Jeder Unterstützer Trumps muss sich daher die Frage stellen: Was ist mir wichtiger – die amerikanische Demokratie oder „owning the libs“? An der Beantwortung dieser Frage wird sich das Fortbestehen der US-Demokratie entscheiden.

Diese Autokratisierung kann nur noch durch die Gerichte und Wähler aufgehalten werden, wenn die Trump-Regierung der eigenen Machtbasis beraubt würde. Aber würde sich die Regierung an Wahlergebnisse halten, würden sie die Weisungen von Gerichten befolgen? All das erscheint immer unwahrscheinlicher.

Schritt für Schritt stellt sich die Administration damit nicht nur gegen geltendes Recht, sondern erweitert kontinuierlich ihre Macht. Denn wenn der Tod von Bürgern am helllichten Tag keine rote Linie mehr ist, was soll eine Regierung dann noch aufhalten?

Die entscheidende Frage ist: Werden der Regierung Grenzen gesetzt? Nach augenscheinlich wahrheitswidrigen Aussagen Trumps und ranghoher Beamter, das Opfer Alex Pretti habe Beamte „massakrieren“ wollen, ist Rechenschaft kaum zu erwarten.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

Super important work, thanks for sharing!

Very glad to hear that!

Thank you so much for spreading the word! We are really in a crucial period right now - and everyone should understand that protecting democracy is at its core a joint endeavor.

This month's Facts in my climate action newsletter focuses on the excellent study by @cabels18.bsky.social, @kiiahuttunen.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig & @lewan.bsky.social. I really appreciated their excellent analysis, please check out my summary here: wecanfixit.substack.com/i/174419696/...

GenAI offers powerful tools. But when it shapes what we believe, especially about our own health, we need to treat it as a behavioral system with real-world consequences.

@lewan.bsky.social @eloplop.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social @dlholf.bsky.social

What can we do?
We call for a multi-level approach:

Design-level interventions to help users maintain situational awareness
Boosting user competencies to help them understand the technology's impact
Developing public infrastructure to detect and monitor unintended system behaviour

This isn't just about potentially problematic design.

It’s about systemic risk: As GenAI tools fragment (Custom GPTs, GPT Stores, third-party apps), the public is exposed to a growing landscape of low-oversight, increasingly high-trust agents.

And that creates challenges for the individual.

You can make ChatGPT even more biased, just by tweaking a few settings.

We built a Custom GPT that’s a little more "friendly" and engagement-driven.

It ended up validating fringe treatments like quantum healing, just to keep the user happy.

In this paper, we showcase how this plays out across 3 “pressure points”:

Biased query phrasing → biased answers
Selective reading → echo chambers
Dismissal of contradiction → belief reinforcement

Confirmation bias isn't new. GenAI just takes it a bit further.

Generative AI tools are designed to adapt to you: your tone, your preferences, your beliefs.
That’s great for writing emails.

But in health contexts, that adaptability becomes hypercustomization - and can entrench existing views, even when they're wrong.