'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Between the booths flooding and a fire breaking out in the Blue Zone, feels like maybe someone is trying to tell us something at #COP30

The Talatan Solar Park in China is absurdly huge — stretching across 600 km² of the Tibetan Plateau (about 7× Manhattan’s size) and generating around 17 GW of power. It’s so big you can see it from space — a shimmering sea of panels.

Anhand von 12 Kriterien analysiert die NEW YORK TIMES in ihrem Leitartikel, ob die USA unter Trump von einer Demokratie zu einer Autokratie werden - und das Ergebnis ist nicht beruhigend:

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

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Forcing regime change in Venezuela under the pretext of fighting "terrorism" might lower the bar for other great powers to follow through with their national aspirations (China -> Taiwan).

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas: Last week in Kyiv,we announced €10 million to launch the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression. Today, 25 member states have committed to becoming parties to this tribunal Putin’s regime started this war & must face the consequences

Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread. As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT archive.ph/grTVe

Italien, Österreich, die Niederlande, Frankreich und andere Staaten zeigen wohin das führt. Aber hey, die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt.

Die 10 wichtigsten Punkte aus der öffentlichen Anhörung der Nachrichtendienste BND, BfV und MAD: 🧵

Russia is determined to test European borders&could turn a "frosty peace" in Europe into a "hot confrontation",Martin Jäger,head of the Germany's BND intelligence service,said He said that Moscow believes it has a realistic chance of expanding its sphere of influence westward

Free link: on.ft.com/435Cvfi Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster. newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

An explosion hit the Togliatti–Odesa ammonia pipeline near Rusyn Yar in Donetsk region. Russia’s MoD blamed Ukraine, but reports suggest a Russian glide bomb may have struck the pipeline branch, and now they’re scrambling to shift the blame.

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

A list of Russian air incursions into NATO air space in recent days. Meanwhile, Trump's NATO ambassador, a urinal salesman named Matt Whitaker, says that the talk of a Russian threat to NATO's eastern flank is exaggerated.

DLF: Israelischer Ex-Geheimdienstchef fordert Anerkennung eines Staates Palästina durch Deutschland – Gaza-Krieg „nicht mehr gerecht“ www.deutschlandfunk.de/israelischer...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Mittlerweile sind 7 der 9 kritischen Belastungsgrenzen des Erdsystems überschritten – 1 mehr als im Vorjahr. Auch wenn mittlerweile rauf und runter gesagt wird, Klima- und Umweltthemen interessiert die Leute nicht: Lasst euch nicht drauf ein. Schauen wir weiter auf die Daten, so wie hier. 1/x

Moving to parallel sessions on EU #CleanIndustry First session on “Energy-Intensive Industries”, with: 🔸 @soerenborghardt.bsky.social @stiftung-klima.bsky.social 🔸Benjamin Denis @industrialleurope.bsky.social 🔸Kimmo Järvinen, SSAB 🔸Anaïs Laporte, Fourtold 🔸Stephan Thalhofer, FES Just Climate

Heat pumps remain the cheapest way to heat in Germany for 2025. Despite overall increases, heat pumps rise only ~5% and still beat gas, oil, pellets, and district heat on annual costs. Fossil systems are a long-term cost trap. @co2online.bsky.social

Nur 8 Prozent der geplanten deutschen Rüstungsausgaben gehen in die USA - sehr gute Nachrichten! Merz macht ernst mit der Ansage, unabhängiger von Amerika zu werden. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski @radek-sikorski.bsky.social I have only one request to the Russian government:if another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission,deliberately or by mistake,gets shot down&the wreckage falls on NATO territory, pls don't come here to whine about it.

Whisper it softly - as it really doesn't fit the narrative - but the AfD has markedly underperformed in a series of recent mayoral elections in Germany's eastern states. Often where the rival candidate was a dynamic local figure commanding broad "popular front" support.

I'd like to remind that: In 2015, a Su-24M of the Russian Airspace Forces that was part of a Russian aviation group in Syria, was shot down by a Turkish F-16 after the Russian aircraft invaded Turkish airspace⤵️ 📷: from 2015, the shot down Russian aircraft

Am 24.11.2015 flog eine russische Suchoi SU 24 aus Syrien für wenige Sekunden in den türkischen Luftraum. Danach lag sie in Trümmern am Boden. Passiert ist danach nichts.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Trump suggests that networks should lose their broadcast licenses if their on-air talent is critical of him.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

“The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair,” Gisela Salim-Peyer writes. “Life continues as before. You begin to wonder if things will be so bad after all.” https://theatln.tc/Xb8uqYzW

“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Ich befürchte, dass die USA sehr dunkle Tage vor sich hat. Die Art und Weise, wie Kirk zum Märtyrer stilisiert wird, ist ohne Vergleich. Die Wucht, mit der die reichweiten-stärksten MAGA-Persönlichkeiten der „Linken“ die Schuld für den Tod des Aktivisten geben, wird nicht ohne Folgen bleiben.

Wir haben recherchiert, was an der Behauptung dran ist, dass der Staat angeblich die Linken päppelt. Die kommt aus der AfD, wird aber von Teilen der Union übernommen. Das Ergebnis: Schützenvereine, Bauernverbände und andere bekommen deutlich mehr Geld www.zeit.de/2025/39/oeff...

Russische #Drohnen über #Polen. Vor drei Wochen wurden in #Kyjiw die EU-Delegation und das British Council getroffen. Das sind keine Zufälle. #Russland fühlt sich durch #Trump, #Xi und Co. ermutigt, #Europa offen anzugreifen. Deshalb jetzt alle Unterstützung für die #Ukraine.

This is why I’m optimistic about energy innovation: It took the global solar industry 68 years to reach 1 terawatt (TW) of installed power, from the first commercial silicon solar cell in 1954 to 2022. The next 1TW was delivered in only two additional years from 2023 to 2024.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Am Montag berichtete Haaretz über die Hungersnot in Gaza. Illustriert wurde der Bericht mit einem Bild aus dem Nasser-Hospital. Darauf sieht man ein schwer unterernährtes Kind. Wenige Stunden später war die Fotografin, Mariam Dagga, tot. Premier Netanjahu bedauerte das „tragische Missgeschick“.

It's often been debated if Trump could pull off a fascist takeover of the United States, because he's clearly not very smart. I talked to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social about that for my newsletter

„We have a land war on European continent. We are fully dependent on US. None of the EU members was ready to risk further escalation“. The way @sabineweyand.bsky.social explains EU-US-deal is exactly right. She explains EU‘s trade-offs & rationale — and doesn‘t put lipstick on a pig. (SZ-Dossier)