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[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Der Tankrabatt kostet in zwei Monaten übrigens knapp 25-mal so viel wie die von der Bundesregierung versprochene und jetzt gestoppte Erhöhung der Wohnkostenpauschale beim BAFöG.

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

On Sunday, my friend Gordon Wood was struck and killed in a car accident. Gordon taught history at Brown Univ. and was among the most accomplished historians America has produced. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, and his earlier book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 took the 1970 Bancroft Prize. He also received the National Humanities Medal.

He was, in my view, the finest historian of America's founding—which makes it all the sadder that he did not live to see the nation's 250th birthday. His reputation reached popular culture, too. Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting invokes him by name in the famous bar scene, accusing a Harvard student of simply "regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about [...] the pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization."

I feel fortunate to have collaborated with Gordon on several projects. In a 2019 anthology I compiled, he wrote an essay on the possibility of a shared American narrative. He centered his argument on equal rights as "the most radical and most powerful ideological force" the Revolution unleashed. "This powerful sense of equality is still alive and well in America," he wrote, "and despite all of its disturbing and unsettling consequences, it is what makes us one people."

When I needed jacket blurbs for my new book Lincoln's Compass, coming out this November, I turned to Gordon. The fit was natural: the book argues that Abraham Lincoln took the Declaration's claim that "all men are created equal" as his guiding moral compass—and that he refocused the nation on that claim. Gordon, ever the gentleman, offered generous praise.

He was, in many respects, the dean of American historians. He will be very hard to replace.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[#MadeInGermany2035 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇪 @42tw1tter1sd3ad]

Ich kann jedem nur empfehlen sich die aktuelle Folge @annewill anzuhören.
Die Union ist die neue FDP. Sie unterstützt (Familien)Konzerne, vertritt nicht das wirtschaftliche Rückgrat und widerspricht dem Innovationsgedanken. Sehr gut zusammengefasst von Kevin Kühnert.

[Pequod @The_Pequod_]

Amazing section of Jane Goodall’s Wikipedia page

[Dirk Dre.🎗 @dregenus]

Ich lieb alles daran

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Guys, relax, the only risk in transiting the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran will shoot a missile at your ship. Otherwise it's open for transit.

An all-time quote from our Secretary of War.

[Jonathon P Sine @JonathonPSine]

Absolutely mind boggling..

"in their Excel spreadsheet, Reinhart and Rogoff had not selected the entire row when averaging growth figures: they omitted data from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark.

In other words, they had accidentally only included 15 of the 20 countries under analysis in their key calculation.

When that error was corrected, the “0.1% decline” data became a 2.2% average increase in economic growth."

And as the underlaying New York Review article notes, the erroneous "claim was widely cited by politicians and accepted as a factual justification for austerity, to the extent that Paul Krugman thought it “may have had more immediate influence on public debate than any previous paper in the history of economics.”"

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

People not in the Epstein files:

- drag queens
- transgender athletes
- librarians
- Black journalists
- “radical leftist scum”
- hungry family needing SNAP benefits
- workers on strike
- the cast of Sesame Street

[Jeanette Therese Voermann @JT_Voermann]

Ricarda Lang grillt die CDU. Again.

[Middle Earth @_middleEarth]

If Bilbo asked ChatGPT

[Burning Tokens @unaliveolives]

@YIMBYLAND When self driving cars reduce auto deaths from 40,000 to 1,000 the headline will be "AI kills 1000 people per year."

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Making government workers look like the heroes they are.

Democrats could've been doing this for decades instead of letting Republicans get away with "the scariest words in the english language are 'I'm the government and i'm here to help.'

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

The Trump DOJ is currently arguing in court it had to remove Maduro because illegal mining was displacing indigenous communities

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

A Chinese app called "Are You Dead," or "死了么" in Chinese, has surged to the top of Apple's paid app rankings in China.

Designed for people living alone, the app automatically sends an email to notify users' emergency contacts if they fail to check in for two consecutive days.

Its viral explosion taps straight into the quiet fear of "kodokushi" (lonely death) among China's ~125 million solo dwellers — especially young people.

The blunt name + simple check-in system sparked massive resonance, dark humor discussions, and surprisingly open death-talk among Gen Z on social media — revealing a real, raw need for "being remembered" in an increasingly atomized society.

[Storch_i @Storch_i]

In keiner Landesregierung, an der die FDP in den letzten 25 Jahren beteiligt war, wurden die Ausgaben für Grundschulen erhöht. Alles andere war wichtiger, z.B. die Sonntagsöffnung von Tankstellen.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Actually X is banned in China with no consequences for any Chinese official. So, regulations on transparency are much worse than a straightforward ban?!

[Hüseyin Dogru (Back-Up) @redstreamnet]

Do you know who this iconic quote belongs to? The Brazilian socialist and Workers’ Party organizer Francisco “Chico” Mendes was tragically assassinated on this day in 1988 by wealthy landowners wanting to extract resources from the Amazon. As a tireless campaigner for the Amazon rainforest, which is now more threatened than ever, he knew precisely how closely environmental protection and class struggle are linked.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

[Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer]

Fandom people want simple pleasures but also for their simple pleasures to function as the axis of Hegelian recognition of their personhood, and we should tell them no