Wir gratulieren herzlich Ursula Krechel, Mitgründerin des PEN Berlin und Ehrenpräsidentin der Herzen, zum Georg-Büchner-Preis. „Und da stehen wir: Lauter ehrenamtliche Menschen mit einem Beruf, vor dem uns unsere Eltern gewarnt haben.“ (Aus ihrer Rede auf dem

Covid. The Brain Fog of Forgetting suzanne moore open.substack.com/pub/suzannemoo…

Stairway to Dimitroffstraße U-Bahn station (since 1990 Eberswalder Straße) in Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin, 1980s. Photo by Rudi Meisel.

Hoppla. Freihei hat einen hohen Preis.

Narcissistic abuse is sometimes called Death by a Thousand Little Cuts. It’s a persistent, often covert chipping away of a person. This is what Death by a Thousand Emotional Cuts looks like: -Constant jabs to hurt your feelings or make you second-guess yourself. -Repeatedly

Kharkiv right now ❤️‍🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.

Er ist ja nicht dumm, er weiß es besser, er erzählt es trotzdem.

Malignant narcissists intuitively grasp that prolonged stress wears down a person’s health, clarity, and resilience. They’ll engineer situations that keep you in a constant state of tension — endless small disruptions, subtle invalidations, shifting expectations, manufactured

The meagre resistance to President Trump’s show of force in D.C. is, in some ways, a microcosm of the nationwide resistance over the last few months: intermittent, lacking in robust leadership, and perhaps disillusioned. nyer.cm/6H0BgGa

Postcard from 1970s East Berlin

🚨Reporting first-ever drone siege in history. Russian FPV drones try to cut off the only road connecting Kherson to the rest of Ukraine by striking vehicles Just today, 2 cars destroyed in an hour Ukrainians respond by installing drone tunnels and driving with drone detectors

Russia is wiping villages off the map in Sumy region. Homes, schools and lives are being erased in hours of relentless shelling. This is genocide, not war. 📍Pishchane last night, Sumy region 🇺🇦

I wrote this about the most boring and destructive trend of our time: the politicisation of everything. We are becoming incapable of seeing anything - art, TV, adverts, brands, food - through anything other than a political lens. There is more to life! comment.press/politicisation…

Akiko Iwasaki Prof. Akiko Iwasaki warnt vor kumulativen Schäden: "Je mehr Infektionen man anhäuft, desto mehr Schäden können sich im Körper ansammeln." Prävention sei der "beste Weg". Neben Impfungen nannte Iwasaki auch Masken und "saubere Luft" in Innenräumen, etwa durch …

We can only hope. Everybody plans to wait him out, but he is tightening the noose daily.

Postcard of the Berlin Wall, 1980s.

NEWS: Bill Gates is quietly cutting ties with Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm closely linked to Democrats. The $77 billion Gates Foundation has decided to stop making grants to nonprofit funds administered by Arabella. $450 million. NYT scoop: nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/…

Breaking: Hamas is not an insurgency! All the counterinsurgency experts of academia and others are biting to apply counterinsurgency theory. An insurgency is generally an armed movement seeking to overthrow an existing government from the shadows. Hamas is the government in

‘The single finest candidate since this Nobel award was ever talked about’. This is North Korean.

Das gabs nicht mal im Politbüro des ZK der SED: