Lead story in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Mar-a-Lago face. When we are not a threat to democracy and the world's security and economy, we are a laughingstock, thanks to them.
@jeffjarvis there is nothing like the revenge of a former friend to really hit where it hurts...
Ask Slashdot: What's the Stupidest Use of AI You Saw In 2025? https://ask.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/0738214/ask-slashdot-whats-the-stupidest-use-of-ai-you-saw-in-2025?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
For my fellow Cassandras.
The author talks about anti-alarmism in the mainstream media and among liberals (failure to recognize an actual emergency in progress - e.g. refusing to see MAGA as a real threat) as driven by men's gender insecurity and need to distance themselves from behavior that is female coded.
tl;dr
Cassandras are more likely to:
-be women
-belong to a minoritized group in some meaningful way
-have spent considerable amounts of time among conservative populations
-be clear, critical thinkers who can connect the dots between different types of bad behavior
https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025
For my fellow Cassandras.
The author talks about anti-alarmism in the mainstream media and among liberals (failure to recognize an actual emergency in progress - e.g. refusing to see MAGA as a real threat) as driven by men's gender insecurity and need to distance themselves from behavior that is female coded.
tl;dr
Cassandras are more likely to:
-be women
-belong to a minoritized group in some meaningful way
-have spent considerable amounts of time among conservative populations
-be clear, critical thinkers who can connect the dots between different types of bad behavior
https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025
I am really tired of listening to Marco Rubio praising Trump for getting Europe to spend 5 percent of GDP on defence.
No country is spending more on defence to please Trump. We are spending more, because we are alone in the war with Putin. We are spending more, so we can lead the world, now that Trump has put the US in the back seat.
We could have finished Putin together, and the world would have been safer and wealthier. But instead Trump wanted a war with Venezuela. That is how dumb this is.
‘I Bought Trump’s Lies’: 3-Time Trump Supporter Says He Feels Betrayed and Ashamed
A Facebook post by a longtime Donald Trump supporter has ignited a fierce online debate and offered a rare glimpse into a growing sense of betrayal inside parts of the MAGA movement…
Die von den #USA zu Unrecht sanktionierte #JosephineBallon von @hateaid war am 6. November Teilnehmerin & Rednerin unseres #Fachtag gegen jeden #Antisemitismus in #LeinfeldenEchterdingen , Baden-Württemberg.
Wir bekamen noch Scherze über den gemeinsamen Kampf gegen #HassundHetze mit #Blumen & #Blume.
Ich meine: Wer #HateAid diffamiert, will unsere #Demokratie zerstören. Wer sie jetzt im Stich lässt, wird ggf. später auch betroffen sein. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/den-prozess-blume-gegen-twitter-international-unterstuetzen-so-geht-es/
RE: https://sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/115774476885161620
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Dass @hateaid an #Weihnachten von #Trump - Fossilisten „sanktioniert“ wurde, ist kein Zufall: #DigitaleGewalt wird oft an #Feiertagen verübt, um Angegriffene auch privat zu treffen & jede Gegenwehr zu erschweren.
Ja, ich spreche da aus Erfahrung, wurde 2021 ebenfalls zum Jahreswechsel von #MAGA - Antideutschen aus den #USA angegriffen. Deswegen war & ist Solidarität so entscheidend, auch der Abschied von US- #Konzernmedien. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/medienethik-dank-fuer-solidaritaet-gegen-extremes-trolling-und-frohes-neujahr/
Die von den #USA zu Unrecht sanktionierte #JosephineBallon von @hateaid war am 6. November Teilnehmerin & Rednerin unseres #Fachtag gegen jeden #Antisemitismus in #LeinfeldenEchterdingen , Baden-Württemberg.
Wir bekamen noch Scherze über den gemeinsamen Kampf gegen #HassundHetze mit #Blumen & #Blume.
Ich meine: Wer #HateAid diffamiert, will unsere #Demokratie zerstören. Wer sie jetzt im Stich lässt, wird ggf. später auch betroffen sein. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/den-prozess-blume-gegen-twitter-international-unterstuetzen-so-geht-es/
RE: https://sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/115774476885161620
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Dass @hateaid an #Weihnachten von #Trump - Fossilisten „sanktioniert“ wurde, ist kein Zufall: #DigitaleGewalt wird oft an #Feiertagen verübt, um Angegriffene auch privat zu treffen & jede Gegenwehr zu erschweren.
Ja, ich spreche da aus Erfahrung, wurde 2021 ebenfalls zum Jahreswechsel von #MAGA - Antideutschen aus den #USA angegriffen. Deswegen war & ist Solidarität so entscheidend, auch der Abschied von US- #Konzernmedien. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/medienethik-dank-fuer-solidaritaet-gegen-extremes-trolling-und-frohes-neujahr/
Die eskalierende #Rechtsmimesis in den #USA betrifft auch immer stärker jüdische Stimmen wie die #AdL & selbst Konservative wie #Shapiro. Auch etwa #NickFuentes & #TuckerCarlson befeuern immer stärker #Antisemitismus gegen #Israel.
Wer behauptet hat, #Trump & #MAGA seien „stabil“ gegen antisemitische #Verschwörungsmythen hat die Gefahren des #Rechtsdualismus , des fossilen #Faschismus verdrängt & verleugnet. https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-12/usa-konservative-richtungsstreit-trump-nachfolge
#MAGA nel caos, #Europa senza un piano #nowar
LEVANTE 22.12.2025 - Casa del Sole Tv
La National Security Strategy certifica la fine delle alleanze, virate in allineamenti. Gli Stati Uniti non hanno più nemici o amici fissi, tutto è negoziabile, perché la priorità è salvare l’America, da rifare grande perché non lo è più. Il documento attacca il Vecchio Continente, ma l’Italia farebbe parte del gruppo di paesi con cui lavorare per “rifare grande l’Europa”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmwrYrwh0go
$[x3 🎯]
>The balance of risk now demands that European leaders cripple #Trump. They have learned from a year of abject cowering before Trump that such behaviour only makes it easy for him to push them over. The reasons for caution are disappearing. The extreme reaction of #Maga leaders to the relatively minor €120m fine the EC recently imposed on #X shows that pulling punches will not placate them. Trump’s “28-point plan” for #Ukraine dispelled any illusion that European concessions would secure a return to US military commitment.
>Trump said earlier in December that he thinks #Europe’s leaders are weak. He does not believe they will defend Europeans’ liberties and their hard-won #democracy against him. So far, the response from European leaders is proving him correct. But what Trump does not yet understand is that von der Leyen holds the US economy and his presidency in her hands. She must have the courage to go entirely beyond any prior norms of her behaviour. In other words, if she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu
“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number
https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/super-secure-maga-messaging-app-leaks-everyones-phone-number/
"You cannot understand the present—this sense of a nation drifting toward pariah status, a nation no longer trusted, a nation capable of being bent by a single man and the lieutenants who carry out his will—without stepping back to the beginning, to that moment when the men who declared liberty also wrote slavery into the country’s governing framework."
~ Elisabeth Glassco
Meta accused of banning LGBTQ+ accounts in one of its “biggest waves of censorship” ever
The alleged actions appear to be an escalation of Meta's Trump-era policies. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/meta-accused-of-banning-lgbtq-accounts-in-one-of-its-biggest-waves-of-censorship-ever/ #lgbtq #lgbt #uspol #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #trump #maga #censorship
RE: https://vebinet.com/@lgbtq/115709016369558155
While Meta and other American big tech companies are banning LGBTQ+ accounts to censor the LGBTQ+ communities, we need to fight back.
People should have the right to freely express themselves, share their stories, resources to help each other and enjoy free, safe and inclusive spaces.
It's clear that we will have to fight to defend basic freedoms that are threatened by the Trump Administration worldwide. Fediverse is the real bastion of real freedom o speech and expression and we will need to keep it that way and strenghten it.
#LGBTQ #US #USA #socialmedia #fediverse #uspol #eupol #censorship #trump #maga #fascism #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #Threads #Vebinet #Mastodon #tech
Our European neighbors and friends will surely be thrilled to see Chancellor Merz @Bundesregierung throwing the European Union under the bus...
The right response to "America First" is not "Germany First", but "Europe United" (‼️)
Morning, all,
From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound economic sense.”
#Trump #EPA #GOP #MAGA #USpol
#FossilFools #ACC #AGW #ClimateEmergency
#H2G2 #ArkB #DouglasAdams #RIP
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/10/we-look-ridiculous-us-government-website-removes-fossil-fuels-as-cause-of-global-warming
Morning, all,
From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound economic sense.”
#Trump #EPA #GOP #MAGA #USpol
#FossilFools #ACC #AGW #ClimateEmergency
#H2G2 #ArkB #DouglasAdams #RIP
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/10/we-look-ridiculous-us-government-website-removes-fossil-fuels-as-cause-of-global-warming
