Via the excellent @heistberlin.bsky.social, Zara Rahman: "What I feel now, for Germany, is pity. Pity that society can’t see what they’ve become; pity that such a huge amount of people are living in such wilful denial, such inauthentic and dishonest lives." www.heistberlin.com/goodbye-to-b...
Goodbye to Berlin: Why I'm Leaving This City After 15 Years
After 15 years in Neukölln and working in German media, Zara Rahman is leaving Berlin because of dishonesty and moral hypocrisy.
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I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
On this momentous and proud day for British constitutionalism, may we hold Virginia Giuffre’s memory dear in our hearts. Read her memoir, Nobody’s Girl. This sweet, brave woman fought with every fiber of her being so that Epstein, Maxwell & their whole world of sickos see more todays. RIP sister.
At the risk of stealing some poor bot's job, let me offer a brief summary: "The titans of tech that are trying to usher in a technofascist future, whom we partner with and whose products I use regularly, are once again telling us that their bots are on the verge of being able ...
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8mo ago"For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists are becoming radicalized by bots that can work for hours on end, collapsing months of work into weeks, or weeks into an afternoon."
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/
So the main culture war in Germany, fought by the country’s leader, is that despite mass deportations there are still too many non-white men in German cities: which needs to change so that white German daughters can feel safer. That’s an actual position that he is taking. An incitement to violence.
Johannes Hillje@jhillje.bsky.social · 12mo ago“Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen” - sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.
Horrific. Everyone needs to speak out against the demonization of trans people.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last yr.One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
Say her name @apnews.com - Maryam Abu Daqqa risked her life working for you, yet now you refuse to say her name while spouting the same old IDF lies. Shame on the AP and all the mainstream media silent amid the slaughter of >250 Palestinian journalists - that's more than 20 colleagues each month.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.BREAKING: The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what it believed was a Hamas camera.
Disgusting, genocidal propaganda served up as an ad. WTF, YouTube?
🧵If people want to believe that white supremacist misogynists & those inclined to listen to them are driven to their hate & voting patterns by words that are A) accurate & B) claimed by entire classes of people, well. Those people are fools. Let's stop abandoning our values for imaginary votes, 'k?
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · last yr.It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein
In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein
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I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
hannah gais@hannahgais.bsky.social · last yr.DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
In my experience, people often think that, wherever they live in the world, crime is particularly bad there. It's a fear fed by politicians and corporate media - and one that is often belied by the evidence on the ground if you actually visit the places that they're talking about.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Tim Burchett says he lives in his office in DC because he's scared of crime in the city
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
Indiscriminately hunting and kidnapping people who are likely looking for a day of physical labor, and apparently anyone who looks Latino. In violation of a court order. Called Operation Trojan Horse because they came in a moving truck. This is how they promote themselves during a recruitment push.
Kate Burns@katerqburns.bsky.social · last yr.New DHS propaganda video of yesterday’s “Trojan Horse” raid is out- From the official DHS government account. The joy they have in people’s pain- it’s beyond cruelty. They are hunting humans, our neighbors, for sport
The German Right flexes its muscles, terrorizes and gaslights an SPD candidate for the Constitutional Court into stepping down. An attack on the justice system and on democracy.
Stefan Huster@stefanhuster.bsky.social · last yr.Schade, weil sie sicherlich eine kluge und besonnene, aber auch zupackende Richterin gewesen wäre. Aber niemand ist unersetzbar. Der eigentliche Schaden: Dass Teile der demokratischen Parteien nicht verstehen, dass hier der erste große rechtsautoritäre Angriff auf die Justiz läuft. 1/2
Rather than voice legitimate criticism of the airdrop of aid to Gazans facing starvation and genocide (that it's ineffective, dangerous, not nearly enough), this influential German MP from the governing CDU claims that it only helps Hamas. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/empo...
„Unser Handeln führt zur Täter-Opfer-Umkehr“: Deutsche Außenpolitiker kritisieren Nahost-Politik der Bundesregierung
Das Schicksal der Geisel David Evyatar erschüttert Politiker von CDU, SPD, Grünen und FDP. Sie rufen unter anderem arabische Staaten zu Druck auf die Hamas auf.
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Well, guess I'll finally get started here. Let the skeeting begin.
