There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.
Marci Shore
@marcishore.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
Gisèle Pelicot is right: shame has to switch sides. It's more than past time.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d agoVivek Ramaswamy mocks Amy Acton for being raped by her stepfather and abused by her biological mother, saying she "complains about what someone else did to her."
“We have one message for Russia: You are going down.”— @berlinbridge.bsky.social Jessica, as Tevye the Dairyman would say: from your mouth to God’s ears
Jessica Berlin@berlinbridge.bsky.social · 5d agoOver the past 2 weeks I’ve met with defense tech and cyber whizzes, soldiers, officers, policymakers, diplomats, and security experts from countries across Europe and beyond. We have one message for Ukraine: You are not alone. We have one message for Russia: You are going down.
Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.
"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.
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In this stroller, there is now nothing but a bloody pulp. This is all that remains of the baby after today’s Russian shelling of a park in the Kharkiv region. #MadeByPutin #FinancedByTrump
I was born in Romania and a teenager during the revolution. There are many similarities, not only the ballroom/projects. Many of you don’t know that when the ‘89 protests started, he had a huge rally where he promised to give us all a little more money. Sounds familiar?
Because for Trump firing a missile at children on a playground counts as "not doing much."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much."
And at some point the game was up for Ceaușescu. . .
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d agoI have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.
Everyone should read Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism.
Paul Turner@pst1953.bsky.social · last wk.I'm pretty long in the tooth and yet have never read Hannah Arendt. Listening recently to a lecture by Marci Shore convinced me that I need to read The Origins of Totalitarianism, and the quotation here is a reminder that I should do that today.
With two of my very favorite interlocutors:
UkraineWorld@ukraineworld.bsky.social · 2w ago⚡ Why is Ukrainian resistance crucial to the survival of democracy in Europe and around the world? 🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/... Listen to the thoughts of Volodymyr Yermolenko, Marci Shore, and Kateryna Mishchenko at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026. Support us www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld
“Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine,” Trump told reporters. Please see what we have come to: this is a public statement by the American president that bombing people's homes and burying them in rubble while they're sleeping is "fine."
There are moments of suffering so absolute that they cannot be compared, overcome, reconciled—the anguish of each parent who sees their child torn apart by a bomb is irreducibly singular. Shestov’s philosophy began with a respect for that irreducibility, which cannot be sublated into a higher logic.
Day 18: “With Shestov in Ukraine”
Marci Shore (from Liberties, Winter 2025)
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"Trump actually made a deal to import diesel fuel from Russia. . .his aides then asked Ukraine to refrain from attacks on Russia’s oil refineries, w/out Trump making the same demand of Putin regarding Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. It makes me sick to my stomach to even type this."-Thomas Friedman
"In Trump’s second term, the United States is far worse than unreliable. It’s becoming unhinged. . . .This is not America first; it’s Trump first. If Putin prevails, rest assured that it will not be Ukrainians alone who pay the price."-- @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
Opinion | Russia Was Losing. Enter President Trump. (Gift Article)
The commander in chief is Putin’s ace in the hole.
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For any Americans who might need a pep talk before voting day:
Dan Shore - Vote the Bastards Out
YouTube video by danshoremusic
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To use an old, infamous Marxist distinction, whatever Trump may be "subjectively," he is "objectively" a Russian asset.
"The Trump-Russia relationship remains intense, important, and very weird. In the end, Trump always adopts Russia’s perspective, whoever the leader."-- @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 2w agoIn 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Listen to this podcast which explains the strategy behind Trump's outrageous behaviour. europeanleadershipnetwork.org/multimedia/t...
The Women Leaders podcast: The demise of democracy with Marci Shore
Are we reliving the 1930s? Historian Marci Shore joins the Women Leaders Podcast to discuss Putin, America's authoritarian turn, and the seductions of power.
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"We're in the fight of our lives here."--Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Journalists on the Front Lines
YouTube video by Massey College
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@Marci Shore: "From Secrecy to Shamelessness: how new fascism operates" www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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This is an excellent podcast with Marci Shore about the current political situation in the US. open.spotify.com/episode/3ush...
How new fascism operates
Ideas · Episode
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Avi Lewis wrote a deeply humane Yom Kippur post, calling on us to self-reflect about the fact that we live in this world with other people whose lives also matter. In response, Yoni Goldstein responded with an incitement to violence against Lewis, which should terrify all of us.
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4w agoThe US-owned National Post is urging Canadian Jews to take matters into their own hands to punish Avi Lewis for speaking up against the genocide in Gaza. They reference the Bible to bury alive and consume by fire. This is extremist hate. It needs to get called out. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
On What is Living and What is Dead in 20th century-style Fascism, with a warm thank-you to @nahlahayed.bsky.social for a serious follow-up conversation in Toronto.
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Some good news, and a moral boost, from @karenattiah.bsky.social 🍾
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
“Satan was great so long as he was offering me cool stuff in exchange for my soul”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago"There was a long time where you could sort of look at Trump as a net positive if you were a Republican. You can’t make that same argument these days, because Trump is so deeply unpopular on so many issues. He is now a source of great political harm for Republicans and a drag on their ticket."
Stany Zjednoczone są krajem zbudowanym na niewolnictwie. Ja nie jestem winna niewolnictwa. Natomiast jestem odpowiedzialna za patrzenie tej historii prosto w oczy i mówienie o niej prawdy. Bez odpowiedzialności nie ma prawdziwej podmiotowości, czyli nie ma prawdziwej ludzkiej godności.
Marci Shore: Może „lepsza polityka historyczna” jest sprzecznością samą w sobie. Historia nie jest miła
Senat odrzucił kandydaturę Mateusza Szpytmy na prezesa IPN forsowaną w Sejmie przez niezwykłą większość: PiS i Konfederację, ale także PSL i części Polski 2050. Prof. Shore: "Jeśli chcemy budować leps...
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“‘Hitchcock has nothing on Kherson”— @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social
Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous@heidicuda.bsky.social · 2mo agoInvisible War: Changing Mentality Personal reflections from Kherson: Human Safari filmmaker and war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky www.bettedangerous.com/p/invisible-...