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Central Europe old school intellectual, artist, passionate mother, student of life and humankind
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
This is something to think about.
Conflict is inevitable. If you do any sort of organizing, you’re going to work with people you don’t like.
Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.
The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.
The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
December 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is something to think about.
Good comment.
It’s funny how Elon Musk has no problem with Chinese regulation, which is much stricter than European regulation.
Have you ever seen him call for the abolition of the CCP?
Have you ever seen him call for the abolition of the CCP?
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Good comment.
It's this incredible sadism that shocks me the most.
“table-sized”
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's this incredible sadism that shocks me the most.
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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"[I]f that you wait for certain victory to act, you’ll never do anything. Change starts with smaller actions, with going against the odds. And the strangest possibilities can sometimes lead to the biggest gains. So open every door you can to the future that you want to see."
I wrote about how no one knows for sure what's going to end this nightmare, but the possibilities are expanding, and we can help them along. Includes some thoughts on the Hola Massacre, the Falklands War, and Watergate (because extrajudicial killing, an unprovoked war, and presidential impeachment).
This may be the last time
I don't know exactly what will end Trump. And neither does anyone else.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"[I]f that you wait for certain victory to act, you’ll never do anything. Change starts with smaller actions, with going against the odds. And the strangest possibilities can sometimes lead to the biggest gains. So open every door you can to the future that you want to see."
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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As we gather with friends and family to reflect, here’s what I’m grateful for — and why I fight for it every day.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As we gather with friends and family to reflect, here’s what I’m grateful for — and why I fight for it every day.
The only article you have ro read about the Nuzzi Lizza thing. Nit for pleasure of voyeurism, but for sheer pleasure of delightful linguistic 5 star mockery. Made me laugh out loud as I was heading to work in a full metro.
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The only article you have ro read about the Nuzzi Lizza thing. Nit for pleasure of voyeurism, but for sheer pleasure of delightful linguistic 5 star mockery. Made me laugh out loud as I was heading to work in a full metro.
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
This is an incredibly dense analysis of misogyny and its functions. Excellent yet chilling read.
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
Quiet, Piggy
Trump's relentless campaign against women has shifted U.S. culture.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is an incredibly dense analysis of misogyny and its functions. Excellent yet chilling read.
Exactly.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Exactly.
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Musk & Trump promised that DOGE would save AT LEST $1 trillion, with the former saying that $2t in a year wasn't out of the question.
10 months into Trump's 2nd term & they've saved...
** checks notes **
Negative $1 trillion.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
10 months into Trump's 2nd term & they've saved...
** checks notes **
Negative $1 trillion.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.
www.pbs.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Musk & Trump promised that DOGE would save AT LEST $1 trillion, with the former saying that $2t in a year wasn't out of the question.
10 months into Trump's 2nd term & they've saved...
** checks notes **
Negative $1 trillion.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
10 months into Trump's 2nd term & they've saved...
** checks notes **
Negative $1 trillion.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Brilliant. 👏 👏 👏
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Brilliant. 👏 👏 👏
Hahaha that's brilliant!!
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hahaha that's brilliant!!
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Its very very bad that the President publicly posts a statement that, were I to post the same thing about him, would have the FBI knocking on my door.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Its very very bad that the President publicly posts a statement that, were I to post the same thing about him, would have the FBI knocking on my door.
Jesus f***ing Christ.
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Jesus f***ing Christ.
Excellent analysis about the settlement negotiations. Do also read the former article which is mentioned here. Sharp distinctions made.
We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work.
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
How to Negotiate with Russia
Account for history, law, and above all Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Excellent analysis about the settlement negotiations. Do also read the former article which is mentioned here. Sharp distinctions made.
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
But yes of course.
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
But yes of course.
Oh yes. That's the basic foundation of human rights.
It wouldn't be okay if Trump and ICE were doing this shit to "criminals" either.
You don't lose your humanity because you did something that society decided was proscribed, particularly given that a majority of those things are entirely arbitrary. Most crimes are poverty driven, not violent.
You don't lose your humanity because you did something that society decided was proscribed, particularly given that a majority of those things are entirely arbitrary. Most crimes are poverty driven, not violent.
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Oh yes. That's the basic foundation of human rights.
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The message being sent over and over again by the Trump regime is that white violence will be systematically rewarded, and non-white existence will be relentlessly punished.
97.5% of the people Trump arrested in Chicago had no criminal record
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The message being sent over and over again by the Trump regime is that white violence will be systematically rewarded, and non-white existence will be relentlessly punished.