piglet42
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piglet42
@piglet42.bsky.social
I'm interested in politics, media, climate change, energy policy, science. USA, Germany, Switzerland, Europe in general, more USA.

Ich schreibe auf Deutsch and in English.

I'm in the fediverse: https://troet.cafe/@piglet
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“Der Trumpismus ist keine gewöhnliche Rechtspartei, sondern Ausdruck einer internationalen oligarchisch-faschistischen Allianz, die den Nachkriegskonsens aufgekündigt hat und die liberale Demokratie für eine Zumutung hält, der ein Ende gesetzt werden muss.”
Trumps Kulturkrieg und aggressive Identitätspolitik haben ihm zum Sieg verholfen. Eine Linke, die die Ursachen für das Scheitern der Demokraten nur in ihrer Wirtschaftspolitik sieht, hat laut unserem Autor nichts dazugelernt.
Sie wollen Dominanz und Tradition
Trumps knappen Wahlsieg auf ökonomische Faktoren zurückzuführen, greift zu kurz. Die Linke muss der Realität ins Auge sehen, dass ein grosser Teil der Bevölkerung Trump nicht trotz, sondern wegen sein...
daslamm.ch
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Newsletter: Crypto’s latest “infinite money machine” is the digital asset treasury company — a publicly traded firm that exists primarily to accumulate crypto. For a while, these stocks traded at hefty premiums to the underlying assets. But now, the trade is unraveling.
Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam
Convincing traders to pay $2 for $1 of bitcoin worked — for a while. As premiums evaporate, an unwind could be painful.
www.citationneeded.news
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Why two courts have concluded that Greg Bovino is a perjurer.
Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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MO Republicans are doing everything they can to thwart a veto referendum that would block the state's new congressional gerrymander.

The latest: The SoS drafted an extremely slanted summary to describe the referendum to voters. Organizers are now suing. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The movement to destroy liberal democracy is international, and so must be its defense
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Novartis machte zuletzt Rekordgewinne von monatlich fast einer Milliarde US-Dollar. Doch die extreme Profitrate dient inzwischen nicht mehr nur der Bereicherung des Novartis-Managements und der Aktionäre: Auch Trump und seine Entourage müssen jetzt bedient werden.
550 Festangestellte und 100 Temporäre von Novartis bangen um ihre Jobs » workzeitung.ch
Novartis verspricht, 23 Milliarden US-Dollar in den USA zu investieren. Und in der Schweiz verkündet der Basler Pharmakonzern einen Abbau von 550 Stellen und verschweigt die Entlassung von weiteren 10...
www.workzeitung.ch
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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In der Schweiz spriessen die Datenzentren wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Das Datacenter von Vantage in Volketswil ZH wird mehr Strom als die Stadt Lausanne benötigen und auch für die Kühlung wird immer mehr Wasser verbraucht. Eine Branche ausser Rand und Band. Übersicht @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social
Rechenzentren in der Schweiz: Generieren ohne Grenzen? Wie der Ausbau digitaler Infrastruktur die Energiewende herausfordert. - AlgorithmWatch CH
Die Elektrizitätswerke Zürich (EKZ) sind gefordert: Sechs der neun Unterwerke der EKZ entstehen zwischen 2014 und 2030 - primär, um den Stromhunger von neu entstandenen Rechenzentren zu stillen. In Vo...
algorithmwatch.ch
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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District court judges are engaged in a bipartisan project of [forgive me] actually calling balls and strikes. Republican circuit judges are largely going full-tilt partisan.

Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Just three points above those April “Liberation Day” lows.

#ConferenceBoard 🇺🇸
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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It’s this guy, the one who thinks German antifascists in the Weimar period were the bad guys. bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Der Zürcher Kantonsrat auf Abwegen: Erstmals entscheidet ein Parlament in der Schweiz, dass der Staat biometrische #Gesichtserkennung zur Überwachung der Bevölkerung einsetzen darf. Der Zürcher Regierungsrat soll die Kompetenz für Pilotversuche erhalten.

www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/11/25/k...
Kanton Zürich öffnet Tür zur biometrischen Massenüberwachung - Digitale Gesellschaft
www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Die französische Regierung geht gegen Elon Musks KI-Chatbot Grok vor, nachdem dieser französischsprachige Beiträge verfasst hatte, die den Einsatz von Gaskammern in Auschwitz leugneten.
Grok investigated over ‘Holocaust denial content’
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Auch sehr wichtig zu beachten, da hier viele Netzwerke beschrieben und Namen genannt werden. Ganz wichtiger Artikel von @annikajoeres.bsky.social , @gabrielakeller.bsky.social und Stella Hesch:
Die Rechtstreiber der CDU
Einige Wirtschaftslobbyisten und Denkfabriken untergraben aktiv die Brandmauer. Der nächste mögliche Tabubruch: eine Minderheitsregierung
correctiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Hier sind vier Seiten aus „Männer, die die Welt verbrennen“ über die „#Familienunternehmer“

Das ist kein „Wirtschaftsverband“ (er fordert wirtschaftlich Unsinniges wie sehr teure Formen der Stromversorgung), sondern ein sehr ideologisch agierender Milliardärslobbyverband.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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"International student enrollment rates at American colleges and universities fell sharply this year [by 17%], driven by visa application issues as prospective students are caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown."

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/new-...
New International Student Enrollment Craters - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Killing American higher education. International student enrollment rates at American colleges and universities fell sharply this year, driven by visa application issues as prospective students are ca...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Ich lege das mal nebeneinander:
- Trumps Minister Lutnick fordert in Brüssel weniger EU-Digitalregeln im Gegenzug für niedrigere US-Zölle auf Stahl
- Katherina Reiche fordert nach dem Treffen mit US-Vertretern weniger EU-Regeln im Tech-Bereich

Wieso macht sie Trumps Job?

www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/n...
Nach US-Treffen: Reiche dringt auf weniger EU-Tech-Regeln
Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Reiche wirbt für weniger EU-Regeln im Tech-Bereich. Vor allem KI solle stärker in der deutschen Wirtschaft eingesetzt werden. In Brüssel will die Bundesregierung für Locker...
www.rnd.de
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Wie lange müssen wir noch @_FriedrichMerz mit seiner destruktiven #Klimapolitik #gasReiche ertragen
#erneuerbareEnergien first
#MerzKannNichtKanzler #technologieoffenheit
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Deutsche Medien: "Es ist ok, Protestierende mit Palitüchern zu kriminalisieren, weil das sind alles Hamasunterstützer."

Die moralische Verkommenheit unseres medial-politischen Diskurses über den Gazakrieg werden wir jahrzehntelang aufarbeiten müssen. #Medienversagen
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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jfc. It was determined by a US judge that she could not be deported to Sierra Leone due to danger she would face in the country she fled. So they deported her to Ghana, a country she had never been to, and Ghana deported her to Sierra Leone.

This country is fucking sick. Deeply deeply fucking sick
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Cut bills. Tax billionaires.

This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social

youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
Criticisms of calls for a wealth tax are 'absurd' - it's about 'fairness,' says Green Party leader
YouTube video by Mornings With Ridge & Frost
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Love how Zack doesn’t get drawn into the usual right wing tropes choosing instead to sensibly reframe them and also declining to universally condemn everything a sitting government does. A real welcome change 👏👏👏👏
SkyNews on the wealth tax, "Labour's Peter Kyle is worried about billionaires leaving the country"

Zack Polanski, "I hope Peter Kyle is more worried about the homeless people on our streets and the people using food banks"
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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It should be obvious by now that we cannot make the future of human civilisation dependent on whether the fossil fuel vendors vote for ending fossil fuel use.
Rather, it is up to those who buy fossil fuels to end their lethal addiction fast, before it is too late.
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Die #NYTimes hat keinerlei Hemmungen, Trump's Faschismus und den Antisemitismus in seinem Umfeld zu normalisieren und zu verharmlosen, aber wer Israel kritisiert, wird von der geballten Medienmacht des Konzerns angegriffen, unter Missachtung jeglicher journalistischer Standards

#Medienversagen
The #BrokenTimes' #MamdaniVendetta reaches a new level as it uses news columns to criticize him for daring to criticize settlements in the occupied West Bank that violate international law while also criticizing demonstrators. Its agenda is clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions With Jewish Leaders
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM