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Bob Kagan is right: the Russians don't want to negotiate, they want to destroy Ukraine

"Trump must now choose between accepting a humiliating strategic defeat on the global stage and immediately redoubling American support for Ukraine while there’s still time"
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Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine
If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

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The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
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January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Van Gogh on fear, taking risks, and how making inspired mistakes moves us forward
Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward
“However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.”
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January 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump

A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Gaza : des dizaines de Palestiniens tués dans de nouveaux bombardements israéliens
Gaza : des dizaines de Palestiniens tués dans de nouveaux bombardements israéliens
L'armee israelienne, qui continue de frapper la banlieue de la ville de Gaza, affirme vouloir empecher les militants du Hamas de se regrouper.
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January 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The strength of the sensitive – E.M. Forster, born on this day in 1879, on the power of empaths
The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy
“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret u…
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January 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”

On Patti Smith's birthday, her abiding wisdom on time, transformation, and how love redeems loss
Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, and How the Radiance of Love Redeems the Rupture of Loss
“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”
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December 30, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM