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I don’t think serious commentators should be in the business of using AI slop to illustrate their points. Just no

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people who actually care about decreasing sexual assault do not start with public bathroom policy anymore than they start with pizza parlor basement zoning regulations. a journalist posing this “question” as a matter of important public policy is either inexcusably ignorant or simply a bigot

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The Elon Musk backed pro-Russian candidate in Romania, Calin Georgescu has been arrested. Authorities raided him like the crook he is and found at least $10 million in cash and tickets to Moscow. He may have also bumped his head a little bit too.

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

Dodik found guilty #dodik #bosnia

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A police crackdown is underway against civil society organizations in Serbia, allegedly investigating fraud related to USAID grants. www.nedeljnik.rs/tuzilastvo-p...

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Für die AfD haben geworben: Der reichste Mann der Welt mit einer der mächtigsten Social Media-Plattformen der Welt, US-Präsident und -Vize-Präsident, die Republikaner, wer-weiß-wie-viele-Profile auf TikTok, Orbán und die internationale Rechte. Ergebnis: 20 Prozent. Naaaaaaa ja.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva reut.rs/4kfdJjE

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Saddened by the news that the German Studies Review will be online only from now on. I was quite looking forward to receiving physical copies of the journal in the mail.

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M&M Food Market; 223 Dogwood St, Campbell River, BC V9W 2Y1, Canada https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=50.0114426%2C-125.2468241&query_place_id=ChIJ8z5S_DevYlQR46hNBJ05Tuc

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The way things are going, I wouldn't be very surprised if the US started arming Russia.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The reviews for my book manuscript are in... What are the stages of processing Reviewer 2 comments, again?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

No one better than the @nytimes.com to turn the idea of an aggressive, illegal land grab into a story about the US domestic electoral horse race. Completely embarrassing journalism.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Another byproduct of the 24/7 news churn.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The sent riot police to shut down the event with Albanese and Weizman in Berlin. Just compare the resources German politicians are willing to spend on silencing critical Jewish voices on Israel versus the resources they’re spending tackling the literal Nazis on their streets

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Not only did the National Park Service remove references to transgender history on the Stonewall website, it appears they are now editing the work of historians without their knowledge or consent.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Question, if Ukraine isn't part of these talks, what's binding it to their outcome? Especially if the EU continues and increases its support for Ukraine?

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Art by Jean Giraud aka Moebius for Moebius 1: Upon a Star (1987) #moebiusmonday

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Call for Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at CEU @weareceu.bsky.social careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

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Excellent idea to partner with these ghouls, @theguardian.com.

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Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

submitted 12 days ago • 77 comments

Over the past four weeks it is clear that leaders of the UC system have decided that the best approach is to keep heads down, avoid speaking out and making our campuses a target. This is spineless, and a failed strategy. They need to take a stand and say fuck no, we will not comply.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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Yesterday — YESTERDAY — JD Vance visited Dachau and said it drove home “what unspeakable evil was committed and why we should be committed to ensuring it never happens again.” Today he met with AfD?? He made a mockery of his visit to Dachau. Disgusting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 114 comments

This Wall Street Journal video about the cost of military deportation flights is one of the wildest things I've seen in a while. It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4. $27,000 per deported person. www.wsj.com/video/analys...

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Many such cases, not just in Germany

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“JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was a masterclass in alienating allies. From deriding Europe on free speech to doubling down on NATO burden-sharing demands, he showcased a tone-deaf approach at a time when unity is critical amid the Ukraine crisis. #MSC2025”

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For Valentine's Day: the final lines from American radical Joseph Freeman's 1928 poem "To a Lady Who Rejected a Poem about Spring as a Petit-Bourgeois Deviation" So here's my hat into the air Three cheers for your amazing hair! For coal mines and for turbines, too For steel, the Comintern and you.

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Forthcoming: Stefan Dorondel and Luminita Gatejel (eds.) "Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure" www.press.purdue.edu/978162671116...

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I’m organizing a conference on global food security later this spring that unfortunately is w/o a keynote. I wanted to crowdsource ideas because I keep striking out. Bluesky friends, do you have suggestions???

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

What's the US English word for Gleichschaltung? Feel like historians will need a specific term for what's happening.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"Wo, wenn nicht an einer Universität können kontroverse Debatten geführt werden?" Erstaunlich zynische Worte, mit denen die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social politischer Einflussnahme nachgibt und die Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland gefährdet. www.sueddeutsche.de/bildung/nach...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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Am 28. Januar hat der Prozess gegen die #HajnówkaFive in #Polen begonnen. Den fünf Angeklagten drohen bis zu fünf Jahre Gefängnis, weil sie Geflüchtete im Wald mit Lebensmitteln und Kleidung versorgten und eine Familie in die nächstgelegene Stadt fuhren. Auszüge aus ihren Statements im Gericht: 1/5

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

My ride is here youtu.be/ish8BCscMo8?...

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✨GIVEAWAY✨ Smokes has taken over my CUP delivery box so it’s time for a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats! UK and EU addresses only pls (soz global pals!). RT & like for entry. Will randomly select the winners next Sat. 🩵💙🩵

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