"We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration."--Holly Case on Iryna Vushko's Lost Fatherland

"Our religion has long had two traditions, the particular and the universal."--Jason Stanley

We are happy to announce the inaugural panel of our new event series on December 15, featuring Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marci Shore, Tamara Hundorova, and Vitaly Chernetsky, moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva. www.eventbrite.com/e/postcoloni...

"So, regarding these leaks. They could be fake, could be genuinely overheard conversations [...]" This is typical of Russian propaganda: "It could be this, it could be that, who knows?" the goal of which is epistemological uncertainty and eventually, nihilism.

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

Un plan de paix sur l’Ukraine qui n’en est pas un. Excellente idée de chercher quelques lumières auprès de spécialistes universitaires américains ayant traversé la frontière pour réfléchir plus librement. C’est le cas de Marci Shore (voir essai à lire ci-joint ). plus.lapresse.ca/screens/f4da...

"Capping the size of the Ukrainian military--that's like saying to the wolf that's at the door, 'We're opening the door for you.'" --Janice Stein

"Shore peut à peine croire que le plan trumpien permettrait à la Russie de garder le contrôle d’une partie de la population ukrainienne. 'Comme si, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on avait permis à l’Allemagne de continuer à occuper des parties de l’Europe, d’y faire régner la terreur.'"

"The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. . .Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."-- @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day. In a world where moral intuition often seems to have been lost, this is a good occasion to remind ourselves that starving people to death is evil.

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"Russia wanted to make sure that we freeze, so a lot of Ukrainians stayed home and tried to stay warm by any means, and so by intensively staying warm during such difficult times it actually gave a formula how you can have more Ukrainians." For those who want a little pick-me-up today 😊

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

"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" is already in Georgian bookstores: www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...

🥰 Thank you—this is indeed a good “back to Kant” moment for all of us.

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

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.

Senator Calenda and Ukraine 🇺🇦 Thanks for support!

For friends in and around Nova Gorica tomorrow:

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."

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.

Ukrainian from Kharkiv is trying to find out from what and why a Russian is “saving and liberating” him. 📹 persianic1337/Instagram

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)! ☎️866-997-4748 📻 @SiriusXMProg Ch. 127 siriusxm.us/Zerlina

"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

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...

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

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.

Lessons from Nazi Germany, by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

...(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

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

"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

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.

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.

Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Ukraina zajmuje kluczowe miejsce. Nie widzę żadnego dobrego scenariusza bez zwycięstwa Ukrainy—i bez całkowitego upadku Putinskiego, i przy okazji Lukaszenka—reżimu. Potrzebujemy w Rosji Stunde Null. Ukraina musi wygrać.

Trump's speech to the military: "I am terrified that we are moving towards greater and greater violence", shares expert @marcishore.bsky.social Full interview: youtu.be/ljrNIDO2HoA?...

What Russia does everyday to Ukraine. What Russia will do across Europe if we don’t stop them in Ukraine.

"Die Hölle – das ist die Abwesenheit von Anwesenheit."--Volodymyr Yermolenko

Dan's latest song, for Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and all the comedians out there--

"As somebody from Eastern Europe, obviously I'm very worried. . .this playing about with constant dehumanizing of each other. . .with throwing facts out the window. . .with all these sort of authoritarian experiments haven't historically ended very well."-- @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social

"I just feel like there's got to be a way where we can make facts sexy again."-- @heidicuda.bsky.social

"This kind of nihilistic violence that I saw in Russia as really a product of the end of history. . in some really weird, warped way, Russia, by losing the Cold War, became a prophet of the future, because now we're all losers."-- @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social

Oh my god lol This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how