Die Stadt Wien wird seit Jahren durch die emotionalen Befindlichkeiten einzelner Bezirksvorsteher mit Dinosaurier-Mentalität aufgehalten.

Unser Buch zur Neutralität geht in die zweite (leicht verbesserte) Auflage. Das macht dann schon ein wenig stolz. Falls noch wer ein Weihnachtsgeschenk sucht 👇🏻 www.thalia.at/shop/home/ar...

in Wien schmeißt man Geld raus, um Straßen auf eine Art und Weise "umzugestalten", die nach Fertigstellung einen neuen (echten) Umbau erfordern würde. Es ist nicht schwierig, breite Gehwege, grün, sichere Radwege, weniger Fahrspuren, weniger Parkplätze, weniger Lärm, fast alle happy.

his OWN brother just said that Tomio Okamura has mental health problems and is a serious threat. Why are political systems all across Western countries constantly bringing people to power who should be nowhere near power?

let's bring the good old pre-Women workplace back. @nytimes.com is asking the right questions!

this wording is as French as a French movie

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"The problem for Republicans is that "Trump did not merely build a less educated Republican coalition — he also crafted a less politically engaged one ... Highly politically engaged Americans moved left, while the disengaged moved right.""

SURPRISE

Aged just 30, the president of the populist-right party, National Rally, is now France’s most popular politician. Jordan Bardella says he is “not in favour of leaving the EU”, but for “a Europe of nations”

this argument is dangerous nonsense. There is no legal basis for the US' strikes on "drug boats", not under the ius ad bellum, not under US law, not under the law of armed conflict, not under human rights law. It's state-orchestrated murder, plain and simple. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guess the exodus is about to start immediately, right? RIGHT??

“There’s little to no emotional reflection here. It feels like just technical work. Because if you don’t stop the enemy [Russia], he will kill your servicemen and after the servicemen are dead, he’s going to come to a city and he’s going to conquer, raze and kill civilians.” Reality.

Die Menschenrechte sind immer in der Krise. Aber wenn ein Staat wie die USA nicht einmal mehr zum Schein für sie eintritt, ist die Krise besonders groß. Ich durfte ein wenig zum 75. Geburtstag der EMRK sagen. orf.at/stories/3409...

43% der männlichen Bevölkerung im relevanten, weil wehrfähigen Alter, würden Österreich ja oder "eher ja" mit der Waffe verteidigen, 32% in Gesamtbevölkerung. 75% für die Beibehaltung der Neutralität, unterschiedliche Definitionen (Raushalten aus Kriegen bzw. allgemein ganz oben, dann Diplomatie)

so Dick Cheney outlived Henry Kissinger

US alt right accounts ("End Wokness" has 3.9 mil followers) have found out that there are Muslims in Vienna. The comments are also quite something, one thinks that the video was made in the US, others say Hitler "predicted this" or that "we need him back", another one speaks of "white genocide".

on the occassion of Dick Cheney's death, you should read this article. But basically the headline says it all (no need to pay for a WaPo subscription nowadays). www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

could anyone tell Mr Kristol about, eg, the Iraq war or the PATRIOT Act

Parking is essentially a huge subsidy for cars/car ownership. "Vienna's war on parking" is a misleading headline since Vienna is still essentially a giant parking lot, parking is super cheap and changes here are only incremental but the report itself is actually ok www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0C1...

Rumsfeld, Powell, and now Cheney: Three of the key architects of the US hypersecurity paranoida post-9/11 state who also destroyed the illusion of a liberal world oder based on the UN Charter are now dead. But their "legacy" remains. Would there have been a Trump, with all his powers, without them?

all you need to know about Dick Cheney's legacy can be answered by asking what the world and the US would look like if the Iraq war had never happened.

Having seen countless of his interviews in recent years, I have the impression that Jeffrey Sachs is literally and pathologically dellusional. Sorry to say. He's not alone, think of Trump. But our system seems unable to deal with influential people who lose (or never really had) their sanity.

"flee"

wait, what, Germany is still importing steel from Russia!?

Wondering what will happen to Austria’s neutrality once one of the, if not the oldest arms manufacturer – now owned by a Czech investment group – of our country, Steyr Mannlicher, leaves because of it (Screenshots from reports in Austrian media posted by Steyr’s new CEO)

ich finde es völlig irre, dass "jede Person eine Meldeauskunft aus dem Zentralen oder Örtlichen Melderegister über die aktuellen Wohnsitze einer anderen Person verlangen" kann. Eine Freundin von mir hat jetzt einen Stalker am Hals. Ich kann nur jedem raten, eine Auskunftssperre zu beantragen.

es ist einfach irre, für was in Österreich Geld rausgeschmissen wird (und wo es fehlt)

Sonntag ist Rezensions-Tag: Ich habe mir Tatjana Tönsmeyers Buch zur nationalsozialistischen Besatzung Europas angesehen. Zum Höhepunkt waren 230 Millionen betroffen, aber auf höchst unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Spannendes Buch zum Alltag im Nicht-Alltäglichen. ralphjanik.com/2025/11/02/r...

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

40 years ago, the International Court of Justice stated that there was no "tie of territorial sovereignty between the territory of Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco" and that it was up to the people of Western Sahara to decide the future of themselves/their territory. Morocco is a colonizer

I'm no expert on Argentina. I've been there once to visit a high school friend from Santa Fe who went on an exchange year at our high school in Vienna. I remember his reaction to Milei's election was "well, he can't do worse than all the others" and I think that might sum up the situation there.

"... ‘AI is often introduced into our classrooms ... without proper debate or consent,’ says @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. ‘This is not just about using tools like ChatGPT. It’s about the broader influence of the tech industry on how we teach, how we think, and how we define knowledge.’"

🧵 Trump admin is "doing a Libya"—claiming that US maritime strikes don't constitute "hostilities" under the War Powers Resolution and thus that law's 60-day limit on hostilities doesn't apply. Shared thoughts with @washingtonpost.com, but here are more: 1/n www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

You haven’t heard as much about Sudan because people in Sudan aren’t able to broadcast their suffering on social media the way many others are but it is really bleak there. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 🎁🔗

The people of Western Sahara have been betrayed. Morocco’s colonialism is being rewarded. Read the statement by Algeria’s representative. Fatal signal for other examples of unlawful occupation as well, from Eastern Ukraine all the way to Palestine. Sad day for self-determination and human rights.

Ok das ist länger geworden. Wer sich diesen Megathread nicht antun will: Der Vorwurf, man habe die Österreicher beim EU-Beitritt in Sachen Neutralität belogen oder etwas verschwiegen, stimmt nicht.

Also im Endeffekt ist die Medienförderung eine Subvention für ChatGPT

Heute heißt es immer wieder, man habe das Volk beim EU-Beitritt 1994/95 in Sachen Neutralität "belogen" oder das Thema zumindest kleingeredet. Aber stimmt das? Ein Thread mit Zitaten aus dem Kurier rund um den EU-Beitritt. Spoiler: Die Debatte hat sich seitdem nur wenig verändert.

"Eines nicht allzufernen Tages wird man sich allerdings ernstlich fragen müssen: Ist ein Mitmachen bei "gemeinsamen europäischen Verteidigungsstrukturen" wirklich mit der Neutralität vereinbar? Und: Wie kommt eine Zweidrittel-Mehrheit für die Abschaffung des Neutralitätsgesetzes zustande?" Rau, 1996

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

"a representative of Latvia First told POLITICO in a written comment that the Istanbul Convention was a “product of radical feminism based on the ideology of ‘gender’” and that Latvia’s ratification of the treaty was “political marketing that has nothing to do with the fight against violence.”" Sure

This feels like a Latin American version of the 2003 Iraq war

Danke für die Einladung! Frau Rohrer hat in Sachen Neutralität keine Gefangenen gemacht. Gut so!

“Hungary is looking to join forces with Czechia and Slovakia to form a Ukraine-skeptic alliance in the EU” Of course. “Skeptic”, is mildly put btw. www.politico.eu/article/hung...

The "don't worry about facial recognition tech" arguments are not faring well...

in other news: Syria has recognized Kosovo today. (via @azelin.bsky.social) www.voxnews.al/english/koso...

The Cold War has called and wants its proxy wars back www.defensenews.com/global/the-a...

"It is not clear whether the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas and negotiated by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye will survive its first phase. Since it began, Israeli forces have not stopped killing Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli settlers are still killing them in the West Bank."