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Mario Ricciardi
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Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Milan, Italy
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Just one of those emails would bring down any politician in any democratic country.
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Oggi su @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social Lo shutdown negli Stati Uniti, la sua storia e il ruolo che ha assunto negli ultimi anni.
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.
Catholic Bishops Rebuke Trump’s Immigration Tactics in Rare Statement
“We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said in the statement.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The Trump administration’s go-it-alone military campaign in Latin America is facing pushback from some long-standing U.S. allies, with France now among those who’ve registered objections to the Pentagon-led killings.
U.S. allies begin to push back on Trump’s Caribbean military strikes
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, appearing at a G-7 gathering in Canada, faces renewed questions about America’s foreign policy aims.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Every Epstein email is like "I love that you're a rapist and a pedophile! Signed, a man who personally has more wealth than 20% of the world's population."
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Chatbots as a luxury good.

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How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Read Peter Feaver on the most unexpected aspects of Trump’s second term—and how the president could shape the future of geopolitics:
Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously
How Trump's second term is reshaping America and the world.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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This week for On Politics, James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) talks to Tony Wood and Camila Vergara.

Why have Latin America’s Pink Tide governments failed and where does the new brand of right-wing politics come from?

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
On Politics: Latin America’s Right-Wing Shift
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 12/11/2025 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Professors at the Collège de France say that the systematic cancelation of colloquia and seminars dealing with questions relating to Palestine demanded by groups like Jonathan Greenblatt's ADL presents a grave threat to academic freedom www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« L’annulation du colloque “La Palestine et l’Europe” crée un précédent d’une extrême gravité » : la tribune de professeurs du Collège de France
TRIBUNE. Un collectif de professeurs de l’institution s’élève, dans une tribune au « Monde », contre la déprogrammation de l’événement, synonyme pour eux d’une mise en péril de la liberté académique.
www.lemonde.fr
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Peter Singer's take on Government Shutdown in USA and its constitutional grounds: slate.com/news-and-pol... @slate.com
Is the Shutdown the Founding Fathers’ Fault?
Americans are fond of speaking in reverential tones about “the wisdom of the Founding Fathers”—that is, the men who wrote the Constitution. But the...
slate.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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306. Joseph Conrad:
From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
–Empire, Apple Podcasts
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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In this episode, @tweeter_anita and I are joined by Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch, to discuss the adventurous life of Joseph Conrad and how his work shaped western readers' understanding of imperialism.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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How should we read The Heart of Darkness? As a brave attack on Belgian colonialism? Or as Chinua Achebe would have it,
"an offensive and deplorable book... blinkered with xenophobia" that dehumanised Africans.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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How did a Polish sailor become one of the greatest writers in the English language? Why was Conrad's father arrested by the Russians and imprisoned in the fearsome Pavilion X? Why were Conrad’s parents exiled to the harsh conditions of northern Russia?
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November 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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New from @EmpirePodUK
Our Writers on Empire series continues with:

JOSEPH CONRAD:
From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness

With Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University & author of The Dawn Watch

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
One should recognise that @theeconomistnews.bsky.social saw it coming.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The righteous spirits of Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Toussaint L'Ouverture surged through me as I sheepishly explained to the Italian border control bag search agents that it's a comb, for my hair <gestures hairwards>
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Inch by inch, things are getting worse not better? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM