> 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 […]

"Doctors in #gaza observed a disturbing pattern: #children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors who are among the last international eyewitnesses." #israel […]

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 […]

💯👇🏼 "When it comes to #Kirk’s death, empathy helps prop up Republicans and Trumpists as legitimate and normal political actors. Cooing praise of “persuasion” sends the message that there is some common ground, some kind of fellowship to be had between the right and the left at a moment when […]

"But this is remarkable enough that it bears repeating: Inside the 50th-birthday book for Jeffrey #Epstein—a man charged with sex trafficking—is a photo of a massive, novelty size check, seeming to reference the sale of a human being from one powerful man to another. The man whose supposed […]

> 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 […]

Sehr interessantes Interview! > Wenn wir zu wenige #drohnen und eine zu schwache #flugabwehr haben, dann werden wir jeden verpassten Reformschritt mit dem Blut unserer Soldaten bezahlen. Ich sage das allen Politikern ins Gesicht: Wenn ihr bei einer Vereidigung von Soldaten seid, dann blickt den […]

> #gaza’s hospitals have struggled since early in the war to cope with the influx of Palestinians injured and maimed by Israeli airstrikes and, more recently, by shootings meant to disperse desperate crowds as they surge toward food convoys or head to aid distribution sites. > > Now, according […]

> Doch wir hatten nicht damit gerechnet, dass der #hunger ihr Leben in Gefahr bringen würde. Unterversorgung hat es seit Monaten gegeben, die Preise auf den Märkten und in den Geschäften sind bereits explodiert. Doch am vergangenen Freitag sagte Ghada erstmals, dass sie ein verabredetes […]

> Im Amt sehen manche einen Generationenkonflikt: Während ältere und in der Hierarchie weiter oben stehende Diplomaten die Staatsräson verteidigen, argumentieren die Jüngeren, #deutschland dürfe Israels Regierung, wenn sie gegen Völkerrecht verstoße, nicht anders behandeln als den russischen […]

> Since May, more than 1,000 people have died while seeking food from the centres and other humanitarian convoys, according to the UN. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/22/food-aid-gaza-deaths-visual-story-ghf-israel #israel #gaza #starvation #idf

> Detainees in Florida immigration detention centers are being subjected to inhuman conditions, including denial of medical care, overcrowding, and degrading treatment. At least two recent deaths may have been linked to medical neglect. > These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result […]

> Sein Vater hatte seit mehr als 30 Jahren an dieser Waschstraße gearbeitet, ohne Aufenthaltsgenehmigung, aber geduldet, brav hatte er seine Steuern gezahlt. Der Sohn meint, die Gicht in den Beinen seines Vaters habe diesen vermutlich daran gehindert, schnell genug wegzurennen. So läuft das […]

> Sein Vater hatte seit mehr als 30 Jahren an dieser Waschstraße gearbeitet, ohne Aufenthaltsgenehmigung, aber geduldet, brav hatte er seine Steuern gezahlt. Der Sohn meint, die Gicht in den Beinen seines Vaters habe diesen vermutlich daran gehindert, schnell genug wegzurennen. So läuft das […]

> This isn’t a story of #republicans and #democrats, or even a story of #trump vs. the #fed. This is a story of why functioning democratic institutions aren’t just aspirational ideals that sound good on paper; they provide the very foundation of lasting prosperity. And Trump’s temptation to fire […]

> But we’re no longer a punchline. Today, women from the #east – not just in politics and culture, but now also in the global art world – hold some of the most influential positions. To me, the stories of Reinhardt and Rother show how exclusion and institutional rigidity can – slowly, painfully […]

Former PM Ehud #olmert 👇🏼 > It is a #concentrationcamp. I am sorry. [...] > We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social […]

Jeder einzelne Satz zitierwürdig 🔥🔥🔥 "Rechtsverbindliche Versprechen, besonders an Menschen in Gefahr, müssen gehalten werden. Dass erst ein Gericht kommen muss, um der deutschen #politik diese Selbstverständlichkeit deutlich zu machen, ist hochpeinlich." [...] "Wie bei den Zurückweisungen an […]

> When #israel struck the prison with missiles on June 23, the attack generated widespread condemnation and fury in #iran, even among opponents of the authoritarian government. > > The strikes were the deadliest of the 12-day #israeliranwar. Iran has said 79 people were killed and dozens injured […]

Und auch das 🔥👇🏼🔥 > Aber hat sich Benjamin Netanjahu nicht mit der Protestbewegung solidarisiert, deren Slogan er in seiner Ansprache an das iranische Volk sogar auf Persisch sagte: Zan Zendegi Azadi. Ja, hat er und genau gewusst, dass er damit dem Regime in die Hände spielt, das von Anfang an […]

Navid #kermani natürlich wieder mit den perfekten Worten, diesmal an #israel zu den Angriffen auf den #iran. Aber am Ende auch an #deutschland, #baerbock und v.a. #merz 👇🏼 > Wenn es Deutschland ernst wäre mit dem Kampf gegen die Bedrohung, die von #teheran ausgeht, hätte es nicht wie kaum ein […]

Navid #kermani natürlich wieder mit den perfekten Worten, diesmal an #israel zu den Angriffen auf den #iran. Aber am Ende auch an #deutschland, #baerbock und v.a. #merz 👇🏼 > Wenn es Deutschland ernst wäre mit dem Kampf gegen die Bedrohung, die von #teheran ausgeht, hätte es nicht wie kaum ein […]