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Dr. Ian Garner
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Russian Prof @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
“This is a highly relevant and empirically valuable article that makes a significant contribution”. Reviewer 2, you beauty, what a nice new year’s gift!
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM
The purest America can only be achieved by removing all Americans, destroying America, and replacing it with a parking lot next to a drive-thru McDonald’s.
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Went for a run, submitted a grant application. 2026 is going great so far.
January 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Happy Shooting Ceaucescu in the Face Day to everyone
December 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Excellent news that the Pilecki Institute and Mieroszewski Centre, through the new Lemkin Laboratory, are committing to make 🇵🇱 a home to research on Russian war crimes.

When the media attention disappears elsewhere, we will still be working.
Laboratorium Lemkina – Instytut Pileckiego i Centrum Mieroszewskiego podpisały porozumienie o współpracy - Instytut Pileckiego
instytutpileckiego.pl
December 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Everything is a meme now. War, peace, murder, paedophilia. It all just boils down to internet sensation.
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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‘Russia’s military and security services give Putin regular updates that inflate Ukraine’s casualty numbers, stress the country’s resource advantages, and play down tactical failures, two officials said.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
How upbeat battlefield briefings are fuelling Putin’s confidence
Russian generals’ positive reports on Ukraine have convinced the Kremlin the war is going in its favour
giftarticle.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Big productivity day at the Pilecki Institute
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There is a place where time doesn't exist, and that place is where my papers are under peer review for an eternity.
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🎄Our latest December releases are available in time for the holidays. Order by midnight December 15th to guarantee UK Christmas delivery.

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December 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
KCISInsights | This article by Ian Garner explores the contradictions around the Russian state’s attacks on Ukraine, exploring state and popular discourses of the city of #Mariupol ’s fate—its resettlement and regeneration—since its occupation. Read here: thekcis.org/publications/i…
December 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
War is peace, peace is war. We are living in a world of feelings and impulses, a world in which words have been completely emptied of their meaning. This is a dangerous moment.
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Communists for the far right!
Piece on Frank Furedi, Claire Fox and others from the Revolutionary Communist Party who now embrace Orban and Trump
Their weird story is also a story about the power of money and how our twisted media rewards bullshitters
comment.press/rcp2025
Communists for Trump and Farage!
The bitter ironies of history
comment.press
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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“Trump and Putin’s European saboteurs”
My piece on a meeting in Brussels of the far-right activists who love MAGA more than they love Europe
comment.press/farage1225
The fake patriots of the European right
Trump and Putin’s fifth column
comment.press
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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My reading of this? We already have a good idea about the impact and commissioning an official report into it is really not much more than postponing the doing for the sake of a govt-approved analysis.
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
After spending 3 days discussing Europe's past, present, and future at the @grandcontinent.bsky.social Summit in Italy, I am unusually full of hope for the continent's future. There is more enthusiasm than for many years for resolving big challenges: Russia, war, AI, and climate change.
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
On my way home to Warsaw after a day in Milan. Sad to report Europe is not dying.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM