His idea of a Europe he would seek to befriend is not mine. bsky.app/profile/ccs....

🏟️ SJP on a sunny Saturday 😍 #ECFC #SemperFidelis

Zelenskyy in Munich: “The Ukrainian Army is the strongest army in Europe, thanks to our heroes. “And I think it is simply not smart to keep this army outside NATO.”

The dome of the Pantheon in Rome - still one of the largest domes in the world. Originally built by Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14), it was rebuilt during the reign of Hadrian (117 to 138 AD) following a fire. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Pantheon #Rome

It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.

This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old! Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

“In my work with the defendants I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Capt. G. M. Gilbert, US Army psychologist assigned to the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg trials

Weak

One important that way a person slapping a Nazi isn’t as bad as a Nazi is, and this is key, they aren’t a Nazi.

Zelensky: "We have made many compromises. Putin and his friends are not in prison (!). This is the biggest compromise that the world has already made."

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

The great Soviet dissident historian Roi Mevedev has died at the age of 100. He is best known in the West for his pioneering 1971 study of Stalinism «К суду историй» (“To the Judgment of History,” published in English as “Let History Judge.” He was the brother of fellow dissident Zhores

My university outsourced our bookstore to some new company, and they stopped carrying books written by faculty. A faculty member offered to donate copies of their book for the bookstore to sell, and they said it was against corporate policy

Farage's sympathy for Russia should be as disqualifying as Corbyn's was.

I read three student newspapers in the course of writing this & on the off chance any student journalists at York, Exeter or Cambridge are reading this; God you’re all so much better than student journalism was in my day www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So female associates of Epstein in the files are resigning or in jail like Maxwell, but men are going to keep their jobs. This what happens when rape culture is policy

This looks important.

Fuck, quite frankly, Farage. Sprouting Putin's lines vertabin

Lilies and literature at the lovely Art Deco Waterstones, Piccadilly (Simpsons of Piccadilly, 1936).

😑 You made it up, Dave. You did the mess with the loans and the market-creation. It's not that 'deep-seated'. What is deep-seated is that education is a public good which serves all of society, not a privilege for the few. This pretense that this is somehow a universal eternal system is bunk.

Xi and Putin don’t need to defeat the West. They just need to watch Trump tear it apart for them. Destroying our unity to empower our enemies is the ultimate act of a traitor

I had a journalism professor who told me, “You get 7 exclamation points in your lifetime. Use them sparingly.” This judge blew right through that.

Guess we have now found the global cabal of elites trying to change the World Order...... and it wasn't George Soros.

I'm writing a book about Soviet agents currently and each one has about five names. It's very fucking annoying.

i feel like I should just post this over and over and over until it takes. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/democrats-...

1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys are sexually abused before the age of 18. Our obligation is to them, colleagues. Them.

Trump has some of the lowest approval ratings for a president in decades. Why would Gallup suddenly stop tracking presidential approval rates? 🤔 https://newrepublic.com/post/206495/gallup-ends-presidential-approval-polls-trump

I’m not playing this stupid game with Reform or any of their multimillionaire groupies, vilifying immigrants and moaning about the benefits bill from their tax havens and Dubai penthouses. Then lying about what they said and why. Reform is a racist party. Relying on racist votes for power. End of.

I remember when the problem was teenagers getting pregnant. Reactionaries are never happy

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

You know the people of Dubai are wise & learned. Take for example this female Dubai citizen. She intelligently argues that all billionaires should be allowed to be ignorant, racist & fascist. Why? Because they er… Um…. Erm… Have lots of money. That’s it Have lots of money. 🤔

If Russian propagandists are fantasising about joining forces with America to fight Europe there is something fundamentally wrong with America.

Must be a different Nigel Farage who someone recently tricked into videoing a glowing tribute for dead paedophile Iain Watkins - precisely because he *can* be bought for £98 on Cameo.

Our entire public discourse is being colonised by uninformed, lazy pub bores like Jim Ratcliffe.

Always dress smartly before settling down to write. Getty Ms. 114; Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing; c.1530 CE; Flanders, Belgium; f.10r @gettymuseum.bsky.social

The church St John the Baptist’s, Sutterby has the loving care of its local community group (the Spirit of Sutterby) and is open daily for visitors. 10/10

In the 1970s, this tiny medieval church faced the prospect of demolition. Thankfully we saved it from that fate and it is now cared for by an active and loving group of volunteers. 1/10

My most flaming hot take is that they see Russian collapse as relatively imminent* and want a deal. If RF collapse with no deal, Trump gets no credit and US leverage diminishes. *So many red flashing lights on the attrition board. It mainly awaits a catalyst now.

Rare disclosure alert. My partner saw me arguing with men and sent me this to refocus my attention. Truly, not marrying an idiot is absolutely a huge improvement on my past behavior. Huge. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/04...

Pamela Jo Bondi has seen photos and videos of pedophilia so disturbing that she knew she could never make them public if she wanted to protect the perpetrators. And that was the choice she coldly made.

"Yes, maybe these rich old men raped children, but they are MUCH richer now, so it all evens out" is Pam Bondi's attitude about the Epstein case and the survivors of his abuse in a nutshell. She is a horrible, shallow person.

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When I worked at Microsoft they said we had to use Copilot five times a day and noncompliance would show up in our reviews. So, every morning I’d ask it questions about puppies and clouds until I hit my quota and get to work. Leadership was thrilled at how we integrated AI into our operations 😂

I see claims Kallas' demands are "unrealistic" and "obstructing peace" and I strongly disagree. Yes, Ru is intransigent, but it failed to achieve its goals in Ukraine and therefore Ru has to face reality and make concessions. This is how peace-making works. Force Ru to compromise.

You're willing to drag the world into deadly turmoil when your only reason for being in power it to avoid jail.

The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

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Trump really is a ludicrous, vainglorious, absurd fuckwit, but how developmentally challenged, intellectually deficient, frankly, thick as pig shit, must the roughly 30/35% be who think he's great and the smartest man they've ever seen in all their puff?

Faced with cultural rebellion, all MAGA has left is to saber rattle at people who criticize Trump on the world stage. That was unbecoming, but not a sure loser, when Trump was at 50-50. Now that he's closer to 40-60, they're making themselves laughing stocks. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...