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Rose Mason
@rosemmason.bsky.social
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Autodidact historian, mostly central and eastern Europe. historical musicology Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Слава фламінго!🦩 "Why, said Montag slowly, 'we've stopped in front of my house.'"
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · Mar 3
"The Russians' bungling incompetence really comes down to the fact that they didn't even bother to learn anything about us."

—Сергі́й Жада́н / Serhiy Zhadan
"Sky Above Kharkiv," p.42-43
March 21, 2022, 12:51pm
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 4m
The most touching song about Anna Politkovskaya I've ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1C...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3h
Since summer, the United States has been helping Ukraine carry out deep strikes inside Russia, targeting key energy infrastructure, including oil refineries, according to the FT.

Kyiv selected the targets, while Washington provided intelligence on their vulnerabilities.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 12m
In case you missed it, here's Peskov talking to everyone's favorite Russian journalist. Prof. Finkel's comment is, as usual, brilliant. bsky.app/profile/efin...
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1h
"What air defense doing" might be an appropriate thought to have at those challenging moments.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h
Peskov: "The topic of Tomahawk missiles causes us extreme concern. President Putin has already spoken about this. Now imagine a long-range missile is launched and flying. And we know it could be nuclear-capable. What should the Russian Federation think?"
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · May 9
Things about politics I’ve come to believe strongly:

1. Less bad is better than more bad
2. Nostalgia is generally incorrect. Things weren’t better
3. Still, things can get much worse
4. Democracy is an outlier in human political history
5. Optimism is rooted in agency, not positive predictions
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 25m
No, Prof. Finkel, EXTREMELY, UNBELIEVABLY long-range mosquitoes. We're talking 7,000-10,000km.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 30m
Remember the bio-weapon mosquitoes? Or something like that.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 32m
🤭 Ah, the always soft-spoken Peskov, comme d'habitude, doing what he does best, playing the role of the victim.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1h
"What air defense doing" might be an appropriate thought to have at those challenging moments.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h
Peskov: "The topic of Tomahawk missiles causes us extreme concern. President Putin has already spoken about this. Now imagine a long-range missile is launched and flying. And we know it could be nuclear-capable. What should the Russian Federation think?"
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 15h
I knew this standing thingy wd be coming soon bc over the last few weeks whenever she crawls & gets close to an ottoman or edge of a couch—s'thing of substantial weight—she places her hands flat or nearly flat on them, as though she's almost but not quite ready to use them to brace herself to stand
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h
Estonia has urgently closed part of its border with Russia following the appearance of armed "little green men," ERR reports‼️
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 17h
As odd as it may seem, I love their sounds, probably bc I associate them with fond childhood memories. I'm looking for a bird feeder that'll accommodate their larger feet. Whenever they try to perch themselves on the one I have they continually flap their wings in an effort to balance themselves.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 23h
‪Stanislav Aseyev‬, April 30, 2025:
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d
Are they real floofnotes or those pesky endnotes? I'm an avid floof- and endnote reader but would prefer not to, you know, constantly floop back and forth, which sometimes causes me to lose my train of thought.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d
If not for the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression the NSDAP would likely have just disappeared.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d
Within the period of just under a century, the world has entered into another period of unsustainable wealth inequality which has allowed demagogues to emerge & prey upon people who are in economic pain and/or are fearful for the future. There are other elements, yes, but this is the most important.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d
...market crash. 1930 saw the NSDAP's share increase to 18.3%, and in the 1st Reichstag election of 1932, to 37.3%—a plurality—which gave Hitler the means to negotiate his appointment as chancellor by Hindenburg. As German historian Eberhard Kolb writes in "The Weimar Republic":
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d
Something important is omitted in this article: immense wealth inequality. The NSDAP was a fringe party; its share of the seats in the Reichstag was 2.6% in 1928, down from 3% in the 2nd Reichstag election of 1924. It was on the way out. There were no elections in 1929, the year of the stock ...
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d
I've read Black Earth and recommend it highly to those who haven't. Poland was in a difficult position, as it was between Hitler and Stalin AND was desperate to hold on to its 2nd Republic. Putin is simultaneously speaking nonsense about Poland and threatening Ukraine.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2d
This👇. The world expected Ukraine to give up on Feb. 24, 2022, and when it didn't, but instead fought and continued to fight, it became too embarrassing for its "allies." Imagine that: Ukrainians' will to fight for the very ideals its allies claimed to espouse is an embarrassment for those allies.
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Yana 🇺🇦 @yanadear.bsky.social · 2d
the world wants nothing more than to sweep this war under the rug

they would be satisfied if Ukraine just simply gave up

why else would they torture a country by withholding weapons?
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2d
9 people were injured in russian attack on Kyiv tonight.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4d
Yurii Shapovalov, a doctor, spent 7 years, 7 months, and 3 days imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk for his pro-Ukrainian position.

Yurii is a native of Donetsk and a physician with 30 years of experience. He worked as a neurophysiologist at the diagnostic center of the regional hospital.
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2d
It makes me happy to see Argo looking at Cora so lovingly, so protectively. And yes, dogs DO love their people; I don't care what anyone says or thinks, including science.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d
HOW WAS UR DAY SMOL HOOMAN

it was great, i got to be a baby
Giant Bernese mountain dog and tiny baby sitting next to one another as if in conversation
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2d
Look, hooman, you have opposable thumbs, and dogs don't, OK?
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2d
Baptists were among the most persecuted religious groups in early republican America, which is why a number of them sought Jefferson's opinion in their famous letter from late 1801, asking for clarification about the establishment clause in the 1st amendment (though not explicitly naming it).
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 6d
To get a sense of where things stand: Here's an exchange from earlier this year, in which a Baptist minister was told by a Texas Senator that she didn't understand the Gospel because she cited Baptists' historic support for church-state separations as one reason to oppose the Ten Commandments bill.
Testifying this month against bills that would put more Christianity in Texas public schools, the Rev. Jody Harrison invoked the violent persecution of her Baptist forefathers by fellow Christians in colonial America. Harrison hoped the history lesson would remind Texas senators of Baptists’ strong support for church-state separations, and that weakening those protections would hurt people of all faiths. Instead, she was rebuked. “The Baptist doctrine is Christ-centered,” Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, responded sharply. “Its purpose is not to go around trying to defend this or that. It is to be a disciple and a witness for Christ. That includes the Ten Commandments. That’s prayer in schools. It is not a fight for separation between church and state.” Harrison was not allowed to reply, but in an interview said she was stunned that a lawmaker would question a core part of her faith. The exchange, she said, perfectly encapsulated why she has fought to preserve church-state separations — the same religious protections that Campbell said are a distraction from bills that might bring school kids to Christ. “It was a wake up call,” she said. “I don’t think people — even many churches — realize that this is going on right now, and that is alarming.”
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2d
Henlo. Any questions about "reasonable suspicion" in the 4th amendment re Ms. McLaughlin's pronouncement on Fox should be directed to constitutional law prof. and Lorg Floof person
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THAMK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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