Reality check #Ceuta and #Melilla and #Schengen area: nope. Everything else is willful manipulation by your respective politicians.

Hypocrisy has a price.

Gay Conservative German Politician Resigns After Welcoming Child Via Surrogacy Despite Publicly Opposing It

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Today is good reminder that the UK Prime Minister is appointed by the King based on a parliamentary majority, but is not elected by Parliament. This is different to most continental European systems, where the appointed PM needs to face a vote in Parliament first.

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's becoming an established attack line that Burnham "has no mandate" and "hasn't set out what he'll do". He's not becoming president. He leads the same party that governed yesterday, elected on the same manifesto. His authority comes from Parliament & he'll have to pass his measures through it.

‘The EU and Britain have unmasked a specialized Russian intelligence unit behind a decade of cyber-espionage, revealing a foiled winter plot to cut power to 500,000 people and exposing the Kremlin’s deep ties to criminal hacking syndicates.’ www.occrp.org/en/news/spie...?

Spies, Malware, and Blackouts: EU Blames Secret FSB Unit for Decade of Cyber Sabotage

The EU and Britain have unmasked a specialized Russian intelligence unit behind a decade of cyber-espionage, revealing a foiled winter plot to cut power to 500,000 people and exposing the Kremlin’s de...

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Thank you to weatherprof.bsky.social for the idea to create this graphic. This chart shows the number of times each 3-month Nino 3.4 anomaly has occurred, 1982-2025, along with the projected anomaly for the 3-month period OND later this year.

Deutsche Lügen über Russland🧵 Teil 1: “Billiges russisches Gas” Deutsche Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien kollaborierten bei zentralen Kreml-Propagandalügen. Die öffentliche Meinung wurde so geprägt- nicht zur zum Schaden Mittel-Osteuropas, sondern auch zum Schaden Deutschlands: 1/8

Die schönsten Amateurfußball-Wappen Deutschlands! Hier sammle ich die jeweils vier schönsten Wappen eines jeden Fußballverbands Deutschlands. Basierend auf Twitter Abstimmungen. Ziel ist es irgendwann hieraus das schönste Wappen Deutschlands zu finden/zu wählen

These: Warum die Union von der AfD profitiert. Der rechte Unionsflügel teilt Überzeugungen mit der AfD, konnte sie aber lange nicht äußern. Die AfD verschob das Fenster des Sagbaren und senkte damit die sozialen Kosten für die Union. Nicht um zwingend Wähler zurückzugewinnen. Aus Überzeugung. 🧵

Forscher erklärt: Warum AfD-Rhetorik aus dem Munde der CDU noch mehr Wirkung hat

„Man darf ja nichts mehr sagen“ – ein Experte erkennt hinter diesem Satz ein Muster. Wenn andere Parteien AfD-Narrative übernehmen, habe es besondere Wirkung.

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@pbahners.bsky.social morgen in der @faznet.bsky.social

What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet

BahnBet — Bet on German Train Delays

Predict Deutsche Bahn delays and win. Real-time prediction markets on ICE, IC & EC train delays.

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FAZ is endorsing the end of Ulrike Malmendier's term in the German council of economic experts because a) she was too far away (Berkeley) b) her research is not as relevant anymore c) behavioural economists tend towards paternalistic solution. Sigh.

Can we PLEASE stop calling them “hallucinations.” A hallucination is a false sensory perception. LLMs don’t *perceive* anything. These are “CONFABULATIONS.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

For Brits asking me yesterday, this is an example of how the Patriots were the bad guys in the Superbowl

Lisa Guerrero@lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 6mo ago

That’s what’s up.

Surya Bonaly wurde in den 90er Jahren in der Welt des Eiskunstlaufs diskriminiert, weil sie eine Schwarze Frau war, die Dinge wie das Rückwärtssalto konnte, die keine gewagt hat und man sie dafür bestrafen wollte, die Beste zu sein. Jetzt, wo Weiße Typen es auch können, wird es belohnt.

NPR@npr.org · 6mo ago

U.S. figure skating phenom Ilia Malinin did a backflip in his Olympic debut, and another the next day. The controversial move was banned from competition for decades until 2024. n.pr/3Oc9N7R

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

1/x Hefte raus, #Klassenarbeit. Warum ist #Oxycodon das denkbar ungeeignetste Opioid ever, um es bei chronischen Schmerzerkrankungen zu verordnen? Ganz einfach: die #Galenik macht den Unterschied. Ga-watt? Kurz gesagt überführt die Galenik einen Wirkstoff in eine anwendbare Form (Tablette, Pflaster

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

Another reason Democrats must stop, defund, and ultimately abolish ICE: voter suppression. ICE has forced a significant number of people of color to hide inside their homes. What if ICE patrols just outside key polling places during the midterms?

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So close, NYT! Just take out the "Appear to" and you're doing real journalism! (And even this is better than usual.)

GENERAL STRIKE NURSING STRIKE JANUARY 30

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...

Which economy is more productive - Germany or the US? It seems the answer would be clear, but it's not. The mood in Germany is so deeply negative, even aggressively pessimistic, that I thought we had fallen behind by a lot. But here are the facts - they surprised me as well: