You suffer but why?

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

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Bice Curiger zur Krise im Kulturjournalismus - fridamagazin.ch Bice Curiger plädiert im Interview mit FRIDA Magazin für mehr Engagement und weniger Erbsenzählerei im Kulturjournalismus.

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It‘s been five years already.

A retrospective on Weekly5: www.negativewhite.com/five-years-o...

Wir haben mit dem Onlinemagazin @republik.ch in 9 Tagen geschafft, wofür wir uns drei Wochen Zeit nehmen wollten: 2000 neue Mitglieder gewonnen!

Herzlichen Dank für die grosse Unterstützung, die uns ermöglicht, Schulen + Erstwähler:innen ein kostenloses Abo zur Verfügung zu stellen. 😍

2000 neue Mitglieder, 3 Versprechen – Republik Republik abonnieren: 50 % Rabatt bis zum 14. April 2026.

Richtig gute Versprechen.

self destruction initiated in 3,2,1...

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Exakt diese Frage.

Dream, dance, and despair Swiss-Iraqi artist 3YOONI performed at this year's m4music festival in Zurich. His performance was as bold and innovative as one can imagine.

First report from this year‘s m4music Festival, introducing the bold and innovative sound by Swiss-Iraqi artist 3YOONI.

Retter der Qualitätspresse - Schaffhauser AZ Der Tagesanzeiger stösst in den Schaffhauser Lokaljournalismus vor, laut Interna mit klarem Ziel. Ein Hoch auf die vierte Gewalt. Wir lieben unsere Konkurrenz. Die Schaffhauser Nachrichten, die wir ge...

Absurd: Der @tagesanzeiger.bsky.social flutet Schaffhausen mit KI-produzierten Artikeln. So wolle man in den Gemeinden ein "Grundrauschen" produzieren und so Gemeinden für bezahlte Modelle gewinnen, schreibt die TX Group intern. Bisher wirken die Artikel vor allem etwas derangiert.

I love this about creator and indie journalism: Country borders don't matter to niche audiences.

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

"The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

I never thought I would live through that. But here I am.

@janoschtroehler.com joined Trustfund to team up with other music journalists, saying: "Music is such a vast beat, so one independent publication won’t ever be able to cover it all."

Get verified on Trustfund to bundle with Janosch and any other journalist you love. Trustfnd.com

Negative White Independent music newsletter from Switzerland

One thing to love about independent journalism: Global niches.

Meet @janoschtroehler.com, founder and editor of @negativewhite.com. It's a publication about the business of music, popular in the US, UK, Poland, France and many more places including Switzerland, where it was founded.

Bist du vor Ort?

Für Hossli also Journalismus am Limit.

Oder auch PR?

Trustfund carousel slide featuring the Planet Detroit globe logo. Text reads: "@planetdetroit — After getting a growth burst for climate journalism, Planet Detroit is looking to collaborate locally." Trustfund branding at the bottom with "Swipe for the full story" prompt.

The Planet Detroit globe logo surrounded by icons of five collaborators, Floodlight, Canary Media, Sentient, AG Water Desk, and The Xylom. Text reads: "Planet Detroit joined 5 other climate newsrooms in creating a collaborative link to sign up to all their newsletters."

"700+ total newsletter subscriptions created. One collaborative link. When any of the newsrooms posted it on social, all lists grew. Planet Detroit gained 122 new subscribers."

Slide featuring a headshot of Nina Ignaczak, Founder and editor at Planet Detroit. Quote reads: "That kind of burst is significantly more than we'd typically see in the same timeframe."

700+ new email subscriptions for climate journalism 💪🏻

The collaborative growth story of the Climate News Task Force, as told by @planetdetroit.org founder @ninaignaczak.bsky.social

Und somit sage ich auch Adieu.

Schon der beste Kommentar bei Birrers Tagi-Kommentar zur Halbierungsinitiative.

The SRG is saved—for now The halving initiative has failed, and public broadcasting has been saved. But the battle is already moving into the next round.

Yesterday, Switzerland voted to keep its strong public broadcasting. But the far-right efforts to destroy it continues.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Today @ghost.org crossed $10M ARR, as a bootstrapped non-profit foundation building open source software.

Indie publisher revenue earned with Ghost now ~$130M, and accelerating.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

All good, saw it and thought it might be a mistake. Can happen.

How tenaciously Palantir courted Switzerland Internal documents show how the country finally rejected pitches by tech company Palantir.

Finally available in english and paywall-free

We are sued for this article.

Palantir doesn't want policymakers and decisionmakers or anyone to read this article...

Streisand, Galore! 😉

www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/h...

Wer X als valide Alternative zu einem starken Service Public anführt, dem ist wohl nicht mehr zu helfen.

FJØRT - '43 (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Grand Hotel van Cleef

Wir leben in Hakenkreuzzeiten
La résistance, Zeit, euch zu zeigen

@drownedinsound.bsky.social is incoming! 🎉

Now I‘m gonna try and convince some indie music journalists to join 😏