Holding everyone to account on international law is actually a project of self-interest disguised as internationalist humanism, because normalizing this sort of thing gives the worst people very bad ideas...

How it started, how it's going:

(sexy vielraucherin-chanteuse stimme) 🎶 ich hab noch einen koffer in Berlin ✨ deswegen ruf ich grad lufthansa kundenservice an ja danke ich bleib in der leitung oh gott ich schwöre das nächste mal fahr ich mit der bahn 🎶

Bitte unterschreiben, denn wer nach Listen von sogenannten Marginalisierten strebt, hat ggf noch anderes im Sinn. M.E. ist das ein Testballon um zu schauen wie solidarisch wir sind. Es sind nicht mehr so viele Stimmen, bitte laßt uns das schaffen und uns vor trans*+ nichtbinäre Menschen stellen

Ihr braucht Ablenkung vom Doomscrolling? Dann gibt es hier etwas sinnvolles, nämlich die Petition "Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen" mitzuzeichnen. Vielen Dank!

EU citizens - especially those in Greenland - deserve a clear answer to the question of how EU leaders would react to attempts of the US to annex Greenland. Will there be a clear political and economic response? Or is it also going to be a "complex situation" to be "closely monitored"?

I just want to point out how this all has the air of sexual conquest; that’s not coincidental but rather core to fascism as a project

Das Völkerrecht gilt nicht für unsere Verbündete, so muss man das wohl verstehen. Das ist nicht nur feige und moralisch verwerflich, sondern auch strategisch extrem kurzsichtig. Es ist zum Haareraufen.

"grundsätzlich". Der Kanzler mit wischiwaschi-Statement zum völkerrechtswidrigen Angriff der USA auf Venezuela.

i've said this before but i will not cross the atlantic ever again until i go as a translation officer to assist in derepublicanisation and war crimes tribunals in the italian occupation zone of the former, dismantled USA

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

do democratic transitions usually start with a kidnapping ursula

you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.

“the principles of international law” rather prohibit bombing countries because their leaders “lack legitimacy”.

Das Auswärtige Amt erklärt, die Lage in Venezuela sei noch unübersichtlich. Ich helfe gerne bei der Aufklärung: Trump greift ein Land an & entführt dessen Präsident. Das ist ein völkerrechtswidriger Angriff & Staatsterror. Hier keine deutlichen Worte zu finden, ist an Heuchelei nicht zu überbieten.

Ganz im Ernst: Das ist ein erbärmliches Statement der EU und macht doppelte Standards unmaskiert sichtbar.

launching a petrowar while oil is in the beginning of an unstoppable decline in importance

You don't have to preface your take on US imperialist aggression by condemning Maduro

tuned into msnow in time to hear the former US ambassador to venezuela reminding viewers the US government considered maduro’s most recent election illegitimate, lmao US media is so shit

Look, all I'm saying is I figured out that fella was a loose cannon long before we came to "invents a thing that lets users generate non-consensual pornography and even CSAM"

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

"Denazification is a myth on every level of German society."

Sharp-eyed readers may note the overlaps between “gender ideology is a leftist plot to deprave the youth and molest our womenfolk”; “human rights are a Soviet/Islamist plot to sap our martial will to dominate and destroy our enemies”, and “the volk are threatened by the taint of the lesser races”.

Damit das neue Jahr auf einer solidarischen Note beginnt, könnt Ihr jetzt noch schnell hier unterschreiben epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

A cross-national analysis finds that as governments become more populist, academic freedom declines doi.org/10.1017/S153...

whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot

Angebote für Studierende, "die noch nicht so gern prompten, weil sie lieber selbst formulieren und denken wollen." Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.

We're lucky a "sandwich" isn't a servant pouring tepid soup into your mouth via a funnel while you obsessively play cards

and tiny tim, who survived in the flesh but suffered the spiritual death of excommunication for his adherence to the emperor and the antipope in the matter of investiture, being stricken by the sword of anathema entrusted to us by st peter, of whom our lord said, 'thou art peter, and upon this ro

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

In our actual cyberpunk dystopia, there will remain in the dark nooks and crannies of the world machines which are cognitohazards people must avoid. Young people told "if you see one, don't fucking talk to it. Don't ask it any questions. It will drive you mad and get you to kill yourself."

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

„Fear will keep the local systems in line.“ (Star Wars)

I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl. it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement. it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.

Your annual confirmation that Fairy Tale of New York still slaps even though it has an offensive term* in it *NYPD choir

I'm pretty sure that at this point in time, the remaining opposition to renewables are nothing but the tantrums of those with interest in fossil fuels and/or could not get the logic of "there's no cost to obtaining the fuel" to sink into the brain.

I think when the left says "you can't elect these appeasing centrist losers, all they have ever historically succeeded at is paving the way for a massive shift to the right" people take it as like, cynical politicking rather than the only sane people in politics saying a true thing

The last NYRA article from Kate Wagner is actually good and you should read it in its entirety instead of limiting your kneejerk reaction at out-of-context screenshotted quotes. Just sign up with a throwaway email and read it. It's free.

Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.

Publishing is essentially screaming into a void that occasionally sends back major revisions

occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

Excuse me, I forgot that “working class” means “white and male” and that “class politics” means “affirming racism and sexism.”

I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...