For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.

Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete

The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.

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Midterms gonna be lit

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last wk.

Obama’s former campaign manager says Democrats may be looking at the wrong election for clues about this year’s midterms

Besser kann man die FDP von heute und ihren Begriff von Liberalismus nicht zusammenfassen.

What will the Pentagon say? "We can win the campaign against the bond market from the air, sir"

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

Ossoff: "I think it's time for the president to do something of value for the American people instead of lining his pockets while he's in office"

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

Ungarns Regierung geht gegen @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social vor, weil er seine Arbeit als Investigativjournalist macht. Volle Solidarität mit meinem herausragenden Kollegen! 💪🏻 Hier mein Text zu absurden Spionagevorwürfen - und einer echten Geheimdienstoperation. www.nzz.ch/internationa...

Spionagevorwürfe und Geheimdienstaktion gegen Magyars Partei erschüttern Ungarns Wahlkampf

Die Regierung in Budapest lässt gegen einen bekannten Journalisten wegen Verrats ermitteln. Derweil wirft ein Kriminalbeamter Orbans Lager den Versuch vor, die Opposition geheimdienstlich zu infiltrie...

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Paige against the machine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...

Opinion | The Scrappy Mayor Showing Democrats How It’s Done

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BREAKING: Autonomiesuisse validiert mit einer eigenen Studie das Argument, dass die Bilateralen III der Schweiz Wohlstandsgewinne bringen. Der Standort profitiert von den Verträgen mit dem grössten Handelspartner. www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/e...

Neue Studie: EU-Abkommen bringt kaum einen Wohlstandsgewinn für die Schweizer Bevölkerung

Der Bundesrat erwartet ökonomische Vorteile vom EU-Vertrag. Eine Studie von Swiss Economics widerspricht: Die positiven Effekte der Bilateralen würden überschätzt und die institutionellen Kosten unter...

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This must be the postmodern relativism and "anything goes" these guys are so eager to fight.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"

„Derzeit spiegelt der Marktpreis von Fleisch weniger als 50 Prozent der tatsächlichen Kosten wider. Die restlichen Kosten wie Gesundheitskosten durch zunehmende Antibiotikaresistenzen, Tierleid oder Emissionen werden von der Gesellschaft getragen oder externalisiert.“

Florian Imbach@zurichlive.bsky.social · 7mo ago

„Neben den Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit und das Tierwohl ist die Fleischproduktion einer der Haupttreiber des Klimawandels: Schätzungsweise 18 bis 20 Prozent der globalen Treibhausgasemissionen stammen aus der Tierhaltung.“ www.tagesanzeiger.ch/fleischkonsu...

It's unquestionable that young people today are richer than their 1960s counterparts, but the big difference in precarity. A good job requires living in a metro area with a housing shortage. A child requires an even more expensive home in a functional school district. A college degree requires debt.

These Young Adults Make Good Money. But Life, They Say, Is Unaffordable.

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The European Union had a total fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman in 2023. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...

There's a reason why major social media platforms, including Twitter pre-Elon, spent time and resources on "countering foreign influence" or "coordinated inauthentic behavior." But then Tai bi, Shellenberger, Weiss, Benz, and Jordan showed up claiming that was the "censorship industrial complex"

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors. This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:

Mamdani’s victory isn’t just a milestone, it’s a geopolitical migraine for Modi. An Indian-origin leader abroad calling out Hindutva from a global platform shatters the BJP’s diaspora-dominance script. The fight over India’s pluralism has officially gone transnational. #MyPiece

Pragmatisch wäre ja, jetzt nicht in Hektik einen dubiosen Deal abzuschliessen, wenn es gute Chancen gibt, dass die Zölle vom Supreme Court kassiert werden... www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...

Die Schweiz ist ein aussenpolitischer Zwerg in der Hand von Firmenchefs

Das offenbar erfolgreiche Vorsprechen von Wirtschaftsvertretern bei Donald Trump mag wie eine Desavouierung des Bundesrates wirken. Doch die pragmatische Schweiz funktionierte schon immer nur mit der ...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...

Is This Artist the Joe Rogan of the Art World?

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Pokrovsk: Where Putin Shattered His Teeth cepa.org/article/pokr...

Pokrovsk: Where Putin Shattered His Teeth

“Last November, I visited Pokrovsk and called it the farmhouse at Waterloo”, writes the former Ukrainian Marine, Shaun Pinner.

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Nancy Mace continues to be Nancy Mace "This is no way to treat a fucking US Representative," @jakelahut.writes.news with another scoop www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report

At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

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Uh-oh…it turns out JP Morgan Chase has flagged $1 billion in “suspicious” transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and prominent Wall Street figures, and notified the Trump admin back in 2019.

In Switzerland, Eurosceptic forces urge voters to reject the new EU–Switzerland deal in the name of federalism. Yet a new study by e.g. @ajazajilirjana.bsky.social & @pbundi.bsky.social shows: more than half of respondents cannot meaningfully make sense of federalism, mixing it up with "Förderung"

Regional & Federal Studies@regfedst.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🇩🇪❓ How do citizens 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺? 📌🔓 Find out in the #openaccess article by Eva-Maria Trüdinger, Achim Hildebrandt, Simon Stocker, @ajazajilirjana.bsky.social and @pbundi.bsky.social here 👉https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2025.2533759 #Germany #federalism #citizens #politics

Das Schweizer Erfolgsmodell braucht die Bilateralen III www.nzz.ch/meinung/das-...

Rechtssicherheit und Wohlstand: Die Bedeutung der Bilateralen III

EU-Binnenmarkt: Warum Bilaterale III essenziell für die Schweiz sind

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Democracy depends on a fearless and free press. Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media. They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Kimmel wurde nicht wegen seiner Aussagen abgesetzt, sondern weil Trump ihn loswerden wollte und ABC/Disney eingeknickt sind. Präzise Sprache – so wichtig.

Exactly this

Wo sind nun eigentlich diejenigen, die in Deutschland und Österreich so lautstark über angebliche #CancelCulture und Gefährdung der #Meinungsfreiheit durch LinksLiberalWokeDings jammerten?

DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · 12mo ago

Jimmy Kimmel gilt als Kritiker der MAGA-Bewegung des US-Präsidenten. Zum Angriff auf Charlie Kirk äußerte er sich in seiner jüngsten Talkshow deutlich. Nun reagiert sein Sender ABC hart.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.