Too important to keep behind the paywall, listen to my latest episode with @hahauenstein.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/24fF...

Too important to keep behind the paywall, listen to my latest episode with @hahauenstein.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/24fF...

Is Germany's Israel consensus finally shifting? In the latest @spassbremse.bsky.social episode, I speak with @hahauenstein.bsky.social about German "Staatsräson" and why it might be (rhetorically) shifting now. Subscribe to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

Is Germany's Israel consensus finally shifting? In the latest @spassbremse.bsky.social episode, I speak with @hahauenstein.bsky.social about German "Staatsräson" and why it might be (rhetorically) shifting now. Subscribe to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

And check out our first video episode here: youtu.be/HdskRf_FmBI

Latest episode of Spaßbremse with Astrid Zimmerman of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the new (old) GroKo government in Germany. Listen here spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/eD0tsIuAhTb

Latest episode of Spaßbremse with Astrid Zimmerman of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the new (old) GroKo government in Germany. Listen here spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/eD0tsIuAhTb

Shout out to all the divorce-made Kinder

Ohne Einwanderung hätte DE 2019-2024 Rezession (-6% BIP) statt Stagnation (±0%) gehabt. Und: Trend der Arbeitsmarktintegration ist gut (weniger Overqualification, i.e. high skill leute in low skill jobs), aber Level still bad. Source: New @ecb.europa.eu blog www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

Happy Tag der Befreiung. The fight against fascism continues.

So imagine right now you have a fleet of 4 voltage, all signalling systems you want, 200m long, approved to run anywhere high speed trains WHERE DO YOU DEPLOY THEM? And as this is to be an EU plan, let's focus on #CrossBorderRail routes

Ongoing evidence that a sense of isolation and atomization is a driver of far right extremism. And one that becomes self reinforcing as far right parties agitate for policies that destroy the social fabric.

Paris May Day

Good reminder of the value of human labor: Google AI’s summary of Hobsbawm’s May Day history is exactly backward.

Enjoyed my conversation with @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on @spassbremse.bsky.social about Friedrich Merz’s history and what it might mean for the future of Germany. Link to listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Jow1PXtAySb

Enjoyed my conversation with @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on @spassbremse.bsky.social about Friedrich Merz’s history and what it might mean for the future of Germany. Link to listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Jow1PXtAySb

Potentially as big an event as Nixon closing the gold window in 1971. Without dollar swap lines European banks will need to dramatically cut their dependence on dollar funding. www.reuters.com/markets/some...

Every news podcast and newsletter ad goes “don’t you hate how much news there is?! Subscribe now to our news thing for even more news!”

Germany, where even the Deutsche Bahn AI assistant gets to enjoy Feierabend

🚨NEW BONUS🚨 Uma, Ciarán, Nick and Julia answer your questions because we've been doing this for 6 years now. Wooo Thanks for listening Patreon.com/cornerspaeti

Unfortunately gotta hand it to ‘em

This should have been signed by every Democrat and every elected official who opposes the kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of political dissidents

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Good overview from Germany’s SPD finance minister Jörg Kukies of the sorts of sums unlocked by Germany’s fiscal Zeitenwende if implemented:

They didn't take him literally OR Seriously From today's Odd Lots newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

When you misunderstand what a “think tank” is apnews.com/article/trum...

The Instagram following of The Left lead candidate. Remind me, what happened on January 29th? #Merz

The German elections have produced a clear result: Friedrich Merz will govern with a majority of CDU, CSU and SPD. The not-so-grand coalition plus the Greens are 7 seats short of a 2/3 majority to change the debt brake in the constitution or to add a new special purpose vehible. So what now?

Refreshing eBay Kleinanzeigen, gotta be the first to snag Habeck’s “Kanzler Era” bracelet.

First time German voter

The Greens choosing to take the Foreign Office and leaving Finance to the FDP was a catastrophic miscalculation.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We have @tedknudsen.bsky.social of @spassbremse.bsky.social on for our far too often Plakate review (man there's been too many fucking elections) of the 2025 snap elections Listen over at operationglad.io

Officially launched by @yolandadiaz.bsky.social today: the 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦. Led by the great @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we're working on a report for the minister. Vision & ambition from a left party in power are possible!* *in Spain

With only a couple days to go until the German election, check out the @spassbremse.bsky.social election preview I did with Ingar Solty of the Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spa...

With only a couple days to go until the German election, check out the @spassbremse.bsky.social election preview I did with Ingar Solty of the Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spa...

Enjoy this because next year’s Super Bowl is going to be Lee Greenwood and the anti-Target MAGA rapper.

Trump’s Gaza plan is obviously grotesque but the strategy of funding an ally to fight a colonial war, the ally withdrawing, then the US taking over the war hasn’t exactly worked well in the past.

Part 1 of my discussion of Merkel’s memoirs (with guest Dominik Leusder) is now online. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spa...

Part 1 of my discussion of Merkel’s memoirs (with guest Dominik Leusder) is now online. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spa...

a survivor of Auschwitz returned his Bundesverdienstkreuz after the CDU and CSU voted with Nazis to speed deportations

How is the Brandmauer coming down? Gradually, then suddenly.

Anglos will have a meltdown if there’s more than one type of recycling bin. In the German speaking world they dutifully place the different bottles of every individual beverage in its own crate.

Pretty rich coming from a guy who got himself fired on purpose

For those interested in the historical precedents for Trump’s trade policy, a recording of my talk with Beth Baltzan of USTR and Peter Rashish of @amgerinst.bsky.social is now online. Watch here: americangerman.institute/video/smoot-...

The narrative of “tariffs have made this country prosperous and rich, therefore we should keep them (permanently)” was already a popular protectionist talking point in the 1890s

"Regardless of the future of U.S. trade policy, the basis of it will not only be determined in the Oval Office, negotiating table, or halls of the WTO—but also in the memories and analogies that are used to legitimate it." Interesting take on the memory politics of US tariff and trade policy!

My essay on the historical legacies of US trade policy and the future of US geoeconomics under Trump is out now with @amgerinst.bsky.social Given recently rumblings about taking over the Panama Canal, those Gilded Age parallels are looking rather relevant! americangerman.institute/publication/...

Wrote a few things and did some decent work this year, but by far the biggest accomplishment has to be (finally) securing this thing.