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Steve Kerins
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 currently in Florida. Pro-🇺🇦.
Interessante Updates zum Fall Marsalek.

Er befindet sich noch immer in Russland, und die deutschen (geschweige denn die österreichischen) Sicherheitsdienste haben diesem Problem nicht genügend Ressourcen gewidmet.

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Marsalek in Moskau: Das geheime Leben des Putin-Spions. Mit Roman Lehberger. Mit Roman Lehberger
Podcast Episode · RONZHEIMER. · 09/23/2025 · 42m
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Was Jesus an Essene (e.g. like the members of the Qumran / Dead Sea Scrolls community)?

According to Ehrman, probably not.

Both Jesus and the Essenes were apocalypticists, but the Essenes, unlike Jesus, were focused on separation and ritual purity.

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Was Jesus an Essene?
Podcast Episode · Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman · 10/07/2025 · 48m
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November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Incredible interview with Carol Leonnig re: the Biden / Garland DOJ's scarcely believable missteps and hesitation regarding investigations of Trump's and his team's alleged corruption.

There will now never be accountability.

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Jonathan V. Last and Carol Leonnig: The Danger of a Weakened Bully
Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 11/06/2025 · 59m
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November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Der Spiegel reports that German officials have accused the AfD of systematic abuse of parliamentary inquiries to collect sensitive military and national security information for the benefit of Russia.

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German officials accuse AfD of systematically sharing military secrets with Russia — Spiegel
Senior German officials have accused the far-right AfD party of abusing its powers to collect and possibly pass secret information about the country’s military capabilities and critical infrastructure...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Much of West Virginia is quite pretty, but that's about the only thing that can be said for it.

Virginia is much wealthier than West Virginia, and enjoys much higher quality of life, life expectancy, better schools, and higher economic productivity.
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Did the historical Jesus believe or claim that he was God?

According to Bart Ehrman, probably not. Jesus doesn't claim to be divine in the synoptic gospels, and only does so in the Gospel of John, the latest of the four and from a different tradition.

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Did Jesus Actually Claim to be God?
Podcast Episode · Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman · 06/24/2025 · 45m
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Educational tidbits.

I like this pope, certainly relative to others that I'm aware of.
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Nothing against New York, but I continue to insist that we dedicate way less attention to the politics of a single city in which the vast majority of Americans do not live.
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
When the depths of applicable precedent have truly been plumbed.

(Sandton Agriculture Investments III, LLC, et al. v. 4-S Ranch Partners, LLC, et al. (Cal. App. 5th Dist., Aug. 8, 2025))
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Interview of the lead author of the Bazelon et al. report re: Democratic strategy.

It will be a very heavy lift to embrace that the Democrats who are successful in swing districts are not at all those who appeal to other Democrats.

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Simon Bazelon: Deciding to Win
Podcast Episode · To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes · 11/02/2025 · 46m
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November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
When may the American people expect the House of Representatives to be back in session?
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Langes aber interessantes Gespräch mit Katja Gloger und Georg Mascolo über die Entwicklung der verhängnisvollen Russlandpolitik Deutschlands.

Man beginnt, das Puzzle zusammenzusetzen.

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Putin: Warum ignorierte Deutschland so lange die Gefahr? Mit Georg Mascolo & Katja Gloger
Podcast Episode · RONZHEIMER. · 10/12/2025 · 1h 48m
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November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One of the illuminating aspects of the ongoing Heritage Foundation debacle is that what the Heritage Foundation actually is has been laid bare for the public to see.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
She was horrified.
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This queen...
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Never change, Twitter
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Helpful but difficult discussion on The Bulwark's Next Level podcast re: the Bazelon et al. memo.

Uncomfortable conclusions about who the median voter is and what his / her priorities are (spoiler: they're not Democratic priorities).

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MAGA’s Tough-Guy Civil War
Podcast Episode · The Next Level · 10/29/2025 · 1h 15m
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October 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I don't think a foreign ethnoreligious conflict should have a role in American politics.

I don't care what Mamdani thinks of Israel or Palestine. I don't care much about Israel or Palestine, beyond wishing them peace and security.

I don't care about socialist grocery stores.
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Projection.
Scott Bessent on Ontario's anti-tariff Ronald Reagan ad: "This is a kind of propaganda against U.S. citizens. It's PSYOPs."
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Representative Luna is a Russian asset.
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I want to see "A House of Dynamite", but the closest theater showing it is in Coral Gables, and I'm not doing that...
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Gute Diskussion re: Wehrpflicht.

Bedenken: der schädliche Einfluss von TikTok; die Schäden der Merkel-Jahre; die Notwendigkeit, die Jugend vorzubereiten; die Notwendigkeit, den Gesellschaftsvertrag zwischen den Altersgruppen zu überarbeiten.

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Regierungskrise nach Wehrdienst-Streit? „Losverfahren ist politisches Armutszeugnis“
Podcast-Folge · F.A.Z. Podcast für Deutschland · 15.10.2025 · 35 Min.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Melissa is looking like very bad news for Jamaica.

Hoping for the best for everyone down there...
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I think we should just have a normal trading relationship with Canada.

I think the basic Canadian position is the correct position for the US, as well, and also the "patriotic" one.
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
'Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the twelve apostles, all the saints in heaven, the archangel Gabriel and all the angels, and all the holy men and women of the Church, that hurt.'
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM