Carol Schaeffer

Lol that Bezos is talking about promoting personal liberties while restricting the personal and professional liberties of his newspaper staff.

The Far Right Just Made Terrifying New Gains In Germany One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.

The German elections went mostly as predicted—for better and for worse, writes @thencarolsaid.bsky.social. The extreme-right Alternative für Deutschland doubled its share of electoral votes in just four years.

Since Musk has been boosting the AfD, German accounts are keen to watch out for Musk

Will never get over how weird the narrative is around climate change here. People eat fish??

In response to Trump exiting the Paris Agreement, the mayor of Paris who has been widely praised for her successes in reducing Parisian pollution calls on climate defenders to not give up, and that Paris can be counted on.

This was expected at COP29, it’s no surprise. Biden delegates were putting on a brave face. But it’s hard to express just how devastating this will be for the fight against climate change,

For all Trump's talk of manufacturing jobs, you didn't see the CEOs of GE and Caterpillar sitting in the prime seats today. You saw the CEOs of Amazon and X and Meta and Google and TikTok.

It's the attentional oligarchs whose power he cares about.

My uncle brags about how he went to MLK’s march on Washington. He does weekly Talmudic studies. He also voted for Trump. Over the weekend he said “Hitler did good things for Germany, if he hadn’t killed Jews he wasn’t so bad.” I will think about that a lot over the next 4 years.

“Ich kann gar nicht soviel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte"

The Outgoing Ambassador to Hungary Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen Ambassador David Pressman talks about his contentious relationship with Viktor Orban’s administration and why what happens in Hungary matters.

"I remember my very first meeting with a senior Hungarian official...he began the meeting by saying, Ambassador, I know that you want to speak to us about...gender ideology. And I...had to interrupt the guy and say, No...I want to speak to you about your relationship with...Putin."

Jan-Werner Müller | Everyone has their reasons In the run-up to Trump 2.0, the speed with which former opponents of the once and future president are adapting to his...

‘In 2021, Niall Ferguson described Trump as a “demagogue and would-be tyrant”. Last month he was dancing to “YMCA” at Mar-a-Lago.’

Jan-Werner Müller on the ‘anticipatory obedience’ on display in the run-up to Trump 2.0: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Airbnb Billionaire, Who Backed Kamala Harris, Says He Actually Voted For Trump Once a supporter of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, Joe Gebbia insists he’s now all in on MAGA and RFK, Jr.

New: Airbnb Billionaire, Who Backed Kamala Harris, Says He Actually Voted For Trump

Joe Gebbia, who has supported Democrats for years, now insists he’s all in on MAGA and RFK, Jr. in the latest Democratic megadonor defection.

www.forbes.com/sites/johnhy...

Funny that Musk would applaud Trump ending EV tax credits since Tesla stock is so buoyed by them. But Trump wants to put the American flag on Mars, and that’s what Musk really cares about.

The funny thing about trump ending an “ev mandate” is that there isn’t one to begin with. There was never a mandate to buy ev’s.

Inauguration live updates: Trump promises ‘golden age,’ U.S. expansion in inauguration speech Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned several people he said could be unfairly prosecuted during the Trump administration.

Per WaPo, migrants arriving at the border after months-long waits for CBP One appointments are already being turned away with notifications that "existing appointments are no longer valid"

Slovenes brace for ‘Melania effect’ as new Trump term begins Slovenia has drawn global attention and its fair share of misinterpretation. Now its residents are saying enough is enough.

It’s a story known around the world: A village girl from a communist country rises to become the first foreign-born US first lady in more than a century.

But according to locals, much of Melania Trump’s early life has been heavily exoticized for American audiences.

this the new homepage at WhiteHouse.gov

Trump repeats the assertion that he will “expand” US territory, including to Mars—received with smiles and applause from Musk

Trump vows to revoke the “EV mandate” and promises to bring back the US auto industry

And lots of gestures to right wing Christians—“we cannot forget our god.”

Trump’s aides billed this speech as positive and optimistic, but it’s largely the same in its content as 8 years ago

How Louisiana insurance crisis forces residents to breaking point

Best recent reporting on this is this series www.nola.com/breakingpoint/

alito backing his way into the venerable “Norman Mailer and Mormon nailer” editorial strategy

Can't wait for the inevitable announcement that she's going to be making $800k a year as a columnist for a mysteriously-funded new publication called like Logick & Reasone or some shit.

More Americans Are Missing Payments and Losing Home Insurance As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.

Rising homeowners insurance premiums (which people increasingly can’t afford) and frequent environmental catastrophies is a really dangerous combination. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Trump Jr event in Greenland People in Maga hats at meal last week did not know Donald Trump’s son and were invited off the street, hotel boss says

Greenlanders who attended a lunch hosted by Donald Trump Jr wearing Make America Great Again caps were homeless people enticed by the prospect of free food, it has been claimed @mirandabryant.bsky.social from Nuuk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever Stephen Miller was the architect of Donald J. Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda in his first term. Now he is back with fewer internal rivals and even more influence with the president.

Miller’s rise in MAGA is one of the more chilling among an already frightening cast of Trump insiders. Of the original alt-right wing of Trump’s world, let’s say, he has managed to gain more and more control of the wheel. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Pretty grim this is so spelled out

Johnson Ousts Turner as Intelligence Chairman, Bowing to Trump Representative Michael R. Turner, Republican of Ohio, had at times been critical of the president-elect. He told people that he was axed after an edict from Mar-a-Lago.

Mike Johnson shivs anti-Kremlin GOP intel committee chair to make way for Trump apparatchik

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

The US Military Debates Possible Deployment on US Soil Under Trump Trump has said he wants to use active duty U.S. troops to quell protests and round up immigrants. Will the military comply?

well the stuff described in here is terrifying www.politico.com/news/magazin...