yuri
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somewhere between the dead and the living / lapsed historian of the russian 20th century / translator ru↔eng / nyc / everything is forever until it is no more
The FSB has been returned the right to operate pretrial detention centers by the legislature, which they were deprived of in 2006. A small step (especially as, per the article, the FSB retained de facto control over some cells) but one that signals an even greater turn to repression ahead.
Госдума вернула ФСБ право иметь собственные СИЗО — Meduza
Госдума приняла в третьем чтении закон, который дает право ФСБ иметь собственные следственные изоляторы (СИЗО). Это следует из данных базы законопроектов нижней палаты парламента.
meduza.io
July 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The FSB has been returned the right to operate pretrial detention centers by the legislature, which they were deprived of in 2006. A small step (especially as, per the article, the FSB retained de facto control over some cells) but one that signals an even greater turn to repression ahead.
Russia's Communist Party adopted a resolution condemning Khrushchev's "On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences," also known as the secret speech, as "mistaken," "containing falsified facts and false accusations against Stalin" during its party congress today: meduza.io/news/2025/07...
Съезд КПРФ объявил доклад Хрущева о культе личности Сталина ошибочным — Meduza
Партия КПРФ во время съезда, прошедшего в Московской области, приняла резолюцию, в которой объявила ошибочным доклад Никиты Хрущева о культе личности Иосифа Сталина, сообщает РИА Новости.
meduza.io
July 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Russia's Communist Party adopted a resolution condemning Khrushchev's "On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences," also known as the secret speech, as "mistaken," "containing falsified facts and false accusations against Stalin" during its party congress today: meduza.io/news/2025/07...
IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.
Last words of the Zohran canvasser handing me a flyer around the block from the polling place: "anybody but Cuomo"
June 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Last words of the Zohran canvasser handing me a flyer around the block from the polling place: "anybody but Cuomo"
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It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
April 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
Harvard just announced a hiring freeze last week, but they have the space for a failure and a war criminal. "inaugural Kissinger Professor." what a joke
Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has a new job at Harvard: the "inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order"
March 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Harvard just announced a hiring freeze last week, but they have the space for a failure and a war criminal. "inaugural Kissinger Professor." what a joke
a gold rush triggered by higher prices from trump's tariffs has caused illegal miners to destroy cocoa farmland in ghana, lowering prices and polluting water supplies in what some NGOs are calling "ecocide"
How illegal gold mining is fuelling a chocolate shortage
Ghanaian farmers are ditching cocoa to dig for bullion and driving up global prices
www.ft.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
a gold rush triggered by higher prices from trump's tariffs has caused illegal miners to destroy cocoa farmland in ghana, lowering prices and polluting water supplies in what some NGOs are calling "ecocide"
The White House is too pro-Kremlin for the Kremlin: "The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say."
Kremlin Fears Trump-Zelensky Clash Could Harm Its Shot at a Grand Bargain - The Moscow Times
The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say. As U.S.
www.themoscowtimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The White House is too pro-Kremlin for the Kremlin: "The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say."
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The key here is to understand that for Trump, it's not a "lie" - it's a Sorelian political myth that allows for him to harness anti-trans bigotry in order to create an overarching worldview where teachers must be destroyed to preserve the sacred nature of the family.
Pretty awful for Trump and others to exploit this lie.
Littlejohn claims that her child's school transitioned them without parental permission. Bullshit.
Here is the truth 👇
In emails with the school, Littlejohn stated, "Whatever you think is best or [redacted] can handle it herself," and "I’m going to let her take the lead on this."
#Silence=Erasure
Here is the truth 👇
In emails with the school, Littlejohn stated, "Whatever you think is best or [redacted] can handle it herself," and "I’m going to let her take the lead on this."
#Silence=Erasure
March 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The key here is to understand that for Trump, it's not a "lie" - it's a Sorelian political myth that allows for him to harness anti-trans bigotry in order to create an overarching worldview where teachers must be destroyed to preserve the sacred nature of the family.
There it is: permanent austerity must decimate our way of life so that we can lose an unwinnable war: www.ft.com/content/3705...
Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending
www.ft.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There it is: permanent austerity must decimate our way of life so that we can lose an unwinnable war: www.ft.com/content/3705...
the reason this isn't likely is the same reason why the tea party worked: the common factor of both parties is that they're a vehicle for capital and billionaires. capital found the tea party useful; capital is not going to find an AOC-like mass movement useful
these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
March 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
the reason this isn't likely is the same reason why the tea party worked: the common factor of both parties is that they're a vehicle for capital and billionaires. capital found the tea party useful; capital is not going to find an AOC-like mass movement useful
hopefully political imagination and political will can be rallied into a new order, not continuing the mistakes that led us here, as the krastev op-ed concluded
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
hopefully political imagination and political will can be rallied into a new order, not continuing the mistakes that led us here, as the krastev op-ed concluded
in an FT op-ed, krastev recognizes trump ii as a revolutionary government planning to remake the global order into an explicit america-first arrangement, and once agains pleads with europe to display political strength: www.ft.com/content/3507...
March 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
in an FT op-ed, krastev recognizes trump ii as a revolutionary government planning to remake the global order into an explicit america-first arrangement, and once agains pleads with europe to display political strength: www.ft.com/content/3507...
More wake up calls, again. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc
March 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
More wake up calls, again. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc
zelensky's confrontation is made all the more remarkable for how much his country depends on american support. compare with the cowardice of the american press corps and the obsequious groveling of eg Sir Keir
February 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
zelensky's confrontation is made all the more remarkable for how much his country depends on american support. compare with the cowardice of the american press corps and the obsequious groveling of eg Sir Keir
beautiful obit to spassky in the guardian:
"In the summer of 1946, Spassky began to visit a chess pavilion in the city’s Central Park and became obsessed with the game: “I used to go at 11am and return home at 11pm. When the pavilion closed in September it was like death, with no chess."
"In the summer of 1946, Spassky began to visit a chess pavilion in the city’s Central Park and became obsessed with the game: “I used to go at 11am and return home at 11pm. When the pavilion closed in September it was like death, with no chess."
Boris Spassky obituary
Russian chess world champion who lost to Bobby Fischer in the sport’s most famous match at the peak of the cold war
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
beautiful obit to spassky in the guardian:
"In the summer of 1946, Spassky began to visit a chess pavilion in the city’s Central Park and became obsessed with the game: “I used to go at 11am and return home at 11pm. When the pavilion closed in September it was like death, with no chess."
"In the summer of 1946, Spassky began to visit a chess pavilion in the city’s Central Park and became obsessed with the game: “I used to go at 11am and return home at 11pm. When the pavilion closed in September it was like death, with no chess."
Notes from the Underground continues to be a basic explanatory framework for our politics.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Notes from the Underground continues to be a basic explanatory framework for our politics.
The Trump effect in action:
February 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The Trump effect in action:
The Trump effect is remarkable. If there were anything to rekindle the Ukrainian fighting spirit after months of flagging morale, thousands of troops going AWOL, and paper brigades, it would exactly be "Zelensky is a dictator, Ukraine started the war. and it owes us $500 billion."
February 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The Trump effect is remarkable. If there were anything to rekindle the Ukrainian fighting spirit after months of flagging morale, thousands of troops going AWOL, and paper brigades, it would exactly be "Zelensky is a dictator, Ukraine started the war. and it owes us $500 billion."
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lmfao holy shit we're reaching new levels of "fuck the yanks"
February 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
lmfao holy shit we're reaching new levels of "fuck the yanks"
Yet another wake up call for Europe. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc
February 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Yet another wake up call for Europe. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc
I ask again: is there any professional with honor left in this country? Why are you running an article asking questions about the electoral impacts of annexing Canada without mentioning that it's illegal, a war crime, that it would lead to death, suffering, destruction? Are you insane?
Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.
Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I ask again: is there any professional with honor left in this country? Why are you running an article asking questions about the electoral impacts of annexing Canada without mentioning that it's illegal, a war crime, that it would lead to death, suffering, destruction? Are you insane?
an incredible collection of new york times headlines and articles from the last 24 hours. you know, we're all living a society, including the journalists and editors
February 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
an incredible collection of new york times headlines and articles from the last 24 hours. you know, we're all living a society, including the journalists and editors