There seem to be major protests in #Iran tonight. Will it be different this time? I'm rooting for the people. #IranProtests #iranrevolution

> Suppression has become the only answer the #islamicrepublic has to the crises it faces. It is for this reason that the security forces – centred on the #irgc – constitutes the single most significant barrier to regime change. They have repeatedly demonstrated that the regime has not only the […]

🎯🔥 > Die anderen Europäer – nicht nur #merz – hielten sich dagegen auffällig zurück. Wer solche klaren Verstöße nicht eindeutig benennt, stellt letztlich die Geltung der Uno-Charta infrage. Das kann sich auf die Ukraine auswirken und auf womöglich weitere europäische Territorien. Und eines […]

👇🏼💯 👇🏼 > The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate and then invade the country and presumably put someone in power who is favored by the Administration. If that were the case, that’s the end of international law, that’s the end of the […]

👇🏼💯 👇🏼 > The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate and then invade the country and presumably put someone in power who is favored by the Administration. If that were the case, that’s the end of international law, that’s the end of the […]

😞 > Regardless of their politics, all opposition factions have failed to build powerful organizations or lasting networks that could direct the protests. Without such direction, the current protests are likely to lose momentum and fizzle out, just like previous rounds. Even if they were to last […]

💯💯💯 > Das könnte die Regierung ändern: indem sie Mittelschicht und Geringverdiener durch eine große Reform finanziell besserstellt, die zudem die #konjunktur ankurbelt. Damit die Reform zu spüren ist, müsste ein Durchschnittsverdiener mindestens fünf Prozent mehr auf dem Konto haben, 1600 Euro […]

_🎯_ > The balance of risk now demands that European leaders cripple #Trump. They have learned from a year of abject cowering before Trump that such behaviour only makes it easy for him to push them over. The reasons for caution are disappearing. The extreme reaction of #maga leaders to the […]

_🎯_ > The balance of risk now demands that European leaders cripple #Trump. They have learned from a year of abject cowering before Trump that such behaviour only makes it easy for him to push them over. The reasons for caution are disappearing. The extreme reaction of #maga leaders to the […]

This 👇🏼🔥 > But #musk is taking advantage of widespread ignorance about how the EU works in both America and Europe. At least Americans have an excuse. I’ve seen Europeans this week repeating Musk’s falsehoods, because they have no basis of knowledge to counter them. What is enormously […]

🔥🔥🔥 > Die Erfahrungen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte zeigen, dass sich Abgänge vom #arbeitsmarkt auch kompensieren lassen. Die drittgrößte Exportnation müsste dann allerdings dafür sorgen, dass #bildung und Ausbildung auch so funktionieren, dass ebenso qualifizierte FacharbeiterInnen nachkommen […]

> Es liegt auch daran, dass sich am Umgang mit Rechtspopulisten nichts geändert hat. Nach wie vor wird gesagt: Wir werden noch mehr Ausländer abschieben, dann kriegen wir vielleicht ein paar Wähler zurück. Ich wünschte, dass ich jetzt ein paar geile Sätze zum Festhalten liefern könnte. Aber ich […]

> During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me. My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with […]

The world's biggest super power, everyone 👇🏼 > Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for #ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. In several places the language would work in Russian but seems distinctly odd in English. > > The third point of the 28-point plan […]

WTF?? 🤢 > “There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” > > He claimed the Italian suspects would meet in the […]

Sehr interessant! > "Es ist verrückt, dass ich mir in Kambodscha Dinge zugetraut habe, für die ich zu Hause in Australien hätte studieren, dann ein paar Jahre Berufserfahrung sammeln und mich dann auf eine Stelle bewerben müssen. Da spielen definitiv Reste von kolonialem Denken eine Rolle. Wenn […]

> I’ve come to believe we’re in the midst of the Civil War’s final battle—not a clash of soldiers on a field, but a sociopolitical and cultural war threatening to tear the nation apart. > > A fire is roaring through America’s foundations. It didn’t start yesterday. It wasn’t sparked by Black […]

Jede einzelne Antwort ein Volltreffer! 💪🏼 > Natürlich muss die unrechtmäßige Inanspruchnahme von Sozialleistungen konsequent bekämpft werden. Nur wird dieses Problem instrumentalisiert, um einen Abbau des Sozialstaates zu rechtfertigen und Leistungen auch für Menschen zu kürzen, die darauf – […]

🔥💯🔥 > If you think #trumpism will simply end in three years, you are naive. Left unopposed, global #populism of the sort Trumpism represents could dominate for a generation. This could be the rest of our lives, and our children’s, too. > > So why are we doing so little? Are we just going to […]

> "Es ist nicht mehr zeitgemäß, dass Lehrer, Professorinnen oder Mitarbeiter in Ministerien über eine deutlich höhere Alterssicherung verfügen als Mitglieder der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung. Die Einbeziehung dieses Personenkreises würde das Gerechtigkeitsempfinden der Bürger und die […]

> The lesson is: A lot of Americans just aren’t as opposed to vengeful monarchs as you might have thought. #trump didn’t just rebrand himself via many of the same spectacles MBS embraced—fights, races, football, and “edgy” comedians. Like MBS and the oppressive state over which he presides, his […]

> The survival of American rights and liberties may now turn less on the question of whether Pam #bondi is a person of integrity—which we already know the dismal answer to—than whether she is willing to risk her career and maybe even her personal freedom for a president on his way to repudiation […]

👇🏼👏🏼👇🏼 > Charlie #kirks Standpunkte zum »Großen Austausch«, zum angeblichen Wahlbetrug 2020, zum »Kulturmarxismus« erfüllen Kernkriterien für die Einordnung als #rechtsextrem. In Deutschland wären vor allem seine rassistischen Äußerungen und die fortwährende Delegitimierung demokratischer […]

Uff, what a read! 👇🏼 > Ukraine’s drone units, like Adama’s, have pioneered one of the most consequential innovations in modern #warfare. It has nothing to do with materials science or weapons design. Rather, it is a new approach to killing: #ukraine has gamified war, awarding points to pilots […]

> America is adrift. It has no coherent foreign policy, no team of senior professionals managing its national defense and diplomacy, and a president who has little interest in the world beyond what it can offer him. Little wonder that the men who gathered in Beijing—three autocrats whose nations […]

> “We have spent so much of this year watching this weird shame cycle of self-flagellation by the White House press corps, who is saying that they didn’t dig into Joe #biden’s decline aggressively enough or early enough, and now seem intent on repeating that exact set of mistakes and blind spots […]

> The trouble is, people still don’t talk about it the way they talk about Hungary, not inside the US and not outside it. That’s partly the It Can’t Happen Here mindset, partly a reluctance to accept a reality that would require, of foreign governments especially, a rethink of almost everything […]

> And it sure sounds like #pritzker wants to put his hands to the task right now. “If you hurt my people,” he said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.” In a week where Beltway #democrats passed […]

> The scale of the killing was partly owing to the nature of the conflict, said Mary Kaldor, professor emeritus at the LSE, director of the Conflict Research Programme and author of New Wars, an influential book about warfare in the post-cold-war era. > > International humanitarian law was […]

> The report on #germany, a highly functional #democracy, is equally strange. The State report speaks of “significant human rights issues,” including “restrictions on freedom of expression.” One specific example: German law “required internet companies, including U.S. internet platforms, to take […]

> The moment I heard what Trump had done, I had a flashback. It was January 2021, and it had just been reported that Trump, after losing the 2020 election, had tried to pressure Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him enough votes — exactly 11,780, Trump said — to overturn the […]

> Funding for American science has fluctuated in the decades since. It spiked after Sputnik and dipped at the end of the Cold War. But until Trump took power for the second time and began his multipronged assault on America’s research institutions, broad support for science was a given under […]

"Earlier this month, #Iran’s parliament approved legislation that would impose prison sentences of up to five years for sending images to foreign media outlets—a punishment that could be upped to twenty-five years during times of war." #journalism #islamicrepublic #israelirancrisis #iranwindow […]

#tsunami warning live updates: #russia declares emergency after flooding in #kuril Islands; #hawaii prepares for first waves Hazardous waves from strong 8.8 quake are possible on the coast of Russia, #japan, Hawaii, #alaska and some Pacific islands after #earthquake struck […]

> Welcome to the American #oligarchy. America always had rich people, and they always influenced #government. But never before have the rich amassed money and power on anything like this scale, and #trump helped them get there. After Trump’s 2017 tax cut, the combined wealth of America’s […]

„Die Lage ist ernst, #Teheran hat wirklich kein Wasser mehr“, erklärte Präsident Massud Peseschkian. Um eine #naturkatastrophe zu verhindern, schloss er sogar eine Verlegung der Hauptstadt mit über 15 Millionen Einwohnern nicht aus. #Iran #klimawandel […]

"The #Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company announced this week it had reduced water pressure to such low levels that in Tehran — a city of 10 million people, many living and working in high-rise buildings — water could not flow above the second floor of apartment buildings." #Iran […]

> Since even genocide-aware media are not reporting how #israel’s policies are made possible by wider Western support, they are also very weak in identifying policies that might break it. A state is committing #genocide, but governments can continue to trade with it, allow its companies to […]

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say #israel is committing #genocide against Palestinians in #gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it. [...] The two groups said Israel had targeted civilians […]

B’Tselem/בְּצֶלֶם 👇🏼 > An examination of #israel’s policy in the #gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate […]

> In any given month, #wikipedia gets more than four billion page views globally, but only a tiny sliver of those visitors will actually make edits to the website. An army of volunteers writes and edits article pages, removes vandalism and misinformation, and adds citations. The internet runs on […]