@kranertmichael.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Sociolinguistics at UoS. Language, politics, discourse and institution. Here more citizen and father.
Ein monatelanger Streik der Kieler Werftarbeiter*innen und der IG Metall hat 1956/57 die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall für alle erkämpft.
Aktueller denn je, denn genau diese - scheinbaren - Selbstverständlichkeiten werden gerade von der CDU angegriffen. Lange Zeit unvorstellbar.
Der Film dazu:
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
🚨BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures!
The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren?
Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
18.01.2026 00:16 — 👍 3802 🔁 1300 💬 34 📌 23"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
12.01.2026 11:25 — 👍 4880 🔁 1810 💬 303 📌 109Eine unterschätzte Eigenschaft und Erfolgsbedingung des Faschismus ist die Tatsache, dass er die Regeln des Aufstiegs umkehrt. Faschismus ist die Stunde der Kriminellen, der Schläger, Henker und Mörder. Terrorkommandos wie ICE sind eine zweite biografische Chance. Und eine Chance auf Rache am Recht.
10.01.2026 20:46 — 👍 1933 🔁 610 💬 34 📌 24
24.000 Euro im Monat, privatversichert und wenn er ein Zipperlein hat, geht Thorsten Frei in die Privatsprechstunde. Aber wer nicht so privilegiert ist, soll auf eine ordentliche Gesundheitsversorgung verzichten.
25.12.2025 17:30 — 👍 1580 🔁 508 💬 101 📌 36Here's some numbers Rory might not want to discuss.
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Jedes Jahr, wenn die Landesanstalt für Medien NRW ihre Studie zu jugendlicher Pornonutzung veröffentlicht und es Schlagzeilen dazu hagelt, muss ich mich als Sexualpädagogin & Wissenschaftlerin ärgern — im @tagesspiegel.de durfte ich jetzt drüber schreiben ✊ www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...
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Reform UK now the most mentioned opposition party on ITV and BBC's ten PM news. Graph shows that became the case from August 2025 onwards.
Source: www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
h/t @rmcunliffe.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Nazi Propaganda: German History in Documents Täglich RM 5.50 kostet den Staat ein Erbkranker. für RM 5.50 kann eine erbgesunde familie 1 Tag leben!
sie hätten kristina schröders text auch hiermit bebildern können
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After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.
19.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 320 🔁 123 💬 23 📌 8Looking forward to this workshop! Join me, @kranertmichael.bsky.social , Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research - an in-person, 2-day workshop for PhD and early-career researchers in Sheffield. 15 & 16th January 2026. With: Tom Bartlett, Michael Farrelly, @kranertmichael.bsky.social, Jane Mulderrig. Booking open!
www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...
#Goebbels über das Straßenbild in #Berlin 1941.
#Merz #Stadtbild
"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."
David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.
There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
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During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.
24.09.2025 08:03 — 👍 4580 🔁 1071 💬 173 📌 41Linke wollen bei Bundesverfassungsgericht-Richter wählen & damit 2/3-Mehrheit sichern, obwohl die CDU nicht mit der Linken geredet hat.
Die Linke war es auch, die die Geschäftsordnung damals mit geändert hatte, damit Kanzlerwahl noch am gleichen Tag wiederholt werden konnte.
CDU, so unreif.
This is why we shouldn't laugh at Trump's announcement. Made up categories can have a violent effect, that is how political discourse works. They know what they are doing, these are the mechanisms totalitarian regimes are built on.
18.09.2025 07:26 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new
free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world
Ein Mann ist in Berlin in eine Menschenmenge mit Kindern gefahren, vier Verletzte. Vorgestern schon. Habt ihr nicht mitbekommen? Natürlich nicht, war ja auch ein Deutscher. Sonst hätten wir zwei Wochen lang panisch diskutiert und hätten Soldaten an die Grenze geschickt oder wasweißich.
06.09.2025 12:09 — 👍 2729 🔁 860 💬 81 📌 20Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
Warum die faschistische AfD niemals an die Macht kommen darf, erklärt in 5 Sekunden:
07.09.2025 11:15 — 👍 1520 🔁 607 💬 24 📌 18
