So, Russia bombed Ukrainian publishing house warehouse in Kyiv today . Thousands of books were destroyed . Maybe more : they still don’t know the final numbers . When I say Russia is trying to erase us, this is what I mean.
Steven Seegel
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professor at the University of Texas at Austin, maphead, dog lover, Go Bills, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
Top thinkers Steve Levitsky and Lucan Way on competitive authoritarianism: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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#OtD 16 Sep 1979 a group of eight East Germans escaped the Iron Curtain in a home-made hot air balloon stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8847...
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
Terrible news today! Konrad Jarausch was a towering scholar of German history. He was also on my dissertation committee and so influential in making me the scholar that I am today. His graduate writing seminar was the single most important class I ever took. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...
Noted UNC history professor drowns in Chapel Hill lake
Chapel Hill police said the call about a missing swimmer came in around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
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‼️👀 Russians Photoshop Military Facilities on Yandex.Maps — Yle Russian Yandex hid a missile division near Kronstadt Island near St. Petersburg in satellite images — they overlaid an image of a forest on top of the base. Previously, the service only blurred out sensitive facilities.
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
NEW: The United States is running out of missiles The Pentagon is worried about protecting assets in the Middle East and around the world. Trump lashed out at officials about the depletion And the shortage may force the U.S. to settle for a bad Iran deal www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage
Idle threats and munitions shortages have boxed Trump in.
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The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
WIN: The MA Senate has passed shield legislation to protect journalists from being forced to reveal confidential sources. A free press is essential for government accountability. It’s vital to our democracy. We applaud lawmakers for protecting the ability of journalists to hold power accountable.
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."
Hey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.
A couple years ago I wrote about the history of surveillance on campus:
Surveillance Space
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
wordsinspace.net
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago“MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive.”
I’m so tired of conspiracy theories being passed along as news and substituting for news and draining all of our media attention instead of genuinely hard investigative research, writing and reporting.
Kyiv again under attack by Russian ballistic missiles tonight, one wave of 6-8 missiles, and another of 4, but at least one of them was intercepted. There were hits on non residential premises, either direct or from shoot-down debris, and there is a large fire in eastern Kyiv.
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
A bombshell FOIA request has revealed how the FBI and Department of Justice trained its investigators to scrub the Epstein files clean. trib.al/dNbUbM3
Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...
Person killed in shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, official says
Police closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence.
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🚨A person is dead following an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine. We are awaiting more details.
In Monday news, it's now nearly $800 for the annual university parking pass.
Got reminded about this photo today. It might look mundane, but it’s so not , it’s something i think we never cherished the way we should’ve while we still had it: the world before war. Mariupol, Ukraine, before Russia invaded and bombed it Photo: victoriyaruf/threads
"No other world leader can claim to have survived and thrived on the enmity of both Trump and Vladimir Putin" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Zelenskyy may have the last laugh over Trump
Ukraine’s president increasingly looks as if he holds the future of the west in his hands
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