So when governments say "but the ultrarich might leave the country", we should respond, "mission accomplished then." Get them and their ill-gotten gains out of our politics and out of our hair. And hopefully, with global measures, out of everyone's.

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Guter Überblick über Skandale und Schweinereien, die ohne das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz nicht ans Licht gekommen wären: Maskenaffäre, Fördermittelskandal Berlin, Lobbyismus im Wirtschaftsministerium uvm. Die Transparenzpflicht muss Teil dieser Demokratie bleiben! www.zeit.de/digital/inte...

Un thriller dans les règles de lard. « Le boucher » de Claude Chabrol, avec Jean Yanne et Stéphane Audran, ce soir sur nos antennes et jusqu'au 4 août 2026 sur arte.tv 📺

Bald sind es 250.000 Unterschriften!! 💪🫶 Wer noch nicht unterschrieben hat, kann das weiterhin tun, um Informationsfreiheit in D zu retten & damit unsere Demokratie zu schützen. Und Ihr könnt noch mehr tun: Mails schreiben an SPD-MdB. 📧 Lasst uns da weiter dranbleiben! #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz

Ohne das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wären illegale Maskendeals nie ans Licht gekommen. Genau dieses Recht wollen CDU, CSU und SPD jetzt faktisch abschaffen. Das dürfen wir nicht zulassen. Jetzt unterschreiben: 👇 #IFG weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Unser Netzwerk #PDprekär ist heute in der #FAZ vertreten mit einem Gastbeitrag zur Frage, warum eine etwaige Reform des #WissZeitVG keinerlei Auswirkungen auf die Statusgruppe der Privatdozent:innen haben wird. #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan Das Problem & unsere Forderungen auf den Punkt gebracht: 👇

#PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

📺 #IchBinHanna & ich sind mal wieder im Fernsehen, also: erstmal in der Mediathek. Wenn Ihr meine Takes zum dysfunktionalen Wissenschaftssystem hören wollt oder einfach dabei zusehen, wie ich lustige Grimassen ziehe & mit 1 creepy Roboter interagiere: Ab Minute 31:29! KI-Kritik ist auch mit dabei.

So genannte Forschungsministerin der drittgrößten Wirtschaftsnation der Welt sagt, es sei kein Problem, wenn Student*innen gleichzeitig für ihren Lebensunterhalt arbeiten müssten. Im Grunde nichts Neues: Konservative empfinden es traditionell als falsch, dass Kinder von Nichtwohlhabenden studieren.

Wir haben den jüngsten Entwurf zum WissZeitVG kommentiert. Viel ist uns nicht eingefallen, denn nichts hier ist neu. Zur Erinnerung: im Mai 2024 (!) schrieben wir zum damaligen Entwurf: "Die Probleme liegen längst auf dem Tisch, die Lösungen ebenfalls. ... was fehlt, ist nur ein wenig Mut auf (2)

5 Jahre #IchBinHanna. Alle sind sich inzwischen einig, dass sich grundlegend was ändern muss. Zig konstruktive Vorschläge. Und dann das: Der neue Referentenentwurf fürs #WissZeitVG ist 1 Witz. Und zwar 1 ganz schlechter. Meine Einordnung ⬇️ #IchBinHanna @drkeichhorn.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social

OECD Studie "Bildung auf einen Blick": Qualifikationsabschlüsse bis zur Promotion werden abdeckt, nicht jedoch unsere Statusgruppe, die Habilitand:innen: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

Fassen wir zusammen: nach 5 Jahren wurde heute erneut eine Verschlimmbesserung vorgelegt. Sämtliche Stellungnahmen sind übrigens bis zum *16.06.* fällig, also in knapp 2 Wochen. #WissZeitVG #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #PDprekär

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Wütend macht es, zuschauen zu müssen, wie so viele talentierte, gute & fleißige Leute aus dem System fallen, weil sie vermeintlich zu alt, zu unformbar oder (ja, das gibt es), zu erfolgreich (= bedrohlich) sind. Eine Schande & absolute Ressourcenverschwendung. #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran. Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it. When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war? www.forbes.com/sites/peters...

Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elon’s emails to Epstein. Location: Starbase, Texas

Departmentstrukturen statt des feudalen Lehrstuhlprinzips: Argumente dafür sind bestechend, das zeigte auch das Fachgespräch im Forschungsausschuss des Bundestags u.a. mit @frauforschung.bsky.social & @rosefeldt.bsky.social. Also los mit der Reform, #IchBinHanna geht die Geduld aus! #ArbeitInDerWiss

Board of Peace - Season 1

Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.

🤑 Le rapport estime “qu’un milliardaire à 4 000 fois plus de chances qu’un citoyen lambda d’obtenir un poste politique”

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

In Denmark, you get free healthcare, free university education, a solid state pension and 5-star public transport. The USA have people going bankrupt to pay medical fees, many with huge student loan debts and ICE terror on top of it all. If you were from Greenland - who would you choose?

This is on Starmer, on Lammy, on Mahmood. Heba's impending death, it seems, is a matter of policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They want us to think mental health issues are not related to our economic system.

“The phenomenon of [WageEnslaved] individuals defending billionaires while struggling to meet their own basic needs represents a profound psychological puzzle that cannot be explained through rational economic analysis alone.” #ResourceEconomy >>> gettherapybirmingham.com/trauma-bondi...

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

Hannah Arendt was in Germany during the start of the Nazi terror in the 1920s and 30s. She knew it was just the start. We need to stand up now to ICE and to Fascism before its too late.

At some point Americans are going to need to behave like the French.

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves". I was called "hysterical". Well, here we are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I knew Tory ministers could be cruel, unfeeling bastards. But the insouciance, even mockery, by Labour ministers towards people convicted of no crime, who are at imminent risk of death as a result of an unconscionable period on remand is on another level altogether. They are revelling in it.

Once you’ve labelled someone a terrorist, it seems, you can do almost anything to them and get away with it. The silence on this issue across almost all the media is something to behold.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rapporteuse spéciale de l'ONU, Francesca Albanese pointe l'inaction de la communauté internationale quant à ce qu'il se passe à Gaza 🇵🇸

It is always a good idea to see who is funding the politicians.

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

If John Pilger was around today, he'd have a lot to say about the Venezuela situation.

At the height of the British Empire, the conditions of the British Working-Class were atrocious with the riches of Empire going to the Aristocracy Those in the American Working-Class cheering Trump/Musk should read history & realize that the Wealth plundered from Venezuela won't be going to them

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

« Si on obtient des bénéfices dans les deux ans, ce sera par accident » : depuis qu’il a prononcé cette phrase, Jeff Bezos a multiplié les accidents 💸

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com