Jean Mikhail
@jeanmikhail.bsky.social
Homepage-Manager und Redakteur Newsroom @tagesspiegel 🇫🇷🇩🇪 ➡️Tweets about Geopolitics, US, France, Germany, Media, Elections, History, Gulf States and more. 🎓M.A. Modern History and Conflict Studies (Univ. Potsdam)
“A couple of polls that appeared earlier this week are a useful reminder of why Donald Trump is making such frantic efforts to lay the groundwork for his election interference. The reason’s simple: If he doesn’t cheat, he’s going to lose.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-t...
The Real Threat to Our Elections Is Donald Trump
And it has been for years.
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Which would be pretty on-brand, since the trend here is that the super vocal defendeds of Western Civilization keep demonstrating they don’t know much about Western Civilization.
This is a funny way of saying "Trump is so corrupt and evil that Nixon seems like an angel in comparison."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
Thankfully, we have journalists like Scott Pelley, who refuse to become collaborators. This is no time to slink around grasping onto a title or a paycheck. This is not a drill. This is the moment when our history sorts the courageous from the cowardly, the heroes from the villains. Choose wisely.
Putin spielt mit Deutschland und macht sich gleichzeitig darüber lustig. Dass nach 26 Jahren Putin, 12 Jahren Krieg gegen die Ukraine, endlosen Lügen, Manipulationen und hybriden Angriffen so viele losrennen, wenn er etwas sagt, ist beschämend.
“In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” —George Orwell, “1984”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoRFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"
Dass der linke MdB Fahl per Zwischenruf angemerkt hat, dass auch die NSDAP demokratisch gewählt wurde, ohne demokratisch zu sein, verdient also nach Meinung von Union und SPD einen Ordnungsruf. Weil es die AfD diskreditiere. Gute Nacht, Deutschland. Protokoll im Link. 👇🏼
Lorenz Gösta Beutin@lgbeutin.bsky.social · 4mo agoSPD, Union, AfD machen gemeinsame Sache beim Geschichtsrevisionismus: MdB Fahl hat auf die Tatsache hingewiesen, dass eine demokratisch gewählte Partei nicht demokratisch sein muss. Dafür gab's Ordnungsruf. Sein Einspruch ist gg Linke & Grüne abgelehnt worden. fabian-fahl.de/2026/04/demo...
Es besorgt mich, dass so ein verschwörungstheoretischer Unsinn von tausenden geteilt und gelikt wird. Als hätte ein deutscher, zweimonatiger Tankrabatt von 0,17€ irgendeine messbare Auswirkung auf Blackrock-ETFs und Fonds oder gar das Vermögen von Friedrich Merz.
"Wenn ich Trump zuhöre, dann mag ich seinen Stil zwar nicht, aber wenn ich auf die Inhalte schaue, dann sehe ich gemeinsame Interessen." Jens Spahn, Juli 2024
Do they even hear what they are saying?
Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social · 4mo agoFox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
A reporter asked Trump about Iran charging fees literally yesterday -- and his response was that we were going to get a cut of the action!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: “There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
I wouldn’t think nukes are off the table for someone like Trump. He probably thinks he could get away with flattening Qom. Depends how compliant the generals are. It would certainly destroy the US’ global standing forever (what’s left of it).
„America’s Republicans remain citizens of a democracy but they live as if they were the servants of a dictator“ 💯💯
Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 5mo agoAs Trump’s war spins out of control, here is a piece from me on why the only way to understand the U.S. is to see it as a corrupt and capricious dictatorship
Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."
Das Muster, nachdem die Trump-Regierung handelt, bleibt immer dasselbe: kurzsichtig, dilettantisch, rücksichts- und skrupellos. Die Ernsthaftigkeit, die in einer solchen Situation geboten wäre - nicht mal im Ansatz zu erkennen.
US-Präsident Trump sieht Iran-Krieg "so gut wie beendet"
US-Präsident Trump sieht den Krieg gegen Iran weitgehend entschieden. Außerdem kündigte er an, bestimmte Ölsanktionen auszusetzen - ohne jedoch Details zu nennen. Kurz danach sanken die Ölpreise deutl...
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If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties Also, he is what Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson told everyone Biden was. Their silence now is deafening. And damning.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump goes full war is peace: "Inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising, the economy is surging"
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...
“The first thing Xi said to Merz was that unification with Taiwan would happen,” one person who was on the trip told me. This triggered what one diplomat described to me as an “intensive discussion” between the two leaders on Taiwan.
Watching China in Europe – March 2026
Deconstructing the Merz trip to China - the good, the bad and the ugly
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„By calling for a mass revolt, the US and Israel are, in effect, asking unarmed Iranians to serve as their ground troops“
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo agoNo one can predict how the war with Iran will unfold | Rajan Menon and Dan DePetris
Real insane part of this clip is Hassett saying in the beginning that NY Fed researchers “should be disciplined” for…writing an economics paper that comes to a conclusion the president dislikes? A conclusion that matches the vast majority of economic evidence on tariffs? Nuts
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoHassett: "The basic theory of President Trump's tariffs is sure, we're importing stuff from China, but we've got producers in US who make stuff, maybe at alightly higher place. If we bring stuff home, create demand, then that will hurt China & drive up wages & American consumers will be better off."
No surprise there. Ru wants Ukraine to surrender but can’t compel them. Ukraine isn’t losing on the battlefield and they don’t want to submit to Ru occupation. The US is not an honest broker but trying to help Ru achieve its goals diplomatically. US has stopped aid to Ukr so it has little leverage.
Erinnerungspolitische Bezüge in Rubios Rede werden mit Gaulands "Vogelschiss" verglichen. Doch Rubio geht weiter: Europa liegt bei ihm völlig unvermittelt "in ruins", der NS spielt in seiner Geschichtspolitik nicht mal mehr eine Vogelschiss-Rolle, er bleibt ganz außen vor. "For five centuries, 1/5
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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