Too important to keep behind the paywall, listen to my latest episode with @hahauenstein.bsky.social here:
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Too important to keep behind the paywall, listen to my latest episode with @hahauenstein.bsky.social here:
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Is Germany's Israel consensus finally shifting?

In the latest @spassbremse.bsky.social episode, I speak with @hahauenstein.bsky.social about German "Staatsräson" and why it might be (rhetorically) shifting now. Subscribe to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

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Is Germany's Israel consensus finally shifting?

In the latest @spassbremse.bsky.social episode, I speak with @hahauenstein.bsky.social about German "Staatsräson" and why it might be (rhetorically) shifting now. Subscribe to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

69* - The not-so-great GroKo w/ Astrid Zimmermann (*video excerpt) YouTube video by Spaßbremse Podcast

And check out our first video episode here: youtu.be/HdskRf_FmBI

Latest episode of Spaßbremse with Astrid Zimmerman of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the new (old) GroKo government in Germany. Listen here spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/eD0tsIuAhTb

69* - The not-so-great GroKo w/ Astrid Zimmermann (*video excerpt) YouTube video by Spaßbremse Podcast

And check out our first video episode here: youtu.be/HdskRf_FmBI

Latest episode of Spaßbremse with Astrid Zimmerman of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the new (old) GroKo government in Germany. Listen here spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/eD0tsIuAhTb

Shout out to all the divorce-made Kinder

Ohne Einwanderung hätte DE 2019-2024 Rezession (-6% BIP) statt Stagnation (±0%) gehabt.

Und: Trend der Arbeitsmarktintegration ist gut (weniger Overqualification, i.e. high skill leute in low skill jobs), aber Level still bad.

Source: New @ecb.europa.eu blog
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

Happy Tag der Befreiung. The fight against fascism continues.

Frecciarossa

So imagine right now you have a fleet of 4 voltage, all signalling systems you want, 200m long, approved to run anywhere high speed trains

WHERE DO YOU DEPLOY THEM?

And as this is to be an EU plan, let's focus on #CrossBorderRail routes

Ongoing evidence that a sense of isolation and atomization is a driver of far right extremism. And one that becomes self reinforcing as far right parties agitate for policies that destroy the social fabric.

Paris May Day

Good reminder of the value of human labor: Google AI’s summary of Hobsbawm’s May Day history is exactly backward.

Enjoyed my conversation with @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on @spassbremse.bsky.social about Friedrich Merz’s history and what it might mean for the future of Germany. Link to listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Jow1PXtAySb

Trint is very good and you can get a free trial if you only need a couple things transcribed

Enjoyed my conversation with @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on @spassbremse.bsky.social about Friedrich Merz’s history and what it might mean for the future of Germany. Link to listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Jow1PXtAySb

Potentially as big an event as Nixon closing the gold window in 1971. Without dollar swap lines European banks will need to dramatically cut their dependence on dollar funding.
www.reuters.com/markets/some...

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Germany, where even the Deutsche Bahn AI assistant gets to enjoy Feierabend

The Road Back to Mt Pelerin

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Uma, Ciarán, Nick and Julia answer your questions because we've been doing this for 6 years now. Wooo

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Both look a lot like WATERLOO

Unfortunately gotta hand it to ‘em

This should have been signed by every Democrat and every elected official who opposes the kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of political dissidents

This is also a country with an even number of votes to decide the president, idiotic systems are kinda par for the course

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Good overview from Germany’s SPD finance minister Jörg Kukies of the sorts of sums unlocked by Germany’s fiscal Zeitenwende if implemented:

They didn't take him literally OR Seriously

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