@tagesschau

gibts kommentare der @bpb

bzw. @bpb_hintergrund
@lpb
@lpb_saar

Ich muss mich an diesem schlimmen Bahnhof diesmal kolossal verlaufen haben. Das ist kein Zug, in dem ich hier sitze, das ist ein Call Center

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https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/pioneer-fund/

https://www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania/blog/2022/10/drop-colcom-campaign

https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/eugenics-border-wars-population-control-the-tanton-network/

https://humanlifereview.com/the-long-road-of-eugenics-from-rockefeller-to-roe-v-wade/

https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017-10-2-which-funders-are-working-against-immigration

The entire Epstein Class shares these beliefs about "overpopulation" and dehumanization.

It's why they oppose vaccination, public health, school nutrition programs, clean water regulations,

Trump's billionaires are wannabe aristocratic Nazis.
https://www.jezebel.com/the-eugenicist-doctor-and-the-vast-fortune-behind-trump-1827322435

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/revealed-international-race-science-network-secretly-funded-by-us-tech-boss

https://nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/rfks-ideas-about-wellness-farms-for-young-people-are-eugenic-and-unconstitutional/

Vom 23.3. bis 29.3.2026: Das Wochenhoroskop für Schütze

Schütze entdeckt Emotionen und Chancen in Liebe und Karriere. Heilung und Erfolg warten auf mutige Entscheidungen.
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https://www.bz-berlin.de/unterhaltung/horoskop/das-wochenhoroskop-fuer-schuetze-4

2. Bundesliga: Live-Ticker: Fortuna Düsseldorf – Hertha BSC 2:5 – Endstand!

Hertha kämpft um Platz sechs – doch zwei Stammkräfte fehlen: Alles zur Partie in Düsseldorf hier im B.Z.-Live-Ticker! Was geht noch für Hertha BSC in dieser Saison? Am Sonntag (13.30 Uhr/Sky) sind die Berliner bei Fortuna Düsseldorf gefordert – und wollen Rang sechs in der 2. Bundesliga festigen. Nach dem Remis in der Vorwoche gegen …
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https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin-sport/hertha-bsc/liveticker-fortuna-bsc

Who Defines Culture?

Since May 2025, Germany has a new government coalition led by the Christian Democrats. There are those among the Christian Democrats whom I respect, even if I might not agree with them. But Chancellor Friedrich Merz is not among them. He is a BlackRock creature through and through, extruded to serve American business interests before those of German citizens, and infused with the soul of Diederich Hessling, the protagonist of Heinrich Mann’s “Der Untertan”. I don’t think he is capable of seeing anyone who isn’t a multi-millionaire as a person deserving of dignity and respect – instead, they are resources to be exploited, or alternatively admonished if they do not work themselves to an early grave for the glory of the all-holy Gross Domestic Product.

With Merz in charge, my expectations for the members of his cabinet were exceedingly low, and indeed they are every bit the grotesque parodies that Merz himself is. My primary attention – and ire – has been focused on the Minister for the Economy and Energy Katherina Reiche, who has waged a one-woman war against renewable energy, favoring outdated fossil fuel business models that harm Germany just as much as they fill the treasuries of autocrats. The recent Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz shows the folly of such policies, but I doubt that the Merz cabinet is capable of learning this lesson (or, indeed, any lessons).

But another lackey of Merz has recently come to my unwelcome attention – Wolfram Weimer, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. He banned three left-leaning bookstores from participating in an award for independent bookstores, and, after receiving pushback, he canceled the award ceremony altogether. This prompted me to take a closer look at this man, and I did not like what I found.

Beyond founding or working for a number of fascist-adjacent conservative magazines and newspapers – Cicero, Die Welt, and so forth – he also seems to hold a number of truly loathsome beliefs. He seems to view cultural identity as something static, inherent in “blood and soil”, rather than something that each generation creates anew. He identifies with the concept of the “Abendland” – “Occident” in English, although this concept is more commonly referred to as “Western Civilization”. And he blames “Decolonization” for the “decline of European supremacy”.

There is a lot to unpack here. 

First of all, we need to recognize that the concepts of “Abendland”, “Occident”, or “Western Civilization” are, at their core, a code for White Supremacy. They reduce the USA and Canada (and other English-language former colonies, for that matter) to nothing more than a cultural appendix of Europe – and thus erase the cultural contributions of the First Nations, Black Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and others in favor of white people who want to remain on top of the social heap.

Americans should feel insulted to have their culture reduced to that of “Europe Lite”. Europeans should think twice before invoking such a racist concept.

And by arguing against Decolonization, Weimer makes clear what kind of system he favors – a rich white elite class who alone get to decide what “culture” is, and who gets to impose their vision on everyone else while exploiting them and turning them into serfs.

This is not only insulting to non-white people, but to everyone who isn’t rich. And here is where this intersects with my folklore research.

For all their faults, the Brothers Grimm understood something about culture that Weimer, Merz, and indeed the entire Epstein Class do not and never will: Culture starts at the bottom, not at the top. The Brothers Grimm were passionate about figuring out what made German culture unique, and their approach was to learn about the tales and customs of the peasant population. This was new and revolutionary in Germany – in previous centuries, scholars paid the poor little heed, or else held them in contempt. But to the Brothers Grimm, and the many other folklore researchers who followed in their footsteps, the thoughts of people who were poor mattered.

It wasn’t the peasants sitting around the communal hearth fires who plundered the world and erected monuments to their own vainglory. Instead, they invented stories, developed customs, celebrated festivals, and in general tried to inject a little happiness into their lives which otherwise were full of hard labor and more than a little misery. These people weren’t perfect – plenty of folk tales display more than a little moral myopia. But tried to get by despite all the obstacles in their paths, and the stories they left behind remind us that they existed, and that their lives mattered.

And this is an affront to the sensibilities of Weimer, Merz, and all those who have sold their souls to the oligarchs or even joined their ranks. For all their talk about preserving German or European culture, they hold any culture that they don’t control in utter contempt. They favor fascist aesthetics over anything created, shared and enjoyed by a large number of non-rich people.

As a German patriot, this stance offends me deeply. But we don’t have to buy the stories they are telling. We don’t have to submit to the Mighty Whities and permit them to define what “culture” is and is not. We can tell our own tales, whether old or new. We can create our own customs and traditions, with each generation adding their own threads – no matter where their ancestors came from.

Culture is what we make of it.

22 March 1922 | A Polish Jew, Berek Fiszman, was born in Radomsko. A carpenter.

In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941.
No. 24223
He perished in the camp on 15 March 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Eine der beiden Reden heute beim Protest gegen Armut am Breslauer Platz in Köln.
Die andere Rede macht @atarifrosch fertig und lädt dann, wie gewohnt, die nächsten Tage auf die eigene Seite. Ich verlinke dann gerne.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taqL1An8rPk

#armut #protest #köln

Guten Morgen liebe Trötgemeinde
Gestern erfahren, dass der Lebensgefährte meiner Mutter wohl nächste Woche über die Regenbogenbrücke gehen wird. Mit 92. Der Körper kann einfach nicht mehr. Die letzte Dialyse wurde abgebrochen. Die Kraft hat stark nachgelassen…
Wünsche ihm alles Gute für seine letzte Reise… 😢
Und euch ein schönes Wochenende

Kein Witz!: Straßenfeste verlängern Berliner Dauerbaustelle

Eine Straßenbaustelle in der Fuggerstraße in Berlin nervt die Anwohner – sie ist fertig, aber nicht abgeräumt. Warum?
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https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/strassenfeste-verlaengern-berliner-dauerbaustelle

21. bis 22. März: 5 Kultur-Tipps für das Wochenende

Kultur-Tipps: Musical, Kino, Konzert, Theater und Kunst machen das Berliner Wochenende spannend.
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https://www.bz-berlin.de/unterhaltung/5-kultur-tipps-fuer-das-wochenende-4

Momentaufnahme..//
https://song.link/s/6xtFHohGeJkZeSXQWtLmoU

LEGO SMART Play Is Great Fun, But No Revolution — At Least, Not Yet
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2026/03/20/lego-smart-play-is-great-fun-but-no-revolution---at-least-not-yet/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Games @games-forbes

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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #google

Legt man diese beiden Panels über eine aktuelle Karte der Region, so kommen zwei Startpunkte in Frage: ‚Le Moulin de la Rive‘ oder ‚Erguy‘ an der französischen Küste, wobei Erguy als Startpunkt der Reise zu den Olympischen Spielen nicht zwingend beim Dorf sein muss. [3/7]

Coronavirus: Karl Lauterbach verteidigt Coronamaßnahmen und Impfstrategie

Vor einer Bundestagskommission hat Karl Lauterbach gesagt, Deutschland sei verhältnismäßig gut durch die Pandemie gekommen. Ex-RKI-Chef Wieler zog ein gemischtes Fazit.

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-03/coronavirus-lothar-wieler-datenlage-krisenmanagement

Leipziger Buchmesse: Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse geht an Katerina Poladjan

Für ihren Roman "Goldstrand" hat Katerina Poladjan den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse gewonnen. 2022 hatte sie bereits auf der Shortlist gestanden.

https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/literatur/2026-03/preis-leipziger-buchmesse-katerina-poladjan-belletristik