Das alles fühlt sich zunehmend wie ein „Don‘t look up“-LARP an. 🫤
Michael Kranert
@kranertmichael.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Sociolinguistics at UoS. Language, politics, discourse and institution. Here more citizen and father.
"Lasst euch nicht von den Taten einer Extremideologie in die Arme einer anderen Extremideologie treiben." Ein bewegendes Statement von @barbiebreakout.bsky.social gegen Spaltung, Extremismus und Instrumentalisierungsversuche im Nachgang des CSD-Anschlags.
This is revealing but *not* because @zannymb.economist.com shows Musk up as a raving psychopath. Fine, but hardly news. It's because *she* describes Alice Weidel - the openly racist leader of a far-right party infested with neo-Nazis -as a "perfectly thoughtful person."
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoAt one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
Was deutsche Journalisten nicht wollen oder können, kriegt Al Jazeera problemlos hin: die AfD inhaltlich stellen.
As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
Great presentation on the many overlapping & contradictory meanings and dynamic of ‘crisis communication’ by the one and only @stenhansson.bsky.social at #cadaad2026 - great points about fluidity of crisis meanings underpinning ned for critical & context sensitive work!
Very important points on technocratic and strategically depoliticised recontextualisation of ‘resilience’ in Italian mediated & public discourse by @francozappettini.bsky.social & Monica Colombo at #cadaad2026 @cadaad.bsky.social
Vital points on textual & visual constructions of resilience in public discourse - including as a token of responding to vulnerability - in a a v interesting paper by Michael Kranert & colleagues at #cadaad2026 @cadaad.bsky.social
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
thetimes.com
I run @alnconnect.bsky.social. We support Neurodivergent Families. Benefit cuts and slashing to ALN / SEND Services has crippled the household budgets already struggling from 14 yrs of Tory rule. If you're disabled or a carer, Poverty has deepened by some degree.
Eins muss man der SPD lassen: Ihr Vorhaben bei den nächsten Wahlen unter 10% zu kommen, verfolgt sie mit großer Konsequenz.
Schwarz-rote Reformen: Das soll sich bei der Krankschreibung ändern
CDU, CSU und SPD haben sich auf ein großes Reformpaket geeinigt. Ein Teil davon: schärfere Regeln bei der Krankschreibung. Was das für Arbeitnehmer bedeutet und warum der Schritt für Kritik sorgt.
tagesschau.de
Chomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climate: an excellent piece by Annabelle Lukin featuring "Two extremely privileged white males, musing over an abstract notion of power..." open.substack.com/pub/annabell...
Chomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climate
In the Chomsky-versus-language grand challenge, language won
open.substack.com
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid “This shadowy treaty on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
theguardian.com
Mit dem Gutachten im Rücken ist die Frage simpel: Warum nicht alle Parteien im Bundestag prüfen? Wir beginnen bei A. #Prüf
Als "Maschinenstürmer" wird man heute abgewertet, wenn man gegen den Ersatz kreativer Arbeit durch AI auftritt. Also als ewiggestriger Technikfeind, der die Zeichen der Zeit nicht versteht. Wer AI auf diese Weise verteidigt, entlarvt dadurch aber nur das eigene mangelnde Geschichtswissen. (Thread)
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Was für ein liebevoller Text über einen ganz wundervollen Ort und die Bedeutung von dritten Orten ohne Konsumzwang für die Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Dresdner Zentralbibliothek:
Ob in S-Bahnhöfen oder Social-Media-Feeds: Das Miteinander ist zum Kraftakt geworden durch Corona und Kriege. Was also ist das Geheimnis der Dresdner Zentralbibliothek, wo Leute zusammenkommen, die si...
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All that money that is now spent on Data Centers - imagine if it was spent building hospitals, training nurses, and buying medical equipment. How many lives would be saved? Anxiety reduced knowing healthcare is more available. We need a better economic system than we have now.
Zöe Bread is one of few people interrogating 'Manchesterism' and Andy Burnham's mayoral record with meaningful depth — here's our take... By @cjmbaillie.bsky.social
Zöe Bread shows us that 'Manchesterism' is neoliberalism
Zöe Bread is one of few people interrogating 'Manchesterism' and Andy Burnham's mayoral record with meaningful depth — here's our take...
thecanary.co
The anxious ghost of Tony Blair strikes again www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2026/05/27/t...
The anxious ghost of Tony Blair strikes again - Yanis Varoufakis
Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild ...
yanisvaroufakis.eu
Die AfD stellt sich als unbesiegbar dar, besonders im Osten. Doch dieses Jahr verlor sie dort bisher fast alle Kommunalwahlen. Was sich daraus lernen lässt lest ihr hier 👉️ taz.de/!6173862/
he won’t be able to dodge questions ahout his £5m gift forever observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Farage could face byelection over crypto king’s £5m donation
The Reform leader faces two possible investigations over the undeclared gift from Christopher Harborne. A lengthy Commons suspension could lead to a recall petition – and end up costing him his Clacto...
observer.co.uk
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
How is this cartoon of Zack Polanski, published in the Sun - complete with forked tongue and other Der Stürmer tropes - not blatantly antisemitic?
