Robin Detje

Wenn du groß, schlank und weiß bist und einen Anzug mit Krawatte tragen kannst, dann ist es ein einträgliches Geschäft, konservativ zu sein. Das Kostüm steht dir wie angegossen und du kannst sagen, was du willst, wenn es nur mit sonorer Stimme oder in beleidigtem Duktus vorgetragen wird.

Das wird der Knazler der Buchbranche übrigens nicht verzeihen und natürlich wird er sich bei irgendeinem Gesetz direkt rächen.

Warum sollen Wolfram Weimer oder sein Kanzler denn Rücktrittsforderungen aus einer Welt ernstnehmen, die sie sowieso verachten?

Es gibt offensichtlich zielgerichtete Angriffe der Regierung Merz auf die Unabhängigkeit von Jurys und auf die Autonomie von Kultureinrichtungen, aber hier hält man seinen Kultstaatsminister einfach für ein bisschen trottelig. Das macht mich nervös.

rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake

leland palmer in the black lodge

Es wäre wirklich besser gewesen, die Verleihung des Deutschen Buchhandlungspreises hätte Wolfram Weimer abgesagt.

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Pentagon spent more money in September—the end of the 2025 fiscal year—than it had in any other year since 2008. But a good chunk of the budget wasn’t used for anything that could be considered a pertinent military expense. The Defense Department burned through $93 billion that month alone, signing checks left and right in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books. There is pressure to spend: If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year, then they lose access to that cash forever, potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to request a reduced budget the following year. But the Pentagon’s long list of luxuries is hardly defensible. Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts. Weeks later, millions of Americans would lose their SNAP benefits amid the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. More still stand to lose eligibility to the food assistance program thanks to a Republican crusade that added stricter work requirements to the program, piling on paperwork and documentation mandates. One of the largest bulk expenditures was just for furniture, for which the Pentagon decided to shell out $225 million. That included $12,000 for fruit basket stands, and checks totaling more than $60,000 for Herman Miller recliners. All in all, the agency spent more on furniture in 2025 than it had in over a decade. In the last five days of September alone, the department blew through $50.1 billion on just grants and contracts. For context, only nine other countries spend that much on the entirety of their defense budget per year. It’s also more than the total military budgets of Canada and Mexico combined. The federal government had a $1.8 trillion deficit in 2025. Ultimately, the military’s massive expenditures offered up more evidence that the Trump administration has not put any meaningful effort into cracking down on needless government spending, a pledge that Donald Trump has wielded on the campaign trail since 2015. “Under Secretary Hegseth, the Pentagon has consistently said its mission is to refocus on warfighting and lethality,” Open the Books CEO John Hart said. “Last year, we highlighted the problem of wasteful use-it-or-lose-it year-end spending. We noted that this reform is fully within the secretary’s control and is a historic opportunity to make good on that promise.”

You have GOT to read this to this to believe it. https://newrepublic.com/post/207555/pete-hegseth-billions-dollars-fruit-basket-stands-chairs-crab

Wie hätte Precht auf eine Einladung von Epstein reagiert?

THE PRICE OF WAR

"A war of average intensity is associated with an output drop of close to 10% in the war-site economy, while consumer prices rise by approximately 20 percent. The economic ramifications of war are not confined to the war site"

(American Economic Review Vol. 116, No. 3, March 2026)

Pakistan to close schools, take other measures to cut energy as oil spikes Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ‌said on Monday that schools would close for two weeks and office workers would work more from home as he announced a range of measures to cut fuel use and gov...

Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.

1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Eingefahrene U-Bahn-am Bahnsteig, schummriges Licht.

Zwei stark unterbelichtete Menschen von hinten im Zugang zum U-Bahnhof Rosenthaler Platz.

Es war dann so, dass ich bei -10 Grad mit der alten Kamera rumfotografiert habe, und und die Fotos aus der U-Bahn haben so einen lustigen Achtzigerjahre-Spionagefilm-Vibe. Die schlechten dm-Scans von den Bildern habe ich dann in Bangkok bekommen, bei 35 Grad, sehr witzig.

For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.

Iftar, Day 19

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Hegseth “no stupid rules of engagement for US when it comes to war with Iran”

Jouissance is an attempt to “flee from the flesh”, to ignore one’s own/others bodies in an effort to target the very void which is usually veiled or from which one tries to keep a distance as “being human” also means being attracted to that which destroys. For some, however, that inhibition is gone.

Deutscher Bahn droht Personalflucht wegen Zunahme von Übergriffen auf Personal in Bussen und Zügen Deutscher Bahn droht Personalflucht wegen Zunahme von Übergriffen auf Personal in Bussen und Zügen

Wenn man den Druck auf die Menschen ständig erhöht, geben sie ihn irgendwo weiter.

Zum Internationalen Frauenkampftag auf allen Kanälen Männer, die sich nur noch spüren, wenn sie töten und zerstören.

The Slits YouTube video by rockingoat

8.märz
#international#womens#day
youtu.be/c47O-dhD-PI?...

Es geht nicht darum, das iranische Volk zu befreien. Es geht um die Lust an Gewalt und Zerstörung.

A Group of Trans Women in India Helped Vaccinate Almost 1,500 Children “People started inviting us in, offering us tea, and asking for advice,” one trans woman involved in the campaign said.

“Looking to combat vaccine skepticism and mistrust of officials among migrant residents — especially those who are undocumented — organizers enlisted trans women to bridge the communication gap.“

www.them.us/story/trans-...

"Die Ausstellung zeigt, welchen Mehrwert KI für die realitätsnahe Darstellung von
Frauen in der Wissenschaft haben kann" heißt es dort. Mir erschließt sich nicht, welchen Mehrwert es haben soll, historische Personen zu verfremden, ihnen männlich geprägte KI-Schönheitsideale aufzuzwingen.

Ohne das Abitur immatrikulierte er sich 1796 an der Universität Halle zum Theologie-Studium. Häufig verbarg sich Jahn um 1800 in Halle in einer Höhle in einem Felsen an der Saale, heute als Jahnhöhle bekannt. Jahn trat für die Reinheit der deutschen Sprache ein und verfasste die Schrift Patriotismus in Preußen; daraufhin musste er Halle verlassen und ging nach Breslau. 1800 wurde ihm in Leipzig der Prozess gemacht und ein Verbot für alle deutschen Universitäten ausgesprochen. Von Juli 1801 bis Januar 1802 hielt er sich ohne Immatrikulation an der Brandenburgischen Universität Frankfurt auf. Insgesamt verbrachte Jahn sieben Jahre an verschiedenen Universitäten, darunter der Universität Greifswald, wo er 1802 Ernst Moritz Arndt begegnete und wo die vaterländische Idee des „Vereinigten Deutschlands" entstand

turnvater jahn war einfach der deutsche charlie kirk

The Luddite Renaissance is already upon us.

Baudrillard: totally exonerated, no wrong doing

Hat Verfassungsschutz schon mal Amazon geprüft stelle hier nur Fragen

Axel Springer buys Telegraph in £575mn deal German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

This is an altogether new dimension of British-German cooperation that I did not expect:

Blaue Stunde. Blick über verschiedenen hohe Häuser, ganz unten eine Straße, rote Leuchtreklame., hinten ganz klein die grünen Hügel von Hongkong Island.

Hongkong, jetzt.

Einmal so upwards failen wie weiße deutsche Männer in der Politik.