Last night, Russia attacked a European capital with over 40 ballistic missiles. That leads nowhere in European news headlines this morning. Russian terror, murder and destruction are simply taken in stride as a normal story.
Thomas Winderl
@thomaswinderl.bsky.social
Atheist, liberal and left leaning. Science and data. Formerly United Nations. Loves books as thinking machines. International Politics and International Development. History, Natural Sciences. Singing, guitar & Backgammon. Austrian in Spain.
Die Legalisierung von 100Tausenden undokumentierten Migranten in Spanien ist ein Riesenschritt in die richtige Richtung
Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.Spain's amnesty drive brings 600,000 migrants into formal economy during application review reut.rs/44GiRqv
There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoElon Musk’s net worth of $1.1 trillion is five million times as large as that of the typical family. The median American household had a net worth of just under $200,000 in 2022, the year with the most recent data available from the Federal Reserve. nyti.ms/4aL8sNH
Globalist institution as the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2mo agoReportedly, US considers backing Viktor Orbán for senior position at the UN, which would grant him diplomatic immunity. This, as the current investigations into Orbán and members of his family are ongoing.
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Fun fact: Eindeutig gewonnen haben die USA einen Krieg im Nahen Osten zuletzt vor 35 Jahren bei der Befreiung Kuwaits von irakischer Besetzung. Der Krieg endete am 28. Februar (Trump wählte dieses Datum für den Angriff auf Iran). Iran blieb neutral und profitierte vom US-Sieg über Saddam Hussein.
Cc @wien.gv.at
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Klimawahn: Wie eine globale Sekte uns in den Abgrund treibt Gut gemeint ist das Gegenteil von gut: Wie Menschenrechte uns schaden EUdSSR: Wie Brüssel zu einer Diktatur wurde. Geheimplan NATO: Wie ein kleiner Zirkel die Neutralität abschafft. Ein Aussteiger packt aus (speziell für Österreich)
Amrei Bahr@amreibahr.bsky.social · 3mo agoFür welches Buch würdet Ihr 160k Vorschuss verdienen? Nur falsche Antworten
As analysts grow worried that Ru might be preparing a pretext to attack the Baltics, I see many countering, even mocking such warnings w claims that russia is too weak/overstretched to attack anyone else beside Ukraine. This complacency missunderstands the logic/goal of such an attack— it’s not to…
For those who are all of a sudden shocked at Trump’s corruption this week, please stop. Corruption has infused this administration its entire time. There has been purchase pardons, payoffs by foreign governments, shady crypto deals, insider trading on markets, etc.
Nobody can remain neutral in the conflict between Russia and Europe, I told the Austrians... orf.at/av/video/onD...
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Israel is "running out of friends" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Opinion | How Israel Lost Its Way and How Trump Can Save Lebanon
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"This is what Trump does, it's what he's done his whole life: He's bullshitting his way through everything. But now he's doing it with a war and it's not working." Nice segment from Seth Meyers (with an appearance by our own @markhertling.bsky.social around 09:40). www.youtube.com/watch?v=23xU...
Seth Catches up on 3 Weeks of Insane News; Trump Tells Iran "No More Mr. Nice Guy": A Closer Look
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Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup. He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal. He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage. He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed
Es ist alarmierend, was ZARA gerade schrieb: Das Bundeskanzleramt hat vollständig & mitten im laufenden Jahr die Förderung der Beratungsstelle #GegenHassimNetz gestrichen - das ist österreichweit die wichtigste Anlaufstelle für Betroffene digitaler Gewalt Es ist wichtig, dass die Förderung bleibt!
Die NYT zitiert Geheimdienstquellen, wonach "Iran still has about 40 percent of its arsenal of attack drones and upward of 60 percent of its missile launchers". Aber Hauptsache Trump hat den Krieg schon 42 mal gewonnen.
Looks like Trump is pulling out all stops to secure a face-saving quickie deal with Iran. My forecast: a substandard remake of the JCPOA, little or nothing on ballistics, Hormuz in an Iran-Oman condominium with toll for services rendered (like Bosporus or Siberia channel) and no regime change.
CNN@cnn.com · 4mo agoUS President Donald Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, which he said would take effect at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday. https://cnn.it/4vRoeQn
This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4mo agoVance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.
