Adrian Pohr

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

A Few Day-After-the-Election Thoughts The clearest read of what happened last night is that, as far...

Democrats "have a pretty good model: find candidates suited to their constituencies and focus on cost of living issues and opposition to Donald Trump’s autocracy. Full stop. It’s not more complicated than that. That’s your opposition message." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

AfD-Treffen mit Medwedew: Kreml organisiert Widerstand gegen Merz – auch BSW verstrickt Russland baut Kontakte zu Abgeordneten aus AfD und BSW auf. Sie sollen Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz untergraben. AfD-Politiker treffen Dmitri Medwedew in Russland.

AfD MPs plan to meet Medvedev in Russia:

“According to research by @t-online.de, this was preceded by months of contact-building, in which the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is also involved. Russia reportedly wants to influence the MPs to undermine key projects of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.”

Vive La Résistance Waves can be blue after all.

"Yesterday showed us what a wave election looks like. And what was the best predictor of the vote, and the source of the wave? Donald Trump. Take a look at the correlation of his approval rating in the exit polls and the actual vote. This bodes well for 2026."

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Demokraten haben gestern so gut wie alles gewonnen, nicht nur in New York. Darunter die wichtige Initiative in Kalifornien, Wahlbezirke neu zuzuschneiden, und viele andere Wahlen (s. Thread)

Der hybride Krieg der MAGA–Bewegung gegen die Bundesrepublik, mithilfe der AfD, nimmt Fahrt auf und wird hier noch viel zu wenig beachtet.

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

@dgraham.bsky.social beschreibt im Atlantic, wie Trump bereits die Midterms unterminiert.

“If you are not frightened,” Hannah Fried, the executive director of the voter-access group All Voting Is Local, told me, “you are not paying attention.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Und wieder mal: bsky.app/profile/theb...

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
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Dazu die Frage, die @jonfavs.bsky.social immer wieder stellt: Verhält sich so eine Regierung, die vorhat, sich freien Wahlen zu stellen? (Die Umfragewerte sind im Keller, es wird dennoch politisch nicht zurückgerudert.)

Richtiger Gedanke:
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Aufsehen erzeugt auch das: Laut einem Memo sollen die National Guards in allen Bundesstaaten auf ihren Einsatz vor den Midterms vorbereitet werden.
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Laut Trump arbeiten die Geheimdienstchefs daran, dass sich so etwas wie 2020 (die Lüge vom Wahlbetrug durch ins Land gebrachte Ausländer, ergo: eine Wahlniederlage) nicht wiederholen wird.
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Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.

Steve Bannon redet schon eine Weile davon, dass er an der verfassungsungemäßen 3. Amtszeit Trumps arbeite, nun auch wieder gegenüber dem Economist: Es gäbe einen Plan.
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Weil einige davon ausgehen, dass Trumps Präsidentschaft in 3,5 Jahren ihr natürliches Ende findet: Er selbst hat das nicht vor. Kurzer Thread:

The Trump Supremacy Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA

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They are on it. (“what happened in the 2020 election” ist die Lüge vom Wahlbetrug/Great Replacement und meint: Wahlen nicht verlieren können) bsky.app/profile/atru...

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon:

“He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

America needs a mass social movement—now—to save itself from autocracy, David Brooks argues.

We probably need to go back to ~350 ppm CO₂ equivalent for temperatures to stop rising.

We are now above 573 ppm (GHG forcing of +4.1 W/m²).

That's without aerosols cooling things down.

There's too much uncertainty to be sure, but going back to 350 ppm is already a Herculean task.

Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen Und keine Provokationen.

Sehr lesenswert zum Thema "Provokationen": Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen open.substack.com/pub/beimwort...

Krieg nach innen.

Real post on another network:

Hegseth puts us all at risk Why put all the American commanders in one room?

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
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Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes

„Even for a president who has shattered the traditional norms of maintaining distance from the Justice Department, Mr. Trump’s unabashedly public and explicit orders to Ms. Bondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the Watergate scandal.“

This is how Trump ends democracy The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how it's done 🧡💔

Time series of monthly Northern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies from 1850 to August 2025 alongside multi-model expectations of the warming in this area (scenario SSP2-4.5).

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records.

And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.

A short thread 🧵

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