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This is like a puzzle box. Thoughts & prayers, of course. But what is going on here?
"Die California Highway Patrol wird den Schutz der ehemaligen Vizepräsidentin Kamala Harris übernehmen, nachdem Präsident Donald Trump ihr den Schutz durch den Secret Service entzogen hat."
👏🏻🙌👏🏻 Rep. Maxine Waters urged invoking the 25th Amendment, citing Trump’s removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve as a threat to the economy and democracy. Cook sued Trump, claiming his removal lacked cause and sought a restraining order to stay on the Fed Board. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Transgender people aren’t the problem. VC @ryanshead.bsky.social …we are! #military #transgender #trans #lgbtq #veteran #america #ryanarmy #usa #news #viral
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A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
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Sadly, this onion headline will never get old
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I was convinced this had to be fake but he really posted this. I was wondering why he would post this then realized it continues his grand tradition of stiffing contractors.
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The Trump administration is scaling back efforts to study and counter violent extremism, and the impact is becoming clear. On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. ET, join ProPublica for a conversation about what these recent changes mean for domestic security and public safety. 📌 RSVP and submit q's:
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[How DICTATOR WANNABE Trump Is Seizing TOTAL Power] Has Trump just taken his biggest step yet towards authoritarian rule? Can America, & the Democrats, fight back before it’s too late? Is this the week that marks a true turning point for U.S. democracy? #TheRestIsPoliticsUS youtu.be/9-SsNTMhm_Q?...
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Russia has caused devastating damages to Ukraine. It is unthinkable that Russia will ever see its frozen assets again, unless it fully compensate the damages caused to Ukraine. Today, we discussed this issue with EU Foreign affairs ministers Extract from my press remarks ↓
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Russia will not get back its frozen assets in Europe unless it pays reparations to Ukraine. Politico earlier reported the EU is preparing to finalize plans to transfer about €200B into a fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
[A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are an overreach of his use of emergency powers as president.] US-Bundesberufungsgericht bestätigt in 7-4 Entscheid Gerichtsbeschluss des untergeordneten Gerichts: Trump Tarife sind illegal. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Einfach schön zu sehen was machbar ist und denkbar wäre, würden wir die erfolgreichen Schritte übernehmen.
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With SAFE we are producing the capabilities Europe needs most. We will focus on pan-European projects from drones, cyber defence and air defence systems. For example, a comprehensive European Air Shield. It will be a strong symbol of 🇪🇺 unity in defence.
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One of the GREAT past Starter Packs on climate science/action and smart urbanism! Curated by Canadian giants @brenttoderian.bsky.social & @katharinehayhoe.com! CanU is proud to be included in this one! #UrbanistShoutOut
“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com Urbanists too. Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.
Die Mehrwertsteuer soll um 0.7 Prozentpunkte erhöht werden, die Erhöhung soll bis 2030 befristet sein. https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/nationalratskommission-13-ahv-rente-soll-mit-mehrwertsteuer-erhoehung-finanziert-werden
How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Rechte wollen so lange, dass man endlich „Klartext“ spricht, und „kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt“ und „auf politische Korrektheit“ verzichtet, bis das Robert Habeck macht.
From October, 2024: Everything that has happened was predictable, and indeed predicted youtu.be/pHDVpBLMiFI?...
This is a heist. Trump wants the Treasury to buy crypto and move some of the federal mortgage programs to buy crypto assets. Trump Org owns a crypto coin and Texas is now using public funds to buy crypto. It's a heist.
"It’s as simple as laws get: if an officer from Homeland Security is detaining or arresting you, he must show you who he is and who he works for. No masks. No mystery. A badge and an agency patch where the public can see them."
Hörtipp | Die Stadt und das Klima: Wo zeigt sich das Anthropozän?🎙️ Im MQ Wien ging es darum, wie sehr Klima, Wasser und Adelige das Leben in Wien schon immer beeinflussen und was die Stadtplanung daraus lernen kann.↓
Bub: Mama, wen hast du am aller liebsten auf der Welt? Ich: Euch und unsere Familie. Bub: Und dann? Ich: All unsere Freunde und Freundinnen Bub: Und dann alle Katzen auf der Welt! Meine Kinder kennen mich so gut.
Ich schau grad den Trailer zu "Play Dirty" und ich würd eigentlich glaub ich lieber eine Doku über so einen Schatz sehen, aber bitte.
Honig called Trump’s actions a “constitutional mockery,” not just a free-for-all. When Maryland judges ruled against him, Trump didn’t appeal but told them to “shut yourselves down.” The judge dismissed the case for lack of standing and a legal cause of action. www.rawstory.com/trump-courts...
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Grocery retailers blame Trump’s tariffs for rising prices, using them to justify passing costs to consumers, amid past accusations of pandemic-era price-gouging. www.rawstory.com/trump-grocer...
AHV-Nummer, Gesichtsbild, Überidentifikation: In wichtigen Punkten wurden die Schweizer Datenschutzbeauftragten bei der Ausarbeitung der E-ID ignoriert. www.infosperber.ch/freiheit-rec...
"The games the administration is playing with re-releasing already public documents while withholding the Trump-Epstein files and other key information is another betrayal of survivors," former Amb. Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, told Axios. www.rawstory.com/trump-267392...
ICE isn’t being defunded under Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which allocates $75B over four years. While other agencies shrink, ICE hires continue, yet agents face burnout and frustration amid a highly stressful work environment, per The Independent. www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-26...
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This is what Stephen Miller is claiming on Sean Hannity's FOX-TV show. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-... Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social
In Österreich führte schon ein Faxverbot im Gesundheitswesen zu Chaos. Und doch reden wir laut Gastautor Johannes Zeller ständig darüber, dass #KI bald Jobs ersetzt. Warum fällt der nüchterne Blick so schwer? www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wie-spricht-... #Wisskomm
Archaeologists in Georgia unearth 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone reut.rs/41ruPTU
“I look down the street and I see somebody standing outside their car, with a big gun just shooting at the crowd,” the witness said. In the video, the sounds of gunfire can clearly be heard, with people fleeing the scene. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
Zelensky: Russia continues to send negative signals about talks, while strikes on our cities and villages persist. Every day brings new victims. Only strong pressure will make Russia respond. We count on it. Real diplomacy requires steps from Moscow—nothing less.
"Wir denken ja gerne, dass in Österreich die Dinge doch noch viel besser stehen als in Ungarn oder in den USA, aber stimmt das wirklich?" - Daniel Kehlmann
That makes sense; trump does not trust USA's intelligence services so he starts one of his own. It also says a thing or two about who he sees as the future owner of Greenland. It's not USA, it's trump Enterprises corp. Just like Belgian Congo.
Interesting news from Denmark this morning: at least three American men with ties to Trump have been traveling back and forth to Greenland to recruit locals and gather information on people hostile to Trump. A spectacularly amateurish covert operation. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Bunch of bungling maladroits.. “The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) is aware of the threat and is actively cooperating with Greenlandic authorities to monitor this activity as well as to initiate countermeasures.” 👇🏼
Die #SBB hat in der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahres so viele Passagiere befördert wie noch nie. 1,41 Millionen Reisende sind transportiert worden, das sind 4,8 Prozent mehr als in der Vorjahresperiode, wie @sbbnews.bsky.social mitteilt. Trotzdem bleibe die finanzielle Lage "angespannt". (1/3)
Der freie Personenverkehr kostet die Gesellschaft viel mehr als wir ahnen. Werner Vontobel liefert einen anderen Blick auf Mobilität und Migration. www.infosperber.ch/gesellschaft...
Remember the waam-baam welcome parties for both Junior and later for Shadey Vance on Greenland popping bottles at every corner? Me either. More like Romy Schneider as Sissi/Empress Elisabeth placed on boat riding down the Danube to Gödöllő. Unwelcome. Shoulda typed this rather than dictated 🤣
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
Votes by mail, governs by tweets, lies on his [social] about [truths]
A modern day, real life, version of the boy who cried wolf.
Der frühere brasilianische Präsident Jair Bolsonaro steht unter Hausarrest und wird von der Polizei überwacht, während er sich wegen eines Putschversuchs vor Gericht verantworten muss. Ein Urteil wird in den kommenden Wochen erwartet.
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This is another flippable race. The face off since no one got 50% is September 23rd. Democrats are out here doing the work, fighting back, even in places where the Orange Demon won. Every election, in every city, in every state, matters.
Watch this. Directed at Florida, and REALLY applies to that state, but applies to a lot more places too.
Eine Recherche legt nahe, dass die grosse Mehrheit der durch Israel im Gaza-Krieg getöteten Menschen Zivilisten waren. https://www.srf.ch/news/international/nahost/guardian-bericht-sind-83-prozent-der-getoeteten-im-gazastreifen-zivilisten
Nach der tödlichen Verfolgungsjagd in Lausanne wächst die Wut über diskriminierende Vorfälle. https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/rassismusproblem-lausanner-polizei-unter-beschuss-nach-chat-skandal
Im August 2015 wurden in einem Lkw in Parndorf 71 Flüchtlinge tot aufgefunden. Sie waren an Sauerstoffmangel erstickt. Der Fall führte zu lebenslangen Haftstrafen für die Schlepper und löste eine Flüchtlingskrise in Europa aus.
Big election night! We flipped Iowa, got to the runoff in GA, and made progress in AL in one of the reddest districts in America. Plus, Joshua Brown beat out the 13 yr mayoral incumbent in Bay Minette, AL & Ciara Smith became youngest & first African-American elected mayor in Anniston, AL history!
Die Aussenpolitische Kommission des Nationalrats (APK-N) will keinen Gegenvorschlag zur Neutralitätsinitiative – ein wichtiger Entscheid. Diese Pro-Putin-Initiative würde es der Schweiz verunmöglichen, jegliche EU-Sanktionen zu übernehmen. Die SP wird sich weiterhin gegen diese Initiative stellen.
Stephen Miller erklärt bei Faux News Hannity [Demokraten sind keine politische Partei, sie sind eine Terroristenpartei.]
Trump has moved to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, causing shockwaves in the markets. I explain what’s behind his long quest to bend the Federal Reserve to his will, why he’s targeting Cook in this latest attack, and why he faces legal headwinds. My write-up in the replies.
#MustRead "The statistics are brutal: Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: 0 Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years Fascist regimes removed by voting: 0 Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: 0 Most were removed by war or military coups."
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When you're a dictator they let you do it. You can do anything.
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National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
How to turn [White Privilege] away from [White Supremacy] and [Racism] toward [White People Thinking, Being, and Acting as Finally Safe For Black People] until they KNOW they ARE. Your chance, Dems! Also: look up Ashani Mfuko.
A sudden spike in data traffic. What help desk/tech source did you all call when you had to assess the content when this whistleblower-story #DOGE broke? bsky.app/profile/patr...
NLRB: Whistleblower Daniel Berulis two relevant articles about the data breach with a peak of www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n... www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Breaking News: DOGE put the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading Social Security data to a vulnerable cloud server, a whistle-blower complaint said.
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where’s that data going? straight into Grok, a chatbot with a bloodlust for genocide ran by a billionaire Nazi bsky.app/profile/clay...
Somewhere in the middle of Memphis, while the ribs smoke slow and the river rolls on, a new empire is taking shape, ushered in by a blank check given to a billionaire Nazi with a god complex.
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[Death to foreign economy so America First can work] Map of countries currently suspending postal service to US. www.newsweek.com/map-shows-co...
Let Gavin cook.., and recognize he can say what he wants and take an approach that women like Kamala & Hillary could not..
Camille Zapata, digital director/social media team behind Gov Gavin Newsom’s pushback campaign.
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Zum Artikel: table.media/europe/news-...
Trump will für seine Tech-Elite die für sie lästigen EU-Gesetze unbedingt kippen. Ziel: keine Beschränkungen für die Tech-Firmen. Erst kamen die Zölle, nun eskaliert er weiter: Die USA prüfen wohl Sanktionen gegen EU-Vertreter die für die Umsetzung des Digital Services Act zuständig sind.
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Merz & Co. geben Merkels Politik die Schuld am Erstarken der AfD. Als Merz den CDU-Vorsitz übernahm, stand die AfD bei 10 % (Forsa). Als Merz die Wahl gewann, stand die AfD bei 20 %. Heute steht die AfD bei 26 %. Ich weise nur darauf hin.
Michael Wolff on Melania and Epstein.
ICE recommends “If you ‘self deport’, we pay you $1,000” Otherwise, ICE threatens to fine-and collect.