Another data point that should make you think twice about whether or not the current administration and GOP can be voted out:

A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.

I am so glad we got the passport for our newborn just in time.

Sure, let's keep complaining about fertility rates.... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ich habe mir eben für die Kolumne die neuen Sparvorschläge in Bezug auf behinderte Menschen und Teilhabe im Detail angeschaut. Ich bin ja auch nicht naiv und dachte nicht, dass ich wirklich überrascht werde. Aber holy fuck, die wollen im Prinzip die ganze Inklusion kippen.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Who wore it better? 😏

Fossile Unternehmen profitieren krass von Trumps Krieg - und wir alle zahlen dafür. Diese übermäßigen Gewinne müssen besteuert werden, sodass wir Menschen direkte Hilfe zukommen lassen und in grüne Energie investieren können. ♻️🔆 Unterzeichne jetzt die Petition! 👉🏻 act.greens-efa.eu/trump-profit...

Neither of those calculations is correct. (It's a 500% increase and an 83.3% decrease.)

So good: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

"ORF verletzt Schutzpflichten": Gleichbehandlungsanwaltschaft zu Causa Weißmann www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Das ist schlichtweg dumm und absolut inakzeptabel. Zara ist DIE zentrale Anlaufstelle für Betroffene, wenn sie mit Hass im Netz konfrontiert sind und leistet damit auch wichtige Grundlagenarbeit.

Unbedingt unterschreiben:

Es ist alarmierend, was ZARA gerade schrieb: Das Bundeskanzleramt hat vollständig & mitten im laufenden Jahr die Förderung der Beratungsstelle #GegenHassimNetz gestrichen - das ist österreichweit die wichtigste Anlaufstelle für Betroffene digitaler Gewalt Es ist wichtig, dass die Förderung bleibt!

Danke, @falter.at!

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Exklusiv: Die Justiz lässt eine Bombe Platzen: 36.000 österreichische Beamte haben Opfer-Status in einem neuen Verfahren gegen Egisto Ott: Sensible persönliche Daten ALLER Polizisten landeten in der Schreibtischschublade eines FPÖ-Politikers – und bei mutmaßlichen Kreml-Agenten.

Ich bin so alt, ich weiß noch, dass @gruene.de mal eine Bürgerrechtspartei war. Jetzt will sie persönliche Daten von Baden-Württembergs Bürger*innen über die Rechner des Demokratiefeindes Peter Thiel laufen lassen. Aber natürlich nur bis 2030, bis man selbst solch ein Softwaremonstrum gezüchtet hat!

Grüne und CDU in Baden-Württemberg reichen #Palantir (bis 2030) die Polizeidaten rüber und wollen die „KI“-Videoüberwachung ausweiten www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

"Trump media company drops lawsuit against the Guardian TMTG drops defamation claim over report that prosecutors were investigating payments received as possible money laundering." Richard Luscombe for @theguardian.com

It’s 1:00 am in downtown Budapest at Rákóczi square. By all indications, the party is just getting started. 🔥 It’s a rather cathartic feeling getting rid of an autocrat who’s had a chokehold on the nation for sixteen consecutive years. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️ #Hungary

Something the Democrats don’t do. And most progressive groups are also barely represented, let alone grounded, in between the coasts.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Many things to say about the demise of Orbanism but the scale of his defeat is impressive. This is surely also a rejection of Trump & Vance. The threatened new era of official US interference in European domestic politics has got off to a satisfyingly calamitous start

Whatever Trump just announced, nobody believes that the US Navy is about to start interdicting Chinese supertankers that are buying oil from (and paying 'fees' to) Iran, let alone tankers full of Arab oil that have done the same.

Election denialist Jim Jordan is sending stupid letters to the European Commission telling them not to interfere in the Hungarian election while US VP JD Vance is over there campaigning on behalf of one of the candidates. MAGA: all projection, all the time

💥🗳️ I’m speechless. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout is 66,01% already at 3pm (2022: 52,72%). Budapest and other opposition-leaning cities lead the way. Final turnout in 2022 and 2018 were 70,21% and 70,22%. Polls close at 7pm. It could go well above 80% this time. Bad news for Orbán.

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What a rotten headline. The reason is not at all complex. As the article says: “Because of the way Europe sets wholesale electricity prices, even a small amount of fossil fuel in a country’s energy mix can [anchor] prices higher…canceling out potential savings from renewables”

On the one hand, Trump is promising to give Hungary financial support the EU already gives them. On the other hand, Putin is preparing to claim that if Orbán loses, it is bc the EU intervened.

He has his priorities straight:

Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees were resettled in the US, according to the Refugee Processing Center. All, except three from Afghanistan, were South African. In 2025 Trump halted all refugee admissions, including for applicants from warzones, but allowed Afrikaners, a white... TAT: [Nationalism]

I wonder when those European leaders who supported Rutte’s appointment will speak out. Unfathomable:

As someone who enjoys skydiving and rollercoasters, this statement would be reason enough for me for a divorce.

And here we go again…

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer." 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

A senior Vatican diplomat, Christophe Pierre, was reportedly summoned to the Pentagon and given a “bitter lecture” by Elbridge Colby, urging that Pope Leo “better take [the U.S.’s] side” and noting America can do “whatever it wants.” Source: The Free Press

Trump Weighs Punishing Certain NATO Countries Over Lack of Iran War Support: www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

I use this quote as a slide when I give lectures about backlash to gender equality

Wenn man einen Freund hat, der schwere Verbrechen ankündigt, schweigt man nicht, sondern schreitet ein. Sonst macht man sich mitschuldig. Alle NATO-Partner müssen jetzt klare Worte finden.

Profiteering is not a bug but a feature of wars. TotalEnergies took “advantage of the wartime disruption to make a bumper profit” of more than USD 1 billion. The right response to this war is to end the war, cut off windfall profit opportunities and stabilize prices. www.ft.com/content/eba8...

Powered by MAGA facism.

Merz will 80% der syrischen Schutzsuchenden in den kommenden drei Jahren nach Syrien abschieben. Von Übergangspräsident Al-Sharaa gab es dafür grünes Licht. @bentescheller.bsky.social erklärt, warum Deutschland damit eine Chance verspielt und gerade Minderheiten einen Bärendienst erweist.

The Trump administration's ICE crackdown is stopping immigrant women from getting critical health care. "“They are being forced to choose between their freedom or their health.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

BREAKING: An Iranian missile has hit the Israeli town of Dimona, home to a nuclear facility, in what Iran said was retaliation for strikes on its own nuclear site at Natanz. Dimona hosts a facility widely believed to possess the Middle East’s sole nuclear arsenal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"In der Praxis gibt fast jede zweite befragte Frau (49 Prozent) an, sich im Berufsleben aufgrund ihres Geschlechts bereits benachteiligt gefühlt zu haben." Und die Betriebe pfeifen wieder zunehmend darauf. We live in Backlash Times. Statt besser, wird es schlechter

Surely not a coincidence…

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Khamenei believed to have been killed in Iran www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...