𝙺𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚜 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝚘𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛

Merz' Beschwerde über Krankenstand: Zu wenig Erholung macht krank Mit seinen Aussagen zu Krankmeldungen und Arbeitszeit ignoriert der Kanzler arbeitspsychologische Erkenntnisse – Zeit für einen Crashkurs.

Mit seinen Aussagen zu Krankmeldungen und Arbeitszeit ignoriert der Kanzler arbeitspsychologische Erkenntnisse – Zeit für einen Crashkurs.

US universities count the cost, one year into Trump’s second term Some of president’s most audacious cuts have been scaled back or suspended but a year of turmoil is beginning to show in institutions’ bottom lines

US universities after one year of Trump 2.0: uncertainty and funding cuts are taking their toll, writes @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/us-univ...

Wait a minute, if I’m reading this correctly, the US didn’t do regime change in Venezuela, but instead, we helped the army-connected VP stage a coup???

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

With a painting created by a German-born immigrant to the U.S. in Germany. A painting inspired by the 1848 European revolutions.

Yeah, nothing global about that.

NYU law professor Ryan Goodman and his nonpartisan team compiled a review that found more than 35 federal judges had explicitly stated that the Trump’s Justice Department lawyers were providing false, highly misleading, or intentionally inaccurate information in cases.

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1. Januar und schon das Bullshitbingo durchgejodelt.

"Kapital, das als Steuer abgeführt wird, fehlt für Innovation" sagt Herr Frei.

Nicht nur die Quandt-Erben haben also deshalb BMW zu dem gemacht, was es heute ist – weil sie's geerbt haben.
Innovation durch Geburt.
Genial! 🎉

It’s wild to me that ICE is committing crimes and there’s just no mechanism available to address this right now

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

Don't let anyone—not even the US Secretary of State—tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

Hier etwas aufgeschlüsselter.

Die Menschen haben laut der CDUnahen Stiftung Angst vor

- russischer Aggression,
- Fremdenfeindlichkeit,
- Rechtsruck,
- AfD,
- Klimawandel,
- Desinformation.

MERZ SO: LOL!
Na und?

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Trump Is Not Sending Education Back To The States The continued dismantling of the federal Department of Education is both a con and a lie, one more piece of a quilt of patchwork policies all built around a simple idea-- some people are better than o...

Trump Is Not Sending Education Back To The States
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BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

How Public-College Funding Has Changed Over Time State and federal support has declined as a share of overall revenue — putting a greater burden on students. See the trends at more than 1,500 institutions between 2002 and 2023.

Explore how state and federal support has declined as a share of overall revenue — putting a greater burden on students — at more than 1,500 public colleges and universities between 2002 and 2023. https://chroni.cl/3M5afnD

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

In the past decade, the U.S. National Institutes of Health awarded top scientists $9 billion in competitive grants each year, to find cures for diseases and improve public health. Starting in January, the Trump administration will stall that funding.

Die vernünftige Mitte der Wirtschaft sei zu leise, sagt Katharina Reuter, Geschäftsführerin @bnwev.bsky.social

In Brüssel und Berlin prägten lautstarke Wirtschaftsverbände und Lobbygruppen, die an fossilen Modellen festhalten, das Bild. Zum Standpunkt: buff.ly/btv5w5q

#greendeal #nachhaltigkeit

U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement an...

650 hospitals and 1600+ clinics www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

News deserts hit new high and 50 million have limited access to local news, study finds - Medill - Northwestern University The number of local news deserts in the U.S. jumped to record levels this year as newspaper closures continued unabated, and funding cuts to public radio could worsen the problem in coming months, acc...

The death of standards based journalism is more than sad, it's dangerous. With over half the videos on line now generated by AI, next year's election is likely to be impacted by deepfakes that people will believe are true.

www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ne...

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What Happens to Public Media Now? Republican-backed funding cuts go way beyond NPR and PBS. Radio and TV stations from Alaska to the Allegheny Mountains may never be the same.

NPR and PBS are the two most recognizable recipients of money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But the recent Republican-backed cuts to public media will hit outlets in poorer and more rural areas of the country the hardest.

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

This may sound old fashioned, but again it’s worth saying. 60 Minutes did nothing wrong. This is a payoff for merger approval.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

every institution in american life has utterly failed us
the courts
the congress
the universities
law enforcement
the military
the free press

every single one

In absolutely shocking news that is a surprise to nobody, the German government is trying to move consumption spending into the "investment" bit (for which it granted itself generous exemptions from the debt brake).

But this one is particularly brazen. #gas

Eine Freundin konnte gestern mit ihrer Familie aus Teheran nach Isfahan fliehen. Sie sagt, dass die Situation in Teheran ein Alptraum sei, überall Bomben. Aber die Mullahs sollen weg. Das Regime hätte selbst noch mehr Menschen im Iran umgebracht.
So grausam und verhasst ist das iranische Regime.

"Nicht-Spitzenforscher_innen machen keineswegs schlechtere Arbeit. Sie machen bloß welche, die weniger prestigeträchtig ist, die keine fancy Pressemeldungen generiert, die ganz basal und unspektakulär den Laden am Laufen hält" - oft die, welche die Arbeit der Spitzenforschenden erst möglich macht

So bspw. die immer mal von mir zitierte Studie zum Einfluss von Drainagen im Acker auf Landschaftswasserbilanz & #Grundwasserneubildung.
Fokus zwar nur auf NO-Deutschland, aber sicherlich stimmt das für andere Regionen Deutschlands mit großflächigen Drainungen auch. Warum auch nicht? 🤷‍♂️
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Vielleicht hatte FM ja auch noch für alle Fälle die Urkunde im Gepäck, die den Großvater des Landes verwies als "unerwünschten Ausländer".

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

Science is the most important long-term investment for humanity.
The US Trump administration is working to control it in order to suppress science it does not like. But history shows: the consequences of state-dictated science can be catastrophic.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...