Seit diesem Wochenende auch auf Deutsch: der fantastische Newsletter von @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Für alle, die nicht nur Headlines aus den USA konsumieren möchten, sondern verstehen wollen, was sich in dem Land politisch und gesellschaftlich verändert: Demokratie Amerikana ist ein must read!

Seit diesem Wochenende auch auf Deutsch: der fantastische Newsletter von @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Für alle, die nicht nur Headlines aus den USA konsumieren möchten, sondern verstehen wollen, was sich in dem Land politisch und gesellschaftlich verändert: Demokratie Amerikana ist ein must read!

🚨Democracy Americana auf Deutsch🚨 Ein guter Moment, um anzukündigen, dass es meinen Newsletter bald auch auf Deutsch geben wird – die deutsche Version startet am Wochenende. Wenn ihr euch dafür interessiert, könnt ihr den Newsletter hier abonnieren:

I say this as someone who loves the WC more than any other sporting event: every team should get on a plane home right now. Or all the games should be rescheduled for 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽. The USMNT should be disqualified now & suspended from the next WC. Or, we can start acting like a serious country of adults.

And what’s being passed over is the fact he had strong support from both wings of the party precisely because he represented a turn away from their idea of an overly feminine party weak wokeness and a masculine vision of working class whiteness.

This mode of white male identity politics often gets conflated with class politics. It happens because signifiers of working-class identity are inherently ambiguous, and underspecified populist discursive categories like "the people" and the "establishment" strategically enable this conflation.

are you just going to do this for every generation

Imagine, you're parents put you through journalism school for this...

This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.

Louisiana House Republicans have passed a new 5-1 congressional gerrymander targeting 1 of 2 Black Dems. It packs Black voters from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in a snake-like 2nd District to make the other 5 heavily white/GOP. GOP senators already passed a similar map www.nola.com/news/politic...

“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:

This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.

What I personally find more remarkable is the wide range of quotes about Sellner from "mainstream" media featured on the institute's website. Again goes to show how media reporting on figures like him can serve as a mainstreaming and legitimisation device.

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

Die „Klimakrise ist abgesagt“-Story wurde aus Propagandistensicht zu einem sehr ungünstigen Zeitpunkt lanciert. Und nein: Das ist nicht „nur Wetter“. „Das Auffällige am diesem Ereignis ist nicht nur das Ausmaß, sondern die Dauer“, sagt Mario Picazo vom World Weather Network.

Ersten Gemeinden geht Trinkwasser aus 40 Grad in Frankreich und Spanien Von Brandenburg bis Kanaren rufen viele Regionen hohe Waldbrandgefahr aus Bäume verlieren bereits Blätter Temperaturrekorde in halb Europa werden erneut gerissen Mai 2026. #Klimakatastrophe www1.wdr.de/nrw/aachen-e...

Milliarden werden im KI-Rennen verpulvert. Nur noch verrückt. Alles eine Wette auf eine dystopische Zukunft, in der der Gewinner die Verluste durch Monopolprofite wieder reinholt.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

The inaugural Encyclical of his pontificate, tomorrow Pope Leo presents Magnifica Humanitis, on safeguarding the human person in a time of artificial intelligence. Clocking in at 180 pages, Leo to give address upon text’s release. Live-feed begins at 5:30am ET here: www.youtube.com/live/EEM7a3m...

The rest of us die in the nuclear holocaust.

Und natürlich die Veranstaltungen mit Campact-Beteiligung. Einmal unser Thinktank TTRex: With creativity, courage & solid preparation, activists are pushing back against authoritarianism. We give their experiences a platform & discuss how civil society can stay effective under authoritarian rule.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.

Die USA zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur Morgen Abend spreche ich in Hamburg über die politische Lage in den Vereinigten Staaten - und über die lange Geschichte des Kampfes um die amerikanische Demokratie. Mit viel Zeit für Fragen! gruene-altona.de/termine/die-...

Wir haben das ja auch bei US Korrespondenten gesehen. Ein undifferenzierter Einheitsbrei der ein globales Narrativ zu den Ursachen des Erfolgs der radikalen Rechten bedient. Cancel Culture auf dem Campus und wokeness als Bedrohung der Demokratie. Nichts erklärt aber dafür damit Bücher verkauft.

Ich habe gelesen was Jochen Bittner in der Zeit zu den Wahlen in UK geschrieben hat. Es ist verheerend, wenn unfundierter und unseriöser Meinungsjournalismus nun auch die Auslandsberichterstattung dominiert. Wenn Ereignisse in vorgefertigte Narrative eingepasst werden statt Analyse und Erklärung.

Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile A brief history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality. Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction. This piece is free to read, no paywall:

Die SZ hat rekonstruiert, wie eine Allianz von "Nius" und AfD einen willfährigen Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer vor sich hertrieb, bis er schliesslich mehrere Buchhandlungen vom Verfassungsschutz durchleuchten liess, um sie zu canceln (paid): www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...

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.