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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 46m

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 59m

UVM has a mascot.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h

Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 2h

The relentless quest to gain control of all the money in the world disguised as a quest for intelligence.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3h

yep. softbank wants to spend $20b of actual dollars, so they can write down $40b of imaginary OpenAI equity value, so Vision Fund 2 is theoretically in the black pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/27/s...

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

Another good footnote:

Kevmarmol @kevmarmol.bsky.social · 4h

Similar thing happened when he tried it in Southampton too, he had to hide in a tram, which obviously also got bricked 😂

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Day fascist Mosley hid in a tram to escape the angry mob

EXTRAORDINARILY, his appearance in Southampton warranted neither front page consideration nor the presence of a staff photographer.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h

Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/top-tru...

Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big...

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 4h

“Devices are not dangerous for literature.
People can be dangerous for literature.
People, for example, who do not read.”
— László Krasznahorkai

[h/t Vince Czyz)

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 3h

"Instead of expecting the apocalypse to come, we need to understand that we are already living in it. The apocalypse has already commenced."

— László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 4h

That is what slavery was about, so there is a long backstory.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 23h

It is the fervently held belief of every Christian Nationalist that Jesus was a pussy

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

in which a cop fails to understand the concept of “magnets” during a deeply stupid mistargeted raid, and loses his loaded rifle to the uncaring maw of a MRI

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LAPD officer lost rifle to MRI device during bungled raid, lawsuit alleges

Van Nuys medical imaging company alleges its constitutional rights were violated by officers who mistargeted the business for an illegal pot operation.

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 21h

The death of truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 21h

Propaganda Kimono.

Flemming Museum, UVM.

Propaganda Kimono with Military Designs
Japan, 1939-1945
Silk-screen and stencil-print, with hand painting on silk
Courtesy of International Arts & Artists
In the first half of the twentieth century, a time when Japan was avidly modernizing and building up its global political strength, some kimonos, obi, and other articles of traditional clothing were decorated with motifs that reflected these changes.
Known as omoshirogara, meaning "amusing designs," these designs included scenes of modern cities, steam trains, and cars, but also, increasingly, military imagery. Many of these designs were on the lining of the garment or on clothing worn at home or at private gatherings, but as Japan expanded its military and political actions overseas, these "propaganda kimonos" became canvases for visual expressions of nationalism. In this colorful example, made during World War II, motifs, including Rising Sun battle flags, Mitsubishi 1MF 1923 biplanes, and the Yamato Battleship-designed to battle US naval vessels— are depicted against a traditional background of alternating blocks of bright colors. The kimono would have been worn to celebrate Japan's advancing technology and global power and to support its victory and cultural supremacy.

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds glorious.

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Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 1d

Recovering from the ever-more disturbing Manchurian Candidate (1962) with the nearly century-old The Mummy (1932). Onward tomorrow.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

www.nytimes.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

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iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 1d

"Run the numbers. Just run the numbers."

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1d

Successful aging?

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