But since the French have a special place in our hearts, it's "Mer Paryża".

The fact that in Polish it's "Burmistrz Nowego Jorku" but it's "Prezydent Warszawy" will never not be funny.

The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Trump "has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there... but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are." @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Pretty much every church with a mostly white congregation and leadership structure said no, bye. Her handle is nikalie.monroe over there and the recordings of the calls are something else.

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Kenne keine andere Redaktion in Deutschland, die so produktiv den Cringe beackert. Das verdient Anerkennung.

Die neuen EU-Einschränkungen bei der Visumvergabe an russische Staatsbürger sind sinnlose Symbolpolitik. Komplett wurscht bezogen auf die erklärten Ziele. Und auch sonst: wurscht. Solche Kommissions-Spässken regen mich nicht mehr auf. Dat war‘s

New project from Proekt Media about how ruling Russia is a family affair for Putin. Lovers, kids, cousins, in-laws, nieces - 24 in all. He's been in power so long that there are 3 generations of Putin's working for the state or state companies. 1/2 www.agents.media/putin-pomog-...

The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack. In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.

Richest nation in human history

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

These men either drink themselves to death or die peacefully at 90. Like many SS officers, KGB goons or concentration camp guards before them. Unless they are put on trial.

This cassowary is a soulmate of Werner Herzog‘s penguin who chose the unknown www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Opinion sections are turning into a safe space to spew nonsense nobody cares to fact check. Sad but true.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

Feeding US soldiers should count towards Germany’s 5% NATO goal

Staatliche Finanzierung von NGOs, an die der Staat eigene Aufgaben outsourct, sollte es so nicht geben. Ganz einfach. Solche Exzesse sind unumgänglich, egal, ob Sozialdemokraten oder Konservative das Geld verteilen

Ich weiß nicht, wie die Die Zeit es immer schafft, ausschließlich als purer cringe in meinem Feed aufzutauchen; sie können‘s einfach

Versteht einer, warum es diesen Text gibt? www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/a...

In style Spanberger and Mamdani are most reminiscent of Ronald Reagan

Übrigens kamen die Betreiber CIA-„black sites“ nicht nur in den USA davon. Auch in Polen, Litauen und Rumänien musste sich am Ende niemand persönlich verantworten. Echt glaubwürdig, wenn diese Länder sich jetzt als Leuchttürme der Freiheit und Rechtstaatlichkeit in Absetzung von Russland sehen

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

What's the difference between a President threatening to withhold money based on how people vote vs promising to give money in exchange for votes? In other words: how is this not illegal? Trump backs Cuomo, threatens to cut funds for New York City if Mamdani wins. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Purer Zynismus schon aus dem Grund, dass Putin Minderheitensprachen in Russland unterdrücken lässt. Man denke nur an das Ende des verpflichtenden Unterrichts der lokalen Sprachen. In allen Regionen, wo es russische Pluralitäten gibt, geht es mit den lokalen Sprachen bergab.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Fuck Conde Nast for firing Teen Vogue's entire political reporting dept. I encourage all of you to cancel your subscriptions.

You want to laugh but this is how stupid and selfish the scott adamses of the world are

Last year, @alexfanta.bsky.social and I started collecting data on a decade of meetings between Google and the European Commission. Today, Alex shows how Google influenced people in Brussels to dominate the scene.

Titarenko really captured the darkness of my hometown St. Petersburg like no other photographer. An old imperial seat of power, built on bones, city of the Russian revolution, blockaded by Germans in WWII, never fully recovered. And now its defense sector fuels the war in Ukraine. It gets darker.

"But the SVP is different": I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD. But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close. The real difference is govt participation, not ideology. And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party

Alexey Titarenko. City of Shadows. St. Petersburg. “I saw people on the verge of insanity: men and women with eyes full of sorrow and desperation, in search of some food which could prolong their lives and the lives of their families. They looked like shadows, undernourished and worn out.”

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

“The war has reinforced the missionary role of the writer.” A moving interview with Ukrainian writer Youri Andrukovich in @nzz.ch www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/s...

The EU should ban unvaccinated American tourists from entering

Unmenschliche Schweiz, unmenschliches Bern. Regierungsrat und Troll auf X, FDP-Müller bekommt eine Klatsche vom Verwaltungsgericht. SVP-Richter Häberli unterliegt 3:2. Für sie sind Menschen wie Gegenstände, sie werden entsorgt, weggesperrt. Wir schauen auf die USA? Schaut ins eigene Land:

You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.

No country in the world would benefit more from a return to nuclear testing than China. We barely escaped the last arms race. If Congress doesn't move to stop Trump, we are fully committing to another we may not survive.

Pretty scary that a dottering man who wrongly thinks Russia and China are testing nukes, who doesn’t know which part of his government is in charge of US nukes, and assumes they can be tested “immediately” has sole authority to order their launch.

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

Sozialchauvinismus, Klassismus und Law & Order statt Sozialstaat, Demokratie und Teilhabe. Danke, @spdfraktion.de / @spd.de ..

Die @blick.ch App bewirbt ein dark mode, verlangt dazu aber ein OneLog-Konto. Ohne jede technische Notwendigkeit. Nur ein Trick, mit dem neue Accounts generiert werden sollen. Ein dark pattern für dark mode, konsequent, konsequent

TIL I most definitely don’t have aphantasia

These maniacs emulated a dial-up ISP and used link aggregation with twelve 56k modems to get a connection comparable to my first broadband back in 2002 (ADSL over ISDN at 768 Kbit) Didn’t know link aggregation even existed for analog modems

I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app? What?

Always on the money @privateeyenews.bsky.social