It is not possible to find the words for this.

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

"Death by starvation in Gaza is not the collateral, unintended consequence of an… anonymous, amorphous crisis. It is the results of deliberate policy on the part of the Israeli government, bent on using the resources of a highly sophisticated state to render Palestinian life in Gaza impossible."

Just heard @mehdirhasan.bsky.social say re: Gaza: “we’d have to exhume Milošević’s body and apologize to him for trying him as a war criminal if we don’t try all the people involved in this crime.” Counterpoint: we actually don’t need to apologize to Milošević under any circumstances.

here is a good conversation @vukusiciva.bsky.social aje.io/egp80t

And, I will never stop pointing out, the international decision to retain RS within the postwar Bosnian constitutional setup was a conscious choice. It was not an unfortunate compromise that had to be accepted to bring peace, they could have insisted on its abolition even in 1995. They wanted it.

There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.

Philosopher Boris Buden just wrote a savage critique of the Thompson concert in Zagreb attended by half a million people and soaked in fascism & racism. He calls it what it is: a mirror of Europe’s militarism, hypocrisy, and descent into moral collapse. Read it via Google Translate. It hits hard.

Is he too Muslim or not Muslim enough? He's Schrödinger's Muslim.

Bosnian Serb secessionists have brought American far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin to Banja Luka, convinced him that the RS entity is a “small country, determined to stay independent.” It’s literally a sub-national administrative region w/in BiH that was never independent. You’re in Bosnia, guy.

Crvena transverzala.

PSA—Do not review books for the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. They asked me to review a book, I spent quite a bit of my time reading and writing it up, only for IJCS book review editor Lucas Lopez Arrastia to tell me that editors couldn't contact me, so they pulled my review. AVOID

Free buses and a rent freeze are apparently a “revolution” now.

It's low key exasperating that so many opponents of Trump have uncritically embraced the "TACO" label. Yeah, it obviously gets under his skin, but it's also basically goading him on to follow through on whatever God-awful policy he had in mind, so… seems like a bad idea? Let the man chicken out!

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There may be a historical analogy to be drawn between Serbia-Kosovo and Israel-Palestine, but not one that Schumer or Maher would particularly like.

The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

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Leider nicht überraschend: Die Erosion der Grundrechte beginnt immer bei marginalisierten, wehrlosen Gruppen, bevor sie auf den Rest der Gesellschaft ausgeweitet wird. Die Gewalt an den Grenzen bleibt nicht dort, sondern greift ins Innere. www.ots.at/presseaussen... @kidpex.bsky.social

Every genocide was provoked if you ask the perpetrators.

My politics is the abolition of the economic system that created these two broken men

This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.

Given the Dodik news, it's wroth reminding that the very existence of Republika Srpska could have been averted even in 1994-95, but the EU and US made an active choice to continue to push for its continued existence as an entity within an independent Bosnia Herzegovina. 1/🧵:

Remember the whole stink that was raised when Bernie suggested that the owner of the Post was negatively influencing their coverage of him?

At this point you have to wonder what will be left of American democracy in time for this electoral backlash in… 2 years.

Bild is also reporting that preparations are ongoing in Italy for a possible withdrawal of US troops from Kosovo.

OP from an Astrophysics Ph.D., apparently. About as insightful as if I started lecturing on the solar system.

Shocking that any American would associate w/ a political extremist, secessionist, & Bosnian Genocide denier like Milorad Dodik. Moreover, given that Dodik is under both US & UK sanctions, Giuliani being (presumably) flown out to Bosnia by Dodik is also legally questionable.

What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

Who doesn't love a small word that packs meaning? The Turkish interjection "öf"—which inspired the BCMS "uf"—is one of these beloved words. "Öf" when deeply sad, öf when shameful, öf when disgusted, öf when everything feels precarious. Öf öf öf. Uf uf uf.

There’s long been a thread among the far right / wht. supremacists of admiring the Serb ethno-nationalist project and buying into its clash of civilizations framing: Breivik, the NZ shooter, the “ironic” remove kebab memes. Now those fringe racists and internet trolls run the U.S. executive branch.

He met with an ethnosupremacist two decades after the Bosnian genocide. 7 years later Trump tasked him with dismantling USAID. In one way or another it almost always goes back to them hating Bosnians and/or Palestinians

Deeply alarming revelations about links between a senior Trump admin official and Bosnian Serb secessionist strongman and genocide triumphalist Milorad Dodik: “He had it in for Bosnia…and I didn’t know why at the time.” www.propublica.org/article/usai...

I swear this Vampire Weekend song has part of the melody from Hari Mata Hari's "Sam pao sam."

For anyone else wondering, DOGE is pronounced “Dodgy.”

Naše gore list 🫠 “A 25-year-old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems, which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

If you have German and need to take your mind of Trumplandia, here's a very cool long feature on Gorizia/Nova Gorica, a town once divided between Italy and Yugoslavia (now Slovenia)--its Cold War-era life and the current efforts to build a shared memory. www.srf.ch/audio/intern...

"To...protect its interests, Washington must urgently reset its failed policies of appeasement toward local strongmen, relying instead on proven allies." Smart analysis from @harunb.bsky.social & A. Begic of USABiH org on what new US admin can do in BiH & region. balkaninsight.com/2025/01/21/u...

Amadou N'Diaye from Saint-Louis in Senegal at 40 years of age in 1936. He was injured in a shell explosion at Monastir in Bosnia on June 2nd 1917. His right foot was amputated. He was one of 1000s of West and North African soldiers who fought in the Balkans.

I asked my 2-year-old what her favorite animal is and she said me.