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Excellent article: what did Arendt say about #Trump’s bombast - and bomb? medium.com/amor-mundi/d... (Look out for the film premiere coming shortly)

But neither, surely, is Trump’s narcissistic bomb-drop?

When Putin's partner Dmitri Medvedev says this, you do have to wonder even more about what Trump has wrought with the Iran attack: "A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."

Good question!

Crazy waste of money. Someone’s profiting: follow the money!

Same is true of #tennis - Lehecka vs Alcaraz at Queen’s. Anyone’s game. You can watch on BBCTV

Superb article: why is #Trump so scared of Black culture? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Thames Water lenders demand government blocks campaigners from legal action" These crooks just never give up do they? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Is this the first, very public pronouncement, that President Obama has made criticising what is currently happening in USA? youtu.be/EM9B8Qin9ac?...

Timothy Snyder said recently that the resistance to fascism is sometimes highly organized, as with #NoKings, and sometimes develops spontaneously. This is the latter. L.A. resisters are finding hotels ICE agents stay in & making sure they DON’T get a good night’s sleep. apple.news/AHAGjsRINRmq...

English translation? @gershonbaskin.bsky.social

youtu.be/EM9B8Qin9ac?... Begins to get serious about 9 mins in

Extraordinary moments of insight in www.youtube.com/live/dhrw4K6.... Rory notes that Western leaders backing for Trump’s bombs leads the world back to before the Peace of Westphalia 1648, when might was right…

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Beautiful! Humanity’s Search for Cosmic Beauty & Poetic Truth @mariapopova.bsky.social youtu.be/oVTuJzDmyd4?...

Why did @timothysnyder.bsky.social leave Yale for Toronto? Important info from his academic wife @marcishore.bsky.social via @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“This is happening NOW” substack.com/@demwinsmedi...

@sara-ayech.bsky.social Great to see you - and your work & mum-hood. How’s grandma? (No DMs here?)

Eric Schmidt predicts we have five years before ‘preemption’. youtube.com/watch?v=id4Y...

Yes: definitely worth reading!And following links…

What will be the effect of the’big, beautiful bill’? open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

@claretotty.bsky.social Great “wet bulb” episode podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e.... Have you heard podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...?

As terrifying as anything i have read about #Trump open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... @timothysnyder.bsky.social is a highly respected & reputable academic historian.

Listen! Gershon is clear, succinct, convincing & Right!

Military action KILLS hostages @gershonbaskin.bsky.social omny.fm/shows/kan-en...

@littlewritespace.bsky.social Could be you. On the other hand, maybe not…

Reading Klemperer’s “Language of the Third Reich” and wondering how far its observations may already becoming true of Trump’s America, particularly a standardisation of language (through social media); capital letters & exclamation marks,

lacanticles.com/what-might-i.... This is a superb and almost incomprehensible survey of WIGO (What Is Going On) not only with and for Jews and Israel but also in the wider world

Yes, sadly. As a colleague just wrote, “What I am struggling with is that the people who say any reports of IDF wrongdoing are Hamas propaganda, some of them really do believe that – they think that the New York Times and the BBC etc. are all false news. We are in the world of ‘alternative facts’,

@profbillmcguire.bsky.social I guess ‘these people’ means Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, Israeli cabinet & govt., messianic settlers? I hope you’re not generalising to Jews in general or Israelis?

@LRB.blsky.social Israel forced an 80 year old Holocaust survivor from speaking at Buchenwald Memorial. Why? www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

observer.co.uk/news/columni...