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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦
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Kommunikationswissenschaft LMU München / Department of Media & Communication LMU Munich

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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Mar 7
As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid. An analysis by The New York Times reveals how these words are being removed from government websites. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Removing From Their Sites Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · Jul 15
Im März habe ich mit Kai Hafez, @reinemann.bsky.social und @mandytroeger.bsky.social über das Schweigen der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft zum Gaza-Krieg gesprochen. Das Global Media Journal hat nun eine Dokumentation dieses Gesprächs veröffentlicht: globalmediajournal.de/index.php/gm...
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Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · Apr 2
Peter Neumann: „Man muss es klar sagen: Der Vorwurf, Omri Boehm relativiere oder instrumentalisiere den Holocaust, ist absurd.“ www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
Omri Boehm: Der Ausgeladene
Der israelisch-deutsche Philosoph Omri Boehm sollte zum Gedenken an die Befreiung des KZ Buchenwald sprechen. Nun wurde seine Rede auf israelischen Druck hin vertagt.
www.zeit.de
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Mar 30
Shocked, but gratified to see that 90 law professors at Harvard signed this letter denouncing the lawlessness of Trump’s attacks on equal protection and freedom of speech and affirming commitment to the rule of law (especially after its dean did not join in the prior letter stating similar things)
We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities—because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts, we share a conviction that our Constitution, including its First Amend…
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · Mar 24
“It really is quite chilling,” one of the scientists said. “They are controlling information, causing chaos, disrupting everyone, keeping us off-balance.”

“Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” the scientist added. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @reinemann.bsky.social · Mar 18
www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-america...
Is American democracy doomed?
How to understand the concept of "competitive authoritarianism" and why it's crucial to push back now to avoid it.
www.forkingpaths.co

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 16
“There are 13 million legal foreign residents (green card holders) in the US. If the administration can deport Khalil, it means those 13 million people must live in fear if they dare speak up or publish something that runs afoul of government views.” journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...
A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom | Columbia Journalism School
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 15
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
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Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) @badw.de · Mar 15
„Der Abstieg Deutschlands hänge u.a. mit der Fördergeldaffäre im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung zusammen […] Zudem sei »sehr kontrovers« über den Umgang »mit propalästinensischen Protesten an den Universitäten diskutiert worden« […] Das habe möglicherweise zu Verunsicherungen geführt.“
Academic Freedom Index: Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland unter Druck
Forschende in Deutschland fühlen sich in ihrer Arbeit zum Teil eingeschränkt, im Academic Freedom Index ist das Land aus der Spitzengruppe herausgefallen. Dramatisch eingebrochen ist die Freiheit im L...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 12
“American universities did not cause the onslaught that the second Trump administration is unleashing upon them,” Nicholas B. Dirks writes. But they'd “be in a much stronger position today if they had made a proactive case to the public for their own importance.”
Academia Needs to Stick Up for Itself
American higher education would be in a much stronger position today if it had made a proactive case to the public for its own importance—and taken steps to address its very real shortcomings.
www.theatlantic.com
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · Mar 9
"This attempt to restrict #AcademicFreedom and #FreedomofSpeech has now reached Finland. The University of Helsinki has already been issued demands to remove terms like ‘climate change’ and ‘egalitarian society’ from Fulbright scholarship announcements"
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Petition to defend academic freedom against US interference
Nearly 900 scientists have signed a petition demanding that UNIFI, the Council of Rectors of Finnish Universities, and Arene, the Conference of Finnis...
www.universityworldnews.com
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Mirjam Zadoff @mirjamzadoff.bsky.social · Mar 7
“This is the greatest pressure put on intellectual life since the McCarthy era. And I think it’ll be seen in the future, as that time was seen, as a time when people either stood up for their values or ran in fear of the federal government.”
Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves (Gift Article)
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
www.nytimes.com
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Axios @axios.com · Mar 7
BREAKING: The Trump administration announced it's immediately pulling about $400 million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia University.
Trump yanks $400 million from Columbia over allegations of antisemitism
The Trump administration accused Columbia of failing to address "persistent harassment of Jewish students."
www.axios.com
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Mar 5
Unimaginable a few weeks ago. But here we are. French university offering refuge to US scholars.

“It targets, but is not limited to, climate and environment, health, and human and social sciences.”

www.404media.co/french-unive...
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
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Bernhard Rude @bernhardrude.bsky.social · Mar 2
Am Sonntag, 2. März, um 14 Uhr auf dem Münchner Marienplatz Spontandemo
„Europa steht zusammen - Stärke zeigen für Frieden und Freiheit“.

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Feb 28
Trump and Vance are part of the tiny percentage of Americans who sympathize more with Russia (4%) than Ukraine (62%) and who view Putin more favorably (75% unfavorable) than Zelensky (28% unfavorable) today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · Feb 28
Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.

We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.

Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Feb 28
Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.

Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · Feb 28
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Feb 28
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Feb 20
The European Federation of Academies of Sciences has issued a statement in response to developments in 🇺🇸

"Censorship and political suppression of language, research topics, and methodologies— fundamentally compromise the integrity of scientific and scholarly endeavours"

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · Feb 18
Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share.
urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Political science statement.pdf
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Feb 18
Shameless.
The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning, @kimzetter.bsky.social reports. The terminated workers were told their employment would end at 5 pm EST today 👇
www.wired.com/story/nation... @wired.com
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
www.wired.com
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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @reinemann.bsky.social · Feb 17
So much for the facts. Of course, European democracies do have issues with the quality of their discourse and subjective (felt) freedom of speech. But no need for #vance to lecture the #EU on these issues.
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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @reinemann.bsky.social · Feb 17
... and on par as far as #freedomofexpression is concerned.
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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @reinemann.bsky.social · Feb 17
...or the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social report which places the US behind many #EU countries as far a the liberal democracy index in concerned v-dem.net/documents/43... ...
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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @reinemann.bsky.social · Feb 17
...the 2024 report from Reporters without borders @rsf.org ...
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Carsten Reinemann 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @reinemann.bsky.social · Feb 17
which has #Germany slightly ahead regarding civil liberties and political rights...
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