Yuliya Komska
@ykomska.bsky.social
writer & German Studies prof w/ a heart in Eastern Europe 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2025: Art & Politics of the High Wire • next: where Curious George came from; future of stained glass in the age of disaster • brooch enthusiast • 🐰,🍄,🪡
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20 years to citizenship is deranged
Britain rolled out a major hardening of its rules for handling asylum seekers on Sunday. Under the new rules, people granted asylum would have to wait 20 years, rather than the current five, before applying for permanent residency.
Britain’s Labour Government Plans New, Tougher System for Asylum Seekers
Under the new rules, people granted asylum would have to wait 20 years, rather than the current five, before applying for permanent residency.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
20 years to citizenship is deranged
“"We haven't sold our soul to the devil,” we just brought him some Rolex and some gold and promised to invest in his, ahem, economy www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“"We haven't sold our soul to the devil,” we just brought him some Rolex and some gold and promised to invest in his, ahem, economy www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.
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New College of Florida, the school famously taken over by Chris Rufo & other conservative activists, just posted a CAA job listing for an art history open position. Will chosen candidate also advise on the college's proposed Charlie Kirk statue, I wonder? careercenter.collegeart.org/jobs/2183202...
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New College of Florida, the school famously taken over by Chris Rufo & other conservative activists, just posted a CAA job listing for an art history open position. Will chosen candidate also advise on the college's proposed Charlie Kirk statue, I wonder? careercenter.collegeart.org/jobs/2183202...
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Berlin’s CDU, which has refused calls to examine banning the partly openly neo-Nazi AfD, is now demanding that security services review Die Linke for “anti-Israel” positions
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Berlin’s CDU, which has refused calls to examine banning the partly openly neo-Nazi AfD, is now demanding that security services review Die Linke for “anti-Israel” positions
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Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity. The Agency of Languages in Central Europe (1300-1900) and beyond. — 21 novembre 10h-13h, Centre LOURCINE Paris 1, 1 rue de la Glacière, salle 102 — avec : cem.hypotheses.org/4023
Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity. The Agency of Languages in Central Europe (1300-1900) and beyond. — 21 novembre 10h-13h, Centre LOURCINE Paris 1, 1 rue de la Glacière, salle 102 —...
Eloïse Adde (Central European University, Vienna) Tamara Scheer (University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna) Philippe Urfalino (EHESS, Paris) Dans le cadre des séminaires du Réseau thématique (ex ...
cem.hypotheses.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity. The Agency of Languages in Central Europe (1300-1900) and beyond. — 21 novembre 10h-13h, Centre LOURCINE Paris 1, 1 rue de la Glacière, salle 102 — avec : cem.hypotheses.org/4023
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The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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Das Auktionshaus nimmt wie folgt Stellung zu dieser Aktion: "Unsere Aufgabe sehen wir darin, durch die Bewahrung und Dokumentation historischer Belege ein tieferes Verständnis für die Ereignisse jener Zeit zu ermöglichen. Die vollständige Entfernung dieser Materialien vom Markt würde bedeuten,
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Ein Auktionshaus in Neuss will am 17.11.2025 die Privatsammlung eines NS-Forschers versteigern. Sowas gehört nicht in eine Versteigerung. Sowas gehört in Archive. Auch, damit Angehörige diese Dokumente finden können. Sich an diesen Zeitzeugnissen zu bereichern ist absolut pietätlos.
Geschäftemachen mit NS-Verfolgung und Holocaust
www.fritz-bauer-institut.de
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Das Auktionshaus nimmt wie folgt Stellung zu dieser Aktion: "Unsere Aufgabe sehen wir darin, durch die Bewahrung und Dokumentation historischer Belege ein tieferes Verständnis für die Ereignisse jener Zeit zu ermöglichen. Die vollständige Entfernung dieser Materialien vom Markt würde bedeuten,
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A German auction house planned to sell ghetto IDs, yellow stars, letters of Holocaust victims, along w/ perpetrator memorabilia, all of them from an archive of a Holocaust researcher. What researcher would let this happen? Or hold on to these objects, in the first place? www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...
Auktion abgesagt? Auschwitz-Komitee nannte Versteigerung in Neuss mit NS-Dokumenten "schamlos"
Ein Neusser Auktionshaus wollte Dokumente von Holocaust-Opfern und -Tätern versteigern. Jetzt verschwand der Katalog aus dem Netz.
www1.wdr.de
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A German auction house planned to sell ghetto IDs, yellow stars, letters of Holocaust victims, along w/ perpetrator memorabilia, all of them from an archive of a Holocaust researcher. What researcher would let this happen? Or hold on to these objects, in the first place? www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...
Leaves caught in anti-drone nets over the streets of Kherson. There’s no Rilke for this kind of autumn www.instagram.com/reel/DRAtAPu...
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Leaves caught in anti-drone nets over the streets of Kherson. There’s no Rilke for this kind of autumn www.instagram.com/reel/DRAtAPu...
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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This week, I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
www.techpolicy.press
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This week, I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
In Myrnohrad, which literally means “peace city,” “some residents returned to retrieve a few belongings from their ravaged apartments, despite the drones hunting them in the streets.” Year, after year, Russia gets to destroy and terrorize with impunity www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
What Our Photographer Saw as a Safe City Became a Blood Bath
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In Myrnohrad, which literally means “peace city,” “some residents returned to retrieve a few belongings from their ravaged apartments, despite the drones hunting them in the streets.” Year, after year, Russia gets to destroy and terrorize with impunity www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
Floss-intimate with RFK, very creepy
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Floss-intimate with RFK, very creepy
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Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.
www.bellingcat.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...
royalhistsoc.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
Imagine Lysistrata, but in diaspora
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Imagine Lysistrata, but in diaspora
Such a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Such a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
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These cases are heartbreaking. But the new state censors are losing these battles in court. Consistently. We just have to do what we can to support and encourage those targeted to fight.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
These cases are heartbreaking. But the new state censors are losing these battles in court. Consistently. We just have to do what we can to support and encourage those targeted to fight.
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We are happy to announce the inaugural panel of our new event series on December 15, featuring Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marci Shore, Tamara Hundorova, and Vitaly Chernetsky, moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva. www.eventbrite.com/e/postcoloni...
Postcolonial Thought and Ukraine: Broadening the Field
The panel discusses the role and limits of postcolonial knowledge in the contemporary world, in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine
www.eventbrite.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We are happy to announce the inaugural panel of our new event series on December 15, featuring Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marci Shore, Tamara Hundorova, and Vitaly Chernetsky, moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva. www.eventbrite.com/e/postcoloni...
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Vast sin-concealing chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Vast sin-concealing chaos
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Question for Germanists (and others)—can anyone recommend good scholarship on the discourse of "die soziale Frage" / "the social question" around 1900ish?
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Question for Germanists (and others)—can anyone recommend good scholarship on the discourse of "die soziale Frage" / "the social question" around 1900ish?
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In Germany, the far-right AfD are trying to cut the state funding of one of the country's most prominent anti-extremism NGOs. This attack is another milestone in how bold they are.
crm.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/civicrm/mail...
crm.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/civicrm/mail...
Die AfD will uns zerstören – Sondernewsletter
Sie wollen uns die Mittel nehmen – wir kämpfen weiter
crm.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In Germany, the far-right AfD are trying to cut the state funding of one of the country's most prominent anti-extremism NGOs. This attack is another milestone in how bold they are.
crm.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/civicrm/mail...
crm.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/civicrm/mail...