Rita in Berlin
@rita-in-berlin.bsky.social
Mum to 👩❤️👨
Maid to 🐻🐶🐱 (also the nippers)
Music nerd
Into building bridges over walls
Also into films and politics
Loves cooking almost as much as she enjoys eating (and drinking)
Maid to 🐻🐶🐱 (also the nippers)
Music nerd
Into building bridges over walls
Also into films and politics
Loves cooking almost as much as she enjoys eating (and drinking)
Painstakingly true 💔
May 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Painstakingly true 💔
So not looking forward to this 🥺
Germany's New Government Is Scarier Than You Think
Friedrich Merz’s new government marks a shift towards ideological conservatism, with some of its key ministers setting the stage for a more authoritarian direction. Here’s what you need to know.
hannohauenstein.substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So not looking forward to this 🥺
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To honor Ann Telnaes for winning the Pulitzer and embarrassing Bezos, I’ve taken down the paywall from my interview with her so everyone can watch it.
The Cartoonist who Crushed the Oligarchs: An Interview with Ann Telnaes
TBR Podcast
www.borowitzreport.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
To honor Ann Telnaes for winning the Pulitzer and embarrassing Bezos, I’ve taken down the paywall from my interview with her so everyone can watch it.
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Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
April 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
Mesmerising, Mr @nicolasjaar.bsky.social
Archivos de radio Piedras 005 - Agua de fantasmas
Nicolas Jaar · Archivos de Radio Piedras · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Mesmerising, Mr @nicolasjaar.bsky.social
I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Each day of Donald Trump’s second term is “its own fresh hell,” David Remnick writes, “bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.”
Trump’s Disgrace
David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...
www.newyorker.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Each day of Donald Trump’s second term is “its own fresh hell,” David Remnick writes, “bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.”
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📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender.
📌They should STILL be talking now.
📌They should STILL be talking now.
March 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender.
📌They should STILL be talking now.
📌They should STILL be talking now.
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Still about yesterday. The Taj Mahal is pure architecture poetry. Dazzling beyond words.
#tajmahal #wheninindia #ritainindia #incredibleindia
#tajmahal #wheninindia #ritainindia #incredibleindia
February 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Still about yesterday. The Taj Mahal is pure architecture poetry. Dazzling beyond words.
#tajmahal #wheninindia #ritainindia #incredibleindia
#tajmahal #wheninindia #ritainindia #incredibleindia
Day 2. Taj Mahal. Agra
The Taj Mahal is truly impressive. Well worth the crazy 5-hour ride from Jaipur and the not-at-all-subliminal strategies to drag me to more souvenir shops 🙄 - but I made a grand escape! I'm getting really good at it. 🪷
#wheninindia #tajmahal #ritainindia
The Taj Mahal is truly impressive. Well worth the crazy 5-hour ride from Jaipur and the not-at-all-subliminal strategies to drag me to more souvenir shops 🙄 - but I made a grand escape! I'm getting really good at it. 🪷
#wheninindia #tajmahal #ritainindia
February 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Day 2. Taj Mahal. Agra
The Taj Mahal is truly impressive. Well worth the crazy 5-hour ride from Jaipur and the not-at-all-subliminal strategies to drag me to more souvenir shops 🙄 - but I made a grand escape! I'm getting really good at it. 🪷
#wheninindia #tajmahal #ritainindia
The Taj Mahal is truly impressive. Well worth the crazy 5-hour ride from Jaipur and the not-at-all-subliminal strategies to drag me to more souvenir shops 🙄 - but I made a grand escape! I'm getting really good at it. 🪷
#wheninindia #tajmahal #ritainindia
Day 1. Jaipur. Rajasthan.
I hate souvenir shops.
Jaipur's pink and yellow (royalty) palaces are truly spectacular.
Cows are indeed sacred and allegedly have a home to return to in the evening.
Goats are cool.
Elephant rides are wrong.
~30° in India in February is not what it should be.
#jaipur
I hate souvenir shops.
Jaipur's pink and yellow (royalty) palaces are truly spectacular.
Cows are indeed sacred and allegedly have a home to return to in the evening.
Goats are cool.
Elephant rides are wrong.
~30° in India in February is not what it should be.
#jaipur
February 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Day 1. Jaipur. Rajasthan.
I hate souvenir shops.
Jaipur's pink and yellow (royalty) palaces are truly spectacular.
Cows are indeed sacred and allegedly have a home to return to in the evening.
Goats are cool.
Elephant rides are wrong.
~30° in India in February is not what it should be.
#jaipur
I hate souvenir shops.
Jaipur's pink and yellow (royalty) palaces are truly spectacular.
Cows are indeed sacred and allegedly have a home to return to in the evening.
Goats are cool.
Elephant rides are wrong.
~30° in India in February is not what it should be.
#jaipur
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
February 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
February 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.
Why Bishop Mariann Budde Wanted to Speak to Donald Trump
“If you know what people are thinking about when they’re coming into church on Sunday morning, it’s very important to acknowledge that,” Budde says.
www.newyorker.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.
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Reaching for a strudel? Listening for the distant sounds of a yodel? In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, some things Adolf Hitler might be doing other than sieg-heiling:
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January 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Reaching for a strudel? Listening for the distant sounds of a yodel? In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, some things Adolf Hitler might be doing other than sieg-heiling:
nyer.cm/kVk2VH4
nyer.cm/kVk2VH4
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Solidarity with Dr. Dror Dayan and the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany - Sign the Petition! chng.it/y5wPTpwDq7 via @UKChange
chng.it
January 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Solidarity with Dr. Dror Dayan and the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany - Sign the Petition! chng.it/y5wPTpwDq7 via @UKChange
January 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Honouring Reverend Luther King Jr.'s legacy.
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Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech
open.spotify.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Honouring Reverend Luther King Jr.'s legacy.
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January 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
