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Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social Agent: Landwehr & Cie Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur

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7/9. And now Trump uses the Iranian electoral operations that were on his side and which he has enabled as a reason to attack Iran. Absurd.

01.03.2026 02:33 — 👍 885    🔁 164    💬 4    📌 1

6/9. Trump and allies rewarded the Iranians and the Russians and the Chinese by punishing the US researchers who discovered all this and abolishing the agencies that tracked it.

01.03.2026 02:33 — 👍 998    🔁 216    💬 2    📌 3
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USAUpdate 262: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten für's Vaterland | Annika Brockschmidt Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon

Die ersten 7 Minuten sind zum Reinhören für alle frei. Danke an alle Patrons, ihr macht meine Arbeit überhaupt erst möglich.

28.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 68    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Roderich Kiesewetter, Fraktion CDU/CSU, zum Angriff auf Iran Roderich Kiesewetter, Fraktion CDU/CSU, zum Angriff auf Iran

Bemerkenswertes Interview mit Kiesewetter. Er sagt letztlich, Militärschläge seien im Interesse Deutschlands und im Interesse der Iraner*innen. Das Regime im Iran habe bei den Verhandlungen nicht eingelenkt und müsse nun die Konsequenzen tragen. Ich halte fest: Das Völkerrecht gilt nicht mehr.

28.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 355    🔁 74    💬 42    📌 5
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At least 6 killed as Shiites storm US Consulate in Pakistan over killing of Iran's supreme leader Authorities say at least six people were killed in clashes with police on Sunday after hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S.

Police say at least 6 people have been killed in clashes as hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan following the killing of Iran's supreme leader.

01.03.2026 08:09 — 👍 122    🔁 96    💬 14    📌 11
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Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

01.03.2026 07:26 — 👍 525    🔁 126    💬 21    📌 3
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This is some next-level swiftboating

01.03.2026 00:56 — 👍 4514    🔁 841    💬 357    📌 230

Carney speech moment, nice while it lasted…

28.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 125    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to ***declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms***
www.propublica.org/article/elec...

01.03.2026 03:58 — 👍 59    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1
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Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

16.02.2026 01:45 — 👍 2172    🔁 672    💬 15    📌 15

The threats against judges who have ruled against Trump happen in a context: religiondispatches.org/2025/06/09/p...

01.03.2026 04:36 — 👍 43    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

“… the witness who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her was interviewed by the FBI four times. If the witness wasn’t credible, a second, third and fourth FBI interview probably wouldn’t have been warranted.”

28.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 249    🔁 85    💬 5    📌 0
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Do missing Epstein documents show Trump is covering up sexual assault? It sure looks like it OPINION: It is surreal to say the president of the U.S. is an accused pedophile — and that the DOJ, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story, Leah Litman writes.

“It is absolutely surreal to say the president of the United States is an accused pedophile — and that our country’s law enforcement apparatus, together with the Republican Party, seems intent on killing that story. Yet that is where we are.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

28.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 133    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 2
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USAUpdate 262: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten für's Vaterland | Annika Brockschmidt Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon

Die ersten 7 Minuten sind zum Reinhören für alle frei. Danke an alle Patrons, ihr macht meine Arbeit überhaupt erst möglich.

28.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 68    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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USAUpdate 262: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten für's Vaterland | Annika Brockschmidt Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon

Neue Episode #USAUpdate: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten für's Vaterland. Ein Deep Dive in die neuen Empfehlungen der Heritage Foundation zur "Rettung der Familie" und was dahinter steckt.

28.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 305    🔁 107    💬 9    📌 0

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

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Voters don’t think the Democratic Party is too progressive, they think it’s weak and ineffective
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

28.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 706    🔁 184    💬 22    📌 22

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

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The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S.
Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com

28.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 1776    🔁 803    💬 66    📌 58
Department of War
@DeptofWar
OPERATION EPIC FURY

Department of War @DeptofWar OPERATION EPIC FURY

Once again: This is the stupidest and most dangerous timeline.

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Zitat: „Die Verletzung der UN-Charta liegt hier so offen zutage, wie es deutlicher kaum sein könnte.“

Zitat: „Die Verletzung der UN-Charta liegt hier so offen zutage, wie es deutlicher kaum sein könnte.“

Die USA und Israel haben mit einem Militärangriff auf den Iran begonnen.

MARKO MILANOVIĆ zeigt, warum sich die Militärschläge nicht als Selbstverteidigung nach Art. 51 der UN-Charta rechtfertigen lassen und offenkundig gegen das Völkerrecht verstoßen.

verfassungsblog.de/warum-der-er...

28.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 219    🔁 104    💬 8    📌 12

It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness.

When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.

28.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 2322    🔁 485    💬 20    📌 9

Getting twitchy reading about regime change takes. Regime change is basically impossible without committing ground forces, which are not in the area. You cannot take this admin at its word, even if they are telling themselves things.

28.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 379    🔁 68    💬 3    📌 9

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

28.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 7639    🔁 1214    💬 69    📌 40

It was never a great sign that they chose to name their show after the people behind the Armenian genocide.

28.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 264    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 1

Zum Veranstalter der Konferenz, auf der Hagel aufgetreten ist:

28.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 79    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X "Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today."
x.com/Osinttechnic...

28.02.2026 09:39 — 👍 751    🔁 425    💬 56    📌 77

A narrative still dominates around authoritarian workers who do not like immigration. With woke progressives who are our of touch with society. A radical right that is successful because progressives went to far. This narrative supported by many in and around politics has fueled Labour‘s strategy.

28.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 56    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

I am glad that people realize that Labour‘s electoral strategy is wrong but am surprised by the “are they delusional? how do they keep doing that? what happened?” We haven been arguing against this strategy for years. But resistance was huge among politicians, media, and many in academia.

28.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 66    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Safety through Bombing

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