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"I’ve returned again and again to this composition to remind myself of the importance of remaining reflective and centered even as—or perhaps most especially when—life feels impossibly hard to navigate."

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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

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"Viabundus is a freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650)" www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

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Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

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MAGA, the German Far Right, and the Transnational Assault on Democracy A reflection on the German far right, Elon Musk’s interference in the German election, and why the MAGA-AfD alliance isn’t nearly as irresistible as they want us to believe. New piece:

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Begin deze maand zwaaiden we artist in residence Tom Heerschop uit. Een jaar lang werkte hij op zolder aan een levensgrote kaart van ons onderzoek - het kunstwerk 'Tussenruimte'. Lees meer > onhttps://meertens.knaw.nl/2025/02/20/kunstwerk-tussenruimte-vangt-onderzoek-in-dynamische-kaart/

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An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

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bpi1700.org.uk

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Europe has a solution for Starlink, it is faster and the quality is better. The IRIS 2 program. IRIS will make Starlink obsolete and provide permanent global coverage. The US, and especially Musk, are not needed. #IRIS #EU youtu.be/V-SXNVeNby0

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Bekijk dit #Buitenhof gesprek met @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl over de steun aan Oekraïne en de defensie-industrie van Europa. youtu.be/MGarnzM3uwo

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I wrote about the devastating 2004 tsunami and the hidden lessons it teaches us about why DOGE and Elon Musk are wilfully amplifying catastrophic risk. www.forkingpaths.co/p/doge-and-t...

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The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints

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Wie maakt een lijstje? 1. Tesla 2.

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It’s time to show some unity in Europe! Please repost if you support the continent 🇪🇺.

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Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media should be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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You may have read it before on this account: #earlymodern Europe was a paper age. Let's focus, once more if you fancy, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper. Another 🧵 for #paperhistory nerds, and enjoying #skystorians 🗃️ (1)

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Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl! 📖 Deze week over de ideologische drijfveren achter de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. De bezuinigingen raken de kern van onze samenleving. Ze vereisen dan ook een krachtige en breed gedragen maatschappelijke reactie. www.groene.nl/artikel/wete...

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We kennen de Russische intimidatie wel als het gaat om academici/sprekers, monddood te maken. Sinoloog @casperwits.bsky.social is vandaag van zijn LinkedIn-account beroofd. Dit kunnen we niet los zien van dat hij een lezing over de Oeigoeren mbt China organiseert. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Between December 1938 and May 1940, almost 10,000 unaccompanied mostly Jewish children were brought to Britain in what became known as the #Kindertransport We're showing our travelling exhibition, A Thousand Kisses: Stories of the Kindertransport, for a limited time at the Library this week...

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Vandaag schreef ik dit artikel: hiddebouwmeester.nl/vrede-sluite... "In het Westen denken veel mensen dat de oorlog in Oekraïne pas begon in februari 2022. Maar Rusland probeerde al in de jaren ’90 en vroege jaren 2000 Oekraïens grondgebied in handen te krijgen." Delen wordt zeer gewaardeerd.

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PREMIERE ALERT: Please plan to tune in later this week on Wednesday, February 12th at 2 pm EST for an introduction by @filmendefietser.bsky.social to the Fietsmaatjes Utrecht program, learn about their special Van Raam side-by-side bike/trike, and as a bonus go for a trial ride youtu.be/dBdzFrkw31I

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"Although Musk reigned unquestioned as head of the government, he appears content to allow the country’s elected president, Donald Trump, to remain the ceremonial head of state, and overall the political situation seemed to stabilize as the week progressed." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

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⚠️ Open call for artists! ⚠️ We have 200+ incredible field recordings from World Heritage sites and examples of intangible heritage in 60+ countries around the world - and we’re looking for artists to reimagine them. Join the Sonic Heritage project! 🏛️ citiesandmemory.com/heritage/

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Leiden, Netherlands

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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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I'm glad folks are so interested in these! Here's the final version, we'll be handing them out to classes and making them available in the library. If you want your own, you can download the PDF and try it out (folding instructions in the next skeet) #DHMakes drive.google.com/file/d/1Yvs2...

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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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For no reason that he can articulate, Trump has triggered a crisis in Denmark www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Het doel is nog steeds eenvoudig: alle 500+ musea van de Museumkaart bezoeken. #museumkaarttour Nummers 1 t/m 350: tinyurl.com/museumtour500 De rest van deze herculische tocht ⬇️

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Column: www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

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anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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'Het zou zo heerlijk zijn als bestuurders ons niet steeds bestraffend toespraken over problemen die zij zelf hebben veroorzaakt.' 'Misschien moeten politici af van het idee dat besturen stoer is. Het is vooral een kwestie van inlevingsvermogen.' Column: www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

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Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...

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On our way!

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