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Tom Nuttall

@tomnuttall.bsky.social

November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM

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H.P.

@hannelore14089.bsky.social

„Der Nationalsozialismus hat sich vorsichtig, in kleinen Dosen, durchgesetzt - man hat immer ein bisschen gewartet, bis das Gewissen der Welt die nächste Dosis vertrug."
- Stefan Zweig -

November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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netzpolitik.org

@netzpolitik.org

Eine hochrangige Palantir-Managerin nahm ausgerechnet am Gipfel zur digitalen Souveränität teil, hat @digitalrechte.bsky.social herausgefunden. Palantir gilt als Paradebeispiel für die Gefahren digitaler Abhängigkeiten. Das Kanzleramt wusste offenbar nichts davon.

netzpolitik.org/2025/lobbyis...

Lobbyismus: Palantir-Mitarbeiterin saß beim Souveränitätsgipfel mit Macron und Merz am Tisch

Eine hochrangige Palantir-Managerin nahm ausgerechnet am Gipfel zur digitalen Souveränität teil. Palantir gilt als Paradebeispiel für die Gefahren digitaler Abhängigkeiten. Das Bundeskanzleramt wusste...

netzpolitik.org

November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Dave Winer

@scripting.com

The best way to read blogs hasn’t changed in twenty years. RSS.

The Hotel California (and subscriptions)

Every day, this blog is automatically echoed on my Linkedin channel. Over the last few years, the traffic to those posts on Linkedin is down more than 90%. Understandable. Platforms evolve, people …

seths.blog

November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM

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Alexander Clarkson

@aphclarkson.bsky.social

The ability of so many analysts, academics and commentators to convince themselves that the United States has all the cards towards Europeans or anyone else even as Trump accelerates the American ship of state towards the rocks of geopolitical reality is one of the wonders of our time.

November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Sabrina Schulz

@auenatelier.bsky.social

Der Landwirtschaftsminister zündelt beim Artenschutz und wirft dabei Recht und Fakten über Bord. Das trifft nicht nur den #Wolf, sondern diskreditiert den Prozess der Entscheidungsfindung in diesem Land, und das ist gefährlich! Danke für die kritische Einordnung, @thomaskrumenacker.bsky.social!

Thomas Krumenacker @thomaskrumenacker.bsky.social · 10d

Wölfe sollen von Sept.-März geschossen werden, de facto wolfsfreie Zonen sollen entstehen & ganze Wolfsrudel dürfen getötet werden. „Hier kippt die jagdrechtliche Regelung in eine Logik der Schädlingsbekämpfung“, sagt A. Ionis. Die Pläne für den Wolf exklusiv:
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/logi...

„Logik der Schädlingsbekämpfung“: Alois Rainer gibt den Wolf zum Abschuss frei

Der Wolf soll bald regulär bejagt werden dürfen. Dem Tagesspiegel liegt der Gesetzentwurf des Agrarministeriums vor. Er sieht ein sehr weitgehendes Jagdrecht vor. Tierschützer sind entsetzt.

www.tagesspiegel.de

November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyder.bsky.social

Personally I think a sitting president calling for the execution of members of Congress is A1 scream headline news, but what do I know

November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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Mark Jacob

@markjacob.bsky.social

The response of American Christians to the rise of MAGA fascism bears similarities to German Christians’ response to the rise of the Nazis. Some courageous German Christians confronted evil, but most went along. They attended church on Sunday while supporting the operators of the death camps. 🧵 1/

The German Churches and the Nazi State | Holocaust Encyclopedia

How did Christians and their churches in Germany respond to the Nazi regime and its laws, particularly to the persecution of the Jews? Learn more.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org

November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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Bill McKibben

@billmckibben.bsky.social

So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off

November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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paulpro

@mariopro.bsky.social

@zezvaz.bsky.social
Evergreen Art

November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM

Axel Kölling

@axel-k.bsky.social

Complete failure of the American corporate media system that fighting climate change doesn't even appear on this list.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10d

One issue is top of mind for a majority of Americans right now, according to a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM

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Hart

@hart-frentz.bsky.social

#Vermögenssteuer

Cartoon Zeichnung, zwei Frauen mit einkaufstüten, ich suche jemand der alles hat,
Vorbeigehender Mann schnappt das auf und denkt -Vermögenssteuer.

November 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

When sharing her story with KBTX and other media, Turnage admits safety has crossed her mind, but she isn’t concerned.

“I’ve got seven, eight very large livestock dogs out there. If somebody wants to get past them, good luck. Go for it, babe. You earn whatever you get after getting past them.”

November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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Christian Odendahl

@codendahl.bsky.social

The Friedrichstraße in Berlin is getting a make-over. The design is very close to what the Greens had tried to do, and what the CDU campaigned massively against.

Much like debt brake reform. Or the lowered industry electricity price. www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/die-l...

November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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WATERSHED Investigations

@watershed-i.bsky.social

Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13d

Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban

UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study

Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

www.theguardian.com

November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱

@quincunctial.bsky.social

The historical lesson of Nazism is to destroy Nazis before they get control of the government. We should actually follow the lesson, but we are not.

November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14d

it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened

igure 3.3. Growth in Incomes at the Very Top, 1917–2006 (in 2006 Dollars)
Source: Emmanuel Saez’s computations from IRS income tax statistics, http://elsa.berkeley
.edu/~saez

November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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H.P.

@hannelore14089.bsky.social

Nichts ist eines Kulturvolkes unwürdiger, als sich ohne Widerstand von einer verantwortungslosen und dunklen Trieben ergebenen Herrscherclique "regieren" zu lassen." Anfang des ersten Flugblattes der ‚Weissen Rose'!

November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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Für sachliche Politik

@sachlichepolitik.bsky.social

Boris #Pistorius:

"Nehmen Sie mal wieder das #Grundgesetz in die Hand. Das Beste, was unser Land je hervorgebracht hat. Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Ja, das sollte sie sein, aber wer heute in die Welt guckt, in Deutschland, selbst in die Parlamente, der sieht demokratisch gewählte
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November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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Michael E. Mann

@michaelemann.bsky.social

I couldn't agree more w/ my colleague Johan Rockström here:
amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have a responsibility to call out those who use “net” or “magic bullet” technological fixes such as carbon capture and storage and geoengineering to push emission reductions into the future. This has plagued discussion for too long. There has to be more independent and institutionalised ways of scrutinising this and holding commitments to account. We can’t allow nationally determined contributions at Cop26 to permit delayed phase outs with this net trick to slow emission reductions paths.

November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Denny Carter

@dennycarter.bsky.social

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform.

If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM

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Peter Jelinek

@peterjelinek.bsky.social

Fliegen wird billiger, Zugfahrten teurer.

Das entscheidet die Regierung zum Start der 30. Klimakonferenz.

Und dann wundert man sich, dass die Leute wenig Vertrauen in die Politik haben.

November 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM