A reminder that many different languages were spoken in France.

Map shows the most spoken languages of France before the revolution.

Just come across Liz Truss saying “I hadn’t gone into politics to deal with floods or fix prisons.” Why not? Wouldn’t politics be much better if she felt her job was to fix such things? This is a fundamental problem with our system ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩ unherd.com/2024/04/why-li…

7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime.

A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.”

What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear

A thread

🇺🇸JEFFREY SACHS:

[Commenting on remarks by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron regarding the Iranian response to the Israeli attack on the Iran's Consulate in Damascus.]

'I've learned something over the years—I know David Cameron personally, and I know a lot of British leaders.…

A turkish man invented the steam engine 200 years before the industrial revolution but he only made it to spin döner

Schaut man sich den inneren Zirkel von Scholz an, der aus Lügen, geschickten Manipulationen und einem System von Abhängigkeiten und dubiosen Allianzen besteht, erkennt man, dass er ausschließlich aus Freunden Russlands besteht.

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Schmidt begründete die Weigerung seines Chefs, Panzer in die #Ukraine zu liefern, immer wieder mit absurden Argumenten.

„…wenn der Politiker, der Olaf Scholz seit 20 Jahre berät, sich so äußert, dann wundert mich auch an der Haltung unseres Bundeskanzlers nicht mehr“, - Klaus…

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America is experiencing the charisma juggernaut that is Liz Truss. They are not ready.

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…

Kirstie Allsopp Fortunately the sporting rules are under the control of sporting bodies and can be adjusted for fairness, as new evidence emerges, with no need for changes in the law.

Currently trans women hold zero elite world records, zero Olympic medals. cyclingweekly.com/news/trans-wom…

This experience is the equivalent of Impostor Syndrome for people raised on conspiracy theories like the theory that there are wise and omniscient Adults in the Room or the CIA observing and managing everything.

Indizien verdichten sich zur Gewissheit: Vorgehen d. Polizei Berlin beim #PalaestinaKongress klar rechtswidrig. Ermessensfehler überall. Offenbar auf Druck von Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat, das sich ggü. Jung & Naiv, paulinej u. auf LTO-Anfr. nicht äußern wollte:
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Yanis Varoufakis has been banned from entering Germany, with the Interior Ministry answering: “Anyone who spreads Islamist propaganda & hatred against Jews must know that such crimes will be prosecuted quickly and consistently. Antisemitic & Islamist crimes will not be tolerated”

Still the BEST sports commentary of all-time. 😂

„Steinmeiers Freund und Schröders Protegé machte…millionenschwere Geschäfte mit einem Sonderbeauftragten..Wladimir Putin[s]. Und Steinmeier unterstützte..das pikante deutsch-russische Investment seines Freundes“

Autsch t-online.de/nachrichten/de…

WHEN IT’S OKAY TO NUKE A COUNTRY (April 12, 2024)

Historian Benny Morris supports Prime Minister Netanyahu’s resolve to attack Rafah (“Israel’s Security Depends on Rafah,” NY Times, 11 April 2024). Normally home to 280,000 Gazans, Rafah now also contains 1.2 million internal…

Tis the season to eat Spargel and you better believe #Germany takes Spargelzeit seriously. This makes life difficult for the tiny minority of us who actually don’t like it, but is it worth incurring the wrath of Spargel lovers?

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Berlin’s mayor condemns the “antisemitism and hate against Jews” at the (now shut-down) Palästina Kongress. No word that Jüdische Stimme were co-organisers or that at least two Jewish activists have been arrested