Fabian Maier

Lebensglück nur mit Professur? Jackpot? Tollster Job der Welt? Erlösung? Entschädigung für alle Entbehrungen? Schlüssel zum Lebensglück? Warum ich inzwischen bezweifle, dass das für die Professur gilt.

Professur auf Lebenszeit: Jackpot? Tollster Job der Welt? Erlösung? Entschädigung für alle Entbehrungen? Schlüssel zum Lebensglück? Nö — sehe ich anders. Mein Blick aufs #ProfessurHaben hat sich verändert: Ich will keine mehr. Plädoyer für Realismus & Eingestehen eigener Wünsche! ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWiss

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Meldung des STANDARD: "Sturm der Kritik: ICE nimmt Fünfjährigen in Gewahrsam" - Foto von dem 5 Jahre alten Kind, das verängstigt schaut

Da gerade (zu Recht) viel Empörung zu lesen ist über die Festname des 5-Jährigen in den USA, ein kleiner Reminder:

Letztes Jahr haben deutsche Polizisten ein 10-jähriges syrisches Mädchen aus ihrer Schule gezogen, um sie abzuschieben.

Mit ihr wurden 2025 über 3000 Minderjährige aus 🇩🇪 abgeschoben.

Return Hub klingt direkt viel moderner als "Konzentrationslager" oder "Gulag".

Nothing to see here - just Germany’s interior minister visiting a wanted war criminal, while a genocide unfolds under his watch.

Letter from the University and College Union (UCU), dated 8 January 2026, from general secretary Dr Jo Grady to the UK foreign secretary. The letter condemns Israeli military attacks on Palestinian education, including a raid on Birzeit University, calls these actions “scholasticide,” and urges the UK government to hold Israel to account through diplomatic, military and economic sanctions.

On Tuesday, the Israeli military invaded Birzeit University, attacking students with live ammunition.

Israel's scholasticide is a core part of its attempt to obliterate the collective life of the Palestinian people.

We have written to Yvette Cooper urging the British government to take action.

Und Deutschland sagt … nichts

TW via BTselem: filmed executions of Palestinians under occupation in Jenin – carried out by the very regime the support of which several “left wing” German journalists have built their laughable careers on

Wie Nazi-Milliardäre im Nachkriegsdeutschland noch reicher wurden Oetker, Porsche, Quandt – viele der reichsten deutschen Unternehmerdynastien haben sich während der Nazi-Zeit immens bereichert. Warum sie von der Entnazifizierung verschont blieben und stattdessen noch reicher wurden, erklärt David de Jong im JACOBIN-Interview.

Viele der größten deutschen Unternehmerdynastien haben sich während der Nazi-Zeit immens bereichert. Warum sie von der Entnazifizierung verschont blieben und stattdessen noch reicher wurden, erklärt der Journalist und Autor David de Jong.

UN experts urge Germany to halt criminalisation and police violence against Palestinian solidarity activism GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, and suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence and a...

“Germany must support, not suppress, actions aiming to stop atrocity crimes and genocide,” the experts said. “No circumstances can justify unnecessary and excessive police violence or unjust criminalisation for exercising fundamental freedoms.”

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a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a flag Alt: French president Macron in a dark suit and tie sits in front of cameras with French and EU flags in the background.

You feel lost when trying to understand why #Macron seems to be using France as his toy? A short thread 🧵.

1. The short version: Macron IS using France like a toy, obsessed as he is with maintaining his own power. (For more ⤵️)

Tja.

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

⚒️ BREAKING: Italian Union Threatens ‘General Strike Without Notice’ if Flotilla Blocked

Italy’s Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) - the Rank-and-File Union - has announced a “permanent mobilization” in 100 squares across the country in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla...

Reform plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants The party says scrapping the scheme and restricting migrant access to benefits will save hundreds of billions of pounds.

Beyond the media's omission of migrants navigating a path to ILR paying thousands of £ for the NHS, visa fees, NI, etc., and of any opposing views, this to me is as clear a plan to strip dignity away from those who choose to build a life here as can be. And it's been given legitimacy.

Recognising Palestine is not a substitute for stopping the genocide.

When I was in the West Bank, No Other Land’s Basil Adra told the devastating truth.

Germany knew - every step of the way.

Each day, we learn of new horrors about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Yet nothing seems sufficient to compel Western governments to take meaningful action to end it. They are dragging us, alongside Israel, to a point of no return.

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

Now that it's reasonably clear that the far right podcaster was killed by a fellow fascist, maybe we can turn our attention to the incomparably larger number of political murders that are happening in Gaza with the support of EU and North American governments
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To be clear what happened here.

Israel bombed a hospital.

They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.

Then they bombed it again.

This is known as the 'double tap'.

You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

The McUniversity: Organization, Management and Academic Subjectivity - Martin Parker, David Jary, 1995 This paper uses elements of Weberian and Foucauldian social theory to speculate on the consequences of recent higher education change in the UK. We argue that c...

The New Higher Education 'is in danger of becoming a fast-food outlet that sells only those ideas that its managers believe will sell [and] that treats its employees as if they were too devious or stupid to be trusted' (Parker/Jary, 1995).

#UKHE
#HigherEd

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haOlam is shocked that academics in Germany/ German academics abroad call to boycott Israeli universities over the genocide in Gaza—but not shocked by the horrendous violence itself. Shame.
✍️Sign the Uppsala Declaration here: uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

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I'm wondering if there's some overall optimal level of starvation that the Free Press would want a trapped population to have before families with sick children can post pictures of them.

Please spread far and wide @degrowthuk.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy @destinationdeg1.bsky.social @degrowth.bsky.social @degrowthvienna.bsky.social

📢 Special issue Call for Papers in Organization: tinyurl.com/48jtyska

Alternative organising and degrowth: Countering capitalist polycrisis and organising liveable worlds

📅Deadline for workshop abstracts 20th December 2025.

🗓️Full paper submission deadline: 30 September 2026.

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

"Journalism in the service of violence:"

"Germany’s “never again” pledge should carry weight given its deeply genocidal history. Yet it rings hollow when the country’s dominant outlets launder or supply propaganda to legitimise mass killing in Gaza."
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Israels Krieg in Gaza ist eines der größten Verbrechen der Geschichte Wer sich Zahlen, Statistiken und Zeugenaussagen ansieht, der muss objektiv feststellen: Der Krieg der israelischen Regierung in Gaza ist in seiner brutalen Zerstörung beispiellos.

Wer sich Zahlen, Statistiken und Zeugenaussagen ansieht, der muss objektiv feststellen: Der Krieg der israelischen Regierung in Gaza ist in seiner brutalen Zerstörung beispiellos.

It just doesn’t stop.

German media discourse: talk of leaving "exposed remains" of Gaza "to the forces of nature",Palestinians having "national-socialist roots", participating in gross is-this-child-really-starving debates and a piece on Pro-Palestine protests from the point of view of the violent police.
All in one day

Die französische Le Monde hat in einem ausführlichen Artikel über die intensive Einschüchterungs- und Rufmordkampagne gegen den Chefankläger des ICC, Karim Khan, berichtet. Weil ich keinen einzigen deutschsprachigen Bericht darüber gesehen habe, hier eine Zusammenfassung.