Vor 5 Jahren zwang die 1. #Corona-Welle 🇩🇪 in den Lockdown. Deshalb hat der "Spiegel" einige bekannte Persönlichkeiten um einen kurzen #Pandemie-Rückblick gebeten. Hier ein Thread mit 5 lesenswerten Statements, per Archivlink ohne Paywall einsehbar: spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m… 🧵1/

Jesus Christ this is Bad. Hegseth provided Operation details directly in the chat with the reporter:

The disclosure of highly classified information in a group chat wasn’t just some one-off security failure. It was a window into how this Administration operates: with incompetence, recklessness, contempt for the truth, & a reflexive impulse to cover things up. I'll explain🧵

As an ER doctor, I treat people when other systems fail. Now, we're watching those systems get dismantled on purpose: 20,000 jobs slashed at HHS. Vaccine and prevention programs gutted. And Congressional Republicans voting to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks. 1/10

Aid leaders have been warning for 2 months that the gutting of USAID would leave US unable to respond to major global disasters. We are now seeing that play out in real time with the Myanmar quake - reality is calling bullshit on the Trump admin's narrative. 🧵

Miriam Hollstein Das spannende wäre doch eigentlich die Geschichte hinter der Geschichte. Es ist ja offensichtlich eine abseitige Position in der Fach-Community und warum das so ist, ist argumentativ vielfach und gut begründet worden. Wie kommt nun diese Gruppe zusammen, warum sind es, in

Interesting! Junior researchers who coauthor work with top scientists enjoy a persistent competitive advantage throughout the rest of their careers, compared to peers with similar early career profiles but without top coauthors. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Bemerkenswertes Interview von FDP-Aussteiger Volker Wissing, der erklärt, dass man zu Ampel-Zeiten in der FDP sofort als „Grünen-Versteher“ oder „SPD-Freund“ galt, sobald man einen Kompromiss positiv nach außen vertreten wollte. Die Fraktion habe sich lieber auf Grünen-Bashing

We've reached the point where Ukraine needs to consider very hard whether it's willing to extend a Ukrainian security guarantee to NATO.

Why did Ukraine publicly disclose so much info about Operation “Spiderweb”? That’s a very good question — and the answer reveals how modern warfare now goes far beyond the battlefield. 1/n

3/ Second: disclosure is the strategy. Ukraine revealed how it pulled off the operation — smuggling drones in decoy trucks, driving them 5,000 km through russia, and remotely launching them under the enemy’s nose. This wasn’t just a strike. It was a psychological ambush.

My understanding of the Trump-Musk conflict: 1. Musk considers that he bought Trump's presidency & that Trump should behave as his obedient servant. 2. Trump acknowledges that Musk bought him & allowed dozens of regulatory concerns to lapse & $20 billion of gov contracts. /1

Nun erhebt auch der Bundesrechnungshof schwere Vorwürfe gegen Spahn. Die Masken-Deals waren kein Versehen – sie folgten einem Muster: Persönliche Nähe vor professionellem Krisenmanagement, private Netzwerk vor Gemeinwohl. Ministerin Warken muss den Ermittlungsbericht offenlegen.

Große Ehre und große Freude!

An analysis of the legality of the recent Israeli attack in Iran. Coauthored with yuval shany justsecurity.org/114641/israel-…

ihr habt nichts verstanden. nichts.

The World Investment Report 2025 UN Trade and Development was just released. Click here to read about the latest trends in investment treaties and investor-State arbitration cases (chapter II): unctad.org/system/files/o… Full report: investmentpolicy.unctad.org/publications/1…

Alternative pitch: An international student completes 1 semester at Oxford University and begins every conversation with that fact for the rest of her life.

.Tilo Jung setzt Michael Kretschmer Schachmatt