I love when young people soak up history and connect it with their current reality. It’s refreshing when they don’t act like the world started when they started looking at it. There’s hope! always!

SO gorgeous. 😍

...another nazi playbook - demented depraved fools attacking places of worship.

This really is the Hitler playbook. Just saw a film "The last of the unjust" which describes how eichmann set up side businesses to personally profit from the suffering he himself was inflicting - and T rump and his trash do the same - start a war - un/make a "deal" - take a $ cut (if not all).

I’m doing great

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

This is criminal evil to inflict on the world.

Interesting Eastern European insights. I am sorta nerdy so a trip to Belgrade vs lolling on a beach sounds pretty cool. Catch it while it’s free is free to read.

You don't need to repost every fart bubble that emanates from the WH toilet. Really. You don't.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics (This country needs a good exorcism.)

I am seeing plenty of smart commentary from people who do not have PHDs. They are just literate in the subject matter. One thing I will not be a fan of is the return post maga of the pompous snob who thinks a degree bestows value. WAY too many examples of the opposite in public life these days.

I can't get over the blatant theft of other people's words. I just had to delete a forward because it was stolen content. Have some dignity people: name your source & use quotations to honor other's ideas. Apologize if you make an error/fix it. I know maga are dopes & steal - what's your excuse?

“Instead of gratitude for leading the world out of that dark chapter, we are met with demands for more cash,” Yusuf wrote Hey UK - you've got idiots, too. anyway, great book: www.amazon.com/Queens-Slave...

This is a good reminder of an important revisions to the truisms of American politics. It has long been one of those truisms, among those interested in he reality of the situation as opposed to campaign rhetoric that a US President has little control over the economy, at least in the near term …

The Beatitudes of Jesus Christ: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the Sons of God." www.archspm.org/what-are-the...

Hey! I wasn’t counting on Trump trashing her! 🤣

Once again, it is really important to make clear that inflation was closer to target in November 2024 than it had been for 85% of the months since we've had a formal inflation target. High inflation was <over> under Biden, & 2026 inflation is not because of his policies. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Wow!

Why Vance is losing his cage fight with Rubio. My column. www.ft.com/content/6354...

Feeling happy for Canada today.

For anyone interested, I found this rather wonderful - recorded 4 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l57U...

...gonna make the crazy prediction that Meloni loses the Italian general election *no later* than 22 December 2027...if the Italian people don't find a way to hold early elections to boot her sooner.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Praying hard for the good people of Hungary.

Iran did not win. The Iranian regime did. I mourn for the Iranian people whose hopes have been dashed.

From 2014 - even the headlines are exactly the same. But Obama was a smart guy unlike the neocons & the rest of the current bloodthirsty cons. www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...

With the election days away, at the crossroads of history, I salute those over the centuries who fought for a free, democratic Hungary. This year is the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, when a nation rose against tyranny. We stand on the shoulders of giants. ✨

Fascinating...

Absolutely beautiful human being and a truly loving film. www.nexostudios.it/movie/edith-...

That scene in Spartacus wherein the sole remaining Roman has to explain to the Senate why he did not follow any military protocols to protect camp & spits out incredulously: " but...they were only slaves!" Hegseth's racism exposes us all to risk & danger (while he lingers in the powder room).

Under the advising editor Fintan O'Toole, the moral heart of the NY Review of Books beats loudly and unpretentiously. We all make decisions as to where, & on what, our time will be spent. I always find value in their pages, even if am gutted by sorrow from some of what I have read.

Fascinating topic. I did not know France encouraged its men in the colonies to marry indigenous women to bring them, & their children, into Christianity only to find the men took the lifestyles of their wives instead. That's when the reversal bigotry happened, which is really amazing to consider!

😍 Wonderful.

Not sure I actually look forward to reading it, but it is on order for me, I am told, nonetheless. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712960...

Peter Matthiessen's writing about Iraq, as well as about other difficult topics, were of a time we have lost in the choke grip of mediocrity. It's almost painful to remember. www.matthiessencenter.org/about-peter

“I’m not sure we’ve seen the end of Bill Kristol’s kind of politics within the Republican Party, even if Kristol himself is not going to rejoin it anytime soon.” —Osita Nwanevu

Thank god for Jon Lee Anderson. His new book is on my birthday wish list.

Thank you for something meaningful and enriching amidst so much vulgarity and debasement. ❤️

Nope. Was resolutely against it. It was macho vengeance and a stupid ignorance of the Russian experience by the American public & possibly by the aged tv ”journalists“ who salivated over the war toys. I don‘t take one bit of blame for that or Iraq. Move along, dude.

I don't actually care about Trump's psychological profile. He is an unrepentant lawbreaker who needs to face justice. His mental unfitness is a possible corollary but the core message must be the repeating of his & his regime's crimes we can all see & should not forget. #1: destroying USAID.

I am genuinely curious to see what Germany does with its new freedom from its past. Can it continue to hold dear the ideals of the post war & keep them safe for those in the USA who still do as well? Angry break-up notes have their place, but after the release comes a choice about what's next.

The thing about aspiring each day to be your best self is that it belongs to no party, no philosophy or religion, no sex, no creed, no nation, no income. It belongs to character. Folks with deadlines will fancy it up with complexity but it's simple - people who aspire to good have left the craven.

This is exceptionally well written. I do find some aspects of it vary from my own impression of the type of middle class guy who would aspirationally join this group, & now think what Trump did was basically make them look like fools as actually rich "conservatives" seem just fine w his tax breaks

Trying not to let myself become debased.

I need to recalibrate. Later...

Difference between NATO & China: NATO members have each others back. China to Iran: "Sux to be you."

Worth watching - I first saw it in 2018 but was a good reminder. of the history of the relationships up to the point... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcg...

What happened to Maduro? When is his "trial"?

This was not directed at me, but sometimes it is important to be reminded that, especially in this current environment, not everyone is doing well. I am ok, but I am getting nervous about just how low this horrifically destructive maga-mega-dolt admin is going to crater us. My guess is really low.

I love this more than can say. "Send me." Yes.