Michaela Kesenheimer.bsky.social
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All that we see or seen is but a dream within a dream
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The Talks Collapsed Because There's Nobody Home
Iran Didn't Walk Away. We Did.
https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/the-talks-collapsed-because-theres?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Horror and Heroism in China
Some names and facts to know.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thenextmove/p/horror-and-heroism-in-china?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Profiles in Courage
"It's the right thing to do"
https://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/profiles-in-courage?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Aircraft Carriers: Symbol of American Power
The problem is, right now they sum up its decline
https://open.substack.com/pub/markurban/p/aircraft-carriers-symbol-of-american?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Persuasion | Yascha Mounk | Substack
The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for. Click to read Persuasion, by Yascha Mounk, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
https://www.persuasion.community/t/the-deep-state
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My Vision For A Post-Trump America
Itâs time to get serious about abundance.
https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/my-vision-for-a-post-trump-america?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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How Elon Musk Thinks, and Why It Is Killing Us
The software worldview applied to a domain that is not software.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mikebrock/p/how-elon-musk-thinks-and-why-it-is?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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ISIS and the Bureaucracy of Evil
DER SPIEGEL has learned that German authorities have obtained detailed membership lists kept by the terror group Islamic State. Some suspected terrorists are apparently still living in Germany.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derspiegel/p/isis-and-the-bureaucracy-of-evil?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Library They Burned: How MAGA Made Climate Denial American Policy
On climate science, manufactured doubt, and the administration that removed the evidence it couldn't answer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/therationalleague/p/the-library-they-burned?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Escaped Policeman from China Provides an Inside Look at the Police State
He helped oppress the Uyghurs, even escorting them to torture cells. Then, policeman Zhang Yabo fled China for Germany - where he has provided a clear look at the inner workings of the apparatus.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derspiegel/p/escaped-policeman-from-china-provides?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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China Has Been Building the Future in Plain Sight
Some reflections on an extended visit
https://open.substack.com/pub/warwickpowell/p/china-has-been-building-the-future?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Muskâs is a story of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/how-elon-musk-and-the-tech-billionaires?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Peter Thiel's Secret Political Network Is Already Planning Life After Trump
When these people say liberal democracy has failed, they are not talking about the left. They are talking about the American âexperimentâ itself.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dissentinbloom/p/peter-thiels-secret-political-network?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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DEBT INC.: GUILT, CREDIT, AND THE ALGORITHMIC FUTURE
The algorithm functions as a digital equivalent of the credit systemâit binds the subject through invisible obligations, a continuous repayment in data, attention, and affect
https://open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p/debt-inc-guilt-credit-and-the-algorithmic?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Grammar of Influence: How Minds Actually Change
The Architecture of Persuasion
https://open.substack.com/pub/harmoniousdiscourse/p/the-grammar-of-influence-how-minds?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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From Sleepy Joe to Foggy Don?: Your Weekly SPIEGEL Recap
Craziness from the White House has become rather routine of late. But haven't we recently been seeing a bit more crazy than usual? Plus, the EU bids adieu to OrbĂĄnistan. And Trump loses more friends.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derspiegel/p/from-sleepy-joe-to-foggy-don-your?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling?
The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldnât finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/18/donald-trump-popularity-iran-christianity-economy
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Iran War Part 3: The REAL Reason Behind The War
They're using bombs to clear a trillion-dollar Trade Corridor. - How the Kushner Dynasty, and a Trade Corridor Are Redrawing the Middle East - by The Democracy Defender
https://open.substack.com/pub/thedemocracydefender/p/iran-war-part-3-the-real-reason-behind?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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America as Prussia in 1806
Decaying Institutions, Social Nihilism, Elite Complicity, and a Slow March Toward Disaster
https://open.substack.com/pub/secretaryrofdefenserock/p/america-as-prussia-in-1806?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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A Farewell to Empire
Post-Westphalian Imagination in the 250th Year of the United States
https://open.substack.com/pub/omniharmonic/p/a-farewell-to-empire?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Other: Why Contempt for Women Is a Political Strategy
How misogyny moves from rhetoric to rule, and why democracies pay the price
https://open.substack.com/pub/therationalleague/p/the-politics-of-the-other-how-contempt?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
6 days ago
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Bespoke corporate autocratic rule
This is not normal authoritarian rule. The White House has become the headquarters of an attempt to secure global corporate dominance and act as an agent for the flow of global capital.
https://open.substack.com/pub/politicsusa46/p/bespoke-corporate-autocratic-rule?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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"Corrosive Complacency"
And the failure to produce a funding roadmap for British defence
https://open.substack.com/pub/markurban/p/corrosive-complacency?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
6 days ago
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Symbolic Kidnapping: The Pope, the Arch, and Samuel L. Jackson
How the internet made Voegelinâs âsecond realityâ visible to the naked eye
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimstewartson/p/symbolic-kidnapping-the-pope-the?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
7 days ago
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The Absurdly Ersatz Christianity of Pete Hegseth
Trump & Co. double down on blasphemy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charliesykes/p/the-absurdly-ersatz-christianity?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
7 days ago
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The Hegemon Didn't Lose. It Quit.
Suicide by Stupidity: How America Ended the World Order and Nobody Noticed
https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/the-hegemon-didnt-lose-it-quit?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
7 days ago
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As Russian Losses Mount, Signing Bonuses for Recruits Are Skyrocketing
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Russian officials to meet the recruitment quotas set by Moscow. In response, bonuses are rising and standards are plummeting, as DER SPIEGEL has learned.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derspiegel/p/as-russian-losses-mount-signing-bonuses?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
7 days ago
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The Founding Fathers Didnât Invent CapitalismâThey Built Its Fortress
How the American Revolution consolidated elite power and engineered a state to defend property, suppress the masses, and accelerate capitalist expansion
https://open.substack.com/pub/futuredude/p/the-founding-fathers-didnt-invent?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The New Right-Populist Normal
What everyone competing for power in our politically troubled era should learn from Viktor OrbĂĄnâs stunning loss in Hungary
https://open.substack.com/pub/damonlinker/p/the-new-right-populist-normal?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing â and Taking Civilisationâs Safety Net With It
The Iran war is destroying a system on which hospitals, harvests and factories depend â a transition to energy superabundance can save us, argue Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-DeclĂšve
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-fossil-fuel-system-is-collapsing?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Populism Is Part of Our Political Fabric Now
And both sides need to adjust.
https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/populism-is-part-of-our-political?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
7 days ago
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The Rational League (@therationalleague)
Freedom House released their annual democracy report. I want you to read one section. They describe how illiberal leaders use gerrymandering to give the appearance of full political participation whi...
https://substack.com/@therationalleague/note/c-244702383?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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AI Alignment Is Impossible
Not just in practice, but in theory.
https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/ai-alignment-is-impossible?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Iran War Is About to Hit a Supply WallâMarkets Arenât Ready
Why the Next 30â60 Days Matter More Than the First 30
https://open.substack.com/pub/escalationtrap/p/the-iran-war-is-about-to-hit-a-supply?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Trump and the dark art of the deal breaker
Why no one can trust America
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/trump-and-the-dark-art-of-the-deal?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Europe has only six weeksâ supply of jet fuel left owing to Iran war, says energy chief
There will be flight cancellations âsoonâ if oil supplies are not restored in coming weeks, says head of IEA
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/europe-supply-jet-fuel-iran-war-flight-cancellations-iea
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The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thielâs Online Influence Empire
Barrett Brown on how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging âmemetic warfareâ against their enemies
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-neo-nazi-enforcer-who-helped?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Ignore the Blockade Bluster: Israel and the US Have Lost this War. Prepare for a Global Slump.
I hesitated before writing a post on this war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/annpettifor/p/ignore-the-blockade-bluster-israel?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Incels Are Taking Over
Anti-feminism best explains populism.
https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/the-rise-of-the-incel-global-order?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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'OrbĂĄnism Survived for 16 Years - It Won't Disappear Overnight'
Dr Georgios Samaras warns Adrian Goldberg on the Byline Podcast that joy over defeat of Hungary's authoritarian leader may be short-lived
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/orbanism-survived-for-16-years-it?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Behold, another second coming. But this one is Donald Trump â WAY BETTER than that Jesus guy | Marina Hyde
The Middle East on fire, a spat with the pope â and he posts himself as Potus Almighty. Will his disciples now see that their messiah has feet of clay, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/donald-trump-second-coming-jesus-middle-east-pope
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AI, free speech, and Americaâs real advantage over China
Our overbroad proposed AI regulations should alarm anyone who cares about free speech â and Americaâs competitive position against China.
https://open.substack.com/pub/greglukianoff/p/ai-free-speech-and-americas-real?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The End of Capitalism?
We might miss it once it's gone
https://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/the-end-of-capitalism?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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The Blockade Is the Smokescreen. Within Seven Days, 2,500 Marines Will Invade the Island Behind It. Your Portfolio Is Not Ready.
I predicted this war 17 days before it started. I've tracked every ship, submarine, and bomber moving toward one island since. Every timeline converges this week.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charliepgarcia/p/the-blockade-is-the-smokescreen-kharg-island-invasion?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Sarah Longwell & Heather Cox Richardson's Biggest Lies - One Voter At A Time
Hungary Won an Election. Nobody Fixed the Lock.
https://open.substack.com/pub/complexsimplicity/p/the-media-is-lying-budapest-is-not?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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He Posted Himself as Jesus
He posted himself as Jesus.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thehumanityarchive/p/he-posted-himself-as-jesus?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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Has the Forward March of Populism Been Halted?
The victory of PĂ©ter Magyar over Viktor OrbĂĄn in Hungary's election has profound significance, not just for Hungarians but for the rest of the world too, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/has-the-forward-march-of-populism?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies, IMF says
The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v670qwz97o?app-referrer=push-notification
10 days ago
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2.3 Million Views in 24 HoursâWhy This Conversation Is Landing Now
The response to my second appearance on Diary of a CEOânow over 2.3 million views in 24 hoursâis not random.
https://open.substack.com/pub/escalationtrap/p/23-million-views-in-24-hourswhy-this?r=clg1d&utm_medium=ios
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