this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

One of the erroneous assumptions I see people making in the current immigration & citizenship debate is assuming legal citizenship determined access to rights/privileges for all people. That was not true before the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause AND legal citizenship before that 1/

Jede Anekdote über "Sushi Verbot" an irgendeiner amerikanischen Uni war hierzulande 8000 Leitartikel und unzählige Bücher wert; dass nun Medien zensiert, Wissenschaftlerinnen gefeuert und bedroht werden, setzt auch nicht annähernd die gleiche Energie frei.

trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful: 1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda. 2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness 3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech

Wir wissen, was US-Sanktionen bedeuten: es bedeutet auch digital ausgelöscht zu werden. Entzug/Löschung von Amazonaccounts, Microsoft, Mastercard-Transaktionen... auf ALLE US-Unternehmen wird Druck ausgeübt, diese umzusetzen.

Da verweigert die Sexarbeiterin @hannalakomy.bsky.social / Salomé Balthus einem Journalisten ein Interview, er bucht dann ein Abendessen mit ihr und schreibt einfach darüber. Not cool. Aber auch nicht rechtens, hat jetzt ein Gericht entschieden. Mehr auf @taz.de taz.de/Salome-Balth...

Burnout und tiefgreifende Erschöpfung, Symbolbild. #NordStream2 #NordStreamTanne

Until Putin has no choice but to abandon ambitions to control all Ukraine the only outcome the "WE MUST DIALOGUE" crowd will get is "I TOLD YOU SO" posts from Kaja Kallas

Radikaler, offen verschwörungstheoretischer Antisemitismus wird in der amerikanischen Rechten gemainstreamt und ich seh null Berichterstattung darüber in deutschen Medien. Dafür die hundertste Neuauflage einer Postkolonialismusdiskussion.

With tightening immigration policies, the EU is moving towards a Eurokafala system where migrants are constantly brought in to make up for labour shortages, but also constantly abused as second-class citizens. www.ft.com/content/4329...

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

These are the young ppl who are staffing Republican campaigns now. Literal fucking Nazis.

Titanischer Self-own. Sowas können die Europäer einfach 👏

ok so maybe I was wrong when I said Putin would never invade. and maybe I was wrong when I said Putin will win in a week and we should not help. But now we’re here, and I'm going to tell you what putin is thinking, and I’m going to do it in the most patronizing way possible

Der Wehrhahn-Anschlag in Düsseldorf vor 25 Jahren wurde ebenfalls nie aufgeklärt. Kein Täter gefunden, ein Nazi-Verdächtiger freigesprochen. Das war's

Bodo, hör auf, dich zu blamieren und wechsel' dein Social-Media-Team aus

Dieser hartnäckige Winternebel in Zürich wird im Laufe des Vormittags meist tatsächlich dichter. Um dann so um 10-11 Uhr zu verschwinden. Never not weird

Wie fühlt es sich an, wenn man als Putin-Appeaser immer aufs Neue Verhandlungen mit Moskau fordert und wenn dann der Herr im Kreml verkündet, der Krieg gehe bis zu „Befreiung“ der Ukraine weiter, und Verhandlungen kategorisch ablehnt? Müsste nicht irgendwann auch bei denen der Groschen fallen?

Unverständlich, wie es sein kann, dass dieser Kerl nicht längst im Knast ist

Putin hat also völlig unbemerkt 360000 russische Soldaten nach Belarus gebracht, die so kampfbereit sind, dass sie nicht im Donbass eingesetzt werden 🫠

Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design. When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI.

My favourite business lounge experience, from the days when I had a priority pass credit card: Emperor Nicholas II Murmansk Airport, leaking roof and a live pigeon stuck behind the suspended ceiling. As elite as it gets

In other words, Europe’s festive mood is nothing more than deranged kowtowing before Trump. You have to be nuts to believe Russia is ready for a compromise on presently discussed terms

Ich werde nie verstehen, wieso europäische Linke beim Thema Rechtspopulismus Zeter und Mordio schreien aber gegenüber dem Kreml - der pro-russische Nazis europaweit an die Macht bringen will - für Ausgleich und Diplomatie plädieren

Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.

May I ask why Russia is supposed to OK that? Oh, right, they won’t

Sounds made up but it’s true en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

Hardly surprising. A NATO membership for Ukraine can’t materialize without US support. Plus according to polls, ordinary Ukrainians seem less and less interested in their country joining the alliance or considering NATO membership an effective security guarantee www.ft.com/content/c98d...

Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.

Incredible! Mass shootings are now so common in the US that this was the second shooting experienced by two survivors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

​Kyrylo Budanov with Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, who was released from a Belarusian prison along with 113 political prisoners and transferred to Ukraine. ​The group of released people includes five Ukrainian citizens.

The US has to focus on competition with China AND AI is the future, so the US must devote tons of resources to it, or China might get there first AND The US removes export controls, allowing China to buy advanced AI chips if the US govt gets a cut of the sales DOESN’T MAKE SENSE ALL TOGETHER

Released as in “deported to a EU country“? or as in „to be jailed again anytime as long as they remain in Belarus“?

Odessa hat heute Nacht den wohl massivsten russischen Luftangriff im diesem Krieg erlebt, mit riesigen Folgen für die Stromversorgung. Russland „kümmert“ sich zum 1509. Mal um das Wohl der russischsprachigen Bevölkerung. Wenn man nach der Auslöschung des Donbas überhaupt noch welche Beweise braucht.

The mainstreaming of Nazi shit by centrists, socdems and conservatives did more for the Nazi cause than actual Nazis, and I’m not even joking

Surrogacy is vile and should be banned, part 132464 www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Make no mistake, if the 14th Amendment should fall - I am not saying it will, there are plenty of obstacles, I am speaking hypothetically - but if it should fall, no one is safe. It is challenging for most families to prove legal citizenship beyond a generation or two.

The 14th Amendment is as clearly and unambiguously written as any law on the books. Politically it was intended to suppress former Confederates and prevent the conditions that led to the Civil War. To attack it is to give comfort to their heirs and cut into the seams of our society.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Fucking insane. As far as I know making minors represent themselves is impossible in the EU and in Switzerland

Hat 1 der Demonstranten gegen Wehrpflicht vor der russischen Botschaft protestiert?

Couldn’t have said it better… 😄 @wiegold.de on the idea of creating a “Germany-wide anti-drone umbrella”. augengeradeaus.net/2025/12/mini...

Remember this vote: the Lukashenka regime opposed the UN resolution demanding #Russia return abducted Ukrainian children. Not only is the regime complicit - some children were transferred to #Belarus - but this shows its total lack of independence from Moscow. Shameful.

Good riddance to the guy who gave us iOS 7 „flat design" that Apple, thankfully, diluted bit by bit over the years. Dye’s latest crime against humanity is the „Liquid Glass“ interface of MacOS 26

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Wir werden alle den Preis dafür zahlen, dass die NATO im Februar 2022 nicht eingegriffen hat. Dieser Krieg geht noch ein Jahr oder anderthalb Jahre, bis das Rekrutierungsproblem der Ukrainer endgültig untragbar wird und Kyjiw faktisch kapitulieren muss. Und dann sind wir Europäer an der Reihe.

To put it frankly: these Nazi psychopaths have to be stopped

Every war Russia was ever involved in was defensive, according to Putin, you know. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a defensive „special military operation“ executed with „surgical precision“. Europeans should take this threat seriously.

Now Putin is openly threatening Europe with war. Russia „doesn’t intend“ to go to war, but if „Europe does, we’re ready right now, and then there will be nobody to negotiate with“.