piglet42
@piglet42.bsky.social
I'm interested in politics, media, climate change, energy policy, science. USA, Germany, Switzerland, Europe in general, more USA.
Ich schreibe auf Deutsch and in English.
I'm in the fediverse: https://troet.cafe/@piglet
Ich schreibe auf Deutsch and in English.
I'm in the fediverse: https://troet.cafe/@piglet
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piglet42
@piglet42.bsky.social
· Dec 6
Trumps Kulturkrieg und aggressive Identitätspolitik haben ihm zum Sieg verholfen. Eine Linke, die die Ursachen für das Scheitern der Demokraten nur in ihrer Wirtschaftspolitik sieht, hat laut unserem Autor nichts dazugelernt.
Sie wollen Dominanz und Tradition
Trumps knappen Wahlsieg auf ökonomische Faktoren zurückzuführen, greift zu kurz. Die Linke muss der Realität ins Auge sehen, dass ein grosser Teil der Bevölkerung Trump nicht trotz, sondern wegen sein...
daslamm.ch
“Der Trumpismus ist keine gewöhnliche Rechtspartei, sondern Ausdruck einer internationalen oligarchisch-faschistischen Allianz, die den Nachkriegskonsens aufgekündigt hat und die liberale Demokratie für eine Zumutung hält, der ein Ende gesetzt werden muss.”
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"act of domestic terrorism"
The whole thing is literally on video, just fyi
The whole thing is literally on video, just fyi
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"
January 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
"act of domestic terrorism"
The whole thing is literally on video, just fyi
The whole thing is literally on video, just fyi
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from what i’m seeing, it appears corporate press is treating trump’s takeover of greenland as an inevitability rather than the fever dream of a dictator
January 7, 2026 at 4:42 PM
from what i’m seeing, it appears corporate press is treating trump’s takeover of greenland as an inevitability rather than the fever dream of a dictator
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Turns out Democrats weren't done making gains from 2025! Politico brings us this update from Orange County, NY www.politico.com/newsletters/...
January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Turns out Democrats weren't done making gains from 2025! Politico brings us this update from Orange County, NY www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The Danish high command clarifies that Danish forces have standing orders to use lethal force to repulse any military attack on Greenland, including one by the United States. Denmark will invoke article 5 of the NATO treaty calling on other NATO members to assist it in repelling the invasion.
Ordren er klar: Danske soldater i Grønland skal gå til modangreb, hvis USA vil tage Grønland med magt
Danske soldater har stående ordre om at gribe til våben og kæmpe, hvis dansk territorium bliver angrebet, viser en kongelig anordning fra 1952. Denne såkaldte forholdsordre vil også gælde, hvis USA fo...
www.berlingske.dk
January 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The Danish high command clarifies that Danish forces have standing orders to use lethal force to repulse any military attack on Greenland, including one by the United States. Denmark will invoke article 5 of the NATO treaty calling on other NATO members to assist it in repelling the invasion.
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Posted by Chinese Embassy to US
January 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Posted by Chinese Embassy to US
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Strack-Zimmermann @masz.bsky.social kritisiert Trump's Aggression gegen Venezuela, während Merz vorgibt nichts zu wissen und Spahn bereits die komplette Aufgabe des Völkerrechts signalisiert.
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Strack-Zimmermann @masz.bsky.social kritisiert Trump's Aggression gegen Venezuela, während Merz vorgibt nichts zu wissen und Spahn bereits die komplette Aufgabe des Völkerrechts signalisiert.
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Advantage China: China added a record 444 mn kW of electricity generation capacity in the first eleven months of 2025 (exceeding the previous record of 427 mn kW in the whole of 2024). Solar accounted for almost two-thirds of the increase (274 mn kW) with smaller contributions from wind (82
January 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Advantage China: China added a record 444 mn kW of electricity generation capacity in the first eleven months of 2025 (exceeding the previous record of 427 mn kW in the whole of 2024). Solar accounted for almost two-thirds of the increase (274 mn kW) with smaller contributions from wind (82
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New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
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GOP Rep. Mike Lawler: "I don't think there's any support for using military force to take Greenland."
January 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler: "I don't think there's any support for using military force to take Greenland."
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Pelosi comments on Trump’s desire to take over Greenland
January 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Pelosi comments on Trump’s desire to take over Greenland
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“You cannot provide any evidence that cost of living has broadly increased or that people are consuming significantly less” versus “How dare you impugn the cost of living crisis like that”
The Economist says the cost of living crisis is mostly fake.
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
“You cannot provide any evidence that cost of living has broadly increased or that people are consuming significantly less” versus “How dare you impugn the cost of living crisis like that”
"Donald Trump is perseverating on the oil, just as he did Syria’s oil and Iraq’s oil and probably others. Like tariffs, it’s one of his things.
You don’t have to know a lot about oil to know that at least half of what he says is nonsense."
You don’t have to know a lot about oil to know that at least half of what he says is nonsense."
A few thoughts on Venezuelan oil.
Money Coming Out Of The Ground - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Donald Trump is perseverating on the oil, just as he did Syria’s oil and Iraq’s oil and probably others. Like tariffs, it’s one of his things. You don’t have to know a lot about oil to know that at le...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"Donald Trump is perseverating on the oil, just as he did Syria’s oil and Iraq’s oil and probably others. Like tariffs, it’s one of his things.
You don’t have to know a lot about oil to know that at least half of what he says is nonsense."
You don’t have to know a lot about oil to know that at least half of what he says is nonsense."
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Wyoming overturns abortion pill ban
Wyoming's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on the abortion pill, ruling it violated a 2012 constitutional amendment guaranteeing competent adults' health‑care decision rights.
With replies by 🎓David S. Cohen, 🎓Timothy D. McBride +19 more scholars.
Wyoming's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on the abortion pill, ruling it violated a 2012 constitutional amendment guaranteeing competent adults' health‑care decision rights.
With replies by 🎓David S. Cohen, 🎓Timothy D. McBride +19 more scholars.
Wyoming overturns abortion pill ban
Replies by 🎓David S. Cohen, 🎓Timothy D. McBride, 🎓Diane Ravitch, 🎓Henry Jones +17 more scholars
www.lightnews.app
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Wyoming overturns abortion pill ban
Wyoming's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on the abortion pill, ruling it violated a 2012 constitutional amendment guaranteeing competent adults' health‑care decision rights.
With replies by 🎓David S. Cohen, 🎓Timothy D. McBride +19 more scholars.
Wyoming's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on the abortion pill, ruling it violated a 2012 constitutional amendment guaranteeing competent adults' health‑care decision rights.
With replies by 🎓David S. Cohen, 🎓Timothy D. McBride +19 more scholars.
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Wow! Way to go #Wyoming. “A woman has a fundamental right to make her own health care decisions, including the decision to have an abortion." www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-gov... #healthcare
Wyoming Supreme Court protects abortion access
The state’s highest court ruled that two near-total state abortion bans violate the constitution.
www.wyomingpublicmedia.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Wow! Way to go #Wyoming. “A woman has a fundamental right to make her own health care decisions, including the decision to have an abortion." www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-gov... #healthcare
@adamtooze.bsky.social on Venezuela:
"If I were to make a big noisy claim": "the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence..."
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
"If I were to make a big noisy claim": "the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence..."
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 423 Some topical material on Venezuela. Hopefully useful.
It’s been a busy weekend which put me in mind of a classic quip:
adamtooze.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM
@adamtooze.bsky.social on Venezuela:
"If I were to make a big noisy claim": "the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence..."
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
"If I were to make a big noisy claim": "the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence..."
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media comments
Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media comments
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"The application...asks users for their height, ancestral background, SAT score and their feelings about entrepreneurs....The system can assess their cheekbone prominence, jaw strength or body-fat percentage from a scanned photo, and analyze their application to estimate an IQ score."
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
"The application...asks users for their height, ancestral background, SAT score and their feelings about entrepreneurs....The system can assess their cheekbone prominence, jaw strength or body-fat percentage from a scanned photo, and analyze their application to estimate an IQ score."
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Will Trump voters also support seizing Venezuela's oil? I don't know, but Trump believes they will. He thinks they are just as corrupt, amoral, indifferent to the fate of those killed by our military, and eager to pillage weaker countries as he is. 7/7
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
January 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Will Trump voters also support seizing Venezuela's oil? I don't know, but Trump believes they will. He thinks they are just as corrupt, amoral, indifferent to the fate of those killed by our military, and eager to pillage weaker countries as he is. 7/7
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
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NEW from me:
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs
For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries
www.apricitas.io
January 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
NEW from me:
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
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Trump might be a great force for uniting the world, against the United States deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumps-uni...
Trump’s United States as Number Three
Trump may be a great force for uniting the world, against the United States
deanbaker22.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Trump might be a great force for uniting the world, against the United States deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumps-uni...
Details zur Zensur an texanischen Universitäten:
Philosophieprofessor Martin Peterson wurde aufgefordert, Plato aus seinem Kurs zu streichen, da er gegen die ideologischen Richtlinien der Universitätsleitung verstosse. Kein Witz!
Seine Antwort ist stark.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Philosophieprofessor Martin Peterson wurde aufgefordert, Plato aus seinem Kurs zu streichen, da er gegen die ideologischen Richtlinien der Universitätsleitung verstosse. Kein Witz!
Seine Antwort ist stark.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
January 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Details zur Zensur an texanischen Universitäten:
Philosophieprofessor Martin Peterson wurde aufgefordert, Plato aus seinem Kurs zu streichen, da er gegen die ideologischen Richtlinien der Universitätsleitung verstosse. Kein Witz!
Seine Antwort ist stark.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Philosophieprofessor Martin Peterson wurde aufgefordert, Plato aus seinem Kurs zu streichen, da er gegen die ideologischen Richtlinien der Universitätsleitung verstosse. Kein Witz!
Seine Antwort ist stark.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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According to a new report, 33 of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned on his first day in office have since been charged, arrested, or convicted of new crimes.
Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.
Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.
Ahead of 5-year anniversary of Jan. 6, report examines aftermath following Trump's return to office
Ahead of the five-year anniversary of Jan. 6, House Democrats are examining the aftermath of the Capitol attack during the first year of President Trump's second term.
abcnews.go.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
According to a new report, 33 of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned on his first day in office have since been charged, arrested, or convicted of new crimes.
Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.
Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.
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Judge orders Lindsey Halligan to file a sworn statement explaining why she continues to file papers as the impostor US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Judge orders Lindsey Halligan to file a sworn statement explaining why she continues to file papers as the impostor US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.