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Joe Wein

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German software engineer and cyclist in Japan. Politics, environment, cyber security.

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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · Nov 16

If Russia stops fighting, there will be NO WAR
If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be NO MORE UKRAINE !!!

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 23h

Anything long enough that reading it involved turning pages, he probably didn't read it.

Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

yaledailynews.com

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

Sales of internal combustion engine cars globally peaked back in 2017. Since then any growth has come from electrified vehicles such as BEVs or Plugin-hybrids. Japan is an outlier amongst developed countries, with a BEV market share below that of lower income countries such as Thailand and Malaysia.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 2d

Feminismus, das war mal! Bye, bye, EMMA!

"Die Chefredakteurin Margarita Simonjan von „Russia Today“ erklärt, warum immer mehr RussInnen Putin lieben – und den Westen verachten."

www.emma.de/artikel/wir-...

Wir wollen nicht mehr sein wie ihr!

Die Chefredakteurin Margarita Simonjan von „Russia Today“ erklärt, warum immer mehr RussInnen Putin lieben – und den Westen verachten. Ein Warnruf. Die Chefin des TV-Senders versteht sich selbst als l...

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of way to try to win the Nobel peace prize!

Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 3d

We're going to irridiate the atmosphere, but for funsies

272 ReTruths 908 Likes

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The United States has more Nuclear Weapons
than any other country. This was accomplished,
including a complete update and renovation of
existing weapons, during my First Term in office.
Because of the tremendous destructive power, I
HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is
second, and China is a distant third, but will be
even within 5 years. Because of other countries
testing programs, I have instructed the
Department of War to start testing our Nuclear
Weapons on an equal basis. That process will
begin immediately. Thank you for your attention
to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

10/29/25, 9:04 PM

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 3d

This would be so on-brand

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 3d

Calling the global pace of switching to EVs in recent years "subdued" is a bit misleading.

Last month, global sales of electric vehicles increased 26% YoY. Sales in Europe increased 36%. 51% of sales in China, the biggest global car market, are now electric. 1/6 of new cars in Thailand are EVs.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

It still does that, BTW. I searched Google for the incident just now and Google's helpful AI saved me from having to go to any other posts.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

s/bottom left/bottom right/

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

Berlin, 80 years later:

The New Reich Chancellery was completely demolished.

The parking lot at the bottom left is where Hitler's ballroom once stood (on top of the "Führerbunker" where he ended his own life).

On the the top left is the memorial for millions of murdered Jews.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

8 vacations in the first 7 months on the job must be really rough. I don't know how he does it.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 4d

LDP+JIP want to cut 50 proportional representation seats in parliament. This is a mortal threat to Komeito: 20 out 24 Komeito lower house seats in 2024 were from PR vs. only 59 out of 191 the LDP won. Komeito has no choice but to fight back hard.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6d

Neues Interview, ohne paywall. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

Stefan Rahmstorf: "Als Donald Trump das erste Mal gewählt wurde, habe ich geweint"

Der Klima-Diskurs steckt in der Krise: Alle Warnungen treffen auf taube Ohren. Wie man darüber nicht verzweifelt, erklärt der Klimaforscher Stefan Rahmstorf im Gespräch.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 5d

Having this guy meet in Japan with the families of those abducted by North Korean dictators is a little ironic, considering he allocated $170,000,000,000 in his budget for ICE to abduct millions of fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters off American streets by unidentified masked men

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 5d

He's like a 4th grader getting a chance to redesign a nuclear powered carrier.🤡

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 6d

Remember how the Nazis referred to their regime as the "Tausendjähriges Reich" (Thousand-Year Empire), even though in the end it barely lasted 12 years?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

I can only assume that the CEOs of huge companies and leaders of foreign governments who continue to bribe Trump while getting tremendous benefits and breaks from the govt think that Republicans will stay in power forever or Democrats will forgive and forget.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 7d

Additional debunking here that documents the actual source of the 1934 photograph:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show White House Demolition To Make Way For Obama's Indoor Basketball Court -- The Picture Is From FDR's Project And The Court Is Outside

Does a photo show demolition done to the White House by Barack Obama to install an indoor basketball court? No, that's not true: A black and white photo shows the West Wing expansion project conducted...

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 7d

No, this is NOT a picture of Obama tearing down a part of the WH to build a basketball court, as claimed in viral MAGA fake news on Twitter and Facebook.
It's from a 1934 renovation under President Roosevelt, 27 years before Obama was even born!

Debunked by Snopes:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/o...

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ozpossum_NAFO @ozpossum.bsky.social · 9d

From Radio Free Europe: interesting stuff from Hungary:
youtu.be/2exDN5abAVE?...

Thousands Protest In Hungary As Orban Faces Growing Opposition To Pro-Russia Policy

YouTube video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Michael Roth 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱 @michaelroth.bsky.social · 8d

Danke @taz.de

„In alledem hat die große Masse der gesellschaftlichen Linken seit dem 7.10.23 versagt. Das Statement des Café-Kollektivs zeigt das nun einmal mehr. Es gibt keine gemeinsamen roten Linien, keine Leitplanken, keinen „common ground“ oder „common sense“.“

taz.de/Rausschmiss-...

Café schmeißt Israeli und Partnerin raus: Lehrstück über linken Antisemitismus

Zwei Personen werden aus der linken Berliner Kneipe „K-Fetisch“ geworfen. Auf ihrem T-Shirt stand das Wort „Falafel“ – unter anderem in hebräischer Schrift.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 9d

Die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung widerspricht dem "Stadtbild"-Narrativ. Das zeigt eine ZDF-Umfrage, die aber vom Sender komplett ins Gegenteil verdreht wurde. Eine gravierender Fehler für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk.
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...

ZDF manipuliert Umfrage: Mehrheit widerspricht Merz

Eine Umfrage zeigt, dass die Mehrheit der Menschen kein Problem mit Geflüchteten hat und sich sicher fühlt. Das ZDF berichtet das Gegenteil.

www.volksverpetzer.de

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 8d

It's a cabinet straight out of the Yasukuni shrine museum. In their world view, the only thing Imperial Japan did wrong in WW2 is to lose it.

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 8d

Mr Nagy, is she not a member of Nippon Kaigi, an ultra-right, ultranationalist group that still rejects the Tokyo Tribunal that convicted the war criminals now enshrined at Yasukuni shrine? Sure, she is not the only one of that ilk in the LDP, but that makes it worse, not better.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · 9d

As I wrote in November 2024:
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Joe Wein @joewein.bsky.social · Nov 23

Over the course of the next two years, they will try to eliminate independent media as Orban did in Hungary, where all the newspapers and radio stations have been taken over by his cronies. Something similar happened in Turkey under Erdogan. WP and NYT are already surrendering.