Marci Shore
@marcishore.bsky.social
Historian, professor, author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution;" "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism;" "Caviar and Ashes."
An invitation for those in Montreal this Wednesday:
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
An invitation for those in Montreal this Wednesday:
"In dem prächtigen Gotteshaus überlappen sich nämlich die zwei jüdischen Frankfurts, und an diesem Abend sind sie miteinander in Konflikt geraten."--Eugen El
(S+) Meinung: Aufregung um Rede in Frankfurt: Was bleibt vom Eklat in der Synagoge?
Hinter dem Eklat um den Auftritt von Jason Stanley in einer Frankfurter Synagoge verbirgt sich ein ungelöster Konflikt: zwischen liberalem und orthodoxem Judentum.
www.spiegel.de
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"In dem prächtigen Gotteshaus überlappen sich nämlich die zwei jüdischen Frankfurts, und an diesem Abend sind sie miteinander in Konflikt geraten."--Eugen El
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"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" is already in Georgian bookstores:
www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...
www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" is already in Georgian bookstores:
www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...
www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...
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Thank you—this is indeed a good “back to Kant” moment for all of us.
Thank you—this is indeed a good “back to Kant” moment for all of us.
I think it was @marcishore.bsky.social's book The Ukrainian Night which first showed me how Euromaidan was about the Kantian sense of dignity, that "that which does not have a price, which cannot be bought or sold."
Ever since reading that book, I see it as the best case path for the US as well.
Ever since reading that book, I see it as the best case path for the US as well.
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Thank you—this is indeed a good “back to Kant” moment for all of us.
Thank you—this is indeed a good “back to Kant” moment for all of us.
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America is down, but is it out? Normalization of politics in abnormal times has unsettling historical parallels. Ukraine resists tyranny, but in the US there's a drift away from rule of law to "impunity, humiliation, and political violence." @marcishore.bsky.social - youtu.be/28KnYrBIHuE
America is Down - But is it Out? Authoritarian Slide is Accelerating
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
America is down, but is it out? Normalization of politics in abnormal times has unsettling historical parallels. Ukraine resists tyranny, but in the US there's a drift away from rule of law to "impunity, humiliation, and political violence." @marcishore.bsky.social - youtu.be/28KnYrBIHuE
"Meine Familie wurde aus Deutschland vertrieben. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass die Jüdische Gemeinde mich am Sonntagabend herausgeworfen hat. . . Die Reaktion der Jüdischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt ist ein Verrat an der liberalen, deutsch-jüdischen Tradition."--Jason Stanley
Streit um Gedenken zum 9. November: „Leute im Publikum haben mich angeschrien“
Der US-Philosoph Jason Stanley sollte in der Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt eine Rede halten. Sie wurde abgebrochen. Stanely ist schockiert.
taz.de
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"Meine Familie wurde aus Deutschland vertrieben. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass die Jüdische Gemeinde mich am Sonntagabend herausgeworfen hat. . . Die Reaktion der Jüdischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt ist ein Verrat an der liberalen, deutsch-jüdischen Tradition."--Jason Stanley
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Italian Senator Carlo Calenda left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and someone who repeats Russian propaganda narratives.
I believe this is exactly how public accountability should work - when a liar is called a liar.
I believe this is exactly how public accountability should work - when a liar is called a liar.
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Italian Senator Carlo Calenda left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and someone who repeats Russian propaganda narratives.
I believe this is exactly how public accountability should work - when a liar is called a liar.
I believe this is exactly how public accountability should work - when a liar is called a liar.
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Senator Calenda and Ukraine 🇺🇦
Thanks for support!
Thanks for support!
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Senator Calenda and Ukraine 🇺🇦
Thanks for support!
Thanks for support!
For friends in and around Nova Gorica tomorrow:
The keynote speech will be given by the historian Marci Shore, entitled: 'Encounters in the borderlands: Translation and the possibilities and impossibilities of understanding in a dystopian world'.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
For friends in and around Nova Gorica tomorrow:
All credit here goes to the Ukrainian protagonists of this book:
Just read—The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of a Revolution by Marci Shore. A hard book to put down! After a brief recap of the causes, you're right there in the thick of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, living it through the words of the protesters themselves. Phenomenal!
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
All credit here goes to the Ukrainian protagonists of this book:
"[A]s Jews from all walks of life and across the world. . . We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust. Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel."
Jews Demand Action
jewsdemandaction.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"[A]s Jews from all walks of life and across the world. . . We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust. Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel."
30 years ago Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by a right-wing extremist, a Jew opposed to the Oslo Accords. If that bullet had missed, we would be in a different world now.
Tens of thousands are gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Credit Amir Goldstein
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
30 years ago Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by a right-wing extremist, a Jew opposed to the Oslo Accords. If that bullet had missed, we would be in a different world now.
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Ukrainian from Kharkiv is trying to find out from what and why a Russian is “saving and liberating” him.
📹 persianic1337/Instagram
📹 persianic1337/Instagram
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Ukrainian from Kharkiv is trying to find out from what and why a Russian is “saving and liberating” him.
📹 persianic1337/Instagram
📹 persianic1337/Instagram
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Hello Tuesday! Joining Zerlina: @repbonnie.bsky.social (D-NJ-12), Nicole Hunt of Food Bank for NYC, @utoronto.ca Munk School Prof. @marcishore.bsky.social, & @andykimnj.bsky.social (D-NJ)!
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October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hello Tuesday! Joining Zerlina: @repbonnie.bsky.social (D-NJ-12), Nicole Hunt of Food Bank for NYC, @utoronto.ca Munk School Prof. @marcishore.bsky.social, & @andykimnj.bsky.social (D-NJ)!
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"This is how fascism thrives. It does not interrupt normal life, it depends on it. The ordinary becomes its camouflage, the daily routine its accomplice. And if it feels normal right now, that should terrify you."--Frederick Joseph
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"This is how fascism thrives. It does not interrupt normal life, it depends on it. The ordinary becomes its camouflage, the daily routine its accomplice. And if it feels normal right now, that should terrify you."--Frederick Joseph
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PARTY ON! Bette’s Hair-raising Halloween Costume Party with @marcishore.bsky.social
Bette members: Please register for Bette’s Hair-Raising Halloween costume party with Dr Marci Shore October 28, noon Pacific
www.bettedangerous.com/p/party-on-b...
Bette members: Please register for Bette’s Hair-Raising Halloween costume party with Dr Marci Shore October 28, noon Pacific
www.bettedangerous.com/p/party-on-b...
PARTY ON! Bette’s Hair-raising Halloween Costume Party with Dr Marci Shore
Bette members: Please register for Bette’s Hair-Raising Halloween costume party with Dr Marci Shore October 28, noon Pacific
www.bettedangerous.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
PARTY ON! Bette’s Hair-raising Halloween Costume Party with @marcishore.bsky.social
Bette members: Please register for Bette’s Hair-Raising Halloween costume party with Dr Marci Shore October 28, noon Pacific
www.bettedangerous.com/p/party-on-b...
Bette members: Please register for Bette’s Hair-Raising Halloween costume party with Dr Marci Shore October 28, noon Pacific
www.bettedangerous.com/p/party-on-b...
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On his show, @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social asked me about what it's like to be at the center of or an awful, heartbreaking movement like the anti-gun violence movement.
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
On his show, @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social asked me about what it's like to be at the center of or an awful, heartbreaking movement like the anti-gun violence movement.
I found this very satisfying:
“We do need support, but nobody’s playing the cards given by America. Nobody gives a flying fuck about JD Vance’s opinion.”-- Artem Chapeye
@ljohnson.bsky.social
“We do need support, but nobody’s playing the cards given by America. Nobody gives a flying fuck about JD Vance’s opinion.”-- Artem Chapeye
@ljohnson.bsky.social
The Ukrainian Anarchist Pacifist Writer Putin Drove to Take Up Arms
Artem Chapeye once spent his time translating Gandhi and Chomsky and getting published in The New Yorker. Then, in 2022, he joined the army.
newrepublic.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I found this very satisfying:
“We do need support, but nobody’s playing the cards given by America. Nobody gives a flying fuck about JD Vance’s opinion.”-- Artem Chapeye
@ljohnson.bsky.social
“We do need support, but nobody’s playing the cards given by America. Nobody gives a flying fuck about JD Vance’s opinion.”-- Artem Chapeye
@ljohnson.bsky.social
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It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Lessons from Nazi Germany, by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Opinion | A Lesson From the German Resistance That Applies Today
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lessons from Nazi Germany, by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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...(they did the same to the father) - the men doing the torturing yelled at the father, “Look at your whelp, he peed himself!”
This inmate later told me that neither the torture itself nor the threat to his life had caused him as much pain as he felt in that moment...
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This inmate later told me that neither the torture itself nor the threat to his life had caused him as much pain as he felt in that moment...
3/6
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
...(they did the same to the father) - the men doing the torturing yelled at the father, “Look at your whelp, he peed himself!”
This inmate later told me that neither the torture itself nor the threat to his life had caused him as much pain as he felt in that moment...
3/6
This inmate later told me that neither the torture itself nor the threat to his life had caused him as much pain as he felt in that moment...
3/6
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had been tortured together with his own son, on the same table. Torture is a complex system of measures and isn’t limited to causing physical pain. When the man’s son lost control of his bladder - reflexively, because of the muscle spasms induced by the electricity shocking his genitals and anus
2/6
2/6
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
had been tortured together with his own son, on the same table. Torture is a complex system of measures and isn’t limited to causing physical pain. When the man’s son lost control of his bladder - reflexively, because of the muscle spasms induced by the electricity shocking his genitals and anus
2/6
2/6
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"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" continues to come to life, and another character, described below, is already free.
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" continues to come to life, and another character, described below, is already free.
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
Incluso —quizás especialmente—en inglés todavía estoy luchando por encontrar palabras para capturar el Untergang —el nihilismo moral. Todas mis palabras se sienten inadecuadas. Hemos pasado de un desprecio casual por la vida de otras personas a un sadismo performativo.
El fascismo en América | El Universal
El testimonio de una historiadora estadounidense que abandonó su país y que advierte sobre los paralelismos entre la era Trump y los regímenes europeos del siglo XX
www.eluniversal.com.mx
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Incluso —quizás especialmente—en inglés todavía estoy luchando por encontrar palabras para capturar el Untergang —el nihilismo moral. Todas mis palabras se sienten inadecuadas. Hemos pasado de un desprecio casual por la vida de otras personas a un sadismo performativo.
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An Atheist’s Prayer (part of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street):
"Dear Lord, grant that I not be indifferent".
Written in quarantine at Penal Colony No. 32, after Isolation.
"Dear Lord, grant that I not be indifferent".
Written in quarantine at Penal Colony No. 32, after Isolation.
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
An Atheist’s Prayer (part of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street):
"Dear Lord, grant that I not be indifferent".
Written in quarantine at Penal Colony No. 32, after Isolation.
"Dear Lord, grant that I not be indifferent".
Written in quarantine at Penal Colony No. 32, after Isolation.