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Ist die #COP30 wieder kurz vor dem Scheitern, auf jeden Fall enttäuschend?
Meine Erwartungen werden voll erfüllt 😂😪
(Weshalb ich auch nie und nimmer zu so einem Event fliegen würde...)
Meine Erwartungen werden voll erfüllt 😂😪
(Weshalb ich auch nie und nimmer zu so einem Event fliegen würde...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ist die #COP30 wieder kurz vor dem Scheitern, auf jeden Fall enttäuschend?
Meine Erwartungen werden voll erfüllt 😂😪
(Weshalb ich auch nie und nimmer zu so einem Event fliegen würde...)
Meine Erwartungen werden voll erfüllt 😂😪
(Weshalb ich auch nie und nimmer zu so einem Event fliegen würde...)
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Inside you are two wolves www.startribune.com/douglas-flan...
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Inside you are two wolves www.startribune.com/douglas-flan...
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If you have heard me or other observers talking about the "Orbanization of the media system" in the U.S., but you weren't sure who Viktor Orbán is and how he operates, I can recommend this article by a Hungarian journalist, Iván Zsolt Nagy, who has lived throught it all. www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary.
I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s ...
www.cjr.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you have heard me or other observers talking about the "Orbanization of the media system" in the U.S., but you weren't sure who Viktor Orbán is and how he operates, I can recommend this article by a Hungarian journalist, Iván Zsolt Nagy, who has lived throught it all. www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
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"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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The Ukraine capitulation plan (calling it a "peace plan" would be naive) is "a dog’s breakfast, with some strange provisions, leaving open many questions for contentious interpretation and potential reframing". Good commentary on Witkoff's amateurish Ukraine work.
samf.substack.com/p/the-witkof...
samf.substack.com/p/the-witkof...
The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.
samf.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Ukraine capitulation plan (calling it a "peace plan" would be naive) is "a dog’s breakfast, with some strange provisions, leaving open many questions for contentious interpretation and potential reframing". Good commentary on Witkoff's amateurish Ukraine work.
samf.substack.com/p/the-witkof...
samf.substack.com/p/the-witkof...
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Youtube running Netflix's playbook and content companies are falling for it again. pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...
Youtube dominance is mirroring what Google and Facebook did to publishers
Youtube running Netflix's playbook and content companies are falling for it again.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Youtube running Netflix's playbook and content companies are falling for it again. pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...
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Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
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An der Diskussion ist so vieles falsch aber was doch sogar den stumpfesten Lustgreisen klar werden müsste: Wecker war selbst offenbar komplett bewusst, dass das was er tat falsch war. Er hat laut dem Artikel massiv Druck auf das Mädchen ausgeübt, die Sache geheim zu halten.
Ich sehe, auch auf Twitter, d jetzt der Backlash beginnt u von einer „neuen Prüderie“ gesprochen wird. These ist, d alle Formen von sexuellen Kontakten in Ordnung sind solange sie nicht das Strafrecht betreffen.
Man sieht sich hier in e Linie endloser gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungskämpfe.
Naja…
Man sieht sich hier in e Linie endloser gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungskämpfe.
Naja…
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
An der Diskussion ist so vieles falsch aber was doch sogar den stumpfesten Lustgreisen klar werden müsste: Wecker war selbst offenbar komplett bewusst, dass das was er tat falsch war. Er hat laut dem Artikel massiv Druck auf das Mädchen ausgeübt, die Sache geheim zu halten.
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Ich sehe, auch auf Twitter, d jetzt der Backlash beginnt u von einer „neuen Prüderie“ gesprochen wird. These ist, d alle Formen von sexuellen Kontakten in Ordnung sind solange sie nicht das Strafrecht betreffen.
Man sieht sich hier in e Linie endloser gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungskämpfe.
Naja…
Man sieht sich hier in e Linie endloser gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungskämpfe.
Naja…
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Ich sehe, auch auf Twitter, d jetzt der Backlash beginnt u von einer „neuen Prüderie“ gesprochen wird. These ist, d alle Formen von sexuellen Kontakten in Ordnung sind solange sie nicht das Strafrecht betreffen.
Man sieht sich hier in e Linie endloser gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungskämpfe.
Naja…
Man sieht sich hier in e Linie endloser gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungskämpfe.
Naja…
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Blair being the replacement is 😘
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Blair being the replacement is 😘
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JEDE Frau die ich kenne, kann von mindestens einem Übergriff bzw. einer Grenzüberschreitung von einem Mann erzählen.
Wenn man Männer fragt, wissen sie von nichts, fühlen sich nicht als Teil des Problems und „können sich das von einem Freund ja gar nicht vorstellen“.
Wenn man Männer fragt, wissen sie von nichts, fühlen sich nicht als Teil des Problems und „können sich das von einem Freund ja gar nicht vorstellen“.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
JEDE Frau die ich kenne, kann von mindestens einem Übergriff bzw. einer Grenzüberschreitung von einem Mann erzählen.
Wenn man Männer fragt, wissen sie von nichts, fühlen sich nicht als Teil des Problems und „können sich das von einem Freund ja gar nicht vorstellen“.
Wenn man Männer fragt, wissen sie von nichts, fühlen sich nicht als Teil des Problems und „können sich das von einem Freund ja gar nicht vorstellen“.
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Es ist zermürbend & schmerzhaft, all diese Verteidigungs-, Relativierungs- und Verstehversuche zu lesen, denn was für mich übrig bleibt:
Es ändert sich nichts. Man wird als Opfer von sexualisierter Gewalt, von Machtmissbrauch, dazu gedrängt, lieber zu schweigen. Noch einmal zum Opfer gemacht.
Es ändert sich nichts. Man wird als Opfer von sexualisierter Gewalt, von Machtmissbrauch, dazu gedrängt, lieber zu schweigen. Noch einmal zum Opfer gemacht.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Es ist zermürbend & schmerzhaft, all diese Verteidigungs-, Relativierungs- und Verstehversuche zu lesen, denn was für mich übrig bleibt:
Es ändert sich nichts. Man wird als Opfer von sexualisierter Gewalt, von Machtmissbrauch, dazu gedrängt, lieber zu schweigen. Noch einmal zum Opfer gemacht.
Es ändert sich nichts. Man wird als Opfer von sexualisierter Gewalt, von Machtmissbrauch, dazu gedrängt, lieber zu schweigen. Noch einmal zum Opfer gemacht.
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
🧵
1/
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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es ist vollkommen normal, dass sich teens, manchmal sogar kinder, in ältere leute verlieben. fragts quasi jede lehrperson. der job der älteren person ist, sich freundlich fernzuhalten, bis es nicht mehr hormonvernebelte teens sind, und die teens das hormonvernebeltsein untereinander ausmachen lassen
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
es ist vollkommen normal, dass sich teens, manchmal sogar kinder, in ältere leute verlieben. fragts quasi jede lehrperson. der job der älteren person ist, sich freundlich fernzuhalten, bis es nicht mehr hormonvernebelte teens sind, und die teens das hormonvernebeltsein untereinander ausmachen lassen
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ich war mit 15, 16 sehr neugierig und verknallt in jemand viel älteren, hab drauf bestanden ihn abends im dunklen zu treffen und wollte schmusen und er war offensichtlich interessiert. hat mir trotzdem sogar jeden kuss verweigert, auch nach meinem 16. geburtstag BECAUSE IT'S THE DECENT THING TO DO
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
ich war mit 15, 16 sehr neugierig und verknallt in jemand viel älteren, hab drauf bestanden ihn abends im dunklen zu treffen und wollte schmusen und er war offensichtlich interessiert. hat mir trotzdem sogar jeden kuss verweigert, auch nach meinem 16. geburtstag BECAUSE IT'S THE DECENT THING TO DO
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Please share. If anyone is to be quoted after Trumps despicable speech, minimizing Jamal Kashoggi's torture and execution, its her.
Thank you.
Thank you.
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Please share. If anyone is to be quoted after Trumps despicable speech, minimizing Jamal Kashoggi's torture and execution, its her.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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“(I’m guessing you did not think you were going to start your morning this way, given how much Politico and Axios newsletters coddle you like you’re little news-children.)”
zeteo.com/p/team-trump...
zeteo.com/p/team-trump...
🐀 Team Trump Plans to Keep Ratf*cking the Epstein Files
Swin on the Trump-Epstein rollercoaster, a major blow to GOP gerrymandering efforts, and Meta’s latest win in court.
zeteo.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“(I’m guessing you did not think you were going to start your morning this way, given how much Politico and Axios newsletters coddle you like you’re little news-children.)”
zeteo.com/p/team-trump...
zeteo.com/p/team-trump...
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Ein 63-Jähriger berühmter Musiker "datet" eine 15-Jährige, nutzt seine Macht aus, manipuliert und beschimpft sie. Ich erbreche mal wieder.
Not all men? Well, very many men.
Not all men? Well, very many men.
Konstantin Wecker soll Beziehung zu Minderjähriger gehabt haben
Sie 15, er 63: Der Münchner Liedermacher Konstantin Wecker soll eine Beziehung zu einer Minderjährigen eingegangen sein. Unter den Folgen leidet die mittlerweile 30-Jährige bis heute, der Künstler bit...
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Ein 63-Jähriger berühmter Musiker "datet" eine 15-Jährige, nutzt seine Macht aus, manipuliert und beschimpft sie. Ich erbreche mal wieder.
Not all men? Well, very many men.
Not all men? Well, very many men.
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Congrats to my friend @ellenhuet.bsky.social, whose book, Empire of Orgasm, comes out TODAY. What started as some dogged reporting about an SF wellness company, turned into a vivid tale about a full-on sex cult. Get it now!
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
bookshop.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Congrats to my friend @ellenhuet.bsky.social, whose book, Empire of Orgasm, comes out TODAY. What started as some dogged reporting about an SF wellness company, turned into a vivid tale about a full-on sex cult. Get it now!
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
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I love this idea:
“anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
“anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
In this week's newsletter I wrote about losing a parent (to bad politics) and good tv shows and the billionaires who pretend they're going to leave a city if their taxes go up by an amount that will never make their lives worse.
#158. New York's Billionaires and You
Hi everyone,
We are still firmly in what any calendar would tell us is the middle of November, and yet I feel like the year is basically over. It's not that I'm winding down for the holidays. Quite t...
www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I love this idea:
“anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
“anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
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oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
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Instead of the Nuzzi shit, let's focus on the fact that apparently Johnny Knoxville got married this past weekend, the wedding was officiated by John Waters, and a dog was involved
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Instead of the Nuzzi shit, let's focus on the fact that apparently Johnny Knoxville got married this past weekend, the wedding was officiated by John Waters, and a dog was involved