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It’s lobster pizza season folks!
August 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
pancookery.bsky.social
Monsieur Malhuret with a beautiful speech (hat tip YouTube translation) and excellent opinion article by Mr. Hockstader

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This viral speech brutally captures how U.S. allies see Trump’s America
During Trump’s first term, the U.S. hemorrhaged prestige. His second term might be worse.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Don’t have to repeal the civil rights act if you just illegally fire everyone who enforces civil rights law bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Feb 22
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
February 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM