The year is 2015. Barack Obama is president.
One idle speculator says, "Just imagine, in a little over 10 years from now, a neo-fascist homage to dictatorship could decorate the Justice Department"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
21.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Germany cuts funding for integration of refugees
The German Interior Ministry is restricting access to voluntary integration courses for immigrants, citing budget constraints. Many critics consider this a disastrous decision.
This is exactly the political move needed to ensure that there are future targets for discrimination and exclusion.
There's a how to guide in our 2005 paper: 'He hath the French pox’: stigma, social value and social exclusion
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
www.dw.com/en/germany-c...
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With ‘Tremendous’ Deals at Stake, Trump Is Bringing Russia in From the Cold
In the past the US has cast itself as Batman in global politics. In the new franchise it plays The Penguin.
Global hero to global villain in a year.
Trump keeps showing the world who he is and what the US has become. Believe him!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...
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As a small child Marcia Rubio played with friends in the sandpit. He realised that one day their toys would deteriorate and break, so he laid them all out on the ground and stomped on them.
He told his friends it was to help them. He wanted them to make better toys.
They told Marco to fuck off.
14.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Trump’s Obama Derangement Syndrome
Maureen Dowd wrote, "It seems etymologically, metaphysically, geologically and ethically impossible that President Trump could reach a new low"
This reflects a poverty of imagination.
Donald Trump is the ethical equivalent of the event horizon. All rules break
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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Not "powerful" in a traditional sense, this one threw me.
05.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Israel kills 31, including several children, in relentless Gaza bombardment
Israel carries out deadly attacks on Gaza a day before the Rafah crossing is due to reopen.
Israel loves the ceasefire.
It continues to murder Palestinian civilians and now the world looks away, because there is a "ceasefire".
Benjamin Netanyahu remains a wanted criminal for war crimes. www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...
aje.news/8xzvds
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‘Keep on dreaming’: could Europe really defend itself without the US?
Nato chief has glibly dismissed prospect of coping without US support, but in the age of Trump the case for autonomy is growing
Given the US is highly unlikely to support other NATO countries, and is happy to threaten to invade them, Mark Rutte seems to be the one dreaming.
He wants European countries to bind their fortunes to a mad narcissist.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Russia ‘trying to bomb and freeze’ Ukrainians to submission, EU’s foreign policy chief warns – Europe live
Kaja Kallas also played down the idea of ‘a European army’ saying that it remained to be a domain for national authorities
European governments are avoiding making some very painful choices.
Smaller states on Russia's periphery must be shitting themselves, because when Russia is done with Ukraine, there are some easy pickings. And the larger states think they can wait it out.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
29.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Minneapolis Live Updates: Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Account of Killing
"Legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed" Bartolomé de las Casas (d. 1566)
ICE appears to have lost its legitimacy in Minneapolis.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
25.01.2026 00:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE
A general strike says it all.
"We will not be complicit"
It is a material sacrifice to try and correct a wrong.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
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I find the bravery of ICE agents inspiring.
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"For no particular reason..."
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Read the Texts Between Trump and Norway’s Prime Minister About Greenland
Dear US Congress,
Your President is a seriously unwell man. He needs professional care. He does not need the nuclear codes.
You can admire him and agree with him, and still be honest with yourselves that he is unfit for office.
Please (!) remove him.
The World
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
20.01.2026 05:56 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
China’s Birthrate Plunges to Lowest Level Since 1949
This will be a test of reproductive rights in China. Democracies try to create incentives for reproduction. Dictatorships may demand it by removing access to birth control, monitoring fertility cycles, and penalising childlessness.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/b...
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