Andreas Nogalski

[Anne Rosencher @ARosencher]

Ce mardi, à Herat, une ville à l'Ouest de l'Afghanistan, les talibans ont fait tirer à balles réelles sur une petite foule de femmes et d'hommes descendus dans la rue, au cri de : « éducation, travail, liberté. » Le bilan n'est pas connu, ni celui des morts ni celui des blessés. On sait seulement que parmi ces derniers, beaucoup ont préféré fuir plutôt que d’être pris. La raison de ce rassemblement dans le quartier de Jebrail (80 000 habitants) était que, quelques jours avant, entre le 5 et le 7 juin, plusieurs dizaines de femmes y avaient été arrêtées. Emmenées par la police des mœurs, rattachée au ministère de la répression du vice et de la promotion de la vertu. Elles avaient été arrêtées, ces femmes, pour non-respect du code vestimentaire : plutôt que la burqa intégrale prescrite par cette lecture fanatique de l’islam, certaines portaient le voile accompagné d'un masque FFP2 qui pourtant cache une bonne moitié du visage. Mais même la moitié, ce n'est pas assez. Il faut traquer jusqu'au moindre cil, jusqu'au moindre éclat d'iris, jusqu'au moindre bout de front ou d'affront.

L’Afghanistan est un pays où les femmes n'ont plus le droit de rien : ni d’étudier, ni de travailler, ni de faire entendre le son de leur voix, ni d'être vues chez elles, depuis l'extérieur. C'est un enténèbrement. Des femmes. Mais aussi des filles. Un récent décret ayant autorisé de facto le mariage de ces dernières avant la puberté.

Ce que démontre la répression de mardi dernier, cependant, c'est qu'il existe, désormais, des poches de résistance. Le quartier de Jebrail, ai-je appris, est historiquement peu favorable aux islamistes. Et clandestinement, une contre-vie s'y organise, faite d'écoles cachées, de soins dispensés, ou de musiques discrètes lors de célébrations secrètes.

Depuis que les talibans ont repris le pouvoir en 2021, les femmes ont été emmurées, et le pays s’effondre. Je l'ai déjà dit ici : une nation qui maltraite ses femmes court au désastre. Ce n'est pas un slogan. C'est un fait. Aucune nation qui maltraite ses femmes ne s'en sort politiquement, ni économiquement. Le régime taliban ne prive pas simplement le pays de la moitié de l’humanité, de la moitié de sa richesse, mais il y produit le chaos de la misère affective et sexuelle, l'agressivité d'une frustration systémique, et l’étouffement de toute joie. Le régime est un mort à crédit, dont on démantèlera un jour les pick-up de l’effroi. Quand ? Le niveau effroyable de la répression qui sévit laisse peu d'espoir pour le court terme. En attendant, parlons autant que nous pouvons de ces poches de résistance. Car on sait que le courage est contagieux, et donc qu'il doit être dit, partout, pour qu’il soit répété, su, et que l’information revienne au pays, par des canaux de fortune. Parlons autant que possible de ces flammes de la liberté. Et de ce qu’il en coûte à ceux qui ont le courage de les allumer.

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Genau für solche Aussagen braucht es jemanden wie Christian Streich bei dieser WM. Während viele den Vorfall einfach als bürokratische Randnotiz behandeln würden, spricht er aus, worum es tatsächlich geht. Ein Schiedsrichter darf nicht einreisen und plötzlich steht nicht mehr seine Qualifikation im Mittelpunkt, sondern seine Herkunft. Genau darauf weist Streich hin, wenn er sagt: „Das ist hochgradig rassistisch.“ Man muss seine Meinung nicht immer teilen. Aber genau diese Fähigkeit, gesellschaftliche & politische Entwicklungen einzuordnen, macht ihn zu einer Bereicherung für die Berichterstattung. Und ja, man sollte auch klar benennen dürfen, dass die Einreisepolitik der Trump-Regierung Menschen aus bestimmten Ländern unter Generalverdacht stellt. Wenn Herkunft zum Sicherheitsrisiko erklärt wird, dann ist Kritik daran nicht nur legitim, sondern notwendig.

Mehr Christian Streich. Weniger PR-Sprech.

[Axel Flasbarth @AxelFlasbarth]

Genau so ist es: Mit unserem Merit-Order-System wird der Strompreis primär dadurch bestimmt, wie oft Gas die Grenzerzeugungsquelle ist.

Wie können wir das reduzieren?

Mehr Erneuerbare und insb. mehr Speicher.

[Jürgen Zimmerer @JuergenZimmerer]

Historikerin Christina Brüning (Marburg) erhält Morddrohungen, sie fühlt sich von rechts bedroht. Sie unterrichtet ua Kolonialgeschichte. Wir dürfen Einschüchterung nicht zulassen.
Volle Solidarität!
Ich erinnere mich noch an meine 1. Morddrohung. Es macht was mit einem

https://t.co/02utSozfRf

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“It’s time to wake the fuck up”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

[@ChrisStoecker @ChrisStoecker]

„Many of our children are growing up with no memory of politics without Trump. They are coming of age in a world where pursuing virtue is seen as a sucker’s game, where decency is a distinct disadvantage.“

Gruß an die Trump-Inspirierten in der deutschen Politik.

[Reuters @Reuters]

As protests in Albania continue to grow, Edward McAllister, Reuters Bureau Chief for Greece and the Balkans, explains how the demonstrations over a planned luxury resort have grown into general political discontent with Prime Minister Edi Rama

[Nalan Sipar @NalanSipar]

#Almanya'nın en iyi öğretmeninin bu sene Berlinli #FatmaKan seçildiğini biliyor muydunuz?

Peki bizim gençlerimizin tepki olarak #Almanca konuşmadıklarını?

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Trump ließ den Ostflügel des Weißen Hauses abreißen – für einen privaten 400-Millionen-Dollar-Ballsaal von Unternehmensspendern finanziert. Jetzt wissen wir was sie dafür bekommen haben. 14 von 27 bekannten Unternehmensspendern erhielten in den sechs Monaten danach neue oder erweiterte Regierungsaufträge – zusammen über 50 Milliarden Dollar. Lockheed Martin allein: 43,8 Milliarden Dollar. Palantir: über eine Milliarde. 16 der 27 Spender standen unter Bundesermittlungen – bei den meisten wurden diese Ermittlungen danach ausgesetzt. Senator Crow wörtlich: „Unternehmen schrieben große Schecks für Trumps goldenen Ballsaal. Jetzt kassieren sie Milliarden in Kickbacks – bezahlt von euren Steuergeldern." Es gibt dafür kein anderes ehrliches Wort als Korruption. 🇺🇸🇪🇺

[Janosch Dahmen @janoschdahmen]

1/
Kaum ein Tag, an dem Springer zuletzt nicht an Kanzler Merz sägt, Wüst wie Günther als mutmaßliche Königsmörder des Konservativen isoliert & Spahn weiter gepusht wird.

Journalismus ist das nicht – Bambi für Ronzheimer hin, Freiheits-Gerede von Döpfner her. Worum geht’s dann?

[Monireh Kazemi @MonirehKazemi]

Zu jener Zeit, als wir – die im Exil lebenden Gegner der islamistischen Katastrophe – mit aller Kraft versuchten, der einflussreichen akademischen Propaganda im Westen entgegenzutreten, stießen unsere Warnungen weitgehend auf taube Ohren. Wir bemühten uns unermüdlich aufzuzeigen, dass das Regime, das über den Iran hereingebrochen war, keineswegs einen spirituellen, befreienden oder fortschrittlichen Charakter besaß, sondern im Gegenteil zutiefst totalitär, faschistisch und zerstörerisch war.
In ebenjener Zeit rief der Westen den Begriff des „islamischen Feminismus“ ins Leben – ein Konstrukt, das dazu diente, regimekritische Stimmen aus dem Exil noch weiter aus den akademischen Feldern zu verdrängen.
Der Einfluss jener westlichen Intellektuellen und Meinungsmacher, die die Islamische Republik als emanzipatorisches oder antiimperialistisches Projekt verklärten, erwies sich als übermächtig. Zu ihnen zählten Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Betty Friedan, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Judith Butler und viele andere.
Es war schließlich Marjane Satrapi, die mit ihrem Werk Persepolis (https://t.co/NbYBAJ2X2q) die brutale Wirklichkeit des islamistischen Herrschaftssystems auf eine Weise sichtbar machte, wie es abstrakten politischen Analysen und theoretischen Debatten nur selten gelang. Ihr autobiografisches Meisterwerk widerlegte die wohlfeilen Deutungen zahlreicher Intellektueller, Philosophen, Politiker und Medienvertreter -gleich ob links oder rechts -und ließ viele ihrer Illusionen wie ein Kartenhaus in sich zusammenfallen.

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

BREAKING📷 A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation.
Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The pardon application filed on his behalf explicitly cited his mother's million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. as a reason he deserved clemency. Trump signed the pardon. Walczak walked free and was relieved of more than $4 million in restitution he owed.
That is one entry on a donor list of 58 people who gave a million dollars or more.
MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, has now raised over $305 million since the 2024 election five times more than any presidential super PAC in history at this stage. The Brennan Center called it "completely unprecedented." Ninety-six percent of it came from donors giving $1 million or more. Sixty-two percent from those giving $5 million or more. This is not a grassroots operation. It is a pay-window.
Here's what the donor list actually shows.
https://t.co/s5GJV5zpIa's parent company, Foris Dax, gave $30 million — while it was under SEC investigation for allegedly trading unregistered securities. The SEC investigation was quietly dropped in March 2025, two months after the donation.
The Winklevoss twins gave $1 million — also while their crypto platform Gemini was under SEC investigation. That investigation was dropped in February 2025.
Energy Transfer, the Texas pipeline company, and its CEO Kelcy Warren gave a combined $25 million — while Energy Transfer was actively suing a federal regulatory agency in court.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25 million — as the Trump administration was actively shaping AI policy in Silicon Valley's favor.
Then there are the appointments. Benjamin Landa gave $5 million then became Trump's ambassador to Hungary. Kelly Loeffler and her husband gave $5 million she now runs the Small Business Administration. Warren Stephens gave $2 million now ambassador to the United Kingdom. Jared Isaacman gave $2 million now NASA administrator.
And Isabela Herrera, a 25-year-old self-employed financial consultant whose only prior political donation was $20 to Pete Buttigieg in 2020, somehow contributed $3.5 million to MAGA Inc. Her father a Venezuelan billionaire facing federal bribery charges was pardoned by Trump in January 2026. Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the FEC alleging she was a straw donor for her father.
This is not dark money. This is public record.
Every dollar, every favor, every pardon. Filed with the FEC. Sitting in plain sight.
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[The Associated Press @AP]

Spanish lawmakers gave Pope Leo XIV a standing ovation after he called for respect for migrants’ rights and international law in a historic address to parliament that signaled a new level of acceptance of the Catholic Church in the overwhelmingly secular country.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This girl found out that the Albanian island that the Kushner’s are buying is registered in Amsterdam by Zvernic South Adriatic Development & it’s owned through a chain of Dutch Shell Companies & it’s managed by a trust office.They’re really trying to hide the owners names well.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Within Temptation stood strong with Ukraine at Rock am Ring in Germany.

During their performance of “Faster,” Sharon den Adel took the flag of Ukraine’s 130th Separate Territorial Defense Battalion on stage and held it high while singing.

Thank you for standing with Ukraine.

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨🇦🇱BREAKING: Day 8 of mass protests in Tirana, Albania

✊️🇦🇱Thousands have once again gathered in the capital to oppose the controversial Trump–Kushner resort project, as demonstrations enter their eighth consecutive day

#Albania

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

RFK Jr. to Tucker Carlson: “We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.” (2025)

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

I’m not comparing him to Hitler, but I want to remind people of something.

When the generals told Hitler there wouldn’t be a thousand-year Reich, but he didn’t accept defeat gracefully.

He told them to flood the coal mines and bring down the electrical grid around Berlin.

His rationale was: If I can’t have it, nobody gets it.

That’s Donald Trump’s psychology with the Republican Party.

He doesn’t quietly want them to win after he’s gone.

His whole identity is built on the narrative that you were nothing before I got here and you’ll be nothing when I leave.

He’s not going to campaign for his successor. It’s not in his personality. It never will be.

Watch what happens.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of us.”

This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Big Tech just ran out of money building AI and what they're doing to cover it up should be illegal.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are spending a combined $700 BILLION this year on AI infrastructure.

This eats up 94% of their total operating cash flow.

The richest companies in human history are almost broke. And instead of slowing down, they're covering it up with the biggest financial engineering operation since 2008:

Google just sold $80 billion in stock to fund AI infrastructure. That was their first equity raise in 20 YEARS.

The last time Google needed to sell stock, YouTube didn't even exist. Sundar Pichai admitted the thing keeping him up at night is "compute capacity."

The company that prints $100 billion a year in ad revenue just told Wall Street it isn't enough anymore.

Amazon's free cash flow is projected to go NEGATIVE this year for the first time ever. Morgan Stanley estimates a $17 billion deficit and Bank of America says $28 billion.

The most profitable logistics machine on Earth is about to burn more cash than it generates, and they quietly filed with the SEC saying they may need to raise even more debt and equity to keep building.

All four hyperscalers are now borrowing hundreds of billions in bonds to keep the AI buildout alive. These were the most cash-rich companies in human history, and they're leveraging themselves to the teeth to build infrastructure that nobody has proven will generate enough revenue to pay for itself.

And the cracks are already starting to show:

Broadcom makes the custom AI chips that power Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic. This week their AI revenue TRIPLED year over year, sales grew 48%, and profits smashed every Wall Street estimate.

The reward for all of that was $320 billion in value erased in a single trading session.

Their CEO Hock Tan went on the earnings call and exposed three things about the AI industry:

Google is already shopping for cheaper AI chip alternatives, broadcom abandoned its strategy of selling complete AI systems and is now retreating to selling bare chips at lower margins.

And despite supposedly "unprecedented demand," Tan refused to raise his full-year forecast, which tells you everything about what he's actually seeing behind the curtain.

Wall Street heard all three and hit the sell button so hard it dragged AMD, Intel, and the entire chip sector down with it.

When a company triples its AI revenue and gets punished because tripling isn't fast enough, the expectations have left the atmosphere entirely.

And here's the really scary part...

These companies ARE your retirement account. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Nvidia make up roughly 30% of the S&P 500. If you have a 401k or an index fund, you are already exposed to this bet whether you chose to be or not.

Every single one of these companies is telling you AI will generate trillions in revenue. But right now the math says they're spending trillions FIRST and hoping the revenue shows up later.

If the revenue catches up, this becomes the greatest infrastructure buildout in human history. Bigger than railroads and bigger than the internet.

If it doesn't, the companies that make up a third of the American stock market just leveraged their balance sheets into the largest write-down cycle since 2000.

And unlike the dot-com crash, this time the bubble companies aren't random startups with no revenue. They're the backbone of the entire global economy.