Michael Buchsbaum

Blogger @EnergiewendeGER| Writer| photographer| podcaster| activist| gardener| uncle. Campaigning for a just #energytransition & #biodiversity. Views R mine.

[Nimrod Flaschenberg @Nimrod_Flash]

150 Jews in Berlin in an open letter: Don’t do cynical politics on the backs of Jewish safety concerns.
https://t.co/lk069kCKnX

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Zohran Mamdani on Spain:

Eight years ago, when Prime Minister Sanchez took office, the Spanish minimum wage sat at €735 per month, or roughly $868.

Eight years and eight increases later, the Spanish minimum wage is now €1,221 per month, or roughly $1,400, a 61% increase.

[franko65 @Raiderfrank65]

Happy 77th birthday to one of the greatest songwriters, storytellers, and live performers of all time

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Just in case you were wondering why DoorDash was spending so much money to elect Andrew Cuomo and oppose Zohran Mamdani — DoorDash now has to pay $115 million to the workers it stole wages from.

[Jackie Walker - HRH, MP, MBE, ABC @Jackiew80333500]

Fuck Labour

[Jamaal @JayGillyTheKid]

The speed at which he’s getting BIG wins for NYC residents is remarkable. But its also infuriating. Because why on Earth is this man able to accomplish ALL of this in such a short period, while the elected politicians before him continued to tell us they couldnt get things done??

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Scottish Greens are preparing to vote on a motion that would declare Zionism is racism and commit the party to supporting a single Palestinian state across historic Palestine making them the first mainstream UK party to be anti-Israel.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Zohran Mamdani: “DoorDash had underpaid more than 260K delivery workers across New York City. Today, after years of corporate greed and impunity, we are holding DoorDash to account. I am proud to announce that DoorDash will pay more than $131M, the largest settlement for food delivery workers ever secured in American municipal history and a landmark win for those who have been mistreated and abused for years with nowhere to turn”

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

It’s affordability stupid.

The Berlin election has been decided on the housing question. 85% of households are tenants. The largest share voted for the Left party which means they voted for socialization of large real estate companies. Immigration was the least important issue.

[GORM THE OLD @GORMTHEOLD25]

Mein Trumpf

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

People struggling financially have voted predominantly for the AfD in recent elections.

Not in Berlin. The Left put socializing corporate landlords on the ballot, and won the election and this group. Our constitution allows the socialization of means of production for the common good because a key lessons of the Nazi era was: democracy needs an economic defense.

[Michael Buchsbaum @LMicalBuchsbaum]

@malonebarry @gathara I am astonished that you didn’t name Bruce @SpringsteenCAM given he’s made a career out of protest music — long ago exceeding Dylan and with far more reach than any of the artists you listed!

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

The Scottish Green Party condemned the genocidal German and Austrian Greens. That’s not enough. It’s important for the Green parties in Britain to move to kick the German and Austrian Greens out of the European Green Group and if that doesn’t happen for us to leave it.

[Kevin Ryan @KevinRyan911]

Molten metal pouring from the South Tower of the WTC.

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Ein großer Teil der deutschen Medienlandschaft hat sich gerade kollektiv eingeschissen.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

That 90% error rate generated a lot of profit for UnitedHealth, while likely killing people.

For-profit healthcare shouldn’t exist.

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Noam Shuster-Eliassi sagt dem ZDF ins Gesicht, dass die deutsche Debatte über Israel viel zu vorsichtig ist. Dass Deutschland Israel blind unterstützt. Und dass sie nicht weiß, was sie überhaupt sagen kann, ohne dass es im deutschen Fernsehen verändert oder rausgeschnitten wird.

Und dann passiert genau das.
Im Original sagt sie hörbar: „that children get killed“
Die deutsche Voice-over-Stimme macht daraus: „dass Kinder in Gaza verhungern.“

Nein. Sie sagt nicht „verhungern“. Sie sagt „getötet werden“.
Das ist keine Nebensächlichkeit. Das verändert die Aussage. Und ausgerechnet in dem Moment, in dem eine israelische Künstlerin die deutsche Vorsicht und die Staatsräson kritisiert, wird ihre schärfste Formulierung in der deutschen Fassung abgeschwächt. Genau das ist das Problem. Nicht nur, worüber deutsche Medien berichten, sondern wie sie Sprache verändern, sobald es um deutsche Verantwortung und Israels Krieg in Gaza geht.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Gulf of Tonkin didn't happen the way they said it did.

The intelligence on Iraqi WMDs didn't exist the way they said it did.

The Kuwaiti incubator babies story that helped sell the first Gulf War was staged.

COINTELPRO was real.

MKUltra was real.

Operation Northwoods, a declassified plan to stage terrorist attacks on American citizens and blame Cuba to justify an invasion, was real.

It was approved by the Joint Chiefs and rejected by Kennedy.

These are not conspiracy theories.

These are declassified government documents available in federal archives.

The conspiracy was official.

The theorists were right.

And the people who spent decades calling them paranoid are the same people who are very comfortable with the current information environment.

Ask yourself why.

[phillys black marxist ☭ @Forever_noir_]

With the knowledge I have as an adult I can 100% say that the way history is taught in American public schools is near complete fan fiction. I used to think it was just that they lied about black history but they lie about…. Everything…in very deliberate ways.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🚨 SON DAKİKA:

İspanya'nın Bilbao kentinde, protestocular İsrail'in Filistin'e karşı soykırımını protesto etmek için Guggenheim Müzesi'nin önünde yere yatıyorlar.