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Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Neues vom Piss Tank

ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 5h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 18% full.

November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Große Teile Ostdeutschlands, wo Germanium zuerst entdeckt wurde, sind ohnehin praktisch unbewohnt. Auf der Suche nach dem Vaterlands-Element kann man dort alles aufbuddeln, wenn man unbedingt möchte. Es braucht bloß Jahrzehnte und unzählige Milliarden

Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 6h

Das kann man sich auch nicht ausdenken, dass es -wegen des chinesischen Embargos bei den seltenen Erden - der deutschen Rüstungsindustrie am Rohstoff GERMANIUM mangelt.
“DEUTSCHLAND BRAUCHT MEHR GERMANIUM für seine Wehrhaftigkeit”, das fasst die Lage doch gut zusammen.

November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM

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Rahel Freiburghaus

@rfrbrghs.bsky.social

#POLITKOLUMNE: Switzerland’s playbook with autocrats incl Trump & R/U.Z has long been the same: kiss, cooperate, cash in, and rarely resist. Domestic systems with fragmented decision-making are less willing to impose sanctions & tools that could keep autocrats in check www.derbund.ch/autokraten-u...

August 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Es spricht der Mann, der mal nach Moskau geflogen ist, um mit Putin zu telefonieren. Einmaliges Zeugnis der Demütigung. Und der will noch mehr davon

November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime

Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

www.propublica.org

November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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ISS Piss Tracker

@iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social

The piss tank on the ISS is now 25% full.

November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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Helena Steinhaus

@helenasteinhaus.bsky.social

Reine Schikane. Kein Geld wird dadurch gespart, Arbeitsagentur gibt zu bedenken, dass die Vermittlung in Arbeit noch mehr gehemmt wird. Denn genau vor dem Problem stehen Menschen im Asylverfahren: sie haben keine Möglichkeiten, sind bitterarm&werden maximal drangsaliert.

www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Kein Bürgergeld mehr für seit April angekommene Ukrainer

Ukrainische Flüchtlinge, die nach dem 1. April nach Deutschland gekommen sind, sollen Asylbewerbern gleichgestellt werden. Die Arbeitsagenturen fürchten Vermittlungsprobleme. Kanzler Merz fordert zude...

www.br.de

November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM

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Zach Everson

@zacheverson.com

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"

November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Imagine this madness happening anywhere else in the world. European officials would be talking about human rights violations and the rule of law 24/7.

But these days they‘re busy with their own immigration crackdown, and then, of course, nobody wants to upset the Donald.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Und weil die russischen Soldaten so vom „Glauben“ beseelt sind, muss man sie mit Unsummen ködern. Dieser orientalistische Stuss taucht immer wieder auf. Diesmal in der NZZ. „Pro“ www.nzz.ch/pro/glaube-g...

Was westliche Soldaten in einem möglichen Krieg mit Russland erwartet

Putins Soldaten kämpfen nicht nur mit Waffen, sondern mit Glaube. Ihre Psychologie ist religiös, fatalistisch und auf Hingabe getrimmt. Das macht sie zugleich ausdauernd und blind. In einem Konflikt m...

www.nzz.ch

November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

„Papierlischweizers“ lost cousin

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating

Joel Webbon & @rightresponsem
X.com
"Paperwork Americans" are NOT Americans.
I will NOT honor their "holy" days.
I will NOT respect their false gods and idols.
I will NOT tolerate their lectures on who is a
"true" Christian and a "real"American.
"Silence, American "citizen", A Christian
American is speaking."

C.Jay Engel
@contramordor

X.com
Give me some deeply American fall traditions or food staples that no foreigners could possibly assimilate to.
l'Il start: the Thanksgiving Turkey.
Any attempt by a foreigner to assimilate to this is pure LARP.

Image shows a painting of three children praying and eyeing a Thanksgiving meal

November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM

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Shibley Telhami

@stelhami.bsky.social

AAUP/MESA Report: 'Most government investigations of antisemitism are prompted by complaints received from outside campuses... Of the 102 complaints filed with the Office of Civil Rights that the report analyzes, all but one focus on speech critical of Israel.'
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...

New Report: Civil Rights Law Weaponized to Chill Speech

A report published today is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations and private lawsuits against US colleges and universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

www.aaup.org

November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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Nicholas Grossman

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Said Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) used his massive wealth to buy Paramount, turn CBS from a news org into right-wing propaganda, and get a big stake in TikTok USA. Plus bid for Warner Brothers - Discovery, which owns a lot of media properties (eg CNN), presumably to make it propaganda too.

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 5d

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list
., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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06jank.bsky.social

@06jank.bsky.social

Getting to the endgame:
- Turkey's opposition presidential candidate faces 2,352 years behind bars
- Head prosecutor of Istanbul province applies for the closure of the main opposition party

November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM

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Denis Trubetskoy

@denistrubetskoy.bsky.social

Selenskyj wird durch den aktuellen Korruptionsskandal nicht in große Schwierigkeiten geraten. Doch es ist das erste richtige innenpolitische Problem seit 2022, da es um einen engen Vertrauten und sensible Bereiche wie Energie geht. Mit der Suspendierung eines Ministers kriegt er das nicht gelöst.

November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Eine übermächtige, dystopische Techindustrie, but from the Champagne region of France. Diese Zukunftsvision entsorgen wir bitte gleich wieder, okay?

Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · 6d

Stattdessen braucht es europäische Alternativen zu #Palantir.

November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM

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Ronen Steinke

@ronensteinke.bsky.social

Ganz so einfach, wie es auf den ersten Blick aussieht, ist es nicht.

Jüdische Gemeinde distanziert sich von Redner

In Frankfurt wird der Faschismusforscher Jason Stanley eingeladen, zum 9. November zu sprechen. Das tut er, redet aber auch über den Gaza-Krieg – und kann seine Rede nicht beenden.

www.sueddeutsche.de

November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Andrew Stroehlein

@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social

The US political system is now essentially one fascist-promoting party, one fascist-appeasement party, and a few individual outliers, people called nasty names for suggesting policies every other industrialized country has had for decades. And masked thugs keep kidnapping people off the streets.

November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

Judith Wishnia, a retired professor of history and women's studies in New York says: "I'm 94, and I told my doctor I hope I live to see him in jail."

November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Momo Rulez 🏳️‍🌈

@momorulez.bsky.social

"Für Brumlik, selbst jüdischer Deutscher, war das Gefühl des Fremdseins existenziell. Daraus leitete er die Überzeugung ab, dass das Judentum der Aufklärung und dem Universalismus verpflichtet sei. „Unser heutiges Europa sollte ein Kontinent der Ankunft, der Gastfreundschaft für die Fremden werden“"

November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Pavel Lokshin

@lokshin.bsky.social

Brummbrumm-Identitätspolitik auf Kosten der schwächsten Verkehrsteilnehmer, Fussgänger und vor allem Kinder.

Wer abstimmen darf: Bitte dagegen stimmen.

Albin Meyer @albinmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

Am 30.11. stimmen wir in Zürich über ein Tempo-30-Verbot ab, eine Initiative von SVP und FDP.

Wie kann die Ideologie des ungebremsten motorisierten Individualverkehrs stärker sein als der Wunsch, tragische Unfälle zu vermeiden?

Wer mehr Mobilität will, sollte öV- und Fahrradinfrastruktur ausbauen.

November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM