«Knowledge is a survival skill. One that societies must cultivate to sustain trust and democracy in the digital age. While technology has expanded access to information, it has also eroded our ability to think well.» | By Jason Baehr iai.tv/articles/in-... #knowledge #thinking #philosophy #philsky

"Wer sich beschwert, ist linksextrem..." @janboehm.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPv...

Otto and Elise Hampel were Berliners who, in the early 1940s, used postcards to urge resistance against the Nazi regime. They were arrested, convicted and beheaded. (Their story is the basis for "Every Man Dies Alone," a brilliant novel.) www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/07/a...

Are you habeas corpus?

Für die Geschichtsbücher, was der General aus Oregon hier sagt. Mag mir gar nicht ausmalen, was auf ihn zukommt, sobald Trumps militante Truppe davon erfährt.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Discount Goebbels: Don't call us fascist. Also Discount Goebbels: Can I introduce you to my buddy who thinks the Nazis were the good guys?

Who keeps asking Trump about invoking the Insurrection Act? (This feels like an operation to create a narrative in support of doing so, and I can’t help but wonder if the questions are planted.)

BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge again blocks Trump from sending National Guard to Portland

Off. The. Fucking. Rails. Imagine if Obama said ANY of this at any time, let alone in front of military personnel. newrepublic.com/post/201373/...

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..." apnews.com/article/chic...

Wann verbietet die CDU endlich Schweineöhrchen??

foreign ownership in US defense contractors.... grrrrrreeeeeeaaaaaat.

A real test of whether Europe is prepared to shed its paralyzing risk-aversion and send a strong message to Moscow www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

Excellent piece on current US politics and the democrats. Core message: Trump has NO mandate for the enormous changes he is pushing through, even if we reject that democracy should protect itself (which we shouldn't)

Sad news.💔

JB calling for removal from office under 25th Amendment: "There is something genuinely wrong with this man."🇺🇸🙏

Möglicherweise dämmert es nun langsam dem einen oder anderen C-ler, dass es vielleicht nicht die allerbeste Idee ist, Themen und Talking Points der Faschistenpartei zu übernehmen und gleichzeitig demokratische Parteien zu diffamieren und zum Feind zu erklären. Möglicherweise dämmert es auch nicht.

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

„It’s not fascism unless the military is used against the population.“ Well.

If only you knew how bad things really are

POTUS telling his Generals to prepare for shooting on the opposition should top the news over one of these ritual shutdown dramas, I think

Die beste Nachricht des Tages ist, dass die FDP keine Rolle mehr in der deutschen Politik spielen wird. Kubicki wird vielleicht noch bei Nius auftauchen, aber das wars dann auch.

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

The new owner of TikTok, everyone

Ellison träumt also vom Überwachungsstaat, in dem Techbros Kaiser spielen. Klingt wie IG Farben 2.0: damals Stahl & Chemie fürs Reich, heute Cloud & Daten fürs Profitreich. Geschichte reimt sich – nur dass die neue Geheimpolizei AI-Agenten in der Cloud sind. Hallo Medien und Politik, aufwachen!! 🔥

Time once again to remember how Trevor Noah, early in his stint as host of The Daily Show back in 2016, told us Trump would be America’s African dictator. Eerily, he even started off by lampooning Trump’s penchant for marble, gold, and escalators!

ROK Again showing us how Democracies behave. The Ministry of Defense will award commendations to soldiers who did not carry out illegal or unjust orders during the December 3 Emergency Martial Law designating them as "individuals who protected constitutional values." www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Maria Furtwängler rechnet mit der Union ab.

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Das wäre uns mit #Habeck nicht passiert. #ReicheFail

Am 26. September 1980, wurden durch eine Bombe am Haupteingang des Oktoberfestareals in München 12 Menschen ermordet. Weitere 221 Personen wurden verletzt, 68 davon schwer.

Einer der Punkte, warum ich Christdemokrat aber seit gut 15 Jahren nicht mehr CDU-Mitglied bin.

It is super fascinating to hear the soon to be mayor of New York City talk about his obligations to follow international law.

Stop disappearing people with no criminal record, stop threatening their children to lure them into being captured, stop encouraging citizens to rat each other out, stop censoring comedians and academics, stop weaponizing the law, stop whipping up hate at the most vulnerable. Then maybe.

She warned us. (Why does that sound so familiar?) 🧵

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

Errol Musk: "You must remember: in two thirds of the world right now, marriageable age is twelve." Interviewer: "Yeah, that's wrong though" Errol Musk: "Well, you may think so, but don't tell two thirds of the world that." youtu.be/gagYfbwVXFU?...

Wohin die Union fährt, das sehen wir hier.

"He is right that the system is rigged: it is rigged in his favor. And now it is rigged against you, unless we find a way to stop it."

I'm not crying, you're crying. Hate isn't permanent. You can escape it. Your life will be so much more full and amazing without it. youtu.be/njXZUH5hv0w

They are killing their own people, just like during Covid.

This should be getting a lot more attention. And no journalist should sign it. "The idea that a member of the Pentagon press corps or a reporter writ large can only write what the government tells them to, that's not how it works in the United States of America." www.rawstory.com/pentagon-267...

Der katastrophale Zustand der Bahn hat drei Gründe: Peter Ramsauer, Alexander Dobrindt und Andreas Scheuer. (Ehemalige Verkehrsminister, alle von der CSU)

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Paying for posts on Facebook and TikTok, sharing disinformation, manufacturing polls, preparing for question election integrity. The Moldova elections on September 28 are targeted for interference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tonight: Part 2 of tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Lecture in San Francisco. Spoiler Alert: Biblical scripture + fascist philosophy = the roadmap for apocalyptic politics. Look around. See the pattern yet? Here's why it matters: newrepublic.com/article/2004...