Arthur K
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This is so so good
If Carl von Clausewitz were to advise Secretary Rubio on peace in Ukraine, he might say something like this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is so so good
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"I Want You to Understand Chicago"
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I Want You to Understand Chicago
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November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"I Want You to Understand Chicago"
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Some wisdom and history here from @marcishore.bsky.social and Kyiv.
libertiesjournal.com/articles/wit...
libertiesjournal.com/articles/wit...
With Shestov in Ukraine - Liberties
Dawn in Podil. The Jewish quarter of Kyiv from times past. March 21, 2024, sunrise and missiles over the Dnipro river — although it was impossible to see the sunrise from inside the bomb shelter. In a...
libertiesjournal.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Some wisdom and history here from @marcishore.bsky.social and Kyiv.
libertiesjournal.com/articles/wit...
libertiesjournal.com/articles/wit...
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Please repeat over and over:
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
April 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Please repeat over and over:
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
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Usefully clear reasoning here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Usefully clear reasoning here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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“How do individuals and societies emerge from totalitarianism?” Benjamin Nathans asks.
One could add: And do they?
One could add: And do they?
In Dissent - Jewish Review of Books
What gives people the courage to stand against oppressive governments? Why do regular citizens dissent?
jewishreviewofbooks.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“How do individuals and societies emerge from totalitarianism?” Benjamin Nathans asks.
One could add: And do they?
One could add: And do they?
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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100 books to help understand Ukraine, featuring Oleh Sentsov's Diary of a Hunger Striker, co-translated by Dmytro Kyyan and yours truly. Thanks for compiling, PEN Ukraine.
pen.org.ua/en/ukrayinsk...
pen.org.ua/en/ukrayinsk...
PEN Ukraine and Sensor Media compiled the list of 100 books to help understand Ukraine
The list emerges as a response to many requests from foreign libraries, publishing houses, embassies, and institutions that would like to share knowledge about Ukraine with their audiences 100 books f...
pen.org.ua
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
100 books to help understand Ukraine, featuring Oleh Sentsov's Diary of a Hunger Striker, co-translated by Dmytro Kyyan and yours truly. Thanks for compiling, PEN Ukraine.
pen.org.ua/en/ukrayinsk...
pen.org.ua/en/ukrayinsk...
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Thank you to @heidicuda.bsky.social and @highfidelity.bsky.social for a very serious conversation about what happened in the Oval Office on Friday.
Episode 129: This Is Not a Game with Professor Marci Shore
YouTube video by RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast
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March 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Thank you to @heidicuda.bsky.social and @highfidelity.bsky.social for a very serious conversation about what happened in the Oval Office on Friday.
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"i know you’re afraid of blood so we’ll write it with water
the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just
looked at it
water that seeps through a shelled-out roof
water that can replace tears"
WHAT WAR IS
Ostap Slyvynsky
Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is
the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just
looked at it
water that seeps through a shelled-out roof
water that can replace tears"
WHAT WAR IS
Ostap Slyvynsky
Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is
WHAT WAR IS
A poem by Ostap Slyvynsky
snyder.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"i know you’re afraid of blood so we’ll write it with water
the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just
looked at it
water that seeps through a shelled-out roof
water that can replace tears"
WHAT WAR IS
Ostap Slyvynsky
Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is
the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just
looked at it
water that seeps through a shelled-out roof
water that can replace tears"
WHAT WAR IS
Ostap Slyvynsky
Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is
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“I somehow see Ukraine after the war. I don’t know if we are in the future, but there is Ukraine after the war."--Victoria Amelina
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – a precious and powerful work of literature
This tragically unfinished account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine bears witness to both grave crimes and the strength of the human spirit
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“I somehow see Ukraine after the war. I don’t know if we are in the future, but there is Ukraine after the war."--Victoria Amelina
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Porcelain War, a documentary about the life during the russian full-scale invasion, was nominated for an Oscar.
The film tells the story of 3 artists from Kharkiv who remain in the frontline city and decorating destroyed buildings with porcelain figurines.
Watch and share❤️
The film tells the story of 3 artists from Kharkiv who remain in the frontline city and decorating destroyed buildings with porcelain figurines.
Watch and share❤️
January 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Porcelain War, a documentary about the life during the russian full-scale invasion, was nominated for an Oscar.
The film tells the story of 3 artists from Kharkiv who remain in the frontline city and decorating destroyed buildings with porcelain figurines.
Watch and share❤️
The film tells the story of 3 artists from Kharkiv who remain in the frontline city and decorating destroyed buildings with porcelain figurines.
Watch and share❤️
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I would be deeply grateful if you could lend your wings to my words - read, retweet, and help carry my Kharkiv post further. Your support breathes life into my words and purpose into my voice.
Kharkiv is a city that forces you to make a pact with fate: you will live as though death isn’t watching. And when you leave, you carry its sirens, its defiance, and its haunting beauty inside you forever.
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Living & Leaving Kharkiv’s Unbroken Edge | Iryna Voichuk
Get more from Iryna Voichuk on Patreon
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November 19, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I would be deeply grateful if you could lend your wings to my words - read, retweet, and help carry my Kharkiv post further. Your support breathes life into my words and purpose into my voice.
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Writing like this has made me love Odesa, and I've never even been there.
I’m in @thetls.bsky.social today—alongside many worthier contributors, including @uilleamblacker.bsky.social—with a piece on @julianevans.bsky.social’s remarkable new book about my hometown, Odesa. UNDEFEATABLE is the word. www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...
January 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Writing like this has made me love Odesa, and I've never even been there.
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Please share to fight censorship:
Democracy Dies in Bezos
The latest in anticipatory obedience.
www.borowitzreport.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Please share to fight censorship:
"I found myself at the very bottom, and then I heard knocking from below."--Polish aphorism coined by Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909-1966)
Just to be clear: however bad you think the Trump second term will be, I assure you it’ll be worse.
Bookmark this if you don’t believe me.
Bookmark this if you don’t believe me.
December 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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Thinking about Syria, and Russia, and our interconnected, mutilated world: please watch this remarkable film by the brilliant Agnieszka Holland about Syrian refugees trapped in the forest between Belarus and Poland, about human cruelty, human indifference, and human compassion.
ZIELONA GRANICA - Zwiastun PL (Official Trailer)
YouTube video by Kino Helios Polska
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December 14, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Thinking about Syria, and Russia, and our interconnected, mutilated world: please watch this remarkable film by the brilliant Agnieszka Holland about Syrian refugees trapped in the forest between Belarus and Poland, about human cruelty, human indifference, and human compassion.
TikTok video by Сергій Жадан
www.tiktok.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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I never thought I’d hear Ukrainian spoken in a Hollywood film of the 1930s, but recently I did… And the speaker is none other than the bard of émigré extras, my dear Alexander Voloshin! A little 🧵. 1/6
December 8, 2024 at 5:05 PM
I never thought I’d hear Ukrainian spoken in a Hollywood film of the 1930s, but recently I did… And the speaker is none other than the bard of émigré extras, my dear Alexander Voloshin! A little 🧵. 1/6
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'Ukrainian Art History' by Oksana Semenik, art historian and journalist from Ukraine. [gift article/ no paywall] www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/w...
‘Decolonizing’ Ukrainian Art, One Name-and-Shame Post at a Time
Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2024 at 2:03 AM
'Ukrainian Art History' by Oksana Semenik, art historian and journalist from Ukraine. [gift article/ no paywall] www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/w...
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"No city is doomed to be haunted forever. We break the spell not when we banish the ghosts, but when we invite them to breakfast. A true home is a place where you have neighbors you know by name. This includes those who were killed and those who helped kill them. . ."--Victoria Amelina
Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened — ARROWSMITH
The stories of the dead and the monuments commemorating them aren’t meant to end a conversation, but rather to launch one.
www.arrowsmithpress.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:32 AM
"No city is doomed to be haunted forever. We break the spell not when we banish the ghosts, but when we invite them to breakfast. A true home is a place where you have neighbors you know by name. This includes those who were killed and those who helped kill them. . ."--Victoria Amelina