incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
06.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 43378 🔁 12496 💬 4688 📌 2927@nataliescholz.bsky.social
historian, democracy enthusiast, slow professor, feminist Author of Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6181.htm nataliescholz.org
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
06.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 43378 🔁 12496 💬 4688 📌 2927"GroenLinks-PvdA had vijf pijlers in haar verkiezingsprogramma, waarvan we er drie uitlichten: een inkomen waarmee je vooruitkomt, leiderschap dat Nederland beschermt, en de uitsmijter: de basis op orde. Ze klinken als ChatGPT-antwoorden op het verzoek een partijprogramma te schrijven."
06.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Pressemeldung: Bürgermeisterwahl in New York Zohran Mamdani beruft ausschließlich Frauen in sein Übergangsteam
Was Islamisten halt so tun, wenn sie an die Macht kommen.
06.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 1249 🔁 201 💬 31 📌 6As many Amsterdammers, I will never forget that night and I don't wish that to happen to any community.
06.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Dutch police told West Midlands Police that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam in November 2024 were "linked to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]", and that hundreds more were "experienced fighters", "highly organised" and "intent on causing serious violence""
06.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Lees en huiver: een week na 7 oktober 2023 gaat de campus op slot, omdat de beveiliging, tegen het oordeel van de politie in, een Arabische man aanziet voor een Hamas-terrorist.
05.11.2025 21:03 — 👍 43 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0"Over half of the political content shown to our new X users came from accounts categorised as extreme. Of the content from extreme authors, 72% of posts came from right-leaning accounts."
06.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing + right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts.
But only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing.
The neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content."
#Xgate
It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
05.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 1237 🔁 324 💬 5 📌 10A colleague was accused of raping a student and had to leave the uni.
He then got a job in a different country and meanwhile is full professor there.
At his uni a faculty member was recently accused of sexually harassing a student, but the complaint lead nowhere.
A voice in my head: is it him?
I completely agree with @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social that the term "democratic fascism" wrongly insinuates that today's fascism has a "democratic" character. The fact that it operates - for now - within a democratic system does NOT make it democratic.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
Ein absolut bemerkenswertes Dokument.
"Ich kann mit Sicherheit sagen, dass Antisemitismus zunimmt, aber ironischerweise wird der Antisemitismus, den ich am häufigsten beobachtet habe, von denjenigen ausgeübt, die behaupten, gegen Antisemitismus anzukämpfen."
"To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Statt Klimaschutz sollen Milliarden für neue Autobahnen fließen – das gefährdet unsere Zukunft. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
01.11.2025 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Dear @news.dw.com, could you please clarify why this article
amp.dw.com/en/fact-chec... has disappeared from your website?
There's a yahoo link that still works uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-a...
30.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This article seems to have disappeared...
@news.dw.com
Radical right wing parties have won 46 seats in the Dutch parliament (out of 150). That is five seats MORE than in the last election.
That Wilder's party lost votes does not mean that the right-wing danger for democracy has diminished.
www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...
Geert Wilders hoeft niet te regeren om zijn doel te behalen. Hij heeft het land precies waar hij het hebben wil. Mijn column in @groene.nl als tijdelijke vervanger van @tamardewaal.bsky.social.
www.groene.nl/artikel/stra...
Posting this interview also in the silly yet heartfelt hope that some of those incredible vibes might fly over to the Netherlands and help with the national election today.
28.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0„Selbst wenn ich all das nicht wäre, darf sich die Achtung vor Menschen in diesem Land nicht an deren wirtschaftlichem Nutzen bemessen.“
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
via @freitag.de
"A 2,000-household survey in Gaza... suggested that the official figures were likely to be undercounting the number of people killed in the war by roughly 39 percent... The majority of those killed — some 56 percent — were women, children and the elderly." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
23.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 52 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 53/3
Neo-imperalistische Sprache in der Werbung 1957:
"von Berlin aus...Siegeszug durch West-Europa"
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Trigger warning: Rassismus, 1954
Die Kolonialphantasien des westdeutschen Wirtschaftswunders.
Ein Vortrag, den ich nochmal gerne irgendwo halten möchte...
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Update zum Endlos-Clusterfuck #Humboldtforum: der Bundesgerichtshof hat nun entschieden, dass Ehrhardt Bödeckers – ein Großspender der Berliner Schlossfassaden - tatsächlich Rechtsradikaler und Antisemit war und die Kritik daran u.a. durch Philipp Oswalt gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. 1/
27.10.2025 09:17 — 👍 412 🔁 136 💬 6 📌 12What a metaphor for tearing down the house of democracy.
23.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0One more quote from Satia's text:
"Once we recognize how much of European culture and economy depended on slavery and colonialism, we must question the very concept of European 'development'."
"The goal of promoting peace among European powers (and the US) rested on racist understandings of 'civilized' warfare, which simultaneously underwrote constant 'small wars' against colonized peoples represented as collectively militant, devoid of civilians." (Priya Satia)
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