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#BrokenTimes #Medienversagen Reactionary centrism is what makes fascism possible. Think about it.

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Der chinesische 🇨🇳 Binnenmarkt für Autos ist im September um 28% eingebrochen, batterieelektrische Autos gingen nur um 8% zurück. VW verkaufte 39% weniger Autos in China (seinem grössten Absatzmarkt!) als im Vorjahr. Der Verbrenner ist ein Anachronismus, kapiert’s endlich! bsky.app/profile/pigl...

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 11h

China EV sales and export figures January to September 2026 September domestic retail: 1.63 million units, down 28% year on year BEV: 765k (-8%) PHEVs: 232k, (-36%) BEV account for 47% of retail, PHEV for 14% note.com/china_case/n...

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China Passenger Car New Vehicle Sales Monthly Report: September 2026 Domestic Retail Down 28%, Exports Up 73%｜CHINA CASE

[Free] On October 12, 2026, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) announced the new vehicle sales situation in the Chinese passenger car sector for September 2026. According to the report, factor...

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 16h

Ob deutsche Politiker:innen wissen, dass der grösste Absatzmarkt von VW (und anderen deutschen Autobauern) in China liegt? Von 1,9 Mio Autos in 3. Quartal war jedes achte elektrisch (240k, 12,7%). Der Rückgang bei den E-Autos war nur 4% ggü 14% insgesamt. Aber klar, das Verbrenner-Aus ist schuld…

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 18h

In den Staaten gibt es zudem Referenden über reproduktive Rechte und die Milliardärssteuer (CA) Der demokratische Wahlsieg ist darüber hinaus ein wichtiges Signal: - Trump ist unpopulär bis verhasst - Es gibt eine Gegenmacht - Die Demokraten können den medialen Diskurs viel stärker beeinflussen

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 18h

Aber: - Die Dems im Senat können sich weigern, Trump's Nominierungen zu behandeln - können Trump das Budget verweigern - können nonstop öffentliche Anhörungen mit Vorladungsgewalt über Trump's Korruption und Illegalität durchziehen - Dems werden vorauss. in einzelnen Staaten die Regierung erobern

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 18h

Der Erdrutschsieg der Demokraten wird das faschistische Regime nicht stoppen können. - Der Supreme Court agiert weiterhin als faschistische Junta. - Die Demokraten können keine Gesetze verabschieden ohne Trump's Unterschrift. - Trump wird noch radikaler mit (meist illegalen) Dekreten regieren 🧵

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 23h

"Rechte machen radikale Versprechen, wenn es um Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik geht." Machen sie das wirklich? Die AFD in Sachsen-Anhalt z. B. hatte *überhaupt* kein Wirtschaftsprogramm. bsky.app/profile/pigl...

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 23h

Zu "antisemitischen Allianzen": bsky.app/profile/pigl...

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17h

‘At roughly 49%, AI’s share of the S&P 500's combined market capitalization exceeds the peak concentration of every episode shown except the nineteenth-century railroad boom.’ biancoresearch.substack.com/p/the-s-and-...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

So this is getting spicy. 🌶️ Past five days: @bloomberg.com

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 16h

‘The stock market tends to ignore off-balance sheet obligations until an inflection point. By the time equity analysts start inviting their bond counterparts to “grab a beer to pick your brain about leases”, hyperscaler bond prices — and PE ratios — may be a lot lower.‘ www.ft.com/content/17a2...

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The huge lurking leverage of AI hyperscalers

While equity investors look to sunny futures, creditors are scrutinising liabilities like leases on data centres

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

WSJ: The Crown Prince “is shuttling between heavily guarded palaces equipped with bunkers .. .. The costs of the war have already widened the budget deficit and threaten to push the economy into contraction.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. the repeated failure of Saudi air defences to protect airports risks doing longer-term damage to the kingdom’s image and its ability to attract foreign investors and tourists, both vital for the success of the crown prince’s economic plans.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bc73...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

PANTHEON: “.. The multiple headwinds facing consumers suggest a string of much weaker retail sales prints is likely over the coming months .. .. PPI trade services .. has provided a reliable lead .. because retailers are quick to spot impending shifts in consumer demand and adjust their pricing ..”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge issued a temporary order Sunday blocking the Trump admin from airing those propaganda ads. But the administration blew past that deadline and ran two of the ads into the early hours of Monday, advertising data shows.

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Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads

A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

NOW: Minnesotans are rallying to protest today's outrageous, racist, politically motivated Homeland Security raid on congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Stop Trump's attacks on the Somali community!

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11h

DOJ to a federal judge: everyone on a voter list is a subject of our fraud investigation. Everyone. Judge Sooknanan needed one word for that argument and 78 pages for the rest. The regime’s voter purge is dead. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/ossoff-put...

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#BrokenTimes #Medienversagen Reactionary centrism is what makes fascism possible. Think about it.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

hAgreed. This is the essence of his politics. But when I approached NYT editors about this years ago, they insisted to me that "it's more complicated than that. He gave money to the Democrats, too." Yes, I told them, he always says that. But look at the donor lists and you'll see it's not true.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h

A delusional wannabe autocrat who believes he is an autocrat.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is violating court orders now with abandon. And making misrepresentations to the courts about it. bsky.app/profile/klas...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

Purest corruption. Until a few days ago, senior Pentagon official George Kollitides worked at Alvarez & Marsal while simultaneously running BOND, a new Pentagon office meant to speed up weapons production. In June, the Pentagon gave a $281M contract to Kollitides' firm to advise BOND.

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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

One common trait that might be causing polls to be a little wonky? Rural voters who supported Trump in 2024 are lying about their 2024 votes. thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/just-how-f...

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Just how far off could the polls be?

‘There's not a single pollster out there that is decent that isn't obsessing about this question,’ Natalie Jackson said

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 12h

Das ist sehr weit hergeholt…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Since the end of 2022, “real debt payments grew more than eight times as fast as real household income—14.8 percent compared with 1.7 percent, respectively.” @tcforg.bsky.social tcf.org/content/repo...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

BARCLAYS DESK: “.. let’s face facts; the combined disclosed lab revenues of circa $150bn .. is not going to cut it when the ecosystem needs well in excess of $1trn .. I’ve yet been presented with a credible framework as to where this money is going to come from ..”

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 16h

„Analysts“ are propagandists. They completely ignore fundamentals and act more and more aggressively to support the bubble.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“.. In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650, up roughly 80 percent from a year earlier ..” @nytimes.com #MEsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

Hormuz Disruptions Drive Physical Brent Crude Prices to Records Amid Competition for Prompt Supply @nikkei.com asia.nikkei.com/business/ene...

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Record price for physical Brent shows how badly the world wants oil now

Gap between crude scheduled for delivery and futures is the widest ever

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

* GULF AIR SAYS IT HAS CANCELLED FLIGHTS TO AND FROM RIYADH FROM OCT 12 TO OCT 17 -- POST ON X @reuters.com #Riyadh

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

METLIFE: “.. A larger share of households, roughly 42% of them, reported that their financial situation was somewhat or significantly worse than it was one year ago.” (NY Fed data:)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

MORE BROADCOM CEO: ".. When you are a kid you go to a video arcade, you play. Your parents give you $10 of tokens, you finish it in 10 minutes and you haven’t learned anything. That’s what happening in enterprises today.”

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 17h

Der Supreme Court spezifisch wird vom Präsidenten nominiert, niemand sonst. Der Senat kann nur blockieren, nicht nominieren.

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piglet42 @piglet42.bsky.social · 17h

Not gonna happen. Alle Republikaner, die jemals gegen Trump gestimmt haben, sind draussen. Was aber sein kann: wenn die Demokraten etwa in Texas erfolgreich sind und bisher für sicher Republikanisch gehaltene Sitze gewinnen, könnte das in der Partei Panik auslösen.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Erst wenn ein Demokrat im Weissen Haus sitzt. Aber klar, der Senat ist der erste Schritt.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20h

Demonizing Democracy The Right has long derided any attempt at leveling racial and social hierarchies as anti-American “socialism” or “communism.” What they are actually fighting is equality. My new piece:

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Demonizing Democracy

The Right has long derided any attempt at leveling racial and social hierarchies as anti-American “socialism” or “communism.” What they are actually fighting is equality.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h

Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.

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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Auch diese Aussage, die Katherina Reiche im SZ-Interview zu den Gasspeichern macht, ist gleich doppelt falsch.

Textausschnitt aus der SZ, folgender Satz ist hervorgehoben:

Stand heute liegt mehr Gas in den Speichern, als selbst im kältesten Jahr verbraucht wurde.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.

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