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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 13h

It’s exciting to see how the expectations of Russia’s collapse are changing here (and elsewhere), from “this cannot ever happen” two years ago and till this summer — to “it is imminent”

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Doomsday Clock once meant nuclear war. In After Midnight, Alexander Etkind & Johanna Gautier-Morin trace catastrophic learning and how today’s « pluralistic » disasters arrive « without a bang but with a thousand whimpers ». Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/after-midnig...

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 9d

Sikorski: this war will end like WWI
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/w...

On GPS: Polish FM on his warning to Russia | CNN

Fareed sits down with Polish foreign minister and deputy prime minister Radosław Sikorski to discuss recent Russian incursions into NATO airspace, Trump’s flip-flop on Ukraine and how Russia’s war on ...

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 10d

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Part Four: Making Sense of Epstein's Russia Ties

Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West? In this multi-part series we examine his obsession with nuclear scientists, eugenics, transhumanism, and influence. What we found will lik...

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 10d

The pedophile circle broadening. A detailed study of the 1980s underground cell with Kryuchkov, Borovik, Churkin, Trump, Epstein, and the Maxwells. On the photo the young Churkin, future ambassador to the UN

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 11d

Alex Soros: “we do not know what will come, or what threats it may carry, but we are certain that we will not cede any ground without a fight nor be cowed into silence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Trump’s Targeting of Soros Foundations Sparks Fear and Defiance on Left

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 22d

The power of podcasters. This is a monological genre, and it explains a lot. There was more democracy even in the old idea of the power of the Soviets

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22d

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 23d

I have heard this view many times and interestingly, I am hearing it more now than in the past. Often it is little more than a convenient excuse to sit back and do nothing. Even when it isn't, the distance from here to complacency is short. "Kyiv in 3 days" is history but Russia might as well win

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 23d

⚡️ Kellogg: Russia is in fact losing this war.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24d

Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'

In a phone interview, Kirk declined to identify the donors who have supplied his group’s eight-million-dollar-plus annual budget, noting that many prefer to remain anonymous. But Kirk has spoken and fund-raised at various closed-door energy-industry gatherings, including those of the 2017 board meeting of the National Mining Association and the 2016 annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. In our interview, Kirk acknowledged that some of his donors “are in the fossil-fuel space.”

Kirk’s ties to fossil-fuel magnates are controversial because Turning Point has helped organize opposition on campuses to students calling for schools to divest from fossil-fuel companies. Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.” In it, he argues, “Across the nation, college students are clamoring for their campuses to divest from fossil fuel . . . students are indoctrinated to believe the myth that fossil fuels are dirty and renewable energy is a plausible alternative . . . ” Turning Point, which also runs an online “Professor Watch List” that targets professors it believes are liberal, blamed “leftist professors” in its booklet for having “perpetuated” these “myths.” In the interview, Kirk told me that “We think targeting fossil fuels is rather unfair, and it is not really in the best interests of the universities to favor one type of political agenda over another.” It’s a message that “went great,” he said, when he delivered it at energy-industry meetings.

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 24d

On the other side of the war

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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 28d

Russlands Feldzug gegen die moderne Gesellschaft – eine pointierte Kritik an Putins Krieg gegen Klimabewusstsein, #Energiewende und digitale Arbeit.

https://tvl.ink/6S423

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#politikwissenschaft #Russland #Ukraine

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 28d

What is FAFO?

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excellent Ukrainian publisher, Folio, has translated my Russia against Modernity. This is the 10th language for this book, and probably the most important translation.

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · Sep 7

So strange to us who were there! But I guess it shows the level of their discontent with the present

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · Sep 7

The collusion seems to include providing the Russian authorities with materials (from their confidential asylum applications!) used to send forcibly repatriated dissidents to prison. The depth of betrayal here is beyond words.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’

Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

www.thetimes.com

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social has interesting piece on learning from catastrophe by @sashaetkind.bsky.social and @johannagautier.bsky.social with a letter in response from me #ClimateResponsibility #Louisiana #climateimpacts

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ASM @asm.org · Sep 3

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation

The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · Sep 3

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After midnight – The European Review of Books

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · Sep 3

Because humanity has failed to act preemptively on climate change, necessary responses will follow catastrophes rather than prevent them. There will be no singular apocalypse, no clean ending. We are living after the age of scientific revolutions - in the era of catastrophic learning.

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · Sep 3

our very fresh long read, please do read and share
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After midnight – The European Review of Books

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · Sep 3

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 3

Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Aug 27

What value is this going to add to our lives & region on this, the 20th anniversary of Katrina, from which we have yet to fully recover? What will this contribute to society? Who will this serve?

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center

Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

www.kplctv.com

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · Aug 27

💸❗️Foreign companies paid at least $20 billion in taxes to the Russian budget in 2024, according to the KSE Institute and B4Ukraine, — Newsweek.

These funds would be enough to pay the salaries of 1 million Russian soldiers.

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Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · Aug 27

A very good article - rare chance to combine climate and security in one major step

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield

Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

www.politico.eu

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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · Aug 18

Russlands Feldzug gegen die moderne Gesellschaft – eine pointierte Kritik an Putins #Krieg gegen Klimabewusstsein, #Energiewende und digitale Arbeit.

Zum Buch: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7511-5

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#Zeitdiagnose #Politikwissenschaft #Russland

Das Buch-Cover mit einem Auszug aus dem Buch »Russland gegen die Moderne«: »Wieso war die Bevölkerung in einem so gigantisch großen Land mit reicher Geschichte und berühmten technischen Fortschritten so unglücklich und ungesund? Die Antwort ist einfach: der Staat.«
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https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7511-5

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