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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 20h

Another reason not to visit the US under current administration

Suzanne Kelleher @srkelleher.bsky.social · 1d

“The air traffic system, in general, is stressed to the max,” a veteran air traffic controller working at a major East Coast airport told Forbes on Tuesday, adding “sick outs will continue to happen because the [controllers] aren’t fit for duty.”

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Overstressed, Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers ‘Aren’t Fit For Duty,’ Says Agency Veteran

Cracks in the air travel system are widening, as air traffic controllers bear the strain of an understaffed system and no pay until the government shutdown ends.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 1d

"The deconstruction of national narratives was a popular undertaking in Western research on Eastern Europe. If only we had deconstructed Russian colonial master narratives with the same enthusiasm!" efdavies.substack.com/p/our-collea...

Our colleague, the Kremlin apologist

Until Russia's full-scale invasion, Russian historian Alexei Miller was highly regarded in Western academia. Reflections on Russo-Centrism, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine.

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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Russia is seeking to legitimise its genocidal war against Ukraine through the construction of historical narratives. Among those supporting this effort is historian Alexei Miller, a professor of history in St. Petersburg and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Peter Juul @petermjuul.bsky.social · 2d

one must imagine jupiter happy

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

Macron having his 3rd government collapse in a year but refusing to change the center right approach

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 2d

Macron has two choices: appoint a socialist/green prime minister or dissolve the National Assembly. New elections would be a disaster, so he has to swallow his misplaced pride and hope for a compromise with the centre-left.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 2d

French prime minister (appointed on sept 9) has resigned.
He was the 4th prime minister that France has had in less than two years.

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 3d

Le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis lundi sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l'a acceptée, a annoncé lundi l'Elysée dans un communiqué.

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 3d

Le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis lundi sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l'a acceptée, a annoncé lundi l'Elysée dans un communiqué.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 3d

The U.S. has become totally unhinged. Random masked dudes can just take you in the street and put you in their unmarked cars. Your only hope is that bypassers will intervene.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 3d

The whole piece feels like a big straw man. Where did the author find those Europeans who want to move to the US right now or think that Europe is part of America? I'm sure all kinds of people exist, but it's a bit bizarre to pretend that this is mainstream thinking in Europe.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 4d

How does the political system work in Czechia? Does the winner automatically get to form a government?

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 4d

Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia would be Central Europe. If you mean Eastern Europe in the old Cold War sense, I can hardly see Poland and the Baltic states ever moving in that direction. In Romania and Moldova, pro-European forces won difficult elections this year.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 4d

Just horrible. www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Billionaire Babis's party on track to win Czech election

www.france24.com

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Libération @liberation.fr · 4d

📷 Antoni Lallican, l’Ukraine au coeur

⚫ Le photographe français et collaborateur de Libération, tué par un drone dans le Donbass ce vendredi 3 octobre, documentait avec ardeur le quotidien des habitants du pays en guerre, civils comme militaires.

Voir : bit.ly/4nzpDWW

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 4d

Today I'm reviewing the Latvian translation of my book. Sections on US foreign policy feel like they describe a vanished world. One that existed in 1990, and to some extent even in 2024, but no longer does. That world was far from perfect, as the book shows, but what has replaced it is despicable.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 5d

"The latest controversy erupted after the news portal Lrytas.lt published an interview with Adomavičius in which he declined to answer questions directly about Lithuania’s support for Ukraine and the status of Crimea, calling the questions “provocative”."

www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

Lithuanian culture minister resigns after one week in office amid backlash

Lithuania’s Culture Minister Ignotas Adomavičius resigned Friday after just one week in office, following public backlas...

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 5d

Paldies Satori un tulkotājai.

Satori.lv @satorilv.bsky.social · 5d

Nomierinieties un pacietieties, viss ir izlemts jūsu vietā – tādu ziņu pēdējā laikā dzirdēja kultūras kopiena. Taču radošie, kas cieš un paciešas, ir pagājušā gadsimta tēls.

Par šobrīd Lietuvā notiekošajiem protestiem pret jauno kultūras ministru un apdraudējumiem vārda brīvībai un demokrātijai.

Akvilina Cicēnaite | Liecināt ar tekstu un miesu

Nomierinieties un pacietieties, viss ir izlemts jūsu vietā – tādu ziņu pēdējā laikā dzirdēja kultūras kopiena. Taču radošie, kas cieš un paciešas, ir pagājušā gadsimta tēls.

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 6d

Lietuvā kultūras darbinieki protestē pret jauno kultūras ministru no labējās populistu partijas un gatavojas vērienīgam streikam. Ļoti iespaidīga moblizācija pilsoniskās pārliecības paušanai un kultūras jomas nosargāšanai.

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The Cultural Community’s Protest. Conversation with Arūnas Gelūnas and Gintautė Žemaitytė - Echo Gone Wrong

While awaiting the warning strike and in response to recent political developments in Lithuania, philosopher and contemporary art curator Edvardas Šumila met with members of the initiating group of th...

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 7d

Sarunāts!

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 7d

Gribētu tur būt un gribētu satikties klātienē, bet diemžēl neesmu Rīgā!

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 8d

"We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't think we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!"

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 9d

Jap, mums kā sabiedrībai jābeidz nodarboties ar eidžismu. Pazīstu cilvēkus ap 80 (un kur nu vēl 60), kuriem domāšana atvērtāka un progresīvāka kā dažam labam 30-gadniekam. Tā kā tas vēstuļonkulis var būt arī "tante" ap 35

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 13d

Latvian lawmakers pushing this are shameless populists chasing attention and cynically weaponising women’s safety to punish the prime minister for rejecting their harmful forest management amendments.
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Latvian lawmakers consider pulling out of Istanbul Convention

Less than two years on from the date when it ratified the the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention and Suppression of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, commonly known a...

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 13d

Gan jau, ka tieši tā tas arī notika.

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Mairita Lūse @mairitaluse.progresivie.lv · 13d

Kas ir noticis pēc Stabulas konvencijas pieņemšanas?

Administratīvo sodu likumā ir ieviesta atbildība par seksuālu uzmākšanos.

Krimināllikumā ir paredzēta atbildību par cietsirdību un vardarbību pret tuvinieku Par to vairs nevar piemērot sabiedrisko darbu vai naudas sodu

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 13d

Šie tiešām ir āksti. Pie tam ne pārāk labi āksti, jo savus trikus ir samācījušies internetā no veiksmīgākiem ākstiem ASV.

LTV Ziņu dienests @ltvzinas.lsm.lv · 14d

Par likumprojekta nodošanu komisijai nobalsoja 55 deputāti, savukārt pret balsoja 33 deputāti no "Jaunās vienotības" un "Progresīvajiem".

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