This piece ties together so many strings around the Special Military Operation in Venezuela.
www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle
Kidnapping a world leader for online clout
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:26 AM
This piece ties together so many strings around the Special Military Operation in Venezuela.
www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
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Important info on the ideologue who wrote the NSS. (I am not in the least surprised, have been following this guy from 2016.) Will our atlanticists bother to read this? Will they stop sanewashing his stuff?
nickcohen.substack.com/p/michael-an...
nickcohen.substack.com/p/michael-an...
Michael Anton: An American fanatic
Trump’s hacks make their hatred for us clear
nickcohen.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Important info on the ideologue who wrote the NSS. (I am not in the least surprised, have been following this guy from 2016.) Will our atlanticists bother to read this? Will they stop sanewashing his stuff?
nickcohen.substack.com/p/michael-an...
nickcohen.substack.com/p/michael-an...
Trumps National Security Strategy 2025 actually mentions Soft Power. Albeit with a twist - it's about being "unapologetic about our country's past and culture". Also about being "respectful" toward other cultures.
Proclaims "inherent greatness and decency" of the US. Makes ya think of Donny, right?
Proclaims "inherent greatness and decency" of the US. Makes ya think of Donny, right?
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Trumps National Security Strategy 2025 actually mentions Soft Power. Albeit with a twist - it's about being "unapologetic about our country's past and culture". Also about being "respectful" toward other cultures.
Proclaims "inherent greatness and decency" of the US. Makes ya think of Donny, right?
Proclaims "inherent greatness and decency" of the US. Makes ya think of Donny, right?
This is the Alex Jones school of political theater: just take some stuff you've seen bad guys in movie do, claim the democrats did it first and then relentlessly do it yourself.
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This is the Alex Jones school of political theater: just take some stuff you've seen bad guys in movie do, claim the democrats did it first and then relentlessly do it yourself.
From normative power to economic chokepoints? Seems like Newman and Farrell really are two beautifuls Cassandras.
www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise in a new age of economic warfare
Bureaucrats look for leverage against coercion from Beijing and Washington but what would it take for Brussels to act?
www.scmp.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
From normative power to economic chokepoints? Seems like Newman and Farrell really are two beautifuls Cassandras.
www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
ICE wants to build a digital surveillance system that marks individuals with a “proclivity for violence.” They're gonna have to flag the entire GOP...
www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE wants to build a digital surveillance system that marks individuals with a “proclivity for violence.” They're gonna have to flag the entire GOP...
www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
This line by @samadams.bsky.social speaks to me, nay it screams at me:
"When I first started writing about movies, I couldn’t understand why there were so many bad ones. Now, I think it’s a miracle that any of them are good."
slate.com/culture/2025...
"When I first started writing about movies, I couldn’t understand why there were so many bad ones. Now, I think it’s a miracle that any of them are good."
slate.com/culture/2025...
Two of Our Greatest Filmmakers Stopped Making Movies Together. It Has Not Gone Well.
The Coen brothers have been making movies separately for seven years. Only one has made anything good.
slate.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This line by @samadams.bsky.social speaks to me, nay it screams at me:
"When I first started writing about movies, I couldn’t understand why there were so many bad ones. Now, I think it’s a miracle that any of them are good."
slate.com/culture/2025...
"When I first started writing about movies, I couldn’t understand why there were so many bad ones. Now, I think it’s a miracle that any of them are good."
slate.com/culture/2025...
"The most striking aspect of the past six months is that almost every single countervailing institution in the United States has knuckled under to Donald Trump’s whims." @dandrezner.bsky.social
Drezner gets it absolutely right. Where is the resistance?
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Drezner gets it absolutely right. Where is the resistance?
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Six Months Of Consequential Fascism
Trump II is consequential -- and not in a good way.
open.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"The most striking aspect of the past six months is that almost every single countervailing institution in the United States has knuckled under to Donald Trump’s whims." @dandrezner.bsky.social
Drezner gets it absolutely right. Where is the resistance?
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Drezner gets it absolutely right. Where is the resistance?
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Superb story by Reuters about Trumps pause in weapon shipments to Ukraine three months ago. Left me wondering who those "anti-interventionist" staffer are.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...
www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...
Exclusive: Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard
Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in the United Arab Emirates: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.
www.reuters.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Superb story by Reuters about Trumps pause in weapon shipments to Ukraine three months ago. Left me wondering who those "anti-interventionist" staffer are.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...
www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...
Maybe Vance should take a deep look at the US presidential systems and how it enables thight cliques that are loyalty-bound to a messianic president to wreck absolute havoc on the international stage...
unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...
unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...
JD Vance: My message to Europe
unherd.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Maybe Vance should take a deep look at the US presidential systems and how it enables thight cliques that are loyalty-bound to a messianic president to wreck absolute havoc on the international stage...
unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...
unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...
ProPublica veröffentlicht am laufenden Band faszinierende Reportagen aus den USA: Der republikanische Sprecher des Abgeordnetenhauses lebt in einer WG in Washington DC - mit einem evangelikalen Pastor, gesponsort von einem ultrareichen Autohändler aus Tennessee.
www.propublica.org/article/mike...
www.propublica.org/article/mike...
Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
www.propublica.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
ProPublica veröffentlicht am laufenden Band faszinierende Reportagen aus den USA: Der republikanische Sprecher des Abgeordnetenhauses lebt in einer WG in Washington DC - mit einem evangelikalen Pastor, gesponsort von einem ultrareichen Autohändler aus Tennessee.
www.propublica.org/article/mike...
www.propublica.org/article/mike...
I'm no economist, just a mere political scientist. Envisioning a common tariff area without a dispute resolution mechanism sounds terribly naive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm no economist, just a mere political scientist. Envisioning a common tariff area without a dispute resolution mechanism sounds terribly naive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
Auf BeReal bekommt man Werbung für eine Stellenausschreibung W3-Professur der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, lol
January 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Auf BeReal bekommt man Werbung für eine Stellenausschreibung W3-Professur der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, lol
Does Gaetz now try for Rubios seat in the senate?
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Does Gaetz now try for Rubios seat in the senate?
Überraschend passende Szene heute Abend
November 6, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Überraschend passende Szene heute Abend
Heute wird Bloch gelesen.
November 6, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Heute wird Bloch gelesen.
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A piece I wrote in January, calling the election for Trump, arguing he won't govern like a fascist but he will be worse than last time: more vengeful, supported by a base with which he has party-like relations and the state retrospectively accepting the Jan 6 coup
tempestmag.org/2024/01/what...
tempestmag.org/2024/01/what...
What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist
David Renton argues that our response to Trump's candidacy is not to minimize the risk while insisting that organizing is the only protection
tempestmag.org
November 6, 2024 at 8:06 AM
A piece I wrote in January, calling the election for Trump, arguing he won't govern like a fascist but he will be worse than last time: more vengeful, supported by a base with which he has party-like relations and the state retrospectively accepting the Jan 6 coup
tempestmag.org/2024/01/what...
tempestmag.org/2024/01/what...
Interessant aus Sicht der internationalen Beziehungen: Lindner enthüllt in seinem Papier zur Wirtschaftswende sein Misstrauen ggü europäischen Partnern. Klares Denken des Nullsummenspiels. Angst vor relativem Machtverlust.
November 2, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Interessant aus Sicht der internationalen Beziehungen: Lindner enthüllt in seinem Papier zur Wirtschaftswende sein Misstrauen ggü europäischen Partnern. Klares Denken des Nullsummenspiels. Angst vor relativem Machtverlust.
Did ZAF president #Ramaphosa sneak in a little dig at Putin in his final address at the BRICS summit? Obviously he doesn't mention Ukraine, but it can certainly be read to be about Ukraine as well
October 26, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Did ZAF president #Ramaphosa sneak in a little dig at Putin in his final address at the BRICS summit? Obviously he doesn't mention Ukraine, but it can certainly be read to be about Ukraine as well
Da flog gerade ein Jet sehr tief über den Norden von Bonn, hoffe der Ausblick auf den Rhein ist den Schreck meinerseits wert
October 11, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Da flog gerade ein Jet sehr tief über den Norden von Bonn, hoffe der Ausblick auf den Rhein ist den Schreck meinerseits wert
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Beste Frage von @afelia.bsky.social :
'Aber warum wohnen wir alle so stark im Kopf der AfD?'
Hörenswert 🏆
mit konstruktiver Aussicht, dem Demokratieprojekt AULA.
youtu.be/2j3KFe9DbKI?...
'Aber warum wohnen wir alle so stark im Kopf der AfD?'
Hörenswert 🏆
mit konstruktiver Aussicht, dem Demokratieprojekt AULA.
youtu.be/2j3KFe9DbKI?...
Was passiert, wenn Populismus gewinnt? Mit Marina Weisband und Ronen Steinke
YouTube video by Politik mit Anne Will
youtu.be
October 3, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Beste Frage von @afelia.bsky.social :
'Aber warum wohnen wir alle so stark im Kopf der AfD?'
Hörenswert 🏆
mit konstruktiver Aussicht, dem Demokratieprojekt AULA.
youtu.be/2j3KFe9DbKI?...
'Aber warum wohnen wir alle so stark im Kopf der AfD?'
Hörenswert 🏆
mit konstruktiver Aussicht, dem Demokratieprojekt AULA.
youtu.be/2j3KFe9DbKI?...
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Dieser Artikel wurde schon von vielen geteilt, aber nicht von mir. Das ist Grund genug, es nachzuholen, weil er etwas ganz Zentrales anspricht: Die Gewalt, die mit der AfD in den Alltag vieler Menschen einkehrt.
Wahlen in Brandenburg: Es regiert die Angst
Die AfD ist zwar unter 30 Prozent geblieben. Doch sie schafft eine Stimmung, in der Widerspruch ständige Gefahr bedeutet.
taz.de
September 29, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Dieser Artikel wurde schon von vielen geteilt, aber nicht von mir. Das ist Grund genug, es nachzuholen, weil er etwas ganz Zentrales anspricht: Die Gewalt, die mit der AfD in den Alltag vieler Menschen einkehrt.
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I wrote about a dynamic that I haven’t seen acknowledged: The Trump campaign is desperate to make race the issue of the election even if they have to lie about it, because their strategy is to scare white people, while Harris has tried to avoid or defuse the issue www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Campaign Wants Everyone Talking About Race
The former president and his advisers’ strategy is to make white voters afraid—and they don’t care if they have to lie to do it.
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2024 at 12:54 PM
I wrote about a dynamic that I haven’t seen acknowledged: The Trump campaign is desperate to make race the issue of the election even if they have to lie about it, because their strategy is to scare white people, while Harris has tried to avoid or defuse the issue www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A sizeable chunk of GESIS colleagues just published a position paper on how to evaluate data quality for the social sciences. #surveysky #surveymethods #surveymethodology doi.org/10.21241/sso...
Defining and Evaluating Data Quality for the Social Sciences: Position PaperShare via E-MailShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via RedditShare via LinkedinShare via XING
doi.org
September 24, 2024 at 11:50 AM
A sizeable chunk of GESIS colleagues just published a position paper on how to evaluate data quality for the social sciences. #surveysky #surveymethods #surveymethodology doi.org/10.21241/sso...
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Hear me out:
Jon Cena as a mild-mannered history professor who is forced into a brutal fight against people who say "it's a republic, not a democracy"
Jon Cena as a mild-mannered history professor who is forced into a brutal fight against people who say "it's a republic, not a democracy"
Rebel Ridge highlights the absurdities of asset forfeiture. The Beekeeper took on internet scammers. Monkey Man had a nice bit on trans rights.
Feels like action flicks are finding a new lane
Feels like action flicks are finding a new lane
September 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Hear me out:
Jon Cena as a mild-mannered history professor who is forced into a brutal fight against people who say "it's a republic, not a democracy"
Jon Cena as a mild-mannered history professor who is forced into a brutal fight against people who say "it's a republic, not a democracy"