Laura
koensler.bsky.social
Laura
@koensler.bsky.social
urban sketcher, journalist, grumpy these times, german democrat *privat account*
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Solarstrom und Windenergie müssen nicht durch die Straße von Hormus!
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Scheißverein
What did Marjorie Taylor Greene know about the tariff announcements and what stock trades did she make?

We need answers.
April 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Jetzt. Sofort. Immediately.
"If you don't stand up and fight now, if you don't take a position now, it's going to be too late," Eric Holder tells Rachel Maddow. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."
April 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
True
April 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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This is a United States Senator

MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities

BANKS: You probably deserved it

MACK: Why did I deserve it?

BANKS: Because you look like a clown
April 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A Russian scientist who opposed Putin’s war and is currently working at Harvard has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities and is now being held in a Louisiana detention center, facing possible deportation to Russia.

Absolutely appalling.
theins.press/en/news/280037
March 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Interview mit Kriminologe: "Je schwerer die Gewalt, desto eher ist es eine 'Men's World'" www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
Interview mit Kriminologe: "Je schwerer die Gewalt ist, desto eher ist es eine 'Men's World'"
Gewaltdelikte werden vor allem von Männern begangen. Welche Rolle die Erziehung aber auch Alkohol dabei spielen, erklärt der Tübinger Kriminologe Jörg Kinzig im Interview.
www.swr.de
March 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten in den Rachen zu werfen, ist unverantwortlich. Ein Kommentar.

netzpolitik.org/2025/palanti...
Palantir: Wer jetzt bei Peter Thiel Software kauft, hat wirklich nichts verstanden
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten...
netzpolitik.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Ich sags schon seit Twitter: Willkommen im postfaktischen Zeitalter.
So langsam kickt es richtig...

Lasst euch nicht verarschen:
Impfen schützt.
Die Erde ist rund.
Wissenschaft funktioniert und bringt uns das Internet oder rettet Leben.
Empathie ist die beste menschliche Fähigkeit.
Weinen ist ok.
March 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Immer wieder beeindruckend & ernüchternd, wie gut die Strategie »Flood the Zone with Shit« auch bei denen funktioniert, die sie kennen und trotzdem dazu beitragen, TLs mit neuen, surrealen Bildern, Nachrichten aus den USA zu überschwemmen, die überfordern, lähmen, Ressourcen binden & desorientieren.
March 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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March 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Right now, we have an authoritarian president.

He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts.

Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.
March 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"Der Glaube lehrt uns damit zufrieden zu sein, dass wir die Welt nicht verstehen"
March 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Chainsaws are the new musk-have
March 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Was man jetzt wissen muss
A German tourist ended up in ICE detention for six weeks including eight days in solitary confinement; she is finally home. There is another tourist, from Britain, who was imprisoned in a ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington. She’s still there.
German tourists’ ordeal reportedly ending as they are returned from US detention
Jessica Brösche to join Lucas Sielaff, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hat die deutsche Nationalmannschaft schon über den Boykott der nächsten WM nachgedacht? Okay, ein bisschen weit voraus gedacht. Zugegebenermaßen.
March 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM