Sönke
@kingscrossed.bsky.social
bookshops. politics. rome. fulham fc.
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cosa ci fai qui?
🇪🇺🏳️🌈🖤🤍 (he/him)
cosa ci fai qui?
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Okay, vielleicht habe ich mich hier zu höflich ausgedrückt.
Wie kann es sein, dass wir als Europäer einen Mann, der persönlich von Putin ausgesucht wurde (WSJ), als Unterhändler akzeptieren, der eine neue Ordnung auf UNSEREM KONTINENT ausbaldowert?
Wie kann es sein, dass wir als Europäer einen Mann, der persönlich von Putin ausgesucht wurde (WSJ), als Unterhändler akzeptieren, der eine neue Ordnung auf UNSEREM KONTINENT ausbaldowert?
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Okay, vielleicht habe ich mich hier zu höflich ausgedrückt.
Wie kann es sein, dass wir als Europäer einen Mann, der persönlich von Putin ausgesucht wurde (WSJ), als Unterhändler akzeptieren, der eine neue Ordnung auf UNSEREM KONTINENT ausbaldowert?
Wie kann es sein, dass wir als Europäer einen Mann, der persönlich von Putin ausgesucht wurde (WSJ), als Unterhändler akzeptieren, der eine neue Ordnung auf UNSEREM KONTINENT ausbaldowert?
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Scenes from a personalist regime:
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Scenes from a personalist regime:
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
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This kind of statement would once be made inside the most rarified councils of state, some ultralimited Special Group, wherein POTUS & his most trusted advisors would commit to never putting anything in writing yet some handwritten archival scrap excavated 50 years later would reveal the truth.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This kind of statement would once be made inside the most rarified councils of state, some ultralimited Special Group, wherein POTUS & his most trusted advisors would commit to never putting anything in writing yet some handwritten archival scrap excavated 50 years later would reveal the truth.
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Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.
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WTF are we doing here, BBC?
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
WTF are we doing here, BBC?
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"Mit deinem Social-Media-Account schaffst du es problemlos in die USA", aber als Beleidigung 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Mit deinem Social-Media-Account schaffst du es problemlos in die USA", aber als Beleidigung 🙃
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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"Wir bitten Sie höflichst, das Hotel bis Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2025 zu verlassen."
Und damit überlässt die Bundesregierung die ehemaligen Ortskräfte der Bundeswehr ihrem Schicksal.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Und damit überlässt die Bundesregierung die ehemaligen Ortskräfte der Bundeswehr ihrem Schicksal.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Afghanische Ortskräfte: Dobrindts Versprechen - gebrochen
Innenminister Dobrindt wollte nur noch die Afghanen aufnehmen, die er aufnehmen muss. Mit einer Ausnahme: Ortskräfte. Für die habe man eine Verantwortung. Doch diese Zusage hält er nun nicht ein. Von ...
www.tagesschau.de
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Wir bitten Sie höflichst, das Hotel bis Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2025 zu verlassen."
Und damit überlässt die Bundesregierung die ehemaligen Ortskräfte der Bundeswehr ihrem Schicksal.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Und damit überlässt die Bundesregierung die ehemaligen Ortskräfte der Bundeswehr ihrem Schicksal.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Das ist ein ungeheuerlicher Aussage, die Kanzler Merz heute in Mainz in Richtung USA getätigt hat, so begräbt man die EU: "Ihr braucht auf der Welt auch Partner. Und einer der Partner kann Europa sein und wenn ihr mit Europa nichts anfangen könnt, dann macht wenigsten Deutschland zu eurem Partner."
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Das ist ein ungeheuerlicher Aussage, die Kanzler Merz heute in Mainz in Richtung USA getätigt hat, so begräbt man die EU: "Ihr braucht auf der Welt auch Partner. Und einer der Partner kann Europa sein und wenn ihr mit Europa nichts anfangen könnt, dann macht wenigsten Deutschland zu eurem Partner."
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"Das ist eine hysterische Debatte"; "wir sollten die Kirche im Dorf lassen"; "das sind einige bedenkenswerte Kritikpunkte drin"; "die USA bleiben unser wichtigster Partner"; "nichts wird so heiß gegessen, wie es gekocht wird"...
So wird man nicht ernstgenommen, sondern immer weiter erpresst.
So wird man nicht ernstgenommen, sondern immer weiter erpresst.
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Das ist eine hysterische Debatte"; "wir sollten die Kirche im Dorf lassen"; "das sind einige bedenkenswerte Kritikpunkte drin"; "die USA bleiben unser wichtigster Partner"; "nichts wird so heiß gegessen, wie es gekocht wird"...
So wird man nicht ernstgenommen, sondern immer weiter erpresst.
So wird man nicht ernstgenommen, sondern immer weiter erpresst.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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"Linker Mob" (Jens Spahn, 2.12.2025)
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Linker Mob" (Jens Spahn, 2.12.2025)
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here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
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try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.
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REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
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Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
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She is one of the minyan of people who could literally end almost all of this tomorrow. I’m sorry, she doesn’t get any points anymore, at this late date, for basic ante-level stuff like this. Do something already.
Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.
Suddenly the special election in TN-07 becomes potentially hugely consequential. It shouldn’t be competitive, but if Democrats steal it, when Greene resigns the Republican majority will be down to 218-216 w a sure Dem seat with no special scheduled in Texas.
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
She is one of the minyan of people who could literally end almost all of this tomorrow. I’m sorry, she doesn’t get any points anymore, at this late date, for basic ante-level stuff like this. Do something already.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.
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Carlo Masala: Angriffskrieg lohnt sich wieder. Was die USA als Friedensplan für die Ukraine verstehen, ist für Russland ein großer Sieg – auch über die Nato. Die Ukraine kann das nicht akzeptieren. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Friedensplan der USA: Angriffskrieg lohnt sich wieder
Was die USA als Friedensplan für die Ukraine verstehen, ist für Russland ein großer Sieg – auch über die Nato. Die Ukraine kann das nicht akzeptieren.
www.zeit.de
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Carlo Masala: Angriffskrieg lohnt sich wieder. Was die USA als Friedensplan für die Ukraine verstehen, ist für Russland ein großer Sieg – auch über die Nato. Die Ukraine kann das nicht akzeptieren. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...