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Mary Margaret McCabe
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Ancient philosopher on either construal. Also, Philosophy in Prison www.philosophyinprison.com

Mary Margaret Anne McCabe, known as M. M. McCabe, is emerita professor of ancient philosophy at King's College London. She has written books on Plato and other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Aristotle. .. more

Philosophy 78%
History 8%
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Just published my account of the work of Philosophy in Prison philosophyinprison.com#philsky #prison #philosophy
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Oh god I can’t unsee that. It’s the wibbly wobbly bits….
An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
Buttigieg and Booker Lead Push to Hammer Republicans on Health Care www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
Buttigieg and Booker Lead Push to Hammer Republicans on Health Care
www.nytimes.com
Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’
Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’
Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’
www.independent.co.uk
The retaliation measures are being drawn up to give European leaders leverage in pivotal meetings with the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos. ft.trib.al/aKexyt2
"I think if a critical mass of us decided to take the fight to the enemy, many more would quickly join. And I think we would find the forces arrayed against us much weaker than we initially supposed." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
The Nobel Foundation makes yet another statement:
greenland..
[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.

To cite some examples:

- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence

ecfr.eu/publication/...
Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati
ecfr.eu
I grew up in Minnesota

Right now nearly every person I know there is doing all they can to support their community

This is who we are in the United States as much or more so than the violence in headlines

May our leaders lead on an alternative future where we lean into the best of ourselves
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
Best one I've seen yet...

Oh dear. A rogue’s collection of rogues. Higher-order roguery.
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
Video was leaked today of UK police setting dogs on and using CS spray on people seeking asylum, protesting their detention under the "one in, one out" policy, inside a detention centre (in case you thought the UK immune from what ICE is doing in the US): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
More than 100 asylum seekers stage ‘one in, one out’ protests at detention centres
Officers with riot shields, dogs and teargas called in to quell action at Harmondsworth and Brook House facilities
www.theguardian.com
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Just noticed that these defectors rose to prominence (& most to senior ministerial positions) under Boris Johnson, & they perhaps feel since they haven’t had their talents fully recognized since.
Sweden is over Trump's nonsense about Greenland and is sending in troops.

SWEDEN, PEOPLE.
A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.
They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4% last year amid a resurgence of coal power, according to estimates published Tuesday by the Rhodium Group, a research firm.
U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
The increase in planet-warming emissions came after two years of decline as demand for electricity has been surging.
nyti.ms
Confirmed: Danish-American meeting on Greenland tomorrow at the White House.

JD Vance will host. Marco Rubio will also be there. Greenlandic foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt and Danish Foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will represent the Kingdom of Denmark.

I fear that giving them a theoretical account for what they are doing may be far too generous. The Hobbesian account may *apply* to them, but they may not be thoughtful enough to have the account themselves. Indeed they seem just to be grabbing while the going is good. Theory? Wot theory?
Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next?

Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.

That matters….
How fucking absurd can #BBC Radio News get?

Top story of the hour is the crook Zahawi, oozing insincerity in a long, psuedoChurchillian toned soundbite, on the subject of Br*ken Britain and his momentous decision to blahblahblah.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"

Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
"the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land." .. (quote Trump).. (cartoon Dave Whamond)

‘Medium’ has two plurals, ‘mediums’ and ‘media’. The first gives us some seriously dodgy individuals. So perhaps for this World Cup we do after all need ‘stadiums’, reverting to ‘stadia’ once this is over.
He’s going to have to fly in a million people from North Korea to fill up the stadiums and hold up posters with his face on for the cameras.
Approximately 25,000+ people CANCELLED their World Cup Tickets overnight and counting.

This is commendable. Boycott America.