In welcher Parallelwelt lebt Frau Jäkel eigentlich? Schönreden hilft nicht gegen den Kollaps! Bei den echten epochalen Krisen – Klimawandel, Vermögensungleichheit, sozialer Spaltung – herrscht in der Politik blankes Nichtstun und Arbeitsverweigerung. PR-Initiativen lösen keine Systemkrisen!

journalist@journalist.de · 6h ago

„Wir erleben gerade den größten Modernisierungsschub unseres Staatswesens seit Dekaden – und keiner bekommt es mit“, sagt Aufsichtsrätin und Medienmanagerin Julia Jaekel im journalist-Interview. Das ganze Interview hier lesen: www.journalist.de/meinung/mein...

No time to write anything, so please enjoy this tale of an artist who died 24 years ago today and was obsessed with death to the extent of doing hundreds of works on the subject, faking his own, and embalming a homeless man he’d befriended, who didn’t want “the authorities” to have his body

Robert Lenkiewicz: Larger than life and death

He had thousands of lovers, faked his own demise, and kept an embalmed corpse in his home. Yes, Robert Lenkiewicz was one of the great eccentrics – and now, prices for his paintings are soaring

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Británico-canadiense, 1876-1948. Los pilares del cielo. 1929. Óleo sobre lienzo.

Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary for Senate, NBC projects

Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.

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Medicine. Medicine has grown by leaps and bounds. You cannot introduce vaccines that crater cancer rates, cure AIDS, and cure sickle cell, and then tell me things have only gotten worse. Also: Food. To a HUGE degree. I eat what I once considered rare treats every day, now.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Some old man in Ohio wants to look at your daughter’s vagina before she can play volleyball, how about we start there

Thanks For Sharing, Jerk@thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 17h ago

Democrats are always accused of being the party of “radicals” when the GOP consistently excuses and supports child abuse, violence, rape, and murder—Dems should put 100% of their bandwidth into this message

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · 18h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Yahoola creek, which flows by Dahlonega, in Lumpkin County, Georgia, is called Yahulai

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions

Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.

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Outraged Tarrant County voter asking GOP officials lots of good questions about cuts to polling locations that they have not answered:

Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 22h ago

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

Wir haben eine Website & einen Flyer zur Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt gestaltet! Jetzt habt ihr: Riesige Recherchen, ausführliche Argumente mit allen Quellen und Tipps, wie du JETZT vor den Wahlen aktiv werden kannst! Alle Infos auf: volksverpetzer.de/ltw-lsa

Sachsen-Anhalt: Landtagswahl 2026

Warum sich Wählen lohnt – und warum die rechtsextreme AfD die schlechteste Wahl wäre. Argumente, Quellen und was DU tun kannst! +Flyer!

volksverpetzer.de

UFC Freedom 250 event was a $30 million financial loss It did not dent the company’s bottom line: Total UFC second-quarter revenue still surged, bolstered by a multi-billion dollar broadcast deal with Paramount. White said he would never do that kind of event again. @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 22h ago

Trump’s Much-Hyped UFC White House Event Ended Up Losing the Company Tens of Millions

When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know. A usage policy for Flock cameras in the county tells police, in no uncertain terms, to keep them a secret. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & the fact that we tolerate this authoritarian behavior as a permanent feature of 🇺🇸 politics is a sign of just how deeply broken our democracy is.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h ago

Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.

oh my god… comparing voter ID to “state run grocery stores” and whining about “free stuff”, and pretending to care about people’s needs as the excuse for concern trolling

Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 22h ago

Mamdani’s grocery delusion

Und für alle die glauben, dass ein Wahlsieg der #AfD in #SachsenAnhalt nur ein Ausrutscher wird, der darf sich die Zuständigkeit des Innenministeriums mal anschauen. Da bleibt nach fünf Jahren im #Verfassungsschutz, der #Polizei u. dem Asylverfahren kein Stein auf dem anderen. mi.sachsen-anhalt.de

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Wieder sterben zu viele Menschen auf dem Weg Richtung Europa, doch das geht in der Berichterstattung unter. Manches Blatt lässt jede Pietät vermissen und setzt die Flüchtenden mit Attentätern gleich. Ein Versuch, den medialen Deutungskampf um #Ceuta etwas zu sortieren: www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 4. August 2026 – Ceuta: Menschen als Katastrophen

Zehntausende Menschen versuchen über die Grenze zu Ceuta nach Spanien zu gelangen, nachdem sie offenbar auf eine Fake-News-Kampagne hereingefallen sind. Trotzdem werden sie jetzt medial zu Angreifern ...

mdr.de

▶️ Karin Prien streicht dem CSD Rathenow die Fördergelder (2026) "Kurz vor dem geplanten Termin am 12. Sep. und nur wenige Tage nach dem islamistischen Anschlag in Berlin ist dem CSD Rathenow die Förderung aus dem Bundesprogramm "Demokratie leben!" gestrichen worden." www.queer.de/detail.php?a...

Karin Prien streicht dem CSD Rathenow die Fördergelder

Kurz vor dem geplanten Termin am 12. September und nur wenige Tage nach dem islamistischen Anschlag in Berlin ist dem CSD Rathenow die Förderung aus dem Bundesprogramm "Demokratie leben!" gestrichen w...

queer.de

You didn’t move 5 million people of food stamps because they could suddenly afford food. Your big beautiful bill just took their food stamp stamps away from them.

#KlimaschutzIstWirtschaftsschutz @herrvonschilf.bsky.social

Two dead from the US cyclospora outbreak, just in case you had any doubt how dangerous it is. There are now 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases across 45 states. By any standard this would be a scandal but it’s just another metaphor for life under Trump - killer food contaminated with human waste.

Two People Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak — TIME

Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, state health officials announced on Aug. 3. They are the first reported deaths from a record Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of pe...

apple.news

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

Another rare sight last night - I live in an area where culling started in September 2015 - a Badger comes into the garden for Sloes - which are dropping to the ground already on that section of hedgerow.

#OwlAwarenessDay 🏺 Greeks + Daunians were very aware of owls, symbol of Athena, and feature of any posh tomb. Set of red figured skyphoi 'a civetta' (owl drinking cups) are from male tomb 669, full to brim w objects for the journey, in Lavello, ancient Forentum, conquered end C4 BC by Samnites.

Ein Interview mit Kim Alexandra Trau, hauptamtliche Bundesgeschäftsführerin vom Jugendnetzwerk #Lambda e.V.: "Wir machen seit Jahrzehnten neben der Jugendverbandsarbeit auch Beratungsarbeit. Es gibt den Queersupport, unser digitales Beratungsangebot, und viele >>

Queeres Jugendnetzwerk Lambda: „Mit uns fällt die Vernetzung weg“

Die Bundesregierung streicht dem queeren Jugendnetzwerk die Förderung. Damit geht der politische Rückhalt verloren, sagt Bundesgeschäftsführerin Kim Alexandra Trau.

taz.de

Arctium lappa (?) with Noctua comes, n.d., by #MariaSibyllaMerian (German; 1647–1717). Held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4825 #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory