Ruth Mayer
@profiprof.bsky.social
720 followers 230 following 180 posts
Americanist, Modernist, moving backwards, Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft, worried
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jalenz.bsky.social
Diese Woche treffen sich ein Haufen kluger Leute in Basel und ich darf zuhören: auf der „Gegenmoderne“-Tagung, veranstaltet von @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social

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gegenmoderne.unibas.ch
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profiprof.bsky.social
Excellent--and chilling--summary of the weaponization of anti-semitism in German cultural politics.
profiprof.bsky.social
“Ich finde es skandalös, dass Sie hier nicht mit Ihrem Namen sprechen können, aus Angst, dass Ihnen das Geld gekürzt wird ... Sie müssten ganz klar reden können, mit einer starken Institution hinter Ihnen. Stattdessen haben wir eine Bundesregierung, die dem rechten Rand oft nach dem Mund redet.”
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Show us your warrant!”

“Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔

*busts in the door with babies crying*
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profiprof.bsky.social
“Während des Gaza-Krieges entstand in Israel eine neue … Währung, [der] ‘reserve duty day’ (RDD), eine staatliche Vergütung für einen Tag Reservedienst. Der RDD ist …[die] Währung, mit der der Staat die aktive Partnerschaft seiner Bürger:innen … erkauft.” geschichtedergegenwart.ch/die-zerstoer...
Die Zerstö­rung Gazas und die Prozesse der Komplizenschaft
Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 hat die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu für Reservesoldaten ein Anreizsystem geschaffen, das die Grenzen zwischen ziviler und militärischer Gesellschaft auf...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
'“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
Portland braces for the same violence seen in Chicago and LA.

Watch as one protester in Chicago removes his shirt to reveal all places he was shot by projectiles. The US government firing indiscriminately upon protesters and press alike.

No one, regardless of political party, should support this
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simoneheekeren.bsky.social
Wie wird beim @spiegel.de denn bitte „wittern“ definiert?

#Portland #Semantik
Krise in den USA
Trump schickt Soldaten nach Portland, Demokraten wittern Machtmissbrauch

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trump-schickt-soldaten-nach-portland-in-oregon-demokraten-wittern-machtmissbrauch-a-4d1ed89e-00b5-4da3-ab99-31cf877a574f
profiprof.bsky.social
To Hegseth, it is more important to be “historically correct” than “politically correct.“ This historical correctness means a history of the winners carved in stone, repeating the cruelties of erasure of the past over and over again.
profiprof.bsky.social
The perpetrators of the 1890 massacre of hundreds of Lakota people may now keep their medals. “We're making it clear that they deserve those medals …. their place in our nation's history is no longer up for debate,” says Pete Hegseth.
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digby56.bsky.social
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.
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jaanauolamo.bsky.social
Alfred Nobel had a vision of a better world. He believed that people are capable of helping to improve society through knowledge, science and humanism. This is why he created a prize that would reward the discoveries that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.
laurarbelin.bsky.social
Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...
ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts
Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.
www.bleedingheartland.com
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abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

For the first time, immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest share detained by ICE — surpassing those with convictions. This shift undercuts claims that enforcement is focused only on dangerous criminals. #AbuseofPowerWatch
Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention
Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges
www.theguardian.com
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming
bradlander.bsky.social
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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sixtus.net
Hans-Georg Maaßen ist inzwischen sogar der Rechtsaußen-Splitterpartei "Werteunion" zu weit rechts. Zeit, nochmal daran zu erinnern, dass dieser Mann nicht zufällig oder per Unfall zum Chef des Inlandsgeheimdienstes wurde, sondern dass ihn damals Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) handverlesen installierte.
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sektordrei.bsky.social
Im Angesicht dieser Subalternität, der milieutypischen Apokalyptik und der innewohnenden Traurigkeit des Settings kann man sich vergegenwärtigen, dass der Akteur 20 Jahre im BMI aufgestiegen ist, eine hochsensible Behörde mit 4.000 Mitarbeiter:innen geführt, Regierungsmitglieder und MdB beraten hat.
larswienand.bsky.social
Dieses Video von Erik Ahrens, das die Zusammenarbeit mit Hans-Georg Maaßen zeigt, könnte Maaßen bei der Werteunion endgültig ins Abseits schießen. In der Partei wird sein Rücktritt gefordert, im Förderverein steht eine Neuwahl an – und es gibt ein Team, das ihn ablösen will.
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unddieregel.bsky.social
Eigentlich konsequent dass die CDU ihre meme-produktion jetzt zentralisiert und direkt fördert