It‘s shocking how oblivious international observers of Trump (especially those focusing on security and geopolitics) are to this core ideology of his and his administration. You can‘t understand Trump without racism and white supremacy.

Firms like Deloitte and Zoom are cutting back their parental leave policies. Like the anti-DEI push has removed Black workers, this will remove women workers via @rcobooth.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-cut...

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

Why the Tech Billionaires Are Aligned with Trump Fueled by profit motives, ideological radicalization, and elite self-victimization, America’s tech barons are aggressively taking the side of authoritarianism. But why now? My new piece:

"...warum eine überwiegend männliche, überwiegend weiße Tech-Elite, die von Macht berauscht und von ihrer eigenen Überlegenheit völlig überzeugt ist, sich zu einem ideologischen Programm hingezogen fühlt, das sich um kulturellen Chauvinismus, Rassismus, Frauenfeindlichkeit und Eugenik dreht."

A few weeks ago, I was listening to a longtime oil analyst on a podcast & he was detailing the enormous impacts of the brief strait closure. He was asked, "what if it stays closed? what if it's closed for months?" And his response was simply... "it *can't* be. The world economy would fly apart."

Trump's coalition is falling apart. New Fox poll shows stunning collapse in his approval among his best constituencies: *Underwater with noncollege whites (49-51) *With rural voters he's at only 51-49 (!) *With white men he's only at 50-50 (!!) New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

The battery industry is pivoting toward warfare & surveillance. It's not great.

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

the conservative reaction to the virginia results remind me quite a bit of their reaction to the 2012 presidential election, where they were offended that democrats ran to win

I don't think it's a coincidence that Peter Thiel wrote his infamous 2009 libertarian manifesto six months after Barack Obama and Democrats swept into power. badfaithtimes.com/peter-thiel-...

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Für Palantir CEO Karp ist Deutschland nicht nur irgendein Exportmarkt für Tech-Produkte. Sondern das Land, in dem Entnazifizierung & mühsame Demokratisierung die eigentlichen Fehler waren. Deutsche Demokraten dürfen mit solchen Figuren keine Geschäfte machen. Wie kann das zur Debatte stehen?

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Für Palantir CEO Karp ist Deutschland nicht nur irgendein Exportmarkt für Tech-Produkte. Sondern das Land, in dem Entnazifizierung & mühsame Demokratisierung die eigentlichen Fehler waren. Deutsche Demokraten dürfen mit solchen Figuren keine Geschäfte machen. Wie kann das zur Debatte stehen?

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Labour's move to the right on immigration to win back voters esp. from Reform wasn't the "McSweeney strategy." This strategy was - against all evidence - promoted by tons of journalists, think tankers and academics. Embraced by large shares of Labour politicians. Too easy to just blame it on one guy

Dass Ulmen selbst so etwas noch nach dem Geständnis gegenüber seiner damaligen Frau schreibt, kann nicht mehr verwundern, aber es verweist doch auf einige systemische Probleme. Erstens Täter sprechen in der Regel über das, was sie tun. (Darüber habe ich vor ein 2/15 54books.de/die-taeter-s...

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Why Hungary Matters Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism. The most important one: Nothing about rightwing authoritarianism is inevitable. My new piece:

(1/6) Josephina Kersten ist erst 30 Jahre alt, als Ärzte in ihrer linken Brust einen besonders aggressiven Tumor finden. Es folgen 435 Tage Therapie – 17 Mal bekommt sie ein Medikament, das als Hoffnungsträger gilt: Keytruda. The #CancerCalculus ➡️ www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...

Remember the @pewresearch.org data on the decline in Israel's standing in the US published last week? We asked them for the crosstabs which they graciously shared with us, and we're publishing for the 1st time. Bottom line: total collapse of Israel's standing among young Americans across the board.

The idea of competitive authoritarianism is that it’s an in-between, hybrid type of regime. It is not fully democratic but all hope is not lost.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

He told ChatGPT he was a nazі іncel who wanted to dіe, then asked how many people you’d have to shoot at his school to get on the news. ChatGPT helped him pick his ammo, pick his target, pick the best time for the massacre, and then told him how to use the gun. Then he did. youtu.be/IbG-JGdGniY

Axel Springer löscht das Pro-Europäische aus seinen Statuen - was als unumstößliches Erbe des Gründers und für Mitarbeitende als verbindliches Fundament galt. Und aus "freie und soziale Marktwirtschaft“ wird „freie Marktwirtschaft“. Die Radikalisierung schreitet voran.

Really well-observed, cutting account of Trump watching a UFC bout while talks collapse in Iran: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Policy shifts coming fast. France accelerates Electrification - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030 www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/el...

The greatest danger now is not that the regime will systematically execute some complex secret masterplan - but that delusion, ideology, and ineptitude are conspiring to make escalation almost inevitable. Chaos, bloodlust, zealotry, and frustration breed destruction.

Think about how many brains are being absolutely COOKED by sycophancy right now

Right-wing climate denialism in the US looks more or less identical to how it looked 10 or 20 or 30 years ago. The steadily accumulating weight of science, the deepening international political consensus, the increasing economic momentum -- it's all had, to a first approximation, zero effect.

well that was a rather brief technological honeymoon period

“One report (found) that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

A 2024 observational & longitudinal UVA study “found that the more empathetic…mothers were w/ their teens, the more empathy those teens showed for their friends throughout adolescence. The study suggests that empathy can be passed down from parents to children through warm everyday interactions.”🧪

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel has meant Freedom, Power. Now, thanks to DJT, those meanings are shifting fast--it means Scarcity, Peril. You want to feel safe now, you turn to the sun And that psychological shift is enormous! billmckibben.substack.com/p/oil-and-ga...

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Fourth. This is a fascinating window into how much WORSE — more expensive and with US assistance?! — the future shipping picture might be post-war. An astounding setback for the oil industry and shipping industry, which will be built into the price of gas going forward. bsky.app/profile/prch...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war. 100-130 ships pass the Strait daily. Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.

Two things can be true at once: 1) These Trump statements come from a place of increasing weakness and desperation. 2) Trump is morally, temperamentally, and cognitively unfit for office. And weak and desperate world figures can still do horrible things. An extremely dangerous situation.

Pundits and consultants who said Americans shouldn't resist Trump, and heads of industry and nonprofit organizations who allied with him, should feel regret and reverse course.

J.D. Vance’s visit to Hungary is more about Vance 2028 than about Orbán 2026.

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

• Rassistische Wahlgesetze verabschieden • Kinderarbeit einführen • Frauenwahlrecht abschaffen Kein dystopischer Roman, sondern konkrete Pläne, die die US-Rechte gerade umsetzt. Warum Fortschritt kein Selbstläufer ist, sondern erkämpft und verteidigt werden muss: Lese- und Hörempfehlung ⬇️