Frauentausch ü Modelshow bis zu Gewichtsverlust o wir-stylen-dich-um-du-Freak.

submitted 13 days ago • 111 comments

It bears repeating…. @elienyc.bsky.social is right.

submitted 13 days ago • 89 comments

Es ist doch immer wieder das Gleiche: Feminist*innen sind schuld an der Radikalisierung von Männern, woke Linke sollen Trump-Faschismus (bit don't call it that) ermöglicht haben und was noch? Radleute sind der Grund für Cybertrucks? Indie-Podcasts verantwortlich für die Hirnwürmer von Leitmedien?

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

Trump könnte „immer das Licht ausschalten“: GI gegen Cloud-Kooperation zwischen BSI und Google. BSI versteht die Aufregung nicht mal

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The slow march toward martial law continues. They will say the Tesla protests justify it. They will say judicial activism justifies it. They will say whatever they think they need to say to keep on board whatever Republicans they think they need to keep on board. But it was always going to happen.

submitted 14 days ago • 302 comments

Something this article doesn’t mention is that the USPS’ financial “crisis” is entirely manufactured by the GOP-led PAEA in 2006, which forces the agency to fund $72-billion healthcare fund ahead of time on top of all other costs. It’s the only fed service required to do this.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

submitted 14 days ago • 303 comments

as a 39-year-old woman I am not surprised that it is men my age and a bit older who are the most regressive when it comes to sexism. have you SEEN the media that raised us.

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We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

submitted 16 days ago • 2665 comments

🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark? From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️ www.kqed.org/news/1203198...

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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

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