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@pulpo404 @wahlborn Ich habe von jedem Strandurlaub ein bisschen Sand mit Muscheln mitgebracht und ihn in durchsichtigen Filmdosen aufbewahrt.

Was ist das?

@ChrisO_wiki @Danihyel If it takes to bleed Russia white to end this war, so be it.

1/ Russian soldiers are now divided into two 'castes', says a front-line soldier: "short-livers", who die almost immediately after being sent to the front in Ukraine, often as a punishment, and "long-livers", the privileged ones in the officer cadre and rear areas. ⬇️

So langsam gewinnt man den Eindruck, Trump, Putin und die Mullahs steckten unter einer Decke.

ICE is straightforwardly a gestapo secret police now, disappearing people at the president’s personal direction for simply crossing one of his cronies

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE just threw a 7-year-old Canadian girl with autism and her mom into one of their worst prisons for NO REASON WHATSOEVER! Edward Warner, an American citizen from Kingsville, Texas, was driving home with his Tania Warner and their daughter, Ayla Lucas, from a baby shower when all of a sudden they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint and demanded to see their papers. Tania showed them her Texas driver’s license, work visa, and actual visa, informing the goons that she was a Lawful Alien Allowed to Work, as Tania is originally from British Columbia. “I presented mine and she presented her Texas driver’s licence, her work visa and her actual visa,” Edward, who is American, told CTV News. “After that, they took her in, saying that they needed to fingerprint her to get more information, and she never came back out.” The goon squad said there was an “error” with Tania’s Employment Authorization Document and needed to send their fingerprints to Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, who refused to let them go. “It’s scary, it’s really frustrating, especially when they have paperwork that’s good, and it doesn’t come up in the system as being good. It didn’t come up as having paperwork at all,” said Edward to the Canadian media. Tania and Ayla were thrown into the gulag at the Rio Grande Valley Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, a site notorious for housing little kids in chain-link cages during Trump’s first term. “It’s no place for a seven-year-old to be,” Edward said. “They’re using, like, space blankets in order to cover up. She’s having to use the mat from the floor to get a proper cover to keep warm. This food is terrible … it’s overcrowded, very loud, and they’re just very stressed out right now,” he said of what he’s hearing from his family, adding that they’ve only been able to have two short phone calls a day. This is what happens when you build a machine designed to incarcerate people for profit with no regard to the law or to basic human decency. There’s a private prison company making a fat profit off of locking up this poor little girl and her mother and an evil bald man in the White House, Stephen Miller, ordering the Border Patrol to fill quotas of arrestees, no matter who they are or whether they deserve to be thrown into a disgusting prison, served mouldy food, and forced to sleep under bright lights on piss-soaked floors. Tania and Ayla and every other innocent child in these camps need to be freed, IMMEDIATELY, and their cells filled with the men responsible for this absolute miscarriage of justice.

@Perowinger94 Im Zumuten ist Merz ja stark, leider zielt er immer nur auf eine Schicht: die ganz unten.

Wow! Nicht etwa die Grünen oder Umwelt-NGOs, sondern die Internationale Energie Agentur (IEA) höchstpersönlich fordert jetzt in einem Positionspapier strengere Tempolimits, dem Umstieg auf den ÖPNV, partielle Fahrverbote für Autos, Flugverzicht sowie Förderung von Car-Sharing, um den Ölverbrauch zu senken. Wann reagiert die Bundesregierung endlich? Wir hätten so effektive Sofortmaßnahmen parat: Tempolimit, Comeback des 9 Euro Tickets oder Pop-Up Radwege. Stattdessen gibts Krisenstäbe wie der Sprit wieder billig wird. Bei der Ölkrise in den 1970ern hat die Politik entschlossen gehandelt, heute schaut sie paralysiert zu. Wann fängt die Politik an, den Menschen wieder was zuzumuten und die Dinge zu tun, die getan werden müssen?

@Inclutus Man kann mit einem Küchenmesser für ein paar Euro einen Polizeieinsatz auslösen, der mehrere zehntausend kostet. So funktioniert asymmetrische Kriegsführung. Und alle sind überrascht.

"The officer said he was astonished to hear reports of Gulf states firing as many as eight Patriot interceptor missiles (each worth more than $3 million) at a single target, even using the expensive systems to hit cheap drones." Wenn man natürlich Patriot gegen Shahed einsetzt, dann ist einem nicht zu helfen.

@jaegerthomas2 Das einzige, woran Trump sich erinnert, sind tatsächliche und vermeintliche Demütigungen. Da hat er ein Elefantengedächtnis.

Merz hätten nicht so scharf reagieren müssen. Aber mal die Kirche im Dorf lassen. Erstens hat Trump das schon wieder vergessen. Zweitens hat die NATO schon tiefere Gräben überstanden (Irak als Abenteuer). Falls NATO scheitert, dann weil Trump es will. Hat mit Merz nix zu tun.

@stefanbildeshe1 @jaegerthomas2 Und hätten wir uns in einen langen und verlustreichen Krieg gegen den Iran ziehen lassen, stünden das Baltikum und Polen buchstäblich offen. Ich denke, das war auch der Plan der Trump-Putin-Achse, v. a. im Hinblick auf die Ostsee.

@jaegerthomas2 Perfekt eingefädelt: Trump greift den Iran an Trump ruft um Hilfe und lockt die NATO in die Falle NATO hilft nicht Trump steigt aus der NATO aus Putin überfällt Europa Trump hilft nicht Punkt

Was muss der Druck der Lage, in die er aus eigener Unfähigkeit geraten ist, groß sein, wenn er sich so das Mütchen kühlen muss.

Hungarian Special Services forcibly injected a detained Oschadbank employee with a suspected “truth serum.” 🤬 One of the men, a former SBU officer, was forcibly given an unknown substance - likely a relaxant designed to make him talkative under interrogation. The injection nearly proved fatal: as a diabetic, he suffered a hypertensive crisis and lost consciousness. Medical aid was withheld until he fainted. Subsequent blood tests confirmed traces of the drug in his system.

The Trump-Putin-Xi axis turns Ukraine into a wasteland. That's their model for the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, too.

@ungemeve Wenige sind Militärexperten, aber alle sind betroffen: Wenn die Felder nicht mehr bestellt werden, spürt das jeder im Magen. Ähnlich bei Klima, Gentechnik, AI … und deshalb haben die, die einfache (und falsche) Lösungen versprechen, so viel Erfolg.

Spannend, wie viele die Kriegsführung im Iran beurteilen, die vor vier Wochen noch dachten, CENTCOM wäre dieses kleine Pinöpsi, das man beim MediaMarkt bekommt.

Pro-Kremlin blogger Ilya Remeslo, who publicly criticized the “special military operation” and Vladimir Putin, has been forcibly admitted to the Skvortsov-Stepanov Psychiatric Hospital. 1/2

Erst als Russland sich mit dem Diktator Assad verbündet und ganze Großstädte in Syrien dem Erdboden gleich gemacht hat, setzen die großen Flüchtlingsströme gen Europa ein. Das Gleiche passierte nach dem die Russen Kyjiw angegriffen und Mariupol Erdboden gleich gemacht haben. Derzeit versuchen sie es, indem sie Wirtschaftsflüchtlinge an die Grenzen Europas karren. Es wird Zeit, dass dies auch in den Köpfen der AfD-Wähler*innen landet.

@ChrisO_wiki @threadreaderapp unroll

1/ Russia faces increasing difficulties in its war in Ukraine, comments a Russian warblogger, including a build-up of Ukrainian offensive capabilities, a military system that weeds out "energetic, proactive people", and the likely loss of Trump's assistance after the midterms. ⬇️

Auch Jahre später muss ich immer noch darüber lachen.

@Microinteracti1 @threadreaderapp unroll

The Most Obvious Thing Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud Months of watching the news, and it comes down to this: either everyone in Washington has suffered a simultaneous catastrophic brain injury, or something far more deliberate is going on. Let’s start with the sanctions. Trump has lifted them on Russia. Iran. Belarus. Three regimes that between them have shot down passenger aircraft, poisoned people in English cathedral cities, and run prison systems that make Alcatraz look like a Marriott. Those sanctions. Gone. Just like that. But Canada? Canada gets tariffs. Germany gets lectures. France gets ignored. NATO gets treated like an embarrassing uncle at Christmas. Are you seeing this? Marco Rubio flew to Budapest. To visit Viktor Orban – a man who has spent fifteen years methodically dismantling every court, every newspaper, and every independent institution his country ever had. And now JD Vance is making the same pilgrimage. These are not coincidences. You don’t fly to Budapest unless you really, really admire what Viktor Orban has built there. And what has he built? A state with no functioning opposition. A press that agrees with the government. A judiciary that does what it’s told. Sound familiar? Trump has never – not once – said a critical word about Putin. Not one. He has praised him. Repeatedly. Enthusiastically. Like a schoolboy who’s just discovered his favourite footballer. Meanwhile Zelensky – the man whose country is being shelled daily – got dragged into the Oval Office and humiliated on live television. This is not a foreign policy. This is a preference. Now here’s the bit that should make you put down your coffee. A united Europe – with NATO overhead, shared defence, shared intelligence, shared values – is the one thing the Trump regime cannot control. You can’t squeeze France and Germany and Poland simultaneously if they’re all holding hands. But break the chain? Isolate each country? Make them feel exposed and dependent and alone? Then you can deal with them one at a time. That is what is happening. Not tariffs. Not trade disputes. Not some philosophical disagreement about multilateralism. The goal – the actual goal – is to dismantle the umbrella so that every European country gets rained on individually. And here’s how you know the public has worked it out, even if the commentators haven’t. A recent poll asked people across Western democracies a straightforward question. Would you rather depend on China, or on the United States under Donald Trump? In Canada – America’s nearest neighbour, closest ally, sharer of the world’s longest undefended border – 57% chose China. Twenty-three percent chose the Trump regime. In Britain, 42% preferred Beijing. Germany, 40%. France, 34%. Citizens of countries that sent their sons to die on American-adjacent beaches in 1944 now trust the Chinese Communist Party more than they trust Washington. Read that sentence again. Slowly. And then there’s Iran. Three weeks ago the Trump regime lifted sanctions on Tehran. This week – with Israel bombing the city – American aircraft are joining in. The same regime that decided Iran was fine, actually, no problem, here are your sanctions back, is now at war with Iran. Because Netanyahu asked nicely. This is not strength. This is a regime so desperate for the approval of whoever is in the room that it will contradict itself within a fortnight and call it strategy. Maybe Trump didn’t lead America into this. He was pulled. By a smaller country with a very clear agenda and a very good read on exactly how malleable this particular president is. That is not a superpower. That is a sock puppet.

Was bei dieser ganzen, mal wieder typisch deutsch hyperventilierenden Diskussion ob eines möglichen Marineeinsatzes in der Straße von Hormuz völlig ausgeblendet wird, ist eine politische Analyse der US-amerikanischen Außenpolitik unter Trump seit 2024 (America First 2.0).

@gloefflmann @threadreaderapp unroll

The Bird That Quit Smoking – But Kept the Butts There are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts scattered across the planet every year. They end up in gutters, on beaches, wedged into park benches, ground into pavement. We regard them as perhaps the most dispiriting form of litter imaginable: tiny, ubiquitous, and completely without purpose. Certain birds, it turns out, have reached an entirely different conclusion. In the early 2010s, a group of Mexican ornithologists began poking around the nests of house finches and house sparrows in Mexico City. What they found, woven with apparent deliberateness into the fibrous architecture of those nests, were cigarette filters. Hundreds of them. The obvious reading was insulation – filters are soft, fibrous, and plentiful in any city that has ever hosted a human being with a habit. Fair enough, you might think. Resourceful birds, making do. But then came the detail that changed everything. The birds were specifically choosing smoked butts over unsmoked ones. This is the kind of finding that should stop a person in their tracks. If warmth were the only objective, the chemical history of the filter is entirely irrelevant. A pristine filter from an unopened pack would do the job just as well. The birds were not selecting for softness. They were selecting for something that only combustion produces. Smoked cigarette filters retain substantial quantities of nicotine – the compound the tobacco plant evolved, over millions of years, as a highly effective insecticide. What gives a person a brief and slightly guilty lift makes a parasitic mite feel nothing ever again. More fibres meant fewer mites. When researchers introduced live ticks into cleaned-out nests, the birds responded by bringing in up to 40 percent more cigarette material than when presented with dead ticks, or nothing at all. They were not behaving randomly. They identified a threat and applied a specific remedy. The house finch had, in effect, reinvented pest control. There is a cost, and nature declines to hide it. Higher nicotine concentrations in the nest correlated with elevated chromosomal abnormalities in chicks. The anti-parasite strategy works, but it extracts a genetic toll from the very offspring it is meant to protect. Evolution is a long-run calculation, not a guarantee, and it is entirely indifferent to the irony of the arrangement. Researchers in Poland have since confirmed the same behaviour in European house sparrows. This is not entirely surprising. House sparrows are among the most successful urban colonists on earth – adaptable, observant, and completely unimpressed by the distinction between the Old World and the New. If the trick works in Mexico City, it works in Warsaw. It probably works in a great many places nobody has yet thought to look. None of this is without precedent, exactly. Birds have been incorporating chemically active plants into their nests for thousands of years – wormwood, lavender, wild carrot – exploiting the same insecticidal and antimicrobial properties that humans would later spend considerable effort cataloguing in pharmacopoeias and herbals. The urban sparrow has simply updated the formula. A smoked Marlboro is, from a mite’s perspective, functionally equivalent to a sprig of yarrow. The active ingredient differs in origin, not in effect. We spent centuries working out that nicotine kills insects. The house finch appears to have reached the same conclusion on its own, somewhere between one generation and the next, without the benefit of a research grant. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1