Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦

Interesting summary on why so many institutions in the US seem to fail to effectively resist the rapid descent into fascism: a fundamental misunderstanding about the limits of input legitimacy in a system nominally based on democracy, separation of powers and the rule of law.

Interpol takes anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson off its most-wanted list PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland.

PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland.

This administration let people die who could have been saved. The responsibility could not be more clear & direct.

Als Robert Habeck aus dem Urlaub kam und von demonstrierenden Bauern (darunter Rechtsextreme) bedrängt wurde, hat keiner gesagt: Das stärkt die Grünen, wir müssen sie argumentativ stellen! Nein, da sollte Habeck die bedrohliche "Kritik" ernst nehmen. Heute sagt das keiner zu Weidel.

Monitoring channels report that russia has launched drones from 6 different directions. We expect over 500 drones to attack Ukraine tonight ‼️

2/2 All states are obliged to prevent genocide. There is a universal responsibility to protect human rights, if all else fails also through humanitarian intervention.

The attacks against the Druze people in Syria are genocidal in nature because they are aimed at erasing the Druze community in their home region in the South of Syria. The situation is similar to the situation in Kosova in 1999. All states are obliged to prevent genocide. 1/2

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026 CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution and removing from air one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent late-night critics

Trump’s rolling campaign of shakedown censorship, blackmail and purge has now felled the Late Show. But Stephen Colbert, a true-blue patriot and comic genius who skewers dunce-tyrants for a living, is irrepressible and invincible.

Politie waarschuwt voor cybercriminelen op broodzakken in het Pajottenland | VRT NWS: nieuws In het Pajottenland waarschuwt de lokale politie voor internetcriminaliteit. Met de campagne "laat je niet in 't zak zetten" geeft de politie tips op broodzakken.

Belgian authorities are using messages printed on bread bags to warn the elderly about cybercrime threats

The bags contain tips on dealing with scammers who request PINs and passwords

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Departmental Review Procedures for Decisions, Actions, Consultations, and Other Undertakings Related to Wind and Solar Energy Facilities | U.S. Department of the Interior Consistent with Executive Order (EO) 14315, entitled “Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources,” EO 14156, entitled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,”...

Well, the internal order targeting solar and wind permitting is no longer secret.

You can read it here. #greensky #energysky

The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.

“The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law,” Aziz Huq argues—a dramatic change in the way that Supreme Court dissents work.

Gesunde Böden, Gewässer, Wälder: Bauernverband möchte lieber keinen Naturschutz Drei Wirtschaftsverbände schreiben ans Kanzleramt, um die Verordnung zur Wiederherstellung der Natur zu beseitigen. Sie nutzen ein bewährtes Argument.

Derzeit läuft eine Lobbyschlacht gegen das Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung der Natur.
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German govt fails to honor Merz election campaign commitment to send #Taurus missiles to #Ukraine.

Let's do this 🇳🇴🇺🇦 and include 🇫🇴🇮🇸🇬🇱🇲🇩 as well. #EUenlargement2025

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

Jens Spahn - Untersuchungsausschuss anstatt Enquete-Kommission Der gesundheitspolitische Sprecher der SPD-Fraktion hat im Moment noch die Möglichkeit, die fehlenden Stimmen aus seinen Reihen ohne die Hilfe der AfD zu organisieren

Gern auch hier beteiligen! Danke.

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adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible. "In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.

Justice Sotomayor: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible. * "In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.

Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Trump is stabbing Ukraine in the back in broad daylight and you can bet he’s still going to press his claim on Ukrainian mineral rights.

Trump is up to something, he's been barricading the White House and US treasury overnight.

ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Supreme Court OKs rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling.

BREAKING: #SCOTUS lifts nationwide order requiring Trump administration give advance notice/chance to object before deporting foreigners to 3rd countries they often have no ties to. 3 liberals dissent, say court is 'rewarding lawlessness.' w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is.

ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Supreme Court Blocks Deportation-Notice Rule in Win for Trump A divided US Supreme Court lifted a judge’s order that required President Donald Trump’s administration to give people 10 days notice and a chance to object before they are deported to a so-called third country.

A divided Supreme Court lifted a judge’s order that required Trump’s administration to give people 10 days notice and a chance to object before they are deported to a so-called third country

Die Abschaffung der letzten Reste des #Völkerrechts durch die coalition of white supremacists ist auch Teil dessen, was ich #Arschlochisierung nenne: die Wiederherstellung einer Welt, in der nur die Reichen und Mächtigen Rechte haben.

Faschismus ist, wenn das, was noch kurz zuvor als extrem angesehen wurde, heute normal behandelt wird. Und alle, die das ansprechen, als "hysterische" abgetan werden. Sagt es weiter laut: Das ist nicht normal. Was Medien & Politik normalisieren wollen, ist gefährlich. Lasst euch nicht gaslighten.

They are actively arresting peaceful protesters for wearing medical masks at the protests. Now if you are wondering how police are treating nonviolent protesters. Have a feeling this is going to turn into a thread of actions today

Anti-immigrant violence,mainly by unionists, in Ulster has hardly made the news elsewhere

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT