Swietna nowa ksiazka mlodego polskiego badacza o Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim: polecam! us.edu.pl/wydawnictwo/...
Tomasz Drabowicz
@tomdrabowicz.bsky.social
PhD from @eui-eu.bsky.social (Digital) inequality, social class, economic sociology, aging, quality of life, sustainable development, quantitative methods, history, LGBTQ issues. Personal account & private opinions
Just finished the final draft of my latest book chapter: "Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia" It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).
I recommend this 👇 place wholeheartadely. It's away from Florence city centre, but it's 5 minutes on foot from the tram 2 stop on Piazza della Libertà or from the Parterre final stop of C1 bus you can catch in the city centre. Food & service are excellent. Bonus for (Fiorentina) soccer fans
been rereading Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism and this would fit in well with early 20s Italy www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork
City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
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As the warning signs of U.S. fiscal instability multiply, the question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but how—through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis? Nicholas Creel (@prof-peacock.bsky.social) writes:
De-Dollarization Is Inevitable. The World Isn’t Prepared
The question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but if it happens through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis.
worldpoliticsreview.com
A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.
Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran
A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into grooming gangs says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal
Baroness Casey: I feel rage on behalf of the abused girls
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Ok, Caffé Lietta, where negroni was invented, is a really nice place on Piazza della Libertà in Florence, but you have to be willing to experience Hitchcock's Birds LIVE
I will repeat myself: there is a persistent belief that popular government should be based on convincing people by argumentative debate, when its true basis is the negotiation of rational compromises between people of different beliefs.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last yr.100% this: "'debating' people — particularly in live or quasi-live forms — is a bad epistemic practice. It essentially rewards people for being dogmatic, incurious, and willfully slippery with rhetoric." www.slowboring.com/p/a-rawlsian...
From a new interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social, who coined the "3.5% rule": "Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last yr.Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
This trope about stern patriarchal parenting is absolutely central to the religious culture that Hegseth comes from.
“There ain’t no devil—there’s just God when he’s drunk.”
In other words, as always with Trump (but not just), it's always gender overlaid with race, or race overlaid with gender.
But Hegseth and Trump's obsession with lethality must be seen more broadly as a disavowal of soft power in favor of hard power. And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.
Peeling this one off to a new thread. This also underscores how disconnected Hegseth's fixation on "lethality" is from the political, socio-cultural and societal roles that militaries have played throughout history. Case in point: If your only objective is lethality, why hold a parade? 🧵
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · last yr.Addendum: The US Army and its WWII legacy has also been a major factor, if a very problematic one, in the advancement of Black Americans, minorities, immigrants and women, both within the institution as well as directly and indirectly outside of it. Another way it's incompatible with Trump.
A product of a cult of special operations that led to a basic misunderstanding of how US military power is anchored on logistics systems and a global network of bases that allow the US to move what it needs when it needs it to where it is needed America used to master the boring shit that wins wars
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · last yr.But Hegseth and Trump's obsession with lethality must be seen more broadly as a disavowal of soft power in favor of hard power. And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.
Led by a President experiencing severe mental decline, the United States ceased to be a functioning geopolitical actor
