IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return. Both are war crimes punishable under international law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Weiß nicht, wer mich mehr ankotzt: Die Profis der Selbstkasteiung „aus dem Tätervolk“ oder die ewig nölenden Post-2022-„Relokanten“, die sich im Westen nicht willkommen genug fühlen. Beide Gruppen performen für für die Europäer www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/m...

Jeden Stuss erzählen (und erzählen lassen), um wohlhabende Boomer in ihren übergroßen Einfamilienhäusern zu schützen. Heldenhafter Einsatz

Leo for president

EGG HEAD - “HARD CORE!” A witless, victorious smile adorns his face. “HARD CORE TO THE MEGA!”

Es wird auch angesichts dieses Kahlschlags Leute geben, die sagen: der BBC, dem SRF, dem… “ging es halt lange zu gut“. Nur: Niemand gewinnt bei solchen Aktionen. Von Oligarchen abgesehen, die wollen, dass das Publikum schlechter informiert ist als ohnehin schon

Die Schweizer wollen halt seltsame Dinge: Umweltschutz ohne Kosten, Wirtschaftswachstum ohne Personenfreizügigkeit, Vollzeit statt „Lifestyle-Teilzeit“ für alle ohne bezahlbare Kinderbetreuung 🫠

The AI slop security reporting is basically extinct. It almost does not happen anymore. At all.

In socialist societies, the opportunity (or rather the need) to tinker survived for much longer. In 80s USSR, can‘t fix your Lada yourself? Good luck. Way into the 90s, car owners were often called „auto amateurs“ in Russian, in the same vein as „pigeon fanciers“

JD exkommunizieren, damit er sich ein neues religions-cosplay suchen muss, was spräche dagegen?

Gasprinzessin Kateryna Reicheschenko

YouTube was the biggest media company in the world by revenue in 2025, followed by Disney and Netflix. Google beat the old incumbents and can now fully commit to being evil www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Auf den Punkt gebracht: "Der ÖPNV wird von Männern gemacht, die im Auto sitzen, die mit Geld, was ihnen nicht gehört, Dinge bauen, die keiner versteht, was aber nicht auffällt, weil sie keiner nutzt." www.fr.de/wirtschaft/l...

Leider wahr. Das Scheitern Orbans kam nach 16 Jahren zunehmend zügelloser Selbstbereicherung. Den Schaden macht sein Machtverlust nicht ungeschehen.

Imbecile in chief

“A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarded compounds in Southeast Asia, a new UN human rights report has found.”

A very special first for me: seeing my research featured in the @financialtimes.com. This big read walks through the background of one of the most radical referendums Switzerland has faced: the far-right proposal to cap the country’s population at 10m (currently around 9.1m) on the ballot in June

1/ 27 years ago, Slavko Ćuruvija, a Yugoslav and Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher, and a well-known critic of the Slobodan Milošević regime, was gunned down outside his apartment building in central Belgrade on 11 April 1999, amidst the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. ⬇️

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

Latest: Bellingcat has found close to 800 Hungarian government emails and associated passwords online, which in some cases have exposed confidential data of military personnel and civil servants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

WeChat was declared a model for Max a year ago when the Russian messenger was launched. But in practice it's now imperfectly modeled on Telegram which it's trying hard to replace

Sanctions haven’t derailed #Russia - #India ties — but they’ve fundamentally changed their nature. Energy has become the dominant pillar, while military-technical cooperation and private-sector business have taken clear hits. Thread 1/9

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

It’s a great time to be in the murder drone industry. (Being in the non-murder drone industry, as I am? Not so much).

Russia’s foreign intelligence service (SVR) is again warning about nuclear threats. After claiming Ukraine is pursuing nuclear weapons, it now says the EU is too. Short thread 🧵

Varoufakis is just a bad person. He was trying to burnish his EU-reformist credentials before the full-scale war by coming to Ukraine (pretty often!), and then once the full-scale started, he immediately started advocating for our genocide. A disgusting creature.

Israel be like "we may burn every relationship and commit entirely to the current US administration if in return it helps us to achieve our strategic goal and destroy our biggest enemy" and then not achieve their strategic goal or destroy their biggest enemy.

Dass man easy Kindern die Sozialleistungen streicht, ist die Kirsche auf der Torte. Doppelte, dreifache Bestrafung für Kinder in sehr schwierigen Lebensumständen. Eine Schande!

Hat die Berliner Zeitung das schon in Übersetzung gebracht? Aber dalli

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Frankreich hat seit 1991 so viele Dinge richtig gemacht, einfach nur ein Vorbild für europäische Rüstungs- und Verteidigungspolitik 💋

Vielleicht kann man den Deutschen anders nicht beibringen, dass sie DERZEIT und eigentlich eh SEIT LANGEM in Reichweite von russischen Lang- und Mittelstreckenraketen leben, ohne wirksame Flugabwehr oder eigene Langstreckenwaffen mit abschreckender Wirkung

in a stunning victory, Donald Trump has forced the Iranian government to profit tens of billions of dollars a year against their will

A woman in southern Russia finishes work late; no internet, no taxi. In Moscow, officials buy 2nd phones for a state messenger they don’t trust. Banks and marketplaces are told to detect if you’re using a VPN—and lock you out. Internet in Russia today: en.zona.media/article/2026...

the entire gist of the piece is that netanyahu played trump for a fool and the entire cabinet decision-making apparatus — all of them — sat on their fucking hands and stared at their too-big shoes rather than try to call it for what it was

JD Vance comes to a foreign country to openly campaign for a candidate ahead of an election, and then accuses other countries of interfering in those very elections

Altman will go down in history as the greatest bullshitter of the century

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

this is, as far as i can tell, a specifically Arab type of antisemitism: "israel stole our jews (which are a type of property.)"

EGG HEAD - “Skibadee, skibadanger! I am the rearranger!”

Hardly a new point, but when you think back to the 1990s and the debates abt trying to help RU transition to democracy, I doubt anyone (notably me) wld have anticipated that RU wld prove much more successful making the US look like post-Soviet RU than vice-versa. In my “Black Swan” folder.

Die Amerikaner erleben gerade ihre postsowjetischen 1990er mit Oligarchen, die sich Westentaschen-Medien kaufen, um sich bei Boris Nikolajewitsch Trump einzuschleimen www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Europe should hope Purl lives but should act as if it is already dead. Just almost impossible to see Trump administration allow weapons to continue to flow to Ukraine that are needed to restock US supplies, as well as Israel/Gulf. www.csis.org/analysis/eur...

„Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition“ Keep kissing his ass, Europeans, and see how it works out for you

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Täusche ich mich, oder wird in deutschen Medien mit keinem Wort erwähnt, dass das 14. Amendment die Staatsbürgerschaft von heutigen Afroamerikanern und native Americans garantiert? Dass ohne Geburtsortsprinzip die Staatsbürgerschaft von *allen* Amerikanern infrage steht?

Die Lieferung von Skyranger verzögert sich „massiv“ (Stern). Vielleicht sollte man ukrainische Hausfrauen mit ihren 3 D Druckern mal ran lassen.

„In der heutigen Zeit ist die Todesstrafe unzulässig [...]. Sie schafft keine Gerechtigkeit für die Opfer, sondern schürt Rache. Für einen Rechtsstaat stellt die Todesstrafe ein Versagen dar, weil sie ihn verpflichtet, im Namen der Gerechtigkeit zu töten.“ (Papst Franziskus)