(S+) Sadisten-Netzwerk um »White Tiger«: Wie ein FBI-Agent an der Hamburger Polizei verzweifelte Im Juni haben die Behörden einen Mordverdächtigen aus Hamburg verhaftet. Waren sie zu langsam? Ein US-Ermittler, der den mutmaßlichen Pädokriminellen Jahre zuvor enttarnte, erhebt im SPIEGEL Vorwürfe.

#Polizeiruf110 Der reale Hintergrund: Sadisten-Netzwerk um »White Tiger«: Wie ein FBI-Agent an der Hamburger Polizei verzweifelte - DER SPIEGEL share.google/vjqTLIgHSUrO...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Auch menschlich enttäuschend... Die SPD Potsdam sieht ihre Felle davonschwimmen!

Los Angeles Times | Obituary Robert Redford 1936-2025. Portrait of an older Robert Redford looking directly at the camera. He is wearing all black.

Robert Redford, a generational icon who commanded the big screen as the star of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Way We Were” and won awards and lasting praise for directing films such as “Ordinary People,” has died. He was 89.

www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Did #Trump just imply that the U.S. is at #CivilWar?

Dear author, please add a meaningful y-axis label to your chart...

Thinking about that quote from Battlestar Galactica a lot these days:

"There's a reason why you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state.
The other serves and protects the people.
When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

10-13 August 1975: around 150-300 young East Germans chased Algerian guest workers through the streets of Erfurt and beat them up in racist assaults www.deutschlandfunk.de/gedenken-an-...

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Confirmed: NIH, USDA, NASA about to lose access to 3,000 SpringerNature journals:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump Admin. Cuts NIH’s Springer Nature Subscriptions Citing an unnamed source, Axios reported this week that the Trump administration has cut “about $20 million in grants covering subscriptions” with Springer Nature

Looks like this is not (fully) true: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Trump Admin. Cuts NIH’s Springer Nature Subscriptions Citing an unnamed source, Axios reported this week that the Trump administration has cut “about $20 million in grants covering subscriptions” with Springer Nature

Looks like this is not (fully) true: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

They're cancelling publishers because of woke.

Gold OA and national agreements with publishers could have been the way to go, but national consortia failed to implement strict price caps -- instead they now seem to happily pay whatever publishers demand...

Wenn es sich bestätigt, doch eine sinnvolle Investition: Schwer verkäufliche Ruine als Innenstadtnaher Uni-Standort allemal besser als die üblichen Pseudo-Rekonstruktionen in #Potsdam. Und nicht noch ein Hotel oder Luxus-Wohnungen...

The proposed NASA budget would end already-operating #planetsci missions to Mars, Jupiter, asteroids, and “kill off nearly every major science mission the agency has not yet begun building” including those to Venus, Mars and Uranus. Monitoring climate change on Earth would also be hit hard. ☀️🧪⚛️

On May 14, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester. Highlights from that first night are now available as the "Land of Hope and Dreams" EP...

Mark Zuckerbergs Konzern #Meta, dem #Facebook & #Instagram angehören, möchte seine Künstliche Intelligenz „Meta #AI“ mit Daten von User:innen trainieren. Meta setzt das Einverständnis voraus – ein Widerspruch ist aber bis 26.5. möglich. So geht's auf Facebook & Insta 👉 rbburl.de/metawiderspr...

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other." Bertrand Russell

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent [...]"

Bertrand Russell "Freedom and Government" (1940)

The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country.

www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...

NASA has removed “women in leadership” and “indigenous people” from its website. It also removed a website profile of Rose Ferreria, a student intern who became a full time employee. Ferreria is an immigrant who survived cancer and homelessness before becoming a student at Arizona State University. It is a savvy bit of marketing by NASA to broaden the pool of potential applicants: women of color playing a leading role in NASA is the stuff of movies (Hidden Figures) and TV shows (For All Mankind) precisely because it challenges us to rethink what the agency is. While in hospital Ferreria posted about the removal of the page telling her story. After adverse publicity, NASA restored the page. Then it fired her.

Updated this piece about how the Trump admin removed images of women and persons of color from websites.

The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it.

The bad news? NASA then fired her.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

"The publish-or-perish reality for researchers meets the publish-to-profit motive for publishers. A perfect storm that has allowed publishers to exploit researchers' need to publish, has allowed a black market of research to become prominent and has seen the retraction of over 10,000 papers in 2023"

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

"Heart Of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young"
Benefiting The Bridge School
neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/artic...

#listening #NeilYoung

Rethinking science: The challenges and opportunities of the open access transformation Rethinking science: Professor Dr Dr h.c. Klaus M. Schmidt on his Open Science experiences.

Challenges and opportunities of the open access transformation https://open-science-future.zbw.eu/en/rethinking-science-challenges-opportunities-open-access-transformation/

This kind of thing is so gross on so many levels

Kürzungen bei Bildung in Brandenburg: Empörung über Sparkurs von SPD und BSW Die Rot-Lila-Landesregierung will bei Kitas und Schulen den Rotstift ansetzen. Das sorgt bei Opposition, Verbänden und Elternvertretern für heftige Kritik.

Kürzungen bei Bildung in Brandenburg: Empörung über Sparkurs von SPD und BSW www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/bran...

Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.

Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, Jason Stanley all leave Yale University and the United States for University of Toronto and Canada.

Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder

"Hans Christian Andersen told the unforgettable tale of the naked emperor. In Greenland, what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain," writes author, history professor and Guardian contributor Timothy Snyder.

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

“A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship””

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gestapo 2.0