Neither snow nor sanctions http://dlvr.it/TRM17H
"Claire Enders, the media analyst, describes the outcome as 'wonderful', saying the German publisher was 'devoted to high-quality journalism'."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/06/how-axel-springer-grew-anti-nazi-roots-transatlantic-empire/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_anti-nazi-roots-transatlantic-empire/
Sorry. Phone died. What did I miss? In the meantime, I wrote a book
The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html
Axel Springer, a transatlantic family-owned media company, has reached an agreement with RedBird IMI to acquire the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) for £575 million in cash.
https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-announces-agreement-to-acquire-telegraph-media-group
Der Dreh in dem unterirdischen Krankenhaus war für mich sehr intensiv, vor allem die Eindrücke auf der Kinderstation, wo einige der kleinsten Patienten auf Decken auf dem Betonboden der Tiefgarage versorgt wurden:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PPVj2O36H2Q6X2lEMaAu5?si=E2uJ2ISfTe-cJOplGW8fwQ
Für das US-Außenministerium ist es schon „iranische Regime-Propaganda“, wenn ein unabhängiger westlicher Journalist im Iran einen Kaffee kauft und darüber spricht, dass das Land noch nicht komplett im Chaos versunken ist.
@fpleitgenCNN macht wie immer einen super Job.
BREAKING: Kristi Noem is OUT as DHS Secretary, will be replaced by Senator Markwayne Mullin.
Trump says Noem will now be the “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, a new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere.”
🚨 NEW: President Trump told me in an exclusive phone call this morning that his endorsement in the Texas Senate primary race will be “made pretty soon” and issued a stark warning to Ken Paxton, who recently said he would not drop out of the race even if Trump endorses Cornyn.
“Well, that’s bad for him to say,” Trump said. “That is bad for him. So maybe, maybe that leads me to go the other direction.”
Read the full story w/ Cheyenne M. Daniels
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/trump-paxton-texas-senate-primary-00814209
Two back-to-back AP News alerts:
1:51PM: WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.
2:24PM: MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.
BREAKING: Two-thirds of Cuba hit by electricity blackout, cause not yet known.
🔴Die Nato erhöht die Gefährdungsstufe für ihre Einrichtungen. Aus Sorge um die Sicherheit ihrer Soldaten wurde nun darauf verwiesen, dass Militärangehörige nur noch in bestimmten Fällen ihre Uniform tragen sollen. https://www.welt.de/politik/plus69a800a5a914a4734f136153/iran-krieg-uniform-warnung-bei-der-nato-wegen-moeglicher-anschlagsgefahr-auf-soldaten.html
R to @Tim_Roehn: businessinsider.com/trump-in…
R to @Tim_Roehn: welt.de/politik/ausland/arti…
The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here’s what remains. https://cbsn.ws/4b3IpAI
🔴 Exclusive by @SophiaCai99 for @politico: President Donald #Trump said in an interview Tuesday that Iran was running out of crucial armaments and that he’d be open to working with some surviving members of the country’s ruling regime.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/trump-to-politico-iran-is-running-out-of-launchers-00808591
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his government should “immediately” focus on implementing urgent transformations to the island’s economic and social model as oil reserves in the Caribbean country dwindle. https://trib.al/PzETgCp
Avocado-Toast, Influencer und – Panik. Wie die Party in #Dubai endete
@POLITICO-Reporter Gregorio Sorgi befindet sich mitten im Iran-Angriff in den Emiraten, berichtet für @BILD.
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/vae-avocado-toast-influencer-und-panik-wie-die-party-in-dubai-endete-69a47e1d4b8f567f12fce968
In @BILD ruft Kronprinz Reza Pahlavi die Bundesregierung auf, an einem Plan für die Zeit nach dem Regime-Sturz mitzuarbeiten.
Von @fpiatov:
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/bild-exklusiv-irans-kronprinz-lobt-merz-anti-mullah-rede-69a475534b8f567f12fce8d0
Der Iran reagiert sofort auf die amerikanischen und israelischen Luftschläge und greift Ziele in Israel an. Es gibt praktisch keine Vorwarnzeit, der Zivilbevölkerung bleiben nur Sekunden.
Von @axelspringer Global Reporter @ConstSchreiber aus #Israel:
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus69a2d14d7c787f6a1cef1f87/vergeltungsschlaege-auf-israel-mit-dem-heulen-des-luftalarms-bleiben-maximal-90-sekunden.html
"The U.S. knocked out 90 % of North Korea’s power generation in hopes that it would help topple Kim Il-Sung. It didn’t. Washington plunged North Vietnam into darkness that, too, failed. Even Bill Clinton’s 1998 bombing of Serbia didn’t give the opposition movement space to drive Milosevic from power."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/03/01/iran-uprising-trump-khamenei-regime-change-00806179
German TV Channel @welt is reporting live from Baghdad showing riots, detonations (could be flashbang) very audible.
Apparently move by Shiite militia on green zone and US Embassy.
Great job @ulfposh and team!
Cc @ennolenze @Inclutus @hey_itsmyturn
WATCH: A Waymo vehicle blocked traffic as first responders raced to the Austin bar mass shooting, where three were killed and 14 injured.
The single most important unanswered question right now: Does Washington have a post-regime plan? Because a power vacuum in a country with WMD-adjacent infrastructure and fragmented armed factions is not inherently safer than a weakened, deterrable Khamenei.
NEW: Behind the scenes, a lobbying alliance of Saudi Arabia's MBS and Israel's Netanyahu urged Trump to level a major strike against Iran in the days before the president's decision (even as as Riyadh publicly advocated for diplomacy) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/28/trump-iran-decision-saudi-arabia-israel/
POLITICO-Reporterin @nahaltoosi hatte am Donnerstag den Scoop, dass möglicherweise nicht die #USA, sondern #Israel zuerst den #Iran attackieren.
So kam es.
Hier ordnet sie die Lage mit @BILD-Moderator Thomas Kausch ein.
@axelspringer
Our @axelspringer reporter @ma2loh, part of @BusinessInsider's Asia team, reviewed the satellite imagery following today’s attack in #Tehran. Here are his stories:
https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-images-show-damage-iranian-supreme-leader-residence-tehran-2026-3
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/28/satellite-imagery-of-devastation-at-iranian-supreme-leaders-residence-00805793
Washington’s Gulf Arab partners are bracing themselves for a fraught period ahead as the U.S. and Israel press on with a major operation in Iran — one they had lobbied against.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/28/us-gulf-iran-allies-gcc-arab-00805858
For the people of #Israel, all of this means above all one thing: living to the rhythm of the sirens. Many have already brought mattresses into their shelters. No one knows when the next alarm will begin.
Report from @axelspringer Global Reporter @ConstSchreiber: https://www.businessinsider.com/tel-aviv-israel-dispatch-iran-counterattack-sirens-2026-2
In the end, this happened. #Israel attacked first.
BIG Q: Is Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei dead or alive?
PLUS: The scale of retaliation against gulf states could be a miscalculation by Iran-]. Will this engage gulf states in supporting more US action?
AND: White House sources had been telling me all week that the question of end game is a major one and had not been fully answered. Is there a clear day after plan?
R to @Tim_Roehn: Hier auf Deutsch: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/zuendstoff-interview-vom-ex-fifa-boss-blatter-geht-auf-trump-und-infantino-los-699e991976d16623d4e8bd3c
🔴Sepp #Blatter has been banned from international soccer. But he’s not keeping quiet about what Gianni #Infantino’s efforts to win White House access mean for the game.
Exclusive interview by @BerriesBossmann for the @axelspringer Global Network:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/27/fifa-is-a-dictatorship-a-former-fifa-president-lashes-out-at-his-successors-trump-ties-00802745
Exklusiv von @LennartPfahler für @welt: Die GIZ soll in Entwicklungsländern die digitale Transformation unterstützen. Doch derzeit kämpft die deutsche Organisation mit ganz eigenen IT-Problemen. Die Folgen sind peinlich – und sorgen intern für massiven Unmut.
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus69a094be128bc9f66feec15f/sap-panne-bei-giz-deutsche-entwicklungshelfer-koennen-seit-wochen-rechnungen-nicht-zahlen.html
EXCLUSIVE: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defenses — insight that would prove useful to the Kremlin.
https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-inquiry-nato-vulnerabilities-hedgehog-2025-estonia-raises-intelligence-fears/
Der @WDR hat die jüngste Ausgabe von @maischberger einem «Faktencheck» unterzogen. Darin geht es um meine Aussage, dass Donald Trump im ersten Jahr seiner zweiten Amtszeit auch Erfolge vorweisen könne: https://www1.wdr.de/daserste/maischberger/faktenchecks/maischberger-2070.html?at_medium=wdr.de&at_campaign=sharing&at_source=Twitter
JUST IN - Witkoff and Kushner reported no Iranian flexibility on uranium enrichment or other core issues. They expressed disappointment with Tehran's stance and questioned the value of continuing talks — Israel Hayom
NEW - DOJ said it will investigate itself over whether it improperly withheld some Epstein files — AP
If you work at Reddit or Tumblr and have any information about Ghislaine Maxwell's secret Tumblr account or alleged Reddit account, please DM me on Signal at JacobShamsian.07
https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-secret-tumblr-account-jeffrey-epstein-court-records-2024-1