In the meantime, Bridgefy – Mobile Apps Without Internet (which appeared several years ago and I wrote about it on TechCrunch ) does this across iOS and Android and recently claimed 12 million downloads.

It's good that Mr. Brooks is speaking out and doing something positive by talking about the problem. “AI” can’t do that. nytimes.com/2025/08/08/tec…

Russia has been making a claim to Alaska for years. I was meaning to predict they would exploit this but waited because I thought they'd would wait until the day itself to use it to deride Trump. But he’s using it against himself and ahead of schedule. youtu.be/9uF6wlwGo3U?si…

"Putin is in love with a legend. Historically speaking, this is very familiar: new regimes, such as Putin's, seek compensation in myths of ancient origin."

"Were Putin to follow his own logic, he would not be invading Ukraine, but handing over European Russia to Finland or Sweden."

Americans don’t know that public transport actually SAVES you time. Try getting work done in your 5000lb car.

lol, Christian Dürr hat neun Jahre für sein Wirtschaftswissenschaften-Studium gebraucht und war von 2003 (mit 26) bis 2025, also 22 Jahre, Abgeordneter im niedersächsischen Landtag und dann ab 2017 im Bundestag. Aber ja, der soll uns bitte was über Leistung erzählen.

A guess about a point Putin and Trump agreed on: that Putin won’t release the files about Russia’s campaigns to support Trump in 2016 and 2020 so long as Trump continues to aid Russia’s war.

Pushpa and Padma, sister and mother of Nepali hostage, Bipin Joshi, at the Hostages tent in Jerusalem.

Kolumne: Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche hat dem Anschein nach mit einem sehr konkreten Ziel einen Bericht bestellt - den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien abzubremsen, weil der angeblich zu schnell gehe und damit zu hohe Kosten verursache. Das wäre ein grober Fehler.

WE BROKE DONALD TRUMP

A good summary of the Alaska fiasco. understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…

Excellent proposals. Trump will have to summon the energy to climb out of Putin’s pocket, though. time.com/7310116/trump-…

Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/…

Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.

Timothy Snyder

Trump is firing the competent people in the national security apparatus because they are competent. nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/…

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 The beauty of the "Trump is dead" rumor -- and the internet reaction to it -- is, even if it turns out not to be true, it means that Trump gets to see the jubilation among Americans upon hearing reports of his possible demise. #trumpdead #TrumpIsDead

Voila. Protest does work.