Erst den Rechtsstaat aushöhlen, dann auf jene losgehen, die ihn verteidigen – wie aus dem autoritären Playbook. So sah und sieht der autoritäre Umbau in mehreren europäischen Staaten aus. Jetzt eben auch in Deutschland und ganz ohne direkte Regierungsbeteiligung der AfD. www.fr.de/politik/pro-...

Pro Asyl wehrt sich gegen Attacke durch CSU-Landesgruppenchef Hoffmann

Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin erklärt im Fall von drei Somaliern die Asylpolitik des Bundes für rechtswidrig. Ein CSU-Politiker teilt nun gegen Pro Asyl aus.

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Reading this, you have a simple epistemic choice: either the Financial Times is a rabidly anti-semitic paper relaying serial blood libels or Israel is in fact committing war crimes, up to and including genocide

How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones

Dozens of Palestinians have been shot dead trying to reach a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme

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I believe this is the Pope’s fifth message on Gaza.

"A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill children as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations." Yair Golan www.newarab.com/news/mk-says...

MK says Israel ’killing babies as hobby’, amid Gaza backlash

Israel is facing mounting criticism from allies due to the expansion of its military operations in Gaza, amid a worsening humanitarian situation.

newarab.com

Netanjahu. Ein Nachruf. m.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Netanyahu’s climb and collapse: Diplomacy, power, and miscalculation - opinion

Benjamin Netanyahu rose as a skilled statesman but fell due to political missteps and strained US ties, failing to navigate Palestinian realities and shifting American politics.

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#Trump droht #Netanjahu damit, ihn fallenzulassen. #Macron, #Starmer und #Carney drohen #Israel mit Sanktionen. Und #Merz? Und #Wadephul? Und #Steinmeier? www.jpost.com/breaking-new...

Trump to Israel: ' We'll abandon you if war continues,' source tells WaPo - report

US President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on Israel over recent days, an anonymous source told The Washington Post on Monday.

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"The conflict has now taken on connotations of generalized sectarian war between Israelis and the Muslim world. The liquidation of Gaza would cement this narrative indefinitely. I do not think this is a good thing for Israel." mazmhussain.substack.com/p/netanyahus...

Netanyahu's Two Bets

Reflections on Israel's policy of right-by-conquest

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The U.S. - Saudi - Hamas deal (that thankfully cuts the Israeli gov out) includes Hamas having some participation in a new government if they agree to disarm, hand in their weapons over a three year period, and stop all military activity. This is becoming very cringe for the crime minister.

It sounds like one of the American cardinals blabbed to the Wall Street Journal about how the papal conclave voting went down. The details are in the second half of the article.

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸@whiskeynachos.bsky.social · last yr.

WSJ's reporting agrees with what I'd heard: the Latin American cardinals had coalesced around Prevost even before the conclave, and provided the base of his support, which then attracted those opposed to Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Worüber spricht man denn als Bundespräsident mit jemandem, gegen den ein Haftbefehl des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs besteht? Gibt es da Erfahrungswerte? www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/T...

Eine Stellungnahme, wie ich sie von Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer nun erwarte, in seinem Stil: 🧵 "Die Demokratisierung des Wissenskapitals folgt einer höheren Ordnung. Das sogenannte "Abschreiben" – welch profanes Wort für den sakralen Akt der Weitergabe! – ist die unausweichliche

"If we had hooked them up to a polygraph, we would probably have discovered that most of the officers, and even most of the Likud ministers, don't believe the plan will lead to Hamas' defeat." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Israel is heading for another disaster in Gaza, fueled by Netanyahu's delusional plans

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Schaut ihr immer noch weg? Wie geht das, unrhetorisch gefragt?

Israel approves plan to seize all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely, officials say

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far failed to achieve his goal of destroying Hamas or returning all the hostages, despite more than a year of brutal war in Gaza.

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Included in this article about the recent quake near Istanbul is a closer look at the relationship between the 2019 M5.7 Marmara Sea quake and the M6.2 event. ⚒️🧪

Temblor, Inc.@temblorinc.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's Temblor's analysis of the M6.2 earthquake that struck the Marmara Fault near Istanbul. This quake was felt by a city of nearly 16 million people, but thankfully, the fault itself lies 15 km south of the city. Read more, in our latest, by Stein and Sevilgen. temblor.net/earthquake-i...

"There are few unicorns in Europe, alas, and too little innovation. That said, there are absolutely no tech executives boasting on social media of spending their weekends feeding bits of the state “into the wood chipper”." @spignal.bsky.social about Europe

Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last yr.

The thing about Europe is it doesn't invest enough in defence. But nor does it joke about invading neighbours. The thing about Europe is its economy is ailing. But Europeans have no concept of "medical bankruptcy". My take this week on the truly free continent www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Maybe #Netanyahu should have made peace with all of #Israel's neighbors, while his bully buddy #Trump was still strong... He threw away that opportunity for the wet dream of a Trump #Gaza. Now the whole country might become collateral damage of the US #crash.

So now that you have found out that the emperor has no clothes; and now that millions of you told it to the world from the streets of thousands of cities in your country: How do you get rid of your emperor? (you never wanted one anyway - that's how your country was born)

It’s not often that Israel mass-kills adult male Palestinians and the world reacts with outrage. All Israel has to do is claim they were Hamas to 2K-bomb them to pieces. But there’s something too familiar about 15 point-blank executions and a buried ambulance that cannot be explained away as “war”

Give Trump the credit he deserves. He has simultaneously delivered the worst economic, foreign, natsec, healthcare, education, justice, climate and government management policies in our history. That's a heckuva golden age you've got going there, mister. www.thedailybeast.com/as-golden-ag...

As Golden Ages Go, This One Sucks

We’ve hit an “anti-jackpot” unprecedented in our history and, I would guess, in the history of most other countries too. (Why do I guess that? Because most countries that hit this kind of skid tend no...

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Trump is trying to spin German election into what he wanted. It's not. Trump, Vance and Musk wanted the Far right AfD party to win. They didn't. The new incoming German Chancellor just last week slammed Vance for praising the Afd party. The US is even more isolated. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

German opposition leader joins rebuke of Vance criticism

German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Saturday joined his domestic political rivals in condemning U.S. Vice President JD Vance's attack on Europe's stance toward hate speech and the far right.

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Wer all in geht und nicht gewinnt, hat keine Chips mehr und muss den Tisch verlassen, oder?

29. Januar 2025 Der Tag beginnt im Bundestag damit, dass man der Shoah gedenkt und er endet damit, dass Nazis jubeln.

I did not know that. 🥲

jameshjacksonjr@jameshjacksonjr.blacksky.app · 2y ago

PIZZA PIZZA indeed thAts whats up!!!

The words we heard from the main actors of the AfD rally about “Great Germany” and “the need to forget German guilt for Nazi crimes” sounded all too familiar and ominous. Especially only hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Apparently

Professor Snyder is correct.

Ceasefire now.

In case Trump doesn’t read Hebrew, here is Smotrich’s statement: “Netanyahu gave us assurances that Gaza will become uninhabitable…he agrees with and accepts our approach: The war will change and Israel will control Gaza”. Smotrich may be a theocratic-messianic fascist, but he’s no liar. Believe him

Itamar Ben Gvir: "over the past year, using our political leverage, we were able to prevent the [ceasefire] deal from coming to fruition, time after time" lots of people need to hear this

that's just wrong, factually. Trump's people (mainly Steve Witkoff) have been very involved in the negotiation. And whatever goes through Trump's head, the fact is that Netanyahu is under the impression that Trump wants it done.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2y ago

notably, he has done absolutely nothing to bring this about and there is no evidence whatsoever that he desires it other than manic projection