Maik Novotny
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Maik Novotny
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Architekturjournalist, Wien.
STANDARD, FALTER, u.a.

Buildings and cities, krautrock and cheese, these are a few of my favourite things.
Traditioneller chinesischer Fluch: „Mögest du in einem Land mit lukrativen Bodenschätzen leben“
January 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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„Viele mögen denken: Uns doch egal, wenn die USA ihre Gegner angreifen. Sie haben nicht verstanden: Wer in Europa nicht von der extremen Rechten regiert wird, gehört dazu.“

open.substack.com/pub/beimwort...
Wenn ein Tyrann einen Tyrannen entführt, wartet die Tyrannei
Es brechen kalte Zeiten an.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Bald werden AfD und andere Rechte eine US-„Intervention“ auf deutschem Boden fordern.
January 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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FOX & FRIENDS: What do you see as the future of Venezuela's oil industry?

TRUMP: Well I see that we're gonna be very strongly involved in it. That's all. What can I say. We have the greatest oil companies in the world.
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).
January 3, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Coming soon:
Trump-Regime greift Frankreich an, weil ihm das Mobilitätssystem in Paris zu „woke“ ist.
Trump-Regime greift Österreich an, weil der Wiener Wohnbau „sozialistisch“ ist.
Trump-Regime greift die Niederlande an, weil Windräder.
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
Fucking hell.

Think the referance to US Law Enforcement here is quite telling as well: a huge extension of how far the US feels its laws reach.

Apparently its fine to now attack and kidnap a head of state because of 'US law'. Fucking hell.
Trump says Maduro is in US custody.
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Maduro enjoys absolute immunity as head of state. There is no justification whatsoever to kill or capture him. He didn’t start a war, he isn’t a combatant. Remember how some whined about Ukraine’s alleged strikes on Putin (which never happened)? They would actually have been legally justified.
This is as illegal as it gets. Unlike all
of his predecessors (think of Bush and the Iraq war), Trump doesn’t even pretend he cares about international law.
The U.S. carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela early this morning, capturing leader Nicolás Maduro and flying him out of the country, U.S. President Donald Trump said.
#[politi.co/49jjQit
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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These shitheels are making money on these war crimes.
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Weshalb die CDU/CSU so begierig ist, neue Atomkraftwerke zu bauen: Weil sie korruptionsanfälliger sind. Während bei PV & Wind selten mehr als 10% Mehrkosten auftreten, sind es bei der Atomkraft öfter mal 200% und mehr. Viel lukrativer Spielraum für "Berater", Mittelsmänner, Wucherer, Amigos.
January 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Ein Besuch in der mit viel Liebe zum Detail rekonstruierten Villa Rezek (erbaut 1933-34) in Wien und der mit ihr verbundenen Familiengeschichte von Emigration, Restitution und Erinnerung. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Die Villa Rezek – das rekonstruierte "Glas-Haus"
Mit der Villa Rezek ist ein vergessener Schatz der Wiener Moderne wiederentdeckt worden. Jetzt erschien auch ein Buch über die Familie Rezek und ihr Haus
www.derstandard.at
January 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM
"Gebt uns die Zukunft zurück!" - kein Neujahrswunsch von mir, sondern eine Forderung. Über den immer schwerer durchzuhaltenden Optimismus der Architektur, und über das Aufbauen und Bewahren in einer Zeit, da die Zerstörer die Oberhand zu gewinnen scheinen. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Ein Wutanfall zum Jahreswechsel: Gebt uns die Zukunft zurück!
Seit es Architektur gibt, entwirft sie eine bessere Welt, oder versucht es zumindest. Doch es scheint, als ob die Kräfte der Zerstörung gewinnen
www.derstandard.at
December 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Die Kids in meiner Naturgruppe glauben, dass Schmetterlinge Tiere sind, die man nur ganz selten sieht. Die kennen es halt nicht anders ... Aus dem Archiv: Mein Artikel über Shifting Baselines!
Die Natur, die wir vergessen, zu vermissen
🪶 Feldlerchen, Kiebitze, Insekten: Vieles verschwindet, ohne dass wir es merken oder vermissen. Ein Text über schleichenden Verlust und unsere verschobene Wahrnehmung.
steady.page
December 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Jede Anekdote über "Sushi Verbot" an irgendeiner amerikanischen Uni war hierzulande 8000 Leitartikel und unzählige Bücher wert; dass nun Medien zensiert, Wissenschaftlerinnen gefeuert und bedroht werden, setzt auch nicht annähernd die gleiche Energie frei.
December 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Es ist immer das gleiche. Diejenigen, die am lautesten über die Einschränkung ihrer Meinungs- und Redefreiheit jammern, schränken die Freiheiten anderer sofort ein, wenn sie an die Macht kommen:

www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...
The Kill Switch
How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News
www.readtpa.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"Following advice from Chris Rea, I always crack an egg into my bath" - Bob Mortimer in "Would I Lie to you?". Ich habe diesen Clip ungefähr 16-mal gesehen, heute zum 17.Mal, aus aktuellem Anlass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Wi...
Does Bob Mortimer Follow Chris Rea's Egg-Cracking Advice? | Would I Lie To You?
YouTube video by Would I Lie To You?
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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"Eine Millionärsabgabe in Massachusetts, die der New Yorker Bürgermeister-Spitzenkandidat Zohran Mamdani als Modell für die Besteuerung der Reichen anführt, hat 3 Milliarden $ mehr Einnahmen generiert als erwartet, ohne zu nennenswerten hochkarätigen Abgängen aus dem Staat zu führen. " #taxtherich
Millionaire tax that inspired Mamdani fuels $5.7 billion haul in Massachusetts | Fortune
In two years levying a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, it's funded bridge repairs, bolstered literacy programs and tackled a transportation deficit.
fortune.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Looking forward to the press briefing of "Department of War" explaining that what's happening in Venezuela is, by all means, absolutely not a war but rather a Special Limited Military Operation.
December 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Es schleicht sich eine stillschweigende Duldung einer 3-Grad-Welt ein.

„Das Pariser Abkommen ist genau zehn Jahre alt. Eine 1,5-Grad-Welt war der kühne Traum der Pariser Dekade. Er ist geplatzt.

Eine 3-Grad-Welt ist der neue alte Albtraum des Post-Paris-Jahrzehnts.“

Neuer Newsletter:
Hinter Paris liegt der Albtraum
Oder doch eine Anti-Abriss-Party?
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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2. #Assholisation = turning away from climate action, human rights, env. protection... & from #queer rights.

"Not long ago, (queer) artists such as Lil Nas X were ruling pop. But success has stalled as acts face industry obstacles and rising homophobia."
‘Men explicitly loving men is so threatening to the status quo’: why are gay male pop stars being shut out of the music industry?
Not long ago, artists such as Lil Nas X and Olly Alexander were ruling pop. But success has stalled as acts face industry obstacles and rising homophobia. What now?
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM