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"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass." - Theodor Adorno

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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 22h
"Zelenskyy....said Trump had an instinctive affinity for autocrats and the super wealthy. “He [Trump] speaks about it openly and loudly that he loves such people and he respects such people. Because for him people who can be leaders 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, it means they can be very strong.”
ft.com
Zelenskyy defies Trump as Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian refineries
Ukrainian president expresses anger in FT interview at ‘dangerous’ withdrawal of US intelligence sharing
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Promises made, promises kept 🙄
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fraternizing with the enemy can create serious security issues 😠
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Pickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Well said. How many of Tommy Robinson’s Sport’s Direct paramilitary division go and help or worship at the churches they claim they want to protect. It’s much easier to don a balaclava and shout at the RNLI. #HopeNotHate
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The best came and went 🙄
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🔎 From the archive: Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It Now Andy Burnham has revealed there was key evidence Russia interfered in the Brexit Referendum
bylinetimes.com
Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jihadists4Jesus 🙄
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Whatever they do, will be straight out of Putin's playbook.
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Do you see what's happening in India as a rehearsal for the midterms? "Protests intensified after the Indian Express reported last week that two election commissioners had questioned Kumar's voter-list revisions that removed roughly 130 million names from voter lists."
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India detains thousands, locks down Delhi to foil election chief protest
Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel deployed across the city, mobile internet services were suspended and dozens of metro stations and markets were shut as authorities moved to stop a rally...
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now we know the real meaning of the G in KGB 😆
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They are right here:
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WTF was Rees-Mogg thinking when he agreed to play Tucker Carlson's agitprop?
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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm #Maggiesfarm
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things like couches?
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think it's bad that the president's brain is mush. time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here is the link to the filings for the Renee Good lawsuits:
rblaw.net
Civil lawsuits filed against United States, individual federal agents and officials for death of Renee Good
Two civil lawsuits were filed on October 1, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. In both complaints, the Plaintiffs are Brent Ganger, Renee’s brother, as trustee fo...
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gasbag or gobshite? I can't decide 🙄
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kleptokracy + clowns on top = Clownocracy
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here,” she said, according to the WSJ, to which Papastavrou retorted that the US could not replace Greece’s democratically elected government.
ft.com
Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A crazy person did something crazy? Shocking! 1/2
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Kimberly Guilfoyle: The Best Is Yet To Come
ALT: Kimberly Guilfoyle: The Best Is Yet To Come
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 30/09/2026
NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 25-28: Donald Trump % who approve | disapprove of Trump U.S. adult citizens 34% | 62% (-27) Last week 34% | 61% (-27) Start of term 49% | 43% (+6) Dem 4% | 95% Ind 21% | 69% Rep 78% | 19% 18-29: 32% | 63% 65+: 41% | 57% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Approval and disapproval of Trump's job performance."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President? (%)."
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why doesn't this video have millions of likes? Jack Smith's full House Judiciary deposition on investigating and indicting Trump
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WATCH: Jack Smith's full House Judiciary deposition on investigating and indicting Trump
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥👇👇👇👏👏👏
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Adorno in his lecture on "Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism" - 1967
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Spectacle of shame" sounds about right 🙄
reuters.com
In UN farewell, Macron denounces Trump's Gaza diplomacy as spectacle of shame
France's president criticised Trump's portrayal of his Gaza peace plan as a diplomatic triumph.
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👏👏👏
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@platypuseconomics.bsky.social argues press freedom is an economic issue. I'd say it's a little wider than that, but let's not split hairs 😉
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The Economic Cost of Trump's War on The Press
YouTube video by Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 22/09/2026
NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 18-21 The gender gap: Women favor Democratic House candidates by 29 points (59% to 30%), while men are about even (44% Democratic to 47% Republican) Democrats also lead by 22 points among college graduates yougov.com/en-us/articles/55604
A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How Americans would vote for U.S. Congress."

The chart has the sub-headline: "In the elections for U.S. Congress in November, who will you vote for in the district where you live? (% of likely voters)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Respondents were asked about the candidates running in their district of residence. Likely voters are U.S. adult citizens who meet two criteria: (1) They either are registered to vote or say they will be registered to vote by the November elections; and (2) They either say they will definitely vote in November or say they have already voted."
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"
The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Willem Dafoe's Crazy Laugh in Car
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/09/2026
Online grifters, private companies, and far-right ideologues have transformed traditional American diplomacy, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu writes. She explores how they’re wielding their newfound power:
bit.ly
Donald Trump’s Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Marcus Kolga @marcuskolga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The new U.S. DOJ indictment alleging Russian intelligence plots to carry out assassinations abroad should be a wake-up call for Canada . I spoke with CBC about the wider threat of transnational repression and why Canada needs to take it far more seriously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teck...
youtube.com
How Putin goes after his enemies outside of Russia
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It was this moment... www.facebook.com/watch/?v=195...
facebook.com
98K views · 3.1K reactions | "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." 25 years ago, President George W. Bush gave his famous "I can hear you" speech at Ground Zero, just three days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With one arm around retired FDNY firefighter Bob Beckwith and a bullhorn in the other, Bush thanked the rescue and recovery workers. "America today is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn." "This nation stands with the good people of New York City, and New Jersey, and Connecticut, as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens." | Fox Business
"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." 25 years ago, President George W. Bush gave his famous "I can hear you"...
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Trumphal Arch has a big future
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read it and weep.
haaretz.com
Erased: Israeli settlers' brutal war on Palestinian communities in the West Bank
Haaretz
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies has something to say 👇👇👇
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Strategic Alert: Jewish Terrorism and Nationalist Crime Are Accelerating the Breakdown of Israel’s State Institutions | INSS
Escalation Trends and Helplessness of the Security Establishment—the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police Surge in Jewish nationalist crime: According to data from the security est...
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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El Cid Película Épica Histórica
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2026
Online grifters, private companies, and far-right ideologues have transformed traditional American diplomacy, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu writes. She explores how they’re wielding their newfound power: theatln.tc/NXFHONps
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Liar Liar Pants On Fire Prolife Message
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think I should write update of this. Things are so much worse now.
insidehighered.com
The right is using the comments of left-wing professors to delegitimize higher ed (essay)
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Is This a Cult? Woman's Question
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Expressive Woman: Heyy You Are
ALT: Expressive Woman: Heyy You Are
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Looks like John Baron has a Baron Munchausen syndrome 🙄
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
startribune.com
Perry: How should the U.S. remember its would-be autocrat once he leaves the White House?
"When some emperors died," David M. Perry writes, "successors condemned their memory, ordering statues smashed, their faces scrubbed from portraits, their names erased from inscriptions and their lega...
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Adorno's Alter-Ego @wisengrund.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I would name that platform The Great American De-enshittification 😉
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