there will be a scandal, but will it matter? weiss was hired to kill stories like this, and the hamfisted public stifling is in itself the message: the media will not speak ill of the regime. scandal or not, she'll play her part and i'd guess likely keep her job

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

Historians will have to seriously contend with the extent to which Bush's inadvertently comical demeanor gave what was indisputably a horrific and harrowing regime the reputation of being not that bad, you know. Like, he utterly ruined the lives of millions but he'd be like:

"A king dreamt of a long-dead sultan, whose corpse had entirely disintegrated except for his eyes, which kept looking around in their sockets. None could interpret the dream, but a dervish said: He's still amazed his kingdom is in the hands of others." ~a little story from Gulistan~

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

brilliant, succinct, imaginative. read it. by @harikunzru.bsky.social www.artforum.com/features/yea...

Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

for any folks around the University of Michigan — i'll be speaking about Bosnia and the global far-right, so come and let's talk next Wed, Dec 3 👇

for any folks around the University of Michigan — i'll be speaking about Bosnia and the global far-right, so come and let's talk next Wed, Dec 3 👇

as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia

Branko Milanovic in @equatormag.bsky.social sums up the parochialism often hiding behind non-aligned & non-critical Yugosplaining — his growing up in Yugoslavia meant Nasser and Ben Bella were "formative influences", but his analysis says Christian Greco-Romans were the first global civilization 🙈

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

this is the hidden potential of every AI. as a social practice in 2025, AI is a new media engagement machine designed to disseminate countless iterations of the same underlying fascist propaganda

Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be at once a memoir, a philosophy tract, a historical novel, and “Candide” for the twenty-first century—but it doesn’t do any of them successfully.

I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc

fascinating how when the same underlying technology produces this, it's called "deepfake" — but when it's generating college essays, it's called "AI" www.nola.com/news/educati...

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

around the time i saw paco de lucia in sarajevo in 2006, i remember listening to this kind of stuff and then finding this track oh man youtu.be/2oyhlad64-s?...

“ended up”? “setting off”? The Times explores new lows with this perversely upside down synopsis of a story of powerful men sexually abusing a child and getting away with their crimes.

around the time i saw paco de lucia in sarajevo in 2006, i remember listening to this kind of stuff and then finding this track oh man youtu.be/2oyhlad64-s?...

To say this is an attack on academic freedom is right, but not specific enough. In substance, it's focused on humanities & social sci. TX GOP wants to retain profitable STEM fields, so tenure might be safe there. But they'll make new machinery to decimate the humanities: those profs are the enemy

Fuck every single person associated with Epstein. Yes, that includes Noam Chomsky.

too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”

One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.

as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

sending thoughts and prayers to the many academics who supported the Biden-led crackdown of Gaza student protests in spring 2024

sending thoughts and prayers to the many academics who supported the Biden-led crackdown of Gaza student protests in spring 2024

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

your day needs romica of course, but the accordionist (guessnig victor gore?) is 🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/9CvrVDByzdc?...

how i learned to stop yugosplaining and love the bomb (2025)

"Rudyard" is a name that's about to come roaring back isnt it

they want to present themselves as overwhelming and in control, and in reality they are revealed over and over as chaotic and disorganized, proving to everyone that they will never be anything more than brute dunces

3 min selfcare tip: youtu.be/xozc7KJdJVw?...

hej ljudi šta je s vama asks a timeless question that still resonates today youtu.be/s1ZJ3CsU3sc?...

odnio vrag šalu was the zeitgeist of the early 21st century

*Chicago ppl* — come see Damir Imamović talk about music, research, incredible old records, fantastic new songs and more, this Wednesday (October 8) at Northwestern! Please share widely ✨👇

Colleagues in Eurasian and Slavic studies (broadly defined) — Hokkaido University's Slavic-Eurasian Research Center is accepting applications for its Foreign Visitors Fellowship for 2026—27. Highly recommend this excellent program! Please circulate: src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/fvfp/index1....

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