Cornelia Fuchs

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

Weather forecaster explains how cuts impact his ability to warn of hurricane dangers accurately.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime

Internierungslager für ukrainische Kinder: Man hat Daten für 136 Einrichtungen zusammengetragen, in denen Kinder festgehalten werden, die von Russland aus den besetzten Gebieten entführt wurden. Junge Ukrainer werden trainiert, in Zukunft für Putin zu kämpfen.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Extract from article: This gamification of reality, in which politicians are actively incentivised to break rules and tell lies, so long as it gets them attention, headlines and viral views, directly leads to the promotion and endurance of the sort of outright charlatans and liars that we have seen so much of in recent years. This world view led directly to the rise of Boris Johnson in the past and it is leading directly to the rise of Nigel Farage now. And while Jenrick may seem like a mere minnow compared to the sharks he swims amongst, that should not blind us to the real dangers that would come from allowing somebody like him rise to such a prominent position at the heart of our national life.

Our politics has become deeply unserious. Flags and gimmicks and stupid video clips and social media clickbait and lies. With very little serious challenge to counter the nonsense and the dishonesty.
The consequences for our country and our democracy are dire.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Verträge sichern Dienstleistern hohe Summen zu – trotz Missständen In Deutschlands größtem Fluchtzentrum in Berlin-Tegel herrschen Missstände. Trotzdem erhält ein Dienstleister laut Vertrag 15 Prozent Verwaltungsaufschlag, wie stern und RTL enthüllen.

Fast ‘ne halbe Milliarde. Jedes Jahr. Für ‘ne Geflüchteten-Unterkunft.

Für soviel Geld könnte man eigentlich was Vernünftiges hinkriegen.

Oder man macht es so, wie das Land Berlin, das DRK und die Messe Berlin in #Tegel.

#wallraffen

Heute. 22:35. RTL.

@marcneller.bsky.social
@stern.de

A tweet from NBC news: Measles vaccination among babies skyrocketed in Texas as the outbreak grew, new research shows. Reply by Alex Griswold: Because in practice anti-vaxx is a luxury belief based on the assumption that your neighbors' vaccines do in fact work

I've never seen it so well put before.

Braune Kinderzimmer

Kürzlich haben wir im stern und auf RTL unsere verdeckten Recherchen in rechtsradikalen Jugendgruppen veröffentlicht, in der "Letzten Verteidigungswelle" vor allem.

Nun ermittelt der Generalbundesanwalt.

Alle wichtigen Hintergründe und gibt' s hier: t1p.de/ae9pw. Titelgeschichte, TV-Doku uvm.

Herausragend gute Arbeit von @stern-recherche.bsky.social - es wurden sogar Anschlagspläne auf ein Kulturhaus und ein Asylunterkunft aufgedeckt. Lesenswert, jeder einzelne Beitrag: www.stern.de/politik/deut...

Heute Abend um 22:35 Uhr auf rtl ist diese Recherche meiner Stern kolleg*innen zu sehen und ihr müsst euch das leider antun: es schließt an an adolescence: was passiert jungen Menschen im Netz , wenn sie da auf Rechtsextremismus stoßen? Sehr sehenswert , teilt es bitte !

Beschämend in der Debatte über den Umgang mit der AfD: Kaum wer berücksichtigt in der Argumentation die Gruppen, die von Rechtsextremisten bedroht werden.

Man bringt’s fertig, sich in AfD-Wähler und deren Ängste hineinzudenken, und zeigt null Empathie für die, die tatsächlich verfolgt werden.

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Die wunderbare Marina Hyde: "You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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SHORTLIST 2025 - STERN-Preis 2024 Aus den zahlreichen Einreichungen der wieder eingeführten Kategorie „DOKUMENTATION“ hat die Jury eine Shortlist gewählt. Diese Arbeiten konkurrieren nun um

Alle Nominierten sind jetzt ganz offiziell einzusehen: sternpreis.stern.de/wettbewerb/s... Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle! Und ganz herzlichen Dank an Gunhild Lübeck und Stefan Schmitz für die perfekte Organisation der Jurysitzung.

#sternpreis

Es war eine große Freude, dieses Jahr mit dieser Jury über die Shortlist zum Egon Erwin Kisch-Preis zu befinden:
@larafritzsche.bsky.social
@hasnainkazim.bsky.social
Franziska Reich
Jens Schröder
Jana Simon
Luise Strothmann
@jenniferwilton.bsky.social
Judith Wittwer Herter

#sternpreis

Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Den Leuten muss klar sein, dass es einen Zusammenhang zwischen der mangelnden Qualität von Journalismus und ihrer mangelnden Bereitschaft, dafür zu zahlen, gibt.

Tweet von Madonna: I thought this country was built by Europeans, escaping living under the rule of a King, to establish a New World governed by the people. Currently we have a president who calls Himself. Our King If this is a joke, I'm not laughing

Madonna Beste.

Petra Pau: "Schwierig für mich, allein durch den Bundestag zu gehen" | STERN.de Mehr als 26 Jahre saß Petra Pau für die Linke im Parlament. Jetzt hört sie auf. Ein Gespräch über Freundschaft unter Politikern – und den Hass, den sie erlebt.

Hier erzählt die scheidende Bundestagsvize Petra Pau, warum sie nicht mehr allein durch den Bundestag geht.
Spoiler: Wegen der AfD.
Und noch ein Spoiler: Sie ist nicht die Einzige.

www.stern.de/politik/petr...

@raskin.house.gov: "The most glaring conflict of interest of all is that Elon is a government contractor himself, who collects billions of dollars from the US government... And like all authoritarian and fascist movements around the world in history, corruption is at the heart of it."

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons.

They are now trying to rescind the terminations.