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Adriana Postelnicu
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Literature teacher, Galați, Romania
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December 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The ECHR was set up after WWII to ensure that fascism never again arose in Europe. Why do the right want to curb/limit/leave/abolish the ECHR? Because it does what it was intended to do, that's why...
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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This week marked a major milestone in the EU - the shattering of the cordon sanitaire against the far right in the European Parliament.

Here's my summary of what happened, what it means, and what's next:
The EU Parliament now has a right-wing majority
President von der Leyen's centre-right EPP yesterday broke the centrist coalition, joining with the far right in order to pass the climate deregulation demanded by Trump.
davekeating.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Steve Schapiro. Truman Capote in Motel Room in Humboldt, Kansas. 1967.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Thomas Struth - Naples, 1989
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Boris Ignatovich, 'The Atlanteans', Leningrad / St Petersburg, 1931
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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And this beauty:
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/wont...
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
won't you celebrate with me  won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhi...
www.divasofverse.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Formation of the crescent of Moon' - Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī, Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt, 17th c.
October 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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💿🎶 NEW RELEASE: the Schoenberg Edition with Kirill Petrenko is out today! Discover a selection of the composer's works, including his Verklärte Nacht (1943 version). Find out more: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/schoenberg-edition.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Gustave Doré, The Council Held by the Rats, ca. 1868.
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Brett Weston, Rooftops, Manhattan, 1944
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Andrew Wyeth, 'Breakup', 1994, tempera on panel
August 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Mark Adams, Magnolia in glass, 1979
watercolor
July 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Three girls (1932)
by Amrita Sher-Gil #womensart
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait VII, 1953 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135155
July 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Fady Joudah
June 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Happy Pride Month, Fannibals!
June 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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May 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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But I speak softer, every year a little softer.

A whisper.
To speak in a whisper.
To whisper—like the sea.

~Samuel Beckett
April 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Playing weasels, 1909 #franzmarc #expressionism
March 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Parvaneh Etemadi (Iranian, 1948-2025)
Untitled, 1977, oil and cement on fiberboard
March 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM