Felix

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel is forcibly expelling a religious group from a geographic area through violence. That’s the definition of ethnic cleansing.

[Ulrich Schneider @UlrichSchneider]

Der Protest muß auf die Straße. Auch in Bielefeld starteten gestern die Proteste gegen Sozialstaatsabbau und für Umverteilung. Weiter so! #EsReicht!

[Felix @Real_LastCall]

@moniquephotos So... He knows exactly one haircut?

[Felix @Real_LastCall]

@FuzzyFace56 @ASFleischman You're certifiably insane.

[Felix @Real_LastCall]

@USA_Polling Americans are a lost cause.

[Mark Schieritz @schieritz]

Die moralischste Armee der Welt

[Nicole Gohlke @NicoleGohlke]

Der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Bundestages wie auch 130 Expert:innen für Nahost- & Antisemitismusforschung bestätigen noch einmal:
der Gesetzentwurf der CDU Hessen, der die Leugnung des Existenzrechts Israels unter Strafe stellt, verstößt gegen das Grundgesetz und ist ein unzulässiger Angriff auf die Meinungsfreiheit.
Es muss möglich sein, einen laizistischen Staat für alle oder das Rückkehrrecht für Palästinenser:innen zu fordern, ohne dafür bestraft zu werden.

[valeria ☆ @Bowtiedino]

For all that has been happening, I think Terry said it best: “Evil begins when you begin to treat people like things”.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“California’s billionaires currently pay such a low tax rate that even if all of them left the state, it would take 25 years for the loss of their tax payments to surpass the amount the state would raise if the one-time tax succeeds this fall.” https://t.co/J7jbcWHTJZ

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

A Kazakh mining company partly owned by the Trump family has a $900 million taxpayer-backed line of credit from the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. companies’ overseas dealings.

[Vsne Twit 🐜🦋🦗🦟🪲🪳 @VsneTwit]

Ein Hammer-Kommentar. Wirklich sehr lesenswert. Die selben Leute die sonst von Augenhöhe und "Sorgen und Nöte" ernstnehmen labern, werden rasch sehr ekelhaft wenn die eigenen Prioritäten andere sind.

[ J.B.B. @buhnije]

Bas - ZEIT Kommentar von Robert Pausch

Die „offizielle Lizenz zur Herablassung“
🎁
https://t.co/kXb7b076TA

[Raphaël Schmeller @raph_schmeller]

Seit einem Jahr steht @hussedogru auf der Russland-Sanktionsliste der EU. Ich konnte nun Akten des EU-Rats einsehen – sie werfen ein erschreckendes Licht auf den Fall: Ohne Urteil, ohne nachvollziehbare Beweise wird die Existenz des Journalisten zerstört: https://t.co/jYQmkxIXW5

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Germany is in panic over Chinese companies taking over its markets at home, abroad and in China. Having spent quite some time in China in the 2010s, I can’t help but thinking back to the arrogance and quite frankly racism of German expat businesses people. Chinese engineers with Ivy League degrees speaking fluent English and German looked down upon by German engineers with a degree from some German university, unimpressive English and less than two sentences of Chinese. The Germans didn’t see it coming because they couldn’t imagine Chinese people becoming better at what they are doing than themselves. An industry insider told me at the time how keen Chinese entrepreneurs were to collaborate with German car companies on EV development. But all the Germans worried about was they are going to steal our IP. Well, here we are.

[Patrick Kaczmarczyk @pat_kaczmarczyk]

Ausnahmen bei der Erbschaftsteuer bilden übrigens den größten Einzelposten im Subventionsbericht (8,8 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr). Man kann die Uhr danach stellen, dass der "Rasenmäher" anfangen wird zu stottern, sobald er sich diesem Posten nähert.

[Christian Strippel @strippel]

„Die deutsche Politikwissenschaft ist zu einem zentralen Konflikt dieser Welt nicht nur sprachlos, sondern analytisch schlicht nicht urteilsfähig.“ https://t.co/yN4DYcUTrk

[柴静 @Chai20230817]

In response to inquiries from multiple German media outlets, I am issuing this statement regarding my interviewee Xu Xiaoren (known online as Macaron ), who currently faces imminent deportation from Germany.

In March 2025, Xu was the only Chinese citizen I encountered on the Russian frontlines willing to appear on camera, showing his face, to condemn the war:

"Every inch of land is paid for in blood. It is inhuman and immoral."

For the year that followed, he endured relentless persecution and lived in flight because of this. Guided by professional ethics, I documented his journey through video, audio, and over 100,000 words of investigative notes, cross-verified by multiple witnesses, to record the risks the interviewee faced and to offer him a measure of protection.

In thirty years of investigative journalism, this is the first time I have had to do this. It shows how grave I believed the situation to be.

In February 2026, Xu escaped Russia. By April, I was informed that he had reached Germany, facing immediate deportation. He asked me to submit these original records to @BAMF_Dialog.

I never got the chance. No evidence was reviewed. No contact was made — with me or any other witness. Instead, BAMF ruled his application "manifestly unfounded," dismissing my statement as "mere rumors and unsubstantiated assertions."

I am grateful for the attention of the press. A man who admitted he entered the war by mistake, who then defected from within it, and what he became over that year, may tell us something about how wars could truly end: the reflection, the suffering, the compassion, the change. It is a battle of the human soul. I ask the German people to hear his story, and to judge for themselves.

This is my full statement in German：

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[Felix @Real_LastCall]

@kopptisch @freie_presse Schon klar, hätte Dir allerdings zugetraut, sozusagen von außen zu dieser Debatte beitragen zu können. Und daran wäre ich sehr interessiert gewesen, da ich Deine fachliche Perspektive schätze.