Sage for the ages, humbled by such wisdom …

All these absolute classics are better than anything recorded so far this century!

Ukrainian editorial cartoonist Andryi Petrenko presents the vodka of a true Russian patriot.

“Europe must now fight to save Ukraine and itself as bravely as Ukraine has been fighting to save itself and Europe for a decade. The resources are there, but the courage is not. Stop pretending Trump will ever turn on Putin and face reality and fight.” Garry Kasparov

Marking complete. Semester over. Sabbatical (my last one) beckons. Tenure is an awarded privilege. Never stop earning it.

A unique social experiment 😅 youtu.be/FSefEYzhN18?...

No!!!

My brothers game story of the Habs triumph. Always great to beat the Leafs.

Well, well, well, how about that? Time to renounce and disassociate, MIT? Or will we be hypocrites instead? Tsk tsk. We will be watching.

You will not be the president losing his dignity Mr. Zelensky. Courage to you sir. Slavia Ukraina 🇺🇦

@otdmilhistory.bsky.social get a load of this one …

If leaks are accurate this is the most disgraceful proposal ever presented by a govt of the USA. The consequences would be worse than those of Munich 1938. We now seem to be standing right in front of catastrophe. Shame on all involved in this. Democracies, arm up. The Americans are gone.

Wow, this is revealing...

Revealed: The Russian commander wanted by Ukraine over Bucha massacres

Poland will close its last Russian consulate in Gdańsk after railway sabotage. FM Sikorski will urge EU states to restrict movement of 2,000 Russian diplomats, saying up to 40% engage in activities incompatible with their status, hinting at intelligence work. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

„You don’t have to embarrass our guest“

My latest book is now available on Kindle, if you like reading that way. The lay out is good.

1/ PRC is not nuts. This is a deliberate campaign to hurt Takaichi domestically and force her out. They have conducted a similar campaign against Lai in Taiwan, and Tsai before him (killing X-strait tourism, banning imports of grouper fish, fruits, etc). For PRC tantrums are strategy.

The 🇨🇦 contingent is leading that NATO formation in Latvia. Good to see important progress being made.

You know what I’m fed up with? People who write something deliberately provocative or inflammatory and then limit who can reply. From now on, instant block. If you can’t square up for it, don’t write it.

The railway Warsaw - Lublin has been attacked with both explosives and sabotage. "unprecedented act of sabotage targeting directly the security of the Polish state and its civilians. This route is also crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine" says Polish PM Donald Tusk.

This we take seriously. The BBC may have decided to race to the bottom as a network, but Gardner remains the consummate professional. Important bell ringing here.

You can’t separate the Holocaust from any understanding of World War 2. Those who do are really saying something very bad.

What is a Pepper Pot? A World War 2 Hodge Podge Barrage youtu.be/J6uQFppmLXg

Emma Haworth, Walkers in Autumn, 2024 UK painter #Womensart

Austrian impressionist painter Olga Wisinger-Florian, Falling Leaves (1899) #womensart #Autumn

In a world full of Wayne Gretzkys, be a Mario Lemieux mariolemieux.org

In autumn 1975 the Soviets brought PLO fighters to their secret training camp for overseas clients at Perevalnoe in Crimea. The PLO fighters encountered black African trainees from countries such as Angola who were already there. They thought the Africans were the cleaning staff and treated them

Try not to rupture your spleen laughing:

Just give it up TACO, you blithering idiot.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months? HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals

A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart. It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

Thou shalt remove all the pedophiles from thy government. Seriously humans, it’s such a low bar to clear.

Maduro wasting what little money his country still has.

Eloquent

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