When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Weil einige davon ausgehen, dass Trumps Präsidentschaft in 3,5 Jahren ihr natürliches Ende findet: Er selbst hat das nicht vor. Kurzer Thread:

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA www.ft.com/content/1377...

Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon: “He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined” If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

America needs a mass social movement—now—to save itself from autocracy, David Brooks argues.

We probably need to go back to ~350 ppm CO₂ equivalent for temperatures to stop rising. We are now above 573 ppm (GHG forcing of +4.1 W/m²). That's without aerosols cooling things down. There's too much uncertainty to be sure, but going back to 350 ppm is already a Herculean task.

Sehr lesenswert zum Thema "Provokationen": Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen open.substack.com/pub/beimwort...

Krieg nach innen.

Real post on another network:

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

„Even for a president who has shattered the traditional norms of maintaining distance from the Justice Department, Mr. Trump’s unabashedly public and explicit orders to Ms. Bondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the Watergate scandal.“

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America. Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here. www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how it's done 🧡💔

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

Neben dem Absägen lassen von Kimmel und Colbert durch Drohungen der (einst neutralen) FCC und Klagen gegen NYT und Murdoch: Die MAGAisierung der US-Medien ist in vollen Gange. (Putins frühe Jahre lassen grüßen.)

The free speech absolutist government.

Statistical invention maybe.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire   The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink. Some thoughts from my new piece:

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"

Poland is also not the only country where this happens with some regularity. Lithuania also has seen some drone incursions. (The number of drones this time seems higher though.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

Jedes Mal, wenn ich mich selbst hinterfrage, ob ich mit warnendem Ton, vielleicht zu drastisch bin, werde ich 12 Stunden später nicht bestätigt, sondern ich denke: Ich habe viel zu wenig gewarnt.

"It’s surreal to witness the nascent elements of a similar authoritarian takeover in Washington DC, the capitol of supposedly the world’s leading democracy. It may not yet be at the stage of an actual coup, but the groundwork is being laid." bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/d...

Es ist ein erschreckend hohes Risiko, wo auch 1% Eintrittswahrscheinlickeit viel zu hoch wäre, wie bei einem AKW Super- GAU. Inzwischen reden wir über 25% bis 70%, je nach Emissionen. taz.de/Kollaps-von-...

I think this debate is really welcome. Two things I haven't seen. First, there is a VERY high likelihood of multiple predictable catastrophes: financial, health, extreme weather, supply chain. What happens when those catastrophes hit? In both 2008 and 2020, the GOP needed Dems to bail them out.

US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...

Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.

Trump and Vance “admitting” the criminal investigation of Bolton is coming from the White House isn’t a mistake. They want critics to understand if they cross Trump, they can be subject to criminal investigation. They want people to know that law enforcement has been politicized.

Trump „joking“.

Wie @davidfrum.bsky.social schon bei dem LA-Einsatz prophezeite: hier geht es um die Wahlen.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Colbert ist erst der Anfang, Zensur das Ziel.

Ein ausführliches Interview mit Fredi Otto und mir: was kommt beim Klima auf uns zu? Wie wird die Welt für unsere Kinder aussehen, wenn wir einfach so weitermachen wie bisher? www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Diese Regierung ist ohne ökologische Ambition und Emotion. Wichtigstes Ziel: wo wir überhaupt was machen, soll niemand was merken. Warum das nicht nur Natur und Mensch schadet, sondern auch der Regierung haben @PPinzler und ich aufgeschrieben www.zeit.de/2025/28/klim...

Ein Blick in die Zukunft: Was der Klimawandel mit unserer Gesundheit macht: www.zeit.de/wissen/2024-... mit @toralfstaud.bsky.social

Gut dass die neue @bundesregi die Bevölkerung mit aller Kraft vor einer Verschärfung der Klimakrise schützt, dass sie die Städte klimaresilient macht und die Landwirtschaft nachhaltiger, das Artensterben stoppt und die Flächenversiegelung beendet. Alles andere wäre auch UNVERANTWORTLICH

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

„Laut Kahl gibt es in Moskau „Leute, die glauben nicht mehr, dass Artikel 5 der Nato funktioniert. Und sie würden das gerne testen“. Und es geht um eine Stadt in Estland mit russischsprachiger Minderheit. 😉 Völlig unglaubwürdiges Szenario (random internet user) m.bild.de/politik/ausl...

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social in der NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

What you saw from Trump in CA this weekend was not law enforcement. What you saw was a test of ways and means for Trump to disrupt and pervert the 2026 elections. My latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nach dem Zerwürfnis mit Trump (das sich gerade öffentlich hochzuschaukeln scheint): Musk droht damit, die Republikaner zu spalten.

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.