Reposted by Bryan Klausmeyerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5hI worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is 301223228
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 01/10/2026DIE ZEIT: Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes? 000
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237741248
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 30/09/2026My failed attempt to drop off my ballot at the US Embassy resulted in a funny conversation with the black security guard, a former military technician who’s been living here for forty years, hasn’t voted in decades, likes hot rods, and wondered why anyone would choose to live in the US over Germany 110
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002191780
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 28/09/2026nytimes.comOpinion | He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor. (Gift Article)Somehow the story got through. 011
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 26/09/2026Polish film dubbing, where one guy does all the voices in solemn monotone, is oddly soothing 000
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerThomas Heichele @thomasheichele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Funfact: Technik als „Organprojektion“ Ernst Kapp (1808-1896) gilt mit seinem Werk „Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik“ als Begründer der Technikphilosophie als eigenständige phil. Disziplin. Er greift die klassische Vorstellung von Technik als Naturnachahmung auf. Er präsentiert ein 1113
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerDaniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Judenfetisch nennt sich sowas und der nicht-jüdischen Deutschen liebstes Hobby um die Nazi Gespenster aus der Familiengeschichte zu tilgen, denn schließlich geht es in erster Linie um sie selbst. 1716739
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.wsj.comExclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal CourtThe U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system. 742105564
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerDaniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Um die bürgerliche Mitte der deutschen Gesellschaft mit dem eigenen Hass vom Fremden zu erreichen muss man vorgeben sich ihrer erinnerungspolitischen Normen zu unterwerfen und das heißt nun mal vorgeben man sorge sich um jüdisches Leben. 1231
Reposted by Bryan Klausmeyerrobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wahrscheinlich sollte es nicht überraschen, dass selbst die kleinste Herausforderung des Status quo von links so eine Welle rassistischer Diffamierung aus Politik & Medien auslöst, aber angesichts der Tatsache, dass es in D wieder faschistische Mehrheiten gibt, ist es schockierend. 29223
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerJulius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵 21968401
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 3225311033
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 19/09/2026Finally finished watching the final season of The Comeback - so good 001
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comWhat is LinkedIn?The rise of mindful slop 1616455
Reposted by Bryan Klausmeyerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/09/2026ban private spending on elections. ban billionaires 622126
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerCrooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026John Wilson again mines the mundane for this hilarious documentary “The History of Concrete.” Our review: buff.ly/JPP4pw9buff.lyhttps://crookedmarquee.com/review-the-history-of-concrete/ 051
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 16/09/2026"Modern" is whichever time period you work on, unless you're a classicist, in which case everything quote-unquote "modern" can already to be found in antiquity. 020
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Es ist ein Grundproblem deutscher Erinnerungskultur, dass so viele sich in der Frage „was, wenn das heute passieren würde“ implizit in die Rolle potentieller Opfer hineinprojizieren (die sich entweder „Sorgen machen“ müssen oder nicht), nicht in die tatsächliche Rolle ihrer Eltern und Großeltern. 311928
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 14/09/2026Funny to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing YouTube ads to encourage Americans living abroad to vote electronically... 000
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/ 10452183
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything. 592319505
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/09/2026"The picture is his cenotaph, & like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment. That we have known who the Falling Man is all along." The piece cuts deep every time I read it. www.esquire.com/news-politic...esquire.comThe Falling ManDo you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i... 927944
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerTom Vandeputte @tomvandeputte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wrote a short piece on obsolescence and the expulsion of the human in Anders’ negative anthropology: politicaltheology.com/promethean-s...politicaltheology.comPromethean Speculations | Political Theology NetworkThe human being, Günther Anders proposes, is a creature distinguished by its lack of a fixed place or definite purpose in the order of creation. Before being “in the world,” the human finds itself… 0116
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerRobot Musil @robotmusil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Schämst du dich nicht? 131
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 10/09/2026The best part of my day is encountering the hedgehog that lives in Waldeckpark 000
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 10/09/2026Ja, das hat ganz gut geklappt. Ich halte mich für gewarnt. 000
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 08/09/2026Finally some European countries are going beyond the ritual denouncing of expanding illegal Israeli settlements & are taking action to uphold international law. It is a modest but important step. While the Trump admin attacks the move, Congress can & must act.washingtonpost.comCiting ‘ethnic cleansing,’ U.K. bars imports from Israeli West Bank settlementsOther European countries immediately pledged support for the effort, which prompted warnings from the United States. 750895
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerChris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The state of the telecoms markets in the USA today, a few decades after the most successful antitrust action since the second world war, has helped to convince me that we can't just keep doing things the old way. We need state-owned competitors-of-last-resort in every market that matters. 319022
Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 07/09/2026Larry David meets Erol Morrisyoutu.beYou Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24YouTube video by A24 000
Reposted by Bryan KlausmeyerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them. 1117881