"Linker Mob" (Jens Spahn, 2.12.2025)

here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"

try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.

REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make? TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land

Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you? TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.

She is one of the minyan of people who could literally end almost all of this tomorrow. I’m sorry, she doesn’t get any points anymore, at this late date, for basic ante-level stuff like this. Do something already.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.

Carlo Masala: Angriffskrieg lohnt sich wieder. Was die USA als Friedensplan für die Ukraine verstehen, ist für Russland ein großer Sieg – auch über die Nato. Die Ukraine kann das nicht akzeptieren. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

Mamdani seems like he has the Bill Clinton magic quality of being able to make anyone talking to him feel special (I think even Newt felt charmed by Clinton in person!). Trump loves him lol

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

Whats so unnerving, among many other aspects of the whole sordid Epstein miasma, is how incestuous the world of these elites are. Everyone knows everyone. The personal, social, and professional spheres all overlap.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

We've got you 👍

I think he genuinely thinks this is what asylum seeker means

Another quote that had it come from any other president would have been a weeks-long scandal. Instead, it's just Wednesday.

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.

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You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.

every day is vacillating between everything matters too much and lol nothing matters

I don't think many people, inside and outside of US, understand how absolutely 🦇💩🤪 the official communication of the White House is. And while it is, undoubtedly, largely performative, the fact that it is considered effective and leads to little effective backlash says everything about this country

Tatsächlich besteht das Problem nicht mit dem Stadtbild, sondern mit dem Menschenbild.

„Wir haben natürlich im Stadtbild immer noch das Problem“ bringt das Problem dieses Diskurses ganz gut auf den Punkt. Es geht nie um das, worum es geht, aber das kann man auf Dauer nicht latent halten, weil es denen, denen es darum geht, darum halt nicht geht.

Unzählige internationale Organisationen und Zeug:innen dokumentieren das unbeschreibliche Leid in Gaza, aber in Deutschland denkt man sich zuhause vorm Bildschirm „die sehen gar nicht so mager aus“. An welchem Grad an Entmenschlichung sind wir angekommen, wenn so etwas Teil des Diskurses ist

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

jfc

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Quite the picture of the United States suddenly isolated and alone in the global community it used to lead

warum heißt es extrem gute Idee und nicht Vorschlaghammer

That, or you’re just bad at your job

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

Trump-aligned billionaires owning all the social media platforms is a really big deal

In Nordrhein-Westfalen wählen ziemlich gleich viele Leute AfD und Grüne. Medial und politisch geht es heute allerdings fast nur um die AfD und ihre Themen. Die "besorgten Bürger" die Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, sind die Anhänger der AfD. Wir sagen ihnen klar: es lohnt sich rechtsextrem zu wählen

Ich kann nicht mehr mit dem Gros der deutschen Medienlandschaft. Ich glaube, die wollen das so.

Classic illustration of the false dilemma fallacy. “The false dilemma…involves presenting a limited number of options as if they were the only…available. This forces people to choose between two extremes, even though there is a spectrum of possibilities.” www.scribbr.co.uk/fallacy/fals...

The ‘it’s not fascism’ thesis has been subdued by blunt force trauma

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.

Das bemerkenswerte hier ist, dass die Verschiebung eben nicht 2015 passiert sondern 2017. Genau dann wenn Politik und Medien anfangen sich auf die aufsteigende AfD und ihre Themen einzuschießen. Wenn Migrationspolitik verschärft wird und Migranten dämonisiert werden. Es ist nicht Migration an sich.

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Die Zeit is quickly turning into the German The Atlantic, a reactionary centrist “anti-woke” outlet that (unconsciously?) does the legwork of the far right.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Der Weg ins Autoritäre ist mit falschen Gleichsetzungen gepflastert.