Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping smiling together
Xi: Did you hear?
Kim: No...
Xi: The Americans are moving air defense systems out of South Korea!
Kim: What? No way!
Xi: Yes!
Kim: Amazing. How'd you do that?
Xi: I didn't do anything. They started a war with Iran, told themselves it'd be easy, and didn't do the math on interceptors.
Kim: Ha!
Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.
Russia helps Iran track American forces.
And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.
Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Und dann die irre Propaganda aus Washington, mit diesem unwürdigen sadistischen Ton, als wäre das Ganze nicht schon schlimm genug! bsky.app/profile/rike...
Was Weimer alles nicht weiß oder
Künstliche Sticklufterzeugung: @pbahners.bsky.social erklärt das Haber-Verfahren zur Feststellung von „Extremismus“ im Buchladen.
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Guter Bericht der Tagesschau zu unserer neuen Studie, gemeinsam mit dem US-Statistiker Grant Foster.
Die Messdaten belegen: die Erderwärmung hat sich sogar beschleunigt. Jede Verzögerung beim Ausstieg aus fossiler Energienutzung halte ich für unverantwortlich.
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Rette sich, wer kann!
President Trump declared on Friday that he would settle for nothing short of “unconditional surrender” by Iran, the latest and broadest expansion of his goals for the conflict, and one that could portend a much longer war if he persists in that aim. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
„Kriegsminister“ Pete Hegseth, der ein iranisches Schiff in internationalen Gewässern vor der Küste Sri Lankas versenken ließ und sich damit brüstete, dass die Seeleute „einen stillen Tod“ gefunden hätten. Dagegen war Rambo fast ein empathischer Intellektueller.
Kurt Kister in der SZ.
Im Gabentausch
Kann ein Altphilologe aus Harvard Trump bitte ein Briefing zu Herodot und den Persern geben?
Frankly?
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
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Americans skipped the rally-around-the-president stage this time. JFK gained 13 points after Cuban Missile Crisis, LBJ 8 after bombing Hanoi, GHW Bush 18 during Gulf War, GW Bush 8 after Saddam captured, Obama 11 after OBL killed. Trump gained 0 since Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
Man kommt nicht um die Feststellung herum, dass Merz wie ein Hilfsreferent agiert, der für seine Recherchen um mehr Zeit bittet und sich nicht festlegen will.
Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.
What has happened to my wonderful old department is typical of what Trump is doing to our government. Some thoughts on what's going on at the Department of Labor... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-stupid-sad-scandalous-sleazy
Trump fired Kristi Noem.
It wasn't because her immigration agents murdered American citizens. Or the repeated violations of due process. Or even her mismanagement of FEMA.
No, Noem was fired because she upstaged Trump. He wants to be on Mt. Rushmore, after all.
This is the mind of our president.
Trump's "Golden Age of America."
So wie der deutsche Außenminister das Wort „humanitär“ ausspricht, könnte man auf die Idee kommen, er spreche von „hummus“.
Nötigung
Tasting notes: bitter mouth feel with strong notes of Russo-Japanese war of 1905 in the after taste
“that fantasy of omnipotence has come crashing into reality. Undertaken for unexplained and perhaps unexplainable reasons, the war is being waged in a central node of the global economy against a disciplined, well-armed opponent with nothing to lose.“
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
Bemerkenswert die Beschreibung der Mimik von Trumps MAGA-Frauen durch Mariam Lau: sie erinnert mich an Thomas Pynchons “Thanatoide“ (in dem Roman Vineland): das sind untote, geisterhafte Wesen und Opfer unerfüllter karmischer Verbindungen.
