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"Richard Bernstein’s journalism had an elegiac sense of the tragic inherent in human affairs and often a subtly crafted argumentation rooted in thorough on-the-ground reporting."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...
Richard Bernstein Dies at 80; Times Correspondent, Critic and Author
He wrote from Europe and Asia, served as a book critic and produced a raft of books, on subjects ranging from the French condition to multiculturalism.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Richard Bernstein’s journalism had an elegiac sense of the tragic inherent in human affairs and often a subtly crafted argumentation rooted in thorough on-the-ground reporting."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...
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Out today:
📖 THE TREMBLING HAND by Mathelinda Nabugodi
And now available in paperback:
💉 ONE OF OUR KIND by Nicola Yoon
🌼 PEARL by Siân Hughes
💥 TAKEOVER by Timothy W. Ryback
📖 THE TREMBLING HAND by Mathelinda Nabugodi
And now available in paperback:
💉 ONE OF OUR KIND by Nicola Yoon
🌼 PEARL by Siân Hughes
💥 TAKEOVER by Timothy W. Ryback
July 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Out today:
📖 THE TREMBLING HAND by Mathelinda Nabugodi
And now available in paperback:
💉 ONE OF OUR KIND by Nicola Yoon
🌼 PEARL by Siân Hughes
💥 TAKEOVER by Timothy W. Ryback
📖 THE TREMBLING HAND by Mathelinda Nabugodi
And now available in paperback:
💉 ONE OF OUR KIND by Nicola Yoon
🌼 PEARL by Siân Hughes
💥 TAKEOVER by Timothy W. Ryback
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From God’s Memorial Day post:
Alt text on image, full post here:
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/i-have-not...
Thanks for your support, Bluesky!
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www.thegodpodcast.com/p/i-have-not...
Thanks for your support, Bluesky!
May 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
From God’s Memorial Day post:
Alt text on image, full post here:
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/i-have-not...
Thanks for your support, Bluesky!
Alt text on image, full post here:
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/i-have-not...
Thanks for your support, Bluesky!
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Former Tesla engineer — whose team was threatened with deportation after they raised a critical safety issue — to get her day in court.
Says Musk is “pure evil” and has silenced critics for years through legal threats and arbitration clauses.
electrek.co/2025/04/20/t...
Says Musk is “pure evil” and has silenced critics for years through legal threats and arbitration clauses.
electrek.co/2025/04/20/t...
Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue
Former senior Tesla engineer Christina Balan has prevailed in a years-long legal battle against Musk, and is now able to speak freely.
electrek.co
April 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Former Tesla engineer — whose team was threatened with deportation after they raised a critical safety issue — to get her day in court.
Says Musk is “pure evil” and has silenced critics for years through legal threats and arbitration clauses.
electrek.co/2025/04/20/t...
Says Musk is “pure evil” and has silenced critics for years through legal threats and arbitration clauses.
electrek.co/2025/04/20/t...
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Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
April 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
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Pete Hegseth was always unqualified and should have never been confirmed.
The dysfunction at the Pentagon and his missteps, including reckless handling of classified info, are making America less safe.
The Secretary of Defense must resign or be fired.
The dysfunction at the Pentagon and his missteps, including reckless handling of classified info, are making America less safe.
The Secretary of Defense must resign or be fired.
BREAKING NYT:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Pete Hegseth was always unqualified and should have never been confirmed.
The dysfunction at the Pentagon and his missteps, including reckless handling of classified info, are making America less safe.
The Secretary of Defense must resign or be fired.
The dysfunction at the Pentagon and his missteps, including reckless handling of classified info, are making America less safe.
The Secretary of Defense must resign or be fired.
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“Higher education militates against simplistic thinking, undermines stereotypes, opens people up to other points of view, and encourages them to tolerate social differences.”
In a 2019 essay, Carla Norrlof argued that education is a society’s best defense against illiberalism:
In a 2019 essay, Carla Norrlof argued that education is a society’s best defense against illiberalism:
Educate to Liberate
By opening access to higher education, colleges have a chance to save liberal values and fight populism.
www.foreignaffairs.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“Higher education militates against simplistic thinking, undermines stereotypes, opens people up to other points of view, and encourages them to tolerate social differences.”
In a 2019 essay, Carla Norrlof argued that education is a society’s best defense against illiberalism:
In a 2019 essay, Carla Norrlof argued that education is a society’s best defense against illiberalism:
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I don't know about you but I'm ready for the weekend and so are my fellow drunks Beike & Pip!
I'll be drinking from a late medieval replica Jacoba Jug, named after Jacoba van Beieren.
I'll be drinking from a late medieval replica Jacoba Jug, named after Jacoba van Beieren.
April 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I don't know about you but I'm ready for the weekend and so are my fellow drunks Beike & Pip!
I'll be drinking from a late medieval replica Jacoba Jug, named after Jacoba van Beieren.
I'll be drinking from a late medieval replica Jacoba Jug, named after Jacoba van Beieren.
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Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?
April 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?
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“One of the finest Chekhov productions I’ve seen was more than forty years ago: a student production of Three Sisters.”
Cynthia Zarin on The Cherry Orchard and Chekhov.
Cynthia Zarin on The Cherry Orchard and Chekhov.
Time Travel - The Paris Review
"An astonishing thing is that one does learn with age, but what one learns is not what one hoped to learn."
buff.ly
April 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“One of the finest Chekhov productions I’ve seen was more than forty years ago: a student production of Three Sisters.”
Cynthia Zarin on The Cherry Orchard and Chekhov.
Cynthia Zarin on The Cherry Orchard and Chekhov.
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Apart from … ALL THE THINGS shaking up assumptions about geopolitics right now, this is amazing and would otherwise be headline news:
apnews.com/article/japa...
apnews.com/article/japa...
Japan says it wants to join a NATO command for the support of Ukraine
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says Japan wants to participate in a NATO command for its Ukrainian mission as Japan increasingly steps up military ties with the largely European security organ...
apnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Apart from … ALL THE THINGS shaking up assumptions about geopolitics right now, this is amazing and would otherwise be headline news:
apnews.com/article/japa...
apnews.com/article/japa...
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Tax the penguins?
April 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Tax the penguins?
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Totally agree with you, Emily.
Call me Little Mary Sunshine, but I think this tariff fiasco is going to fuck him up. That plus the risk to Social Security/Medicaid. People *should* care about extralegal kidnappings, attacks on universities & law firms, all the fascist sickness, but they don’t. Financial chaos can break through
April 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Totally agree with you, Emily.
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The President’s policies are “liberating” you from your 401(k) and retirement savings.
April 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The President’s policies are “liberating” you from your 401(k) and retirement savings.
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This is grim because there's nowhere to go.
The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).
The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is grim because there's nowhere to go.
The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).
The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).
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Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE econ.st/42bGqGf
March 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE econ.st/42bGqGf
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Look, medical robots not only delivered Luke and Leia, they put Vader back together
i think these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
www.nbcchicago.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Look, medical robots not only delivered Luke and Leia, they put Vader back together
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Bless you, Greenland! 🇬🇱
Greenland Trip Cancelled After Locals Refuse to Meet Usha Vance
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
www.thegodpodcast.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Bless you, Greenland! 🇬🇱
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“Asked whether she believes other professors might be encouraged to leave the United States, Shore wrote that she believes many of her colleagues will consider relocating due to the current political climate, which she deemed an ‘American descent into fascism.’”
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears
History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.
yaledailynews.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“Asked whether she believes other professors might be encouraged to leave the United States, Shore wrote that she believes many of her colleagues will consider relocating due to the current political climate, which she deemed an ‘American descent into fascism.’”
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