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My course, "Hitler and Stalin Today," is available for free online. Through 10 lectures, I examine Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared, and what we should have learned from the 20th century. Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/timothy...
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What the last months have revealed, is that the USA has so weakened itself that it could not protect its allies in the Pacific from China. However, now the US government is admitting that officially. The whole Trumpian pivot to confront China was a sham. apnews.com/article/airc...
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships.
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I wonder if it is finally dawning on people that Trump’s pivot to confront China was, from the start, simply a straw man put up to abandon Ukraine and serve Putin’s interest?
North Korea is hacking our infrastructure. Sending troops and weapons to kill Ukrainians and providing weapons and support to Iran. South Korea is a democratically ally.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoFor the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
Some NYT interlocutors expect mobilization in Russia, but only after the parliamentary elections in September. Another part fears that Putin, feeling cornered, "may try to escalate the war and test the solidarity of NATO, going beyond the scope of hybrid attacks in Europe."
He is just itching to join an alliance with Russia, North Korea and China. And who knows, maybe eventually Iran.
Reposting with details of Patrick Vernon’s fundraiser for the family. May they find justice and peace. www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 5d agoFor anyone who might need this: Contact details for the Samaritans. Options include calling, texting, and online help. Back to being offline. www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...
It's almost like he's never gone grocery shopping 🤔
Former GOP Rep. Schooled With Hilarious Food Lesson After Griping About Mamdani's 'Suspiciously Green Bananas'
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Free weekend update went out yesterday. Russia’s allies help Russia to win, Ukraine’s allies help Ukraine not to lose. And the US uses its leverage over Ukraine to help Russia. A friend of Putin, indeed.
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4d agoFree weekend update. Lead this week--once again Russia's allies show they are more intent on helping Russia win than Ukraine's are in helping Ukraine win. The difference is stark. Also, the US shows how it uses its leverage over Ukraine to help Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
So, in the last two days the Trump Administration sent the commander of Centcom to speak to the sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln, and confirmed that a replacement carrier is on the way. IOW, they confirmed all the stories of the crisis on the carrier.
Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.
It’s really worth reading this thread to understand what Jason Arday was like as a person. I’m so very sorry for his family and friends.
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳@racheledini.bsky.social · 4d agoI met Jason Arday in induction week in my first permanent academic job, at the University of Roehampton. We had been appointed during the same mass hiring, and spent a week together in more or less useless training sessions that felt like components of some kind of deranged summer camp. 1/
Good thread. I'd also add that throughout all this (and still continuing) there have been smaller but still intense media and social media pile ons against those involved in hiring Arday at CU or even working in the same Faculty but ottherwise unconnected. 1/2
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 4d agoOk, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/
And, no, this isn't just 'legitimate public scutiny' or 'accountability'. Some of it is vitriolic personal abuse. I've even seen posts asking 'where does X [one of those people] live so we can go round and show her what we think of her?'. It's intimidation. And, to repeat, it's still happening. 2/2
So much for the idea that nuclear energy is the future, when we have wind, sun and tidal options available ...
The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3d ago🇭🇺 Reuters: Hungary sinks two 80-meter barges in the Danube near the Paks nuclear plant to temporarily raise water levels and keep its remaining two operating turbines running amid a historic drought. Romania has already shut down its last operating reactor because of the low Danube levels.
This work of genius by @paulnoth.bsky.social in the NYT has always been the perfect summary of people like Farage and their voters.
Shane Macken@seanmaceoin.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat really gets me is that no matter how many times he abandons his flock [and he does, of course, have form in this regard], the same idiots will keep coming back for more. "But, but...'e sez it like it is." But he keeps taking the piss out of you. "Yeah, but...'e sez it like it is."
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
Economists are sounding the alarm over Ofgem’s recent hike to its energy price cap. If Ofgem's role is: "to protect the interests of energy consumers," why has it allowed households’ average gas and electricity bills to rise by £221, or 13%, to £1,862 per year, a huge above inflation increase?
Russians snap up new homes built on Ukraine 'graveyard'. "They're building on human bones, and fast, to eradicate the traces of their crimes," said Kira Sosnovsky. 90% of buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed in the 2022 siege. It is estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed.
Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards
Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards
Exclusive: More than 100 homes on King Charles and Prince William’s inherited estates have EPC ratings of F or G • ‘It’s archaic’: the struggle to heat poorly insulated homes let by royal estates More than 100 homes on the inherited royal estates of King Charles and Prince William fail to meet the legal minimum energy standards for landlords, the Guardian can reveal. An analysis of a large sample of domestic lets on the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and the Sandringham estate found that one in five have Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings of F or G. Continue reading...
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You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
That realization came slowly: “Now he looks as if he doesn’t know what his next move is. He’s uncertain. He doesn’t look . . . competent.” www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump Is Starting to Look Precarious
Iran, the economy: An insurgency that becomes a government is eventually responsible for conditions.
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"What is Ukraine?" The fifth lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin Today." Ukraine has to be at the center of a class on Hitler and Stalin, because it was at the center of both men’s mental worlds. Read more and watch the full lecture: snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-uk...
