"My son sits on the edge of the bed
and asks me to read him a poem
One tear drops from my eyes on the pillow;
he catches it in astonishment and says,
“But this is a tear and not a poem, dad!”
A Lesson in Drawing
Nizar Qabbani
Tr. Rana Bitar
@poetrydaily.bsky.social
poems.com/poem/a-lesso...
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media.
'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
World's richest man publicly affirms the demand to "deport the invaders." If Houllebecq put this in a novel it would be treated as implausible satire.
Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words.
Link below:
@mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social
In der 7. Zeug*innen-Befragung im Untersuchungsausschuss zur CDU-Fördergeldaffäre hat der Schlüsselzeuge und Senator a.D. Chialo jede Auskunft verweigert und stattdessen seine Anwälte vorgeschickt. Die Berichterstattung der Medien legt nahe, dass er sich damit vor allem selbst geschadet hat:
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Daniel Wesener
Prime example of the present hard right-wing coalition in Europe:
Interview with H.-G. Maaßen in The Spectator in which he is called "exiled," a "dissident," "victim," and "remnant of an older and more powerful country, soldiering on in spite of the decline, trying to preserve what he can."
Wie groß war der Druck aus der CDU-Fraktion bei der Vergabe von Fördermitteln? Ex-Kultursenator Joe Chialo sollte dazu im Untersuchungsausschuss befragt werden. Er verweigert die Aussage.
If you want to learn about Maaßen and his position in Germany's political spectrum:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ge...
Gut gemachte, informative @rbb24.de Doku zur Zukunft Berlins und einem bevorstehenden "Jahrzehnt großer Abrisse, Neubauten, aufwändiger Sanierungen – und unendlicher Staus".
www.rbb-online.de/doku/o-r/rbb...
Quinn Slobodian
I can't pluck a flower from the field
without it raising a weapon in my face
