Demos mit direktem Nazikontakt und meine Fresse war ich überfordert, als ich plötzlich von Cops angegriffen wurde. Die sind doch die Guten, ich bin doch für eine gute Sache auf der Strasse. Zu wissen, dass das normal ist, zu wissen, dass ich mich selbst schützen muss, war ungemein wichtig. Ich (2/3)

Und das war noch die “gute” Zeit, in der die “Baseballschlägerjahre” vorbei waren (die ich mir nichtmal vorstellen kann) und es die AfD noch nicht gegeben hat.

Also ich angefangen habe mich zu politisch zu engagieren, wurde eine Genossin in ihrem Zelt fast totgeschlagen. Nazis haben mich verprügelt, wenn sie mich alleine angetroffen haben. Sie haben mir beim Plakatieren das Messer a die Kehle gehalten. Sie hatten mich auf einer Feindesliste - da war ich 15

These communities are resilient, they will rebuild and continue to survive. But not all that has been lost can be restored or rebuilt. Somethings have been lost forever in these fires. Photo Credit: National Interagency Fire Center

It is a recurring tragedy for women and girls on the left that many of us believe that the men in our movements include us in their visions of a more just, equal, and dignified world, and we have to learn the hard way that they don’t.

1934 hielt Goebbels einen Vortrag in Warschau zum Wesen des Nationalsozialismus. Nichts läge den Nazis ferner als "das Feld seiner Tätigkeit über die Grenzen des Reiches hinaus zu verlegen". Hitler sei es "Ernst mit der Versöhnung der Völker". KZ seien "Akt der Notwehr". Faschisten lügen. Immer.

Individually one cannot, but it is striking (in a way that really advocates the old Marxist in me) that socially we can only really see a technology that saves a bunch of labour without generating replacement level jobs as a disaster. This is because we are *so* sure the profit will be privatised.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The two types of AI denialism: the people who look at this and go 'nah, the machines will never get that smart' and the people who say it and talk like it is a thing you can meaningfully prepare for.

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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i don't know why, but genuinely, all these conservative chuds treating "someone brought a box of hand warmers you can get on amazon-dot-come in a bulk pack of 200 for $25" as the same kind of logistical feat as the Berlin Airlift fills me with absolute confidence that they are gonna lose real bad

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Es gibt so viele Level an Niedertracht, an Bösartigkeit und Erniedrigung, die sich da vor unser aller Augen abspielen. Und das ist Faschismus in der Alltagspraxis: die Lust an der Grausamkeit. Die gemeinschaftliche Praxis der Gewalt. Das Johlen und Spaß haben am Leid der Anderen.

Business, dass man aber mit der ideologischen Rede, Journalist*innen schrieben quasi nur die Realität ab, verstellt. Man ist damit eigentlich dem rechten Podcast-/Substack-/twiXxer-Öko viel viel näher, als viele Medienmenschen es gerne hören o. gar zugeben. (Weswegen rechte Kampagnen auch so easy

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.

Das 80-jährige Jubiläum des Siegs über Nazideutschland ist ein passender Moment, daran zu erinnern, dass das Asylrecht im Grundgesetz und in der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte auch eine Lehre daraus ist, dass zu wenige Staaten bereit waren, verfolgte Jüdinnen und Juden aufzunehmen.

"In March 1978, The Raincoats were the first punk band to play behind the Iron Curtain, in Warsaw — to hundreds of student punks and political activists in the making who’d turn that music into a powerful weapon against authoritarianism.' The Sonic Power of #TheRaincoats buff.ly/51DicCw

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

13 years ago today, we lost the Beastie Boys' MCA. #LicenseToIll #MCADay

a northern state being attacked by the federal government for the crime of not apprehending a fugitive, cheered on by the very people who whine constantly about respecting "states' rights"? Where have I seen this one before?

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last yr.

The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement. abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

Words of burning truth from a Jewish prophet This is my credo, more or less:

As long as we’re doing French Revolution takes, let’s all remember that Mark Twain’s is undefeated:

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

working theory of trump decision-making: if your deal is freely agreed to by both parties, then it's necessarily a suboptimal deal compared to one the other party would have to be coerced into agreeing to

These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask

I am waiting for the day when people (including pollsters) learn that when people say they’re voting on the economy, it’s often because it’s a socially acceptable front for other, not socially acceptable reasons.

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last yr.

To me, if you're writing a big picture look at gaps between the parties and where the electorate stands, the main takeaway would be "I don't think most of the electorate voted for a dictatorship, no public services, and a return to Jim Crow." Opinions differ though. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

literally all we had to do to stop Elon Musk years ago was enforce basic laws we desperately need to implement a "broken windows" policy for billionaires

@denisetyrrell.bsky.social · last yr.

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Der Ton wird gleich zu Beginn gesetzt: "Wir wollen die Polarisierung in unserem Land zurückdrängen, die durch die irreguläre Migration verursachte Belastung unserer öffentlichen Infrastruktur beenden und auch damit den Zusammenhalt unseres Landes dauerhaft stärken." 2/13

Mit dem heute verkündeten Sondierungspapier verneigen sich Union und SPD vor dem Rechtsruck der Gesellschaft und markieren den Weg hin zu einer Politik der Ausgrenzung und Entrechtung. 1/13