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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 1h

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Machado is a semi-concession to Trump. No, he didn't get the prize, but neither did they humiliate him by giving it to Greta or a Palestinian peace activist. One could even argue that this peace prize, paradoxically, justifies, Trump's plans for war in Venezuela.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 1d

It's a great day to remember how important a translator like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is for those of us who can only read in English.
Without her superb translations, we would have missed so much of the great work of László Krasznahorkai.

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Unfound Peoples Videotechnic ◡◶▿ @unfoundvideo.bsky.social · 21h

Chuffed for László Krasznahorkai winning the Nobel. Might mark it by re-reading one of his sentences over the weekend.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 1d

László Krasznahorkai! Now I have to try to read him again. (My first attempt didn't go well.)

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 1d

Spanish-language sources (more than Anglo ones) suggest Joyce Carol Oates could get the Nobel for Literature tomorrow. Or Mia Couto. I'd say: Krasznahorkai is a longshot, Cărtărescu a possibility, Pynchon would be delightful but likely it will be a writer I didn't even think of.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago neighbors are forming watches near schools to protect students and guardians from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42v94TN

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover!

André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · Jul 7

this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying

a box that says New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

three of these boxes on a step! they say New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 3d

Both may improve.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, I don't know that one. My limited knowledge of pop culture...

StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 3d

No, no.... For those of us who have worked in Moldova (or for people who know Romania well), she's been a major figure for years.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 5d

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WATCH: Massive Pro-Palestinian Protest in Madrid | 2 Years of Gaza War Marked with Rally | AC15

YouTube video by DWS News

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 5d

I've never watched a SuperBowl. But if the halftime show is in Spanish, I might consider it.

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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance Is Historic -- And Controversial. Here's Why

The Puerto Rican star’s recently announced Super Bowl halftime show has major social and political implications.

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Ian Hagues @ianhagues.bsky.social · 6d

@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social Book post 💕

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 6d

We love Mia's novel!

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 6d

Very proud to see this stirring piece in The Globe and Mail by my Head of School, John Walsh. It's time to shake up the torpid minds of university administrators and governments.

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Opinion: The student-as-customer model is an expensive lie that burdens Canadian universities

Postsecondary institutions shouldn’t be vendors, but instead vehicles for national productivity

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 7d

Now out in English: Mia Couto's *The Cartographer of Absences*, one of the two or three best novels in Couto's stellar career, and by far the most directly autobiographical.
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The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 8d

Donated to Wikipedia. Uncensored information matters.

Donate if you can: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8d

One thing people fail to understand.
In 1920, there were about 15 million Jews worldwide, and about 600k Palestinian Arabs.
Zionists were confident that several million Jews would eventually migrate to Palestine, which would have made them a clear majority.
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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 9d

Funny how they're all white South Africans --"carcas," as other southern Africans call them-- nostalgic for the sledgehammer of apartheid.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 9d

The only time during which Israel could be reasonably described as a democracy was the six months period after ending the military rule over Palestinian citizens (December 66) and before imposing military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (June 67).

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 10d

The best political news of the year came down to the very hard work of Maia Sandu and her colleagues — it was not at all a sure thing, and Putin had spent at least $100 million to make it not happen

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Victory for Moldova’s pro-EU party averts a dark outcome and angers Moscow

The Kremlin spent a fortune to keep a former Soviet state from getting closer to Europe. On Sunday, it failed

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 11d

Trump may be serious about this (at least Rubio is). US interventions on the South American mainland have all failed, except for Brazil 64 & Chile 73, when the national army was onside. It's not onside in Venezuela, which would become DT's Vietnam & a regional war.

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Venezuela, America and the Specter of Regime Change

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 11d

Noroc, Moldova! Acum mergeti pâna un viitor un putin mai bine.
In a country full of older people nostalgic for the USSR and beset by Russin disinformation and vote-buying, this is a striking result for the pro-European party.
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Moldova’s pro-European party on course to retain majority in key election

PAS leads with 46% of vote in ballot that will decide whether country steers closer to EU or Russia

www.theguardian.com

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