„the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.” Judge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old Whose Detention Drew Outrage www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

Robert Misik hat den 1.100-Seiten-Verfassungsschutzbericht über die AfD gelesen und alleine die Sammlung an AfD-Zitaten ist in der Zusammenschau eigentlich unfassbar.

@tessaszy.bsky.social über die Hetz- und Diffamierungskampagnen gegen Karim El Gawhary newsletter.falter.at/nw65M5Gcv8YQCv

variety.com/2025/tv/news... Rob Reiner gave us of a.o‘s Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally,This Is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, LBJ and was one of the most outspoken Hollywood political activists. He and his wife Michele were killed, their son booked for murder. This is was the president had to say.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Reflections on why utopias have rarely held up to scrutiny and why we keep coming back to them. In there, a little reminiscing of Gramsci‘s pessimism of the intellect vs. optimism of the will (and heart).

Der @georgrenner.istdaswichtig.at im @datum.at Newsletter wie immer differenziert und am Punkt. Finden die in den Hinterzimmern übrigens nicht so toll.

Dringende Empfehlung! Sehr wichtiger Kommentar von @oliverscheiber.eu zur Medien- und Demokratiekrise! www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Über das Dasein eines Teilzeitpflegers und die gepflegte Sprache des VÖZ, des Verbands österreichischer Zeitungen. Seuchenkolumne 1734 buff.ly/Hlpp01e

“… the endless fantasy in politics is persuasion without representation. You elect us to represent you, and where we disagree, we will explain to you why you are wrong. The result of that politics tends to be neither persuasion nor representation.“ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Wir – das sind jetzt auch die, die in besseren Zeiten die anderen waren. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

For over a decade, my Foundations of HCI undergrad course has covered “privacy & surveillance” with a (2002) reading about the Panopticon and a once distant warning about how social media sites could create a self-censoring reality. And Ellison is just… owning/celebrating the dystopia.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Und die Woche davor das Gespräch mit Yoram Hazony, Autor von “The Virtue of Nationalism,” und host der NatCon — National Conservatism - Konferenzen. Ezra Klein eben!!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Declaring basic civil rights to be privileges - a straight way to autocracy.

Israel is the remarkable case of a country at war whose security chiefs are more rational, moderate and pragmatic than its politicians youtu.be/c-swkvFNRS0?...

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand. Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

“The American people are facing one of the great challenges of the 21st century, as great as that confronting the French in 1940, when they had to decide whether to join the Resistance or not.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/w...

We humans are stability-seeking creatures. Getting accustomed to what used to seem unthinkable can feel like an accomplishment.… — it’s easy to mistake it for proof that the dark times are ending. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

Der absolut beste Kommentar, den ich bisher zur Einstufung der AfD gehört oder gelesen habe. In den Öffentlich-Rechtlichen trauen sich das nicht viele - eine absolute Seltenheit und deswegen umso beachtlicher. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-zu...

During times that seem to want to separate, compartmentalize or subjugate... s3s-main.net/email_design...

“This gives people a sense of the possible.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

The quote is famous but fictional; less well known is the fact that Jackson did, ultimately, comply with the Court. So have all of his successors. Trump is on the brink of breaking that precedent. If he succeeds, he will have broken the bonds of the Constitution as well.

In an 1832 standoff with the Supreme Court, President Andrew Jackson—a hero of Trump’s—is apocryphally supposed to have said that Chief Justice John Marshall “has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”

www.zdf.de/reportagen/a... Katty Salié über das neue Golden Age. Hervorragende Aspekte Sendung!

Gillian Tett: Financial Times columnist. She’s also a trained anthropologist with a Ph.D. She brings both perspectives into this conversation — exploring Trump’s policies as economics, as well as power politics, patronage and cultural messaging — makes the whole thing make a bit more sense.

Belgrad. Seit Stunden kommen Protestmärsche etc. aus ganz Serbien an. Der Sound dazu: "Pumpaj!" Im Sinne von: Pumpen, weiter Druck machen ⛽.

…sieht es aus, als versuchten diese Männer, den liberalen Traum von Freiheit zu erfüllen. Kein oder wenig Staat, freier Markt. Aber … etwas ganz anderes wird an seine Stelle treten, … das patrimoniale Regime. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...

Lesenswertes Statement von @andibabler.at

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

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