German Wondering
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German fully aware of my people's history watches in awe how societies erode along established patterns. Trying to add literate and global perspectives. Yes, I said trying.
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Mark Cuban Asks for TikTok Alternative Built on AT Protocol | Entrepreneur
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban says he's ready to support anyone who can build a viable alternative to TikTok on the AT Protocol.
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Enhancing @bsky.app and building a decentralized version of TikTok may be foundational investments to preserve democracy.
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Censored by the US government politburo and not allowed to be broadcast on cable, hence only available on Youtube.
Excellent interview on Christian Nationalism with James Talarico 👇
#Talarico #1A #MuskHypocrite #Christianity
Excellent interview on Christian Nationalism with James Talarico 👇
#Talarico #1A #MuskHypocrite #Christianity
February 18, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Censored by the US government politburo and not allowed to be broadcast on cable, hence only available on Youtube.
Excellent interview on Christian Nationalism with James Talarico 👇
#Talarico #1A #MuskHypocrite #Christianity
Excellent interview on Christian Nationalism with James Talarico 👇
#Talarico #1A #MuskHypocrite #Christianity
#JDVance on Fox:
"Vance accuses Europe of sabotaging itself"
Perspective:
Europe: With Enlightenment, humanism took hold.
MAGA US: Canceled Enlightenment starts over in dark ages to see whether the outcome will be a better one.
"Vance accuses Europe of sabotaging itself"
Perspective:
Europe: With Enlightenment, humanism took hold.
MAGA US: Canceled Enlightenment starts over in dark ages to see whether the outcome will be a better one.
»Das Problem mit Europa ist nicht, dass wir es nicht mögen...« Der US-Vizepräsident hat in einem Interview über die transatlantische Beziehungskrise gesprochen. Immerhin: JD Vance betont auch Fortschritte.
JD Vance: US-Vizepräsident wirft Europa bei Fox News vor, sich selbst zu »sabotieren«
»Das Problem mit Europa ist nicht, dass wir es nicht mögen...« Der US-Vizepräsident hat in einem Interview über die transatlantische Beziehungskrise gesprochen. Immerhin: JD Vance betont auch Fortschritte.
www.spiegel.de
February 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM
#JDVance on Fox:
"Vance accuses Europe of sabotaging itself"
Perspective:
Europe: With Enlightenment, humanism took hold.
MAGA US: Canceled Enlightenment starts over in dark ages to see whether the outcome will be a better one.
"Vance accuses Europe of sabotaging itself"
Perspective:
Europe: With Enlightenment, humanism took hold.
MAGA US: Canceled Enlightenment starts over in dark ages to see whether the outcome will be a better one.
Fact:
Other than the native Americans who were mostly erased by the colonists, nothing in America has persisted for thousands of years. America peaked and started its decline in < than 250 years. Period.
Other than the native Americans who were mostly erased by the colonists, nothing in America has persisted for thousands of years. America peaked and started its decline in < than 250 years. Period.
February 18, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Fact:
Other than the native Americans who were mostly erased by the colonists, nothing in America has persisted for thousands of years. America peaked and started its decline in < than 250 years. Period.
Other than the native Americans who were mostly erased by the colonists, nothing in America has persisted for thousands of years. America peaked and started its decline in < than 250 years. Period.
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Christian Nationalists are treating the Epstein files like they treat their Bibles and our Constitution: They are *ignoring* them.
February 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Christian Nationalists are treating the Epstein files like they treat their Bibles and our Constitution: They are *ignoring* them.
Contrary to the treasonous MAGA cult a REAL American 👇.
February 18, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Contrary to the treasonous MAGA cult a REAL American 👇.
Literally how Nordic democracies work which have resulted in the best:
Standard of Living
Life expectancy
Happiness
Freedom (Press and Civic)
#Democracy
Standard of Living
Life expectancy
Happiness
Freedom (Press and Civic)
#Democracy
1. I would vote for anyone who could win a Democratic primary in 2028
2. I will vote for the most credible left candidate in the primary
3. The two-party system is bad and we should replace it with proportional representation
4. The presidency is bad and we should replace it with a Prime Minister
2. I will vote for the most credible left candidate in the primary
3. The two-party system is bad and we should replace it with proportional representation
4. The presidency is bad and we should replace it with a Prime Minister
February 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Literally how Nordic democracies work which have resulted in the best:
Standard of Living
Life expectancy
Happiness
Freedom (Press and Civic)
#Democracy
Standard of Living
Life expectancy
Happiness
Freedom (Press and Civic)
#Democracy
Democracy in the US:
Oligarchs on shopping spree for favorable government while lecturing on freedom on democracy.
#Musk #Hypocrite
Oligarchs on shopping spree for favorable government while lecturing on freedom on democracy.
#Musk #Hypocrite
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
February 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Democracy in the US:
Oligarchs on shopping spree for favorable government while lecturing on freedom on democracy.
#Musk #Hypocrite
Oligarchs on shopping spree for favorable government while lecturing on freedom on democracy.
#Musk #Hypocrite
German Magazine Spiegel & NYT:
Homeland Security Department hunts ICE critics on social networks. The department sent Google, Meta, and others hundreds of data‑request orders to obtain information about users who criticize ICE. The companies complied with some of the requests.
#Orwell
Homeland Security Department hunts ICE critics on social networks. The department sent Google, Meta, and others hundreds of data‑request orders to obtain information about users who criticize ICE. The companies complied with some of the requests.
#Orwell
February 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
German Magazine Spiegel & NYT:
Homeland Security Department hunts ICE critics on social networks. The department sent Google, Meta, and others hundreds of data‑request orders to obtain information about users who criticize ICE. The companies complied with some of the requests.
#Orwell
Homeland Security Department hunts ICE critics on social networks. The department sent Google, Meta, and others hundreds of data‑request orders to obtain information about users who criticize ICE. The companies complied with some of the requests.
#Orwell
Confirmed:
It's all about voter suppression, not election integrity. They know it which tells you everything you need to know about Musk and Co.
#Musk #Oligarchy
It's all about voter suppression, not election integrity. They know it which tells you everything you need to know about Musk and Co.
#Musk #Oligarchy
Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election
February 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Confirmed:
It's all about voter suppression, not election integrity. They know it which tells you everything you need to know about Musk and Co.
#Musk #Oligarchy
It's all about voter suppression, not election integrity. They know it which tells you everything you need to know about Musk and Co.
#Musk #Oligarchy
Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Long established:
It's all about voter suppression, not about election integrity.
Ironic that the Project 2025 authors themselves tried to make a different case and failed.
#Democracy #SaveAct
It's all about voter suppression, not about election integrity.
Ironic that the Project 2025 authors themselves tried to make a different case and failed.
#Democracy #SaveAct
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
February 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Long established:
It's all about voter suppression, not about election integrity.
Ironic that the Project 2025 authors themselves tried to make a different case and failed.
#Democracy #SaveAct
It's all about voter suppression, not about election integrity.
Ironic that the Project 2025 authors themselves tried to make a different case and failed.
#Democracy #SaveAct
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SCOTUS has aided and abetted a malignant narcissist.
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
SCOTUS has aided and abetted a malignant narcissist.
Facts on Hungary:
* 2% of EU population
* 1% of EU GDP
* Corrupt, stagnant, impoverished
* Democracy and press freedom under attack
BUT:
* Near constant veto in the EU in favor of either Russia, or USA
#Hungary #EU #Rubio
* 2% of EU population
* 1% of EU GDP
* Corrupt, stagnant, impoverished
* Democracy and press freedom under attack
BUT:
* Near constant veto in the EU in favor of either Russia, or USA
#Hungary #EU #Rubio
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Viktor Orbán in Budapest today and declared a "golden age" in bilateral relations, heaping praise on the Hungarian leader as the country heads toward parliamentary elections.
‘Golden age’: Rubio praises Orbán ahead of Hungary election
“Your success is our success” U.S. secretary of state tells Hungarian leader.
www.politico.eu
February 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Fact: America holds on to an illusion of its press freedom while trying to lecture others.
Denmark (2024): Rank 2
US (2024): Rank 55
@kajakallas.bsky.social
#1A #Musk
Reference: rsf.org/en/index
Denmark (2024): Rank 2
US (2024): Rank 55
@kajakallas.bsky.social
#1A #Musk
Reference: rsf.org/en/index
February 16, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Fact: America holds on to an illusion of its press freedom while trying to lecture others.
Denmark (2024): Rank 2
US (2024): Rank 55
@kajakallas.bsky.social
#1A #Musk
Reference: rsf.org/en/index
Denmark (2024): Rank 2
US (2024): Rank 55
@kajakallas.bsky.social
#1A #Musk
Reference: rsf.org/en/index
Good Read:
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States.
(Pub 2009)
Zinn shows US history as shaped by conquest, slavery, and inequality, with resistance movements pushing back. It argues constant war, rising labor unions, and growing corporate power define its trajectory.
#Booksky
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States.
(Pub 2009)
Zinn shows US history as shaped by conquest, slavery, and inequality, with resistance movements pushing back. It argues constant war, rising labor unions, and growing corporate power define its trajectory.
#Booksky
February 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Good Read:
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States.
(Pub 2009)
Zinn shows US history as shaped by conquest, slavery, and inequality, with resistance movements pushing back. It argues constant war, rising labor unions, and growing corporate power define its trajectory.
#Booksky
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States.
(Pub 2009)
Zinn shows US history as shaped by conquest, slavery, and inequality, with resistance movements pushing back. It argues constant war, rising labor unions, and growing corporate power define its trajectory.
#Booksky
I wonder whether frustration will eventually set in for the MAGA cult on this one. 👇
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
February 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I wonder whether frustration will eventually set in for the MAGA cult on this one. 👇
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Musk is a white supremacist, friend of our enemies, a liar, a lunatic and a threat to the US. No company owned or controlled by him should be permitted to do business with the US government.
Elon Musk, a pro-apartheid South African, may have come here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture. (By the way, were the Irish welcomed by the English?)
My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom, tolerance, equal rights, and opportunity.
My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom, tolerance, equal rights, and opportunity.
February 15, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Musk is a white supremacist, friend of our enemies, a liar, a lunatic and a threat to the US. No company owned or controlled by him should be permitted to do business with the US government.
#Musk:
Xenophobe immigrant, now oligarch, who has bought himself a favorable government which kills democracy.
NOTHING is American with Musk as envisioned by the founding fathers.
Xenophobe immigrant, now oligarch, who has bought himself a favorable government which kills democracy.
NOTHING is American with Musk as envisioned by the founding fathers.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
#Musk:
Xenophobe immigrant, now oligarch, who has bought himself a favorable government which kills democracy.
NOTHING is American with Musk as envisioned by the founding fathers.
Xenophobe immigrant, now oligarch, who has bought himself a favorable government which kills democracy.
NOTHING is American with Musk as envisioned by the founding fathers.
Could BYD’s Manchester City Partnership Indicate A Scandinavian Sales Offensive?
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Could BYD’s Manchester City Partnership Indicate A Scandinavian Sales Offensive? - CleanTechnica
BYD recently entered a partnership with the Manchester City soccer (or football) club. This is one of the top teams in the Premier League. The partnership includes supplying BYD and DENZA vehicles, al...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
"Free speech for me but not for thee":
Orbán has in unprecedented ways tightened control over Hungary’s media and public discourse, using laws, loyalist institutions, and pressure on journalists to erode free speech and silence dissent.
Blueprint for the US.
#1A #Hungary #Musk
Orbán has in unprecedented ways tightened control over Hungary’s media and public discourse, using laws, loyalist institutions, and pressure on journalists to erode free speech and silence dissent.
Blueprint for the US.
#1A #Hungary #Musk
“Readers will recall conservatives once posed as the defenders of free speech…Their embrace of Orbán shows their bottomless hypocrisy. As it turns out supporting “patriotic” parties means supporting attacks on freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”
Trump and Rubio praise Orbán: the godfather of Western corruption
And copy his attacks on free speech and press freedom
open.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Europe must emerge as a geopolitical power that speaks in a "direct and clear" way to the U.S. as it moves to reset transatlantic ties, Latvian PM Evika Siliņa told POLITICO at #MSC2026.
No ‘business as usual’ with US: Latvian PM
Evika Siliņa said that a more decisive Europe may have some new moves in its dance with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
With Donald Trump’s second presidency giving European hardline conservatives a powerful champion, groups on both sides of the Atlantic want to seize the moment.
Their goal? To repurpose America’s soft-power tools to rebuild the West in their image.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/maga...
Their goal? To repurpose America’s soft-power tools to rebuild the West in their image.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/maga...
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM