"Perhaps the clear lack of objective conceals a darker agenda: many experts believe that Israel and the United States would be satisfied with a ruined country fractured by civil war." (via @lilylynch.bsky.social) www.lilyslynch.com/p/the-us-att...

Lily Lynch (@lilylynch.bsky.social) on Sanna Marin’s memoir: ‘Throughout Hope in Action, Marin invokes ‘the collective’ – sometimes to illustrate the qualities of the Finnish soul, at others to give her lust for power an egalitarian sheen.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Very interesting one @lilylynch.bsky.social @johnalechner.bsky.social www.lilyslynch.com/p/the-yugosl...

This is such a great review of Indignity by @lilylynch.bsky.social in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social - I really enjoyed reading her discussion/critique of the questions around social class, do check it out!

Loved this review of Lea Ypi's new book Indignity by @lilylynch.bsky.social - on class, communism, and family in Albania's twentieth century jacobin.com/2025/10/lea-...

Interesting to read "...the cocktail of heightened geopolitical tension, sudden acts of violence, intensifying ethno-nationalist rhetoric, and irresponsible politicians with large media platforms does warrant elevated concern." From @lilylynch.bsky.social's substack. 1/2

🥇Hard News Feature, General News for “Chasing Utopia, Startup Style” by @lilylynch.bsky.social: www.noemamag.com/chasing-utop...

Ecstatic to see so many commissions of mine among this great list! Congratulations @lilylynch.bsky.social, Nina Strochlic, Brian Stone Jr. and Stephen Robert Miller!

Wrote about the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords on my Substack, along with Rust Belt decline in Ohio and the Trump administration's new foreign policy rhetoric lilylynch.substack.com/p/daytonific...

Nice, concise write-up from @lilylynch.bsky.social on the ongoing protests against corruption in Serbia, by some estimates the largest student-led movement in europe since the 1960s. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Armas para pensar 🇷🇸 Sensación de punto final para Vučić en Serbia El nepotismo, la corrupción, el clientelismo y el autoritarismo del Partido Progresista Serbio de Aleksandar Vučić, se enfrenta a una movilización a gran escala ✍🏼 @lilylynch.bsky.social

In post-Cold War CEE/Eurasia, there hasn't been a popular protest movement as important as the current one in Serbia that wasn't cultivated and coopted by outside powers. Which explains why the latter are literally speechless about it. By @lilylynch.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

A must-read - whether or not you care about this part of the world. There is also a lesson here for America (and beyond), it's easy to slide into total corruption and impunity, but takes ages, and is really, really hard to exorcise it. "This is not a revolution but an exorcism."

I wrote about protests in Serbia newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

The two top tier breakfast experiences are US diner and Turkish

Bluesky is very suburban, very Zone of Interest

Checking in with Green Eyes, one of the most beautiful neighborhood cats here in Istanbul

A Bosnian-Serb commander convicted of aiding and abetting genocide at Srebrenica supports the UN resolution establishing an international day of remembrance for the victims of the 1995 massacre. "I committed an unthinkable and inadmissible criminal act... never again". n1info.rs/region/glasa...

Would be better if it was called Red Sky

fresh audio product: • Anatol Lieven on the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden/Harris foreign policy • Lily Lynch on the emptying out of the Balkans www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Moldova as part of the demographic Balkans. Thinking of this great article by @lilylynch.bsky.social: thebaffler.com/salvos/go-we...

This isn't some dystopian piece of fiction. This is @lilylynch.bsky.social describing the reality of living with climate change and bad air pollution. And higher temperatures = more air-conditioning = burning more fossil fuels...

Young people are leaving, and those who remain are having fewer children; these trends have brought the Balkans to a point of population collapse. @lilylynch.bsky.social surveys this “demographic oblivion” in our new issue.

from the pen of @lilylynch.bsky.social Silicon Valley imperialists and fascist stalk the planet looking for suckers www.noemamag.com/chasing-utop...

My piece on Serbia’s new Russian emigre community is the Weekend Read at the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

They arrested someone in Berlin last night for holding a sign that said “From the Risa (a chicken restaurant chain here) to the Spree (Berlin’s river)” An unserious country.

I feel like the only non-academic on BlueSky.

Def less misogyny on this site. That’s nice.

Would love to leave the other site but am too attached to DMs. Without them, this place will never be a full replacement.

I hadn’t understood the reasons for the decline in Polish-Ukrainian relations (especially how a glut of Ukrainian grain has hurt Polish farmers) before reading this excellent piece from @lilylynch.bsky.social - worth your time www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...

so does everyone just agree with each other on bluesky or what

Stepped out of my apartment building and a woman tabling for the Serbian Progressive Party gave me an Aleksandar Vučić coffee cup filled with the worst coffee I have ever tasted.

Hi guys.