There isn’t a Golden Age and never was. It’s called the ‚Gilded Age‘ and that says it all.

Da hat die Deutsche @lufthansagroup.bsky.social ja nochmal Glück gehabt. Deren Flotte ist so museal, dass da kaum Computer im Einsatz sein dürften. Die A321 neulich von VIE nach FRA hatte stolze 30 Jahre auf der Uhr. /2 www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

Fact-checking and Media Literacy, so important to counter disinformation — or maybe not? www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias

The Guardian reports that large parts of southern Europe are drying up. And just in case you are not sufficiently worried: Their definition of southern Europe includes Germany and the South of the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

OMG, ich liebe alles daran! (Quelle:Reddit, www.reddit.com/r/doohickeyc...)

Sanctions work. Pass it on.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Real mob shake up vibes. Tomorrow in Geneva the national security advisers of E3 (🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪) will meet with counterparts from 🇺🇦 and then 🇺🇦 meets with 🇺🇸. The Americans don’t want European diplomats in the room when talking with the Ukrainians

Am I getting this right? There is an EU-UK-Ukrainian camp negotiating this with a Russian-US compact?

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

Here's a direct link to the letter democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

"Die SPD ist zum Karriereverein für junge Leute geworden, die sich auf deren Ticket einen Zugang zu öffentlichen Ämtern verschaffen. Der weitere Absturz der SPD in die Bedeutungslosigkeit stört sie erstmal nicht." Mal was Grundsätzliches über die SPD lesen? Udo Knapp für @tazfuturzwei.bsky.social

But windmills are ugly, I get it. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

#mediaownership matters.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Streisand effect 2.0

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

#mediaownership matters.

„Aber wer ist eigentlich zuständig?“ ist eigentlich ein schönes Motto für die Bundesrepublik. Hat jemand einen Designvorschlag, wie sich das mit dem Bundesadler kombinieren liesse? Vielleicht eine neue Strophe des Deutschlandliedes?

„Aber wer ist eigentlich zuständig?“ ist eigentlich ein schönes Motto für die Bundesrepublik. Hat jemand einen Designvorschlag, wie sich das mit dem Bundesadler kombinieren liesse? Vielleicht eine neue Strophe des Deutschlandliedes?

Kunst muss ja nicht immer eine konkrete Bedeutung haben, aber ich finde, diese Installation im Fernbahnhof Frankfurt Flughafen trifft den Gemütszustand eines Bahnreisenden ganz gut.

Und App-Stores und Betriebssysteme und Office-Apps, Bildbearbeitung, Marktforschung und und und…

Kunst muss ja nicht immer eine konkrete Bedeutung haben, aber ich finde, diese Installation im Fernbahnhof Frankfurt Flughafen trifft den Gemütszustand eines Bahnreisenden ganz gut.

„In the 11 years since launch [the UK press regulator] IPSO has never carried out a standards investigation.“

BREAKING YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account. Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom. Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1

The Kremlin spent tens of millions of dollars trying to subvert the elections. But in the end, the fear of being subjugated to Russia and of losing European support prevailed

Putin lost this one.

Wondering if the US might pull Art. 5 on Venezuela just to troll the rest of NATO.

NEW: As Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, conducted delicate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas this year, his son Alex quietly soliciting billions of dollars from some of the same Middle East governments. By Debra Kamin and Bradley Hope www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

#mediaownership matters.

Or they behave and receive a 100% discount, naturally. bsky.app/profile/just...

The memorial site must… include “a statue of Charlie Kirk sitting at a table with an empty seat across from him” or one of Kirk and his wife holding their children. „Designs for the statue must be approved by the legislature. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sounds very familiar. #fuehrerkult

Everyone who is tempted to cancel Disney+ because of Kimmel should read this feature about their theme park business. Unhinged capitalism at its worst. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Ich möchte nur nochmal anmerken, was für eine Enttäuschung und Makel für unser Land der Frankfurter Flughafen ist. Jede Aussenposition endet automatisch in einer Art Viehtransport, wo Tierschützer aufschreien würden. Natürlich haben wir alle gerade andere Sorgen, aber dennoch…

Breaking News: The Pentagon said it would require journalists to pledge not to use unauthorized information or risk losing credentials to cover the military.

Can we change the wording from ‘ABC fired Kimmel’ to ‘Disney fired Kimmel’ please? This makes it much easier for consumers to retaliate if they wish so.

Look who came with

#mediaownership matters.

Kindheitsträume werden wieder wahr. Wer noch?

And here is the technical term: Nihilist Violent Extremist (NVE) /2

President Trump warns an Australian reporter that he’s hurting Australia because he asked him about his business activity: You are hurting Australia very much right now. They want to get along with me. Your leader is coming to see me soon, I'm going to tell him about you.

400 days to save US democracy. My latest, based on a long summer in the US. How Trump is exploiting structural weaknesses of the American system & why all democrats must want Democrats to win November 2026 midterms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Perhaps there is a flavor of extremism that’s neither ideologically far-left nor far-right, but just… extreme?

Einen schönen Sonntag allerseits.

„When you start a war…“