May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...

We’ve now acquired photographic evidence of IDF soldiers peacefully detaining a Palestinian man in the West Bank.Oofficial Israeli sources claim he went on to shoot himself in a Hamas-inspired attempt to smear the reputation of the world’s most moral military. #IDF #Israel #Hamas #freepalestine

How did the Iranians shoot down an Apache without possessing any radar or anti-aircraft capabilities? There are only two possible explanations: The Iranians have made a breakthrough in applied sorcery. Or the president of the United States is full of shit.

If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

@stpnlibrarian.bsky.social Hallo, Grüße aus colorado. Eine kurze Frage - nach paarundzwanzig Jahren werde ich nächstes Jahr wohl nach Deutschland zurückkehren. Meine Tochter will mitkommen, macht sich aber Sorgen das ihr Traumjob hier (librarian, Public Library Boulder) sich nicht übertragen lässt.

No wonder the entrenched bureaucracy hates him to much. He's showing America that things REALLY can get better when you work on behalf of everyone, not for the Epstein class.

Sadly this is also true for Germany. While the historical reasons for this behavior are perhaps more understandable, it’s nonetheless a terrible miscarriage of justice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is only the comparison to the Trump GOP that makes Democrats look appealing now, and that’s a very, very low bar. A party that needs an insane foil to hide its corporate and AIOAC driven corruption, greed, and fecklessness isn’t a party we can build a better future with.

Katherina Reiche dämonisiert die Energiewende, weil das 36 Mrd €/Jahr koste: "430 Euro für jeden Deutschen". Aber damit werden bis zu 80 Mrd €/Jahr Fossilimporte ersetzt! Das sind 1040 €/Jahr für jeden - und das ohne Straße-von-Hormuz-blockiert-Preise. Und 65 Mrd €/Jahr fossile Subventionen on top.

Catching up on the series on Reading Tolkien as a Literature of Resistance - would really love feedback. open.substack.com/pub/thatgerm...

He is a sexual predator.

Repeat after me: Israel kills journalists who report on their crimes. All the time. Gleefully. Systematically. This needs to be prosecuted.

So the White House basically told the Pope to go fuck himself and that it could bomb and destroy who it wants? Calling all so called Catholics in the USA….?

I haven't see this much plastic surgery in one photo in ages.

Everybody should see this one graph. It tells you everything you need to know about what's wrong with America and the GOP.

If you havent seen this, make sure you read.

They'd be fools to trust the US. We attacked their leadership and assassinated them (and their families) without warning, while overtly engaging in negotiations. Then they followed up with bombing a girls school. We are simply not trustworthy or honorable. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hall of fame FT correction

Long overdue post. thatgermanguy.substack.com/p/reading-to...

Anyone who thinks the United States should withdraw from NATO has never studied history nor understands the mission of NATO.

New Substack post, part Tolkien, part tech critique, part personal testimonial. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Polls are open until 7 PM!

Illinois has same-day voter registration! Make sure you show up at YOUR assigned polling place with 2 forms of ID!

Die Energiewende durchzuziehen, wäre billiger als alle paar Jahre eine Ölkrise und sicherlich billiger, als Kriege für Öl zu führen. Und außerdem würde sie Arbeitsplätze schaffen, um die es doch eigentlich ging.

Warum das nicht in den Schlagzeilen: In Offenbach a.M. hat die AfD ihr Ergebnis HALBIERT. 2021: 7,3% der Stimmen. Gestern nur noch 3,5%*. Wenn "AfD stärkste Kraft!" kommt, wenn sie zB in Büdingen mit 25,4% vor der CDU (24,2%) liegt, warum ihre Niederlagen verschweigen? Warum sind nur AfD-Siege News?

He’s playin’ all his greatest hits.

And how is that different from Putin putting bounties on the heads of US personnel back in Afghanistan? The day Russia crossed the Rubicon is ages in the past and we’ve done nothing. How could we, when half of our leaders are on their payroll?

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

CBS pulling @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s interview from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is alarming and nothing short of censorship. Full breakdown on my Substack page (link below). adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans, I love you. I’ve been here for almost three decades. That said, what’s wrong with you and four way stops? Bad enough you use that stupid system, but you are all terrible at it. It’s not a freaking negotiation or a niceness contest every time. First come, first go. Get it together pls.

Colorado peeps - I’m sitting at DIA for a pick up. Anybody else thinking it would have been faster and cheaper to demolish this airport and build a new one than this eternal nightmare of a renovation?

AfD Bayern: Ein Abgeordneter wurde wegen Geldwäsche und Nötigung verurteilt, ein verurteilter Mörder kandidiert für die AfD in München, ein verurteilter Volksverhetzer in Ramersdorf-Perlach, jetzt kam ein anderer AfD-Kandidat in Bamberg in Untersuchungshaft – Vorwurf: vorsätzliche Körperverletzung.

🚨BREAKING: Todd Lyons, the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has admitted to senators that federal immigration officers would have “no reason” to be at voting locations this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So let's stop being so overly polite. this isn't "an unhealthy obsession". He continuously posts white supremacist views as his own, which means he IS a white supremacist. Add his totalitarian views and that makes him a fascist. Period. How's that Sieg Heil salute looking now, huh?

If we can’t stand for human rights here and abroad, we can’t credibly fight fascism anywhere. Palestinian freedom is tied to our fight against authoritarianism at home. You cannot defend democracy while aligning with anti-democratic interests like AIPAC.

Colo. Sen. Michael Bennet (D) is claiming credit for spending projects he voted against. Bennet said he couldn't support other issues in the bills. Unlike Rep Lauren Boebert (R), who's done the same, Bennet wouldn't say if he still would have voted NO if he was the deciding vote

ARE YOU A KAT PERSON? Come drop off any t-shirt at 7016 N Clark St and we’ll turn it into custom Kat campaign merch!

The right wants so bad to be in the Hollywood “in” crowd but they pretend they don’t. Thats why they’re desperate for their Super Bowl show to not suck like it did

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

So a machine can finally do a fraction of what humans have been able to do for eons and the tech class collectively wet themselves. Why can so few people see how bottomlessly stupid that is?

These days I really depend on #audiobooks so I don’t have to constantly think about the world, or my life within it. Anyone else?

Is it just me or does this gently whitewash the Epstein files? I’m a big fan of the Guardian, but this hit me as tepid. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don’t get why the biathlon is separated between male and female athletes. That seems counterintuitive.

The entire problem we have with the far right and declining democratic norms in America and Europe would disappear if the Kremlin disappeared. Russia now runs America as an extension of its global agenda of chaos by sowing far right seeds in democratic countries.

SWORN TESTIMONY!!! June 18, 2016 "I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."

A brand new Super PAC — Elect Chicago Women — just dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race. Why? Because it’s actually a front for AIPAC dark money. And they’re doing everything they can to buy my race:

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.