Joe Wein
@joewein.bsky.social
German software engineer and cyclist in Japan. Politics, environment, cyber security.
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This should get a Pulitzer. It's going to be an all-time classic.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This should get a Pulitzer. It's going to be an all-time classic.
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We have now entered the most catastrophic phase of the war in Sudan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Sudan Is in Free Fall
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We have now entered the most catastrophic phase of the war in Sudan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
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The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
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When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
Hell of way to try to win the Nobel peace prize!
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hell of way to try to win the Nobel peace prize!
This would be so on-brand
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This would be so on-brand
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Neues Interview, ohne paywall. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...
Stefan Rahmstorf: "Als Donald Trump das erste Mal gewählt wurde, habe ich geweint"
Der Klima-Diskurs steckt in der Krise: Alle Warnungen treffen auf taube Ohren. Wie man darüber nicht verzweifelt, erklärt der Klimaforscher Stefan Rahmstorf im Gespräch.
www.zeit.de
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Neues Interview, ohne paywall. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...
Having this guy meet in Japan with the families of those abducted by North Korean dictators is a little ironic, considering he allocated $170,000,000,000 in his budget for ICE to abduct millions of fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters off American streets by unidentified masked men
October 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Having this guy meet in Japan with the families of those abducted by North Korean dictators is a little ironic, considering he allocated $170,000,000,000 in his budget for ICE to abduct millions of fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters off American streets by unidentified masked men
Remember how the Nazis referred to their regime as the "Tausendjähriges Reich" (Thousand-Year Empire), even though in the end it barely lasted 12 years?
I can only assume that the CEOs of huge companies and leaders of foreign governments who continue to bribe Trump while getting tremendous benefits and breaks from the govt think that Republicans will stay in power forever or Democrats will forgive and forget.
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Remember how the Nazis referred to their regime as the "Tausendjähriges Reich" (Thousand-Year Empire), even though in the end it barely lasted 12 years?
No, this is NOT a picture of Obama tearing down a part of the WH to build a basketball court, as claimed in viral MAGA fake news on Twitter and Facebook.
It's from a 1934 renovation under President Roosevelt, 27 years before Obama was even born!
Debunked by Snopes:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/o...
It's from a 1934 renovation under President Roosevelt, 27 years before Obama was even born!
Debunked by Snopes:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/o...
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
No, this is NOT a picture of Obama tearing down a part of the WH to build a basketball court, as claimed in viral MAGA fake news on Twitter and Facebook.
It's from a 1934 renovation under President Roosevelt, 27 years before Obama was even born!
Debunked by Snopes:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/o...
It's from a 1934 renovation under President Roosevelt, 27 years before Obama was even born!
Debunked by Snopes:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/o...
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From Radio Free Europe: interesting stuff from Hungary:
youtu.be/2exDN5abAVE?...
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Thousands Protest In Hungary As Orban Faces Growing Opposition To Pro-Russia Policy
YouTube video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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October 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
From Radio Free Europe: interesting stuff from Hungary:
youtu.be/2exDN5abAVE?...
youtu.be/2exDN5abAVE?...
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Danke @taz.de
„In alledem hat die große Masse der gesellschaftlichen Linken seit dem 7.10.23 versagt. Das Statement des Café-Kollektivs zeigt das nun einmal mehr. Es gibt keine gemeinsamen roten Linien, keine Leitplanken, keinen „common ground“ oder „common sense“.“
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„In alledem hat die große Masse der gesellschaftlichen Linken seit dem 7.10.23 versagt. Das Statement des Café-Kollektivs zeigt das nun einmal mehr. Es gibt keine gemeinsamen roten Linien, keine Leitplanken, keinen „common ground“ oder „common sense“.“
taz.de/Rausschmiss-...
Café schmeißt Israeli und Partnerin raus: Lehrstück über linken Antisemitismus
Zwei Personen werden aus der linken Berliner Kneipe „K-Fetisch“ geworfen. Auf ihrem T-Shirt stand das Wort „Falafel“ – unter anderem in hebräischer Schrift.
taz.de
October 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Danke @taz.de
„In alledem hat die große Masse der gesellschaftlichen Linken seit dem 7.10.23 versagt. Das Statement des Café-Kollektivs zeigt das nun einmal mehr. Es gibt keine gemeinsamen roten Linien, keine Leitplanken, keinen „common ground“ oder „common sense“.“
taz.de/Rausschmiss-...
„In alledem hat die große Masse der gesellschaftlichen Linken seit dem 7.10.23 versagt. Das Statement des Café-Kollektivs zeigt das nun einmal mehr. Es gibt keine gemeinsamen roten Linien, keine Leitplanken, keinen „common ground“ oder „common sense“.“
taz.de/Rausschmiss-...
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Die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung widerspricht dem "Stadtbild"-Narrativ. Das zeigt eine ZDF-Umfrage, die aber vom Sender komplett ins Gegenteil verdreht wurde. Eine gravierender Fehler für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk.
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...
ZDF manipuliert Umfrage: Mehrheit widerspricht Merz
Eine Umfrage zeigt, dass die Mehrheit der Menschen kein Problem mit Geflüchteten hat und sich sicher fühlt. Das ZDF berichtet das Gegenteil.
www.volksverpetzer.de
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung widerspricht dem "Stadtbild"-Narrativ. Das zeigt eine ZDF-Umfrage, die aber vom Sender komplett ins Gegenteil verdreht wurde. Eine gravierender Fehler für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk.
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...
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Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
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WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
He thinks he could demolish 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and not lose any voters.
BREAKING: New suit seeks TRO blocking Trump's White House ballroom project and further destruction of East Wing. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
He thinks he could demolish 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and not lose any voters.
JIP, the new coalition partner of the LDP in the Japanese government, argues for cutting the number of seats in the lower house due to a falling population.
This is not why they are doing it and the reason given doesn't make sense.
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This is not why they are doing it and the reason given doesn't make sense.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
JIP, the new coalition partner of the LDP in the Japanese government, argues for cutting the number of seats in the lower house due to a falling population.
This is not why they are doing it and the reason given doesn't make sense.
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This is not why they are doing it and the reason given doesn't make sense.
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Demolishing the White House is the perfect metaphor for the Trump administration.
October 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Demolishing the White House is the perfect metaphor for the Trump administration.
The Reichstag also only met 12 times between 1933 and 1939.
Congressional Republicans are out again this week—the 5th week in a row they haven’t shown up to work.
They’d rather hide than allow the Epstein files to be released or work with us to keep health care costs from increasing.
They’d rather hide than allow the Epstein files to be released or work with us to keep health care costs from increasing.
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Reichstag also only met 12 times between 1933 and 1939.
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I have a feeling you’re not in Kansas anymore.
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I have a feeling you’re not in Kansas anymore.
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A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol
“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.
www.huffpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza
While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...