Kann leider nicht mehr mitlachen.

Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

BREAKING The DOJ has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate George Soros and his foundation. Possible charges included racketeering, arson, wire fraud and material support for terrorism, according to the directive. Full Story: bit.ly/3VCwOkZ

Thomas saw what was happening here in 🇺🇸 earlier & more clearly than almost anyone. It is sad that 🇺🇸 & academia have lost him but great that his voice has found its new home 👇🧵

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir? A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This attack on climate science is the most extreme deranged such attack by any world leader in memory.

I guess Germany is now on Trump's "good side" again. The German government should think long and hard why that is. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"Your countries are going to hell", "Suicidal energy ideas", etc. Trump going after Europe. Everyone needs to understand that the current US government wants to destabilize European democracies.

The fact that Trump did not win a UN contract as a builder might come back to haunt the international community. And the fact that Rubio says this publicly and thinks it’s a good point says a lot about him.

It's possible I've been missing mention of this in all the voluminous Jimmy Kimmel coverage but... people are conscious of Sinclair's media-political history, yes? Just seems maybe a teensy bit relevant www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/p...

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

The goal with this "Anti-Tylenol campaign" is clearly to harm as many pregnant women and babies as possible, not to better the lives and care for children and adults with autism.

Als ehemalige Mitarbeiterin des Standard finde ich es übrigens unwürdig, wie hier über eine Kündigungswelle kommuniziert wird: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden were scrambled Sunday to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea, military officials said. apnews.com/article/nato...

My current Succession binge gets interrupted again by some "real time" news: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hofstadter depicts the paranoid style (right wing conspiracy mongering) as a kind of shadow figure for the right

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Trump hints on us ending up with a “closed country for a period of time”.

Has Musk already publically responded to the H-1B decision?

He who controls the algorithm controls your knowledge, choices, and ultimately your autonomy.

I wrote something up about how the H-1B fee could harm US higher education and the communities that rely on it. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

Ich glaube, es ist wichtig für europäisches Publikum einiges klarzustellen bzgl. Zensurpolitik und der republikanischen Kampfbegriffe "cancel culture", "culture wars", "wokeness" etc:

Here is my best understanding of the timeline: *A MAGA student recorded professor, objected to gender content *Had one or more meetings with A&M President, which she also records *He first tells her no-one is getting fired *Recording released, political pressure, he fires professor, later resigns

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Trump administration warned Harvard it would "face further enforcement action" if it refuses to turn over more information about the university's use of race in its admissions process. www.axios.com/2025/09/19/t...

Now it's up on the White House website. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

It has already been very difficult for foreigners to secure an H1B visa - now it seems to have become impossible. Will this also affect research organizations and universities which are thus far exempt from the lottery? www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p...

US to end temporary protected status for Syrians reut.rs/4gtGEiA

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

Während in Österreich 136 Menschen an der Hitze gestorben sind, jettet Harald Vilimsky nach Florida zum Trump-nahen Klimaleugner Think Tank Heartland 👇

The fun times of having a newborn in the US these days:

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Geht's noch? Die Pressefreiheit ist an allen Ecken und Enden in Gefahr. Kolleg*innen werden massiv beleidigt, eingeschüchtert und körperlich angegriffen. Ihnen wird Folter, Vergewaltigung und Mord angedroht. Demos sind seit Jahren Gefahrenzonen. (1/5)

Hätte echt Lust, aber leider keine Zeit diese Kolumne Satz für Satz auseinanderzunehmen. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

My colleague and I wrote a piece about the urgent need for Europe to partner with Canada in building a digitally sovereign ecosystem—one that can withstand the threats posed by US tech authoritarianism:

„Die Parteien in Ländern wie 🇦🇹 oder 🇩🇪 sind weniger auf #X angewiesen als X auf sie – erst durch ihre Präsenz gewinnt die Plattform hier an Bedeutung. Deshalb meine Frage und mein Appell: Wäre jetzt nicht ein guter Moment, X zu verlassen?“👍👏 @brodnig.bsky.social www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

🚨🚨🚨 The CDC is no longer allowing remote work for employees with disabilities or those with temporary health issues, including those who've requested to work from home since the Aug. 8 attack on the agency's Atlanta headquarters. www.axios.com/2025/09/17/c...

I expected the tyranny and the blustering and the mockery of everything they’ve ever claimed America was supposed to stand for what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level

really telling what Klein considers normal politics

The Antichrist Playbook: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype (full podcast with historian and theologian) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegS...

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, held talks at the White House this week, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO www.politico.eu/article/top-...

They tried and failed to pass legislation in Congress twice ("Terrorism" Provision for NGOs). Now they will just go ahead and do it anyways: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...