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"The Freedom To Be Free." ~ Hannah Arendt ~ Hoping for a better world for us all...🍀 Vera ☮️ Philosophy, Literature, Science, Politics, Art, Movies, Music, History.....WW11

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦@dbcurren.bsky.social · 15h ago

“Really, it’s about the way in which someone like that successfully turns his own quite odd life story into the story of a country. All political extremists do this. You convert your individual grudge or grievance into a bigger narrative.” #Hitler #books #BookSky fivebooks.com/best-books/h...

Hitler

The best books on Hitler, covering his early life, and his psychological make-up and myth making, as well as his rise to power and dictatorship.

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l e a@leabysea.bsky.social · 3d ago

My Dad bought me my first John Coltrane album. I was 15. ‘Love Supreme’ opened up my little blue eyes & naive ears. One of the greatest musicians to ever live — he gave me, & you, a musical prayer of gratitude & true expression of himself. Happy 100th Birthday to him. 🖤 youtu.be/qagOblqhBhk

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 5d ago

"The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?

Cold War Conversations Podcast@coldwarpod.bsky.social · 6d ago

The #Communist Party controlled #Poland, but few people Bogdan knew truly believed its promises. Behind the propaganda lay shortages, barter, quiet mockery—and a growing conviction that the system would fall. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode474/

Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast

Listen on Apple PodcassListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Bogdan Marzewski was bo

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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · last wk.

"And it may or may not be too late to salvage our democratic system. I mean, the threat is much greater than McCarthyism ever was. If American democracy can survive the MAGA onslaught, I think we'll be okay. But it's a very big but." ~ Prof. Ellen Schrecker, (Historian) 📚 #BookSky

The book cover for "The Age of McCarthyism" by Ellen Schrecker; showing a man pointing at a map on a stand with a pointer, while a man at a table has his hand resting on his forehead. 📚 #BookSky
Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · last wk.

“We have a finite interval of time in which we exist in the universe. And the more I study the nature of time, the more I think about it, the more I realise that I just want to make the most of the time that I have,” he said. #ScienceSky www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Tech billionaires trying to live for ever? That’s a waste of time, says physicist

Exclusive: Prof Jim Al-Khalili says he will offer solution to ‘arrow of time’ problem in Royal Institution lectures

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Dónal Hassett@donalh.bsky.social · last wk.

Really cool website that students will love. A great resource. Well done to all involved (with a special shout out to my brilliant colleague in Maynooth Jonathan Wright).

Mark Doyle@markdoyle.bsky.social · last wk.

Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com

A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher
Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 2w ago

The 5th and final season of Babylon Berlin covering Hitler's rise premieres tonight in Germany, dovetailing with a moment of profound political crisis. I talked to the stars and makers of the global hit TV series about some of the chilling parallels www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Goodbye to Babylon Berlin, the 1920s TV drama that has eerily foreshadowed real-life politics

The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations@fivebooks.com · 2w ago

NEW: Autobiographical writing has been booming. Hence the introduction of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Memoir. We put together a list of all the titles that have won or been a finalist for the prize since its inauguration in 2023. fivebooks.com/best-books/p...

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Autobiographies and Memoirs

A full list of all the books that have won or been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Memoir since its launch in 2023

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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 2w ago

"All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice." - Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

A Black and White photo of Josephine Baker taken in 1940, with her arms overlapping and resting in front of her. Josephine Baker (Credit: Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bylines Scotland@bylines.scot · 2w ago

As the politics of fear, exclusion and division dominate the news cycle, I return to the image of family through the image of a shared meal: who gets invited, who feels welcome, what is served, and whether there is room for people who do not look, think or believe like us | Naz Saad