Fabian Fellmann

Kommentar zur Pressekonferenz im Oval Office: Trumps Drohungen können nicht mehr schöngeredet werden Im Oval Office eskaliert ein Treffen zwischen dem US-Präsidenten und seinem ukrainischen Amtskollegen Wolodimir Selenski. Im Zorn offenbart Donald Trump, wie nahe er dem russischen Diktator steht.

Trumps Drohungen können nicht mehr schöngeredet werden - Kommentar von @fabianfellmann.bsky.social
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eklat-im-ova...

Playbook And mass firings take place across the federal government.

VP JD Vance does not understand Europe at all.

Politico: One longtime Vance adviser told Playbook that (…) “He made an intellectual case in both of his speeches this week and extended an olive branch to Europe for them to stand with us on issues like AI and free speech.“
www.politico.com/playbook

The European VAT is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports The Trump administration appears to be moving in a “reciprocal” policy direction despite the significant negative economic consequences for American consumers of across-the-board tariffs on goods comi...

Good explainer of US sales tax vs VAT in EU states – and how the actual problem is in the US and not likely to be solved with US tariffs

taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-r...

‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention | CNN While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncover...

Must watch. Simply extraordinary:

“In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed.”
- Clarissa Ward, for @cnn.com

www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/w...

Priceless face. #stateoftheunion

Solche Memes wären lustig, wenn nicht so viel auf dem Spiel stünde.

Reaktion auf mein Interview mit @ambjohnbolton

«Wenn Donald Trump gewählt wird, ist die Nato hirntot»
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/gewinnt-trump-ist-die-nato-hirntot-sagt-ex-berater-john-bolton-605783255591

Most valuable commodity past #CPAC security for Donald Trump today: coffee.

(Didn‘t dare ask whether there was espresso.)

Trump is expected at 1pm. No drinks, no food after security. Just water. No bread.

Quote of the day 👇

"Taking the nomination away from Biden is like taking the car keys away from your parents." An anonymous former Biden aide describing Democrats' dilemma according to @axios.com

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/biden-defends-memory-2024-election

Wer selbst reinhören will beim Supreme Court: Um 10 Uhr Ortszeit heisst es „Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!“ (16 Uhr MEZ), 80 Minuten Dauer.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx

Oder ob die Verfassung ihn von der Vorwahl ausschliesst, weil er als „Insurrectionist“, als Aufrührer, zu betrachten ist.

Ein neuer verrückter Tag in der Geschichte dieses faszinierenden demokratischen Experiments, das die USA sind.

LEX, „Recht“, steht auf der Tafel dieser Statue vor dem Eingang zum Supreme Court der USA in Washington.

„Justice“, Gerechtigkeit, sitzt auf der andern Seite des Eingangs.

Heute hält der Supreme Court Anhörungen ab, ob Donald Trump in Colorado auf den Wahlzetteln stehen darf.

The big replacement theory is now officially being promoted by Elon Musk.

Never mind any facts, i.e. that deportation numbers are higher under Biden than ever before.

This guy is the real threat to a free society.

Die Mehrheit der Häuser sind im Winter mit Gas beheizt und ab Frühling elektrisch gekühlt.

Die USA haben bei Energiesparen und Klimaschutz noch SEHR viel Potenzial, obwohl sie schon viel erreicht haben.

Ich wünsche allerseits einen wohlig warmen Tag!

Die wenigsten Häuser hier haben gut gedämmmte Fassaden oder wirklich dichte Fenster.

Dreifachverglasung habe ich in einem Wohnhaus hier noch gar nie gesehen (vielleicht in der frisch renovierten Schweizer Botschaft?)

2 Grad kalt war das Bürofenster am Mittwochmorgen. Es war ziemlich vereist - innen.

Unser Haus ist von 1873, wie viele im Quartier Capitol Hill. Unsere (historischen) Holzfenster sind einfach verglast und mit Bronzedichtungen eingefasst.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

Leergefegt sind die Strassen von Washington DC heute Morgen.

Die Schulen sind geschlossen, die öffentliche Verwaltung macht Home Office.

Wegen 10 cm Schneefall.

😂

Ist ja wie Züri, hoi

…, all combinations and associations under whatever plausible character with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.“

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws…

He also voluntarily stepped down as the first President of the United States after two terms. In his „Farewell Address“, he wrote: „But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.

On the day Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus, an icy storm tore an American flag at the monument dedicated to George Washington.

Washington voluntarily gave up great power when he resigned as General of the Continental Army after the Revolutionary War.

Winter has finally arrived in Washington DC.

And it now appears with a question in the title - whereas it was first published with an affirmative title on the NYT‘s front page.

Don‘t fall for this - learn how to read polls yourself👇

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/09/08/understanding-the-margin-of-error-in-election-polls/

The NYT then goes on about young voters‘ preferences. The article is based on the answers of only 179 of about 24,5 million (!) registered voters aged 18 to 29. The article is nuanced and explains the multiple caveats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/upshot/poll-biden-trump-israel-youth.html

US media are doing it again.

NYT says Trump leads Biden 46 to 44%. Margin of error: +/- 3.5%.

Meaning: Trump‘s support is likely between 42,5 and 49,5%, Biden’s between 40,5 and 47,5%.

So: The race is tied.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/biden-israel-gaza-poll.html

Taste of Home, US ingredients.

I am poisoning Americans‘ blood with sugar - and I am not even technically an immigrant. #sarcasmdisclaimer

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/16/trump-immigration-attack-00132156

A good primer on crime and criminal justice in DC from the anonymous substacker doing the most comprehensive reporting on the topic. open.substack.com/pub/dccrimef...

Finally here: Cross posting to X/Twitter, BSKY, et al., Threads in the works.

https://yup.io

Do you have ‘rizz’? Oxford picks its word of the year from Gen Z slang. “Rizz” — which Oxford University Press describes as the “ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” — beat out terms like “situationship” and “Swiftie.”

Weisst Du, was "rizz" ist?

Das englische Wort des Jahres bedeutet "Charisma", "Sex Appeal".

"rizz" ist ein Zeichen dafür, dass wir langsam unseren Pandemieneurosen entwachsen.

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