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Malte Zander
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Co-author - Cynic - Realist - Fatalist - Freelance sports journo - Works with Open Data - #1fcmagdeburg - #scmagdeburg
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Free speech continues to deteriorate in the US under Trump.

The regime ordered the increase to rejections of European travellers, especially those who criticize Trump, Russia, or Israel on social media.

Travellers are being forced to reveal 5 years of social media history.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Den beiden Schlussabsätzen zur in jüngerer Vergangenheit eher noch gestiegenen Bedeutung des Verbotsgesetzes würde ich besondere Beachtung wünschen.

(Korrekter Link zum Artikel: www.doew.at/neues/neue-a...)
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ich bin mir ja zu 100% sicher, dass das niemals missbraucht werden wird...
Gesetzesreform: Neue Rechtslage zu sicheren Herkunftsstaaten
⚖️ Seit Kurzem kann die Bundesregierung Staaten per Rechtsverordnung als „sicher" einstufen.
ℹ️ Bislang ging die Bestimmung ausschließlich per Gesetz & unter Mitbestimmung des Bundesrats.
🔗 Mehr: mediendienst-integration.de/fluechtlinge...
Sichere Herkunftsstaaten: Länderliste und Zahlen
mediendienst-integration.de
December 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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ICE is using "live targeting" in and around Portland, signing warrants only after arrests, submitting false reports to justify arrests, and using Spanish language as the basis for their arrests. How many constitutional violations can ICE commit in each arrest?

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
ICE officers reveal arrest quotas, facial recognition use in Oregon dragnet
A federal ICE supervisor also testified he created and signed arrest warrants after-the-fact for people already arrested without warrants.
www.oregonlive.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Boy does it hear good to hear a mayor talking like this.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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When I was writing my book To Die With Such Men, following an Int'l Legion unit in Ukraine, I once thought I could end with a reference to this story from the Kherson offensive. I don't expect to hear a reaction like this for a long, long time. But I hope Minna is right in her strong piece below.
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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»Matwijtschuk nannte russische Kriegsverbrechen in Tschetschenien, Moldau, Georgien, Mali, Libyen und Syrien, die nie bestraft worden seien. Moskau habe gelernt, dass es alles dürfe.«
Ukraine-Krieg - Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Oleksandra Matwijtschuk fordert Deutschland auf, Russlandpolitik aufzuarbeiten
Die ukrainische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Oleksandra Matwijtschuk hat Deutschland dazu aufgerufen, Fehler im Umgang mit Russland stärker aufzuarbeiten.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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The UK will no longer be a place that offers safety and shelter to those in need, just like in the 1930s.

#fascistUK
this is really grim
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Just had an ai generated looping video of ww1/2 soldiers horribly sexually assaulting female prisoners play itself at me when I tried to read an online recipe, in case anyone wants to know how the ole tech revolution is going.
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Rick goes thru the potential specifics of the deal which are byzantine and designed to avoid paying taxes and we should also be talking about how bad these deals are for us as a citizenry when corps do massive deals that allow them to enrich a handful of already rich people at the cost to **us**
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:

"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."

All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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BREAKING: Michel Friedman fordert ein Verbot der rechtsextremen AfD. Und er spricht über die Notwendigkeit der völligen Abschottung vom Faschismus: Weil die Demokratie durch jede Berührung mit ihm stirbt!
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.

Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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„Kurz gesagt, Europa wird signalisiert, dass die alte Sicherheitsvereinbarung ausgedient hat und es sich auf Interventionen in Bezug auf seine Selbstverwaltung (die EU) und die zugrunde liegenden Prinzipien (seine Demokratie) vorbereiten sollte.“

Weiterer Thread zum verstörenden MAGA Dokument
1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Heute vor 14 Jahren ist der begnadete Fußballer Sócrates gestorben, von dem meine Lieblingsäußerung aus diesem Sport stammt.
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The US “peace” plan not only had Ukraine giving up land—including some Russia hasn’t been able to take—it also demanded a weakened Ukraine that can’t decide its own foreign relations and isn’t allowed real outside support, leaving it vulnerable for whenever Russia regroups.

Who would accept that.
Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win
The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point
www.arcdigital.media
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Gießens Oberbürgermeister hat es schön gesagt: "Gießen hat nicht gebrannt, sondern geleuchtet – durch die vielen Augen derer, die auf die Straßen gegangen sind und fröhlich und friedlich ihre Unterstützung unserer Demokratie gefeiert und ihrer Sorge vor einem Rechtsruck Ausdruck verliehen haben."
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Gonna be vague with this one on purpose but I had a recently uncomfortable personal incident with someone who is not a bad person or even a CEO but **very much** of an executive mentality and… now that interaction makes a LOT of sense when contextualized with this 😔
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Mit der Einordnung breitester Proteste gegen die AfD als Kampf zwischen ganz links und ganz rechts, zeigt Merz wieder einmal: Er ist ein kurzsichtiger und instinktloser Spalter, der lieber das Spiel der AfD spielt als mit Zusammenhalt die Zerstörung der Demokratie zu verhindern.
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Putin will nicht "etwas Land" sondern die Existenz der Ukraine beenden. Man muss endlich aus der Illusion heraus, man müsste nur die Ukraine zur Abgabe von etwas Land drängen und dann gäbe es Frieden. Damit die Ukraine überhaupt verhandeln kann, braucht sie Sicherheitsgarantien.
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ich könnte jeden Tag ins Kissen schreien. Wo bleibt das verkackte Verbotsverfahren?
In Gießen hat sich die »Junge Alternative« neu gegründet – aber nicht neu erfunden. Die radikalsten Redner der neuen »Generation Deutschland« bekamen die besten Ergebnisse. Mein Eindruck von heute aus #Gießen

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
(S+) Neue AfD-Jugend: Applaus fürs Völkische
In Gießen hat sich die »Junge Alternative« neu gegründet – aber nicht neu erfunden. Die radikalsten Redner der neuen »Generation Deutschland« bekamen die besten Ergebnisse.
www.spiegel.de
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.

They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM