Johannes Wilhelm
@johanneswilhelm.bsky.social
MS Aerospace Engineering. Retro Sci-Fi fiend. Amateur historian. Bavarian-American Union Officer. Hero of the Franco-American Aerial Battle of Sonora, 1867.
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Alaric DeArment for The New Republic: "ugly strain in American society of blood-and-soil nationalism, xenophobic paranoia, and the puritanical delusion that other people’s private lives are somehow detrimental to the rest of society."
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My Dual Citizenship Is None of Bernie Moreno’s Business
A bill that would ban Americans from having citizen rights abroad is about nationalist sentimentalism, not real-life issues.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Alaric DeArment for The New Republic: "ugly strain in American society of blood-and-soil nationalism, xenophobic paranoia, and the puritanical delusion that other people’s private lives are somehow detrimental to the rest of society."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Enough is enough. Ask yourself how much of this is political distraction propaganda. I think it's fair most serious scientists would agree that 3I/Atlas is a natural object. Why's Loeb harping on UFO BS?
"What NASA is SCARED to Admit About Where 3I/ATLAS is Headed | Avi Loeb"
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"What NASA is SCARED to Admit About Where 3I/ATLAS is Headed | Avi Loeb"
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What NASA is SCARED to Admit About Where 3I/ATLAS is Headed | Avi Loeb
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December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Enough is enough. Ask yourself how much of this is political distraction propaganda. I think it's fair most serious scientists would agree that 3I/Atlas is a natural object. Why's Loeb harping on UFO BS?
"What NASA is SCARED to Admit About Where 3I/ATLAS is Headed | Avi Loeb"
search.app/aDF1Z
"What NASA is SCARED to Admit About Where 3I/ATLAS is Headed | Avi Loeb"
search.app/aDF1Z
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Louise as Janie, shoe clerk at Ginsburg’s Department Store, in a still from Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em (1926).
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Louise as Janie, shoe clerk at Ginsburg’s Department Store, in a still from Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em (1926).
If you're going to talk about checks and balances via vis independence of appointees from the executive, then you have to realize that the main check is already down. The majority of SCOTUS prove every time they themselves are highly partisan. There aren't any checks.
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Supreme Court appears poised to vastly expand presidential powers
The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're going to talk about checks and balances via vis independence of appointees from the executive, then you have to realize that the main check is already down. The majority of SCOTUS prove every time they themselves are highly partisan. There aren't any checks.
www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...
Spreading the idea of "Replacement Theory" around the world. Shameful.
To be honest, European culture is much, much older than American culture and has survived far worse than recent migration.
It's more likely that they'll not only survive but thrive in the future with or without migration.
To be honest, European culture is much, much older than American culture and has survived far worse than recent migration.
It's more likely that they'll not only survive but thrive in the future with or without migration.
The document includes scathing critiques of European allies' migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the “prospect of civilizational erasure” and raising doubts about their long-term reliability as American partners. https://to.pbs.org/4pX25fH
Trump's security strategy slams European allies and asserts U.S. power in Western Hemisphere
The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the “pr...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Spreading the idea of "Replacement Theory" around the world. Shameful.
To be honest, European culture is much, much older than American culture and has survived far worse than recent migration.
It's more likely that they'll not only survive but thrive in the future with or without migration.
To be honest, European culture is much, much older than American culture and has survived far worse than recent migration.
It's more likely that they'll not only survive but thrive in the future with or without migration.
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Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
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The decision to delay the vote came abruptly yesterday afternoon when the panel realized it still did not understand the topic or what it was voting on.
CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote
Today’s meeting was chaotic and included garbage anti-vaccine presentations.
arstechnica.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The decision to delay the vote came abruptly yesterday afternoon when the panel realized it still did not understand the topic or what it was voting on.
Do you get the feeling that some things shouldn't have been left behind, but instead should have been allowed to evolve?
What is it younger generations know that we don't?
What is it younger generations know that we don't?
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Do you get the feeling that some things shouldn't have been left behind, but instead should have been allowed to evolve?
What is it younger generations know that we don't?
What is it younger generations know that we don't?
This level of stupidity is killing me.
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This level of stupidity is killing me.
University students forced to change dorm rooms due to newly passed anti-transgender bathroom laws.
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Some UTSA students forced to move dorm rooms as school complies with state’s ‘bathroom bill’
Some University of Texas at San Antonio students are being forced to move dorms before the state's so-called "bathroom bill" goes into effect this week.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
University students forced to change dorm rooms due to newly passed anti-transgender bathroom laws.
www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
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It's not a one billion loss. It's a lot more than that, because non-classified research, sometimes involving military or government contracts, often involves international students.
Fewer international students are enrolling in US colleges - CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/i...
Fewer international students are enrolling in US colleges - CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/i...
Fewer international students are enrolling at U.S. colleges, which could cost the country $1 billion, reports find
In the fall 2025 semester, new international student enrollment at U.S. institutions fell 17%, according to a recent report.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's not a one billion loss. It's a lot more than that, because non-classified research, sometimes involving military or government contracts, often involves international students.
Fewer international students are enrolling in US colleges - CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/i...
Fewer international students are enrolling in US colleges - CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/i...
Baikonur Comodrome damaged after Soyuz launch carrying US and Russian crew to the International Space Station.
The facilities are the only way for Russia to Launch to the ISS at the moment.
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The facilities are the only way for Russia to Launch to the ISS at the moment.
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Russian cosmodrome damaged after Soyuz launch to ISS – DW – 11/27/2025
The launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was damaged after the Soyuz MS-28 mission lifted off.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Baikonur Comodrome damaged after Soyuz launch carrying US and Russian crew to the International Space Station.
The facilities are the only way for Russia to Launch to the ISS at the moment.
www.dw.com/en/russian-c...
The facilities are the only way for Russia to Launch to the ISS at the moment.
www.dw.com/en/russian-c...
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Judge dismissed cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed
Lindsey Halligan was appointed after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the former FBI director and New York attorney general.
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Judge dismissed cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Not a real surprise here folks...
But many MAGA influencers on X were recently uncovered as actually paid foreign agitators.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But many MAGA influencers on X were recently uncovered as actually paid foreign agitators.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Not a real surprise here folks...
But many MAGA influencers on X were recently uncovered as actually paid foreign agitators.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But many MAGA influencers on X were recently uncovered as actually paid foreign agitators.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yep. That's pretty much it.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yep. That's pretty much it.
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UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight
UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight
Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief
The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.
Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight
More on the Culture and Religious Wars in the Viceroyalty of Texas
Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor.
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Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor.
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Texas A&M committee rules professor's firing over gender identity lesson was unjustified
A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature le...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
More on the Culture and Religious Wars in the Viceroyalty of Texas
Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor.
AP News share.google/08zACArjKV3j...
Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor.
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FFS pick a lane! You can't just testify under oath that the Grand Jury didn't read the final document, and then, while away from court say the opposite and attack the judge!
'Gifts for the Comey defense': In reversal, DOJ now say indictment was properly approved search.app/kQtQs
'Gifts for the Comey defense': In reversal, DOJ now say indictment was properly approved search.app/kQtQs
'Gifts for the Comey defense': In reversal, DOJ now say indictment was properly approved
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November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
FFS pick a lane! You can't just testify under oath that the Grand Jury didn't read the final document, and then, while away from court say the opposite and attack the judge!
'Gifts for the Comey defense': In reversal, DOJ now say indictment was properly approved search.app/kQtQs
'Gifts for the Comey defense': In reversal, DOJ now say indictment was properly approved search.app/kQtQs
WTF? The whiplash is insane. I need one of those neck thingies they give you after a car accident.
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Takeaways from Trump and Mamdani's surprisingly cordial meeting
It was billed as potentially the political showdown of the year - instead, both men gave one another praise.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
WTF? The whiplash is insane. I need one of those neck thingies they give you after a car accident.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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As expected, the US Supreme Court reversed (albeit temporarily) the lower US court order to not use the Republican friendly congressional map in Texas.
In what way is the Supreme Court independent?
Perhaps the US should do what Mexico did and elect their judges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
In what way is the Supreme Court independent?
Perhaps the US should do what Mexico did and elect their judges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
As expected, the US Supreme Court reversed (albeit temporarily) the lower US court order to not use the Republican friendly congressional map in Texas.
In what way is the Supreme Court independent?
Perhaps the US should do what Mexico did and elect their judges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
In what way is the Supreme Court independent?
Perhaps the US should do what Mexico did and elect their judges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...