Ella Müller

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

Mich würde schon interessieren was ein deutscher Botschafter und der ehemalige Chef des Kanzleramts bei einer Veranstaltung mit einem offenen Rassisten und Faschisten wie Curtis Yarvin machen. "Nie wieder ist jetzt" recht selektiv angewendet.

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2,7 Werbemilliarden aus Österreich an Google und Co – 7 Prozent Minus für Medien Werbebuchungen bei Digitalkonzernen stiegen 2025 um 10 Prozent, geht aus Abgaben hervor

Die lebensbedrohliche ökonomische Krise des redaktionellen Journalismus in aktuellen Zahlen:

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

What is “Un-American”? We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition. Make MAGA un-American, finally.

Can I interest you in some light Presidents Day reading?

How about almost 5,000 words on why the Right’s vision of white Christian patriarchal domination is indeed deeply rooted in U.S. history - but not any more “authentically” American than the aspirational tradition of egalitarian pluralism:

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand

it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

So, there’s a lot going on here…

Epstein: Deutsche Bank hielt jahrelang an Geschäftsbeziehung fest Jeffrey Epstein wurde nach seiner ersten Verurteilung Kunde der Deutschen Bank. Intern stufte ihn diese jahrelang als akzeptables Risiko ein.

Jahrelang hielt die Deutsche Bank an Jeffrey Epstein fest, Kunde geworden war er erst nach seiner Verurteilung.

Intern stufte die Bank den Sexualstraftäter als akzeptables Risiko ein – bis 2018.

@papertrailmedia.de Recherche für ZDF, @spiegel.de & @derstandard.at www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/u...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

Hundreds of millions spent on human misery

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Don't forget: Last fall, Kristi Noem boasted that ICE would be "all over" the Super Bowl, and said only people who "love this country" should attend.

Now ICE enforcement operations there won't happen. It's very plausible ICE would face a hostile reception. 4/

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Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness MAGA’s hatred of the Super Bowl halftime performer reflects a hubris about what parts of the culture are “theirs.” But those assumptions are proving more wrong every day.

Trump is badly losing the war over ICE, not just on the streets, but also in the culture. As Bad Bunny shows, this has become a culture war unto itself. Trump-MAGA's initial hubris has been utterly deflated.

I've got fresh data illustrating the point. 1/

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*That's* what it looks like when US elites care about something & want to advance it. That's the benchmark.

And with that benchmark in mind, we can ask, are they -- or were they ever -- similarly committed to climate or diversity?

LOL.

The bosses are forcing their employees to use it. Politicians are competing to shovel money & infrastructure at it. The billionaires who control media are constantly lecturing & hectoring people to accept it & use it more.

They don't care it's losing money. They don't care people hate it.

But the other piece of evidence -- the point of this thread -- is that we now have an example of what it looks like when US political & corporate elites *really are* obsessed with and committed to something.

Namely: AI.

An observation I've been thinking about:

Around 2020, we were told that US political & corporate elites had been gripped by "wokeness" & thus become obsessed with climate change & diversity. This wokeness was alleged to be so severe & monomaniacal that it threatened the entire culture & economy.

Nein zum Palantir-Deal – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen Die Polizei könnte die US-Überwachungssoftware Palantir bekommen. Stopp den Deal mit dem Trump-Vertrauten Peter Thiel.

#Epstein Files verstärken Eindruck von Machtlosigkeit angesichts von transnationalen faschistischen Netzwerken, Straflosigkeit, Verantwortungsabwehr. Daher 2 Vorschläge, um ins Handeln zu kommen: Trennt euch von Paypal! Unterschreibt Petition gegen #Palantir: www.campact.de/datenschutz/... 1/3

This kind of analysis is always built on a chain of extremely shaky, unsupported assumptions - usually stuff that kind of sounds good but has zero factual basis - but what’s incredible to me is how many supposedly sophisticated commentators do the exact same thing.

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

Kampf um die Demokratie: Was laut einer Analyse gegen eine autoritäre Regierung hilft Was wäre, wenn die AfD tatsächlich an die Macht käme? Eine Analyse, die dem SPIEGEL vorliegt, gibt Tipps, wie sich die Zivilgesellschaft darauf vorbereiten und dann verhalten sollte.

Was wäre, wenn die AfD tatsächlich an die Macht käme? Eine Analyse, die dem SPIEGEL vorliegt, gibt Tipps, wie sich die Zivilgesellschaft darauf vorbereiten und dann verhalten sollte.

The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.

Trump supporters say they’ll be at every polling location with monitors or police every federal election year and it’s always bullshit. Seems irresponsible to cover this at face value (not least because there *are not enough ICE officers)

Suspect Guilty GIF Alt: Suspect Guilty GIF w hot dog suit trying to find the guy

A brief, recent history of the Washington Post:

1- Trump wins in 2024.
2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper.
3-Readership tanks.
4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.

Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post' The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.

Still remember when I was visiting the Post right after Bezos took over. Everyone back then reassured each other that there is no way he would ever lead to the demise of quality journalism and here we are: www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

Wissenschaft: Die Gesellschaft ist nicht so polarisiert wie man uns Glauben machen will. Polarisierungs-Unternehmer in Politik und Medien arbeiten hart daran, das Zerrbild einer gespaltenen Gesellschaft zu zeichnen.