This is a really tremendous piece of scholarship that clarifies our current situation in a way I haven’t seen before. Please read it.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Wenn Katherina Reiche einen Geheim-Gipfel ihres Lebensgefährten zu Guttenberg besucht, um mit Ministern, Royals, Milliardären Pläne zu schmieden, ist das nicht privat.

Beteiligte schweigen. Das Ministerium mauert. Die Bevölkerung hat ein Recht auf Transparenz.
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

WIRED mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and corporate connections - go click through our interactive charts to see the significant overlap.

Of the 80 DOGE operatives we include on this list, 49 of them have connections to Elon Musk, his companies, or his greater network.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Erdogan killing Turkish democracy right as the rest of the world is too preoccupied to do anything about it...

Roderich spricht aus, was viele längst ahnten. Während wir uns an Merz und Scholz abarbeiten, arbeitet die Russland-Connection der GroKo schon daran, bald wieder hegemonial in ihren Fraktionen zu sein.

Heftig aber wahr: ohne Grüne in der Regierung besteht die Gefahr, dass 🇩🇪 sich wieder isoliert.

The Moscow puppet government in Georgia decided to attack pro-democracy protestors with water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets, the protestors responded with the equivalent of a fireworks mini gun. #georgiaprotests

A Russian spy ring was tasked with kidnapping and/or murdering my two colleagues, Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov, a UK court has now heard. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

It is only determined by us and what we do in the coming few weeks and even days.

If we abandon Ukraine and I see certain elements in the West already laying groundwork to do so, then I promise you total escalation with absolute certainty. We won't be able to stop what would come.