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The @eeb.org and @chemsec.bsky.social, have both announced they are withdrawing from the Critical Chemicals Alliance (CCA). The EEB has cited serious concerns over governance, transparency and the influence of industry interest. 👉 Read more in #ToxicFree4EU: buff.ly/x2g9YOD

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If anyone is or knows a master's student in the Netherlands who fits this call and who is interesting in ML, let me know :-). www.nwo.nl/en/calls/mos...

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Mosaic 3.0 | NWO

The Mosaic PhD scholarship programme encourages graduates with a non-Western migration background—a group underrepresented in the Dutch scientific community—to pursue a career in science.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy pride! For those "can't change biology" types:

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Immer wieder hört man "Die AfD entzaubert sich schon, wenn sie mal regieren muss", ob in der privaten Diskussion oder selbstbewusst vorgetragen von Leuten wie Richard David Precht. Die Hoffnung tröstet viele, sie stimmt nur leider nicht. Hier drei Gründe, warum das Regieren sie nicht entzaubert. 🧵

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 20/04/2026

Recently @correctiv.org have been publishing some important investigations into chemical pollution in Germany and the Netherlands. We are very pleased to publish this translation of their article "The pact with the chemical industry". corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/c...

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CORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" | Corporate Europe Observatory

Tens of thousands of unknown, sometimes toxic, chemicals are floating in the Rhine. Why is industry allowed to discharge them unhindered? A top manager of a major corporation reveals how industry cont...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

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Sea-Watch @sea-watch.org · 06/04/2026

Es waren schlimme Ostertage. Letzte Woche wurden 19 Leichen geborgen, am Samstag ein Schiffsbruch mit 70+ Toten & heute beobachteten wir aus der Luft mehrere Entführungen von Flüchtenden durch libysche Milizen. Ertrinken ist nicht die einzige EU-gemachte Gefahr auf dem Meer.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 17/03/2026

And like at least two thirds of these fucks didn't stay cancelled, they just wrote books and went back out on the circuit with a different grift!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?” And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

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Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz @lukasgg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Allerhöchsten Respekt vor der Hartnäckigkeit der ORF-Journalist:innen. Sie haben unter schwersten Bedingungen versucht, Spuren der ersten nach Syrien abgeschobenen Person zu finden und massive Ungereimtheiten des Innenministeriums aufzudecken. orf.at/stories/3423...

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Verschwundener abgeschobener Syrer könnte in Haft sitzen

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Reminds of the time I tried to help Caitlin Flanagan of the Atlantic understand that Khomeini and Khamenei were two separate supreme leaders and she absolutely refused to accept it and then blocked me

Caitlin Flanagan says three things that make clear she believes Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei to be different renderings of the same man’s name, despite being told explicitly that this is not the case

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

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Andreas Proschofsky @sukahiroaki.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hätte tatsächlich nicht erwartet, dass OpenAI so dumm agiert. Unabhängig von den realen Auswirkungen, alleine die Symbolkraft ist verheerend. Eigentlich müssten sich außerhalb der USA jetzt sehr viele fragen, ob sie wirklich weiter die Services von OpenAI nutzen wollen.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/02/2026

Whenever an institution announces that it has "banned DEI" at Trump's request, it is now an explicitly white supremacist institution. Just remember that and plan accordingly.

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Markus Sulzbacher @msulzbacher.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Die slowenische Präsidentin Pirc Musar besucht den Peršmanhof & kritisiert langsame Ermittlungen. Außerdem gibt es ein Urteil des Landesverwaltungsgerichts, das Fragen zum Polizeieinsatz aufwirft. Denn die Bezirkshauptmannschaft hat keine Aufzeichnungen zum Einsatz. kaernten.orf.at/stories/3343...

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BH: Keine Aufzeichnungen zu Peršmanhof

Die slowenische Präsidentin Pirc Musar besucht am Donnerstag den Peršmanhof in Bad Eisenkappel. Sie kritisiert langsame Ermittlungen. Außerdem gibt es ein erstes Urteil des Landesverwaltungsgerichts, ...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

So, the US govt approach is: *We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump and *We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech

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Pinktober Youri ! @yeday.eurosky.social · 15/02/2026

"[Europe's] empires extending out across the globe. But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. [...] The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by [Communists] and by anti-colonial uprisings" (Rubio, MSC '26)

goose chasing meme: Gans sagt "Why was europe in ruins 1945? Tell me what happened in 1945 you colonialist mf !!"

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Onatcer @onatcer.com · 14/02/2026

yes hello im a citizen of this nation called europe and i dont wanna live under an atomic american umbrella that sounds dangerous thank you

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Gabriel Sigmund @gabrielsigmund.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I was in Geneva last week to attend the first plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP) as a delegate for @ipcp.bsky.social. We wrote daily briefs about our experience..it was quite something... www.ipcp.ch/geneva-brief...

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Geneva Briefings (ISP-CWP P1 Day 1) – IPCP

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/01/2026

Imagine not only admitting this, but pitching it to a prestigious journal because you want a lot of people to know about it.

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analyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Rojava konnte bisher existieren, weil es geschickt eine Politik des Dritten Weges zwischen den Machtblöcken verfolgte. Das Zusammenfallen der Interessen von USA, Türkei und syrischer Übergangsregierung stellt nun eine existenzielle Bedrohung dar. Dabei spielt auch der Zugang zum Öl eine Rolle.

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Für Rojava geht es um alles

Den aktuellen Angriffen auf die Selbstverwaltung von Nord- und Ostsyrien ging eine Reihe internationaler Entwicklungen voraus – dabei geht es auch um den Zugang zu Öl

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Anlässlich des wichtigen Ausstiegs der @bpb.de bei X hier nochmals der (zuerst im Research.Table @table.media erschienene) Artikel von @zolke.bsky.social & mir, der Argumente zusammenträgt, warum Wissenschaft raus muss aus X. Viele der Argumente gelten auch für andere Bereiche! Ohne Paywall lesen:

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Wissenschaftskommunikation auf X: Elon Musk gefällt das

Von Amrei Bahr und Achim Zolke Erstmals erschienen am 17.12.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

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Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

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jochen @jochen.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025

kann das alles nur noch mit einem müden schulterzucken quittieren

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2025

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/09/2025

Limits academic mentions? Trans rights are human rights. Get lost.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

In 2005 I spent 5 months in Ecuador investigating oil extraction. Around then German bank WestLB funded a new Andes pipeline despite past spills. What I saw was shocking and mostly unseen. This 2022 video shows just one example of repeated spills poisoning rivers and communities.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/09/2025

Look who came with

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 15/09/2025

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 15/09/2025

Dass sich in Naturwissenschafts-Kreisen tatsächlich die Theorie verbreiten konnte, es gebe eine "postmoderne" Bewegung in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, die bestreitet, dass es objektive Fakten gibt, ist eine Peinlichkeit für alle, die sich zu den Naturwissenschafts-Kreisen zählen.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

As Trump holds Northwestern University hostage with $800 million in frozen funds, Northwestern leadership cracks down on students' right to free speech. These policies put more than 22,000 students at risk of punishment for peacefully protesting for any cause in any way.

Dear members of the Northwestern community,
With the new academic year upon us, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on the core of our mission - to create space for teaching and learning, where ideas flow freely, we learn from one another and push each other to create and discover.
This pursuit happens every day — all around us — in classrooms and labs, on stages and playing fields.
However, in our increasingly polarized world, at times we experience pain, confusion and challenging situations.
With that in mind, it's important to know the policies listed below that facilitate healthy dialogue, respectful disagreement and the exchange of ideas so that we can do our best work as students, faculty and staff.
We encourage everyone to take the time to read through these documents fully.
Demonstration Policy
The Demonstration Policy includes requirements and guidance on how, when and where members of the community may protest or otherwise engage in expressive activity. The policy prohibits overnight demonstrations and limits activity that disrupts classes and other functions of the University, including prohibiting demonstrations at the Rock before 3 p.m. on weekdays and the use of amplified sound in that area before 5 p.m.

The Display and Solicitation Policy sets clear rules and requirements for on-campus displays, including flyers, banners, chalking and 3-D installations. The policy establishes designated areas for flyers, chalking and other displays and details when the University removes displays. This policy also prohibits the use of tents (with exceptions for University-sponsored events and for the purposes of guarding and painting the Rock), light displays and chalking on buildings. Signs that violate laws and other University policies are prohibited.

The Student Handbook, which contains the Student Code of Conduct (page 9), is updated each year. As a reminder, last year we made several policy changes, including:
- An Intimidation Standard that explicitly prohibits subjecting another person or group to abusive, demeaning, harassing, humiliating, intimidating, threatening or violent behavior that substantially affects the ability of the person or group to learn, work or live in the University environment. Examples of violations to this policy include physical threats, verbal or written communication to threaten violence, the use of symbols, words or graphics to threaten violence, acts of doxing, and abusive behavior toward a University official or agent acting in performance of their duties, among others. It also prohibits engaging in abusive, demeaning, harassing, humiliating, intimidating or threatening behavior that excludes a student from joining or participating in a student organization.
• The Failure to Comply Standard includes specific examples and to make clear that students are required to comply with the requests, directives and instructions of University officials acting in performance of their duties. Under this policy, students must identify themselves, including removing face masks or coverings for purposes of identification when asked by an authorized University official who is addressing law or policy violations and health or safety concerns.

The Misuse of University Properties policy defines misuse, including unauthorized access to athletics fields and construction sites and attending or participating in an event in University spaces that violates the policies governing that space.
- The Destruction of Property Standard defines what applies under this policy to include tampering with University property.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to review their respective handbooks. Each member of the Northwestern community is expected to interact with each other with respect and consideration.
Additional Policies
In addition to the policies above, we want to remind you about the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance (OCR) policies concerning discrimination, harassment and sexual misconduct:
• Policy on Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct: This policy covers a wide range of discriminatory and harassing behaviors, including those based on race, ethnicity, religion, sex and other protected characteristics.
• Policy on Title IX Sexual Harassment: This policy specifically addresses sexual harassment and sexual misconduct consistent with Title IX.
• Reasonable Accommodation Policy: This policy explains the availability of accommodations for students, employees, job applicants, visitors and other third parties on the bases of disability, pregnancy, lactation and religion.
• Reporting by University Employees of Disclosures Related to Discrimination and Harassment: This policy sets out the reporting requirements for employees when they learn about discrimination, harassment and sexual

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Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz @lukasgg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Seit Tagen kontaktieren mich sehr viele Afghan:innen, die in Österreich Schutz gefunden haben. Wut, Empörung und Fassungslosigkeit über Österreichs Normalisierung der Taliban. Eine radikal-islamische Terrorbande, die ua Frauen systematisch unterdrückt und verfolgt.

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IPCP - International Panel on Chemical Pollution @ipcp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We have a new publication. Thanks @dralexford.bsky.social for leading this work!

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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

So sites that expand public (read-only) access to content (e.g., Internet Archive, Sci-Hub) are getting slapped by courts, while AI majors are allowed to use all manner of texts at will to train and spit out "new" writing as if original. Am I getting this right? cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

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Researchers in India worry about access amid Sci-Hub ban

Court order makes it harder for scientists in India to access pirate scientific paper site

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/09/2025

BREAKING: Nepal is going through a violent revolution right now as the Parliament, Supreme Court, police stations, and houses of politicians have been set on fire by Gen-Z. The Prime Minister and Home Minister have resigned in succession in the last 24-ish hours. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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Live Updates: Parliament Burns in Nepal as Protests Force Prime Minister to Quit

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

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Schlendrian coⒶduno @conligit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Staatsanwaltschaft: Das war unpolitisch.. Täter: ICH WOLLTE GRÜNE TÖTEN!! Staatsanwalt: …und ideologiefrei.

In Kürze:
• Am Samstag raste ein 56-jähriger Schweizer in Lausanne in
eine Menschenmenge.
• Zwei Personen wurden bei dem Vorfall leicht verletzt, bisher sind drei Strafanzeigen gegen den BMW-Lenker eingegangen.
• Die Staatsanwaltschaft schliesst politische oder ideologische Motive aus. Der Beschuldigte gab an, die Demonstranten für Klimaaktivisten gehalten zu haben.
Am Montaonachmittao am der Fahrer des RMW-Cabrio der am

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Laurin Lorenz @laurinlorenz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Ein israelischer Elitesoldat gesteht mutmaßliche gezielte Tötungen von Zivilisten im Gazastreifen, wohl ein Kriegsverbrechen. Auf Video dokumentiert. Wahnsinn: Gratuliere den Kolleg:innen von @papertrailmedia.de, @spiegel.de @zdfde.bsky.social zu dieser Recherche. www.spiegel.de/ausland/der-...

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(S+) Der Sniper von Gaza: Israelischer Soldat aus München soll Unbewaffnete erschossen haben

Zwei Scharfschützen der israelischen Armee sollen Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza begangen haben. Videoaufnahmen belasten sie. Einer von ihnen ist ein junger Mann aus Bayern.

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Colette Schmidt @colettemschmidt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

War die Polizei beim Sommercamp der Identitären, bei dem auch Kampftechniken geübt wurden? Oder war man diesen Sommer mit dem Beobachten von NS-Gedenkstätten ausgelastet? Der Innenminister wird es uns sicher sagen können. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Identitären-Camp im Salzkammergut: Martialische Bilder, Kampfsport und völkische Vorträge

Etwa drei Wochen nach der Polizeirazzia auf dem Peršmanhof versammelten sich junge Männer um Martin Sellner nahe dem Laudachsee. Die Grünen fragen Innenminister Karner, ob der Verfassungsschutz im Bil...

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 07/09/2025

We all need to cancel our Google, Meta, Microsoft and what have you-accounts asap. The Trump administration is weaponising its tech industry et vice versa.

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